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The Associated Press disguised a partisan attack as news Tuesday, but did so with breathtaking dishonestly. In a story titled “Fears over Zimmerman Verdict Riots Prove Overblown,” the subtext is that conservatives like Glenn Beck are racist for fearing their

My headline is a little deceiving because it makes it sound as though there is something in George Zimmerman’s past, or in the events that led to the tragic shooting of Trayvon Martin, that indicates that he is in any

The Wall Street Journal has joined the chorus of New York-based editorial pages calling for scandal-plagued Democrat Anthony Weiner to drop out of the race for mayor. The Journal looks past Huma Abedin’s defense of her husband at Tuesday’s press conference, and

Rachel Maddow has had enough with Anthony Weiner. She opened Tuesday’s “Rachel Maddow Show” on MSNBC with a rant against the oft-disgraced New York politician and rightly accused him of manipulating the press for his craven political purposes. What Maddow

Anthony Weiner knows a thing or two about manipulating and exploiting women. The list of victims of his megalomaniacal and reckless behavior keeps growing. If you read the media’s account of Tuesday’s press conference (one which was sorely lacking the

Rachel Jeantel, the 19-year-old who was Trayvon Martin’s friend, who was the prosecution’s star witness in the George Zimmerman trial, and who has now made numerous TV appearances, has revealed her plans for the future: she wants to be a

During his exchange with Andy Serwer at a Fortune magazine sponsored event, new CNN chief Jeff Zucker had an interesting perspective on his network’s coverage of the George Zimmerman trial: he thought that CNN did a perfect job covering the

After his latest sexting scandal erupted, The New York Times has stated unequivocally that former Congressman Anthony Weiner should quit the race for New York City mayor and deal with his problems out of the public limelight. The July 23 editorial, titled

BuzzFeed Politics claimed an exclusive find as the top story on the site’s homepage Tuesday evening–the presumed identity of the young woman caught up in Anthony Weiner’s latest sexting scandal. Note: the images of the woman’s face are uncensored at

Remember that nearly 8,300-word paean to Anthony Weiner in the New York Times Magazine last April in which they tried to present him as a changed man?  Of course, now Weiner has confessed he continued his practice of flirting with strangers long

Fox News contributor Tamara Holder has a pretty low opinion of the male of our species. Just as the latest news of yet another Anthony Weiner sexting scandal erupted on Tuesday, July 23, Holder took to Twitter to claim that

Now that a young 23-year-old woman has revealed that Anthony Weiner started pursuing a cybersex relationship with her July 12, 2012, it might be useful to recall People magazine’s puff piece on Weiner and his wife, Huma Abedin, which was

On Tuesday, disgraced former Congressman and current New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner admitted to sexting with a woman he met online – and according to the woman, he promised to help her get a job at Politico. The

Jeff Zucker, the newly installed CNN chief stated during a recent interview that, “The idea that CNN “didn’t have enough conservative points of view was probably a valid criticism.” He went on to explain that the hiring of Newt Gingrich

Recently comedienne Whoopi Goldberg got on her high horse to excoriate Ken Cuccinelli, Virginia’s GOP nominee for Governor, for his desire to use the state’s anti-sodomy laws to prosecute a 47-year-old pedophile. Goldberg attacked Cuccinelli saying that he is “in

It is probably not a good sign when Barack Obama’s biggest fans ridicule his major announcement that he’s going to once again “pivot to the economy.” But in a tweet fired off early Tuesday afternoon, the verified Twitter account of

Though ObamaCare has been unpopular in general for some time, even support among the President’s supporters is fading. A new Washington Post poll shows that only 58% of Democrats support what is now known as ObamaCare. According to the Post,

Newsmax: Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity was making no apologies Monday for words he spoke on his radio show that drew fire from MSNBC host Joe Scarborough. “The left-wing so-called journalists, the Al Sharpton network didn’t see my point —

After going all in and being publicly humiliated in their hysterical push for gun control, the media are being a little more subtle and subdued in their push to pressure the House into passing the Senate’s ObamaCare-ish immigration reform bill.

Note: To avoid any confusion, let me say up front I’m not calling for anyone to be fired. Like calling for boycotts, anything involving joining, or saving the environment — calling for people to be fired is something I don’t

Sunday’s “Justice-For-Trayvon” marchheld by the New Black Panther Party was attended by a woman holding asign reading: “Racist and Proud.” Several media outlets incorrectly identified the woman as a “George Zimmerman supporter,” and the story took off, providing the left with supposed

The New York Times has labeled Nate Silver as “disruptive” who didn’t “ever really fit into the Times culture and I think he was aware of that.” This from the New York Times public editor who wrote about Silver’s departure

While in Tallahassee covering the occupation of the Florida State Capitol by the Dream Defenders, I ran into a young white man who is from the Sanford area and actually knew and had worked with George Zimmerman. Like many people

With the announcement that Kate O’Brian of ABC News will take over as president of the fledgling cable network, Al Jazeera America has bagged another high-profile name in American journalism. O’Brian moves from senior vice president of news-gathering operations at