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Following Rick Santorum’s impressive Iowa showing, the heretofore largely ignored GOP candidate is now being heavily scrutinized. Fair enough. The morning following the Iowa caucus, I awoke to an Internet ablaze about Santorum’s apparent characterization of male homosexual relations as

When the left-wing snark site Wonkette went after Governor Sarah Palin’s youngest child Trig in the worst way you could imagine, I was pretty sure the left had finally hit bottom. How do you get any lower than the ridiculing

Some of you may remember our interview with Tim Groseclose a few months back that explored the liberal bias in the media. This kind of spin has been more prevalent than ever this fall. Why is that? Have you noticed

Echoing the spin of Red Star recipient Scot Horsley of NPR, ABC’s Diane Sawyer today celebrated Richard Cordray, President Barack Obama’s new appointee to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, as a “consumer champion.” He’s certainly no champion of the

On January 3, Media Matters for America (MMfA) linked, among others, a Big Government item by J. Christian Adams to support its mischaracterization of a Fox News segment on South Carolina’s contested voter ID law. MMfA cherry-picked a small portion

The mainstream media’s attempt to sink Sen. Rick Santorum continues. Via Breitbart.tv, here’s how CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 introduced Santorum to viewers–not by describing his accomplishments or principles, but by branding him–falsely–as a racist religious extremist who hates homosexuals: Would

Every once in a while, there is a story in the mainstream media that goes so far beyond ordinary liberal bias that it deserves special recognition. To highlight such extraordinarily egregious propaganda masquerading as news, we at Big Journalism are

– Keith Olbermann cannot keep his ego in check, clashes with Current: The latest developments: Olbermann’s lawyer, Hollywood power attorney Patty Glaser (who repped Conan O’Brien during his battle with NBC) is negotiating with Current TV, according to The Hollywood

From Accuracy in Media’s Cliff Kincaid: When Anita Dunn hasn’t been on CNN or MSNBC bashing the Republican presidential candidates and/or praising President Obama, she has been successfully lobbying for a Washington Post subsidiary by the name of Kaplan University.

Only a few hours after his impressive Iowa showing, the openly left-wing media is already making an issue out of what’s being called Rick Santorum’s “Google problem,” and they are doing this for a sinister, partisan, and dishonest reason. The

This morning on Bloomberg TV’s “In the Loop,” RNC Chairman Reince Priebus did an admirable of job staying on message as host Betty Liu tried to pretend Republicans were in some kind of awful chaos because they haven’t chosen a

Earlier today, Mark Allen, who is a contributor to the New York Times and National Public Radio, compared Republican presidential candidate Sen. Rick Santorum to Dan White, the man who assassinated Harvey Milk, San Francisco’s first openly gay member of

Tuesday wasn’t a great night for accuracy at the (openly) liberal network, as Charlie Spiering of the Washington Examiner points out: [youtube rifGntoANcg]

Time‘s Mark Halperin wondered openly this morning whether the mainstream media might be “rooting for” Sen. Rick Santorum in the Republican primary. That could happen if journalists decide that Santorum would be a weaker general election threat to President Barack

After the fall of the Soviet Union, most Leftists in the US at least had the decency to mourn quietly over the demise of the Evil Empire. Being sympathetic to murderous communists became somewhat of a joke manifested in “CCCP”

Sign On San Diego recently awarded its “Person of the Year” to the Marine. We can think of no better way to begin this tradition than by selecting as our first winner the Marine. Since Sept. 11, 2001, America has

Earlier today, Keith Olbermann of Current TV tweeted that his “Countdown” program would not air tonight. No reason was given, and Olbermann himself seemed to have been taken by surprise, referring all questions to senior Current TV management: Mediaite noted

Jack Cafferty gave CNN’s coverage of the Iowa caucuses his special touch this afternoon: Cafferty added a little dig at Jewish voters–“a boost in New York and Florida”–at the end.

Yesterday, NPR reported an unclear snippet of audio as former Senator Rick Santorum having said the word “black” when discussing individuals becoming dependent on government’s redistribution of wealth, as opposed to being able to go out and earn their money

An iPhone or a smart phone can be a wonderful thing. You can do… well, darn near anything with it, including record for posterity any event within eye-range–or should I say, I-range. Unless you want to become famous (or infamous),

Media Matters feebly attempted to save face from the Girl Scout brochure controversy after the group dumped the propaganda website. The Girl Scouts say they will no longer recommend the liberal website Media Matters as a good source for fact-checking

In an article published last week, Rachel Coward of the Columbia Missourian falsely claimed that Andrew Breitbart edited videos of a controversial labor studies course at the University of Missouri in which lecturers instructed students in violent tactics, indoctrinated them

Courtesy of the Washington Post. Writer Amy Gardner makes no attempt to explain her headline. We’re left to assume that she’s equating Callista Gingrich and Camilla Parker Bowles because they both were at one time the “other woman.” That’s pretty

Ah, Politico. JournOlism at its finest. Here we have the first real vote of the 2012 season with all eyes on the GOP, and Mike Allen’s idea of a “headliner ” for his live stream’s “instant analysis” is DNC Chair

– Fox News Contributor Sarah Palin on Bachmann: “It’s not Bachmann’s time.” – The 50 most obnoxious quotes of 2011. Staff favorites: 48) I’m in, like, dating Babylon. Like, I go on dates with men and, literally, like Sarah Palin