Ben Smith of Buzzfeed recently wrote about campaign donations — both Romney’s and Obama’s — for this presidential election. In an otherwise fairly informative piece, Smith feeds into one of the myths about the 2008 election, the claim that Obama’s
Lifetime’s “Army Wives” has often walked up close to anti-American plots without stepping too far over the line. This weekend’s episode crossed right over into the left’s famous — and famously bogus — favorite theme: turning patriotic Americans into villains.
The Internet is abuzz with news of a new Obama campaign smart phone app that identifies all the Democrats in your neighborhood. Released last week, the app works through Google maps. Upon entering an address, the app reveals the registered
NBC was forced to apologize as cries of racism were leveled against the network after airing an ad featuring a monkey seconds after African American Olympian Gabby Douglas won the gold for gymnastics. This is amusing seeing as how the
Now that Mitt Romney’s trip abroad has wound down, an assessment of its coverage can be made, and the final word is negativity. The Old Media was mostly negative about Romney’s trip. This is quite a contrast to the glowing
Political news site Politico is not done needling Ann Romney for having a top-rated horse in the Olympics, apparently. Witness an actual Politico headline: 10 things to know about Rafalca. Most of the “ten things” are just facts about the
The headline of the Internet version of a Washington Post story about the shooting sports at the Olympics asserts that “even at the Olympics” the Olympians face questions about gun violence. Yet, upon reading the article, it is clear that
The news industry takes another hit this week as the Rupert Murdoch-owned digital newspaper, The Daily, announces that 29 percent of its workforce, 50 employees, will be laid off. News Corp launched the iPad-only publication (via iTunes) to great fanfare
CNN reporter Jim Acosta called the behavior of Romney’s aide in Poland “really inexcusable” and “sort of unprovoked.” While visiting Poland’s Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Pilsudski Square, various members of the press following Romney on his overseas trip
At a recent fundraiser in New York City, President Obama told his high-dollar donors that he wanted to enter a new phase of this race, different from the negative campaigning that has thoroughly defined his reelection effort thus far. Is it
In another sign that print media is in serious trouble, widely praised, DC-based newspaper Roll Call has been suffering a series of layoffs over the last month. This week the company, CQ Roll Call, was hit with even more drastic
Apparently they wish they hadn’t done it now, but CNN must have thought it was a hilarious thing to play a song by singer Pink titled Stupid Girl as it introduced a report on Sarah Palin’s support of Chick-Fil-A on
The July 30 episode of CBS Evening News had a segment about “lies” in campaign advertising. Correspondent Nancy Cordes gave Mitt Romney a slap for “taking the President out of context” in his ad about Obama’s July 13 “you didn’t build
One of the more absurd aspects of the New York school system is that the teachers union is given the right to investigate itself when teachers are accused of sexual misconduct. In too many cases the union sides with the
What was the most striking thing about Mitt Romney’s overseas trip this week? Says Powerline, the most striking thing is the “hypercritical” coverage given the trip by the American press. In what could only be seen by an unbiased person
A few days ago the Interwebs went all a twitter over a guy that reporters claimed “printed” his own “fully functional assault rifle” using a 3-D printer that “prints” in plastic. But few of these reports came anywhere near getting
By some accounts, since Zimbabwe’s terror-inducing Robert Mugabe came to power more than thirty years ago, up to 480,000 people have lost their lives. Of those not killed outright or starved to death, tens of thousands of people have had
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn. Quinn is proud to stand against our Constitutional rights of freedom of speech and freedom of religion. She is also proud to stand against the right to do legal business anywhere without fearing the iron
Over at Poynter.org, Howard Finberg has quite an interesting piece about the changing world of education — focusing specifically on educating future journalists. Finberg and others have been ruminating that e-learning will change the profession of education, and of course,
All day Wednesday, the Old Media establishment was going gaga over the “gaffes” that presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney supposedly committed on his overseas tour. But all the many gaffes Obama committed with our allies — especially the Brits —
The mayors of Chicago and Boston have walked into a “First Amendment buzzsaw” by denying Chick-Fil-A the right to open and operate their fast food stores in the two cities. If TIME magazine realizes that the Democrats are misusing their
The Christian Science Monitor apparently thought it was doing the country a public service by laying out rules by which to judge whether or not a Mitt Romney ad is “racist,” but in its five questions to ask yourself about
Much as we on the right like to carp about how sold-out the Old Media is to Obama’s reelection effort and how the media establishment is loathe to say anything negative about Obama, sometimes it does publish a piece that
President Obama and presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney will face off in three televised debates this coming October: one on domestic policy, one on foreign policy, and a third town-hall-style event where undecided voters will quiz the candidates. The Commission
On July 24, Vice President Joe Biden took questions from the White House press during a phone conference call, but the White House told reporters they would not be allowed to use Twitter to live-report the VP’s remarks. Politico reported
