An analysis of media reports on the Trayvon Martin shooting reveals how a local crime story became a national racial outrage. The incident happened on Feb. 26, 2012, and was primarily reported in local outlets. The first major national news
The Trayvon Martin case shows, once again, the effect of Derrick Bell’s radical Critical Race Theory on President Barack Obama and his administration. Critical Race Theory holds that the law itself is characterized by white supremacy–an idea Obama invoked by
Susan Jacobson of the Orlando Sentinel reports that an elderly Florida couple has fled their home, after Spike Lee re-tweeted their address, thinking he was sending people to the home of George Zimmerman, who shot and killed Trayvon Martin. Jacobson reports: A
Media Matters for America senior foreign policy fellow M.J. Rosenberg is in trouble over his Twitter feed again–not for antisemitism (this time), but for attacking Matt Drudge over a photo of Trayvon Martin that Rosenberg claimed was false. Rosenberg later
Ask yourself the obvious: if President Barack Obama, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton–and Rick Santorum, for that matter–really cared about justice for Trayvon Martin, why are they poisoning the jury pool and making it impossible for his alleged killer to be
Genia Lovett of the Post-Crescent newspaper in Appleton, WI reported over the weekend that the Gannett Wisconsin Media Investigative Team had discovered that 25 Gannett journalists had signed petitions to recall Republican Gov. Scott Walker, in violation of ethics codes. Previously,
Jake Tapper of ABC News reports that an open microphone caught President Barack Obama telling outgoing Russian President Dmitri Medvedev that he would be prepared to yield to Russian demands on missile defense after his re-election, but needed more “space”
Republican presidential contender Sen. Rick Santorum appeared on CBS’ Face the Nation this morning and pronounced George Zimmerman guilty of murder in the first degree. Admitting that he was “not privy to what’s going on in someone’s mind,” Santorum nevertheless said
UN Watch–an essential human rights watchdog–has attempted to downplay last week’s appearance by the Hamas terrorist group at the UN Human Rights council, apparently to spare the Obama administration embarrassment as Obama seeks continued funding from Congress for UN-related activities.
Yesterday, filmmaker Spike Lee apparently re-tweeted the home address of George Zimmerman–the Hispanic man who allegedly shot and killed black teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida last month. Zimmerman has been in hiding while the nation mourns Martin–and while the left
Salon.com has given credit to Andrew Breitbart for drawing national attention to Critical Race Theory (CRT) after Breitbart.com released video of Barack Obama embracing CRT pioneer Derrick Bell at a Harvard Law School protest in 1990. Curiously, Salon links CRT
Occupy Wall Street, which was evicted from Zuccotti Park last year, is attempting to make Manhattan’s Union Square its new home. The footage linked below was filmed on a cell phone camera during an impromptu “General Assembly” meeting at the
Last night, we removed an article about Bono at the request of the videographer who had provided the links to the videos upon which the article had been based.
An argument over whether an anti-Israel terrorist group had been scheduled to address the UN Human Rights Council this week may have been motivated by concerns about the political implications for President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign. On Monday, the Jewish
A reminder from the mainstream, tax-supported media: if you oppose ObamaCare, that may be because you are a white racist who hates our black president. That’s the gist of Shankar Vedantam’s story this morning on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition,
Today’s edition of National Public Radio’s weekly On the Media show featured a segment on recycled advertising slogans, which closed by spoofing the Republican presidential candidates–but declining to spoof President Barack Obama. The focus of the story was the effort by
Dalia Mogahed, a member of President Barack Obama’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, is fighting controversy over her online remarks about Israel. On March 10, Mogahed tweeted her opposition to embattled Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad, listing as one
The mainstream media in Washington, DC is apoplectic after Gov. Sarah Palin backed Andrew Breitbart’s project, “The Vetting.” In an exclusive article for Breitbart.com entitled “Breitbart Is Here,” Palin had endorsed Breitbart’s effort to vet Barack Obama, his Republican rivals–and
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) told a gathering of anti-war activists in Los Angeles on March 12 that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was misleading the public about Israel’s willingness to confront Iran alone, and that he had privately assured President
Ben Smith’s Buzzfeed seems to have become the Democrats’ outlet of choice for attacking conservative media. The latest incident began with the Daily Caller’s Matthew Boyle questioning Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz about the Fast and Furious scandal.
Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), who led efforts in 2009 to support would-be dictator Manuel Zelaya of Honduras, is continuing her campaign against the democratically elected government that replaced him. Schakowsky has circulated a letter among Democrats in the U.S. House
NPR aired a story this morning about outrageous inequalities within the Chinese Communist Party that make the complaints of the Occupy movement look quaint by comparison. Louisa Lim reported for Morning Edition: [T]he National People’s Congress, or NPC, includes some
