Violence At Townhall - Against A Conservative; Six Arrested, Including

UPDATE: We have some video of the attack.  It appears that it is members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) doing at least some of the dirty work. But it's conservatives who engage in violence and hate speech, right? The Saint Louis Post-Dispatch is reporting that one of their own, reporter Jake Wagman, was one of six people arrested in connection with the beating of a…
Seton Motley

Post Pulitzer Prize Winner: GOP 'Political Terrorists

Paper's business columnist says Republicans 'willing to say or do anything' to stop consensus on problems.
Dan Gainor

Behar: Dolls 'Programming' Tool for Young Girls

Of all the arguments against a breastfeeding doll, the 'View' panelist goes for feminism.
Colleen Raezler

A Kidnapped Fetus

A baby that first saw the light of day in such a foul and violent fashion deserves better than to be described merely a fetus.
L. Brent Bozell III

Wolf Blitzer Cracks: Palin Will Provide ‘A Lot of Material’ to Com

On Wednesday night’s Late Late Show on CBS, when host Craig Ferguson asked guest Wolf Blitzer of CNN’s The Situation Room if he thought Sarah Palin is "gone" now, Blitzer cracked that Palin would provide Ferguson with "a lot of material" as she will still be active publicly. After the two were talking about whether the CNN anchor sometimes finds something "really funny" while he is doing the news…
Brad Wilmouth

New FCC 'Chief Diversity Officer' Co-Wrote Liberal Group's 'Structural

The Best Censorship Weapon of All UPDATE: Nationally syndicated radio talk show host Mark Levin read this piece in nearly its entirety last night.  His on-air stylings can be found here.  The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has announced a new "Chief Diversity Officer," communications attorney Mark Lloyd.    But Doctor of Jurisprudence Lloyd…
Seton Motley

He's Not an Objective Journalist, But He Plays One on MSNBC Promos

"[W]e've got to be journalists. We've got to keep the facts straight." That's Chris Matthews referring to the professional standards governing his "Hardball" program in an MSNBC promo that aired in a commercial break halfway through the program's August 6 edition. You can view the video below the page break. 
Ken Shepherd

Will Murdoch's Switch to Subscription-Based Web Content Work

Rupert Murdoch has become the first media mogul to make bold changes to his company’s newspaper monetization strategy that may reshape the way people receive their news--by paying for it. Up to this point, web publications have primarily relied on advertising alone for revenues but this has had problems because online advertising rates are so much lower than those in print. Murdoch and others…
Mitchell Blatt

CNBC Host Blames 'Overpaying' Howard Stern for XM Sirius Woes

Times have been tough financially for media companies across the board and satellite radio has been no exception. On Aug. 6, Sirius XM Radio (NASDAQ:SIRI) posted a second-quarter loss and the company hasn't lived up to expectations after Sirius and XM completed a merger a little over a year ago. According to "CNBC Reports" host Dennis Kneale, part of the satellite radio's problem is shock jock…
Jeff Poor

MSNBC Picks Up WaPo Article Claiming Obama Joker Poster Racist

During the 2PM ET hour on MSNBC, anchor Contessa Brewer wondered: "Is a poster of the President as the Joker racist? The posters in Los Angeles and elsewhere show the President as ‘The Dark Knight’ version of the Joker above the word ‘socialism.’" She then cited an article from Thursday’s Washington Post making the accusation.Brewer spoke with the author of the article, Phillip Kennicott, and…
Kyle Drennen

LifeNews.com Busts AP Over Presence of Abortion Funding in Dems' Healt

Kudos to Steve Ertelt at LifeNews.com (the source of the graphic at the right) and to others in the pro-life community for getting the notoriously stubborn Associated Press to effectively back down on a false claim it made about the availability of abortion services in the version of the health care bill passed by a House Committee last week.On August 3, Ertelt wrote the following (link to AP…
Tom Blumer

If it’s Morning, it Must Be Michael Jackson

Sarah Knoploh

Transparent: AP Puts No-News Story about Sanford on National Wire

Could they be any more obvious about it?Just in case you somehow haven't heard about it in the past couple of months, the Associated Press wanted to remind everyone this morning that South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford (who, to be clear, I believe should resign), who had AN AFFAIR(!!), went back to work today -- and that this really, really deserved to be a national story, as shown in the mini-…
Tom Blumer

CNN Runs Glowing Segment About Pro-ObamaCare Rally

CNN’s Newsroom on Thursday ran a glowing documentary-style report about a pro-ObamaCare rally on Capitol Hill that was organized by a coalition of left-wing organizations. Anchor Heidi Collins introduced the report without referencing any of the organizers, which included ACORN, MoveOn.org and SEIU. The report also featured a former Obama campaign operative who pushed for the president’s plan.The…
Matthew Balan