Bozell Column: The NAACP Cries Racism

Almost from the moment Barack Obama declared he would run for president in 2007, our enraptured media elite has been accusing anyone who would stand in Obama’s way with racism. The question was never whether Obama was ready to govern the country, but whether the country was ready for the historic awesomeness of Obama.Pity the NAACP. We now have a black president, and they must convince (racist)…
Brent Bozell
July 20th, 2010 9:23 PM

Dylan Ratigan Shouts Down Conservative Guest for Objecting to Liberal

On his July 20 afternoon program, Dylan Ratigan shouted down the Washington Examiner's J.P. Freire for challenging the MSNBC host's liberal orthodoxy and accusing him of giving more air time to the liberal panelist appearing opposite him.Eschewing any sense of balanced reporting, Ratigan thundered: "I said I'm in charge of the show. I decide who I'll talk to. I might spend the entire time talking…
Alex Fitzsimmons
July 20th, 2010 6:16 PM

Did MSNBC Adjust Website in Response to Diversity Criticism

Is MSNBC concerned about charges of a lack of racial diversity among its on-air staff? Perhaps the cable network is realizing that its glass house is increasingly at risk of shattering from all the stones it keeps hurling at the allegedly-racist Tea Party movement.The folks at Inside Cable News noticed a slight change in the header at the MSNBC TV homepage. See if you can spot it in the picture…
Lachlan Markay
July 20th, 2010 5:52 PM

The View's Hasselbeck Unloads on Kathy Griffin, But Joy Behar Waters D

On her Bravo show last Tuesday night, Kathy Griffin trashed Sen. Scott Brown's two daughters as "prostitutes." CNN reporter Dana Bash, who was present with her husband John King, erupted into laughter. Yesterday on ABC's "The View," co-host Joy Behar tried to throw a wet blanket on the ensuing outrage over the "joke," which included condemnations of Griffin's comments by Scott Brown himself and…
Matt Hadro
July 20th, 2010 5:40 PM

Time's Padgett Likens 'Misogynous' Catholic Church to Segregationists

Time magazine's Tim Padgett, who claims to be a Catholic, used the rose-colored glasses of his leftism to mercilessly bash his own church in an article on Monday where he compared Catholic bishops to "white Southern preachers [who] weren't ashamed to degrade African-Americans," labeled the Church "misogynous," and accused the institution of an "increasingly spiteful bigotry" against homosexuals.…
Matthew Balan
July 20th, 2010 5:29 PM

NYT's Friedman Defends CNN's Nasr and Hezbollah Founder Fadlallah, the

Tom Friedman stepped into a journalistic controversy in his Sunday New York Times column, "Can We Talk?" protesting CNN's firing of senior editor of Middle East affairs Octavia Nasr for posting this message on Twitter upon the death of Hezbollah founder Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah: Sad to hear of the passing of Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah... One of Hezbollah's giants I respect a lot.…
Clay Waters
July 20th, 2010 5:17 PM

Wealth Redistribution Should Start at the Screen Actors Guild

The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) is conflict with itself. Like all unions, although it’s ostensibly in existence to help the little people, what’s really happening is that prominent members of SAG are making a killing without any real redistribution of their wealth to other members or to society.  The hypocrisy of this is evident when we consider that some of the more prominent members of SAG…
AWR Hawkins
July 20th, 2010 5:01 PM

Book of Poetry, Cartoons Helps Explain Conservative Values

Craig Wieland never set out to write a book of poetry. “I’m a contractor,” he said with a chuckle. But what began as family dinner-table conversations to help his daughters understand social issues in America have culminated in a book of poems and cartoons about conservative ideas. Wieland, the owner of a nationwide construction contracting company, proved you don’t need a writer’s background or…
Melissa Afable
July 20th, 2010 3:47 PM

ABC's Claire Shipman Laments Lack of Political Will to Extend Unemploy

Good Morning America's Claire Shipman on Tuesday delivered a one-sided report on unemployment benefits and the fact that they end after 99 weeks. Reporting on those who have reached the limit, the so-called "99ers," she asserted, "...There's no hope in sight right now." Shipman featured three clips of those who are at the cap and one of Democrat Debbie Stabenow, who is advocating for an extension…
Scott Whitlock
July 20th, 2010 3:18 PM

CBS Celebrates: Democrats 'Won A Major Battle' On Unemployment Benefit

After the network pushed Congress for weeks to extend unemployment benefits, CBS's Early Show cheered the expected passage of the legislation on Tuesday. Co-host Harry Smith noted how Democrats "have enough votes to break a GOP filibuster" and White House correspondent Chip Reid later added: "Democrats appear to have won a major battle in the long fight to extend unemployment benefits."Reid…
Kyle Drennen
July 20th, 2010 3:15 PM

Bozell Statement on Networks' Lack of Coverage of Racist Remarks from

Brent Bozell
July 20th, 2010 3:01 PM

NPR Mourns Global Cooler-Turned-Global Warmer Scientist

Few seem to remember now, but throughout the 1970s, the advertised threat to society from global cooling was as prevalent as the current global warming alarmism. Publications including The New York Times, Time and Newsweek - the same ones hyping the dangers of a warming planet in 2010 - were warning about global cooling then. A prominent global cooler from that era has recently passed away.…
Jeff Poor
July 20th, 2010 2:19 PM

Today Show Highlights Sarah Palin's 'Refudiate,' Skipped Biden Gaffe

NBC's Peter Alexander, on Tuesday's Today show, mocked Sarah Palin for making up a word, 'refudiate' in her tweets about the Ground Zero mosque controversy. However when Joe Biden, the gaffe machine that he can be, made an arguably much more embarrassing mistake back in March, of falsely asserting that the Irish prime minister's mother was dead, the Today show, as Newsbusters' Scott Whitlock…
Geoffrey Dickens
July 20th, 2010 1:07 PM

Media Mocks Palin Over 'Refudiate,' But Obama Given Pass For Gaffes

George W. Bush’s linguistic difficulties, such as “Is our children learning,” “If the terriers and barrifs are torn down, this economy will grow” and “They misunderestimated me” made him the butt of many a joke back in the day, especially since they used to be played on cable news channels. Yet the current occupant of the White House—not to mention his vice president—does not seem to have…
Matt Robare
July 20th, 2010 1:05 PM