L. Brent Bozell from Creators Syndicate

Obamaholics Unanimous for 03/05/2008

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Now that Barack Obama is closing in on the Democratic nomination, some are wondering whether the media will be tougher in their coverage. There's a better question: Is it possible to be any softer? The media writ large have been sounding like they're covering a messiah more than a man. So was Hillary Clinton right to complain that Barack Obama has been more celebrated than vetted?

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Updated: Wed Mar 05, 2008

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Rape Films at Yale for 03/07/2008

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Newsweek magazine recently celebrated the latest trend in elite Northeastern colleges: sex magazines, complete with highbrow titles — like "Boink." In applauding the shifting sexual mores of American youth, reporter Jennie Yabroff noted that these enterprising students "no longer see a distinction between their bedroom behavior and their publishing activities," and con ...

Updated: Fri Mar 07, 2008

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Lewis Black, Anti-Catholic Hack for 03/14/2008

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Lewis Black is a stand-up comedian. His shtick is foam-flecked fits of rage and profanity. Amazon.com advertised one of his DVDs by promising that "there's eye-crossing, teeth-gnashing, raspy-voiced yelling and liberal use of the F-word." In his show at Washington's Warner Theatre, Black complained the Kennedy Center refused their facilities on the grounds that he dropped F-bombs 42 t ...

Updated: Fri Mar 14, 2008

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Obama's Church of Slurs for 03/19/2008

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700

It's Damage Control Time for the liberal press. Count New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof as one in the media masses who have been outraged, just outraged, at the supposed conservative bigotry against Barack Obama. This "most monstrous bigotry" isn't just about race but also religion. Stating his middle name and whispering on the Internet that he's a Muslim "are the religio ...

Updated: Wed Mar 19, 2008

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Does Profanity Reign Supreme? for 03/21/2008

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Supreme Court has taken up the case of FCC vs. Fox Television Stations, the bizarre case in which Fox and other broadcast TV networks have argued that "fleeting" profanities are mere accidents that should not be punished with fines. While it's laudable that the nation's top court would take up the matter, it's beyond outrageous that what Hollywood really wants — and, in a co ...

Updated: Fri Mar 21, 2008

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Obama's Clintonesque Speech for 03/26/2008

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Barack Obama came to Philadelphia on March 18 not so much to address his poisonous pastor, Jeremiah Wright, but to talk vaguely of race relations. The news media swooned. No one was giddier than MSNBC's Chris Matthews, who rhapsodized that Obama's speech was one of the greatest speeches in American history, worthy of Abraham Lincoln, and should be read by schoolchildren like "The Great Gat ...

Updated: Wed Mar 26, 2008

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Dumbest Book of the Year for 03/28/2008

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700

On the front lines of the culture wars, where explosive salvos are fired routinely, accuracy is a requirement. Arguments cannot be won with major misstatements of fact. This is lost on Eric Alterman. In his new book "Why We're Liberals," he takes up the controversy generated by Hollywood, but only to malign and mischaracterize.

Alterman decries "the hysterical language con ...

Updated: Fri Mar 28, 2008

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An Upside-Down World for 04/02/2008

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The presidential campaign seems upside down, like a bad April Fool's joke. Suddenly, the titans of the liberal media are wondering out loud if Hillary Clinton should quit the presidential race, while Hillary is kindly greeting and grinning at every vaunted "vast right-wing conspiracy" media outlet from Dick Scaife's Pittsburgh Tribune-Review to Rupert Murdoch's Fox News Channel. Penns ...

Updated: Wed Apr 02, 2008

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The Revolt Against Sincerity for 04/04/2008

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post writer Linton Weeks recently wrote a fascinating big-picture essay about the long, sad decline of sincerity and sentiment in America, symbolized by the public loathing of the 1975 Morris Albert pop song "Feelings." It wasn't merely the whoa-whoa-whoa chorus that drove the criticism, he suggested, but the mere act of the singer putting the heart on the proverbial sleeve ...

Updated: Fri Apr 04, 2008

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"Remarkable" Ted Turner for 04/09/2008

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Ted Turner was not only interviewed, but celebrated on PBS — on April Fool's Day. The prank was apparently on PBS. It was as if Turner had a subversive mission, to prove that PBS isn't just for smart people. True to form, Turner walked off a cliff of rhetorical excess on the "Charlie Rose" show, charging that global warming was going to grow so severe that in a few decades, most ...

Updated: Wed Apr 09, 2008

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Media Messengers And Pope Benedict's Message for 04/16/2008

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Pope Benedict XVI is in America and, like his predecessor, is about to be treated to curiously bipolar coverage at the hands of the American press. While in-country, John Paul the Great received almost universally positive treatment. But up to the point the papal wheels touched down, the media reports were consistently critical — some verging on the savage — and when it was wheels-u ...

Updated: Wed Apr 16, 2008

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Ben Stein Vs. Sputtering Atheists for 04/18/2008

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

I confess that when the producers of Ben Stein's new documentary "Expelled" called, offering me a private screening, I was less than excited.

It is a reality of PC liberalism: There is only one credible side to an issue, and any dissent is not only rejected, it is scorned. Global warming. Gay "rights." Abortion "rights." On these and so many other issues the ...

Updated: Fri Apr 18, 2008

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Censorious Left-Wing Bloggers for 04/23/2008

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

ABC generously offered the Democrats a gift that the Republicans were not given in this electoral cycle — a two-hour debate, in primetime, on a weeknight. Not only that, it was hosted by former Democratic aide George Stephanopoulos and Charlie Gibson. Left-wing bloggers promptly greeted this gift by smacking ABC in the mouth. Like an abused spouse, ABC responded by repeating all the lefti ...

Updated: Wed Apr 23, 2008

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Obama And The Hip-Hop Problem for 04/25/2008

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Young black activists roared their approval when Barack Obama recently greeted criticism on the trail by dusting off his shoulders, a reference to a rap song by Jay-Z called "Dirt Off Your Shoulder." The media covering the moment went crazy, too. Washington Post reporter Teresa Wiltz hailed Obama's moves and called it a "seminal moment in the campaign, the merging of politics and ...

Updated: Fri Apr 25, 2008

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Moyers Loves Reverend Wright for 04/30/2008

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Bill Moyers PBS interview of Barack Obama's longtime minister, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, underlined once again that our tax dollars don't fund programs championing racial harmony. They fund programs that celebrate black radicals, militants and kooks. Moyers came to Reverend Wright's side not to condemn him or even challenge him, but to praise him and defend him. As he implored Wright to exp ...

Updated: Wed Apr 30, 2008

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Applauding "Grand Theft" for 05/02/2008

Fri, 02 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Outrage comes easy at the sight of 15-year-old Disney Channel billion-dollar phenomenon Miley Cyrus — known to screaming 8-year-old girls as Hannah Montana — appearing barebacked with a come-hither smile in a photo shoot for Vanity Fair. Did no one understand how the slinky satin-sheet photo would be greeted by the eyes of teenage boys — or men twice her age? Parents are cover ...

Updated: Fri May 02, 2008

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Roseanne Vs. Rush for 05/07/2008

Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Air America Radio may have tried and failed to use washed-up comedians like Janeane Garofalo and Al Franken to make liberal talk radio work, but their rule seems to be that if first you don't succeed, flop, flop again. When wacky radical Randi Rhodes resigned over a nasty and profane denunciation of Hillary Clinton, Air America replaced her in afternoon drive time with ... Roseanne Barr.

Updated: Wed May 07, 2008

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Librarians Against Censorship? for 05/09/2008

Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The American Library Association (ALA) has released its annual survey of offenses to "intellectual freedom," the books whose place in public schools and public libraries is the most "challenged" by the public. Leading that list for the second straight year is the children's book "And Tango Makes Three," about a penguin family with two daddies.

Several books ...

Updated: Fri May 09, 2008

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The Big, Bad, Right-Wing Wolf for 05/14/2008

Wed, 14 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

In the last presidential election, leftist special interest groups and socialist billionaires like George Soros waged war with an unprecedented tsunami of negative TV attacks on the Republican incumbent, suggesting he was a draft dodger that knowingly lied us into war. Adding fuel to the fire, Hollywood uncorked nasty — and equally distorted — documentaries like "Fahrenheit 911 ...

Updated: Wed May 14, 2008

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Swaggering 'Swingtown for 05/16/2008

Fri, 16 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Marriage is a necessary cornerstone of a civilized society. Crumble that building block and the waves of instability can be felt like tremors foreshadowing an earthquake. Sift through the wreckage of the collapsed mariage, and all too often, you'll find the broken bodies of children. It's never fails to be heartbreaking.

So hey, let's go Hollywood! It's so much more fun there! Tinseltown ...

Updated: Fri May 16, 2008

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