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The History Channel, owned by NBC,  will air “The People Speak” on December 13th.  It’s based on the “history” book written by Marxist Howard Zinn called A People’s History of the United States. He has somehow convinced the following stars that America is a racist, homophobic, imperialistic, warmongering, evil empire run by greedy capitalists bent [...]

From the Media Research Center, November 24, 2009: As of Tuesday morning, the broadcast networks still haven’t uttered a single word about the revelations late last week [November 20] of e-mails showing scientists on the left-wing side of the global warming debate plotting to hide data and silence those on the other side in an effort [...]

Lou Dobbs, the longtime CNN anchor whose anti-immigration views have made him a TV lightning rod, said Wednesday that he is leaving the cable news channel effective immediately. -New York Times, November 11, 2009 Here we go again.  How is it possible to print this statement with a straight face?  Lou Dobbs is not against immigration.  Lou [...]

I’m in the mood, and I think justifiably so, to be snippy with the media.  I’ve had it with them and their sanctimonious, one-sided, arrogant, self-serving, cocky, smug, elitist and mocking coverage of anyone and everything that they personally don’t like or agree with. Right now it’s the Mark Sanford episode.  Now, I don’t give a [...]

The house is voting today on the Gore-GE-Waxman-Markey bill.  It’s a gargantuan monstrosity that no one, including Waxman, has read.  The impact of this legislation on our freedom and our economy will be enormous.   Al Gore is lobbying at 100 MPH to the “no lobbyists allowed” congressional members.  What better time, then, for the media [...]

An editorial in today’s New York Times does what so many similar commentaries and articles do, which is to mischaracterize the debate on illegal immigrants.  Upset that Thomas Saenz was not selected to head Justice Department’s civil rights division, the piece asserts that the “floating of his name led to fierce outbursts from anti-immigrant groups [...]

The mainstream news media continued its decline in 2008, both in credibility and profitability. Here is one reason why. In late September, 2006, the Mark Foley scandal came to light, and Foley resigned almost immediately under threat of expulsion from Republican leadership. The media responded with a 5 week, in-depth frenzy into all things [...]