Today's Fresh Blogs...

• Black Liberal Blogger: WashPost Wrong on Hand-Wringing on Diversity

  Published: August 6, 2007, 2:06 pm

  Tags: Liberals Amp Amp Democrats, Political Groups, Jose Antonio Vargas, Online Media, Blogs, Mother Jones, Washington Post, Journalistic Issues

  The Washington Post's Jose Antonio Vargas reported in the August 6 paper about worries in the Yearly Kos crowd that the liberal blogosphere is too white and too male. Critiquing that August 6 article, Jack Turner of "Jack & Jill Politics" disagreed with Vargas' assessment that every attendee at YearlyKos was wringing his or her hands

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• ABC Touts Gaffes of GOP Children; Sawyer Recounts Battling With Republican Dad

  Published: August 7, 2007, 12:57 pm

  Tags: 2008 Presidential, Campaigns Amp Amp Elections, Conservatives Amp Amp Republicans, Political Groups, Al Gore, Barack Obama, Diane Sawyer, George Stephanopoulos, George W Bush, Gerald Ford, Patti Davis, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Rudy Giuliani, Good Morning America

  went on to explain the political differences she had with her GOP parent by saying, "Well, it was the 60s, you know?" Some have tried to argue that Ms. Sawyer represents political balance because, as a young woman in her twenties, she worked for Richard Nixon's White House. However, as Ann Coulter noted in her book

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• Will Nets Ignore Apparent Clinton Flip-Flop on Nukes?

  Published: August 9, 2007, 3:14 pm

  Tags: 2008 Presidential, Afghanistan, Campaigns Amp Amp Elections, Foreign Policy, Iran, Iraq, Liberals Amp Amp Democrats, Middle East, Military, Political Groups, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Associated Press, Washington Post

  On August 3, NewsBusters contributor Scott Whitlock noticed the network morning shows largely ignored Sen. Barack Obama's (D-Ill.) dovish blanket assertion that he would rule out the use of nuclear weapons in "any circumstances" in dealing with terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan. At the time, Sen. Hillary Clinton called the

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• Couric Conducts Decent Interview With Conservative Think Tank Official

  Published: August 10, 2007, 11:14 am

  Tags: 2008 Presidential, Campaigns Amp Amp Elections, Conservatives Amp Amp Republicans, Health Care, Political Groups, Katie Couric, Robert Moffitt, Online Media, Blogs, Couric Amp Amp Co

  or politician on a major political issue. In the past, I've blogged about how the interviews have generally skewed leftward, but I was pleasantly surprised with the CBS anchor's mostly neutral agenda of questions in her August 9 interview with Robert Moffitt of the conservative Heritage Foundation. Generally speaking, the questions sought to

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• Ex-ACLU Chief Gets Seven Years For Child Porn

  Published: September 7, 2007, 10:22 pm

  Tags: Political Groups, Non Political Bias

  The blogs and MSM sure paid a lot of attention to Senator Craig, his wide stance, and restroom etiquette. I wonder why they are not paying as much attention to the ACLU chief getting seven years for child porn? I wonder, especially, when it involves sexual torture of infants and toddlers....why isn't this getting any coverage?

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• CNN's Malveaux Hits GOP Over Race Relations, Citing 'Jena Six'

  Published: September 20, 2007, 1:43 pm

  Tags: Conservatives Amp Amp Republicans, Crime, Political Groups, Race Issues, George W Bush, Suzanne Malveaux, Government Amp Amp Press, Video

  focusing more on the political dimensions of the controversy, particularly Thursday's Al Sharpton-led protests in the small Louisiana town. For example, in a separate post, NewsBusters contributor Matthew Balan notes how news outlets like CNN.com and USAToday are burying or ignoring details about victim of the Dec. 4, 2006 beating, Justin

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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

  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 Really

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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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• Surprise! New MTV Social-Activism Site Leans Left

  Published: September 25, 2007, 4:55 pm

  Tags: Environment, Global Warming, Liberals Amp Amp Democrats, Political Groups, Sexuality, Bill Clinton, John Edwards, Kanye West, Online Media, Facebook, Mtv Com

  the future. Three videos on political themes are displayed. The only one from a named author is by . . . Kanye West [the rapper who during the 2004 election famously claimed that "Bush doesn't care about black people."] Other celebrities involved with Think MTV: Bono, Jay-Z, Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, Chris Rock. Do you detect a

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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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• MSNBC Bought Out Newsvine.com

  Published: October 8, 2007, 1:44 pm

  Tags: Conservatives Amp Amp Republicans, Libertarians, Political Groups, Media Business, Online Media, Seattle Post Intelligencer, Web 2 0

  to spamming and gaming by political partisans with lots of time on their hands. Conservatives have often complained about Newsvine competitor Digg.com, arguing problems with liberal spammers voting down conservative content. Supporters of libertarian Republican presidential aspirant Ron Paul have also been accused of gaming Digg. For its

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• Advice for GOP Candidates: Tackle Chris Matthews, Jon Stewart-style

  Published: October 8, 2007, 10:53 pm

  Tags: 2008 Presidential, Campaigns Amp Amp Elections, Conservatives Amp Amp Republicans, Media Bias Debate, Political Groups, Chris Matthews, Jed Babbin, Jon Stewart, Media Business, Msnbc

  about the mainstream media's political activism. They know something is badly wrong with the media, its obvious bias, and the fact that many such as CBS, NBC, ABC, the New York Times, and the Washington Post are in the campaign business, not the news business. Because Republicans have not taken the media on, Americans can't quite put their finger

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• AP Once Again Neglects Party Label for Phony Soldier Mayor

  Published: October 9, 2007, 1:47 pm

  Tags: Double Standards, Labeling, Liberals Amp Amp Democrats, Media Bias Debate, Political Groups, Larry Craig, Robert Levy, Media Business, Associated Press, New Jersey, Government Amp Amp Press

  (R-Idaho) is also a national political embarrassment and like Levy, relatively unknown before his guilty plea in an airport bathroom sex sting was made public. His party affiliation was, to my knowledge, rarely if ever left unmentioned in major print and broadcast news

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• Netroots: A Frightening Vision for America

  Published: October 11, 2007, 8:33 pm

  Tags: Censorship, Fairness Doctrine, Liberals Amp Amp Democrats, Political Groups

  movement to expand Liberal political clout in Congress and goes well beyond simple voting rights for DC: Colonial Reform. Perhaps I am using overly provocative language to describe this one, but granting full congressional representation to those areas of America not current represented by full voting members in Congress would be a big step

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• Chicago Papers Ignore Party Affiliation of Mayor Calling for Tax Hikes

  Published: October 15, 2007, 11:03 am

  Tags: Labeling, Liberals Amp Amp Democrats, Media Bias Debate, Political Groups, Richard Daley, Chicago Sun Times, Chicago Tribune, Illinois, Government Amp Amp Press

  Now, I know finding a Republican in Chicago city government is probably less likely than spotting a nudist in a porcupine convention, but is it asking too much for the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times to add a D-tag when reporting on six-term (and freshly re-elected) Mayor Richard M. Daley's push for an 11 percent city sales tax and a

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