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Media Confusion: Why the Tea Party Protest? Not High Taxes, but Govern
The media is still having trouble understanding the Tea Party movement and what it is protesting, even though its roots are clear. On Feb. 19, 2009 during CNBC's "Squawk Box," Rick Santelli made his famous rant heard around the world, calling for a so-called tea party-style revolt. And that helped fuel the growth of a Tea Party movement that has resulted in more than 600 protests this April 15…
White NBC Reporter Confronts Black Man at Tea Party Rally: 'Have You E
“There aren't a lot of African-American men at these events,” NBC News reporter Kelly O'Donnell, a white woman, told Darryl Postell, a black man at a Tea Party rally held Thursday in Washington, DC, pressing him, in an exchange she chose to include in her NBC Nightly News story, to address her prejudiced assumptions: “Have you ever felt uncomfortable?” Postell rejected her loaded premise that…
Light Reaction to Second Gay Episcopalian Bishop Cheers Newsweek's Lis
Magazine's religion editor embraces 'Americans' disinterest' in bishop's sexuality.
Palin Compared to 'Larry the Cable Guy -- Minus the Class and Intellig
On Wednesday night's edition of Showbiz Tonight on CNN Headline News, anchor A. J. Hammer churned up the hype about Sarah Palin making an estimated $12 million. To analyze this haul, Hammer brought on Cathy Areu, creator of Catalina magazine (for Latina women) and a contributor to The Washington Post Magazine, and Rachel Zalis of Life and Style Weekly. But it was Areu who suggested Palin was a…
Rick Sanchez: 'Too Cold' in Iceland 'To Have a Volcano There
[Update, 6:21 pm Eastern Monday April 19: Sanchez named me to the "very top of his "List U Don't Want 2 Be on" for this item: CNN's Rick Sanchez Goes After 'Cheap Shot' From NewsBusters][Update, 10:25 am Eastern Friday: Rick Sanchez dismissed his Iceland remark as a "joke" on Twitter on Friday morning: "yeah, it's friday reading up on...dummies who took my joke w chad about vocano [sic]…
AP Admits Rep. Heath Shuler Did Not Hear Tea Party Racial Slurs...Afte
Oops!On the heels of a story a couple of days ago which used Congressman Heath Shuler as a source about how racial slurs were probably hurled at the Washington, D.C. Tea Party on March 20, the Associated Press has been forced to backtrack. Here is how AP writer Jesse Washington used what Heath Shuler supposedly heard to promote the idea of a Tea Party chock full of racists:A fourth Democrat, Rep…
Media Confusion: Why the Protest? Not High Taxes, but Government Expan
'Tax Enough Already' movement isn't necessarily upset over increasing taxes, but 'other side of the coin,' as in the growth of government, says CNBC's Rick Santelli.
'Glee' Sucker Punches Republican Fans
Originally published yesterday at Big Hollywood. For a related blog post, click here. Must be nice being a leftie and NEVER having to worry about some childish television creator taking a gratuitous shot — from completely out of nowhere — at what you believe in. Not so for we righties. When all we want after a hard day of gay bashing, cross burning and kitten punting is to get lost in…
On Hardball: Slamming Republicans as 'Un-American' Is Fine, But Don't
Liberal Salon.com editor Joan Walsh appeared on the April 14 edition of Hardball and mocked Sarah Palin for suggesting that some of Barack Obama's policies are un-American. She sneered that this was "ridiculous" and attacked, "The choice of un-American is a typical Sarah Palin, divisive thing to say." However, the same Joan Walsh appeared on the December 30, 2009 Hardball to talk about the…
Live Webcast: MRC's Rich Noyes on 'The B-Cast' at 5 p.m. EDT; Will Dis
Media Research Center Research Director Rich Noyes will appear on Breitbart.tv's "The B-Cast" Web-cast program at 5 p.m. Eastern time today. The NewsBusters senior editor will be discussing his latest report, "TV's Tea Party Travesty: How ABC, CBS and NBC Have Dismissed and Disparaged the Tea Party Movement."You can watch the live Web cast by clicking here or by watching the embedded video below…
Newsweek Denounces Hateful 'Antigovernment Extremists' -- Like Glenn B
The April 19 Newsweek cover that's shamelessly selling the "remarkable" tale of our economic recovery also promises a story on "Hate on the Right." In fact the word "HATE" takes up half a page, white letters on a black background, with the subhead "Antigovernment extremists are on the rise – and on the march." Pictures illustrating the article strangely connect Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin with…
MSNBC Anchor Spins for Obama after NBC Reporter Slams Him for NASA Cut
A visibly perturbed Jay Barbree, during MSNBC live coverage on Thursday, called out Barack Obama for making cuts in NASA that could result, as he claimed, in 9,000 employees losing their jobs even though during the campaign, as the long time NBC correspondent reported, the President "told 15,000 workers here at the Space Center that if they would vote for him, that he would protect their jobs."…
George Lopez: Latinos Will Move Back To Mexico If Palin Becomes Presid
George Lopez thinks if Sarah Palin becomes President in 2012, Latinos will all move back to Mexico.So said the comedian on "Larry King Live" Tuesday night.He also went after Fox News and Glenn Beck. Not surprisingly, this was all prompted by the host actually asking Lopez for his opinion about the former Alaska governor (video follows with transcript and commentary, h/t HotAirPundit):