In trying to portray Katie Couric as having “patronizingly challenge[d] & lecture[d]” Sarah Palin during their series of interviews, Brent Baker asserted in an Oct. 1 MRC CyberAlert that Couric was calling…
Kincaid Still Obsessed With Maddow
Cliff Kincaid apparently can’t get over his obsession with Rachel Maddow’s sexual orientation. From a Sept. 30 AIM Report: Meanwhile, the culture war is back, and it is clear that most of…
Palin-Philia Watch
Doug Wead uses his Oct. 1 Newsmax column to devise a novel excuse for Sarah Palin’s dismal performance in her interviews with Katie Couric: Ted Kennedy couldn’t handle unscripted questions either. No,…
Aaron Klein Palin-Philia Watch
In an Oct. 1 WorldNetDaily article uncritically repeating attacks by the McCain campaign on a blogger who mockingly pointed out that Sarah Palin essentially endorsed Hamas by praising its victory in Palestinian…
Fighting Media Bias, Or Reciting McCain Talking Points?
In a Sept. 30 Accuracy in Media blog post claiming that the New York Times fired a “partisan shot aimed at hurting the McCain campaign,” Rep. Lamar Smith wrote: In an article from September…
Kessler Hauls Out the Scaremongering
Ronald Kessler is up to his old scare tactic of baselessly portraying Democrats as the preferred candidate of terrorists in his Sept. 30 Newsmax column. Kessler quotes “former top FBI counterterrorism analyst”…
CNS Still Treating Alveda King’s Honorary Doctorate As Real
A Sept. 30 CNSNews.com article by Mary Jane O’Brien about an interview by CNS editor-in-chief Terry Jeffrey of anti-abortion activist Alveda King repeatedly refers to her as “Dr. Alveda King” and “Dr….
Newsmax Promotes John Fund’s Dubious Book
John Fund has released an “revised and updated” version of his factually challenged 2004 book “Stealing Elections” in time for the 2008 election, publicized in a Sept. 28 Newsmax article by Dave…
NewsBusters Promotes Meaningless Opt-In Poll
“I am not an expert on polls,” Terry Trippany writes in a Sept. 27 NewsBusters post — a claim she then proves by touting the results of an opt-in poll as meaningful….
Huston Misleads on Obama’s Soldier Bracelet
A Sept. 28 NewsBusters post by Warner Todd Huston was less than eager to tell the full story about the bracelet carrying the name of deceased soldier Ryan Jopek that Barack Obama…