With gas prices sky-rocketing, an anemic recovery Obama’s deficit-ballooning, big government policies only made more anemic, and Republicans finally coalescing around Mitt Romney, President Obama and his panicked Media Palace Guards have recently unleashed a tactic I suspect we’ve only
On CNN while discussing the racial aspect of the Trayvon Martin case Congresswoman Corrine Brown brought up that she also helps white families with members murdered in her district but when the CNN host pushed her to remember the name
Bobby Rush (D-IL) was removed from the House floor today for wearing a hoodie during a rant about the Trayvon Martin case. Appearing on CNN later he called the shooting a “murder” before any charges have been filled or the
Looks like the media might finally be coming around to actually reporting on this story. And they are obviously not happy about it. Below, is a mind-blowing piece of video indicative of just how far off the rails our media has gone when
Earlier this week I ripped The Hollywood Reporter for burying Spike Lee’s re-tweet of what the director/activist then thought was the home address of George Zimmerman, the alleged shooter of Trayvon Martin. Yesterday, THR‘s Paul Bond published two comprehensive pieces about the incident,
Obama’s Deputy Campaign Manager, Stephanie Cutter, told Soledad O’Brien on CNN’s “Starting Point” that the Republican candidates should “watch their own words. I think it’s abysmal, despicable that people like Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum are trying to make this
At a Congressional forum on the Hill yesterday at which Florida teenager Trayvon Martin’s parents were asked to testify, Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL) took center stage. She claimed first that Martin had been victimized by racial profiling and a “botched
Rep. Hank Johnson commenting on the Trayvon Martin Case (D-Georgia): “He was executed for ‘WWB’ in a ‘GC.’ Walking While Black in a Gated Community.”
Susan Jacobson of the Orlando Sentinel reports that an elderly Florida couple has fled their home, after Spike Lee re-tweeted their address, thinking he was sending people to the home of George Zimmerman, who shot and killed Trayvon Martin. Jacobson reports: A
Media Matters for America senior foreign policy fellow M.J. Rosenberg is in trouble over his Twitter feed again–not for antisemitism (this time), but for attacking Matt Drudge over a photo of Trayvon Martin that Rosenberg claimed was false. Rosenberg later
Some in the media have tried to connect George Zimmerman to the GOP, but itappears he’s actually connected to theDemocrats: The individual at the center of the controversial Trayvon Martinshooting is a registered Democrat.George Michael Zimmerman, born Oct. 5, 1983,
C.L. Bryant put Roland Martin in his place on Erin Burnett’s “Out Front” tonight. Bryant and Martin were debating Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson’s Florida demagoguing and whether it was helpful or hurtful to the sentiments erupting in the Trayvon Martin
The new Black Panther Party issued a call for the vigilante capture of Trayvon Martin’s shooter, George Zimmerman, dead or alive. Today, the leader who announced a $10,000 bounty on Zimmerman has been arrested for possession of a firearm by
Trayvon Martin’s parents went before a congressional panel and thanked those who turned their 17-year-old son’s death into a cry against racial profiling. Martin’s parents spoke at a Capitol Hill forum that began with a moment of silence.
The chief of staff of the New Black Panther Party, Hashim Nzinga, was arrested on a weapons charge Tuesday in DeKalb County in Georgia on Monday. Nzinga was arrested with an FN Herstal 5.7 x 28 handgun on his person;
“Neighborhood Watch,” the new Vince Vaughn/Ben Stiller comedy slated for Summer 2012, has nothing to do with the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. But the studio behind the alien invasion comedy is being cautious all the same since the man
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart —– On his low-rated cable show, besides mocking as “evil” the heart of a former vice president currently recovering from a heart transplant, “America’s satirist,” Jon Stewart, apparently has some special insight into the Trayvon
Ask yourself the obvious: if President Barack Obama, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton–and Rick Santorum, for that matter–really cared about justice for Trayvon Martin, why are they poisoning the jury pool and making it impossible for his alleged killer to be
Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) has invited the parents of killed Florida teenager Trayvon Martin to the Hill to testify about Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law. As Roll Call reports, “The forum, which will also include other members of the Congressional
A group of New York state legislators, mostly black and Hispanic, donned hooded sweatshirts while in the legislative chambers to signal support for the family of Trayvon Martin, the teenager shot in Florida by George Zimmerman. As the Times Union
With racial wounds still fresh after the killing of Trayvon Martin in Florida, certain allies of Martin’s are issuing a new shirt, which reads: “P*ssy Ass Cracker,” over a picture of George Zimmerman, the man who killed Martin. As The
Using your celebrity to fight against what you perceive to be an injustice is most certainly about as American as it gets. Over the past few days, we’ve seen everyone from President Obama to private citizens, professional activists, and celebrities
Al Sharpton wants to have it both ways: he wants to be both a journalist and an activist. And MSNBC’s President Phil Griffin apparently wants that, too. Sharpton’s MSNBC show, PoliticsNation, featured him interviewing Trayvon Martin’s father. “We want you
