Press Using Older Photos of Alton Nolen Over Recent One in Muslim Garb

During the Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman saga, the press was widely and deservedly criticized for repeatedly and almost exclusively using a photo of Martin as an innocent-looking 13 year-old over others more recently taken which were readily available. Perhaps they're at it again with alleged murderer Alton Nolen. On Saturday morning, the Associated Press described Nolen as having "beheaded a…
Tom Blumer
September 28th, 2014 9:41 AM

GQ's Ana Marie Cox: Value Voters Summit Wants What 'Islamicists' Want

Leftists have an extreme difficulty in differentiating between conservative Christians in the United States and Islamo-fascists in the Middle East. Somehow, letting your traditional religious views affect (infect?) our democracy is akin to beheadings and terrorism. It's not surprising that this view would come stumbling out of GQ Washington correspondent Ana Marie Cox, one of the flightiest…
Tim Graham
September 28th, 2014 9:15 AM

Maddow Producer Mocks Effort to Humanize the Demonized Republicans

Steve Benen, the leftist blogger-turned-producer for The Rachel Maddow Show, could hardly contain his contempt in his September 25 post on MSNBC.com. Under the headline “New GOP ad campaign: ‘Republicans Have Feelings,’” Benen derided the newest efforts of Republican strategist Vinny Minchillo to bring some much needed perspective to the left wing’s hysterical slant against Republicans.
Laura Flint
September 27th, 2014 11:39 PM

Limbaugh Sees Through Obama Ruse of Khorasan as Distinct From al Qaeda

Once again, Rush Limbaugh, aka America's Anchorman, has shown himself invaluable in cutting through the perpetual fog of dissembling that wafts from the White House. Limbaugh responded to the Obama administration's disclosure of yet another roving band of rabid militants that threatens the West with his characteristic insight and withering sarcasm.
Jack Coleman
September 27th, 2014 9:20 PM

WashPost Blogger: Gabby Giffords Can't Possibly Run 'Mean' Campaign Ad

Washington Post media blogger Erik Wemple seems to be placing himself in the Gabby Giffords Can Do No Wrong camp. One post this week carried the headline “ Politico: Gabby Giffords ‘gets mean.’ Really?” Wemple ripped into an Alex Isenstadt Politico piece on very personal, very negative campaign ads from the Giffords “gun violence prevention super PAC.” We’re going to call gun control and…
Tim Graham
September 27th, 2014 5:06 PM

Leonardo DiCaprio and RFK Jr., Hypocritical Climate Cops

The movie star and the millionaire aristocrats have been questioned and found wanting. Uh-oh. After almost six years of unrelenting class warfare enthusiastically promoted by President Obama, with all the precision of historic inevitability the rhetoric and policies of the Occupy Wall Street enthusiasts have now rounded on two of the more famous members of the One Percent.    
Jeffrey Lord
September 27th, 2014 2:59 PM

Sharpton Praises Holder, Says He's Helping Pick Next Attorney General

It looks like the Rev. Al Sharpton is taking Eric Holder's resignation pretty hard. Not only did the liberal activist praise him during Thursday's edition of the Politics Nation program as the first African-American to serve as attorney general, the host of the weekday MSNBC series called him the "best" one in history when it comes to civil rights. In addition, the liberal activist noted in a…
Randy Hall
September 27th, 2014 2:45 PM

Weekend Open Thread: Conservatives Going On Offense

Football fans know you don't want to spend a whole game on the wrong side of the 50 yard line. At the Values Voters Summit on Friday, MRC president Brent Bozell said it's time for conservatives to go on offense. Put in your two cents, on this, or the weekend games, et cetera.
NB Staff
September 27th, 2014 1:38 PM

In NY Times, Newbie Politician Clay Aiken Scampers Away From Obama

Sunday's New York Times Magazine includes an interview with former "American Idol" runner-up Clay Aiken, now running against Republican Rep. Renee Ellmers in North Carolina's 2nd district. Late in the interview, Times reporter Jim Rutenberg brings up the dangerous question: How favorably do you view Barack Obama? Clay got out the ten-foot pole -- Aiken fans might hear him singing "From A…
Tim Graham
September 27th, 2014 12:42 PM

MRC Gala: Actress Stacey Dash Rips Hollywood 'Hypocrites'

Actress Stacey Dash, star of the movie and TV series Clueless, appeared at the Media Research Center's 2014 Dishonors Gala. Dash ripped Hollywood as being full of "hypocrites." The conservative actress explained how the city's residents don't practice what they preach: "Want proof? There are no movies made in Hollywood. They make them in places like Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina. Do you know…
Scott Whitlock
September 27th, 2014 12:05 PM

AP, MSNBC Trying to Downplay Terrorism in Reporting on Okla. Beheading

The establishment press, and now apparently the FBI, have a problem on their hands: an alleged killer who converted to Islam; expressed sentiments favored by terrorists; killed a woman by employing terrorists' favored method, i.e., beheading; shouted Islamic slogans while carrying out his evil deed; and was trying to kill someone else when another armed person shot and wounded him. Their problem…
Tom Blumer
September 27th, 2014 9:31 AM

Bozell & Graham Column: Jay Carney's Pinocchio Problem

By now, everyone knows that there’s a revolving door between Democratic politics and the “objective” news media. But does it have to spin so fast? On September 10, CNN announced it hired former White House press secretary Jay Carney as a commentator, citing his “invaluable voice for the network” after his five years inside the Obama administration. By that afternoon and in heavy rotation in the…
Brent Bozell and Tim Graham
September 27th, 2014 8:47 AM

DNC Chair Also Used 'Back of the Hand' Barb Last Month on Fla.'s Scott

Debbie has been caught doing it again. Early this month, Democratic National Committe Chairmwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz went after Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, claiming that he "has given women the back of his hand," and that "Republican tea party extremists like Scott Walker are ... grabbing us by the hair and pulling us back." I wrote at the time that Wasserman-Schultz's supposed "…
Tom Blumer
September 26th, 2014 11:30 PM

Pro-Lifers at Michigan College Get 'Who Let These F---ers on Campus?'

Kelli Kopetz at JillStanek.com reported on the kind of guff that pro-life protesters get on campus. Students for Life set up an informative Planned Parenthood Project display at Grand Valley State University in Michigan. The display features statistics about Planned Parenthood from the organization’s own annual reports. An unhappy feminist student asked as she passed by (several times), “Who let…
Tim Graham
September 26th, 2014 10:50 PM