On Monday, fading New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner tried to reinvigorate his polling by issuing a proclamation celebrating Women’s Equality Day. “When women have equal rights, our society is better off,” Weiner wrote while not texting pictures of
On Sunday night, as Miley Cyrus twerked with Robin Thicke at the Video Music Awards, Barack Obama’s twitter account, run by Organizing for Action, tweeted at singer Katy Perry, thanking her for pushing Obamacare: True presidential leadership in action. Ben
The assault on America’s churches has begun, with commentators like Dylan Matthews of the Washington Post and Matthew Yglesias of Slate calling on the government to tax churches. “Whichever faith you think is the one true faith, it’s undeniable that
Former Secretary of State and ardent supporter of President Obama Colin Powell has now suggested that voter identification laws in North Carolina are racist. Doubling down on his suggestions that Republicans “still look down on minorities” and carry a “dark
In Spokane, Washington, on Wednesday night, according to local reports, World War II veteran and Battle of Okinawa survivor Delbert Belton was beaten by two African American teenagers described as between the ages of 16 and 19. Belton passed away
On Thursday, the New Mexico Supreme Court ruled that religious wedding photographers could be forced to photograph same-sex weddings. “When Elane Photography refused to photograph a same-sex commitment ceremony, it violated the [New Mexico Human Rights Act, or NMHRA] in
Brian Lewis, the public relations vice president at Fox News who was recently fired and tossed from the building, told TVNewser on Wednesday that the media had gotten the details of his separation from the company completely wrong. In particular, Lewis singled out Roger Ailes’
On Thursday, Eric Holder’s Department of Justice announced a lawsuit against Texas over the state’s voter identification law, claiming that the law violated the Voting Rights Act, the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, and the 15th Amendment to the Constitution.
The media have heavily covered the departure of Fox News public relations vice president Brian Lewis – far more than the exit of similarly placed executives throughout the news and entertainment industry. The news that he had been fired on
The Obama Department of Health and Human Services has begun a $30,000 prize pool for videos promoting Obamacare. The taxpayer cash comes from the money slotted for the Obamacare “education and outreach budget.” The contest website, YoungInvincibles.org, recommends a few
President Obama’s campaign-turned-nonprofit, Organizing For Action, has stepped beyond party lines in its attempt to back the president’s preferred immigration reform plan. On Monday, OFA began sending members to districts held by Congressional Republicans wavering on the Senate’s amnesty-first immigration
While the United States considers cutting aid to the Egyptian military in an attempt to stop violence between the military regime and the deposed Muslim Brotherhood, Brotherhood members and allies are reportedly parading nuns through the streets, looting churches, and tearing down
In a puff piece on the launch of Al Jazeera America, The New York Times quotes Bob Meyers, president of the National Press Foundation, lauding the premiere of the channel. “I am reminded of three other news organization launches in
The attack on Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has begun. Fearful of Cruz as a prospective Republican presidential nominee in 2016, the media is now digging into his past, all the way back to birth. The Daily Beast ran a profile
Lee Daniels’ The Butler, which is slated to finish number one at the box office, grossing some $25 million over the weekend, is expected to finish behind other recent films about America’s racial past, including 42 and The Help. The
In constant campaign mode, President Obama attended a tony get-together in Martha’s Vineyard on Thursday night, headed up by Comcast CEO Brian Roberts and attended by luminaries from the media world ranging from Obama’s chief Hollywood backer, Harvey Weinstein, to
On Thursday, CNN’s Anderson Cooper interviewed Oprah Winfrey and Forest Whitaker, stars of Oscar-bait The Butler. During the interview, in which Cooper thoughtfully nodded as Winfrey and Whitaker race-baited, Oprah suggested Emmitt Till and Trayvon Martin were equivalent symbols, and
Jane Richard is just seven years old, but she bears the scars of the Boston marathon bombing attack that killed her brother, eight-year-old Martin. She is missing her left leg below the knee. The family has now released a picture
On Wednesday morning at 6 a.m., pro-illegal immigrant legalization protesters gathered in the parking lot at Dodger Stadium. The protesters are slated to motorcade up to Bakersfield for a larger rally today. One of the organizers promptly thanked the Dodgers,
As the Egyptian military violently cracked down on Muslim Brotherhood protesters in Egypt, declaring a state of emergency, the White House Twitter feed released this important missive: Presumably, the White House was referring to “hump day” – Wednesday. Ben Shapiro
On Monday, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told the American Bar Association annual meeting in San Francisco that she would be launching a series of speeches about American foreign policy in the “next few months.” According to Philip Rucker,
On Friday, President Obama said that he had strengthened border security, that the Senate bill included too much funding for border security, and urged the House to pass an immigration reform package. With regard to problems in the Senate immigration
On Friday, President Obama ripped into Republicans calling for funding bills not to include money for Obamacare, stating that it would lead to a government shutdown. He added, “The idea that you would shut down the government to prevent 30
On Friday, President Obama compared the Obamacare rollout glitches to glitches in Apple rolling out a new iPad. “I make no apologies for that,” Obama stated, explaining that all glitches were working as they were supposed to and claiming that
On Friday, President Obama went into his stump speech on Obamacare, stating, “As we speak, right now… [Americans] being able to keep their kid on their plan, that’s benefiting millions of young people.” He also said that millions had “received
On Friday, President Obama was asked why he had chosen to delay the employer mandate on Obamacare. He responded by claiming he didn’t choose to delay the business mandate to buy insurance for employees “on my own” but in “consultation
On Friday, President Obama appeared in the East Room of the White House for a press conference. The questioners had been pre-selected; the answers strained both credulity and patience. At one point, Obama, obviously frustrated issues ranging from Obamacare employment
In a press conference at the White House East Room on Friday, President Obama said that the “core” of Al Qaeda was on its heels but that the terrorist group had “metastasized” into a different sort of threat. “They have
On Friday in a press conference at the White House East Room, President Obama said that his job was to make the American people more comfortable with NSA surveillance. He explained that if he told Michelle that he had done
On Friday in a press conference at the White House East Room, President Obama denied that he had “evolved” in his assessment of National Security Agency surveillance programs. He admitted that “some of these programs I had been critical of
On Friday in a press conference at the White House East Room, President Obama said that he saw attacks on potential Treasury Secretary nominee Lawrence Summers in the same way he saw attacks on National Security Advisor Susan Rice when
On Friday, as renewed questions arose regarding American response to Al Qaeda in the Middle East as well as scandals ranging from Benghazi to the National Security Administration’s surveillance of Americans, President Obama held a rare press conference in the
On Friday in a press conference at the White House East Room, Barack Obama responded to a question from NBC’s Chuck Todd about NSA leaker Edward Snowden by saying Snowden was “not a patriot.” Obama said that Snowden had been charged with
On Friday, in a press conference at the White House East Room, President Obama said of Edward Snowden’s National Security Agency leaks, “once the leaks had happened, we’ve seen information coming out in drips and in drabs, sometimes coming out sideways.”
During a press conference at the White House East Room on Friday, reporter Ed Henry asked President Obama about why no one had been caught in relation to the September 11, 2012 terrorist attacks on the American consulate in Benghazi.
On Friday, in a press conference at the White House East Room, Chuck Todd of NBC News asked whether President Obama could work with Vladimir Putin. Obama responded by saying that Putin “had that kind of slouch, looking like that bored
On Friday, President Obama spoke about America’s increasingly broken relationship with Russia. With regard to the Olympics, Obama said, “I do not think it is appropriate to boycott the Olympics.” He said he was “offended” by anti-gay legislation in Russia as
On Thursday evening, Mediaite reported that actor Alec Baldwin will be joining the MSNBC primetime lineup every Friday night at 10 PM ET. His program will replace the Lockup prison documentary series that airs at that time each Friday. MSNBC’s
In a desperate bid for attention, Slate.com, the property recently passed up by Jeff Bezos in his new purchase of the Washington Post, has announced that it will “no longer refer to Washington’s NFL team as the Redskins.” Which, presumably,
Only CNN could run a column on “Why America’s youth aren’t finding jobs” and neglect to mention Obamacare. Over the course of Nin-Hai Tseng’s 555 word story, CNN Money cites a variety of reasons why young Americans’ unemployment rate is
