Yesterday First Lady Michelle Obama and Jill Biden appeared at the last NASCAR race of the season to serve as co-grand marshals and shout “Gentlemen, start your engines!” The appearance was part of the Joining Forces initiative and yesterday, according
Cue the Righteous Brothers: Chris Matthews sounds like a man falling out of love. [youtube pB4b11_LREA nolink] “There’s nothing to root for. What are we trying to do in this administration? Why does he want a second term what’s he
P/oed Patriot first broke the story of a reported sexual assault case which took place at the Occupy St. Louis encampment in downtown Keiner Plaza on November 8th: According to the St. Louis Police website crime map, at 3:55 PM
Columbia Journalism “Professor of Professional Practice” Sree Sreenivasan, still smarting from an encounter with James O’Keefe, seems to have declared himself the ultimate arbiter of what is, or is not, citizen journalism: PEOPLE LIKE O’KEEFE THINK THEY ARE ACTING LIKE
Rep. Michele Bachmann’s campaign put CBS analyst John Dickerson on blast after Dickerson accidentally sent an email admitting that the Congresswoman wasn’t going to receive many questions at the CBS/National Journal debate because she’s polling in sixth place: Minnesota Congresswoman’s
Poynter delves into the media’s insistence to label the Penn State child rape and alleged underage sex trafficking scandal as a “sex scandal.” Memo to headline writers: Child sex abuse is not a ‘sex scandal’ Spurred by Xeni Jardin’s tweet
I’ll be on ABC’s “This Week” this coming Sunday. The topics include the Cain Train, his chances, and the GOP primary. If I can remember to artfully work in a reference to Bruce Lee for my colleague John Nolte, I
Last night’s debate was a poorly moderated farce wherein the two moderators attempted to debate the candidates themselves over their own Tupperware fresh economic theories. They failed at baiting any of the candidates (a first for the candidates) and Newt
My definition of “epic” better not differ from their definition of “epic,” because when I hear or read that something is, or is going to be “epic,” it better be as advertised. WPIX11 breathlessly reports that the march #OWS is
“There is no Grand Wizard in the party right now who can really force the issue.” No “Grand Wizard?” Gregory later apologized on Twitter: Sorry, but I can’t take his apology seriously until he repeats it on air, on the
For the past few weeks, a small group of rag-tag occupiers have set up a shanty town in Keiner Plaza, the site of many St. Louis Tea Party rallies. They have done so without a permit and without insurance —
9/11 Truther Touré is at it again, this time insisting that Herman Cain will lose GOP support since Sharon Bialeck stepped forward because she is white. Via FoxNation: HOST: “Toure, you were just nodding your head agreeing with Karen? What,
Via Newsbusters, Politico’s Jonathan Martin never met an Unnamed Source he didn’t like. Incredibly, when Willie Geist asked him to describe specifically what Politico is accusing Cain of having done, Martin hemmed, hawed then ultimately said “we’re just not going
Falling to your own media malpractice makes you irresponsible, not a “victim.” It doesn’t make you a “target” when other people publicly note the absence of your journalistic integrity. Politico missed this bit of logic recently when it attempted to
Joe Biden has traveled across the country, threatening Americans with “rapes and murders” if congress didn’t pass Obama’s jobs bill, the same jobs bill that Democrats killed in the Senate (so are on the hook for said “rapes and murders?”).
Anyone who either remembers or has ever studied Civil Rights history knows what an evil figure Democrat and Klansman Bull Connor was. Connor abused his office when he allowed Klansmen to attack Freedom Riders; the imagery of his use of
Vice President Joe Biden lashed out at Human Events’ Jason Mattera when Mattera asked Biden if he regretted threatening Americans with an increase in “rapes” if the GOP didn’t pass the jobs bill. Biden did not finish the story and
Yesterday Eric Boehlert made the mistake of trying to equate media coverage of the tea party to NBC’s Dylan Ratigan helping the occupy movement write their messaging while reporting on said movement. Boehlert has yet to provide examples of Fox
Yesterday Big Journalism first told you how NBC’s Dylan Ratigan and other media types were actively working with Occupy Wall Street to help them craft messaging (and in some cases, completely revise statements themselves) while simultaneously reporting on the movement
Dave Weigel acknowledges in his Journolist 2.0 analysis that as a member of the original Journolist, his take may not be well received. I didn’t have a problem with his write up until I got to this: Why dilineate [sic]
Big Journalism has learned that the Occupy Washington DC movement is working with well-known media members to craft its demands and messaging while these media members report on the movement. Someone has made the emails from the Occupy Wall Street
Hilarious. After shouting down Fox News’s Geraldo at the Jazz Hands and Bongos Festival, protesters, for the lack of a more nuanced term, go a’ famewhoring. [youtube UzLaYBgC_VQ nolink] Geraldo is patted on the back by several protesters and is
This is “what democracy looks like,” I guess. Remember when the tea partiers defecated on cop cars? Remember when tea partiers sent death threats to law enforcement and American citizens? Remember when tea parties had Marxist front groups place ads
You would think that such a self-styled reporter and arbitrator of all things “yellow journalism” like Tommy Christopher would have gone to the trouble of reaching out for a quote when writing his latest hit piece. Of course, this is