CNN Picks Up on Charles Sherrod's 'White Man and His Uncle Toms' Remar

CNN's Joe Johns surprisingly highlighted Charles Sherrod's racially-charged comments about stopping "the white man and his Uncle Toms from stealing our elections" during a segment on Thursday's Anderson Cooper 360. Johns also reported on the questions being raised by conservatives about how his wife Shirley Sherrod received her former position at the U.S. Department of Agriculture [audio clip…
Matthew Balan
July 30th, 2010 11:55 AM

MoveOn.Org Adores NPR, Conducts E-Mail Campaign Against Fox Getting th

For anyone who does not think National Public Radio is a taxpayer-funded propaganda organ for the left, consider that the radical leftists at MoveOn.org are conducting an e-mail campaign to assign the "Helen Thomas seat" in the front row of the briefing room to NPR a "real, public" news organ, not that Fox "propaganda machine." They think NPR can offer a better cloning of Helen Thomas: Dear…
Tim Graham
July 30th, 2010 11:49 AM

Media Parrot White House Spin on Auto Bailout as Unemployment Rises

As President Obama travels to Michigan to visit General Motors and Chrysler assembly lines, the media assembly line continues mass-producing bias.On July 30, both ABC and CBS ran stories on their websites promoting President Obama's trip to Michigan to "let you know the Detroit Big Three are in the black again." Both networks' stories claimed the "unpopular auto industry bailout has turned into…
Kyle Gillis
July 30th, 2010 11:32 AM

Mea Culpa 360: CNN Anchor Says He Was Wrong to Let Shirley Sherrod Sme

On Thursday’s Anderson Cooper 360, anchor Anderson Cooper faulted himself for not pressing Shirley Sherrod when she appeared on the show back on July 22 and claimed that conservative Andrew Breitbart was a “vicious” racist who “would like to get us stuck back in the times of slavery.” Cooper now says he should have challenged Sherrod to support such an inflammatory charge with facts: “I believe…
Rich Noyes
July 30th, 2010 9:42 AM

Time Helps Jerry Brown Sell False Image as 'Budget Hawk' Who 'Never Ra

Jerry Brown was known as "Governor Moonbeam" in the 1970s, and ran for president from the left three times (to the left of Jimmy Carter in 1976 and 1980, and to the left of Bill Clinton in 1992). But now that he's running for governor again, Time magazine is trying to convince its readers he's really a centrist. In the August 2 magazine, reporter Karl Taro Greenfeld helpfully laid out Brown's…
Tim Graham
July 30th, 2010 6:36 AM

ABC Leads by Trumpeting ‘Anger in the Streets’ from ‘Hundreds

“Anger in the streets and we’re there for the protests,” ABC anchor Diane Sawyer teased in making reaction from a few opposed to Arizona’s immigration enforcement efforts her top story on Thursday night. She led: “Emboldened by a judge's rebuke of that law yesterday, hundreds of opponents of the crackdown took to the streets today. But the state's unyielding Governor stood by the law.” ABC’s…
Brent Baker
July 30th, 2010 1:48 AM

CNBC Reporter: Bush Tax Cuts Only Affected Those Making $250K or More

CNBC.com's Jeff Cox needs to brush up on his financial history. He believes that George W. Bush's 2001 and 2003 tax cuts affected only the highest-earning taxpayers, i.e., those who gross $250,000 a year of more. He's wrong. Here's part of what Cox posted this morning (erroneous statement is bolded; HT to Mark Levin in his Thursday broadcast): Letting Bush Tax Cuts Die Would Kill Recovery:…
Tom Blumer
July 30th, 2010 12:46 AM

Shariah Law Same as Ten Commandments, Says Post Guest Columnist

Muslim Brotherhood-linked writer says Americans shouldn't 'freak out' about Shariah
Alana Goodman
July 30th, 2010 12:00 AM

Law and Disorder

So much for the illusion of state's rights.
Glenn Foden
July 29th, 2010 9:09 PM

Chris Matthews Rips Howard Dean Over Content of Breitbart's Sherrod Vi

Chris Matthews and Howard Dean on Thursday got into a heated argument about what was included in the controversial video excerpts Andrew Breitbart published at his website last Monday involving former USDA official Shirley Sherrod.In the opening segment of the 5PM installment of MSNBC's "Hardball," Matthews was discussing with the former Vermont Governor as well as Salon Editor-in-Chief Joan…
Noel Sheppard
July 29th, 2010 7:40 PM

NY Times Focuses on Obama's Populist Sub Shop Stop in NJ, Skips Glitzy

New York Times reporters David Herszenhorn and Jackie Calmes reported on Obama's politically calculated visit to the Tastee Sub Shop in Edison, N.J. in Thursday's "Obama Trumpets Party's Small-Business Bona Fides." The paper's political team let Obama fully sell himself as a down-home populist by completely skipping (in the print edition) the fact that Obama would be departing from a town in New…
Clay Waters
July 29th, 2010 7:25 PM

White House's Gibbs Blasts Rush Limbaugh to Defend Federal Automaker T

What is it with this White House and publicly calling out conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh? If you recall, back in January 2009 President Barack Obama told Republican congressional leaders to quit listening to Limbaugh if they wanted to get things done. It's happened once again. During the White House daily press briefing on July 29, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs took another couple of…
Katie Bell
July 29th, 2010 7:22 PM

CNN's Harris: Tough on Arizona Law Author, Soft on Left-Wing Activist

On Thursday's Newsroom, CNN's Tony Harris played hardball with Arizona State Senator Russell Pearce, the author of the SB1070 anti-illegal immigration law in the state, while not asking one tough question with his other guest, pro-illegal immigration activist Isabel Garcia. Surprisingly, Harris did finally explicitly identify the pro-open borders organization that Garcia leads [audio clips…
Matthew Balan
July 29th, 2010 6:41 PM

Politico’s Roger Simon: Journolist Sullies 'Holy Calling' of Reporti

Roger Simon's Wednesday morning column ("Journolist veers out of bounds"), an item Rush brought up on his show this afternoon, may be one of the most delusional items ever written by a journalist attempting to defend his profession. Rich Noyes at NewsBusters covered one aspect of Simon's column on Wednesday, namely the deliciously hypocritical outrage of NBC/MSNBC reporter Chuck Todd over how…
Tom Blumer
July 29th, 2010 5:54 PM