Cliff Kincaid

Conservative Media on the Defensive

With Limbaugh under fire, Fox News, the so-called conservative cable news channel, is being heavily criticized for deciding to keep Ron Paul and Duncan Hunter out of its Sunday night debate.

The Secret of Ron Paul’s Success

Many in the media are intrigued by Rep. Ron Paul's success in the presidential campaign but usually focus on how much money he is raising. In terms of issues, some think he is rising in the polls because of his opposition to the Iraq War. That may be a factor, but my research convinces me that he is doing well primarily because he has a traditional Republican message of returning to smaller and less expensive government. More than that, however, he is talking about the threat posed by global institutions.

CNN and Hillary Destabilize Pakistan

In the wake of Benazir Bhutto’s assassination, Wolf Blitzer of CNN made much of an e-mail, exclusively provided to him by a close associate of Bhutto and a Hillary Clinton supporter, casting blame on Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf for her murder. We can now understand why Musharraf’s November 3 state-of-emergency decree took foreign news outlets like CNN off the air.

White House Scores Knockout Over New York Times

Like Floyd Mayweather knocking down Ricky Hatton in the recent welterweight title fight, the White House has exposed how the New York Times makes things up for dramatic political effect.

Bush Promotes Hillary’s Policies

Some conservatives are insisting that the Bush Administration’s capitulation to the global warming alarmists at the Bali, Indonesia, U.N. Climate Change Conference was either meaningless or else a victory! Such claims represent knee-jerk apologies for the Bush Administration. The spin has got to stop. The sad fact is that Bush endorsed Hillary’s position on climate change at the Bali event.

Bush Sells Out America at U.N. Conference

Our national “news” programs have been preoccupied with baseball players on steroids, but they should devote some attention to the Bush Administration’s approval of a plan to put the United Nations on steroids. Apparently looking to leave office with the blessings of the “international community,” the Bush Administration just sold out American interests at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Bali, Indonesia.

Our Rights at Stake in Michael Savage Case

Radio personality Michael Savage wrote a book on why liberalism is a mental disorder. That helps explain why he is under attack by radical Muslims, who are fellow travelers with the liberals in trying to dismantle American defenses against terrorists and criminals.

Rupert Murdoch Picks Liberal Son as Successor

Sean Hannity, the conservative Republican commentator who takes on such controversial issues as Hillary Clinton's legal work in a communist law firm, could be on his way out of the Fox News Channel as a result of Rupert Murdoch's decision to turn the company over to his liberal son James.

Huckabee Supports Special Rights for Terrorists

Weeks ago Mike Huckabee courageously bucked the "international community" by opposing the U.N.'s Law of the Sea Treaty and calling for the impeachment of federal judges who use foreign law in making decisions.

Islamists Target Michael Savage

Americans don’t have to look to Sudan to see Islamic fanaticism and extremism in action. The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) is trying to destroy the Savage Nation radio show featuring Michael Savage.

Americans Pay for Emerging World Government

In its new Human Development Report calling for another $86 billion in aid to the rest of the world, supposedly to fight the effects of climate change, the United Nations acts distressed that people in “rich” countries like the U.S. don’t take the theory of man-made global warming more seriously. Its answer—and this is actually spelled out in the report—is that too much “editorial balance” in the media has prevented “informed debate” about the need for “urgent action” in the form of higher taxes on energy.

Complain about McCain, not CNN

Some radio talk-show hosts and Republican bloggers have been complaining that the CNN/YouTube debate was stacked against the Republican presidential candidates who participated in it. There is evidence, they point out, that some of the questioners posing as voters were Democratic political operatives. But I don't think this constitutes a major journalistic scandal.

The U.N’s Massive AIDS Scandal

A massive 2,800-word article in Monday's Washington Post paying homage to Bono quotes the rock star as saying he puts "flesh and blood on statistics" about AIDS. The problem is that, only six days earlier, the paper noted that the U.N.'s estimate of AIDS cases has been vastly overblown by millions.

Fox News Owner Backs Australian Leftist

Rupert Murdoch, the so-called “conservative” owner of the Fox News Channel, made a dramatic turn to the Left when one of his major Australian newspapers endorsed the liberal pro-United Nations candidate, Kevin Rudd, in the Australian presidential contest.

Stephanopoulos Tricks Fred Thompson

Sitting in for Bill O’Reilly, Laura Ingraham gave Jeri Thompson a powder puff interview on Tuesday night but it won’t be enough to save her husband, Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson. “Fred Dead?” was a topic on Brit Hume’s Fox News show, which aired earlier in the evening. Thompson is dead politically mainly because of his flip-flops and incredible lack of knowledge and sensitivity on the right-to-life issue.

Flip-Flopping Fred and the Right to Life

"Pro-life" apparently doesn't mean pro-life. Fred Thompson has received the endorsement of the National Right to Life Committee even though he doesn't favor a human life amendment to the Constitution, didn't favor Terri Schiavo's right to life during his November 4 NBC "Meet the Press" appearance, and once lobbied for a pro-abortion group.

Media Mistreatment of Mukasey Backfires

By Cliff Kincaid and Roger Aronoff Why were liberal Democrats so determined to get Attorney General Michael Mukasey to declare waterboarding a form of torture before he was confirmed to his post? It was another case of what Hillary likes to call "gotcha" politics. In this case, however, Senate Democrats were trying to lay a legal trap for President Bush. It has now backfired on them and their allies in the media.

Fred Thompson Is Finished

Fred Thompson looked much too relaxed on Sunday' s "Meet the Press" interview with Tim Russert. He was nonchalant to the point of apathy about one of his key supporters being a convicted drug trafficker and his positions on rights for the unborn and the disabled were embarrassing in their lack of intellectual depth.

Sinister Secrets of the U.N. Sea Treaty

The former editor of the New York Times editorial page says it is "crazy" to be opposed to the U.N.'s Law of the Sea Treaty and she can't understand why it has become a hot-button issue in the Republican presidential race. Gail Collins declared in a November 3 column in the Times that the measure simply clarifies "rules for navigation and mining in international waters" and sets up "a system for settling disputes." Those opposed to it, she says, are spinning "conspiracy theories." But Collins is doing the spinning.

Will Rudy Help Sink the U.N. Sea Treaty

As someone who covered the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's consideration of the U.N.'s Law of the Sea Treaty, I have to report that the experience has been an ugly one. Our major media have been intentionally AWOL from the debate, aiding and abetting the liberal scheme to quickly ratify the dangerous measure.