AP speaks super-secret code words: “divisive stands”

By: Bill S (Diary)  |  January 24th at 03:15 PM  | 

As fellow contributor Warner Todd Huston has demonstrated several times, the Associated Press is hardly the textbook example of an unbiased media source. Today the AP again showed their Obama-slanted bias with an article titled “Obama breaks from Bush, avoids divisive stands”. But unsurprisingly, in the AP’s alternate universe, “divisive stands” is defined as “conservative positions”. The AP piece begins: Barack Obama opened his presidency | Read More »

In the World of O, everything is beautiful

By: Bill S (Diary)  |  January 21st at 11:17 PM  | 

There are so many metaphors to use to frame the discussion of the treatment of Barack Obama’s pre- and post-inauguration performance. To a parent, everything their kids do is cute, creative, or beautiful. In the case of President Obama, to the mainstream media everything he does is beautiful. How else can we explain the reaction to a decidedly mundane inauguration speech, not to mention the | Read More »

ABC is scum – the Palin hack job

By: Bill S (Diary)  |  September 13th at 08:06 AM  | 

Martin Knight wrote a diary here just before the now-infamous ABC News crucifixion interview of Sarah Palin. He opined that Palin should bring her own cameraman to record what was said so the REAL interview could be documented. Indeed. Mr. Knight was quite correct. The web site Newsbusters.org now shows us why this is the case. They point to several egregious examples of hacks of | Read More »

Nope, no media bias here, no sir… (now where’s that Fairness Doctrine?)

By: Bill S (Diary)  |  July 17th at 09:20 AM  | 

Now I was not terribly surprised when I read this story this morning, but the more I thought about it, the madder I got. Heck, the President of the United States himself doesn’t get this kind of pandering attention from the MSM “anchors”. I do realize that the evening news is now only a blip on the media radar screen, but it does still hold | Read More »