L. Brent Bozell from Creators Syndicate

Charles Gibson's Palin Double Standard for 09/17/2008

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The McCain campaign went looking for a major anchor to be awarded the blessing and the curse of the first Sarah Palin interview — a blessing for ratings and a curse from all the competitors who would accuse the winners of being soft on Republicans. At CBS, Katie Couric had wallowed in fan-club-president questions to Hillary Clinton about her "pure stamina," so she couldn't be fi ...

Updated: Wed Sep 17, 2008

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Who's The Library Bully? for 09/19/2008

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

As part of the microscopic scrutiny applied to Sarah Palin's record, the public has been told that as the incoming mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, in 1996, Palin dared to ask the town librarian what would happen if anyone objected to an inappropriate book. She merely inquired, but "anti-censorship" activists, perpetually filled with visions of a trash can full of burning books, exploded.

Updated: Fri Sep 19, 2008

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Obama Tries To Flush Rush for 09/24/2008

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

For two decades, going back to the Willie Horton ads of 1988, we've heard liberals accuse Republicans of race-baiting. Throughout this campaign, there have been endless whispers, suggestions and outright accusations that GOP could/would play the race card because Obama is half-black. Now Barack Obama has found his bizarre version of Willie Horton, and it's … Rush Limbaugh.

Obama s ...

Updated: Wed Sep 24, 2008

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Castration: The Next TV Frontier for 09/27/2008

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The temperature has cooled, the leaves are turning colors, and the new fall television season has begun. Enter the mudslide. The Shock and Awe manipulators have been unleashed to air evermore graphic sex and grotesque violence — and, predictably, a combination of the two. The first "winner" in this race to the bottom was the FX cable channel, another sure bet. On Sept.17, viewer ...

Updated: Sat Sep 27, 2008

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Obama, Taxes and "Facts" for 10/01/2008

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Ever since liberal media types felt robbed by the Bush-Quayle campaign's "lies" about Michael Dukakis in 1988, we've been suffering through the media elite's attempts to "police" the facts in advertisements. "Correction" squads are insisting that John McCain can't say Barack Obama will raise taxes, no matter how much that announcing Democrats will raise taxes is li ...

Updated: Wed Oct 01, 2008

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Mighty Maher Strikes Out for 10/03/2008

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Here's an extremely obvious test of how secular our entertainment culture has become: Bill Maher can make a film that strenuously aims to mock all religions. His ads on the Internet show three monkeys: one Jewish, the second a Muslim monkey, and the third, a monkey Pope. The reaction? Our cultural commissars yawn. National news and entertainment magazines howled at the supposed insensitivity of ...

Updated: Fri Oct 03, 2008

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Saving Liberal Fannies for 10/08/2008

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

It seems like only yesterday when Enron and Worldcom collapsed. Throughout these ordeals our national media labored long and hard to paint Worldcom's Bernie Ebbers as the face of Capitalism Corrupted while connecting the dots between President Bush and Enron's "Kenny Boy" Lay, in the effort to demonstrate that corruption in action.

Now it is not a couple of business behemoths i ...

Updated: Wed Oct 08, 2008

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Fox's Lying, Slacker Jesus for 10/10/2008

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Just like Bill Maher, "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane is discovering that atheist ridicule of Jesus Christ and Christianity draws nothing but yawns from today's media elite. If you want an angry media mob, you need merely spit out "Barack Hussein Obama" at a McCain rally and watch the Guardians of Social Taste bring out the torches and pitchforks. But mocking Jesus? Ho ...

Updated: Fri Oct 10, 2008

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Who's "Fierce" On Abortion? for 10/15/2008

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

On Sunday, Oct. 12, CBS wrapped up its "Evening News" with the apparently charming scoop that Sister Cecilia Gaudette, a 106-year-old Catholic nun living in Rome, would cast her first presidential ballot since 1952 ... for Barack Obama. That's one more evening-news story than CBS has devoted to Obama's radical legislative record on abortion.

Try this on for size: ABC, CBS and N ...

Updated: Wed Oct 15, 2008

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Slim Cinema Pickings for 10/17/2008

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

There was a wonderful routine in the Bozell family when I was 11 years old. Every Saturday afternoon my mother would load her undiapered-aged brood, maybe six of us back then, into the station wagon for an outing to the local movie theater. What a delight. John Wayne and the westerns. Dean Jones and anything Disney. "Gone With the Wind," "How the West Was Won," "Doctor ...

Updated: Fri Oct 17, 2008

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Joe The Bumbler for 10/22/2008

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Back in 1964, Lyndon Johnson and his hatchet man Bill Moyers made the infamous "Daisy" ad charging Barry Goldwater would cause a nuclear war, and it became a massive media story. Reportedly the ad ran only once, and yet everyone came to know about it, thanks to the press. In 1976 and again in 1980, the Democrats worked overtime suggesting the election of Ronald Reagan would trigger a ...

Updated: Wed Oct 22, 2008

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Celebrities Mold The Young for 10/24/2008

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Academics at Washington State University have discovered something that may not be very profound. Celebrities are quite successful in persuading young people to turn out and vote.

The survey found that get-out-the-vote pitches by celebrities in the 2004 election cycle helped create an 11 percent increase in voting by people between the ages of 18 and 24, compared to the 2000 election.&qu ...

Updated: Fri Oct 24, 2008

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Obama's Media Landslide for 10/29/2008

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The election results aren't in yet, but there is one set of surveys with an unmistakeable conclusion. Everyone should be forced to admit that the publicists formerly known as the "news" media have worked themselves to the bone this year to elect Barack Obama.

Polls have found it. The Pew Center for the People and the Press documented a landslide: "By a margin of 70 percent ...

Updated: Wed Oct 29, 2008

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No Access For Hollywood? for 10/31/2008

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Hollywood celebrities campaigning and cavorting with national contenders is a staple of presidential politics. Frank Sinatra is remembered for backing Jack Kennedy. Paul Newman made waves for Hubert Humphrey in 1968. Warren Beatty was part of George McGovern's "Malibu Mafia" in 1972. Ted Kennedy used Carroll O'Connor, famous for playing Archie Bunker, to add to his lunch-bucket appeal ...

Updated: Fri Oct 31, 2008

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Teen Pregnancy and TV for 11/05/2008

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

The Washington Post announced an important new study from the respected Rand Corporation on its front page on Nov. 3. Teenagers who watch a lot of television featuring sex talk and sex scenes are much more likely than their peers to get pregnant or get a partner pregnant, according to the first study to directly link television programming to teen pregnancy.

The study was published in Pe ...

Updated: Wed Nov 05, 2008

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Media Defeats McCain? for 11/07/2008

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

The election of Barack Obama was certainly historic, and the great attraction of that historic moment led to more history: an Obama-smitten news media that completely avoided their responsibility to test the nominee with hard questions. It made the gooey 1992 Clinton campaign look like a fistfight by comparison.

Obama faced none of the withering scrutiny applied to even the Republican
Updated: Fri Nov 07, 2008

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No Tears For National Review for 11/19/2008

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

The liberal crocodiles at The New York Times are shedding tears for National Review magazine. The headline of media reporter Tim Arango's piece is "At National Review, a Threat to Its Reputation for Erudition." It is a curious topic for the Times, which usually treats the idea of intellectual conservatism as oxymoronic.

Arango mourns that the tenor of debate at National Review ...

Updated: Wed Nov 19, 2008

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Hollywood's Ridiculous Lawyers for 11/21/2008

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Both Time and Newsweek magazines are giggling at the Supreme Court oral arguments on the fleeting-TV-profanity case of FCC vs. Fox Television Stations. The court is considering if it has the authority to regulate obscene language on the public airwaves.

Time noticed Justice Antonin Scalia joking that "Bawdy jokes are OK, if they are really good." Newsweek reported that Justice ...

Updated: Fri Nov 21, 2008

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Liberalism = Genius? for 11/26/2008

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

If there is a dreadfully overused word in the giddy countdown to the Obama inauguration, it is "smart." Not just "smart," but also its stronger cousins like "brilliant" and "genius." These words have been offered shamelessly for nearly every person assigned a role by President-Elect Obama. They are assembling an "all-star cabinet." This was not ...

Updated: Wed Nov 26, 2008

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Colbert Shreds Sunday School for 11/27/2008

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Christmas is coming, which means it's time for Comedy Central to begin besmirching the holiday. This year's first salvo is "A Colbert Christmas," hosted by the clueless ultraconservative buffoon persona played by Stephen Colbert. Colbert is so busy manufacturing his O'Reilly-esque right-wing jerk that it's impossible to tell where the real man and the cartoon diverge. His adoring ento ...

Updated: Thu Nov 27, 2008

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