Al Sharpton: No ‘Circumstances’ Would Require Officer Wilson To F
Channeling Jesse Jackson’s comments earlier this week on Newsmax TV, MSNBC’s Al Sharpton argued that no circumstance justified Michael Brown being shot multiple times, using the logic that he was unarmed. This despite reports that Brown had charged and beat Officer Darren Wilson prior to the fatal shooting. During a predictably soft interview with host Alex Wagner on the August 20 edition of…
Hayes and 'All In' Panel Hype Racism While Ignoring Evidence to the Co
On the Monday night edition of All In, Chris Hayes featured a segment decrying what he considered a racially-motivated overzealous prosecution of Marissa Alexander, an African-American Florida woman who was sentenced to 20 years in prison after firing a warning shot in the vicinity of her estranged husband, with whom she was having a dispute. [Link to the audio here] Hayes hosted a panel which…
Remember When Liberal Media Members Predicted Non-Violent Response If
It’s too bad for some bloggers that the Internet doesn’t come with an eraser. It would certainly come in handy right now to a whole slew of online “journalists” who seized on the calm before the storm on Sunday as proof that the “white” predictions of riots were way overblown. Take PoliticsUSA, which prides itself on being a source of “real liberal politics.”
MSNBC's Hayes: FNC and Conservatives Treating Black Americans Like Zim
On Wednesday's All In show, MSNBC host Chris Hayes complained of a "right-wing trope about the specter of racial violence" if George Zimmerman is acquitted, and suggested that FNC hosts like Bill O'Reilly are trying to manipulate their audience by frightening them, cracking that "a good Fox News audience is a fearful Fox News audience." As he interviewed University of Connecticut Professor…
CNN Blames White People For Obama's Slow Action On Oil Spill
UPDATE - 6/9, 5:45 PM | Lachlan Markay: One of CNN's primary sources for this piece has endorsed the notion that "Rev. Wright's anger about the domestic and foreign policies of the USA are well rooted – and documented – in the current reality of the USA." Details below the jump.The excuses keep rolling in to explain why President Obama is seemingly detached from the oil spill crisis in the…
