Tim Graham

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NY Times Hypes Boast: Obama Strongest Foreign-Policy Democrat 'In Recent Memory'

The New York Times: Newspaper or a pro-Obama bulletin board? In "Obama Seizes National Security as An Issue," reporter Helene Cooper promoted the Democrats as much tougher on foreign policy ...
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Secular Snobs

In 1993, then-Washington Post reporter Michael Weisskopf dismissed followers of Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell as “largely poor, uneducated, and easy to command.” A correction came the next ...
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Newsweek/Daily Beast's Yarrow Would Take Heart Back from Cheney, 'One of the Most Evil People in the World'

On Monday’s edition of Newsweek/TheDaily Beast's daily NewsBeast in-house video, the promotional “highlight” was Newsweek/Daily Beast assignment editor and reporter Allison Yarrow saying of ...

Former CNN Reporter Claims GOP Stuffed With Voters Who Want 'Good Old Days of Jim Crow'

On NSNBC Friday night, former CNN reporter Bob Franken shoved both candidates into the mud for their talk of blacks and government dependency: "I think this is very intentional. I think it is part ...

Thomas Friedman Says GOP Looking for Someone as 'Smart and Mellifluous' as Obama

Friedman told David Gregory on Meet the Press: "And I think Newt's rise is speaking to us. And what it says to me is, is that I think there's a lot of Republicans who are starved for a candidate ...

Greta Van Susteren Whaps NY Times for Skipping MSNBC Coffee Talk With Obama

Fox News host Greta Van Susteren is still mad at The New York Times for underlining her husband John Coale's assistance to Herman Cain. On her GretaWire blog, she highlighted Jake Tapper's news ...

NY Times Profiles New NPR CEO With Only Lefties, Skips Over Soros and Video Stings

From inside the NPR tank, Elizabeth Jensen reported on new National Public Radio chief executive Gary Knell without devoting one word to conservative NPR critics in a piece loaded with ...

After Mentioning Cain, Bill Maher Says Romney Only Thing Stopping 'The Rise of the Apes'

Appearing on ABC's Good Morning America, Monday, to shill for his latest book, Bill Maher told George Stephanopoulos he's rooting for Mitt Romney to win the Republican nomination. "At least he ...

On NPR, 'Conservative' David Brooks Trashes Cain the 'TV Show' and Romney the Cold Fish

Brooks talking Herman Cain on NPR: "He was a TV show that lasted for a little while. Listen, let me stand up for elitist insiders. This is a job for professionals. Running for office is a job for ...

Is the New York Times a Liberal Rag? Executive Editor Says 'Wrong'

New York Times editor Jill Abramson still carries a torch for Anita Hill, in an interview with NPR's Diane Rehm: "...I think that Anita Hill, you used the word catalyst, and I think that's a very, ...

Is The Times a Liberal Rag? Executive Editor Says 'Wrong'

Times editor Jill Abramson still carries torch for Anita Hill, in an interview with NPR's Diane Rehm: "...I think that Anita Hill, you used the word catalyst, and I think that's a very, very good ...

Pacifica Isn't Radical Left, It's 'Grass Roots' And 'Gives Voice to Struggles'

Pacifica Radio and its best-known broadcast, Democracy Now, can be easily identified as a radical-left enterprise. Currently, it touts the Occupy Wall Street protests with leftist guests like ...

Jackie Calmes Softballs to Obama Don't Make the Paper

President Obama took two helpful questions from the New York Times on Thursday: What would he like to say to Wall Street protesters? And are they the liberal Tea Party? But the exchange was left ...
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Counting the Reasons to Defund

The 20 Most Memorable Leftist Excesses of Public Broadcasting

NYT's Tom Friedman Goes on PBS to Once Again Explore His Extreme Envy of Red China

In a new book, columnist Thomas Friedman continues to wish for more China-style authoritarian control in America: "We had Governor Ed Rendell, you know, criticizing the NFL for canceling the ...
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Red, White, and Partisan

How the Media Furor Over Bush's War on Terror Vanished Under Obama

Tim Egan Hits 'Biblical Bully,' Asks: 'Is God Listening to Rick Perry?'

MSNBC delights in the formerly "objective" national reporter slamming the Texas governor as a menacing figure governing an ignorant redneck backwater.

Leftist Protesters of Israel's Inequality Make Page One

Reporter Ethan Bronner couldn't define anyone as left-leaning or find anyone who would question whether the protests are a political campaign.

Times (Sort of) Hails New 'Glee' Movie as 'Tutorial in Tolerance'

Film critic Stephen Holden approves of the concert film's aggressively pro-gay message (like the "It Gets Better" videos), but is still snobbish enough to compare it to Disney's "High School Musical."

More Unfair Pear: New GOPers on Super Committee 'Among the Most Conservative'

While Robert Pear found Nancy Pelosi and Henry Waxman were "influential Democrats" and not "liberal," several new Republican members of the budget-limiting super committee are tagged as "among the ...