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PBS's Bonnie Erbe Slams 'Offensive' Measure to Call Attention to Traum
April 16th, 2010 12:17 PM
Darn! She's on to us pro-lifers! PBS "To the Contrary" host Bonnie Erbe has discovered the real eeeevil secret of the pro-life movement, which she unveiled in an April 15 post at the Thomas Jefferson Street blog on USNews.com (emphasis mine):What is the religious right doing by campaigning against abortion? First and foremost, its efforts seem aimed at trying to keep church pews filled by…
Media Worried Corruption In N. Carolina Might Cost Democrats Votes
January 30th, 2010 4:47 PM
"Never before have you seen an allegation of corruption going that close to the governor's office in modern history." So said a Democratic consultant in North Carolina reacting to the latest casualty in the ongoing investigation of former governor Mike Easley. The scandal has brought down Easley's wife, bankrupted his coffers, disgraced a state university, and now, most recently, set federal…
Bonnie Erbe Takes Another Swing at Palin: 'Glamour with No Need for Sm
January 12th, 2010 3:22 PM
Good grief. We're still talking about Palin's clothes? You'd think that with the latest Democratic scandals - like Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid's racist comments and new revelations about Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards' affair - they'd be too busy beating out their own fires to revisit old fodder against Republicans. But apparently U.S. News & World Report's Bonnie Erbe…
Bonnie Erbe: Kennedy Townsend 'Crusader,' Modern-Day 'Joan of Arc
January 4th, 2010 4:51 PM
Bonnie Erbe of U.S. News and Report praised Kathleen Kennedy Townsend’s efforts to change the Catholic Church’s perennial teaching against abortion in a December 23, 2009 blog entry, calling her a “modern-day Crusader of sorts” and outlandishly predicted that the Church would eventually “recognize the wisdom of...[her] approach.” Erbe would even go so far as to liken Townsend to St. Joan of Arc.…
On World AIDS Day, Media Won't Acknowledge Bush Successes
December 1st, 2009 12:34 PM
Today is World AIDS Day, on which we reflect on the global epidemic that has taken so many millions of lives and ponder ways in which we can improve world health by combating the terrible illness. In honoring the day, however, some news outlets have neglected to note the tremendous contributions to the AIDS effort undertaken by our last president.MSNBC noted on its website a recent U.N. report…
'Louisiana Purchase' Landrieu Blames ABC Report of $100 Million Buyoff
November 21st, 2009 2:30 PM
What's $100 million of taxpayer money between a few U.S. Senators? After reports surfaced of $100 million for Louisiana was added to the Senate's health care reform legislation, originally from ABC News, and subsequently commented upon by prominent lefties, like U.S. News and World Report's Bonnie Erbe as my colleague Noel Sheppard pointed out, Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., took the Senate floor on…
Bonnie Erbe Shockingly Bashes Mary Landrieu's $100 Million Bribe
November 21st, 2009 1:52 PM
U.S. News and World Report's Bonnie Erbe came down strongly Friday on the $100 million "bribe" given to Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) in the Senate's healthcare reform bill.What makes this shocking is Erbe's consistently far-left leaning views regularly reported by NewsBusters. Readers are advised to strap themselves in tightly, for the following blog posting by Erbe is quite a departure from her…
U.S. News’ Erbe: Stupak-Pitts Amendment is ‘a Privacy Invasion of
November 19th, 2009 3:35 PM
U.S. News and World Report's Bonnie Erbe claimed in her latest blog post that the Stupak-Pitts Amendment, which bans federal funding of elective abortion in the recently passed House health care reform bill, is "a privacy invasion of massive proportions" because it "would allow government policy to intervene in the most private of medical decisions made by women and their private insurance…
Bonnie Erbe: Palin 'Loony' But Levi Johnston 'Believable
November 13th, 2009 3:11 PM
Veteran Sarah Palin hater Bonnie Erbe is at it again, today proclaiming the former Alaska governor is "loony" for saying that she would open her dinner table at Thanksgiving to the father of her grandson:Say what, Sarah? This is the guy who refused to marry her daughter, Bristol, pregnant. This is the guy who has made a career (or tried to) by telling the Palin family secrets. And they are not…
Erbe: Dems Losing on Election Day Have Fizzled Bush Hatred to Blame
November 3rd, 2009 11:46 AM
If Democrats get a spanking at the polls today, it's not because American voters are trending conservative or are frustrated with the direction liberal Democrats are leading the country, but because the electorate's disdain for the former Bush administration has abated.That according to liberal PBS "To the Contrary" host and U.S. News contributing editor Bonnie Erbe.From her November 2 blog post…
U.S. News: Of Past Five Presidents, 'Obama Seems the Most Cerebral
November 2nd, 2009 10:51 AM
Chief White House correspondent for U.S. News & World Report Kenneth Walsh is mighty impressed. In "He's Still No-Drama Obama," posted on the magazine's Web site, Walsh writes:Face to face, President Obama seems even more unflappable, cerebral, and dispassionate than he appears on television.And later:I have interviewed each of the past five presidents— Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill…
Revolving Door: Clinton & Newsweek Alum Waldman Takes Job with Obama F
October 29th, 2009 5:23 PM
Steve Waldman, the "founding soul of Beliefnet" and a former Newsweek reporter and US News & World Report editor is now spinning through the revolving door into the Obama FCC, reports Cathy Lynn Grossman of USA Today:Steven Waldman, founder, editor and leading political blogger of Beliefnet.com, the nation's top Internet spirituality site, is leaving for a post in the Obama administration.He'…
U.S. News’ Erbe Equates Conservative Christians with Radical Terrori
September 21st, 2009 1:19 PM
Bonnie Erbe, contributing editor to U.S. News and World report and host of PBS' "To the Contrary" recently compared conservative Christians to terrorists. A soon-to-be published study in the journal Reproductive Health that found states with a high level of residents who subscribe to conservative religious beliefs also have high teen birth rates sparked Erbe's September 18 observation that…