NBC Profiles Mia Love's 'Historic' Run for Congress in Utah

Wednesday's Today show on NBC ran a four and a half minute piece profiling Saratoga Springs, Utah, Mayor, and congressional candidate Mia Love, who has a very good chance of being the first black female Republican elected to Congress. MSNBC's Daily Rundown show on Tuesday ran a similar report on the Utah Republican. On the July 4 Today, guest co-anchor Willie Geist introduced the report:
Brad Wilmouth
July 4th, 2012 12:39 PM

Chris Rock Tweets With Sneer: 'Happy White People's Independence Day

Perhaps Chris Rock should consider following Alec Baldwin out the Twitter door after this sneering Fourth of July tweet at all his white fans (and patriotic people of every race):  "Happy white peoples independence day the slaves weren't free but I'm sure they enjoyed fireworks". This is the same guy that compared the Tea Party to bratty racist kids who act insane before they go to bed:
Tim Graham
July 4th, 2012 12:27 PM

Charlie Daniels Column: Our Independence Has Been Paid for With the Bl

This week we celebrate the 236th year of American independence, purchased and defended with the blood of patriots. We won our Revolution against all odds fighting, what at that time was, the greatest standing army and most powerful navy in the world.
Charlie Daniels
July 4th, 2012 11:57 AM

Sun-Times Columnist 'Celebrates' Fourth of July by Calling Republicans

On a day when most normal Americans are relaxing and celebrating the Fourth of July with family and friends, Chicago Sun-Times columnist Neil Steinberg is giving full vent to his Liberal Rage Syndrome by angrily lashing out at Republicans by labeling them as the "treason party." Oh, he pretends he COULD be labeling them as such but won't. However, this disingenous denial is belied by the fact…
P.J. Gladnick
July 4th, 2012 10:22 AM

Joan Walsh on GOP: 'White, Older Base That Doesn’t Quite Understand

Let's call a spade a spade: the arrogance, hypocrisy and racism of Salon's Joan Walsh knows no bounds. On PBS's Tavis Smiley Show Monday, this so-called "editor at large" had the nerve to depict some Republicans as "a white, older base that doesn’t quite understand the way healthcare works" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
July 4th, 2012 10:17 AM

Happy Independence Day

NewsBusters wishes all of its readers a Happy Independence Day. In honor of the event, the following is from HBO's docudrama "John Adams":
NB Staff
July 4th, 2012 10:07 AM

The Media vs. America: Scorning on the Fourth of July

For most Americans, the Fourth of July is an occasion to remember how remarkable America is, and to celebrate the wisdom of the Founding Fathers in establishing a nation where freedom is the order of the day. But over the years, the Media Research Center has caught journalists using Independence Day as an occasion for scorn and condemnation. Here are a few examples, drawn from MRC's Notable…
Rich Noyes
July 4th, 2012 9:38 AM

MSNBC's Harris-Perry Marks July 4 By Noting American Imperialism and G

You know you're watching MSNBC when the ruminations on Independence Day are tied directly to Obama. On Sunday, MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry promised, "Up next, my footnote for the Fourth of July, which is, of course, Malia Obama's birthday." It was another left-wing lecture about all our historic black marks: "But it's ours, all of it. The imperialism, the genocide, the slavery, also the…
Tim Graham
July 4th, 2012 7:28 AM

Who's Our Sexiest Founding Father

Here's a distasteful take on July 4. Parade magazine is holding an online poll "Who Is Our Sexiest Founding Father?" They wrote: "Before there was George and Brad, there was George and Ben -- just two of America’s frolicsome founding-fathers causing a kerfuffle in the 1700s. Who is the sexiest of them all? Read on, then vote!" Frolicsome founders? Unsurprisingly, in the lead is George…
Tim Graham
July 4th, 2012 7:26 AM

CNN, ESPN Commentator: Gay Agenda Is The Constitution

The popular speech website Ted.com posted a speech in June from CNN and ESPN commentator L.Z. Granderson called "The Myth of the Gay Agenda." This is a terrible title, since Granderson actually claimed that the gay agenda matches the U.S. Constitution, more or less. He also naturally connects this "mythical" agenda to civil rights for women and blacks.  Not only did he hate the words "gay…
Tim Graham
July 4th, 2012 6:52 AM

Daily Kos: July 4 for 'Rebels', Not 'Bootlickers

For July 4 thoughts, it's probably not the best idea to start at the Daily Kos. Meteor Blades wrote a piece emphasizing the idea of patriotism is for "rebels" and "dissidents," not for "bootlickers." The writer can't stand that patriots believe in American exceptionalism: "They make this claim as if—besides giving us impressive and justifiably revered notions of liberty and justice—our…
Tim Graham
July 4th, 2012 6:25 AM

Howler of the Night at AP: 'Illegal Immigration Has Dramatically Dropp

A write-up with a current time stamp of Tuesday afternoon on how shocked (shocked, I tell you) legal Mexican immigrants and Mexican illegal aliens in the U.S. are that the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) just won a plurality of the popular vote in "their homeland" by the the Associated Press's Julie Watson posited as a fact a statement so obviously false that you have to wonder if she…
Tom Blumer
July 3rd, 2012 11:38 PM

Heritage Health Care Expert: ObamaCare Just as Unsettled Matter Now as

“The wheels on this health-care law were already rickety and starting to fall off. I think that the Court's decisions are just going to make the wheels fall off that much faster.” That was Heritage Foundation Center for Health Policy Studies director Nina Owcharenko's assessment of Thursday's Supreme Court ruling in the ObamaCare cases.
John Bates
July 3rd, 2012 10:31 PM

Bozell Column: The Mob Presses On John Roberts

Is anyone surprised that the ink wasn’t dry on Chief Justice John Roberts’ incoherent switcheroo before Team Obama was again denying ObamaCare is a tax? Why did he do it? There is no doubt that the Left waged a war on the court’s public image. Just as Obama lectured at the justices during his State of the Union address for the Citizens United decision, so Obama and his media minions prepared…
Brent Bozell
July 3rd, 2012 10:22 PM