MSNBC’s “Hardball” host Chris Matthews argued President Obama “tried to avoid” talking about Iran to help get better headlines during MSNBC’s coverage of the State of the Union on Tuesday. Matthews said, “I don’t think he got into Iran. … I
In his piece today entitled “Sarah Palin is wreaking havoc on the campaign trail, GOP sources say,” Politico’s Jonathan Martin (who was tasked with the Republican Party beat for the website for the 2008 elections) falsely claims Sarah Palin backed
I’ve been sifting through hundreds of emails, stories, reactions to Juan Williams’ sensational firing by NPR over his remarks on Bill O’Reilly’s show, covered on Big Journalism for the past 24 hours. I’ve also read Slate’s ridiculous comparison of Williams
Germany’s influential Der Spiegel shows how delusional they are with an editorial about the decline of Obama in America. There is no attempt here to understand the Tea Party movement or what it represents. As usual, the European Left is
From Juan Williams, posted at FoxNews.com: Yesterday NPR fired me for telling the truth. The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airplane and see people dressed in garb that identifies them first and foremost as
Last night Anderson Cooper did what few journalists dare to do: he asked the tough questions of NAACP’s Ben Jealous on the topic of the highly-controversial report the NAACP released which unfairly mischaracterized the tea party. Jealous gets flustered and
According to National Public Radio’s (NPR) site, this is its stated mission. Below, a look at item one of three in said mission statement. Is it fair to say that the feelings Juan Williams expressed recently on Fox, ones for
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com I said what I meant to say, which is that it’s an honest experience… I have a moment of anxiety, of fear, given what happened on 9/11… It’s not a bigoted statement.
** UPDATED **NPR internal memo on Juan Williams firing after the jump According to NPR President and CEO, Vivian Schiller, they didn’t just take a shot at Juan Williams as a proxy for Fox News for Soros’ million. During pledge
On Sunday, the Chicago Sun-Times gave Rahm Emanuel the gift of a front-page feature story called “Rahm on the Record” by reporter Fran Spielman. I wonder how many of the other Chicago mayoral candidates will get this kind of feature
[youtube nx_I1lzJ94w nolink] The mainstream media-a group of people far to the left of the American public-are deeply concerned that the extremist tea party-a group of people whose ideals represent the American mainstream-are threatening the careers of centrist Democrats… who
On July 17th, 2010, 45 year old Byron Williams was stopped by California Highway Patrol officers on Interstate 580 in Oakland, California for driving erratically. A violent shootout ensued, and twelve minutes later, it was over. Police had unknowingly averted
In light of the St. Louis NAACP’s own racism issues, I was surprised to find out that they planned to hold a press conference to attack the TEA Party as racist…again. The same chapter of the NAACP that uses racial
