According to an LA Weekly investigation, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa “has very quietly accepted — and even angled for — free tickets to as many as 80 pricey events, then failed to report all but one of them, as
The end of a noble military career, live on national television. Go ahead, play columnist for a day:
Further evidence of the “narrative,” the media’s mindset, and why you want to throw your shoe at your television set. David Asman and Andrew Breitbart discuss the interesting differences between the way the press covered George W. Bush and now
Richard Cohen of the Washington Post is a troubled soul these days. Having seen the triumph of the “narrative” so dear to so many liberal columnists and editors’ hearts, he and they are now forced to witness the disintegration of
All you need to know: Wow. At least Mika is honest, but still, as a naked example of the MSM’s vaunted “neutrality,” this one is hard to beat, no?
B-team press secretary Bill Burton, fielding a question from the media aviary in the White House briefing room and making us all swell with pride that Barack Obama is our president. How long before this meme makes it into the
The arc of the MSM is at once predictable and satisfying, especially when it comes to the liberal media’s slowly dawning realization that the Obamessiah ain’t all they cracked him up to be. First, a willful decision to opt for
Unable to discuss facts in any logical, coherent way, or even engage in civil discourse, the modern left has two modes of argumentation: tu quoque and ad hominem. The former translates roughly as “and so are you,” while the latter
Gotta love this: “Will you listen to me instead of babbling?” It’s former senator Alan Simpson, now on the Debt Commission, hosing down a lefty with a bracing does of the truth. Can a liberal handle the truth? See for
Leave it to the Obama administration to come up with yet another bald power grab, in the guise of “helping” us: now the FCC, invoking an ancient law designed to regulate the telephone industry, wants to lay its heavy hand
It’s long been clear modern Democrats and their ops are quick to anger, and far too comfortable with resorting to physical violence. The other day it was Congressman Bob Etheridge (D, N.C.), going nuclear on a couple of college kids,
The childish, feminized fantasy world in which the left dwells was never more in evidence than in this lunatic rant by MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, in which the Rhodes Scholar plays president for a few minutes and gives the speech she
You gotta admit: when Jon Stewart is right, he’s right: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Respect My Authoritah www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party And in this case, he’s right.
So says Janet Daley of the Telegraph: The BBC reports of Barack Obama’s speech last night are about as derisive as it would be possible to be about someone you were describing only a few months ago as the incarnation
Chris Matthew’s documentary “Rise of the New Right” aired tonight on MSNBC. We haven’t watched it all the way through yet, but early twitter buzz suggests Matthews is in top form with this heavily edited special. Be sure to let
Yes, we here at Big Journalism know there’s an infinite number of “what-if-the-shoe-were-on-the-other-foot” stories when it comes to the MSM. Any story that can redound to a conservative’s discredit will be hyped to the skies: [youtube r90z0PMnKwI nolink] Anything that
Notice the lack of applause from his own lefty audience when Maher slaps down Maddow. Always good to hear Maher play the reasonable liberal on the panel, but I still think the deep thought of the segment comes from Maddow:
It’s become a familiar story: confronted with almost any form of opposition, the self-righteous left skips over the informed-debate part of the political dialogue and immediately resorts to vitriol, if not outright violence. The “peaceful” and “tolerant” mask slips, and
[youtube FcPQ9gww_qc&feature nolink] When you’ve lost the New York Times: The press traveling with Obama on the campaign never had a lovey-dovey relationship with him. He treated us with aloof correctness, and occasional spurts of irritation. Like many Democrats, he
After a week-long series of Big Journalism articles delving into the funding, agenda and dubious academic credentials behind the now-infamous “Cry Wolf Project,” the program’s co-chair, Prof. Peter Dreier has finally emerged from his bunker at Occidental College to respond
Last night, the most famous graduate of Cornell Cow College, Keith Olbermann, interviewed the newly minted Democrat candidate for the U.S. Senate, Alvin Greene, an international man of mystery so mysterious that the only possible explanation for his improbable win
If you want to laugh yourself silly tonight, you could do worse than to click on this link to the Houston Chronicle. As an illustration of the old adage that a picture is worth a thousand works, the photos you’re
Over at the website Minding the Campus, Prof. KC Johnson takes a look at the academic astroturf project called “Cry Wolf” that Big Journalism has been breaking all week. The reviews are not good for Prof. Peter Dreier, E.P Clapp
While Chris Matthews is fretting about “the rise of the new right” in an upcoming June 16 MSNBC special that’s sure to be a paranoid, lunatic-fringe load of laughs, maybe he should include this footage of the scene outside Rep.
Critical Mass, a blog devoted to what’s wrong with American academe, has weighed in on the emerging scandal we here at Big Journalism are calling “Academia-Gate” — the “Cry Wolf” request for proposals devoted to pre-empting and discrediting conservative political
