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Washington Monthly Blogger: Thanks to Palin, Republicans Now Insist ‘The Truth Doesn’t Matter’

By Tom Johnson | November 28, 2015, 8:10 AM EST

In the race for next year’s Republican presidential nomination, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz have made media bias an issue, as did Newt Gingrich during the 2012 contest. Irony alert: Washington Monthly blogger Martin Longman believes that it was one of the me ...

7 Years Later and Sarah Palin is STILL Being Attacked for This One Thing!

By Erik Soderstrom | November 23, 2015, 3:46 AM EST

Seven years after the 2008 U.S. presidential elections in which Alaska Governor Sarah Palin joined the Republican ticket as John McCain’s running mate, the former vice presidential candidate is still living rent free in the minds of Hollywood screenwriter ...

Lame, and Unacceptable: AP Claims 'Gun at Head' Photos of Cruz Had No Bad Intent

By Tom Blumer | June 22, 2015, 12:45 PM EDT

The Associated Press, although it has apparently removed the primary photo involved from where it was posted last night at its APimages.com web site, is showing no remorse over having published what it has now admitted are five photos of 2016 Republican p ...

To Lefty Writer Ana Marie Cox, Duggars and Kardashians Famous For Same Basic Reason: ‘Their Sex Lives’

By Tom Johnson | June 9, 2015, 10:55 PM EDT

How do you become a “conservative folk hero”? It helps a great deal if you believe, and your fellow right-wingers believe, that liberals are picking on you, contended The Daily Beast ’s Ana Marie Cox in a Saturday column. Cox defined conservative folk her ...

NBC's Guthrie Frets Palin Took 'Cheap Shot' at Obama in PETA Feud

By Kyle Drennen | January 6, 2015, 1:41 PM EST

In a live interview with Sarah Palin on Tuesday's NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie accused the former Alaska governor of taking a "cheap shot" at President Obama while defending herself against nasty attacks from animal rights group PETA ...

ABC & NBC Seize on Palin 'Sparking New Controversy' in 'Feud' With PETA

By Kyle Drennen | January 5, 2015, 12:04 PM EST

On Monday, both ABC's Good Morning America and NBC's Today hyped a supposed "controversy" between Sarah Palin and radical animal rights group PETA, after Palin shared a touching photo of her Down Syndrome son using his service dog as a ...

Jonah Goldberg: Protecting the Protesters vs. Trashing the Tea Party

By Rich Noyes | December 24, 2014, 7:36 AM EST

Nearly four years ago, the media establishment swiftly and baselessly linked the Tea Party to the shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords. But after this weekend’s murder of two New York City police officers, by a gunman who used the hashtag #Sho ...

While Media Obsesses Over GOP Aide Criticizing Obama's Children, Dems Openly Sell Hate, Authoritarianism

By Tom Blumer | December 2, 2014, 7:06 PM EST

Yesterday, I received an email from the Democratic National Committee informing me that they had a "Cyber Monday surprise" just for me. How nice. All I had to do was click on the link to store.democrats.org. After the jump, readers will see the ...

A Cornucopia of New York Times Thanksgiving Bias: Remember Bush's 'Fake Turkey'?

By Clay Waters | November 27, 2014, 7:22 PM EST

Is there no beloved American tradition the liberal media won't try to sour? " A Warning on Nutmeg," a silly post from the New York Times' health section, failed to come close to justifying its alarmist headline, and functioned as a nea ...

Lefty Blogger: ‘Largely Bogus’ Righty Gripes About Media Bias Led to ‘Propaganda Network’ Fox News

By Tom Johnson | October 27, 2014, 10:08 PM EDT

When conservatives of the 1970s and ‘80s claimed that the media were biased against them, they weren’t entirely wrong, but they misunderstood the origin of that bias, and Fox News was the eventual result. That was more or less the argument on Friday from ...

CNN's Costello Gleeful As She Hypes Palin Family Brawl Audio

By Matthew Balan | October 22, 2014, 3:38 PM EDT

Carol Costello could barely contain herself on Wednesday's CNN Newsroom, as she touted the recently-released audio of Bristol Palin giving her account of a fight involving her family to the police: " Okay. I'm just going to come right out a ...

'Conservative' View Co-Host Nicolle Wallace Trashes Palin, Defends Clinton

By Scott Whitlock | September 22, 2014, 12:58 PM EDT

Nicolle Wallace, The View' s new " conservative " co-host, on Monday trashed Sarah Palin and defended Hillary Clinton against alleged sexism. Wallace, who worked for Palin in 2008, has previously attacked her ex-boss. Asked to talk about an ...

Networks Hype 'Palin Family Brawl': 'Like An Episode of Jerry Springer'

By Kyle Drennen | September 12, 2014, 12:03 PM EDT

On Friday, all three network morning shows seized on reports that Sarah Palin and her family were "caught in a massive brawl" during a house party in Anchorage, Alaska. ABC's Good Morning America opened with substitute co-host Lara Spencer ...

NYT: Here Come Those Government-Reimbursed 'End-of-Life Talks'

By Tom Blumer | September 1, 2014, 10:01 AM EDT

In a Saturday evening story to appear on Page A1 in its Sunday print edition, Pam Belluck at the New York Times tells readers that "paying doctors to talk to patients about end-of-life care is making a comeback, and such sessions may be covered for t ...

Ed Show Guest: Former NFL Coach Mike Ditka Was a 'Segregation-Era' Player' Who Dictated 'His Will' to 'Black Players'

By Curtis Houck | August 28, 2014, 10:53 PM EDT

To close out his MSNBC show on Thursday, Ed Schultz invited on a Native American social activist to discuss the push by liberals and sympathetic members of the sports media to force the NFL’s Washington Redskins to change their name.  In discussing recent ...