We all remember how the media attacked GOP front-runner Mitt Romney’s credibility for days due to what they described as a “misquote” in one of his campaign ads; but up until now, other than obligatory reporting, this same media has refused to
An analysis published Wednesday by FactCheck.org identifies four more factual problems with Obama’s campaign film “The Road We’ve Traveled”: The film says “17 million kids could no longer be denied for preexisting conditions,” implying all of them were being denied
Matt Lewis wrote a thought provoking post about, as he put it, “political journalism and conservatism.” It’s well written and definitely worth a look (can you tell there’s a “but” coming?), but ultimately I found myself disagreeing with the thrust
We all remember how the media attacked GOP front runner Mitt Romney’s credibility for days due to what they described as a “misquote” in one of his campaign ads. Up until now, other than obligatory reporting, this same media has
Their plan was to make the villain infamous in a way that would resonate with average people,especially young people. The filmmakers seem to have succeeded to the extent that the filmis a hit, but the reviews haven’t been kind. Many
Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler has identified another serious problem with the accuracy of President Barack Obama’s recently released campaign film, “The Road We’ve Traveled.” This is the second “gross inaccuracy” found in the 17-minute film. The first was brought to
The left-wing media had a bad day yesterday. Both NPR and the NY Times are implicated in significant journalistic fraud aimed at hurting the reputation of America’s largest corporation. It began this afternoon when NPR announced it was retracting an
This week, Francis Fox-Piven took to the pages of The Nation magazine to stoke the fire of the Occupy movement. She starts by suggesting they are likely to hear pleas from Democrats that they quiet their criticism of Obama: There will
It’s happened again, this time in New Haven, Connecticut: Police are investigating an alleged sexual assault of a woman atthe Occupy New Haven encampment The alleged assault happened Monday night or Tuesday morning. The woman inquestion has been taken to
Shortly before he became Obama’s Secretary of Energy, Steven Chu was quoted by the Wall Street Journal as saying “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.” To be clear
A recent Al Jazeera report suggests that one of the main culprits for the recent rash of spills by Venezuela’s state oil company is the decision by Hugo Chavez in 2002 to hand 18,000 jobs to party loyalists.Call it crony
Soledad O’Brien took a second bite at the Critical Race Theory apple this morning, bringing on law professor Dorothy Brown to once again claim that Joel Pollak’s description of CRT was unfounded. Tommy Christopher at Mediaite seized on the video
This is what real journalism looks like, folks. Sheryl Gay Stolberg writes a 2,300 word piece about Newt Gingrich’s relationship to ethics charges (those brought by and against him) that ends with this rehash of his fall from grace: In
Type “Occupy anti-capitalist” into Google News and you’ll see a bunch of European news outlets returning results. You’ll have to search harder for instances of US papers referring to US occupiers as anti-capitalist. It happens, but rarely. Here’s a sample
A woman who attended Occupy Cleveland last Saturday is now saying she was raped by a man she shared a tent with. Police are investigating the allegation, but in the meantime the local NBC station has produced this outrageous report
This is from last Friday, but I just came across it. Here we have a supposedly respectable commentator on MSNBC suggesting it’s time for “radical solutions” to our current economic crisis. It may be that Matthews is talking about a
Today, Andrew Breitbart published some photographs of an event in March 2007 where Senator and candidate Barack Obama shared a stage with Malik Shabazz of the New Black Panther Party. It was not, as the mainstream media wants to believe,
Author Joe McGinniss had months of advance media interest and a huge rollout from well-heeled Random House which included appearances on NBC’s Today, CNN’s Piers Morgan and ABC’s “The View.” And yet, newly released figures show his book is languishing
Yesterday Michelle Goldberg reported on the Glenn Beck event in Israel. Well, reporting is probably too strong a word. It’s a rambling post which states a great many liberal verities about Beck without even offering proof for them. I immediately
According to Cenk, his numbers at MSNBC were good but the management expressed other concerns. Or perhaps the more accurate way to say it is, the management relayed the concerns of others. This comes in two parts. I’m going to
When I caught the President talking about President Lincoln’s “intercontinental railroad” in an interview he gave in February, I thought it was just an off-the-cuff gaffe. But it turns out his former chief political adviser made the same mistake just
