-By Warner Todd Huston
On may 29th, the AP reported that Vice President Dick Cheney told the Secret Service to eliminate the records of visitors to the Vice President’s mansion on the grounds of the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington D.C. fitting with the MSM’s claims that the VP is “too secretive.” Cheney’s office countered with the fact that he had written orders to save those records. Naturally the New York Times jumped on the bandwagon with a June 3rd piece that went wild-eyed and frothing, veering straight for the “Haliburton” canard that the left has tried to hang on Cheney since his first days in office instead of staying on the topic of the visitor records.
From 2001 to 2005, Mr. Cheney received “deferred salary payments” from Halliburton that far exceeded what taxpayers gave him. Mr. Cheney still holds hundreds of thousands of stock options that have ballooned by millions of dollars as Halliburton profited handsomely from the war in Iraq.
As they are wont to do, the Times again tried to link Cheney with Haliburton payouts despite the fact that the VP has not benefited from any such income since being elected to office.
The office of the Vice President has tried again to get the facts out to the American people in a letter to the Times. Brit Hume gives us the details from the VP’s letter that once again explains how wrong the oft repeated Haliburton claims are.
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What is it about some news outlets that they can’t report a story without trying to flavor it with their own biases? That they can’t give “just the facts m’am” but have to throw in their snide asides and negative phraseology? And, it’s bad enough when they do it in their normal attempts at “reporting” the news, but when they do it in between an upbeat report by one of our soldiers who’s opinion is that the surge is working and our presence in Iraq is a good thing, it’s all the more grating. But, then, they just can’t leave their hatred for American foreign policy aside long enough to report this soldier’s enthusiasm, now can they?
“CBS Evening News” executive producer Rick Kaplan has also come out to slam Dan Rather for his sexist comment that CBS’ Katie Couric has “dumbed down” and “tarted up” the news biz with her tenure on CBS’ nightly news broadcast. But, a little investigation shows that only two years ago Kaplan praised Rather as the “gold standard” of news anchors at an awards ceremony for Rather’s “retirement”.
I was wondering when the New Republic Magazine began to delve into comedy? I guess it’s all the rage with the comedic stylings of Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, and John Kerry, but I had always thought the New Republic fashioned itself a magazine of “serious” political commentary. After reading a fawning, nay slobberingly sycophantic, assessment of the career of David Gregory, NBC News’ White House correspondent, I have my doubts about TNR’s claims to serious analysis. The title even seems a stab at humor, or at least wild hyperbole, as they absurdly seem to think that Gregory 
This one is really stretching the limits of any legitimate blame being leveled at Fred Thompson, but the L.A.Times has published a story linking Thompson to businessman with a shady past over a radio advertisement that the Senator narrates for that businessman’s company. But, as we find out, Thompson’s ABC Radio contract requires that he and other ABC Radio personalities act as narrator for the radio spot, so it isn’t like Fred has gone out of his way to endorse this shady businessman’s product. Naturally, the L.A. Times has to title the piece 
In an interesting slam against the Left-Wing Blogosphere, one time Clinton man, now Time Magazine writer, Joe Klein, hits ’em hard. Left-Wing Bloggers are vile. Left-Wing Bloggers are mean. Left-Wing Bloggers are disloyal. Left-Wing Bloggers jump to wild, unsupported conclusions… So says Klein in a June 6th piece titled 
I have been perusing the message boards tonight to see the reaction to the series ending episode of The Sopranos and it seems the natives are restless. Many seem to feel it is a cop out and that all the creators of the show did was set it up for a possible feature film or a “to be continued” at some other time. They say they are disappointed with this “non-ending.”
I know. The first thing you thought was, “well, DUH!” Of course Keith Olberman “overstates”. He is a raving lunatic, for Heaven’s sake. But, it took long enough for the left leaning MSM to catch on and Public Eye is gently — and I DO mean gently — trying to get their truthiest of truthers back on track, apparently. After all, they don’t want to hurt his widdle feelings, or nuthin’.
The AP has given us a piece on how “Right-Wing” book publishers are “worried” over the future success of publishing books on conservatives topics. One cannot help wonder, though, if the “worry” by the so-called “right-wing” publishers is more like the APs glee when you read their piece titled, 
If this isn’t the ultimate hypocrisy? Here we have NBC Universal Entertainment Co-chairman Ben Silverman, a highly positioned member of the MSM, getting all huffy over the fact that an eeeevil “Blogger” leaked his important, behind the scenes company operations on the Internet. “I hate the blog world. … It ends up interfering with people’s lives,” says the MSM kingpin.