Cliff Kincaid

“Media Reform” Activists Cheer Obama

Minneapolis: Dropping any pretense of objectivity and non-partisanship, the “National Conference for Media Reform” on Saturday night turned into a Barack Obama-for-President rally, as left-wing media figure Arianna Huffington denounced Senator and presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain as a “Trojan horse for the right” who had “sold his soul” to become president. Several speakers, including [...]

Stealing the Election From Obama?

Minneapolis: Barack Obama supporter John Nichols brought “media reform” activists to their feet on Thursday night with wild and strident attacks on the Bush Administration. “George Bush was not elected,” said Nichols, working himself into a frenzy. Nichols is the Washington correspondent for The Nation magazine and a member of the board of the Free Press, [...]

“Media Reform” Targets Conservatives

Led by a Muslim Democrat, members of the Federal Communications Commission, and Bill Moyers, Phil Donahue, and Dan Rather, a well-funded campaign to move the media in a more left-wing direction will gather in Minneapolis from June 6-8. Thousands of “progressive” activists are expected to attend. Accuracy in Media will cover the event. Moyers recently [...]

The Network Behind the Bush-bashing Book

Publisher Peter Osnos, who admits to personally working with former Bush White House press secretary Scott McClellan on his new book, What Happened, began his career as an assistant to I.F. Stone, the pro-communist “journalist” named as a Soviet agent of influence who was the uncle of Weather Underground communist terrorist Kathy Boudin. But the [...]

Senate Embarrassments Joe Biden and Larry Craig

Senate Republicans have suffered a lot of embarrassment over the antics of Sen. Larry Craig, a pro-family politician who played footsy with another man in a bathroom. But the Democrats have their own embarrassments, and one of them is presidential candidate Senator Joseph Biden, their leading foreign policy “expert.” His logic was on display on [...]

The United Nations — Defending America

Lee Hamilton, the former Democratic Congressman from Indiana, reports in an August 27 column in the Indianapolis Star that the Senate will vote in September whether to join the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). The treaty, the most comprehensive and potentially dangerous ever devised, would dramatically affect the ability of the [...]

Selling Sovereignty

In remarks on July 20 to a Freedom 21 conference in Dallas, Texas, conservative leader Phyllis Schlafly declared that the Chinese communists intend to exploit development of a North American Union in order to bring more cheap goods into the U.S. and destroy more American jobs. The Freedom 21 conference, organized by Tom DeWeese of the [...]

“Runaway Military Bride” Under Cloak of Silence

It is being reported that the Air Force has given 34-year-old Air Force Major Jill Metzger a form of “temporary disability retirement” with full benefits as a result of a controversial and mysterious three-day absence from her base in Kyrgyzstan last September. In a case some dubbed the “Runaway Military Bride,” critics said that Metzger, [...]