On July 11, the Boston Globe featured a story on “facts” and how people just don’t seem to want to hear them when they intersect with closely held political opinions. The story has some interesting points to make, points that
by Warner Todd Huston18 Jul 2010, 12:06 PM PST0
Welcome once again to our top ten most left-biased working journalist list and now it’s time for number five in the countdown. As we begin our downward slope to the number one most biased, it is fitting that we come
by Warner Todd Huston18 Jul 2010, 5:55 AM PST0
Filmmaker Michael Moore, famed for his propagandistic left-slanted portrayals of America in such films as Roger and Me, Bowling for Columbine, and Sicko, is under fire for lifting the work of a writer from the Knoxville News Sentinel and reposting
by Warner Todd Huston17 Jul 2010, 12:34 PM PST0
Continuing with our top ten most left-biased journalists working in America today, at number six we feature the redoubtable… or is it just doubtable… Rick Sanchez of CNN. Let’s face it, no list of Old Media left-wingers could be complete
by Warner Todd Huston17 Jul 2010, 5:45 AM PST0
As we continue our Summer series of the most left-biased journalists working in the Old Media today, it’s time for number seven on the list. We’ve done Cable TV, we’ve done a wire service, and we’ve done a newspaper, so
by Warner Todd Huston16 Jul 2010, 2:04 PM PST0
As we continue with America’s most left-biased, working journalist list, we feature a woman that takes herself quite seriously and un-ironically as a non-opinion-styled journalist. CNN’s Christiane Amanpour really does think that no one can tell that she is a
by Warner Todd Huston15 Jul 2010, 12:50 PM PST0
As we continue our list of the top ten most left-biased journalists working in America today (see part one here), we have to nominate Liz Sidoti of the Associated Press for spot number nine on the countdown. The Associated Press
by Warner Todd Huston14 Jul 2010, 12:43 PM PST0
Over the next ten days, I will present to you America’s top ten journalists that are most biased to the left. On this list you will find denizens of the Old Media that just can’t seem to help themselves from
by Warner Todd Huston13 Jul 2010, 1:18 PM PST0
For the last few decades sports teams across the country have nosed up to the public trough and demanded that states and cities chip in millions for the construction of new sports stadiums. To justify the public expense the claim
by Warner Todd Huston10 Jul 2010, 5:31 AM PST0
The lurid website Gawker.com recently posted a story about the suicide of a Fox News employee that was entirely empty of any real newsworthiness, but did serve as a platform to throw a dig at Fox News. In fact, it
by Warner Todd Huston7 Jul 2010, 12:26 PM PST0
In his recent trip to Racine, Wisconsin, President Obama claimed that his stimulus policies worked and “saved jobs.” He also said that his policies staved off another Great Depression. But lets take a look at some of the graft, waste
by Warner Todd Huston5 Jul 2010, 8:13 AM PST0
Ron Brynaert has a story over at his The Raw Story blog that reveals yet another denizen of the Old Media trying to be both a “journalist” and an operative of Barack Obama’s administration. She is Patricia McGinnis, an unpaid
by Warner Todd Huston2 Jul 2010, 3:20 PM PST0
Ben Smith of Politico has posted a story that essentially mislead readers about what newfound conservative hero Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey thinks about immigration. Smith’s article spins Christie into an “amnesty” supporter when it doesn’t seem he is.
by Warner Todd Huston1 Jul 2010, 5:46 PM PST0
Well we’ve got a case of another journalist that turned into a political operative that now wants to go back to being a journalist. And would you be surprised that the journo/politico/journo redux is a Democrat? I would hope you
by Warner Todd Huston30 Jun 2010, 5:34 PM PST0
At long last the 2nd Amendment has been considered a personal right per the Supreme Court of the United States. In McDonald v the City of Chicago the Supreme Court has ruled in a 5 to 4 decision that Chicago’s
by Warner Todd Huston29 Jun 2010, 6:02 AM PST0
One of the best ways to cajole a reader into accepting a point of view is to use emotional descriptives in writing. It is the difference between opinion style editorials — like what I write — and straight news, like
by Warner Todd Huston23 Jun 2010, 12:02 PM PST0
Columnist Cynthia Tucker of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, a 2007 Pulitzer Prize winner, has found the enemy and he is us. During a recent episode of the Chris Matthews show, Tucker decided that because we are “addicted to petroleum” we are
by Warner Todd Huston22 Jun 2010, 2:14 PM PST0
One of the many ways in which the Associated Press lends its support to Democrats and leftists in its political reporting is often evident in its stories about political scandals. The most common assist the AP gives to Democrats is
by Warner Todd Huston17 Jun 2010, 8:18 AM PST0
Well, she’s a former alcoholic, drug addict, washed up actor, shock therapy patient (no, really) and one-time princess to the universe, but now Carrie “Princess Leia” Fisher can add one more calumny to her long list of off-kilter, personality deficits:
by Warner Todd Huston15 Jun 2010, 8:01 AM PST0
In the week following the Israeli boarding of boats piloted by Turkish “peace activists” off the coast of Gaza, Caroline Glick and the good folks at the Hebrew-language Israeli news site Latma created a parody video skewering the violent actions
by Warner Todd Huston13 Jun 2010, 7:02 AM PST0
When someone says “journalist” do you have a picture of a fedora-sporting, cigar chomping, agitator of jaded mien and independent mind, a man stubbornly outside the political establishment looking in and eyeing it all with suspicion? Do you get a
by Warner Todd Huston12 Jun 2010, 10:57 AM PST0
Congress has suddenly realized something. Animals could be dangerous! Gosh. One wonders what magick faierie dust was sprinkled on these stalwart protectors of the public weal that made them realize that animals are dangerous? Whatever fantastic episode befell Congress they
by Warner Todd Huston11 Jun 2010, 7:05 AM PST0
Since I wrote my piece on Helen Thomas comparing the firestorm of condemnation that occurred immediately after entertainer Don Imus made his race-tinged comments about the Rutgers women’s basketball players to the relative kid gloves with which Helen Thomas is
by Warner Todd Huston7 Jun 2010, 1:33 PM PST0
By now if you are a political junkie you know that the Queen of the White House press corps, Helen Thomas, was heard to voice the anti-Semitic sentiment that all the Jews in Israel should “go back to Germany and
by Warner Todd Huston6 Jun 2010, 2:23 PM PST0
What is it with these left-wing entertainers that have to insult people while they accept their dubious awards? Why can’t these lefties just graciously accept an award and go about their business without going out of their way to let
by Warner Todd Huston5 Jun 2010, 11:18 AM PST0