Robert Knight is director of the Culture & Media Institute at the Media Research Center, www.MRC.org. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertKnight http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertKnight TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2008 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:49:21 GMT Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:49:21 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Who's responsible for the exploding AIDS infection rate among men who have sex with men? The men having the sex (MSMs), or the people who say homosexual sex is unhealthy and morally wrong? Washington Post reporter... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertKnight/2008/08/07/post_writer_says_'gay_plague'_is_fault_of_'homophobia' 9cbf3d5e-9a56-4a46-a25e-bab37039df10 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:49:21 GMT Elaine Donnelly reported for duty Wednesday. She went to a battlefield where most men who agree with her were AWOL. Like her mentor, Phyllis Schlafly, she did not let others' cowardice or indifference interfere with... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertKnight/2008/07/25/a_lady_under_fire 8564022d-f845-4db7-9058-cb9f3f515179 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:48:27 GMT "No man can serve two masters," Jesus said. Sir John Templeton, one of the shrewdest financial minds in history, saw the wisdom in this, especially since it came from his Lord. So, unlike some other wealthy men who... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertKnight/2008/07/09/templeton_never_confused_mammon_with_god a8459c84-4a26-43eb-9f14-0239dcca3a03 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:56:45 GMT "We understand that casual sex is dear to you, but staying alive is dear to us." The Washington Post provided a rare service on Monday, shining light on an unfolding scandal of deadly political correctness in... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertKnight/2008/07/02/post_tells_the_truth_on_safe_sex_--_then_ignores_it b538e0ba-eb04-439f-90f5-b739ff12cdbf Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:39:14 GMT Now that the media have shared with us their joy over the advent of homosexual "marriage" in California, here's the other shoe that will drop in the next few weeks. Get used to this term: "The sky is not falling." It... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertKnight/2008/06/17/the_sky_is_not_falling_-_yet f67a5518-107f-4323-bd3b-8ba828d99579 Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:36:24 GMT Usually, when a journalist is censored in a Western nation, American news organizations respond with collective outrage. But as a major attack on press freedom unfolds in Canada, America's mainstream media are silent.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertKnight/2008/06/11/media_ignore_that_gagging_sound_from_canada cae22e09-90f4-45bc-9464-9a4b831a981b Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:51:27 GMT Is Barack Obama above criticism in the eyes of the liberal media? The Washington Post's Dana Milbank seems to think so. Milbank is one of the more readable wordsmiths, largely because he's not quite as predictable as... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertKnight/2008/06/05/shielding_obama_from_the_power_of_ridicule 1779568d-8bd3-46db-a807-eaa08989410f Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:34:52 GMT Let's pretend we're news editors at the TV networks and major newspapers. This just in: The Boy Scouts of America have filed a lawsuit against the city of Philadelphia for threatening to evict the Cradle of Liberty... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertKnight/2008/05/30/media_shove_boy_scout_story_under_a_tent d3b6bb64-0efb-4073-8d67-ac21b45ddc64 Fri, 30 May 2008 14:29:57 GMT Robert Rauschenberg made a living turning art into junk. I'm sorry. The media script has it the other way around. They're saying that Rauschenberg, who died at 82 on May 12, turned junk into art. He was a Master. ... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertKnight/2008/05/14/junking_the_real_meaning_of_art_rip_mr_rauschenberg 2f8a4ff2-f59e-41b9-af0b-a61d7118bd93 Wed, 14 May 2008 23:21:58 GMT Did you know that planting a tree won't save the earth? You've got to plant 483 trees just to offset your household's carbon footprint. And that's just for two people. We know this because the Washington Post Home... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertKnight/2008/05/09/planting_the_seeds_of_a_demographic_winter 35b82143-431b-43e2-b2d4-9660f252e164 Fri, 09 May 2008 21:23:36 GMT From carbon footprint calculators to electricity-free weddings, the media's promotion of anti-global warming hysteria is warming up with the approach of Earth Day on April 22. ABC's Good Morning America was actually... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertKnight/2008/04/21/my_big_fat_green_wedding_and_other_media_nonsense f6bc3992-e584-438a-8215-a93efdd37c24 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:51:55 GMT ABC's Good Morning America hit a grand slam today for the homosexual activist movement by airing a profoundly misleading segment that asks, "Can a Baby Be Gay?" A longer segment is slated for tonight's 20/20.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertKnight/2008/03/29/abc_follows_born_gay_script_to_a_t da4ea410-ca07-4c7f-9787-ef876498411b Sat, 29 Mar 2008 04:01:00 GMT How does a conservative columnist remain in good standing at the Washington Post? Taking a cheap shot at Jerry Falwell might do the trick. That's what Michael Gerson did on March 19 in an otherwise excellent column... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertKnight/2008/03/20/scoring_points_by_demonizing_falwell 74b6fe9d-391a-4421-9633-4f622a223ec3 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 01:46:12 GMT What if the government spent billions on a program over four decades and an authoritative federal study showed that the policy not only failed but may have contributed to spreading several incurable diseases? Would... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertKnight/2008/03/17/media_silence_on_the_myth_of_safe_sex e8ef4d62-8b80-43ed-9b6a-8250675d22c0 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:24:19 GMT A landmark marriage case opened Tuesday in the California Supreme Court that could have profound legal and social consequences for the entire nation. Yet the major news networks completely ignored the story on... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertKnight/2008/03/05/nets_ignore_crucial_california_supreme_court_case_on_same-sex_marriage 92f45264-d21f-4035-b080-006f435ca48a Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:07:12 GMT What if a presidential candidate claimed that his view on an issue drew its power from the Sermon on the Mount, which was delivered by no less an authority than Jesus Christ? What if that view contradicted 2,000... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertKnight/2008/03/03/clueless_in_obama_nation a2b47d23-e34c-4baf-9157-1e6426f84fbb Tue, 04 Mar 2008 03:57:44 GMT William F. Buckley connected the dots for me back when I was a liberal college student trying to make sense of things. Punch drunk from the Vietnam War and the excesses of the drug-addled Sixties and Seventies,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertKnight/2008/02/27/bill_buckley_made_it_okay_to_be_a_conservative a3febae3-4cee-4af0-b351-218cddb67634 Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:57:56 GMT Well, the critics got their way. They made sure the Oscars flopped. And they polished their credentials as being hipper than the average American by virtue of the average American shunning theaters that played the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertKnight/2008/02/26/oscars_a_grouch_this_year 198e281e-0f41-45cc-8868-170e94300c5e Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:40:23 GMT It's ok for "transsexual" men to use the ladies' room? A mother should accept her daughter making a living by running porn sites? America should embrace same-sex "marriage?" Dear Abby, what have you come to? For... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertKnight/2008/02/20/dear_abby,_or_dear_dr_ruth acdf2cce-322c-493b-8299-87d45634ccb5 Thu, 21 Feb 2008 01:32:44 GMT Cad: 1) ungentlemanly man- a man whose conduct, especially toward women, is considered unscrupulous or dishonorable. (Encarta Dictionary) With Valentine's Day looming, USA Weekend, the colorful Sunday insert that has... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertKnight/2008/02/12/turning_fool's_gold_into_the_real_thing 4c7bd1a2-45cf-45d1-8f4f-c5bf8257927d Wed, 13 Feb 2008 01:32:45 GMT I'm often asked what I think of coach Bob Knight. Usually, this happens after someone confuses me with him, which is kind of odd. He is at least an inch taller and has a head full of white hair. Plus, he... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertKnight/2008/02/07/stow_the_chairs_bobby_knights_gone a176e143-d262-4adb-ae92-dd555db7d7f4 Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:18:35 GMT Except for diehard Patriots fans, most folks consider Super Bowl XLII a winner, with a nail-biting finish, record ratings, a fine halftime show with Tom Petty (for all those Boomers) and mostly tasteful, entertaining... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertKnight/2008/02/04/super_bowl_ads_score_with_more_laughs_but_a_few_yecchs d906751a-e25d-43f3-8cd9-28e2c465487b Tue, 05 Feb 2008 01:24:24 GMT "Daddy, who's ED?" "You mean Mr. Ed? He was a talking horse from a 1950s TV show?" "No, I mean the man who talks about ED. Is he Ed? And what's e-rectull dys.dys.." "Ah. Let's turn the game off... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertKnight/2008/02/02/the_nfl_playoffs_an_affair_with_mr_ed 305e9063-c0dc-44ea-99b1-8aefca92d55a Sat, 02 Feb 2008 05:00:44 GMT A quick quiz: Which category of celebrities is most likely to slip up and utter an obscenity on a TV talk show? Could it be Hollywood film stars? So why was Good Morning America unprepared when Diane Keaton dropped... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertKnight/2008/01/16/the_abcs_of_entertainment_news eb12f520-5e63-4488-a49b-f81fd28d52ac Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:01:36 GMT As another World AIDS Day dawns this morning, prepare for the usual media blitz of stories designed to promote more spending on failed approaches to HIV/AIDS, and more bashing of the Bush Administration despite... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertKnight/2007/11/30/aids_the_questions_they_won't_ask 37ea4350-2834-4528-851b-ec0f3d6fe944 Sat, 01 Dec 2007 02:00:48 GMT The Washington Post this week stepped delicately around the thuggish tactics employed by Philadelphia City Solicitor Romulo Diaz, who has engineered a coup against the Cradle of Liberty Council of the Boy Scouts of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertKnight/2007/11/20/post_sugarcoats_thuggery_against_philadelphia's_boy_scouts 84d61bc5-1349-425b-ba17-05c0bc2764ee Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:48:46 GMT On October 22, Larry Cirignano could breathe easy again for the first time in 10 months. The pro-family Catholic activist was acquitted of assault and battery charges leveled by a Massachusetts ACLU official and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertKnight/2007/11/01/shameless_in_massachusetts e087cada-436b-46d2-a111-b9e977563f14 Fri, 02 Nov 2007 01:11:15 GMT One of the guys starring in MTV's new sexploitation "reality" show, A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila, gazes at the mansion where it all takes place. "Like, holy crap!" Well, he's half right. There's nothing holy... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertKnight/2007/10/10/tequila_serves_up_sick_sex_act c862e875-fec6-4fee-b435-a0f3aa1d4060 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:44:08 GMT It pays to be on the media's approved victims list. After Don Imus made his "ho" comment about the Rutgers women's basketball team on April 4, the media went into a feeding frenzy. In the first week after the story... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertKnight/2007/09/14/rutgers_fans'_abuse_of_navy_players_elicits_media_yawn 083c7cde-ab4a-4d88-b2c0-c8c79417dcaf Fri, 14 Sep 2007 21:10:23 GMT As Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) was figuratively dragged out of the restroom and into the spotlight this week, the media have been ignoring another compelling story about sex in public toilets. Fort Lauderdale's... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertKnight/2007/08/30/the_story_stalls_here ab61e5e6-e7af-49cc-9ecd-0bf933e5698e Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:04:34 GMT One of these days, CNN will have to dispense with the ominous music it uses for Christian documentaries and go for the full effect, using the Jaws soundtrack. Last night, in the third segment of a six-hour series... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertKnight/2007/08/27/cnn's_god's_christian_warriors_leaves_viewers.__scared 5fd8d10d-e663-4f33-b7d6-8f281ebf832b Mon, 27 Aug 2007 04:00:26 GMT The timing could not be better. When he is inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame on Sunday, it will be the second time that Cal Ripken Jr. will single-handedly lift baseball back onto its pedestal as the National... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertKnight/2007/07/26/the_gentleman_and_the_juicer e68ed154-f7a1-480c-ad18-eed65dbd471b Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:58:53 GMT It's been 43 years since student protester Mario Savio ignited the "free speech movement" at Berkeley with his famous address urging students "to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertKnight/2007/05/27/the_liberal_attack_on_freedom_of_speech 0e8ef904-f489-45b6-9df4-8083554aec42 Sun, 27 May 2007 04:00:29 GMT In many of his talks to Liberty University students, the Rev. Jerry Falwell emphasized the importance of "finishing well." On Tuesday, he was at the top of his game when he unexpectedly died in the college offic http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertKnight/2007/05/20/getting_a_kick_out_of__falwell's_death 074136a3-328d-45cb-a3ef-cd697530bff4 Sun, 20 May 2007 04:01:00 GMT As liberal politicians pose at churches, salt their speeches with Scripture, and insist that their aggressive drive for more government is pious obedience to the Almighty, they are getting powerful cover from the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertKnight/2007/02/21/the_new_york_times_and_the_gospel_truth 5c96e353-d448-4997-800d-d7eae5789665 Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:12:18 GMT The guy with the cheesy grin who crashes his car while gazing at the girl with the Doritos bag during the first quarter of the Super Bowl is a crowd pleaser. It's fun, sweet and romantic. It ranked high on many lists of http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertKnight/2007/02/07/weird_men_from_mars_and_chevy 990ff25e-beaa-41af-b04a-5aa1e9c70bf5 Wed, 07 Feb 2007 15:37:03 GMT The major media are soft-selling the New Jersey Supreme Court's Wednesday decision ordering "gay marriage" or its equivalent, lest the ruling become a fire bell in the night for social conservatives two weeks before the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertKnight/2006/10/27/media_downplay_new_jersey's_gay_marriage_ruling_as_election_day_approaches fb43074d-040d-4897-9200-33886e7ba9a0 Fri, 27 Oct 2006 12:37:10 GMT Facing the Giants opens this Friday in 441 theaters, and it's safe to say that the expected crowds won't be drawn there because of the independent film's high production values. Producer/writer/director/star Alex... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertKnight/2006/09/29/giant-killing_in_georgia 92c341c2-5836-4926-a2ce-096bbeca6d63 Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:45:25 GMT