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May 20, 2020
In one of the richest counties in America, hundreds of cars line up for food assistance. It’s a scene repeated around the country. But mega-millionaire actor Robert De Niro wants the economy to stay shut down, warning of “a global…
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October 5, 2009
Fans of Douglas Adams’ “Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” books will remember that the answer to “life, the universe, and everything” was “42.” For American liberals, the answer to “health, insurance, and everything” appears to be 47. Liberal pundits…
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July 29, 2009
Dylan Ratigan, host of MSNBC’s “Morning Meeting,” might be worried about keeping that gig. Why else would he act like he’s trying out for the job of Barney Frank’s press secretary?
The Massachusetts Representative appeared on July 28 to push…
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July 9, 2009
The broadcast networks continued their crusade against the bottled water industry after the left-wing Environmental Working Group released a study about bottled water labeling. Jane Houlihan, an EWG spokesperson, testified at a congressional hearing…
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January 22, 2009
It might be time to bail out the bailouts. That’s what New York Times columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin said on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Jan. 22.
Co-host Diane Sawyer asked Sorkin about the inauguration day stock market plunge and then its Jan…
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September 1, 2010
With any luck, we’re going to be seeing a lot more commentary like Jim Garrison’s Aug. 31 Huffington Post piece. What’s positive about it isn’t the apocalyptic hysteria of his descriptions of “climate shock,” entertaining as they are. Rather, it’s…
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December 4, 2008
Is it immature to say, “We told you so?”
The Business & Media Institute on Nov. 6 noted the media’s tendency to grant incoming White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel a free pass on his…
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December 3, 2008
As a group, broadcast network journalists are incredibly adaptable. When their grim prophecies refuse to fulfill themselves, they persevere and find the clouds in the silver linings.
In the…
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November 25, 2008
Perhaps in the wake of the election, all the nation’s free market economists took a page from Hollywood liberals’ book and left the country because they didn’t like the results. That would explain why the network news…
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November 21, 2008
Common sense dictates that executives shouldn’t fly on private jets to plead for taxpayer money in Washington. Journalistic sense dictates that reporters should report the facts, rather than engaging in populist muckraking.…