The fact that the LA Times has published photographs of American troops in Afghanistan posing with Taliban body parts is in and of itself utterly contemptible. The images add nothing to the public’s understanding of the war and will only
After playing a clip from Breitbart News Editor Larry O’Connor’s interview with Gov. Mitt Romney, Current’s Cenk Uygur scoffed at Romney’s note about Media Matters’ and ThinkProgress’s influence on mainstream media: “People that they mentioned were ThinkProgress and Media Matters,
This photo, taken on December 6, 2011 by Massoud Hossain in Kabul, Afghanistan, recently won a Pulitzer Prize. The “Girl in the Green Dress” still suffers physicallyand emotionally from that day when she lost 7 of her 17 relatives and
So the LA Times has now published photographs of U.S. soldiers posing with body parts of Afghan suicide bombers. And while the White House seeks to dampen the impact of the story by expressing their disappointment in the fact that
Two weeks ago, Media Matters for America (MMFA) quasi-parted ways with anti-Semitic Senior Foreign Policy Fellow MJ Rosenberg, who was fond of labeling pro-Israel Jews “Israel firsters.” This PR maneuver was designed to stifle mounting criticism of MMFA’s anti-Jewish propagandizing,
If something this obvious had happened to a liberal organization, you can bet the mainstream media would be all over it. But being a conservative, pro-traditional-marriage group, the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) has been afforded no such luxury. On
Get ready for the leftist assault on the National Rifle Association. Today, the Media Matters blog has decided to take on the National Rifle Association. A post by Alexander Zaitchik recounts his experiences on a bus on the way to
Tina Brown, whose massive losses at Newsweek and the Daily Beast are a matter of public ridicule, stepped up to the microphone at National Public Radio this morning in an attack on the late Andrew Breitbart that revealed why she and her mainstream
So, how’s that War on Women working out for you? Row faster, Mainstream Media! Faster! There are all kinds of polls out there, but except for a single outlier, even in polls that show Obama ahead of Romney, the President is still
There is no greater example of how phony and disingenuous the “war on women” rhetoric President Barack Obama and Democrats are using against Republicans this election cycle than the Obama Administration’s war on its female staffers in the White House.
In an appearance on the Spanish language station Univision’s “Al Punto” Sunday show, President Obama, with the help of host Enrique Acevedo, appealed to Latino voters by tying the Trayvon Martin case to the “anti-immigrant” sentiment Obama said Hispanics have recently
In Katie Pavlich’s devastating new expose of the Eric Holder Justice Department-approved Fast and Furious operation, Pavlich doesn’t just expose the Obama administration. She exposes the mainstream media for what they are: tools of the Democratic Party, and of the
A recent lengthy report by Reuters confirms what many conservatives have long known: President Obama’s promise to create millions of so-called “green jobs” has been a colossal and expensive failure. A few highlights from the report: Since 2009, the wind industry has
A well-known, mainstream media-vetted college professor named Dr. Boyce Watkins states that it’s time for Trayvon Martin’s parents to “step to the side,” out of an apparent fear that “being honest” could negatively affect the race-baiting political agenda that Obama
In two separate instances, Politifact has contradicted itself with its rating of the accurate claim made by the Romney campaign that women account for 92.3 percent of the jobs lost under President Obama. The “fact checking” organization, which the mainstream
Antoine Sanfuentes, chief of NBC News’ Washington bureau, has only glowing terms to describe his employer’s coverage of the Trayvon Martin case. On an Aspen Institute Panel on race and the 2012 elections on Monday, Sanfuentes joined a discussion about
Seymour Hersh, Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent for the New Yorker who made his bones writing about the My Lai massacre in Vietnam, stepped in it this week when he wrote to a reader that “There may have been some justice” in
National Public Radio is attempting to turn the horrific Tulsa shootings into a story of systemic racism and collective guilt–and citing opposition to President Barack Obama as evidence of racial prejudice in Oklahoma. On today’s Morning Edition, host Steve Inskeep
Gwen Ifill said, “The dispute over the killing of Trayvon Martin has sparked a national debate about race, justice, and when it is reasonable to act in self-defense.” Ifill is wrong. The dispute over the killing of Martin did not
As Mitt Romney inches toward the GOP nomination, the mainstream media will move on to their next parlor game and write endless gossip-laden stories about Romney’s vice presidential selection process. As has been evident from curtain-raiser stories on the veep-stakes,
Former Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry, after winning the Democratic primary on Tuesday for city council in Ward 8, ranted against Asian small business owners in the District and said, “they ought to go.” “We got to do something about these Asians
Former Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry, after winning his primary on Tuesday for city council in Ward 8, ranted against Asian small business owners in the District and said, “they ought to go.” “We got to do something about these
When, in the fall of 2009, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the Obama administration would be trying terrorists in civilian courts instead of military ones, the public outcry was immediate. Surely you remember the anger Americans felt when
When even Kevin Drum at Mother Jones has to call NBC out over their outrageous editing of George Zimmerman’s 911 call to portray him as racist, you know it’s bad. NBC may try to pass it off as one miscue
Tim Tebow’s trade to the New York Jets–and into the nation’s number one media market–has garnered a lot of attention in the press. And the mainstream media’s scorn for his religion has been over-the-top. Tebow-mocking, of course, is not new,
