NPR Likens Obama's Illegal Immigration Order to Louisiana Purchase; GO

June 15th, 2012 6:29 PM
NPR rushed out of the gate on Friday afternoon to defend President Obama's announcement to "lift the shadow of deportation" from young illegal immigrants. Correspondent Frank James spun the policy change as Obama getting to "the stage in his presidency, like so many of his predecessors, where his frustration with congressional inaction has led him to act unilaterally." James cited several…

NPR Touts Planned Parenthood-Commissioned Poll on Contraception Mandat

February 7th, 2012 5:20 PM
Is a Planned Parenthood poll really newsworthy? On Tuesday, NPR spotlighted a PPP poll commissioned by the abortion giant which found that a majority apparently supports a federal government mandate on birth control that violates the religious liberty of Catholic institutions. The network also trumpeted how "the poll...suggested that Mitt Romney...could pay a price at the polls" for opposing…

NPR Blogger: Obama Like Jesus with Call to 'Pass This Bill

September 15th, 2011 11:53 AM
We couldn't make this stuff up if we wanted to. Yesterday NPR blogger Frank James saw a parallel between President Obama's rally cry to a supporter to help him pass his "jobs bill" with Jesus's charge to the apostle Peter to "feed my sheep" (h/t Michael Ganoe):

NPR: ACORN Hassles Just 'The Problems of Being Poor and Minority in Ur

September 18th, 2009 4:16 PM
That, and the Washington Post reports on how ACORN was just "playing along" with the sting artists who caught them on videotape. You knew that was coming, didn't you? You already know that the freelance sting artists who zapped ACORN are being -- and have been -- referred to as "racists" and puppets of conservative radio and Fox News. Now, ACORN is utilizing a tried and true (but not very…

Chicago Tribune Reporter Bashes Pelosi's Oil Pretzel Logic

August 5th, 2008 12:44 PM
The bad reviews for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's abysmal performance on Sunday's "This Week" continue to pour in.Jumping on the "Is She Really This Divorced From Reality" bandwagon was the Chicago Tribune's Frank James.Writing at the Trib's "Swamp" blog, James lambasted Pelosi early and often (emphasis added):

ChiTrib's James: Whites Think Obama Unpatriotic Due to Race

May 5th, 2008 5:56 PM
Another journalist has gone on-the-record equating conservative concerns about the liberal Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) with racism. In a May 5 blog post on the Chicago Tribune’s “The Swamp” blog, writer Frank James expressed his concern about racist white people. James wondered, “How much of Sen. Barack Obama's supposed patriotism deficit among voters has to do with his being African-American…

ChiTrib Blogger Notes Reagan's Signing of MLK Day Law

January 21st, 2008 10:21 AM

Chicago Tribune Blogger to Hillary, Dems: Don't Cut and Run... From th

July 24th, 2007 7:18 PM
The Chicago Tribune's Frank James thinks the Democrats really need to stop this insistence on retreat... from the word liberal. In short, James wrote at the paper's "The Swamp" blog today, if Democrats don't hunker down and fight Republicans on the dreaded L-word, the GOP will keep moving on and make "progressive" an epithet as well. Here's James' argument, portions in bold are my emphasis: