Today's Fresh Blogs...

• NYT Portrays Daily Kos Blog as Appealing to Mainstream, Ignores Inconvenient Truths

  Published: August 6, 2007, 3:32 pm

  Tags: 2008 Presidential, Iraq, Labeling, Liberals Amp Amp Democrats, War On Terrorism, Daily Kos, Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, New York Times, Yearlykos

  New York Times political blogger Kate Phillips (who tried to wish away news coverage of John Kerry's "botched joke" on the eve of the 2006 congressional election) posted on the Times' "Caucus" blog Saturday from Chicago, the site of the YearlyKos convention put on by the liberal activist campaign blog The Daily Kos. Phillips

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• ABC Regurgitates Criticism of Christian University: A Catholic Jonestown'

  Published: August 8, 2007, 5:59 pm

  Tags: Abortion, Christianity, Labeling, Religion, Katie Couric, Martin Bashir, Florida, Nightline, Today

  On Tuesday's edition of "Nightline," anchor Martin Bashir interviewed businessman Tom Monaghan, founder of a new Catholic university in Florida and also a community called Ave Maria that will be based around Catholic values. Bashir parroted criticism that the town has "been described as a Catholic Jonestown, a kind of Catholic Iran,

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• Helen Thomas Speaks to College Dems, Blasts Bush

  Published: September 6, 2007, 10:42 am

  Tags: Iraq, Labeling, Liberals Democrats, Helen Thomas, College Newspapers, Diamondback, Maryland, Journalistic Issues

  I know, it's a dog-bites-man story, but I thought I'd pass along that longtime White House correspondent and left-wing columnist Helen Thomas addressed the College Democrats at the University of Maryland on Wednesday evening. I live close to the campus, but unfortunately found out about the event after the fact and hence was unable to drop in and

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• Montopoli Says Goodbye to Public Eye, Stays As CBS Political Reporter

  Published: September 10, 2007, 3:32 pm

  Tags: Labeling, Brian Montopoli, Cbs, Cbs Online, Blogs, Journalistic Issues

  Brian Montopoli's writing at CBS's Public Eye blog has been sparse of late. Now the co-ombudsblogger is announcing he's moving elsewhere within the network: Starting today, I'm officially becoming a political reporter for the new CBSNews.com politics section, which will be relaunching in its shiny new form soon. And that means, after two years,

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• WaPo: Hagel a 'Mainstream Conservative'; No Mention of Hinting Possible Bush Impeachment

  Published: September 10, 2007, 1:13 pm

  Tags: Conservatives Amp Amp Republicans, Iraq, Labeling, Chuck Hagel, George W Bush, Associated Press, Nebraska, Washington Post, Government Amp Amp Press

  Persistent Bush critic and recurring Sunday morning talk show fixture Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) is announcing his retirement from the U.S. Senate. Reporting the story in the Sunday paper, the Washington Post's Jonathan Weisman and Chris Cillizza described the Iraq war critic as a "mainstream conservative who raised his profile nationally through

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• 10 of 11 Arrested in NJ Probe Democrats, But Media Avoids Party Labels

  Published: September 10, 2007, 4:02 pm

  Tags: Conservatives Amp Amp Republicans, Double Standards, Labeling, Liberals Amp Amp Democrats, Journalistic Issues

  So, 10 of the 11 New Jersey officials arrested last week on bribery and corruption charges were Democrats? Where's the establishment media outcry about a Democratic "culture of corruption" in the state? A criminal probe targeting elected officials operating at most levels of government in New Jersey resulted in the arrest of 11 public

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• Calorie Labeling Law Overturned

  Published: September 11, 2007, 7:30 pm

  Tags: Calorie Labeling Law Overturned, Fast Food, New York City

  power to require nutritional labeling, but the regulation at issue was pre-empted by a 1990 federal law that established nutritional labeling in the first place, which sets out guidelines for voluntary presentations of nutritional information, such as on tray papers or on Web sites. Interesting turn of events and bravo to all those

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• Media Go 'Medieval' on Pope Benedict 169,000 Times

  Published: September 18, 2007, 5:36 pm

  Tags: Christianity, Labeling, Religion, Benedict Xvi, Mark Shea, Google, Blogs, Journalistic Issues

  Since he became pontiff, the biased secular media have relished using harsh, loaded language like "ruthless" and "medieval" to describe Pope Benedict XVI. Blogger Mark Shea noticed those words appearing 126- and 169,000 times, respectively in a Google search. But even worse, Shea argues, is how the media betray their utter

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• Post Can't Disguise Disgust for Pro-marriage Maryland Ruling

  Published: September 18, 2007, 4:30 pm

  Tags: Conservatives Amp Amp Republicans, Labeling, Liberals Amp Amp Democrats, Sexuality, M Brooke Murdock, Robert Zarnoch, Baltimore, Maryland, Washington Post, Blogs, Government Amp Amp Press, Journalistic Issues

  In a September 18 entry on the Washington Post's Maryland Moment blog, two of the paper's writers spend most of their digital ink criticizing Tuesday's Maryland Court of Appeals ruling upholding the state's marriage law. Even the opening sentence reflects the Post's bias, describing Maryland's marriage law as the state's ban on gay marriage

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• WaPo Attacks Fred Thompson's 'Jingoistic Assertions' About U.S. Fight for Liberty

  Published: September 19, 2007, 7:57 am

  Tags: Campaign 2008, Labeling, Soviet Union, Fred Thompson, Washington Post, Government Amp Amp Press, Journalistic Issues

  Every now and then you read something that is accepted in the MSM, or better yet, perpetrated upon its readers that literally leaves you speechless. The Gawker Jew bashing articles were my most recent examples. Until now. The Washington Post has gone on a fact bashing mission over a stump speech that Presidential candidate Fred Thompson made in

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• Time's Tumulty Pans Planned SCHIP Veto: 'Really Dumb Fight for Bush'

  Published: September 24, 2007, 12:04 pm

  Tags: Conservatives Amp Amp Republicans, Health Care, Labeling, Media Bias Debate, Political Groups, George W Bush, Karen Tumulty, Media Business, Blogs

  When liberal journalists put on their political pundit hats to ostensibly handicap the policy stances of Republican politicians, you can rest assured that conservative or center-right stances will almost always be panned as political/electoral suicide. Time magazine's Karen Tumulty is no exception in her recent Swampland blog post, "SCHIP: A

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• Democratic LA Mayor's Mistress Heads Back to Work Reporting News

  Published: September 25, 2007, 2:07 pm

  Tags: Labeling, Liberals Amp Amp Democrats, Media Bias Debate, Political Groups, Political Scandals, Anthony Villaraigosa, Mirthala Salinas, Media Scandals, Los Angeles Times, Telemundo

  The Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday that Telemundo reporter and mayoral mistress Mirthala Salinas is heading back at work after a two-month suspension, albeit demoted to a less prominent job within the network: Television newscaster Mirthala Salinas, who was suspended without pay for two months in August after her affair with Los Angeles Mayor

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• CBS Newser Jumps Ship for HuffPo; NYT Downplays Leftward List

  Published: October 2, 2007, 3:15 pm

  Tags: Covert Liberal Activists, Labeling, Media Bias Debate, Alec Baldwin, Betsy Morgan, Bill Carter, Bill Maher, Online Media, Cbs Online, Huffington Post, New York Times, Blogs

  It doesn't take you a comprehensive Media Research Center study to know that the Huffington Post is a leftist site. Of course, MRC/NewsBusters' Tim Graham did such a study, but it's common knowledge in the media that HuffPo skews leftward. Yet New York Times staffer Bill Carter downplayed the liberal nature of the site in his October 2 story

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• The Left Must Be 'Loven' AP's Biased Coverage of SCHIP

  Published: October 3, 2007, 6:00 pm

  Tags: Conservatives Amp Amp Republicans, Health Care, Labeling, Liberals Amp Amp Democrats, Media Bias Debate, Schip, George W Bush, Jennifer Loven, Associated Press, Government Amp Amp Press

  Associated Press reporter Jennifer Loven practically blew kisses to the Left with her biased coverage of President Bush's veto of the Democratic proposal to boost SCHIP by a whopping $35 billion over five years.: WASHINGTON -- President Bush, in a sharp confrontation with Congress, on Wednesday vetoed a bipartisan bill that would have dramatically

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• AP's Loven: Bush Passing the Buck to Successor

  Published: October 4, 2007, 3:52 pm

  Tags: Conservatives Amp Amp Republicans, Double Standards, Labeling, Liberals Amp Amp Democrats, Media Bias Debate, Political Groups, George W Bush, Jennifer Loven, Matthew Dowd, Associated Press

  A day after slamming the president with a biased report on SCHIP, AP White House reporter Jennifer Loven worked her "Bush is a failure" meme into an "analysis" piece that chalked up every real or perceived failure of the Bush administration to the President and his team, and none to the persistent opposition of liberal critics

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