The New York Daily News published a column Tuesday on the fabricated cartoon controversy – except they saw no reason to hyperventilate as Lawrence O’Donnell did last night, and bring race into a situation where it clearly doesn’t belong. In
Chris Matthews interviews the Soros-funded Common Cause group about their perceptions of impartiality concerning Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. It should be noted that the group is not on record opposing Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s involvement as a member of La
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One of the favorite stories from CPAC11 is the one where Maureen Dowd tried to gain entry to the Bloggers’ Lounge and was denied. Denied faster than Lindsay Lohan at name-a-club on Sunset. Yid with Lid reports: On the second
The First Lady looks overweight in this cartoon, and even though the two other adults in the cartoon do as well, it must be – according to MSNBC standards – racist. So why didn’t Lawrence O’Donnell go off forever on
NEW YORK (AP) – CBS News says correspondent Lara Logan is recovering in a U.S. hospital from an attack while reporting on the tumultuous events in Cairo last Friday. Logan was in the city’s Tahrir Square after Egyptian president Hosni
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The Conservative Political Action Conference just ended, wrapping up a weekend of big successes, surprises and fun. But the problem with so many great speakers, panels and parties is much of what happens flies under the radar in the media,
Colby Hall over at Mediaite published a well-written takedown of a MMfA story last week that went ignored because it sounded Onion-esque and was completely un-sourced. The headline is the first sucker punch: Last Thursday, Media Matters published an extensive
CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: You know, gentlemen, I’m a little bit jubilant right now, a little bit frisky so I’ll say something that will bother people. But if you have, a lot of the people in this country think the President
A great intro from Guy Benson: “They say you can judge a man by his friends, and i think that’s true to a large extent. But I would add a corollary: you can also measure a man by his enemies.
“And Bill O’Reilly who claims he’s such a patriot, how unpatriotic in my view to treat a president that way … I just find it astounding.” But did Maher find it astounding when O’Reilly conducted essentially the same interview with
New Media Entrepreneur declares that his voice will not be suppressed. Andrew Breitbart and the head of Breitbart.tv sued by Pigford claimant. Los Angeles, CA, February 12, 2011 – Breitbart.com LLC announced today that its Chairman and CEO Andrew Breitbart
Talking Points Memo takes issue with Andrew Breitbart’s CPAC11 s speech from this morning wherein he remarked on Code Pink, the group who has given aid to American enemies. Breitbart’s point about Code Pink’s wasted youth and current irrelevancy (prior
The New York Times’s digital media writer Brian Selter reports that Keith Olbermann’s new show will see him taking on both old colleague Lawrence O’Donnell, who assumed Olbermann’s MSNBC time slot, as well as Fox’s Bill O’Reilly. The show is
After US Weekly embarrassment, the hits just keep on comin’. Time Magazine also perpetuated the fabricated quote within the satirical piece. Turns out US Weekly isn’t the only magazine willing to believe anything about Sarah Palin. Earlier this week, US
The day after Andrea Mitchell is warned about the extremism of the Muslim Brotherhood by an ex-Muslim Brotherhood member, she goes on at length about how not extremist it is. Er … ? [youtube 0ETzOClvQZc nolink] “I do not believe
I’ve always thought better of politicians who make themselves available in the lions’ dens that are networks like MSNBC. Lawrence O’Donnell spent and inordinate amount of attention of the President’s religion. He makes an insane leap of logic from King’s
Just released: CNN Looks Ahead to 2012 Election Season Cornell Belcher, Will Cain and Dana Loesch join Best Political Team on Television CNN is gearing up for the election season with the addition of political contributors from across the ideological
No, tabloid US Weekly has never been biased. Us Weekly has published what it claims are comments made by Sarah Palin, in which the former vice presidential candidate blasts Christina Aguilera‘sperformance of the national anthem at Super Bowl XLV. Except
Despite the insistence by lefty bloggers, the Planned Parenthood story has done everything but “fizzle.” [youtube AqrcNZ8ge3M nolink]
Keith Olbermann is rumored to be joining Al Gore’s Current.tv which airs programs on Al Gore’s Internet. Keith Olbermann, the former top-rated host on the news channel MSNBC, will announce his next television home on Tuesday, and people familiar with
An interesting article comparing the success and pathways of the Daily Beast’s Tina Brown and Arianna Huffington. The same day that Huffington’s $315 million deal with AOL was announced,Media Week’s Brian Morrissey reported that Tina Brown’s merged Newsweek-Daily Beast had
Even the Devil can quote Scripture. Oh! Well that’s good to know. I guess we can all go back to what we were doing before and pretend that the Muslim Brotherhood didn’t just last week call for war with Israel:
NEW YORK (AP) – Online company AOL Inc. is buying highly-trafficked website Huffington Post in a $315 million deal that represents a big bet on the future of online news. The acquisition, which will put Huffington Post co-founder Arianna Huffington
Not surprising, considering Youtube hasn’t been friendly to pro-life issues in the past. Live Action, the group spearheaded by Lila Rose who released the explosive Planned Parenthood investigation videos just this week, was told this evening by Youtube that they
Looking at this cartoon I wondered, after seeing some of the coverage of the protests, which of these individuals carrying stones is the media.
WaPo reports that David Shuster, known for being That Guy whose hysterical, over-the-top defamatory Tweets of James O’Keefe landed him in hot water with the MSNBC brass, is launching a new investigative journalism site focusing on the campaign cycle. He’s
This news comes as no surprise, but as was the case with the ACORN video exposé, the target of Live Action’s investigation is not any specific branch manager. N.J. Star Ledger has the report: PERTH AMBOY — The man and
In their zeal to slam Sarah Palin, Christians and conservatives, MSNBC and Rachel Maddow reported a story from a satire website called ChristWire.org. It doesn’t take too much research to discover that the site is like “The Onion” and everything
Well this is an interesting turn of events. Journalists who have dealt with Assange describe him as a man who skips around like a child, doesn’t always wash and is sensitive and volatile. Bill Keller, executive editor of the New
[youtube JUs7iG1mNjI nolink] Ah, good times. What websites define Couric’s worldview, one wonders?
A travesty if the rumor is true. A font does not a logo make. So, is this the final logo design? Or just one of many? Will NBC Universal’s logo really be going without the peacock? Why mess with a
Governor Palin Chooses Young America’s Foundation’s Reagan Ranch Center as the Backdrop for her Speech to Honor the 100th Anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s Birth Young America’s Foundation announced today that Governor Sarah Palin will give the keynote address on February
I’m a fan of ironic speeches. Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather is worried about the future of his profession. The increasingly biased media will threaten the U.S. in Rather said at a speech here Jan. 24 as part of
What does ‘out-innovate’ mean? There is no government program that’s being discussed there, so his intent is for us to not know what it means.”
Like Al Gore invented the Internet.
I’m not sure how to take this piece from Roll Call about the power of talk radio. Welcome to Congress in the echo-chamber age, where outside influencers have an increasing sway on how Members shape their agenda. At a time
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I was hard-pressed to find any coverage of the wonderful March For Life yesterday. Media Malpractice examines. [youtube 8knMYK-IX4U nolink]