L. Brent Bozell from Creators Syndicate

Our "Intolerance Festival" for 09/16/2009

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

It's very easy to be outraged by the way our "objective" media greeted the massive Sept. 12 rally against Big Government in Washington and across the country. They treated it as a menacing surge of white anger, meanness, and racism. But all the media bias against this rally clearly illustrates one nagging truth for media liberals: They really don't think conservatives should be allowe ...

Updated: Wed Sep 16, 2009

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Omnipresent Obama for 09/23/2009

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Following his usual mantra that "to watch me is to love me," Barack Obama appeared on five Sunday interview shows and since that wasn't enough, then the David Letterman show on Monday night. He remains convinced that the more he plays dust speck in the national eye, the further he'll get in passing his leftist agenda. He's also confident our media won't hold him accountable. They just ...

Updated: Wed Sep 23, 2009

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Omnipresent Obama for 09/23/2009

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Nick at Nite Blight for 09/25/2009

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

During his 20-year reign at Disney, Michael Eisner's commitment to family values was viewed with suspicion by many. The worries apparently were well-founded. His animation studio, Tornante, has a new clay-animated cartoon on Nick at Nite called "Glenn Martin, DDS." Eisner and Nick at Nite executive Cyma Zarghami claim it's a show for the entire family.

Even TV critics — t ...

Updated: Fri Sep 25, 2009

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Pittsburgh Protest Promoters for 09/30/2009

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Radical-left protesters outside the G-20 summit meeting in Pittsburgh last week underlined once again that our friends in the news media see no real enemy or extremist to their left. But conservative protests against Team Obama are an ugly sign of incivility, and according to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, even impending violence.

HBO talk show host Bill Maher exemplified the liberal-media ...

Updated: Wed Sep 30, 2009

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Hollywood's Favorite Rapist for 10/02/2009

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Something wildly unexpected happened the other day: Film director Roman Polanski was taken into custody in Switzerland for his rape of a 13-year-old girl at Jack Nicholson's house in 1977. The grand jury transcript is stomach-turning. His victim, Samantha Gailey, said the director plied her with champagne and drugs and asked her to remove her clothes for pictures in a hot tub. Polanski then had ...

Updated: Fri Oct 02, 2009

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Obama's Olympic Arrogance for 10/07/2009

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

In the category of "intentional misunderstandings" about the political fiasco over the 2016 Summer Olympics, liberals win the gold medal. Cheers and laughs broke out in conservative offices and radio studios on the morning of Oct. 2 when Chicago's bid came in dead last. This was not an exercise in behavior so flagrantly unpatriotic that it's almost like a flag-burning indoors. It was ...

Updated: Wed Oct 07, 2009

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David Letterman, Cad for 10/09/2009

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

In the wake of the arrest of director/rapist Roman Polanski comes the sex-with-subordinates scandal of David Letterman. The timing was a blessing for Letterman, since his aggressive excuse-makers now could quickly assert that the female employees he exploited were all adults and all gave their consent.

Letterman's habit of engaging in sex with women who are his employees only emerged bec ...

Updated: Fri Oct 09, 2009

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The Nobel Surprise for 10/14/2009

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Like everyone else on the morning of Oct. 9, the major media's first reaction to Barack Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize was shock and disbelief. NBC's Matt Lauer spoke for the pack when he said he didn't want to be "rude," but how did Obama earn it? Washington Post columnist (and former reporter) Ruth Marcus was blunt: "This is ridiculous — embarrassing, even." She ...

Updated: Wed Oct 14, 2009

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MTV's Exotic Marathon for 10/16/2009

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The programming gurus at MTV are basing their profit-making strategy on the viewer demographic of 12 to 34 — as if there's no difference in maturity level between 12 and 34. MTV's brand of sensationalistic "reality TV" was easily demonstrated on the night of Oct. 5, when they aired a primetime marathon (from 7 p.m. Eastern to 1 a.m.) of their hour-long documentary series called ...

Updated: Fri Oct 16, 2009

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The Censorious Sound on the Left for 10/21/2009

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Rush Limbaugh was convicted of racism in a kangaroo court of "objective" media and dropped as a potential owner of the St. Louis Rams football franchise. His accusers claimed he once said slavery "had its merits" and that the assassin of Martin Luther King deserved a "Medal of Honor." The story circulated on the Internet and was eventually picked up by the major me ...

Updated: Wed Oct 21, 2009

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Losing "Reality" for 10/23/2009

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Losing "Reality"

The "Balloon Boy" hoax spellbound the entire country Oct. 15. Everyone empathized with the situation of the supposedly floating child or the supposedly distraught parents. But the real problem was different. It was the increasingly sickening blur between reality and "reality" TV.

Skepticism about the boy in the balloon s ...

Updated: Fri Oct 23, 2009

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Don't Replay the '70s for 10/28/2009

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Left is ecstatic about the latest ABC News-Washington Post poll, which claimed a surge in public support for the so-called "public option," wrapped in the (insincere) rhetoric of "choice" and "competition." The poll asks if the government should "create a new health insurance plan to compete with private insurance plans," and 57 percent agree. Happy d ...

Updated: Wed Oct 28, 2009

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TV's Increasing Female Body Count for 10/30/2009

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Violence — especially grotesque, gory or bloody violence — has become a staple of network television during sweeps periods. But there's a new kind of violence surging — violence against women. A new study by the Parents Television Council called "Women in Peril" reveals that between 2004 and 2009, CBS, NBC, and Fox (but not ABC) all green-lighted a significant increa ...

Updated: Fri Oct 30, 2009

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The Dede Media for 11/04/2009

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The New York Times editorial page is a perfect weather vane for the way the liberal media's hot air is blowing. In an Oct. 26 editorial called "Torching the Big Tent," they lamented: "The feeble pulse of moderation in the Republican Party is in danger of flat-lining in the Nov. 3 Congressional election in upstate New York."

The feeble "moderate" the Times wa ...

Updated: Wed Nov 04, 2009

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A Stomachache for Our Sponsor for 11/06/2009

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

In the earliest days of television, shows were often supported entirely by one sponsor. There was the "Texaco Star Theater" with Milton Berle. Remember "General Electric Theater" with Ronald Reagan? The corporate patron was held responsible for the content within the program. More to the point, the corporate patron wanted the association with the show it was sponsoring.

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Updated: Fri Nov 06, 2009

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Fort Hood Horror for 11/11/2009

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Horror spread quickly across America as the story unfolded: An Army psychiatrist went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood in Texas, killing 13 and wounding 30. But as more information emerged, clearly pointing to an act of terrorism, many in the "news" media simply chose not to report news.

By late afternoon, it emerged that the shooter's name was Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan. But tha ...

Updated: Wed Nov 11, 2009

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Group Sex on "Gossip Girl" for 11/13/2009

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

It's a sad state of affairs. There is absolutely no barrier of sexual behavior that TV network executives aren't willing to cross in a desperate gambit for ratings. There also seems be to no sleazy line that a squeaky clean teenage TV star or pop star won't cross to "break out" into grown-up stardom.

Both of these maxims were proven again by the CW show "Gossip Girl" ...

Updated: Fri Nov 13, 2009

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Seeing Moral Grays in 9/11 for 11/18/2009

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Picking up the Sunday paper Nov. 15 could make a reader a little airsick — even while standing in the driveway. The Washington Post "news analysis" on the front page carried the headline "9/11 trial could become a parable of right and wrong: Before worldwide audience, both prosecution, defense seek control of narrative."

Does The Washington Post really think tha ...

Updated: Wed Nov 18, 2009

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Words for Potent Jerks for 11/20/2009

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

It is amazing how a phrase can emerge seemingly out of nowhere to become the statement du jour — used, overused and ultimately abused. Last year, there was "low-hanging fruit" everywhere. Today, everyone's being "thrown under the bus."

Sometimes, it's just one word. "As a writer, you're always reaching for a more potent way to call somebody a jerk," Da ...

Updated: Fri Nov 20, 2009

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