Free Republic

Once again Matt Drudge has run across a Democrat shocker. Once more, the mainstream media seems to be ignoring it. Will this one turn out to be as true as the Monica Lewinsky story? If it does, all hell is going to break loose inside the Democratic Party, and once again proof of Leftwing media bias will emerge....(Snip) It is certain that the networks and America’s large news organizations, including the press services and newspapers like the New York Times and the Washington Post, have been suppressing this story, defending such suppression on the basis that there is no “smoking...

As main press players blast the DRUDGE REPORT and foreign outlets for revealing details of a behind-the-scenes campaign drama surrounding candidate Kerry and the nature of his relationship with a mystery woman, just 12 years ago pre-Internet mainstream media assaulted President George W. Bush's father with questions surrounding an infidelity rumor. In 1992 top reporters swiftly reacted to a footnote in a book by Susan Trento, wife of CNN reporter James Trento who was the source of the original rumor -- apparently from an interview with a long dead ambassador. CNN rushed to get the rumor into the media stream...

Governed by rules, not men Posted: February 11, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 Creators Syndicate, Inc. Having been deserted by her husband, my mother worked. That meant that my one-year-younger sister and I often lunched by ourselves during our pre-teen years. Being bigger and stronger than my sister, quite often there wouldn't be a fair division of the food, especially the desserts. Coming home from work, Mom would be greeted by sob stories about my lunchtime injustices. There came a time when Mom got fed up with the sibling hassles – but she didn't admonish us to be more caring, fair, sensitive...

Palm Beach State Attorney’s Office Dances Atop Their SUV, Releases Confidential Correspondence Roy Black Comments on the State's Release of Confidential Correspondence Miami, FL – January 23, 2004 – Roy Black, attorney for Rush Limbaugh, issued the following statement today regarding confidential correspondence that was released to the media by Palm Beach State Attorney Barry Krischer. “My letter to Mr. Krischer regarding Mr. Limbaugh’s case asked that Mr. Limbaugh be afforded the treatment anyone else would receive. The State's response was preposterous, but consistent with their double standard in this case. The facts are: Mr. Limbaugh went to these doctors...

Gaffing all the wayMona Charen (archive) January 9, 2004 | Print | Send Need I say it? If a Republican had made the sort of joke Sen. Hillary Clinton made at a Missouri fund-raiser, it would have been front page news for days. Introducing a quote from Mahatma Gandhi, Sen. Clinton said, "He ran a gas station down in St. Louis." After the laughter subsided, she added, "No, Mahatma Gandhi was a great leader of the 20th century." There was a minor league little dust up, and Clinton later apologized. But for some reason, the sensitivity police were remarkably quiescent...

<p>IN DECEMBER 1994 I wrote the first of what would become a yearly series of columns on the subject of liberal hate speech. That was the year Republicans swept the midterm elections to win control of Congress, and ideological passions were running high. I had noticed that when a prominent Republican or conservative said something offensive about liberals, it typically set off a storm of media condemnation, while an anti-conservative smear voiced by a liberal or a Democrat rarely drew any protest. There was no end of sour commentary, for example, when Newt Gingrich recommended that Clinton Democrats be portrayed as "the enemy of normal Americans." It was an outrageous remark, and Gingrich deserved the drubbing he received.</p>

PALM BEACH, Fla. — A federal judge has given the town of Palm Beach (search), Fla., until 5 p.m. Thursday to come up with a good reason why Christ in a manger should not be displayed next to a menorah on public property. Town officials are saying "no" to putting up a Nativity scene next to a Jewish menorah (search) in a popular park on public property. A few years ago, a rabbi in Palm Beach fought the same town leadership to put a menorah on public property. But after lawyers got involved, the town relented. This year, two women...

Of all the good Howard Dean moments--and we're sure to have many of them before he retires to a faculty position at Bennington--the best so far must be this week's interview with Judy Woodruff on "Inside Politics." Highlights included: "I actually spoke in an African-American church yesterday." Wonderfully ironic since one of the mumbled concerns the left has about Dean is the fact that his support is lily white (remember, racial diversity really matters to these people). His organization is so high-Wasp that, if he were a Republican, well, you can imagine the catcalls. Contrast this with George W. Bush,...

Receive FREE updates by email: | Google Applies Double Standard to Political Vendors By William R AlfordNovember 19, 2003 As a commercial entity, the popular search engine Google has joined the esteemed ranks of media and academic organizations that have a responsibility to be objective but instead choose to manage information based upon an apparent ingrained partisan and socio-ideological bias. Some background: Early this past summer, Accuracy In Media's Conservative Mall offered Jason Fodeman's book, How to Destroy a Village: What the Clintons Taught a Seventeen Year Old. Soon after our marketing staff placed it into Google's 'sponsored links'...

Google Applies Double Standard to Political Vendors By William R Alford As a commercial entity, the popular search engine Google has joined the esteemed ranks of media and academic organizations that have a responsibility to be objective but instead choose to manage information based upon an apparent ingrained partisan and socio-ideological bias. Some background: Early this past summer, Accuracy In Media*s Conservative Mall offered Jason Fodeman*s book, How to Destroy a Village: What the Clintons Taught a Seventeen Year Old. Soon after our marketing staff placed it into Google*s *sponsored links* [pay-per-click Internet advertising], their staff informed us that they...

Public generosity saves gospel choir By SUSAN PAYNTER SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER COLUMNIST The student singers in Garfield High School's gospel choir, their director, principal and assistant principal were all "bouncing off the walls" with jubilation last Friday afternoon. "It feels like the end of 'It's a Wonderful Life'! The program is not only saved but launched! This renews my faith in humanity," e-mailed choir director Carol Burton. Hallelujah! Word had just arrived that the racially integrated, uplifting, high-energy choir, which had been doomed to disband due to lack of money, had been saved. A few calls came early that morning to...

BIBLE MONUMENT IS KICKED OUT—KORAN MONUMENT IS ERECTED In the same month that Chief Justice Moore was kicked out of the Alabama Supreme Court for displaying the Bible’s 10 Commandments, New York has erected a monument to Islam’s Koran. The Koran has been put on display in the lobby of police headquarters on the top of a brass pedestal, encased in a glass cube. The monument to Islamic scriptures was built during Ramadan despite the objections of New York’s Civil Liberties Union. The police headquarters, which had traditionally been staffed by Irish and Italian Catholic police officers, said it was...

HONOLULU (AP) - A federal judge ruled Monday that the exclusive Kamehameha Schools may continue its Hawaiians-only admissions policy, rejecting a discrimination complaint from a student who said the policy violated his civil rights. U.S. District Judge Alan Kay said the admissions policy passed muster because of the school's unique historical circumstances. Since the private school receives no federal funding, it should not be held to the same scrutiny as public schools, Kay said. The school's trustees, sitting behind their attorneys, cried and hugged each other after the decision, while outside the federal courthouse, several hundred Hawaiian activists wearing red...

While former Alabama Justice Roy Moore has been removed from office due to controversy surrounding a religious display in a public building, the New York City Police Department is displaying a copy of the Muslim Quran in the lobby of its headquarters. According to Newsday, the holy book was placed in a glass cube atop a brass pedestal at the beginning of the Muslim month of Ramadan, which began Oct. 27. The display is featured near the Hall of Heroes and is placed in front of the official police seal. Donna Lieberman, the New York Civil Liberties Union executive director,...

Posted: November 14, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com While former Alabama Justice Roy Moore has been removed from office due to controversy surrounding a religious display in a public building, the New York City Police Department is displaying a copy of the Muslim Quran in the lobby of its headquarters. According to Newsday, the holy book was placed in a glass cube atop a brass pedestal at the beginning of the Muslim month of Ramadan, which began Oct. 27. The display is featured near the Hall of Heroes and is placed in front of the official police seal....

As the character of Ronald Reagan, played by James Brolin, says in the chimerical "Reagan" miniseries, which now will air on Showtime instead of CBS, "Those who live in sin, shall die in sin." Barbra Streisand is furious at the CBS decision to not air the show, and hopefully is now learning a similar lesson of "Those who live for money, shall fail for money." CBS said in a statement they decided to cancel the miniseries because it contained many falsehoods. If you believe that, you'll also likely let your little boy spend the night at the Neverland Ranch without...

Democrats: Selectively forgiving Posted: November 8, 20031:00 a.m. Eastern By David N. Bass© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Today's Democrats are known to employ selective forgiveness. Last Tuesday's "Rock the Vote" debate among Democratic presidential hopefuls solidifies that conclusion. Aside from the usual attempts to be hip (including discussion of marijuana and who is best to party with), the most revealing incident in the debate was when Al Sharpton questioned Howard Dean on his October comment about the Confederate flag. Dean was quoted in the Des Moines Register as saying, "I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup...

The Origin of the Double Standard October 30, 2003 by Michael P. Tremoglie In 1996, I was treated to a text developed by the Anti-Defamation League called Understanding Racism. It was a lesson plan for high school students to teach about racism. The text was given to me by the chairman of the Social Studies Department at Central High School in Philadelphia – who had rejected the proposal to include it as part of the curriculum.

Fellow Freepers, I need your help! I am a college student getting ready to wrtie a paper on a very controversial issue: Double standards in society. I wanted to get peoples' personal opinions and facts they might have on the topic. If any of you have articles, news reports or anything information realting to the subject, I would really appreciate it if you would send them this way. I don't mind what side it is from because it is good to know both sides of the argument. Thank you in advance for all of your help! Very Respectfully, Proud To...

The angry liberals just won't stop in their relentless pursuit to wage war on anyone who doesn't agree with their way of seeing the world. The left constantly uses terms like "diversity," "inclusion" and "freedom of speech" but if you happen to hold a position that differs with theirs, forget about it - no inclusion for you, pal. Polls have shown that the preponderance of university professors, journalists, and entertainment executives and performers are Democrats or hold liberal opinions.

Lieutenant General Jerry Boykin, deputy undersecretary of Defense for intelligence, ignited an international firestorm. Addressing a religious group in June 2003, Boykin said radical Muslims hate us "because we're a Christian nation, because our foundation and our roots are Judeo-Christian . . . and the enemy is a guy called Satan." Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Joseph Lieberman asked President Bush to denounce Boykin's "hateful remarks," adding, "The war on terrorism is a war on terrorists, not religions. The Bush administration, which claims to understand that, needs to condemn anyone who says otherwise." Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., said, "It is outrageous...

The American Civil Liberties Union has a well-earned public image as a stalwart defender of civil liberties, even when the rights in question conflict with extremely popular and seemingly important legislation. Unfortunately, however, the ACLU, bowing to intellectual trends in left-liberal circles, is increasingly willing to support the enforcement of antidiscrimination laws at the expense of civil liberties. Perhaps the most egregious example of this backsliding is the ACLU's remarkable opposition to the 1999 Religious Liberty Protection Act. The national ACLU's opposition to the RLPA is just one of many examples of the organization's elevating antidiscrimination principles above free exercise...

<p>Three leading Republicans and a key Democrat yesterday challenged the FBI to explain whether witnesses being questioned in an investigation into a double standard of discipline for senior bureau executives and rank-and-file agents were being intimidated and subjected to retaliation.</p>

Musings on the pastime of politics with blindersBy MARY JO MELONE, Times Staff WriterPublished October 14, 2003 My office phone rang and rang Sunday. The voice mail quickly filled up. Same with the e-mail. I had written a piece raising the question of why women voted for Arnold Schwarzenegger for governor of California, given his alleged history of manhandling women. I compared him to Bill Clinton. I said in the column that unlike Schwarzenegger's accusers, the women Clinton hit on had welcomed his advances.When I wrote that, I was thinking of Monica Lewinsky, Gennifer Flowers.The callers and e-mailers had other...

Add the Rush Limbaugh controversy to the following list of surreal racial episodes. The National Football League fines Detroit Lions General Manager Matt Millen $200,000 for failing to interview a black candidate in his coaching search. Since everyone knew that Millen had already found the coach he intended to hire (Steve Mariucci), it was left unexplained how interviewing a black candidate would have amounted to anything more than racial tokenism. In Oakley, Calif., a furor erupts when a 15-year-old girl attempts to create a Caucasian Student Club in a high school that already features, minus the associated controversy, black, Latino...

I have actually been out here in San Francisco all week at a seminar/convention at the SF Marriott. I got here on Tueday (election day). It has been interesting to say the least. My random thoughts from what I have read and from the non-stop media blitz here in California: 1.) Californians really hate Davis. I mean really hate him. Even the Unions deserted him. Even folks in the Bay area can't stand him. 2.) Davis probably put the final nail in his coffin with the illegal immigrant driver's license bill. That was too much even for liberals -- and...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- As the editor of the magazine that broke the Troopergate stories, I have endured a decade of lectures from journalism's bulging choir of ethicists. In the Troopergate stories, The American Spectator had Arkansas state troopers attesting to Boy Clinton's philandering and to more serious matters, to wit: his misuse of government employees, misuse of government offices and vehicles, and even his misuse of government credit cards. All the troopers' stories were verified by documentation or by other witnesses' accounts. Moreover, the Boy President's ithyphallic behavior continued in the White House, as was made luridly clear with the...

<p>As the editor of the magazine that broke the Troopergate stories, I have endured a decade of lectures from journalism's bulging choir of ethicists. In the Troopergate stories, the American Spectator had Arkansas state troopers attesting to Boy Clinton's philandering and to more serious matters, to wit: his misuse of government employees, misuse of government offices and vehicles, and even his misuse of government credit cards. All the troopers' stories were verified by documentation or by other witnesses' accounts.</p>

The Los Angeles Times, only days before the Oct. 7 California recall election, published a front-page article alleging that Republican gubernatorial candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger groped six women. Only two women gave their names, with four refusing to disclose them. Of the anonymous women, three still work in the Hollywood industry, and refuse to give their names, fearing reprisals. The fourth, while not in the industry, nevertheless feared a mega-reaction if she revealed her name. The Los Angeles Times admitted that they assigned several reporters who spent seven weeks investigating alleged instances of sexual misconduct by Schwarzenegger. They also admitted that...

Liberal Activists did not even wait for the polls to close in California’s historical recall election of Governor Gray Davis before they were screaming about their voters being disenfranchised. Liberal Activist and Democrat Operative Jesse Jackson wasted no time in charging that the Davis Campaign had received calls from over 30,000 California residents who Mr. Jackson claimed were being disenfranchised, could not find polling places, and that there were not enough polling place available in an appearance on Fox News’s Hannity and Colmes. When host Sean Hannity pressed Mr. Jackson on the fact that if Mr. Davis did in fact...

The Los Angeles Times, only days before the Oct. 7 California recall election, published a front-page article alleging that Republican gubernatorial candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger groped six women. Only two women gave their names, with four refusing to disclose them. Of the anonymous women, three still work in the Hollywood industry, and refuse to give their names, fearing reprisals. The fourth, while not in the industry, nevertheless feared a mega-reaction if she revealed her name. The Los Angeles Times admitted that they assigned several reporters who spent seven weeks investigating alleged instances of sexual misconduct by Schwarzenegger. They also admitted that...

"NAACP Up in Arms Over Student's Proposed 'Caucasian Club'" Posted by Cinnamon Stillwell Wednesday, September 24, 2003 Go to any high school or college campus these days, and you’ll see clubs for African-American, Latino, and Asian students, but nothing for white students. A young lady at Freedom High School in Oakley is trying to right that disparity by starting a ''Caucasian Club.'' While the students are mostly amenable to the idea, predictably, the NAACP is up in arms about it, accusing her of being a racist. Danielle Samaniego, writing for The Contra Costa Times, demonstrates why separatism is a slippery...

"It's easy for people to say that if they shoot up on heroin the only people they're hurting are themselves. But that's not true. ... Drug abusers destroy their families ... If we legalize these vices, we erode the societal support for prohibitions against crimes such as murder. The erosion of the moral fabric of society is a gradual, insidious process." -- Rush Limbaugh, The Way Things Ought to Be, pp 53-54. As I sifted through hundreds of comments from Rush Limbaugh fans over the last week, some interesting trends emerged. About 50 percent just wanted to call me names....

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects freedom of expression, no matter how offensive, from government interference. With that in mind, Louis Brandeis, the first Jew to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, uttered the famous quote that still resonates today: "The remedy for bad speech is more speech." For those offended by murals painted on the outside walls of Brahim "Abe" Ayad's East 55th Street deli, "more speech" might be the only recourse. Ayad, 37, a Palestinian-American who owns Grandpa's Kitchen, has had dozens of controversial images painted on his business establishment over the last few years. Public...

CHAPEL HILL -- Students from poor families will be able to attend UNC-Chapel Hill for free and incur no debt under a major financial aid initiative announced Wednesday. The program, dubbed the "Carolina Covenant," requires that the low-income students work 10 to 12 hours a week in campus jobs during their four-year college careers. The university will cover total college costs through a combination of federal and state money, university and private grants, and scholarships. No loans would be necessary. "College ought to be affordable, ought to be possible, for everyone who can make the grade, regardless of family income,"...

To: The Dominant Media From: CT Subject: "Changing" Media and Journalist StandardsWhat a week! That's all one can say with the reports you guys are dishing out on an almost hourly basis. Presidential "scandals." Arnold. Rush. It's almost blinding. That's why I am sending you this little memo. You see, I haven't really always been aware of the objective standards you used in developing stories and writing them. Going with them, so to speak, until a guy named Bill Clinton came to town. Hold a conversation today between a liberal and a conservative about Bill Clinton and it usually goes...

......There was at least one dissenting voice in the Pats locker room, though. One African-American veteran, who chose to speak off the record, said he sympathized with the right-wing talk show host. ``I actually think what happened to him is unfair. He feels the way a lot of people do and just because he's in that forum he gets in trouble for it,'' the player said. ``And it's a double-standard, too. If I said (cornerback) Jason Sehorn gets all these endorsement deals because he's white and plays in the New York (now St. Louis), would I lose my job? Not...

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People wants ESPN to fire Rush Limbaugh for suggesting that Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb is overrated by the media because he's black. But when a Bush-hating radio liberal repeatedly aired a racist song parody about Condoleezza Rice last year, not a peep of complaint emanated from the so-called civil rights organization. Ironically, popular South Florida host Neil Rogers is heard on ESPN affiliate WQAM, where up until January he delighted in playing the song parody "Condoleezza" to the tune of the Nat King Cole classic "Mona Lisa." A sampling of the...

There's something terribly wrong when an American soldier overseas can't receive Scriptures in the mail, but a Muslim chaplain can preach freely among al Qaeda and Taliban enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay. This is a story of two soldiers, one Christian, one Muslim. It's a cautionary tale that suggests how religious double standards and politically driven hypersensitivity threaten not only our troops, but us all.Six months ago, Jack Moody tried to send his son, Daniel, a care package containing a Bible study and other Christian religious materials. Daniel is a 21-year-old Army National Guardsman serving in the Middle East. He...

ABC has been running a promo ad on my local radio station (MA) for a new TV show called "It's All Relative". The show airs this Wed. night, 10/1/03. Since I'm Irish Catholic and a Republican, I find this ad extremely offensive because it describes one of the sets of parents as "Irish Catholic Republican Baboons". Imagine if ABC described the parents as: "Jewish Democrat Jackasses", "Moslem Democrat Camels", or "Protestant Democrat Mules".....that would be viewed as and insult politically incorrect! But they can get away with insulting the Irish, Catholics and Republicans. Has anyone else heard this ad? I...

DUI conviction not likely to cost jobASSOCIATED PRESS September 22, 2003 SANTA BARBARA &#8211; A judge convicted of driving under the influence after an argument with her domestic partner may be cleared to return to work today, after prosecutors dropped a felony charge that had threatened to end her career. Superior Court Judge Diana R. Hall, 53, who was convicted of two misdemeanor drunken driving charges, was sentenced Friday to three years probation, ordered to undergo alcohol counseling and fined $1,475. Judge Carol Koppel-Claypool also restricted Hall's driving privileges for 90 days and ordered her to attend Mothers Against Drunk...

(CNSNews.com) - A conservative African-American pastor is questioning why Bill Clinton was invited to deliver a pro-Democrat message from the pulpit of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church in Los Angeles last Sunday morning. "Liberals are big on separation of church and state, so where's the outcry from the ACLU, the Rev. Barry Lynn, and others about this obvious violation?" asked the Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson. Peterson heads the nonprofit Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny, which focuses on "rebuilding the family by rebuilding the man." According to Peterson, "It appears the same rules don't apply to liberal black churches...

Bill Clinton campaigned in a CHURCH yesterday. It is the oldest church in Los Angeles. Where is the separation of church and state? This is illegal. The left would talk about this non-stop had President Bush campaigned in a church.

IL MEDIA WATCH: Why does media ignore "hate crimes" against Christians? Friday, September 05, 2003 By Dan Zanoza (ILMediaWatch@illinoisleader.com) His Eminence Cardinal Francis George, O.M.I., Archbishop of Chicago OPINION -- On Wednesday, August 20, two 20-year-old men were arrested and charged with criminal trespass and criminal damage to property for allegedly vandalizing a fountain in front of Cardinal Francis George's residence. According to reports, an off duty Chicago police officer, also employed as a security guard for the Cardinal's home, witnessed the incident leading to the subsequent charges, which are both misdemeanors. Though the story was widely reported in the...

In hip and non-judgmental California, Democrats are suddenly expressing shock over Arnold Schwarzenegger's past sex life, his father's politics, and the example that his movies may have set for the young. Senator Dianne Feinstein expresses alarm over the fact that Arnold used ugly-looking military weapons in movies about military combat. Democrats are shocked, shocked. Voters ought to be disgusted, disgusted. With the state's financial disasters and Californians fleeing to other states by the hundreds of thousands, you might think there might be something more serious to discuss than Schwarzenegger's private life, his movies or his father's politics. The old "lack...

A few weeks ago, I wrote favorably about Ann Coulter. I expected complaints, and I got them. This gives me the chance to write about how the Left adheres to a double standard on "hate speech." Coulter has indeed said a few intemperate things, but she is right more often than she is wrong. This is why she's reviled by the Left. To my ears, her most remarkable slip came from an interview she granted the New York Observer last fall: "My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is that he did not go to the New York Times building." Extreme...

<p>If you judge by the pictures, the Makkah Hilton is a nice place to stay. There's just one catch, as the Web site notes. The five-star hotel "is exclusively sited within the Holy City which, by national and religious law, is only accessible to visitors of the Muslim Religion."</p>

Socialist candidate can keep donors confidentialEthics commission decision overturned in federal court Friday, August 29, 2003 By KATHY MULADY SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER A Seattle City Council candidate will be allowed to hide the names of her campaign contributors from public view, a federal court decided yesterday. The preliminary injunction granted Freedom Socialist Party candidate Linda Averill yesterday drew criticism from another candidate, but will be allowed to stand through the primary election Sept. 16. A full court hearing will be scheduled later, but the names of any donors who give in the interim can be kept secret. Averill, a Metro/King...

Separation of church and state is a favorite issue of the socialist organizations in this country. Every time you pick up the paper you read about some group or individual who is complaining that they are offended by the mention of God or any reference to the Judeo-Christian religion. Yet, these very same leftists who claim that George Bush is too open about his faith and that religion has no place in government, held an organizational meeting of the stopbush.org to plan their hatefest/protest, in the Trinity Methodist Church in Ballard, WA, in violation of the separation of church and...