Over the course of just two days, the Washington Post pounded its readers with 12 “birther” stories aimed at Texas Senator Ted Cruz. Headlines included, “Can Ted Cruz Run for President?”, “Canadian Born Ted Cruz Releases Birth Certificate Amid Queries
The Wrap reports that a mere hour before Al Jazeera America launched Tuesday, cable provider AT&T U-Verse dropped the Qatar-financed cable news channel over a “contract dispute.” This is a loss of five million potential households. As of July 2013,
The Washington Free Beacon reports that Al Jazeera America, the Qatar-financed cable news channel that launched today, has already “dashed the hopes” of anyone who believed AJA’s claims that they would present “fact-based, unbiased and in-depth news.” AJA’s first guest
The Smoking Gun is reporting that BuzzFeed reporter Michael Hasting, who died on June 18 in a fiery one-car accident in Los Angeles, had meth and marijuana in his system at the time of the crash. The meth isn’t believed
Saturday, Breitbart News reported that Media Matters for America, the left-wing media enforcers funded by George Soros, attacked the left-wing New York Times over a report critical of the financial mismanagement and cronyism at the Clinton Foundation. Tuesday, David Brock,
In their zeal to hustle and intimidate the GOP into legalizing 11 million new Democrats, the mainstream media love to crow over their mistaken belief that demographics will eventually be the end of the Republican Party. But real numbers show
Days after the RNC agreed to boycott CNN and NBC/MSNBC when it comes to hosting GOP presidential primary debates, CNN Films made a move that only serves to vindicate that boycott. As its senior director, CNN Films just announced the
George Capsis (pictured), the 87-year-old publisher of the West Village’s WestView News was not arrested, but he was issued a violation for harassment after he slugged Democrat New York State Senator Brad Hoylman and an activist holding a sign in
Time senior national correspondent Michael Grunwald caused a stir Saturday night with a tweet from his verified Twitter account that said, “I can’t wait to write a defense of the drone strike that takes out” Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. After
MSNBC announced Monday that the “Ed Show” will return to weekdays starting August 26. Host Ed Schultz will take the 5pm ET Monday through Friday slot, which has been held by “Hardball,” host Chris Matthews for years. “Hardball” also broadcasts
For those wondering how Matt Damon (or anyone) could take away the title of “King of the Left-wing Flops” from George Clooney, just look at the numbers below. Matt Damon is 4-for-4 — four left-wing flops in just four years.
On the first day of January in 2011, the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) debuted in 80 million homes. Fifteen months later the network was in complete ruins. OWN’s ratings had become a national joke, the network’s highest profile star, Rosie
Mostly by his own hand, Noel Coward’s carefully crafted image is that of dignified men in tuxedos, elegant women in evening dresses; martinis, drawing rooms, cigarette holders, diamonds, and people who use words like “darling!” and “wonderful!” There was much
When Reggie Love, President Obama’s ex-assistant, revealed in an interview that the president left the Situation Room during the bin Laden raid to play 15 games of Spades with Love and a few others, the revelation threatened the White House’s
Despite what you are reading in media reports about how the RNC’s long overdue primary debate boycott of CNN and NBC also includes the Spanish-language Telemundo and CNN Espanol, it is important to point out that the boycott does not
The Daily Beast’s Kevin Fallon poured over a thousand words into an article detailing Oprah Winfrey’s publicity tour for her new film, “The Butler.” Memory-holed from the piece, though, is Oprah’s attempt to pull a race hoax on America and
Now that I am just about 30 months shy of the big 5-0, I can safely say that when it comes to the movies I enjoyed as a child, I have not grown up. Abbott and Costello still put me
In an online column for the Washington City Paper, Patrick Pexton, the former-ombudsman for the Washington Post, offered some free advice to the paper’s new owner, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Pexton closed his lengthy article with three paragraphs explaining why
In December of 2008, David Gregory took over as the permanent host of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” the then-41-year-old current affairs show and longest running program on network television. Over two years later, Gregory was in first place and even
Last month, a wealthy movie and television star took to Twitter to hurl homophobic slurs at a gay reporter, and to urge his million-plus followers to commit acts of violence against the man. Last week, a nobody — a jester,
Kathleen Parker shot to fame in 2008 with her attacks on then-vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin. Immediately afterwards, a columnist practically no one had heard of became a mainstream media darling. This would be followed by Parker’s humiliating failure co-hosting
President Obama is enjoying the August recess with an extended vacation at a home owned by a millionaire in Martha’s Vineyard. He is also using this time to rub social elbows with big shots in the same mainstream media charged
Late Wednesday morning, the New York Times website crashed. This was verified by the Times. Speculation as to why is running from heavy traffic to a cyber-attack: —- The New York Times Web site is experiencing technical difficulties. We expect
Funny, I don’t remember CBS having a problem repeatedly identifying Todd Akin as a Republican during the 2012 election. But CBS This Morning couldn’t quite bring itself to identify Jesse Jackson Jr. as a Democrat in its Wednesday report about
Tuesday, Oprah Winfrey’s non-apology apology to Switzerland received all kinds of media attention. What didn’t receive much media attention, though, is the fact that in that same statement, Winfrey backpedaled away from her claim that she had been a victim
