Month: December 2006
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Baltimore station runs fake Richards story
Weep for the state of TV journalism. My friend and former Spinsanity co-editor Ben Fritz runs a satirical website called Dateline Hollywood. This week they ran an obviously fake article titled “Michael Richards apologizes for blackface roast appearance” that the Baltimore CBS affiliate ran as “breaking news” twice yesterday. Here’s the item on it from
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Kennedy neglects changing demographics
A sharp letter to the editor in this month’s issue of The Atlantic catches historian David Kennedy making a common demographic error: In the excerpts from the Aspen Ideas Festival (October Atlantic), the historian David M. Kennedy is quoted as follows: “Another asymmetry of very troubling proportions, it seems to me, is [in] the nature
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Rahm Emanuel anti-GOP “cut and run” rhetoric
Rep. Rahm Emanuel, the chair of the House Democratic Caucus, is quoted in the New York Times today trying to throw “cut and run” jargon back at Republicans: The resistance to finishing the appropriations bills is not going over well with Democrats, who have accused Republicans of acting irresponsibly. The unfinished business could also prove
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O’Reilly: Media wants US to lose in Iraq
Via Media Matters, Bill O’Reilly has declared that Iraq is not in the midst of a civil war (expert opinion to the contrary) and that the press is “rooting for the USA to lose in Iraq”: NBC News has declared that there is indeed a civil war in Iraq. Now, that’s not shocking because NBC
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WSJ dissembles on FL-13 controversy
In a silly editorial, the non-reality-based editors of the Wall Street Journal offer groundless speculation that the undervotes under dispute in Florida’s 13th Congressional district race were mostly Republican: [I]f anyone ought to be complaining about undervotes, it’s the GOP. Sarasota is the largest and most Republican county in the district, yet the Democrat, Ms.
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Misleading Washington Times reporting on taxes
The Washington Times once again misleads its readers with right-wing agitprop: Though Republicans dramatically sliced taxes without money in the budget, they now can point to historic levels of tax receipts because of the healthy economy that was, they say, spurred by the tax cut. “They now can point to historic levels of tax receipts”?