Accuracy in Media

A buddy of mine at work has turned me onto a great website, aim.org, or Accuracy in Media. Their mission statement:


Accuracy In Media is a non-profit, grassroots citizens watchdog of the news media that critiques botched and bungled news stories and sets the record straight on important issues that have received slanted coverage.

Two of their contributors have blogs that contain some great comments. They are Cliff Kincaid and Don Irvine. Make sure to make these regular reads. For example, from Don's blog on Linda Ronstadt and Michael Moore:

I think Linda Ronstadt and Michael Moore would make a great couple. They are both overweight, they are on the far left politically and they hate America.

Ronstadt who thinks that she should mix politics and entertainment started a firestorm in Las Vegas when during a recent performance she called Moore a "great patriot"for making "Farenheit 9/11". That didn't go over very well with the audience who came to hear her sing and not promote an anti-American film. Ronstadt was then escorted off the property.

The liberal media weighed in with the New York Times condemning the move and a USA Today headline said it was proof that "Celebrities declare own war--on Bush". Are you surprised? I'm not. In her new book "Shut Up And Sing" Laura Ingraham has a chapter that lists the anti-war, anti-American and anti-Bush quotes that have been spouted by the Hollywood left over the last few years.

Entertainers have every right to espouse their political views, but I for one look at movies and music to be just that, entertaining. Leave the politics to another forum.


I love this guy already. I am going to add these sites to my links.