NPR Challenges Its Own Sorry 'Whiteness of Public Radio'

Washington Post media reporter Paul Farhi has chronicled the latest racial guilt exercise at National Public Radio. Blacks think there’s a “whiteness problem in public radio.” It sounds too white. A journalist named Chenjerai Kumanyika wants to put his black voice on when he gets in front of the microphone. He says his black friends turn off NPR because it sounds “too white.” None of these…
Tim Graham
February 1st, 2015 12:05 AM

Gore Hardest Hit: 'Car of the Future' to Have Combustion Engine

At the recent meeting of the world's elites in Davos, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and former Mexican President Felipe Calderon circulated a proposal to ban cars in all major cities in the world by dense-packing their layouts. The cost, as I noted on Monday: a mere $90 trillion (that's right, trillion). It's telling in a foreboding sense that the pair's idea wasn't laughed off the continent…
Tom Blumer
January 31st, 2015 11:51 PM

NYT Gins Up Climate Change Poll Story: GOP 'Out of Step'

Not content with reporting the news, the New York Times on Saturday tried to manufacture its own, issuing a "climate change" poll with an environmental group, and putting it on the front page as news in order to push the paper's own left-wing alarmist view of global warming.
Clay Waters
January 31st, 2015 10:44 PM

NY Times Correction Undercuts Premise of Item on U.S.-Netanyahu Spat

Over at American Thinker, Thomas Lifson caught a damning admission the New York Times made in a correction to a Thursday piece by Carl Hulse and Jeremy W. Peters. The correction blew apart their write-up's entire premise, namely that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was trying to make amends with congressional Democrats and having to explain why "the White House had been circumvented…
Tom Blumer
January 31st, 2015 9:23 PM

Politico Reporter/Union Organizer Whines About Long Hours at Age 28

The world's smallest violin this week goes to Politico labor reporter Mike Elk. Elk, who has bragged about unionizing workplaces where he has previously toiled, is working on doing the same thing at the alleged news site, which is really a Democratic Party stenography machine posing as one. His major complaint, seen in an item by Erik Wemple at his Washington Post blog, follows the jump (bolds…
Tom Blumer
January 31st, 2015 6:50 PM

Super Bowl Softballs? Obama's Seventh Big Game Interview

For the seventh straight year, Barack Obama will be interviewed prior to the Super Bowl. Just before the kickoff between the Seahawks and the Patriots, the President will talk to NBC's Savannah Guthrie. This will be the third Super Bowl interview with NBC. Back in 2009, Matt Lauer gushed to the new president: "Has there been any surprise in terms about life in the White House? Is there something…
Scott Whitlock
January 31st, 2015 5:30 PM

Harris-Perry: Abortion Is Just Like Removing a Tumor, or a Hand

Melissa Harris-Perry always has something shocking to say (or wear – who could forget the time she wore tampon earrings on her show to protest the banning of late-term abortions?). Just recently, she compared an unborn baby (or “fetus” as the term they prefer to use) to a cancerous tumor, or a limb that needed amputation.
Melissa Mullins
January 31st, 2015 5:27 PM

Daily Kos: Conservatives Have a Persecution Complex

Hunter contends that right-wingers feel that the left is “out to get” them, and that they “consider…breaking the law itself to be a noble thing, when done in service to conservatism, which is why the various Fox News talking heads spoke of armed standoffs at the Bundy Ranch in approving tones and with references to the Founding Fathers.”
Tom Johnson
January 31st, 2015 3:42 PM

WashPost's Romney Gotcha? Mitt's House Pales Next to Post Owner's

Before Mitt Romney withdrew from the 2016 presidential race, The Washington Post -- the paper that tried in 2012 to paint Romney as a rich bully for some dopey prep school roughhousing -- was playing the class warfare card again. In an article tis past week by Philip Bump the paper headlined this question: "How Big is Mitt Romney’s California House?" Guess who has a bigger home than Mitt Romney…
Jeffrey Lord
January 31st, 2015 2:51 PM

Democrat Big Brother Follows Reporters to Bathroom

Democrat Big Brother has gotten so bold that he is now following reporters into the bathroom.  Politico reports on how staffers at a Democrat retreat in Philadelphia attempted to keep such a tight lid on reporters that they followed them into the final realm of privacy.
P.J. Gladnick
January 31st, 2015 11:47 AM

AP, WSJ Reactions to Friday's GDP Report Vary Sharply

Yesterday's government report on the economy's growth, which told us that the nation's gross domestic product grew at an annual rate of 2.6 percent during the fourth quarter, sharply underachieved analysts' expectations of an annualized 3.0 percent to 3.6 percent. The stock market clearly reacted negatively to the downside surprise. Bloomberg's take at the end of the day: "U.S. stocks fell Friday…
Tom Blumer
January 31st, 2015 9:54 AM

PBS Documentary Glamorizes ‘Right-to-Die’

For a peek at the culture of death, look no further than taxpayer-funded PBS.  A recent PBS video report by NewsHour's Megan Thompson entitled “The Right to Die in Belgium” focused on “End Credits,” a 2013 Belgian documentary on the practice of euthanasia. In it, Thompson normalized the death of a woman known as “Eva” by using phrases like “die with dignity” and explaining that, in Belgium, “it…
Katie Yoder
January 31st, 2015 9:40 AM

Cosmopolitan Cries 'Intimidation' at Mailed Handcuffs to Abortionists

Jill Filipovic at Cosmopolitan is protesting a pro-life group's "intimidation" mailer to abortion clinics on the 42nd anniversary of the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision. On January 22, Pro-Life Action League sent a package to every abortion clinic in the U.S. Inside was a pair of plastic handcuffs, a photo of Oklahoma City abortionist Naresh Patel being arrested last month, and a note…
Jill Stanek
January 31st, 2015 9:21 AM

Bozell & Graham Column: Harvey Weinstein's P.C. Oscar Campaign

The Academy Awards is meant to be the world’s most prestigious honors for achievement in movies. Politics should have nothing to do with it, but increasingly that's not so. Hollywood is now regularly treading beyond “artistic excellence” and letting political overtones sway he outcome. For months now the “diversity” crowd has wailed and gnashed its teeth over the lack of Oscar interest in Selma…
Brent Bozell and Tim Graham
January 31st, 2015 7:41 AM