Gore: Balanced reporting on global warming will have ‘severe consequences’ on the climate
Now why does this not surprise me?
Gore ‘responds’ to Drudge headline (UPDATE II: IS ST READER GWR PSYCHIC?)
Fresh off his Academy Award win on Sunday night, presidential wannabe Al Gore must be feeling pretty invincible as he took it upon himself to respond to, as the very liberal Think Progress describes it, Drudge’s “latest hysterics” on Al Gore’s gw hypocrisy.
Gagworthy moment of the week: WaPo piece on “rock star” Al Gore (UPDATE: GORE & Co. WIN – VIDEO ADDED)
He’s been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. He was a “hot ticket” recently in Canada. CBS Early Show anchor Harry Smith wondered aloud a few weeks ago if Gore should be considered a “prophet.” And today, the WaPo posted an unnewsworthy piece on Al Gore – on the front page – that describes him as a “rock star.”
Double standards in Duke rape cases
Back on the 12th, I blogged about a rape that allegedly happened to a Duke student at an off campus frat party, and noted an obvious double standard the media was employing, namely that they weren’t so quick to release the race of the accused unlike they were in the Duke lacrosse rape case drama, where they mentioned the race and ‘privileged backgrounds’ of the three accused lacrosse players as often as they possibly could. In my post, I noted that the accused in the incident that allegedly happened on the 11th was described in most media reports as “wearing a black do-rag, sweatshirt, and blue jeans.”
My love for Brit Hume …
My crush on Fox News’ Brit Hume is well known among my readers. As I wrote back in July about Hume:
WaPo reporter wishes his name had never been put on “improper but not illegal” pre-Iraq war intelligence story
Remember the WaPo pre-Iraq war intelligence story that was widely reported and discussed last week, the one where they falsely attritubed quotes to the Inspector General that were actually Democratic Senator Carl Levin’s? Just to recap, here’s how the correction read (emphasis added):