To understand if a person or group is on the left or the right, look no further than what outrages them. If you’re offended by how much tax revenue is squandered year after year, you’re probably on the right; if
by Alexander Marlow15 Jun 2011, 4:51 AM PST0
Weinergate and Sarah Palin have dominated this space the last couple of days, but another story with major media implications is that Jill Abramson will replace Bill Keller as the New York Times executive editor beginning September 6th. The headlines
by Alexander Marlow3 Jun 2011, 5:22 PM PST0
Jerry Springer on “Piers Morgan” last night and Lawrence O’Donnell on his own show offer up what may well be the next Weinergate talking point: It’s all about the sex! These gentlemen both raise the question: what if he is
by Alexander Marlow2 Jun 2011, 6:57 AM PST0
**UPDATE: I missed this earlier, but in another tweet, Kurtz offered the Clinton sex scandal–the one Kurtz’s Newsweek attempted to kill–as an example of unbiased media coverage of a Democrat sex scandal! The hubris is breathtaking. Kurtz also suggests that
by Alexander Marlow30 May 2011, 4:13 PM PST0
[CONTENT WARNING: This post contains harsh language.] In December of last year I wrote a post entitled “Meet Whitney Cummings: Up-and-Coming Comic Who Steals Jokes about Handicapped Babies.” The gist of it is that at a roast for Quentin Tarantino
by Alexander Marlow25 May 2011, 9:18 AM PST0
If you scroll down just a few short inches, you’ll see a thoughtful review of Lady Gaga’s recently released album by Ezra Dulis. We’re sincerely grateful Mr. Dulis not only endured multiple-listens to the latest queen of pop’s faux-edgy anti-religious
by Alexander Marlow25 May 2011, 6:42 AM PST0
UPDATE: To his credit, Mr. Roeper printed a gracious correction today. — 4/19/11 Famous film critic Richard Roeper tee’d off on Andrew Breitbart in his Sun-Times column today. Here’s the passage: Here’s ultraconservative activist Andrew Breitbart at a Tea Party
by Alexander Marlow18 Apr 2011, 3:27 PM PST0
UPDATE: To his credit, Mr. Roeper printed a gracious correction today. — 4/19/11 Famous film critic Richard Roeper tee’d off on Andrew Breitbart in his Sun-Times column today. Here’s the passage: Here’s ultraconservative activist Andrew Breitbart at a Tea Party
by Alexander Marlow18 Apr 2011, 3:18 PM PST0
As we’ve noted here at Big Journalism, faux-conservative blogger Conor Friedersdorf, now with the Atlantic, has made it his personal mission to police Andrew Breitbart and his websites. In Internet parlance, he’s known as a troll. Today he reviews the
by Alexander Marlow15 Apr 2011, 2:12 PM PST0
Righteous Indignation | Andrew Breitbart’s latest book “RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION is a manual and a call to action for awakened patriots who are too intelligent to believe the leftist media lies and distortions… Breitbart reminds us why we must fight for
by Alexander Marlow15 Apr 2011, 12:17 PM PST0
File this one in the “losing” category. From James Hibberd at Entertainment Weekly: Charlie Sheen unleashed his Violent Torpedo of Truth Tour on the Motor City on Saturday night before a crowd that greeted the actor with an adoring standing
by Alexander Marlow3 Apr 2011, 7:26 AM PST0
About three miles south of Beverly Hills in the upper-middle class neighborhood of Beverlywood is Hamilton High School. An otherwise ordinary Los Angeles Unified School District-sponsored juvenile detention center, Hamilton is home to a couple of well regarded magnet programs,
by Alexander Marlow1 Apr 2011, 7:10 AM PST0
About three miles south of Beverly Hills in the upper-middle class neighborhood of Beverlywood is Hamilton High School. An otherwise ordinary Los Angeles Unified School District-sponsored juvenile detention center, Hamilton is home to a couple of well regarded magnet programs,
by Alexander Marlow1 Apr 2011, 4:59 AM PST0
About three miles south of Beverly Hills in the upper-middle class neighborhood of Beverlywood is Hamilton High School. An otherwise ordinary Los Angeles Unified School District-sponsored juvenile detention center, Hamilton is home to a couple of well regarded magnet programs,
by Alexander Marlow31 Mar 2011, 6:45 PM PST0
Alternate Headline: “HuffPo Brass Admits Breitbart Not a Racist, Publishes Articles Portraying Him as One Anyway” Andrew Breitbart was banned from the the front page of AOL/Huffington Post because he called the cop killer-supporting, racist, demagogic freak Van Jones a
by Alexander Marlow29 Mar 2011, 4:58 AM PST0
Howard Kurtz, the longtime WaPo staffer who jumped ship for the Daily Beast (and a cool $600k/year), hosts a show on CNN called Reliable Sources, which airs Sundays. Reliable Sources, according to CNN, “is one of television’s only regular programs
by Alexander Marlow28 Mar 2011, 7:05 AM PST0
Early yesterday morning, the Daily Caller published an interview with Andrew Breitbart where the Big Journalism publisher had some choice words on Color of Change founder, former Green Jobs Czar, and HuffPo blogger Van Jones. “Van Jones is a cop
by Alexander Marlow25 Mar 2011, 3:59 AM PST0
Before Americans took control of Abu Ghraib after invading Iraq, Saddam Hussein had used the prison to torture and murder political detainees. Reports say as many as 4,000 murders were committed there. There are numerous accounts of prisoners being found
by Alexander Marlow23 Mar 2011, 2:41 PM PST0
Before Americans took control of Abu Ghraib after invading Iraq, Saddam Hussein had used the prison to torture and murder political detainees. Reports say as many as 4,000 murders were committed there. There are numerous accounts of prisoners being found
by Alexander Marlow23 Mar 2011, 2:19 PM PST0
Alternate headline: “Paul Krugman Will Not Read This Article” Second alternate headline: “Paul Krugman: Lolcats > Conservatives” Over the weekend a prominent figure in the art world, a liberal, came up to a group of us from Team Breitbart following
by Alexander Marlow14 Mar 2011, 4:45 PM PST0
Though the 83rd Academy Awards was rarely entertaining (okay… it was about as much fun as a chemistry midterm), it was, for the most part, apolitical. There were a couple of exceptions, however, the most notable was perhaps cinematography winner
by Alexander Marlow27 Feb 2011, 10:02 PM PST0
From a CNN segment called “Labor’s Last Stand?”: Money quote at the end: And Democrats say there is another reason Republicans want to gut unions. Organized labor donates hundreds of millions of dollars to candidates like Barack Obama. So if
by Alexander Marlow22 Feb 2011, 3:42 PM PST0
There must be something extremely frustrating about being a public opinion pollster: they constantly have a grasp on the pulse of the American people, yet they are typically uninvolved in actual activism. One would think that informing Americans where others
by Alexander Marlow13 Feb 2011, 6:44 AM PST0
From time to time, an event of national significance serves as a Rorschach test for whether you are on the left or the right. This is the case with the rampage in Tuscon this past Saturday. Enter Tom Brokaw: [youtube
by Alexander Marlow10 Jan 2011, 5:38 PM PST0
Greg Hengler at Townhall caught this troubling Today show segment where Meredith Vieira celebrates Cheryl Kilodavis, author of My Princess Boy, and her son, Dyson, a five-year-old who dresses up in pink tutus and sparkles: [youtube -XBCLGDbhKg nolink] What’s upsetting
by Alexander Marlow4 Jan 2011, 5:00 PM PST0