As we’ve highlighted before, tax exempt Media Matters’ mission isn’t to correct misinformation in the conservative media. Their job is to promote narratives which will then be picked up by friendly outlets, like MSNBC, and seep out into the public
When the scandalous “Operation: Fast and Furious” began to get attention from Republican lawmakers and finally the press, the guardians of Left’s pro-Obama / Democrat narrative tried to discredit the people talking about it. Chief among the smear factories was,
From Accuracy in Media’s Benjamin Johnson & Logan Churchwell: After more than a month of protest demands for better employment opportunities and benefits, Accuracy in Media saw fit to test their desires with…employment applications. Our “headhunters” were treated to every
I read the Washington Post’s article, “Violence and the occupy movement,” expecting to see a discussion of the sexual assaults and rapes being reported during the Wall Street protests. Instead, the author, Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, writes about “the violence of
Q: You said a deaf guy was raped? A: Yeah… Q: Did the guy, I mean, do these, did that get reported to the police, or did that stay inside the camp? A: Well, OK, I’m not sure for that
From Accuracy in Media’s Cliff Kincaid: The FBI has released photos, videos, and documents in the case of 10 Russian secret agents arrested–and quickly deported–in 2010. The documents are mostly heavily redacted and of no practical value to those interested
Governor Perry made significant strides toward producing a pro-growth tax proposal with his announced “Cut, Balance, and Grow” economic plan. Unfortunately, his plan has some glaring deficiencies. (1) It is NOT strictly a flat tax and will SHRINK the tax
Early yesterday morning, we received a tip from a reader in the San Francisco East Bay area who informed us that a local reporter’s life had been threatened by an activist at the Occupy Oakland demonstration. Our source, who is
The Vice President of the United States, Joe Biden, spoke to University of Pennsylvania students on October 18th. That’s usually not a huge deal. The VP gives speeches all over the place. What is a big deal is that during
The Vice President of the United States, Joe Biden, spoke to University of Pennsylvania students on October 18th. That’s usually not a huge deal. The VP gives speeches all over the place. What is a big deal is that during
Remember when Media Matters was hyper-sensitive to anti-semitism? Shockingly, they’ve gone silent in response the latest wave of anti-semitism. [youtube IMjm4LxFa1c nolink] They once had to dig deep and literally create an allegation of anti-semitism against Glenn Beck. Of course,
Amid the general jubilation at the long overdue release of Gilad Shalit, the young Israeli soldier kidnapped and illegally held prisoner by the terrorist organization Hamas, some have sounded the discordant note that by negotiating a prisoner exchange with Hamas
We’re in this for the long haul. There are no “solutions” that can be presented quickly to make us go away. And so there will be moments where our presence is no longer an uncomfortable and unknown variable, but rather
From Accuracy in Media’s Cliff Kincaid & Benjamin Johnson: Jumping on the anti-Wall Street media bandwagon, Josh Boak of Politico says Democratic Rep. Peter DeFazio’s measure to tax Wall Street has “newfound momentum.” The Soros-funded Think Progress blog quickly jumped
Me and my very own SEIU “minder” take a journey onto the streets, up to the banks, and into the minds of the grassroots and populist (I swear. No, really. This is really, really spontaneous stuff) #OccupyWallStreet movement. (Side note:
At the National Press Club in Washington DC in September 2011, Ridgely Muhammad, Minister of Agriculture for the Nation of Islam, was a featured speaker on a panel discussing the Pigford black farmer settlement. He shared the panel with New
From Accuracy in Media’s Benjamin Johnson: Bad economic policies have consequences. Senator Dick Durbin thought the big, greedy banks were making too much money and regulated their profits. Our President, eager to jump on the ‘Government Knows Best’ bandwagon offered
From Accuracy in Media’s Cliff Kincaid: A “Take Back the American Dream” three-day conference in Washington begins on Monday that features Van Jones, the disgraced former Obama Administration “Green Jobs Czar,” a Russian TV star, and a veteran of the
New photographs obtained exclusively by BigGovernment.com reveal that Barack Obama appeared and marched with members of the New Black Panther Party as he campaigned for president in Selma, Alabama in March 2007. The photographs, captured from a Flickr photo-sharing account
From Accuracy in Media’s Benjamin Johnson: Is there a better way to bring in the weekend than by chatting with top newsmakers over drinks? Sure, the bar talk and news commentary device has been used before, but that was just
The last thing I want for my dear readers is to burden them with the human filth that confronts me daily. But periodically, one of the voices in the comments section of our times comes to life right in front
From Accuracy in Media’s Cliff Kincaid: In a major blow to Al-Jazeera’s drive for acceptance and respectability in the West, the government of Israel says that one of the channel’s correspondents has confessed to acting as an agent of the
From Accuracy in Media’s Cliff Kincaid: Charles Lane must be one of the loneliest people in the newsroom of The Washington Post. A member of the editorial page staff of the Post and occasional guest on the Fox News Channel,
From Accuracy in Media’s Benjamin Johnson: While there has been a lot of he said – she said about the Congressional Black Caucus Convention last week, it seems no one sought to report on the deeper purpose of the meeting.
Dave Weigel of Slate reports that Crown/Random House, publisher of The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin, has released the following statement on allegations that Joe McGinniss’s book is a literary hoax: Joe McGinniss’s book The Rogue is based
