Conventional wisdom is that Obama might have won the debate but he didn’t do enough to change the race. Obviously, that’s up to the voters, but for now the CW is all we have: Mitt Romney wins. That’s not to
On Oct 19 President Obama delivered a speech claiming Al Qaeda is nearing defeat. On that same day, Al Qaeda delivered an attack on a Yemeni army base that killed 24. Obama told a cheering crowd: “Four years ago, I
The U.N. claims the U.S. Border Patrol has gotten somewhat trigger happy on the U.S./Mexico border. They base this claim on a recent shooting in which a Mexican teenager was killed while part of a group of teens that was
According to First Lady Michelle Obama, appearing on Pablo Sato’s show on WPGC 95.5 in Washington, D.C., “we are seeing right now that we are in the midst of a huge recovery. Right? Because of what this president has done.”
In the world of journalism, no bad deed goes unrewarded. Take the case of former Washington bureau chief for Yahoo! News, David Chalian. You may recall that he was fired after he was heard saying during the Republican National Convention
A Danish wind turbine company whose subsidiaries received over $50 million in U.S. stimulus dollars announced on Friday it has cut more than 800 jobs in the United States and Canada this year and may be forced to lay off
James Clapper, director of National Intelligence (DNI), has come out swinging against his critics, just two weeks after his public affairs director said that US intelligence had initially labeled the attacks on our Benghazi consulate “spontaneous.” Back on September 28,
What is the truth about the horrific attack in Benghazi on September 11th, 2012 that killed our ambassador to Libya and three others? And why has it been so hard to get that truth out of the Obama administration? We
The Obama campaign beclowned itself this morning on a conference call attacking Mitt Romney’s “dishonesty on abortion,” in an attempt to stop Romney’s effort “to close the deal” (in the words of Obama spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter). Not content to point
As if to confirm all the scuttle surrounding GOP enthusiasm, how effective Romney’s ground game is, and reports from other states about Romney’s advantage in early voting, today the Tampa Bay Times reports some pretty phenomenal numbers. I should be
Professional athletes rarely take public stands on political issues, but Maryland’s gay marriage initiative has pitted two Baltimore Ravens football players — Matt Birk and Brendon Ayanbadejo — against each other. Another football player, Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe, has
LONDON (Reuters) – A leading media watchdog has accused Iran of trying to cow journalists into silence and self-censorship, adding to international pressure on Tehran over its treatment of activists and the press. The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists
Seemingly disparate calls for enforcement mechanisms to encourage “religious tolerance” throughout the world are slowing but surely coalescing around the pursuit of laws banning criticism of Islam or Mohammed. We’ve seen this approach to speech in Islamist countries, where criticism
If “The Dark Knight” couldn’t earn a Best Picture nomination, “The Avengers” has virtually no chance of getting one this awards season. Yet “The Master,” a seriously flawed film from beloved auteur Paul Thomas Anderson, is an odds-on favorite to
Anthony E. Zuiker is responsible for one of modern television’s most durable franchises – “C.S.I.” That’s the kind of clout that should give Zuiker the creative freedom most artists crave. You won’t find his latest project on ABC, CBS, Fox
Toyota has scrapped plans for widespread manufacturing and sale of a new mini-car that was to be powered as electric only. Reuters reports that Toyota stated they “had misread the market and the ability of still emerging battery technology to
On Saturday, Michelle Obama compared the voter ID laws that were passed to combat voter fraud to other laws in the past that had denied blacks their civil rights. She called the battle against voter ID laws the “march of
The 33,000 troops Barack Obama sent to Afghanistan as part of the 2009 surge have been withdrawn to bolster the president’s war-victory claims in the upcoming election. The troops were originally sent to push back the Taliban and create safe
President Barack Obama’s fundraising trip to Las Vegas on Wednesday–shameful though it may have been, in the midst of a deadly foreign policy crisis–was a sign of how important Nevada remains to his re-election prospects. Mitt Romney was in the
Instead of questioning President Barack Obama about the intelligence and security failures that led to the deaths of four diplomatic personnel in Libya Tuesday, the media has focused its ire on a California private citizen. The filmmaker allegedly behind the
The Democratic National Committee is trying to cover up an incident at the party’s National Convention in which a Puerto Rican member of the New Progressive Party called a politician of African descent a “monkey” at a DNC luncheon. Lornna
On the somber 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, nearly 2,000 members of the U.S. military have died in Afghanistan since the war started in response to the attacks in 2001. The Defense Department has tallied 1,987 deaths. The Associated Press has counted 1,980.
CORRECTION: The U.S. Embassy’s apology was issued before the protests, at approximately noon Cairo time. Despite the statement, protesters stormed the embassy five hours later. After an angry mob stormed the U.S. embassy in Cairo and tore down the American
According to a French surgeon treating fighters in Syria, foreign Islamists are pouring into the country, joining rebels to fight the regime of Bashar Al-Assad. Jacques Beres worked in a hospital in northern Syria; he explained that well over 6
Beneath the surface of Friday’s jobs report lies the reality of just how disastrous the Obama economy truly is. Consider the following 11 economic facts: 1. When you include the underutilized labor figure with the eight million Americans who have
President Obama forces his disciples to spin like a Ferris Wheel just to explain away his awful job performance. Moby, the electronic musician-vegan-animal rights activist-economic guru whose career peaked roughly ten years ago, has weighed in on the new jobs report.
GOP nominee Mitt Romney probably put it best in a statement released just after this morning’s jobs numbers were released: “If last night was the party, this morning is the hangover.” At 8:30 am ET this morning, we might have
TV viewing of the GOP convention dropped sharply over its 2008 counterpart, and there is little reason to expect that the Democrat convention will fare any better this year. But the Republicans’ affair was a big hit on social media,
“Entourage” star Adrian Grenier, who appeared with his band The Honey Brothers at the Impact Arts + Film Fund party to kick off the Democratic National Convention yesterday, had some profound things to say about his favorite president. “I love
During an ABC/Yahoo News forum: Obama Deputy Campaign Manager Stephanie Cutter says that Obama giving himself an “Incomplete” grade for the economy was acceptable.
Attention Los Angeles Times political reporters, New York Times columnists, MSNBC hosts and Democrat super PACs: Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), running mate to presidential candidate Mitt Romney and chair of the House budget committee, told a radio host that he
ABC News aired less than two minutes of former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s Wednesday address to the Republican National Convention. ABC cut into Rice’s speech as she was speaking about how the United States cannot lead from behind on
David Chalian apologized for his “joke” today via Twitter and a privatized Facebook post. His statement on Facebook (it was privatized), via readers: I am profoundly sorry for making an inappropriate and thoughtless joke. I was commenting on the challenge
This is the culture that Republicans and Mitt Romney are fighting during this election. Off-hand leftist comments in newsrooms are as common as Max Factor in the makeup room. This was just on display for all to hear. I’ve spent
Yahoo news director David Chalian was fired today after he was caught making an offensive comment on an open mic. Chalian was caught saying of the RNC convention, which took place as hurricane Issac hit New Orleans, “They are happy
Apparently God’s gift to political journalism is making a man so arrogant that his prejudice against Republicans causes him to exploit the suffering of tropical storm victims for a political jab. At least, this is what PBS’s Gwen Ifill believes.
Yahoo News has fired its Washington Bureau Chief David Chalian following Chalian’s remark last night that the Romneys are “happy to party while black people drown,” in reference to Tropical Storm Isaac. The remark was inadvertently aired on ABC’s webcast.
***UPDATE: Yahoo just announced they have terminated Chalian effective immediately. ABC News reached out to Breitbart News to name the man heard mocking the Romneys during this ABC News livecast: David Chalian (pictured) of Yahoo! News. Chalian is a former political director
(AP) Poll: Big swath of voters undecided, unexcitedBy NANCY BENAC and JENNIFER AGIESTAAssociated PressWASHINGTONCall them maybes. Two months out from Election Day, nearly a quarter of all registered voters are either undecided about the presidential race or iffy in their
Egyptian officials have announced that Egyptian President and Muslim Brotherhood member Mohamed Morsi will be traveling to Iran later this month to attend a summit. It’s the first such trip for an Egyptian leader in decades, and the timing couldn’t
