Evening Summary of MUST READ stories for Friday, July 23, 2010
Sure makes you wonder, doesn't it?
PM summary of MUST READ stories across the web:
BLOGGERS NEED A GATEKEEPER? CNN allows anchor to crawl out from under a rock and comment on Shirley Sherrod incident:
Should there be a “gatekeeper” regulating internet bloggers? In the aftermath of the Shirley Sherrod incident, that’s what CNN promoted on July 23.Anchors Kyra Phillips and John Roberts discussed the “mixed blessing of the internet,” and agreed that there should be a crackdown on anonymous bloggers who disparage others on the internet.
CNN’s two regulation-happy reporters, think the Sherrod situation can help bring attention to the “necessity” of blogging reform if she brings a defamation lawsuit against Andrew Breitbart.
CNN Host Calls for Crackdown on ‘Bloggers’ in Wake of Sherrod Incident: ‘Something’s Going to Have to be Done Legally’.
Meteor Crater Discovered With Google Earth:
Researchers poring over Google Earth images have discovered one of Earth’s freshest impact craters — a 45-meter-wide pock in southwestern Egypt that probably was excavated by a fast-moving iron meteorite no more than a few thousand years ago.
Meteor Crater Discovered With Google Earth.
Jim Hoft @ Gateway Pundit puts forth clarification on Sherrod incident:
Just to clarify:
- Shirley Sherrod’s March speech was filled with racist remarks
- FOX News did not lead the charge against Sherrod
- Sherrod’s recent comments make clear she has not worked through her race issues
- Sherrod’s attacks on conservatives and tea partiers are disgusting
- Sherrod’s accusations against Breitbart are shameful and inaccurate
- Sherrod and the NAACP should be the ones to apologize for their offensive remarks
Black Journalists Prove to Be As Biased and Inept as State-Run Media.
From Noel Sheppard @ NewsBusters … Keith Olbermann Pile-On: just too much for his Lefty friends!
While on a much-needed vacation, things for Keith Olbermann have gone from bad to worse.News is coming out almost daily concerning members of his production staff jumping ship to work for Lawrence O’Donnell’s new program.
On top of that, the Daily Caller has published e-mail messages of liberal JournoList members expressing their disgust for the “Countdown” host.
Olbermann’s Production Staff Jumping Ship, JournoListers Hate Him.
From Politico … Breitbart refuses to back down:
An unrepentant Andrew Breitbart told POLITICO on Thursday that the Obama administration and its allies have manufactured a controversy over the video he posted of Shirley Sherrod’s speech to the NAACP as part of an orchestrated effort to take him down.“I am public enemy No. 1 or 2 to the Democratic Party, the progressive movement and the Obama administration based upon the successes my journalism has had.”
“The desire here is to make it about me and not the Democratic establishment and the NAACP vs. the tea party,” Breitbart said, defending the footage he posted as “a self-contained newsworthy video that established the media standard of pointing out that the NAACP countenanced racism in its own award dinner setting. That was the point. That was the point. And the video proves it.”
Breitbart: ‘I am public enemy No. 1…’.
Ga. School Forces Christian Student to Alter Beliefs to Graduate:
An Augusta State University student filed suit Wednesday after she was told to change her Christian beliefs or otherwise be expelled from the school’s graduate counseling program.Jennifer Keeton, 24, has been enrolled in the College of Education’s School Counselor masters degree program since fall 2009. She has expressed her Christian beliefs in class discussions and written assignments, but it was her views regarding gender and sexuality that irked faculty.
According to the filed complaint, “She has stated that she believes sexual behavior is the result of accountable personal choice rather than an inevitability deriving from deterministic forces. She also has affirmed binary male-female gender, with one or the other being fixed in each person at their creation, and not a social construct or individual choice subject to alteration by the person so created. Further, she has expressed her view that homosexuality is a ‘lifestyle,’ not a ’state of being.’”
Ga. School Forces Christian Student to Alter Beliefs to Graduate.
H/T to Jim Hoft @ Gateway Pundit … Anita MonCrief to File FEC Charges Against Obama Administration (video):
ACORN whistle-blower Anita Moncrief held a press conference today at the Right Online Convention in Las Vegas. She announced today that she will press FEC charges against the Obama Administration for the campaign’s illegal coordination with ACORN during the 2008 election.Anita also rolled out her new website Emerging Corruption. The website will focus on fraud and corruption in ACORN and affiliated groups. Anita already posted the Obama Donor List on the website as promised
Anita MonCrief to File FEC Charges Against Obama Administration.
No tags for this post.Joseph Klein @ NewsReal Blog … Paul Krugman Spins The Truth – Again:
It’s bad enough that Paul Krugman, the New York Times op-ed columnist and resident economist, gets his facts wrong as I demonstrated last week. In his latest column today entitled “Addicted To Bush,” he blatantly misrepresents the truth through distortions of fact and material omissions.Krugman says that Republicans are trying to “rehabilitate Bush’s image” on the economy, the deficit and the war in Iraq – all of which Krugman scores as abject failures. While Krugman is entitled to his ignorant opinions, he is not entitled to falsify the record.
Paul Krugman Spins The Truth – Again.
