Stephen Colbert must be drinking deep from the mainstream media well. The host of The Colbert Report played the race card Monday night in discussing the George Zimmerman acquittal, apparently not realizing that the accused was Hispanic. You can’t blame the
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) emphasized that the Senate’s immigration bill’s intersection with Obamacare would penalize employers for hiring U.S. citizens or legal immigrants. Keynoting the D.C. March for Jobs rally, which the Black American Leadership Alliance organized and Breitbart News
George Zimmerman’s lawyer, Mark O’Mara, blistered the mainstream press after a jury found his client not guilty of all charges on Saturday evening. O’Mara accused the mainstream media of turning Zimmerman into a monster and then running over him. O’Mara
National security reporter Walter Pincus took to the pages of the Washington Post earlier this week to attack NSA leaker Edward Snowden and by extension Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian reporter who initially broke the story. It is safe to say
Earlier today I wrote a response to those media critics claiming that CNN’s move into tabloid TV is merely an act of giving the American people what they want. In that article, I point out that CNN gaining under a
Jason Collins’s ex-fiancee said the the NBA player who came out of the closet more than two months ago was more concerned about his image and new friends in the media than fully explaining to her why he led her
As House Republicans continue to focus on separate border security and enforcement bills instead of the Senate’s comprehensive approach to immigration, some in the mainstream media are acknowledging that the political momentum behind the Senate bill is fading. No Sunday
The mainstream media frequently attack CEOs they see as making too much money, especially as it compares to what their employees make. You have to wonder, then, what the media will make of the situation at the Washington DC Newseum,
I’ve made a point of including the anti-Obama banners brandished by Egypt’s revolutionaries in every post I’ve written on the fall of the Morsi regime, because I had a suspicion the mainstream media wouldn’t be showing people that stuff. I
Though the mainstream media hardly covered the commemoration of Pickett’s Charge on the 150th anniversary of Gettysburg, which one historian said “forged” modern America, thousands of Americans battled inclement weather and unbearable traffic to pay homage at Gettysburg on Wednesday.
Historian Allen Guelzo, author of the New York Times bestselling book Gettysburg: The Last Invasion, rhetorically asked, “Where is the president? Where is the vice president? They aren’t here,” in an interview with Stephen K. Bannon on the Breitbart News live broadcast of
The mainstream media are celebrating the coup d’état in Egypt, reporting breathlessly from the wild celebrations in Cairo as the military announces that the Muslim Brotherhood government of Mohamed Morsi is no longer in power. The sudden enthusiasm, however, is
Texas State Senator Wendy Davis will not filibuster a bill that would ban abortions after 20 weeks and make abortion clinics safer should the bill make it to the floor the Texas state Senate a second time. “You can’t have
Secretary Of State John Kerry has taken to scampering back and forth between Amman and Jerusalem in an effort to accelerate momentum towards peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Fatah government in the West Bank. The mainstream media, inspired
As huge protests against the Muslim Brotherhood-backed government in Egypt have gone on for several days, the crowds have now swelled to an estimated 17,000,000. That’s ‘Seventeen Million’, for those of you in Rio Linda. If true, these reports
President Barack Obama told American reporters to “behave” during a joint press conference with President Jacob Zuma of South Africa on Saturday. Obama was warning U.S. journalists not to ask too many questions in one, complaining that “my press” tried
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) denounced Democrats for not caring about infanticide in a speech to the National Right to Life convention on Friday in Texas. According to LifeNews, Cruz said Senate Democrats do not think abortionists who kill born-alive babies
Election integrity advocates must always remember that even progressive contingency plans have contingency plans. President Obama’s reported statement in Senegal regarding the Supreme Court decision to strike down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act as outdated and unconstitutional was
Talk about blue on blue violence. Sunday on “Meet the Press,” anchor David Gregory gave The Guardian’s Glenn Greenwald no benefit of the doubt when he asked his supposed media colleague if he should be “charged with a crime” over
Obama continues his habit of appointing radicals with extreme views to positions of power and influence despite their lack of qualifications and a track record of incompetence and radicalism. Susan Rice’s appointment as National Security Adviser is just the latest
One of the common traits of “progressive” social policy–especially since the radicals took over the Democratic Party in the 1960’s–has been the penchant for slapping a fresh coat of paint onto previously failed social policies and trotting them out again
Sometimes it seems like there’s an enormous disconnect between conservatives/libertarians and the left-leaning journalists who occupy the influential editorial offices and anchor desks in mainstream media. A prime example is CBS News’ sage veteran Bob Schieffer. Schieffer used his editorial
On Wednesday, the mainstream media spoke to actual Tea Party members rather than beltway consultants who feed them spin. Thus they finally figured out that the conservative base has soured and turned on Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) for his embrace
On Wednesday, as Tea Party activists rallied against the IRS and the Senate immigration bill on Capitol Hill, President Barack Obama’s campaign-turned-lobbying arm, Organizing for Action (OfA), emailed a warning about “threats on women’s health” in Congress. It urged its
The mainstream media in the United States have ignored comments made by President Barack Obama during his a speech in Northern Ireland this week in which he described religious education as a source of conflict. The president’s comments have sparked
