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(AP) Romney, Secret Service, GOP: Obama mocks them allBy MICHELE SALCEDOAssociated PressWASHINGTONPresident Barack Obama scattered the barbs during the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner as he poked fun at White House races past and present, the Secret Service and

A slickly produced video from leftist “racial justice” groups Applied Research Center and their publication Colorlines that was promoted by both Media Matters for America and Moveon as part of the Drop The I-Word campaign uses deceptive editing techniques in order to

CNN’s Fareed Zakaria used to have some interesting things to say about democracy and economics. But in the Barack Obama era, he has become little more than a political hack, twisting facts and spinning news in the hope of benefiting

Todd Starnes reports that the University of Memphis recently hastened to express its deep regret that it sponsored an event for grade school kids featuring the opportunity to have a grand ol’ time using a stick to smack around a

The Trayvon Martin shooting was never about “hoodies.” I own a hoodie, for god’s sake, and I’m a chubby 46-year-old white dude. In the rush to create a false racist meme about the Trayvon shooting, though, leftist activists decided to

“Can Romney get on the cover of Rolling Stone?” This was asked by none other than the brilliant leftist Chris Matthews to his panel of fellow leftists on his syndicated Sunday show. The show began with Matthews calling Obama a

Obama is an autocrat. He is not interested in democracy, our republican form of government, or listening to others’ opinions. And he most certainly is not interested in allowing the American people to see their will reflected in their duly

A month short of two years ago my friend Rabbi David Nesenoff gave me a video which contained a short explosive interview he had conducted with Helen Thomas. There on tape the veteran White House correspondent gave a statement that

Isaac Abraham, spokesperson for the family of Yankel Rosenbaum–the Jewish student murdered by a mob during the Crown Heights riot in 1991–contacted Breitbart News today to express his outrage that Al Sharpton would claim not to have incited the violence.

Leave it to the press to play up a deeply flawed study showing that only unthinking people believe in religion. According to the Los Angeles Times today, “Those who think more analytically are less inclined to be religious believers than

Someday someone is going to write “The History of the Media Shilling for Barack Obama,” and this (which is now the top story on their home page) needs to be on the cover: —– Pretty easy to be okay with a slow

The Department of Justice reportedly referred a journalist to this story by Media Matters for America, “Fast And Fallacious: Pavlich’s Book On ATF Operation Filled With Falsehoods.” The “research,” presumably written by Matthew Gertz (M.G.), claims Katie Pavlich’s book, Fast

According to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, “journalists should be as transparent as possible about sources and methods so audiences can make their own assessment of the information. Even in a world of expanding voices, accuracy

Earlier this week, President Barack Obama told Rolling Stone that he gets his news from, among other sources, “Trig Truther” Andrew Sullivan. As Ed Lasky notes at American Thinker, “there is an even more checkered history involving Andrew Sullivan, and

Have you ever walked into a shop with a child and had them lead youaround to all the things they are sure you desperately need?  Sometimes theseare odd trinkets of no real interest, but occasionally they may suggest something genuinely

As my colleague Ben Shapiro points out, The Washington Post’s Erik Wemple is a Media Matters shill. The anti-Semitic, left-wing hit squad can usually count on Wemple to push their propaganda into the pages of the Washington Post and therefore

Erik Wemple of The Washington Post is a self-described “scandalous journalist” who takes cues from Media Matters for America. In February, the Daily Caller called out nine journalists who took material from MMFA. Wemple wasn’t one of them. But he

Yesterday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell appeared on The Laura Ingraham Show and ripped into CNN contributor, radio talk show host, and RedState.com editor Erick Erickson. Erickson has been a consistent critic of McConnell’s; he recently stated in Roll Call that McConnell is

Whether antisemitism or Islamophobia or hatred of black conservatives, Media Matters for America is not above any form of prejudice–as long as it suits the left’s agenda and President Barack Obama’s re-election. Case in point: the false claim that Dana

There has been a second firing at NBC over the misleading edit of George Zimmerman’s 911 call. A report published yesterday afternoon by the Miami Herald identifies reporter/producer Jeff Burnside as the individual responsible for the edits which appeared in

Certainly, no rational politico or political enthusiast can take an interview in Rolling Stone magazine without a grain of salt salt mine. However, Rolling Stone‘s leading, sophomoric questions for President Obama led to very revealing answers from the President. As Weekly

Everywhere you look these days are attacks on random aspects of Mormonism. Various blogs and news agencies are all trying to marginalize Mitt Romney by mocking and attacking bits and pieces of his religion to make it seem strange (though

Last night, Jimmy Fallon had Barack Obama on his alleged show to “slow-jam the news.” What is “slow-jamming the news”? Apparently, it’s Barack Obama looking into camera and reading a campaign speech, while Jimmy Fallon, looking as uncomfortable as his

In this week’s Rolling Stone, President Obama takes the cover story … again. The piece is a long interview, and it’s a gushing profile of Obama. This time, however, he steps in it by endorsing Trig Palin birther and The