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Jonathan Chait at New York magazine [corrected – see below], about “Why Bibi Hates Obama“: Netanyahu thinks a lot like a Jewish-American Republican….What’s more, Republican Jews tend to have an overdeveloped sense of black anti-Semitism. Indeed, they generally regard traditional

The ever unfair and unbalanced Media Matters twists a Fox Straight News report to attack the cable network; however, a review of the MM post makes it clear that the Fox report is precisely as often advertised, fair and balanced.

Sunday morning is a fun time to rest, relax and get ready for kickoff. I’ll sometimes watch CBS Sunday Morning to get my fill of artsy fartsy stuff, something funny from Bill Geist, and occasionally an interesting commentary from Ben

It’s not just that Crooks & Liars doesn’t agree with the tea party – they don’t even believe that there is any such thing. In an article today talking about Judith Miller’s comments on Fox News about the recent hookup

– The fake news show that progressives love to watch won the Emmy for Best Variety Show last night. By “variety” we must assume that “The Daily Show” didn’t win for ideological variety, considering the background with Big Journalism contributor

In this weekend’s featured interview in the Wall Street Journal, Juan Rangel, the leader of United Neighborhood Organization (UNO), attempts to sanitize the history of what was once one of the most notorious Alinskyite “community organizing” groups in Chicago. Rangel

As a communications professional, my assessment of the Obama Administration’s communications strategy is that it may be the most inept performance I have ever seen of any political regime. Crisis communications is not a silver bullet. Some thing simply cannot

– Stephen Colbert and Anderson Cooper are now BFFs. Matching gold Mizpah necklaces to follow. – NPR’s style guide disallows the term “abortion clinics.” Something that sounds less baby-murdery is preferred. The subject of Schumacher-Matos’s ombudsing was a story by

A preliminary hearing for Mohamed H. Dawod is set to take place Oct. 12. Now, one question remains: Will the mainstream media show any interest in the case that involves a man with a Muslim name shooting a man he

Remember the news coverage Joe McGinniss garnered when people learned he was moving next door to the Sarah Palin in May 2010? Accused of stalking her, his son came to his defense by telling reporters his dad had not sought

If you were watching the evening shows, or any of their broadcasting, which we know you aren’t, because ratings, this is the vast, in-depth coverage you would have seen: MSNBC has given the story a couple of links, max. A

Courtesy of NPR’s Frank James: At a rally on the campus of North Carolina State in Raleigh, N.C. Wednesday where President Obama went to drum up support for his jobs bill, this happened. AUDIENCE MEMBER: I love you, Barack! THE

In a piece on Politico, liberal standard bearer Sally Kohn posted her response to the growing Solyndra scandal, in which the Obama White House aggressively pushed through $535 million in loans to a company that was not financially sound, nor

We’re in that strange season of Liberal Limbo where everyone feels safe piling on a Democrat president. In the most glaring example, the media’s finally caught up to the Solyndra scandal and have decided to give it the attention it

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A known liberal activist that has for months been stalking several Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin, verbally abusing them, has finally crossed the line into a physical attack. So … where is the Old Media to chronicle this assault? Sadly, no

– Joe McGinniss terrified “too busy” to pimp his book on Fox. A Fox spokesperson said, “We’ve reached out to Random House to book Joe and was told by them that ‘he’s too busy to go on Fox News.’” [youtube

Ouch. Ten pages into “The Rogue” he has already blown his cover, printing a map to the Palins’ isolated house. He describes having gone to the Palin door with a signed copy of his book about Alaska, “Going to Extremes,”

When George W. Bush was president, one thing we didn’t have to worry about was the media doing their jobs in the watchdog department. Frequently the press went overboard in this regard, but when it comes to protecting democracy, an

Over the past few days I’ve watched anti-American filmmaker Michael Moore make the rounds on various interview shows so he can push his new book “Here Comes Trouble.” In many of the interviews, the Oscar-winner discussed the various threats and

In complicated times, when even the grown ups can’t get it right, Gen Y TV sat down with new media publisher and New York Times Bestselling author, Andrew Breitbart (Righteous Indignation: Excuse me while I save the world!) to gain

NPR’s Morning Edition has found what it says is the explanation for the troubling gap in wealth between blacks and whites in America. In a story by Pam Fessler today, NPR concludes that there are two main, related factors: first,

– Obama implores black American media members: Carry my water for me: President Obama spoke to a White House forum, titled “Open for Questions with InteractiveOne,” which featured various administration officials discussing how the administration’s polices have affected and will

Yahoo’s Cutline as was astonished that a news outlet would feature more than one type of voice by hosting a GOP tea party debate. The shock is palatable. The co-hosts of Monday night’s Republican debate–CNN and the Tea Party Express–made

In practice it has turned out to be strongly redistributionist, but only because of its Ponzi game aspect, in which each generation takes more out than it put in. Well, the Ponzi game will soon be over, thanks to changing