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David Corn on Ben Carson: 'There Are Serious Issues About His Faith'

By Mark Finkelstein | October 27, 2015, 9:20 PM EDT

David Corn claims that there are "serious issues" about Ben Carson's Seventh Day Adventism faith. Great point, David. After all, for twenty years, Carson sat in the pews of a preacher who spewed "God damn America" hatred, a pastor ...

ABC, CBS, CNN Ignore Radical Politics of Speakers at Million Man March Anniversary

By Matthew Balan | October 13, 2015, 9:56 AM EDT

On Sunday, ABC's Good Morning America and CBS's Sunday Morning followed the lead of the New York Times in omitting the extremist history of Louis Farrakhan in their coverage of the "Justice or Else" rally marking the 20h anniversary of ...

On Trump, Obama, Rev. Wright, and the Media's Double Standards at Work

By Jeffrey Lord | September 19, 2015, 9:12 PM EDT

I like Erik Wemple. No, really I do. He writes a great column over there in the Washington media headquarters for Liberal Land. I don’t always agree, of course- but then again, wouldn’t that be the point? So I’m thrilled he would use his space in The Wash ...

Juan Williams: There Are 'Elements of Racism' in Today's Constitution

By Tom Blumer | February 23, 2015, 4:09 PM EST

In a discussion with plenty of other objectionable elements on Sean Hannity's Fox News show Friday, Juan Williams asserted that "There's no question that if you look at our Constitution, there are elements of racism right in it." Note ...

WashPost, PBS Boost Obama Faith Director's Book Without Asking About His Urge to Mislead on Reverend Wright

By Tim Graham | October 26, 2013, 9:56 PM EDT

When George W. Bush's faith-based initiative staffer David Kuo came out with a book whacking away at Bush, the media were enthralled (excerpted lovingly by Time magazine and interviewed on 60 Minutes). Now under Obama, they're helping former fai ...

Salon.com Story Lamely Claims 'Gross Exaggeration' In MRC Research on Obama, Reverend Wright

By Tim Graham | April 27, 2013, 6:23 PM EDT

Sometimes, the left simply can’t argue against hard facts. In a book excerpt warning of the “resurgent right” on Salon.com, leftist Lee Fang accused Brent Bozell of “gross exaggeration” in describing media apathy on Obama scandals.   Fang reported that in ...

Surprise: New York Times Actually Takes Seriously Obama 2007 Video Praising Rev. Wright (With Caveats)

By Clay Waters | October 4, 2012, 5:03 PM EDT

In a bit of a surprise, New York Times reporters Jeremy Peters and Jim Rutenberg filed a longish article on a recently unearthed Obama video from 2007 showing the president in a fiery, racially charged mode and praising his anti-American pastor Jeremiah W ...

NBC Dismisses Obama Video as Old News, Edits Out Jeremiah Wright Comments

By Kyle Drennen | June 18, 2015, 5:38 PM EDT

In a stunning omission on Wednesday's NBC Today, brief coverage of a 2007 video of Barack Obama completely ignored the then-Senator praising his controversial pastor Jeremiah Wright as a "great leader, not just in Chicago, but all across the cou ...

WashPost Unloads Both Barrels on Ed Klein's Anti-Obama Book

By Tim Graham | June 21, 2012, 10:52 PM EDT

The Washington Post suddenly discovered Ed Klein’s best-selling anti-Obama book The Amateur on the front page of Thursday’s Style section. Reporter/book blogger Steven Levington announced the book "contains scenes that did not occur or that were vast ...

NYTimes Religion Writer Baselessly Accuses Conservatives of Taking Rev. Wright's Rants 'Out of Context'

By Clay Waters | May 29, 2012, 3:54 PM EDT

Mark Oppenheimer's latest bimonthly "Beliefs" column for the New York Times accused conservatives like Jonah Goldberg of misunderstanding Marxist "liberation theology" in using Rev. Jeremiah Wright to attack Barack Obama: " A ...

Was Rev. Wright Offered Hush Money? Nobody In The Media Cares

By Tim Graham | May 23, 2012, 10:17 AM EDT

When the New York Times warned it had been handed a “super PAC” memo suggesting someone, somewhere might plot to make a “hardline attack on Obama” with Wright sermon soundbites, MSNBC expressed outrage hour after hour.  But scandalized liberal journalists ...

Bob Schieffer Scorns 'Race-Baiting' Rev. Wright Attack; Obama Not a 'European Socialist'

By Matthew Balan | May 22, 2012, 7:33 PM EDT

"Face The Nation" host Bob Schieffer spotlighted the left's talking points on two issues in the presidential race on Tuesday's CBS This Morning. Schieffer tried to play it down the middle when he stated, "I think most people under ...

Obama Surrogates 'Speaking Honestly' Plague His Campaign, Andrea Mitchell Tells Maddow

By Jack Coleman | May 22, 2012, 3:12 PM EDT

Aided by its simpatico allies at MSNBC, the Obama campaign has swung into action to contain yet another unfortunate outbreak of candor. That an affinity of soulmates exists between Obamists and MSNBCers was never more evident than yesterday in the wake of ...

NYT's Shear Rips Drudge, Breitbart, Accuses GOP of Racial Attacks on Rev. Wright

By Clay Waters | May 21, 2012, 4:02 PM EDT

Political reporter Michael Shear uses a half-baked Times "expose" to accuse the GOP of using racial attacks by bringing up the legitimate issue of the anti-white, anti-American, paranoid ravings of Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama's pastor for d ...

George Will and Laura Ingraham Slam NYT for Rev. Wright Romney Super PAC Piece

By Noel Sheppard | May 20, 2012, 4:52 PM EDT

The New York Times on Thursday published a front page piece about a Mitt Romney supporting Super PAC that allegedly considered bringing a lot of attention to Barack Obama's America-hating Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Conservatives George Will and Laura ...