What a phony-baloney plastic banana good-time rock-and-roll optic photo-op that was. — Rush Limbaugh In an article titled “Michelle Obama’s Target Trip,” Politico palace guards for Obama and buries the lead: Never has a Target dash caused such a ruckus.
by John Nolte1 Oct 2011, 4:27 PM PST0
***UPDATE: J.D. Gordon will replace Ellen Carmichael. CNN: Des Moines, Iowa (CNN) – The communications director for Herman Cain’s presidential campaign has resigned, CNN has learned. Ellen Carmichael told CNN on Saturday her decision is firm but not yet finalized.
by P.J. Salvatore1 Oct 2011, 3:26 PM PST0
From Accuracy in Media’s Benjamin Johnson: Is there a better way to bring in the weekend than by chatting with top newsmakers over drinks? Sure, the bar talk and news commentary device has been used before, but that was just
by Breitbart News1 Oct 2011, 12:30 PM PST0
by James Hudnall1 Oct 2011, 9:00 AM PST0
No matter how you slice it, Operation Fast and Furious is a serious problem for the Obama administration. It’s beyond question that the ATF oversaw the sale of approximately 2,500 weapons to straw purchasers whom they knew were going to
by AWR Hawkins1 Oct 2011, 4:58 AM PST0
“I believe the children are our future … teach them well and let them lead the way …” What a future. At this rate, this little girl won’t have much of a future at current spending levels.
by P.J. Salvatore30 Sep 2011, 4:09 PM PST0
by NewsBusters30 Sep 2011, 12:31 PM PST0
Via Fox News, the Media Research Center has published a report examining a three-hour, online journalism course offered by Poynter: A new course on Islam designed for journalists tries to minimize the impact and importance of ”jihad” by comparing it
by P.J. Salvatore30 Sep 2011, 9:15 AM PST0
– What NBC News producers do when they retire? The same thing they always did, perhaps, influence news coverage? Former NBC News Producer Yells at NPR For Missing Leftist Wall St. Protest: If the Tea Party farts, that’s news. But
by P.J. Salvatore30 Sep 2011, 7:05 AM PST0
From Accuracy in Media’s Cliff Kincaid: In a major blow to Al-Jazeera’s drive for acceptance and respectability in the West, the government of Israel says that one of the channel’s correspondents has confessed to acting as an agent of the
by Breitbart News30 Sep 2011, 4:58 AM PST0
Jose Antonio Vargas is obviously hoping to become some sort of disenfranchised, victimized media folk hero. You have to wonder how seriously the MSM will take him as he wags his finger and makes these sanctimonious pronouncements. HuffPo: Jose Antonio
by John Nolte29 Sep 2011, 5:34 PM PST0
‘That was a little dismissive,” I wrote to some of my colleagues yesterday morning after reading somewhere that Governor Sarah Palin had referred to The Mighty Herman Cain as ‘the flavor of the week.” Cain’s my favorite candidate in the
by John Nolte29 Sep 2011, 1:00 PM PST0
Last night Keith Olbermann went off of Media Matters’s talking points and named me as his Worst Person in the World on my birthday. It would have meant something had more people actually watched it and it aired on something
by Dana Loesch29 Sep 2011, 12:49 PM PST0
In light of a recent poll showing America’s distrust of the national media, I thought I would pick a topic for a case study. What better topical study is there when exploring the media’s methods and concerns than with the
by Jason Bradley29 Sep 2011, 11:15 AM PST0
by NewsBusters29 Sep 2011, 9:10 AM PST0
– I wonder what team MSN-Obama is going to say in 2012 when someone points out that Jeb isn’t running for anything? Bankrupt solar panel maker Solyndra made a fleeting appearance on the Rachel Maddow show Monday night, just long
by P.J. Salvatore29 Sep 2011, 7:05 AM PST0
Author Joe McGinniss had months of advance media interest and a huge rollout from well-heeled Random House which included appearances on NBC’s Today, CNN’s Piers Morgan and ABC’s “The View.” And yet, newly released figures show his book is languishing
by John Sexton29 Sep 2011, 4:58 AM PST0
—– In a single year, health care premium costs have jumped 9% and nowhere in this report does the NBC Nightly News bother to look at the reasons why. All they appear to be doing is trying to scare people
by John Nolte28 Sep 2011, 3:20 PM PST0
From Accuracy in Media’s Cliff Kincaid: Charles Lane must be one of the loneliest people in the newsroom of The Washington Post. A member of the editorial page staff of the Post and occasional guest on the Fox News Channel,
by Breitbart News28 Sep 2011, 1:17 PM PST0
Liberal columnist Byron Williams of the Oakland Tribune said that MSNBC’s hiring of Al Sharpton for its 6PM slot was “more about ratings than journalism.” Now that the first month of ratings are in, the hire might end up damaging
by Larry O'Connor28 Sep 2011, 11:05 AM PST0
In a recurrence of its bout with Bush Derangement Syndrome, MSNBC recently relied on a left-wing, green activist to assert that the whole Solyndra scandal was really started by George W. Bush. Yep, it’s Boosh’s fault once again. Of course,
by Warner Todd Huston28 Sep 2011, 9:15 AM PST0
– Somehow Chris Matthews gives me the impression the GOP doesn’t send tingles down his leg. Who is the hater when there’s noting much good to say about Obama, so this is all he has for content these days? “Republicans
by Dan Riehl28 Sep 2011, 7:05 AM PST0
MSNBC’s Ed Schultz–reporting from Ohio–lead a panel that advanced the falsehood that new legislation (SB 5) prevents firefighters and police from bargaining collectively on personal safety equipment: [youtube HBvFp5GQDXI nolink] In fact, SB 5 explicitly provides–as existing law does not–for
by Retracto, The Correction Alpaca28 Sep 2011, 6:01 AM PST0
(Read Project Mayhem, Part I here) When he’s not busy encouraging Massachusetts voters to commit voter fraud to “keep these bastards out,” or condemning “tea party rhetoric” for not “rising to the president’s challenge on tone” while calling Laura Ingraham
by Christian Hartsock28 Sep 2011, 4:58 AM PST0
This is all that remains of the very popular Ford commercial that went viral on the internet and was featured on cable news channels over the past three weeks: [youtube Qg5eSM5cJdU] According to the Detroit News, Ford has pulled the
by Larry O'Connor27 Sep 2011, 6:24 PM PST0