Ready for your mainstream media Real Journalism of the day? Here is a 705-word article about something Maine GOP Gov. Paul LePage may or may not have said, according to two anonymous sources, contradicted by several on-the-record sources, and refuted by the governor himself. The gossip-as-reportage i
Well, it's good to see the New York Times finally paying attention to Democrats who tell bogus war stories: Here's video of Blumenthal saying he served in Vietnam. And here's video of him saying he didn't: What a total crapweasel. As this blog has long reported, the Left has had repeated issues with telling the...
Read MoreOne down. Fiftysomething to go. An apology from Gannett Wisconsin Media for getting duped by Astroturf Ellie: Next? *** I'll be discussing the Astroturf presidency tonight on Hannity/FNC at approx. 9:30pm Eastern.
Anatomy of a smear.
Remember Ashley Todd? She was the young Republican hate crimes hoaxer who carved a backwards "B" on her face and tried to blame it on an Obama supporter last fall. I took a lot of crap from from my own commenters for doubting her fishy story straight out of the box. At least you guys...
Read More“We believe it was an intentional act on his part to take his own life."
Reminder: This was the smear graphic spread on far Left blogs that accuses prominent conservatives of contributing to the death of Kentucky census worker Bill Sparkman. Note the caption at the bottom: "He reaped what they sowed." When will the Left retract the Kentucky census worker case smear against conservatives? I'm not holding my breath...
Read MoreP.C. strikes again.
Chilling details are emerging in the local Colorado press about violent black gangs who have been targeting white victims for months: Although police knew what was going on, citizens were left in the dark. More dangerously blind diversity-mongeringat work? Fear of litigation or accusations of profiling by the usual mau-mauers? You decide: Denver Police Chief...
Read MorePalin-bashers of pallor.
MSNBC host Chris Matthews, MSNBC reporter Norah O'Donnell, and MSNBC guest Joan Walsh shamelessly played the race card against Sarah Palin and her book-buying audience last week. In Michigan, O'Donnell smugly noted that Palin's fans were "largely white -- almost no minorities in this crowd." Matthews parroted the line, assailing the "white crowd." Walsh likened...
Read MoreI've been spotlighting various members of the speech-stifling "media justice" mob over the past few weeks (here and here). They are Marxist-inspired activists seeking to crack down on conservative political speech under the guise of combating “hate” and crusading for “diversity.” Remember: “Social justice” = redistribution of wealth and economic “rights.” “Media justice” = redistribution...
Read MoreJoshua Culling at the National Taxpayers Union has a handy primer on the gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia, plus overviews of state ballot initiatives across the country. Read and bookmark here. For NY-23, check 73wire, The Other McCain, Riehl World View, and TCOT Report. Mark Blumenthal at Pollster.com has analysis on NY-23 polls...
Read MoreOn ABC News this morning at George Stephanopoulos's This Week roundtable, fellow Fox News contributor and conservative radio talk show host Laura Ingraham took Charlie Gibson to task for his ignorance of the ACORN scandal (which, you'll remember, a condescending Gibson said he thinks the MSM should "leave to the cables.") Brava. Keep calling them...
Read MoreA reader just sent this fresh missive from the Fox News Deranged-foot soldiers at MoveOn: From: Noah T. Winer, MoveOn.org Civic Action
[email protected] Subject: Stay off FOX [Recipient name redacted] Date: Tuesday, October 20, 2009, 2:05 PM Dear MoveOn member, All year, FOX has worked 24/7 to block President Obama's agenda—repeating lies about "death panels,"...
Read MorePlus: Anita Dunn on getting around the "filter."
President Obama's New Era of Engagement does not include Fox News: Senior Obama administration officials took to the airwaves Sunday to accuse Fox News of pushing a particular point of view, one week after the administration fired its initial salvo to try to isolate the news network by accusing it of being a GOP mouthpiece....
Read MorePresident Obama with Anita Dunn, David Axelrod, Rahm Emanuel, and Robert Gibbs (via White House Flickr stream) My syndicated column today follows up on yesterday's Fox News Derangement Syndrome post. Who has Obama stocked his communications shop with, you ask? Beltway flacks for corruptocrats. Meet some of the key people behind the White House war...
Read MoreAll-whine zone.
Has the waahmbulance arrived at the White House yet? Because the taxpayer-subsidized whining is getting really old: Fox News points out that "a study by the Pew Research Center show
For once, Jon Stewart takes a break from Fox News-bashing to ask where the hell the establishment media reporters have been on the ACORN scandals. Behold his momentary lapse of sanity. *** Meanwhile: Classic ACORN CYA -- always going out of their way to minimize the problem of systemic, coordinated corruption as the "indefensible action...
Read MoreStung.
Photoshop credit: Leo Alberti ACORN Watch: A “sting”-ing indictment of media hypocrisy by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2009 Undercover journalism is only acceptable when it fits a liberal agenda. That is the message from “professional” reporters and left-wing activists outraged about three successful video stings targeting President Obama’s old friends at the left-wing, tax-subsidized...
Read MoreWho said it: "The real story to all this is how these myriad entities allow them to shuffle money around so much that no...
The Fishwrap of Record has finally seen fit to tell its readers about the latest ACORN scandals (the San Bernardino tapes, which don't get a mention, are beyond belief). True to form, the New York Times commits grievous sins of omission that whitewash the paper's own role in deliberately covering up ACORN's illicit activities before...
Read MoreOh, this is so rich. So, so rich. Norah O'Donnell of NBC News fretted this morning that the ACORN sting videos "might be viewed as entrapment." Yes, she actually said it. Mark Finkelstein has the transcript/video here. Now, let me remind Ms. O'Donnell of the glorious history of news "entrapment" at NBC News. Um, there...
Read MoreSeveral Chicago readers and Twitterers report that ABC News anchor Charlie Gibson told WLS-AM Chicago talk show hosts Don Wade and Roma this morning that the reason he hasn't covered the ACORN scandal is that he didn't know about it. Reader Patrick M. e-mails: Don and Roma pointed out that ABC's Jake Tapper reported on...
Read MoreWhat's more shameless than the Associated Press defying the wishes of a dying Marine's family and splashing his bloody body all over the wires? Why, the Huffington Post reprinting a massively large version of the image on its front page with an accompanying blog commentary praising the AP photographer's work as "tasteful" -- along with...
Read MoreTorrid.
David Brooks caught swamp fever a long time ago -- and I've been chronicling it for the past five years. But his symptoms have grown most acute in the Age of Obama. Last fall, his ejaculations about Obama's "achievatrons" inspired the nausea-inducing introduction to Culture of Corruption. Get out another airsickness bag. The New Republic...
Read MoreOh, you are just going to love MSNBC's explanation for why the network doctored up video of a black town hall protester carrying a gun to suggest that gun-toting Tea Party folks are all white racists. This takes the cake. I don't think there is a Cone of Shame big enough:
Photo credit: Joe Luppino-Esposito
Last night on Hannity, I reminded folks about how the New York Times made millions selling pro-Obama merchandise. Many other MSM outlets have profited from sales of Obama swag and propaganda. Now, check this out from Joe Luppino-Esposito at the Examiner:
Howard Kurtz at the Washington Post sheds a little light on how Rahm F'n Emanuel leaned on network news executives to carry President Obama's health care news conference. It's the Chicago way. Naw! You think!? And no, this is not how the previous administration operated: Tensions have been build