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Jimmy Carter's Hypocritical Media Bashing Tour Continues

Former President Jimmy Carter didn’t start out bashing the media, as he often does today. In fact, prior to the election of Barack Obama, and after the media’s early-sixties love affair with all things Kennedy, it was Jimmy Carter’s turn

Howard Kurtz's Glaring Oversight

Howard Kurtz recently interviewed former President Jimmy Carter on CNN’s Reliable Sources. Unless there is some significant portion of the interviewing missing from the video, it has to do down as one of the most glaring oversights in the history

CBS-KTVA Newscasts Nixed For Ethics Issues

In the wake of a Big Government exclusive report featuring audio of CBS Anchorage affiliate KTVA-TV staffers seemingly plotting potentially damaging scenarios for Alaska Republican Joe Miller’s Senate campaign, the station has been forced to cancel two evening news broadcasts,

CBS-KTVA Newscasts Nixed For Ethics Issues

In the wake of a Big Government exclusive report featuring audio of CBS Anchorage affiliate KTVA-TV staffers seemingly plotting potentially damaging scenarios for Alaska Republican Joe Miller’s Senate campaign, the station has been forced to cancel two evening news broadcasts,

Huffington Post Squirms, Misleads After Big Journalism Call Out

Big Journalism called out Arianna Huffington’s Post for an ethics violation on October 27th by pointing out their role in manufacturing a smear aimed at Libertarian philanthropist Charles Koch, while pretending to simply be reporting it. Unfortunately, the White House

Inhofe, DeMint at Odds Over Earmarks

There’s a battle brewing over Earmark reform in the Senate, and Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma appears ready to make it very public. Inhofe has emerged as the chief opponent to DeMint’s anti-earmarking efforts and has quietly been preparing for

Media Acknowledges Obama's Declining Influence

Not that long ago, Barack Obama was viewed as the most powerful person in the world by the ruling class establishment. While still ranked at number 2 on Forbes magazine’s Most Powerful People on Earth list, his being brushed aside

The Path To Victory For Joe Miller In Alaska

Based upon current laws and regulations, there is a reasonable path to victory for Republican Joe Miller in the contentious U.S. Senate race in Alaska; however, with a very pro-Murkowski Lt. Governor, Craig Campbell, operating much like a state Secretary

NBC's Weak Post-Election Analysis of The Tea Party

Writing at NBC’s First Read, Alexandra Moe presents such a biased analysis of the Tea Party’s impact on the 2010 mid-terms, it’s either pure agitprop, or she left Curly, or Shemp and Larry out of her full last name. For

CBS Anchorage Affiliate KTVA Fires Two Over Phone Flap

In response to a Big Government story broken on October 30th, which exposed CBS affiliate KTVA employees conspiring as to how to potentially damage the campaign of Republican Senate candidate, Joe Miller, KTVA has announced the firing of two producers.

Reid Intimidating Harrah Execs To Get Employees In Line

On October 30th, the Left went crazy and there was immediate talk of official investigations when a local McDonald’s owner simply suggested to a “handful” of McDonald’s employees, they should consider supporting the right candidates. “If the right people are

Couric Mocks Juan Williams, Casts Him as Islamophobic

Perhaps just as minorities and women are fair game for the Left, provided they are Republicans or Conservatives, it appears that Juan Williams leaving NPR and joining Fox News in an expanded role now makes him fair game as well.

Left Assails ABC Over First Amendment Respect

The American tradition allows for all voices and viewpoints to be heard in our nation’s political discourse. Yet, when, in that spirit, ABC extended an invitation to Andrew Breitbart and Dana Loesch to participate in their election night coverage, ABC

Liberals Hate the First Amendment

My own politics began to mature while in college when simply publishing a letter to the editor from a student the academic Left rightly saw as an enemy resulted in their launching an all out effort to destroy my reputation.