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This qualifies as a Credit Where It’s Due and a Soundbite For The Day. Kudos to CNN’s Jack Cafferty for his reporting. [youtube MIRTeTvjR7Y nolink] For more on our F&F Media Watch, check out Mary Chastain’s excellent reporting.

– It’s so bizarre to watch this interview considering how Bill Clinton used the IRS to go after people like O’Reilly. Still, the Clinton survival instinct can make them seem almost likable at times, due to the “enemy of my

The Department of Justice released a statement about the uproar caused by Eric Holder using the race card. “That is a complete distortion of the attorney general’s comment. His comments both in the article and elsewhere made clear that he

As you may have noticed, PolitiFact tried to take the MacIver News Service to task over our reporting of a recent meeting of the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board (GAB). Specifically, they rated as “Mostly False” our report on the recall

Last night the Department of Justice released a statement about the uproar caused by Eric Holder using the race card. “That is a complete distortion of the attorney general’s comment. His comments both in the article and elsewhere made clear

The Left is apoplectic over this year’s PolitiFact Lie of the Year. Given that PolitiFact came under so much fire from the right this year, conservatives should be cautious, even if optimistic. A year-end gift, or a big show of

– The 10 Most Powerful In Television News. – Jake Tapper introduces ABC’s “OTUS.” video platform video management video solutions video player – Plus: ABC’s new tagline “See the whole picture.” – The NYT sells off 16 regional papers. –

The formidable Bret Stephens of the Wall Street Journal notes a glaring (im)moral equivalence in the New York Times‘s obituary for Kim Jong-Il: The real mystery is why, in free societies where few journalists and politicians are ever at serious

Here we go with dog whistle again. The Nation’s Lizzy Ratner surmises that it’s racist to acknowledge that a record number of Americans are on the government dole. The deep racism at the heart of conservative food stamp critiques offers

Ever since it was learned a Saudi Prince, Alwaleed Bin Talal, owned a large stake in News Corp – parent company to Fox News – the usual suspects (ThinkProgress, Media Matters, DailyKos) have been trying to use it as a

Not long after my Friday piece ran that exposed FishBowl DC’s unbelievably nasty attack on the Daily Caller‘s Michelle Fields, Fishbowl DC started tweeting me. The person behind the tweets is editor Betsy Rothstein (I think this is her) and

The hemorrhage of support continues. As 2011 comes to an end, we dive right into the deep end with the MAD 20 – our annual wrap-up of the dumbest people, events and things of the year! From Kim Kardashian to

HonestReporting is a UK-based organization devoted to monitoring and criticizing media bias in Middle East coverage. It was founded in 2000, after the New York Times ran a photo of a bloodied youth whom it mis-identified as a Palestinian being

What a glorious one-liner: “You are a pyromaniac in a field of straw men.” It’s Will vs Reich. Newsbusters has the transcript [bold my emphasis]: CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, HOST: Can government, should government do what the congressman is doing and allow

From Jake Tapper’s Tweet: Progressive talking heads and journolisters meeting the President? Any guesses in the comments as to their meeting agenda? I’m sure the these transparent media folks will disclose this on their shows tonight or within their column

Why do I not bet on things like this? In a truly “shocking” turn of events, an associate librarian at Yale has once again, compiled a list of top quotations of the year and they are, predictably, predominately unfriendly to

Aside from the performative displays of anguish–possibly sincere, in a bizarre way–note the total lack of interaction among mourners at monuments to recently deceased North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il. Orwell’s great insight into totalitarianism was that it destroys all capacity

– Who cares about a liberal paper’s endorsement of a moderate candidate? – Joy. Kathy Griffin announced as Anderson Cooper’s co-host for NYE. – Whoopi Goldberg defends Romney’s “zany” remark. [youtube XcCRPgqMHvY nolink] – AIM says the remark didn’t start

From Fox Business/Reuters: Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, an investor in some of the world’s top companies, has bought a stake in Twitter for $300 million, gaining another foothold in the global media industry. Alwaleed, a nephew of Saudi

Charlie Savage’s newest piece at The New York Times is, as my friend Sean Arthur on Twitter says, a shameless PR drivel and allows Mr. Holder to make ludicrous statements without challenge and pulls the race card. The New York

A story on horrific poverty oddly gives me hope for local TV news. As a local TV news/sports anchor for almost 30 years, one of my biggest problems with the business was when young producers or reporters would cut-and-paste a

– And the media begins moving a little less discreetly to cram Mitt Romney down our throats: Sara Murray of the Washington Wire asks: “Can tea partiers grow to love Mitt Romney?” Iowa’s Des Moines Register (dude) endorses Romney. Why

From Accuracy in Media’s Don Irvine: In a surprise announcement, The New York Times CEO Janet Robinson announced last night that she was retiring from the company at the end of the year and that chairman Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr.

This is a very strange story first brought up by McClatchy, who says that the Marines are promoting an embellished version of the story behind Dakota Meyer’s reason for receiving a Medal of Honor. Ed Morrisey hits the high points

From Newsbusters: George Washington was the father of our country. Eh! No big deal. Barack Obama is better…at least in his own mind. Such was the laughably absurd claim of President Obama on 60 Minutes last Sunday. What? You didn’t