Daily Bias Alerts

Jack Cafferty Highlights ClimateGate, Reads E-mails Doubting Warming

Wednesday, December 02, 2009 @ 02:13 PM ET

Jack Cafferty went above and beyond many of his colleagues in the media by highlighting the ClimateGate scandal on Wednesday's Situation Room. He presented both sides of the controversy, noting the "thousand pages of leaked e-mails and documents," while summarizing the side of the defenders of the theory of climate change. Most of the viewer e-mails he read sided with the critics of the theory.

Matthews Apologizes for West Point 'Enemy Camp' Slur, Then Interviews Marine-Slandering Murtha

Wednesday, December 02, 2009 @ 04:36 PM ET

Talk about taking one step forward and two steps back. Chris Matthews, on Wednesday's Hardball, opened the show by offering an apology to members of the military and their families for his infamous West Point is the "enemy camp," quote made during coverage of Obama's Afghanistan speech, as caught by the MRC's Jeff Poor, but immediately after that went to an interview with John Murtha, who himself ...

CBS Again Downplays Obama Administration Role in WH Security Breach

Wednesday, December 02, 2009 @ 04:20 PM ET

On Wednesday's CBS Early Show, correspondent Bianca Solorzano reported on the couple who snuck into the White House state dinner, but avoided fully explaining the role a Pentagon official played in the scandal. She claimed emails between Pentagon liaison Michele Jones and Michaele and Tareq Salahi: “actually undermine their claims that they were invited...”

Networks Briefly Note Dem Mayor's Conviction, Yet Ignored Her Trial

Wednesday, December 02, 2009 @ 01:52 PM ET

Imagine if you will that former Alaska governor Sarah Palin was accused of taking gift cards donated to her office for redistribution to needy constituents and using them instead for a personal spending spree. There'd be a media firestorm. But when this actually happened with the Democratic mayor of Baltimore, the networks were virtually silent on the matter until after she was convicted.

NY Times Science Writer Blasts 'Smug Groupthink' Among Climategate Scientists

Tuesday, December 01, 2009 @ 07:50 PM ET

Unpredictable New York Times science columnist John Tierney reads the hacked Climate-gate emails and finds "smug groupthink" and revenge plots "against those who question the dangers of global warming."

Blood-for-Oil Allegation Leads a NY Times News Story from Iraq

Tuesday, December 01, 2009 @ 07:18 PM ET

On Tuesday, New York Times reporter Timothy Williams led his story from Baghdad, "Now With Foothold in Iraq, Oil Companies Look to the Future" with a "blood for oil" accusation the hard left has been making for years, couched as something that supposedly "many believed."

• Jack Cafferty Highlights ClimateGate, Reads E-mails Doubting Warming
• Matthews Apologizes for West Point 'Enemy Camp' Slur, Then Interviews Marine-Slandering Murtha
• CBS Again Downplays Obama Administration Role in WH Security Breach
• Networks Briefly Note Dem Mayor's Conviction, Yet Ignored Her Trial
• NY Times Science Writer Blasts 'Smug Groupthink' Among Climategate Scientists
• Blood-for-Oil Allegation Leads a NY Times News Story from Iraq

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