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WashPost: Putting Black Opponent in a Darker Light in Political TV Ads Is Racist

By Tom Blumer | January 3, 2016, 1:12 AM EST

A time-honored tactic in political TV ads is to use contrasting degrees of photographic exposure, one bright and snappy for your candidate and a darker hue, sometimes even going to old-fashioned black-and-white, for your opponent. On December 29, at the W ...

NY Times Correlates Trump Support With Racism — Based on Decade-Old Google Searches

By Tom Blumer | January 2, 2016, 2:45 AM EST

On Wednesday, Nate Cohn at the New York Times, who by some accounts is being anointed the next Nate Silver of polling, made a clumsy and despicable attempt to inject race into his political "analysis" of the Donald Trump phenomenon. Cohn's ...

Obama's NSA Spying on Congress Not a Story at AP — Until GOP Responds

By Tom Blumer | January 1, 2016, 9:24 PM EST

The Wall Street Journal ran a blockbuster story Tuesday afternoon ("U.S. Spy Net on Israel Snares Congress") about how the Obama administration's National Security Agency's "targeting of Israeli leaders swept up the content of pri ...

Lefty Pundit: Conservatives’ Opposition to Political Correctness Rooted In Loss of White Male Privilege

By Tom Johnson | December 31, 2015, 11:23 PM EST

If Paul Waldman had wanted to put the main argument of his Monday American Prospect column in Obamaesque terms, he might have written that conservative opponents of political correctness have gotten bitter and are clinging to their supposed right (and may ...

Political Theater Is At The Heart Of DHS Deportation Raids

By Jorge Bonilla | December 31, 2015, 3:03 PM EST

I am old enough to recall a time when the Obama administration did whatever it doggone well pleased regardless of statutory constraints- especially when the doing (or undoing) pertained to immigration law. But we are now supposed to believe-per our moral ...

NBC Churns Out Full Story with Soft Piano Music Looking at Obama's Year in Photos

By Curtis Houck | December 31, 2015, 1:50 PM EST

Closing out 2015 on the Thursday morning newscasts, NBC’s Today churned one of its most fawning pieces on President Obama as NBC News correspondent Ron Allen reviewed Obama’s top photos by White House photographer Pete Souza while hushed, soft piano music ...

Unreported: Industrial Revolution and Capitalism Explain Sharp Decline in World Poverty

By Tom Blumer | December 31, 2015, 12:47 PM EST

In September, President Barack Obama " committed the U.S. to a new blueprint to eliminate poverty and hunger around the world" in a speech at a United Nations "global summit." A review of his speech's transcript indicates that whi ...

NBC’s Today Skips Planned Parenthood Videos, Clinton E-Mail/Foundation Scandals in Year in Review

By Curtis Houck | December 31, 2015, 12:01 PM EST

With New Year’s Eve upon us, NBC’s Today dedicated a segment in its 9:00 a.m. hour on Thursday to looking back at the year in news, politics, and entertainment. Not surprisingly, the liberal network made no mention of the Planned Parenthood baby parts vid ...

MRC's Bozell, Judith Miller: Trump Doesn't Need Ads Due to Non-Stop Media Coverage

By NB Staff | December 31, 2015, 12:43 AM EST

Appearing on Wednesday’s edition of The Kelly File, MRC President Brent Bozell and Fox News contributor Judith Miller made the case to fill-in host Sandra Smith that Donald Trump’s recent pledge to begin airing millions of dollars in television ads is not ...

'Progressives,' As Their Sex Harassment and Assault Problems Become Obvious, Won't Even Mention the Clintons

By Tom Blumer | December 31, 2015, 9:59 AM EST

Liberals and "progressives," who are supposedly big on dealing with "root causes," are apparently not interested in the root cause of their now-acknowledged problem of sexual harassment and abuse in their ranks. At Acculturated.com, Ca ...

Lefty Writer Claims Trump, Conservative Evangelicals Have One Big Thing In Common: ‘Narcissism’

By Tom Johnson | December 30, 2015, 10:20 PM EST

If you’re looking for the ultimate contradiction in terms, it’d be hard to top “Christian narcissist.” Nonetheless, David Masciotra alleged in a Tuesday Salon piece (originally published on the left-wing site AlterNet) that “conservative evangelical Chris ...

WashPost’s Robinson: Trump Is ‘Driving a Truck Bomb into the Middle of the Republican Party’

By Curtis Houck | December 30, 2015, 2:51 PM EST

While the left constantly goes after conservatives for any and all rhetoric they view as inciting violence, they almost never follow their own prescriptions and that was certainly the case on Tuesday night as MSNBC’s The Last Word featured liberal Washing ...

New York Times Now Supports National $15/Hr. Minimum Wage; in 1987, It Wanted '$0.00'

By Tom Blumer | December 31, 2015, 10:01 AM EST

Establishment press pundits often wring their hands over how supposedly far to the right the Republican Party and conservatives in general have moved since the presidency of Ronald Reagan, that flaming moderate, to the point of claiming that Reagan would ...

CBS Touts Hillary Receiving Question from Young Boy at Rally on Equal Pay; ‘Pay Perspective’

By Curtis Houck | December 30, 2015, 12:11 PM EST

With the year winding down and the news cycle slowing (aside from the weather), Wednesday’s CBS This Morning found it proper to reserve 59 seconds for fawning over Hillary Clinton receiving a question on Tuesday from a young boy about equal pay. Spinning ...

4 of This Year’s Most Obnoxious Liberal Celebrities

By Kristine Marsh | December 30, 2015, 10:28 AM EST

It’s a given that the majority of Hollywood’s top stars are outspoken liberals. But this year, a few celebrities in particular made the media go ga-ga (and conservatives groan) over their pushy politics and their perpetual time in the spotlight. 1.     Am ...