Larry O'Connor

In the past year, we’ve had plenty of opportunities (and reasons) to criticize Jon Stewart’s routine attacks on conservatives, talk radio, Fox News and other opponents of reflexive liberalism. But not today. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon –

Over the weekend we highlighted Charles Blow’s column in the New York Times about his infiltration of the Grand Prairie, Tex., Tea Party. We questioned why he even bothered attending the event considering that he never interviewed anyone there and

When last we heard from CNN political analyst Roland Martin, he was giving heartfelt advice to members of the conservative commentary regarding suspicions surrounding the accusations of racial epithets that were allegedly heard by three members of the Congressional Black

Charles Blow infiltrated a Tea Party event in Grand Prarie, Tex., on behalf of the New York Times. But, apparently he wasn’t there to listen to the substance of the speakers’ speeches or to judge the content of the audience’s

While the media did their best to expose the rampant stupidity and racism lurking in the ranks of the tea party protestors at tax day rallies last week, a couple of obstacles usually referred to as facts stood in their

On Tuesday, AP reporter Jesse Washington ran a story on the Phantom ‘N-Word,’ accusing Andrew Breitbart and this site of misleading viewers by running a video of the March 20 protest at Capitol Hill that did not show anyone screaming

[youtube ApYih-e-1KI] Last night on Anderson Cooper 360, there was a political panel discussion that focused on the growing doubts over whether racial epithets had, in fact, been hurled at members of the Congressional Black Caucus on the day of

Gabriel Winant at Salon.com has a high-minded and sober criticism of Bill O’Reilly’s “Ambush Video” of Al Gore. Winant decries this kind of “gotcha” journalism as mis-leading and exploitative: O’Reilly, as Salon has pointed out before, is fond of the

What happens when a conservative politician makes a reasonable and legally sound argument challenging the push for same-sex marriage? His words are twisted to make him look like a hateful bigot, thus setting off a media ruckus. That’s the case

We’ve already seen in the past how symbiotic the relationship is between MSNBC (whose ratings are cratering among adults 25-54) and Media Matters. Witness the now infamous “interview” conducted by suspended MSNBC employee David Shuster and Andrew Breitbart. His question

Ever wonder what it must be like to be standing right in the middle of the action when a huge story breaks? Thanks to Kerry Picket at the Washington Times, you can come close to that experience. Except, in this

Rachel Maddow had a story to tell. The story was that Hannah Giles and James O’Keefe’s ACORN videos were “severely edited” to make an innocent man who did the right thing look as though he was doing something nefarious, immoral

Over the past few days there has been a manufactured firestorm over comments Erick Erickson made on his local Georgia radio show last week. You can hear his full remarks by clicking here. Today the White House joined in the

Over the past two days, BigGovernment.com has been exposing the identities of members of IBEW Local 357 who taunted, harassed, intimidated and threw eggs at peaceful Tea Party protestors in Harry Reid’s hometown of Searchlight, Nevada last weekend. This could

Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE) has announced their annual awards for investigative journalism. I’m sure you’ve already guessed the winner in the “On-line” category. Of course, it was a tough call for them. The competition was stiff: Big Hollywood’s expose

There are rumblings that journalism schools, as we have known them, are on the decline in America. It’s assumed that this is tied to the decline in job opportunities in newsrooms and magazines as those industries die an agonizingly slow

This is what it has come to. In this “news” column from the AP on the Tea Party rally in Harry Reid’s hometown of Searchlight, Nev., yesterday, the AP puts the burden of proof on Andrew Breitbart to prove that

I wonder if MSNBC can get its money back on that special “Watergate Jr.” graphic and the ominous theme music they used when throwing their resources (and reputations) at James O’Keefe? The charges against O’Keefe and three other men have

What happens when a journalist asks the right questions and gets a politician a few minutes past their talking points? Well, sometimes, as Michael Kinsley has pointed out, we get to the truth. That’s what happened this morning on WLS