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Open Thread Tuesday: Prayers and Donations

I woke up yesterday morning in a cranky mood. Then I saw the first daytime photos of the devastation in Joplin and was instantly humbled. This photo, published yesterday, is beautiful. The caption: Relief: Maggie Kelley and her husband, Trey

Washington Post Whitewashes Obama's Illegal War

From Accuracy in Media‘s Cliff Kincaid: Always anxious to put the best possible face on the illegal actions of the Obama Administration, the Saturday Washington Post story by David A. Fahrenthold reported that President Obama had “missed a legal deadline”

Twitpic Inks Deal To Sell Your Photos

From the NYT: World Entertainment News Network, a news and photo agency, announced this month that it had become the “exclusive photo agency partner” of Twitpic, a service with over 20 million registered users that allows people to upload images

White House Promise Not to Fake Photos Lasts About 2 Weeks

After they were busted earlier this month the White House promised not stage any more photos. That lasted about two weeks. President Barack Obama talks on the phone with Missouri Governor Jay Nixon, during his visit to Dublin, Ireland, May

Ah, Those Brilliant Political Analysts

It’s mildly entertaining to see the same brilliant media folk who blew their analysis so badly during the last election, struggle to try to figure out the next election. First, you can ask the legitimate question of why those who

Sound Bite For the Day: Leadership

David Gregory asks Congressman Paul Ryan the same Gingrich question. “Leaders are elected to lead … leaders change the polls. We are leading in the House, we’re not seeing this kind of leadership from the President of the United States.

Palin Spies MSM's Pro-Obama 2012 Plot In Gingrich Media Mess

From the lips of former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, rivaling any lipstick-wearing pitbull, consider yourself warned: “Don’t let the media define who these candidates [GOP presidential field] are. Let us, as constituents, as voters, as potential candidates, we need to

Has The Media Finally Awakened?

I keep thinking/hoping, eventually journalists are going to wake up. I’ve spent 30 years in the business, always cynical about its mission (the business is supposed to attract cynics,) and waiting and wondering if good sense and logic will finally

Writer Who Started "Trigs Crew" Phenomenon Out at Wonkette

Jack Stuef, the Wonkette writer behind the “Trig is retarded” piece which ended up costing Wonkette the entirety of its advertisers (Blogads remains because they have to: they co-own the turkey but can only get the Clintonista astroturf ads nowadays)

DropFox Hits The Ground … and Stays There

On May 16th the Soros-funded Media Matters’ newest venture, DropFox.com, set out to replicate what Media Matters thinks was a successful campaign against Glenn Beck. You see, after finally admitting they’ve been at war with Fox News since their inception,

Travel Giant Orbitz Stands Up to Soros "Smear Campaign"

I love when companies stand up for free speech and refuse the speech-supressing bully tactics of entities whose entire purpose is to eliminate the diversity of thought from the airwaves. Media Matters was slapped, hard, by Orbitz today. Media Matters

O'Reilly Let Stewart Off Easy

Jon Stewart got away with a lot of ridiculous arguments on The Factor the other night. Stewart’s argument that Common wasn’t actually supporting cop killing because he somehow believes that both Assata Shakur and Mumia Abu Jamal are actually innocent