Salon Editor-in-Chief Accuses Conservatives of Distorting Facts, Then

Rusty Weiss
July 22nd, 2010 2:38 AM
If you're going to write an article blasting the opposition for distorting facts, it absolutely behooves one to double check all of their own statements for accuracy. Such is the case of Joan Walsh, Editor-in-Chief of Salon, who recently penned a piece titled, The Shame of Right-Wing "Journalism".  The article includes the sub-heading, "Andrew Breitbart and Tucker Carlson distort facts to smear…
 

Obama Fan Roland Martin’s Column on CNN.com Rips GOP ‘Old Bag of T

Matthew Balan
October 22nd, 2008 5:47 PM
CNN contributor Roland Martin’s Wednesday column on CNN.com bluntly accused Republicans of exhibiting "fear and desperation" in their criticism of Barack Obama: "McCain's campaign is no longer about issues. He and his supporters want to bring up anything and everything to derail Obama, and nothing is sticking, so they just keep returning to their old bag of tricks." This "bag" apparently includes…
 

CNN’s Drew Griffin Does a Real Fact-Check on Obama/Ayers Connection

Matthew Balan
October 7th, 2008 4:21 PM
During a report on Monday’s Anderson Cooper 360 program, CNN investigative correspondent Drew Griffin presented many of the missing details about the relationship between Barack Obama and left-wing terrorist William Ayers that two earlier "Truth Squad" reports on the network on Sunday and Monday omitted. Griffin stated that despite the spin of the Obama campaign and their mainstream media…
 

Essay: The Washington Post, Journalistic Magicians

Seton Motley
July 8th, 2008 4:03 PM
They make Reverend Wright and Trinity United disappear The Media,Lining it Up And for their next trick, the media will stuff Illinois Senator Barack Obama’s liberalism back into his hat. On Sunday, the Washington Post’s Jonathan Weisman gave us a 1,152 word news-ish story entitled “Obama Addresses His Faith”, which was a glowingly open forum for Obama to deliver “a highly personal account of…
 

Chgo Sun-Times: Denial of Rev. Wright's Honorary Degree an 'Injustice

Warner Todd Huston
June 8th, 2008 1:57 PM
Leave it to Mary Mitchell of the Chicago Sun-Times to get her kufi in a twist over the decision by Northwestern University to withdraw the honorary degree they had intended to bestow upon Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama's racist "spiritual mentor." In the sort of backwards logic of a woeful Black victim mentality -- Mitchell’s specialty -- Mitchell is claiming that the decision to…
 

David Gergen on CNN: The Media Needs to ‘Move On’ From Rev. Wright

Matthew Balan
April 28th, 2008 1:21 PM
Later in the segment on CNN’s "Newsroom" between Tony Harris, David Gergen, and Roland Martin after the Reverend Jeremiah Wright speech at the National Press Club (which Mark Finkelstein blogged about earlier), Gergen suggested that "it’s time for him [Rev. Wright] to get off the stage, and frankly, for the media, I suggest, to move on." He also twice characterized the whole affair as a "sideshow…