Networks Bend Knee to Religulous, Ignore Fireproof
ByKristen Fyfe“Jesus gave pony rides on dinosaurs.” Religion “is a giant elephant in the room of comic gold.”These are just two of the pearls that Bill Maher has dropped in the course of appearing on...
View ArticleWeekend Box Office: Americans Vote, Maher Loses
ByKristen FyfeA culture war of sorts played out this weekend at the box office, and liberal comedian Bill Maher's in-your-face assault on religious faith lost. Despite heavy promotion from a fawning...
View ArticleABC Addresses Debt and Personal Responsibility Head On
ByKristen Fyfe“You buy a home when you can freaking afford it!” So said financial advisor Dave Ramsey to Good Morning America's Robin Roberts on October 7. Ramsey and the ABC morning show's other...
View ArticleNewsweek's Religion Reporter Again Features Former Bush-Supporting Pastor Now...
ByKristen FyfeFor the third time, Newsweek religion reporter Lisa Miller has informed the world that Kirbyjon Caldwell, an African-America pastor from Texas, who formerly supported President George W....
View ArticleWomanizer: 20/20 Sleazes Things Up in the Name of 'News'
ByKristen FyfeWhat were the producers of ABC's 20/20 thinking when they put the October 10 broadcast together? Viewers were subjected to a tabloidesque juxtaposition: about 28 minutes after they...
View ArticleABC: Firearm Friendly Sarah Palin Locks and Loads Voters in Wyoming
ByKristen FyfeABC has a track record of slanting the news in favor of gun control. So it was no surprise that in an otherwise positive story about gun owners in Wyoming, reporter Neal Karlinsky...
View ArticleBoston Globe Publishes Slain Soldier's Blog
ByKristen FyfeArmy Specialist Stephen Fortunato was killed in Afghanistan on Tuesday. The Boston Globe, Fortunato's hometown paper, carried the story in the October 17 edition. It reads like many...
View ArticleFamily Guy: McCain/Palin = Nazi
ByKristen FyfeAh, serendipity. On the same day the Hollywood trade magazine Hollywood Reporter ran an article detailing how Republicans and conservatives in Tinseltown often feel bullied by their...
View ArticleUPDATE: ABC's Coverage of Pay it Forward Organ Donation Program Saves Lives
ByKristen FyfeA unique program centered purely on the generosity of the human spirit and the kindness of strangers received another boost from ABC News. The October 20 broadcast of World News...
View ArticleFireproof Book The Love Dare Tops NYT Bestseller List
ByKristen FyfeThe Love Dare wasn't actually a real book at first. The 40-day marriage saving devotional/self-help book was originally a plot device in a small-budget Christian film called Fireproof....
View ArticleWaPo: Conservatives Are Happier than Liberals
ByKristen FyfeThe worldview of conservatives and Republicans makes them a happier lot than liberals and Democrats, even in a year when the Republican “candidate is sinking in the polls,” the...
View ArticleSkank-o-ween 2008: The Sexualization of Children
ByKristen FyfeMy 14-year-old daughter informed me that the many of the young teens in her school are dressing up as Sarah Palin for Halloween. Given that she attends school in very blue Northern...
View ArticleSexy TV Shows, Violent Video Games Linked to Teen Sex, Aggression
ByKristen FyfeSteamy TV shows are linked to teen pregnancy and violent video games are linked to aggression and hostility in kids. These are the findings of two longitudinal studies both released...
View ArticlePotty Mouths OK for TV but Not for the Supreme Court
ByKristen FyfeIt's really ironic. Just days after a new study showed an explosive rise in the use of foul language on broadcast television, the Supreme Court heard a case about whether “fleeting”...
View ArticleWaPo: Bush Pro-Life Regs Onerous, Ideologically Offensive
ByKristen Fyfe“Controversial.” “Onerous.” “Ideologically offensive.” These are the words used by Washington Post reporters Ceci Connolly and R. Jeffrey Smith to describe certain Bush administration...
View ArticleWashington Post Quotes Liberal Catholic Saying U.S. Bishops Hold Minority...
ByKristen FyfeCatholic bishops in the United States are out of touch on abortion and contraception, according to a source selected by The Washington Post. read more
View ArticleCNN, Newspapers Beat the Drum for Same-Sex Marriage
ByKristen FyfeMajor newspapers gave heavy, doting coverage this past weekend to the anti-Proposition 8 protests in cities across the country, and CNN covered the protest before it happened, as it...
View ArticleBoston Legal Calls McCain/Palin Supporters Idiots
ByKristen FyfeMany McCain/Palin voters are idiots. So said the writers of the Nov. 17 episode of ABC's Boston Legal, who went out of their way to trash Sarah Palin and elevate the election of Barack...
View ArticleRefreshing Victory for Honesty
ByKristen FyfeIf you broke the rules and no one knew it, would you turn yourself in? Pro golfer J.P. Hayes recently faced that crucible and his answer was, “yes.” His honesty, which got him kicked out...
View ArticleGrinch-o-Meter ALERT! Bicoastal Episodes of Political Correctness
ByKristen FyfePING! That's the needle of CMI's Grinch-o-Meter registering in the red zone exactly one month before Christmas. The Grinch-o-Meter is a tool that CMI created to rate efforts to...
View ArticleThe Toxic Tube Made Them Do It
ByKristen FyfeThe new version of 90210, CW network's much anticipated teen drama, debuted this fall with a scene of a young man receiving oral sex while parked in a school parking lot. Gossip Girl,...
View ArticleCBS Tastelessly Mixes Wal-Mart Tragedy with Shopping Story
ByKristen FyfeOn Friday, Nov. 28's CBS Evening News, reporter Michelle Miller used the tragic death of a Wal-Mart security guard as the hook to open her story on consumers who are spending less this...
View ArticleGrinch-o-Meter ALERT!
ByKristen FyfeThe Washington Post's gossip girls are trashing President Bush again, this time featuring a liberal artist who was “nauseated” by an invitation to create an ornament for this year's...
View ArticleGrinch-o-Meter ALERT!
ByKristen FyfeSchools appear to be at the center of this week's storm of politically correct grinchiness. Below is a roundup of some of the Grinch-o-Meter alerts that have sounded this week at the...
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