Media Mythbusters Blog

Lot’s of stories swirling in the news on this rainy Wednesday… Let’s open up with a strong post from The Strata-Sphere: Updates On The War In Iraq 05_14_08, Sadr City Residents Battle The Iranian-Backed Mahdi Army. AJ’s great reporting gives you an inside look concerning Iraq and Iran:

The myth that Sadr City is a hot bed of Sadr support has been busted. Found a report that one of the Iraqi divisions leading the fight against the Iranian backed Mahdi is lead and populated by Sadr City Shiites.

Why is this not on the nightly news? (I know the answer….!)

Townhall.com has a great article that came from CSPAN: Palestinians Phonebank for Obama.

And here is a quick list of today’s headlines from NewsBusters - simply the best source we have seen for media news:

• The Global Warming Tutorial Media Should be Required to Take
• WaPo Fails to Note Kerry Connection for McCain/Hagee Critic
• CNN Cites ‘Recession’ in Exit Poll Questions
• NYT Columnist Sees ‘Magic’ in Military Invasion of Myanmar
• N.Y. Times Hails Barney Frank, Witty Bridge-Builder
• MSNBC: Hillary the ‘Al Sharpton of White People,’ Obama the ‘New Breeze’
• Rove Not Being Devil ‘Complicates World View’ of Newsweek Editor
• Age Card? Obama Campaign Won’t Let McCain ‘Wander Around’ FL, MI
• ABC Showcases Hapless Woman Who Skips Breakfast to Afford Gas
• Bozell Column: The Big Bad Right-Wing Wolf
• Global Warming Skepticism Shocks Chris Matthews
• Barbara Walters Eager for Hypothetical Interview of Osama bin Laden
• NYT Admits Fault in Salmon Story; Industry Spokesman Calls Times’ Claim ‘Dubious’
• Chris Matthews: West Virginians Decided Decades Ago to Oppose Obama
• Soros Attacks Free-Market Capitalism in USA Today Puff Piece
• Hannity Exposes Gore’s Connection to Ethanol and Higher Food Prices
• WaPo: Border Fence Ruins Mother’s Day for Mexican Families
• News Reports Avoid Mentioning Record U.S. April Tax Receipts
• MRC’s Worst of the Week: GOP ‘Slime and Hate’; Coddling Obama

Digest that and while you are there check out this survey from Newsbusters on John McCain and Global Warming…

From Brutally Honest today we received a post that you will not see in the MSM on the military: A day in the life… Guaranteed to remind you just how special our girls and boys serving in the armed forces are and how brave they truly are. With a huge thanks to the good people at BlackFive for putting this out there…

Also check out Patterico’s Pontifications: Patterico’s Exclusive Interview with a Man Who Has Spoken to the Terrorists at Guantánamo (A Roundup of Links). Matt at BlackFive points us to this post and it is a great read…

RBT over at Friends of Mark Fuhrman has the latest on the River Park Square Scandal: O. Yale Lewis Spokane’s Best Hope for Holding Those Accountable for RPS. He’s our resident crime sleuth and darn good at it…

Alright Bat Fans, now we go to our regularly scheduled roundup of links for the day - enjoy…

Wizbang - It’s. Just. That. Simple.

Wizbang (by our fearless leader Lorie Byrd) - The Next Right

Wizbang - It’s Official: We’re Screwed

TigerHawk - Point. Counterpoint.

TigerHawk - Lies! All Lies!!!

The Radio Patriot - AMERICA’S FAVORITE MOM!

The Radio Patriot - THAT ROME I SMELL BURNING?

The Anchoress - Huckabee and End-Times Advocates

Atlas Shrugs - ROBERT WEXLER, FLA IS A LIAR AND A KAPO

Right Wing News - Dueling Quotes: Lying President Condemns Presidents Who Lie

Protein Wisdom - How John McCain can make inroads with the youth vote [Karl]

Protein Wisdom - Guilt by association by association (or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the ill-fated Greenwich Village nail bomb, part 2)

Protein Wisdom - Another reason John McCain’s global warming speech was dumb [Karl]

Protein Wisdom - Barack Obama’s latest faith-based appeal [Karl]

Protein Wisdom - Daddyblogger Robert Pedersen Hired by Detroit News [Dan Collins]

Power Line - Change this

Pierre Legrand’s Pink Flamingo Bar - Perpetually Offended Religion (Guess which one), Offended…Brussels Journal at Fault for Hounding the Poor Dears…naturally

Patterico’s Pontifications - Obama Reaches Out to Evangelicals

Patterico’s Pontifications - L.A. Times Asks: Are We Biased? Try Giving Your Answer!

Patterico’s Pontifications - The Media Loves Obama (Updated)

Pajamas Media - Global Warming: Mostly Hot Air

Pajamas Media - Wiki-Whacked by Political Bias

Michelle Malkin - “Careless detention” and open-borders journalism

Lucianne.com - Smear Redefined

Little Green Footballs - Video: Jew-Eating Rabbit Teaches Revisionist History to Hamas Kids

Little Green Footballs - HuffPo: Obama Doesn’t Need the Jews Anyway

Little Green Footballs - When Discredited Hacks Attack

JammieWearingFool - Despite Record Numbers, Polar Bears Now ‘Threatened’

Hot Air - Video: Chris Matthews darned tired of being Terry McAuliffe’s punching bag

Hot Air - Chris Matthews: Hillary’s sort of the “Al Sharpton of white people,” isn’t she?

Gateway Pundit - Biased Media: Economy Is Now Affecting the Horses

Gateway Pundit - Caroline Glick Holds Blogger Call With “One Jerusalem”

Gateway Pundit - OOPS!! Obama Goofs– Wants More Arabic Speakers in Afghanistan (Video)

Gateway Pundit - Desmond Tutu: “Rev. Wright Says What All Blacks Want to Say”

Gateway Pundit - Whiny Reporter at Columbia Journalism Review Attacks Gateway Pundit and LGF

Flopping Aces - Obama: Holier Than Thou!

Confederate Yankee - The Bloodless Bullets of Baghdad

Confederate Yankee - Hussayn’s Story

Confederate Yankee - Gripes of Wrath

Confederate Yankee - Death of a Strawman

Bookworm Room - Renaming the paradigm *UPDATED*

BlackFive - Maliki Roars

BizzyBlog - Jeremiah Wright’s Trumpet Newsmagazine: Cover Pic ‘Highlights’ (Farrakhan, Sharpton, Jackson, Others)

BizzyBlog - As Media Ogles, Stanley Kurtz Trumpets the Obviously Deep Obama-Wright Connections