NPR: ACORN Hassles Just 'The Problems of Being Poor and Minority in Ur
September 18th, 2009 4:16 PM
That, and the Washington Post reports on how ACORN was just "playing along" with the sting artists who caught them on videotape. You knew that was coming, didn't you? You already know that the freelance sting artists who zapped ACORN are being -- and have been -- referred to as "racists" and puppets of conservative radio and Fox News. Now, ACORN is utilizing a tried and true (but not very…
Down Steeply Since Late Jan., Big 3 Evening Newscasts Stuck at Low Sum
September 17th, 2009 5:16 PM
After a summer swoon, you would think that the evening newscasts of the Big 3 networks would start to recover a bit now that many Americans are back from vacations, kids are back in school, and fall routines are getting established or re-established. So far, you would be wrong. It's early, and there's still plenty of time this fall to recover, but during the time period after Labor Day, the…
RNC's Steele Rebukes CNN’s Blitzer on Race
September 16th, 2009 9:08 PM
RNC Chairman Michael Steele shot back at CNN’s Wolf Blitzer after the anchor tried to smear conservatives with racism on Wednesday’s Situation Room. The CNN anchor pointed out a racist sign at a Tea Party, and Steele replied, “Don’t hold up one person as an example of behavior by everyone.” The RNC chairman also rebuked Blitzer after the anchor pointed out the GOP’s dearth of minorities in…
Liberals Manage to Find Classism in Williams's Tantrum
September 14th, 2009 8:45 PM
Who would have thought Karl Marx would rear his ugly head at the US Open. But some liberals just could not help attributing Serena Williams's match-ending outburst in her semifinal match against Kim Clijsters to class warfare.Here's what happened. Williams supposedly foot-faulted on her second serve to put Clijsters one point away from the match. Rather than challenging the call or sucking it up…
Newspaper Association Cancels Conference in South Carolina Over Rep. W
September 14th, 2009 12:03 PM
The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), also known as the Black Press of America, which is a non-partisan 501(c) 3 tax-exempt organization, has decided to show its disapproval of South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson's "You Lie" remarks by canceling a convention in the state. "Rep. Wilson's remarks were racist, disrespectful and a disingenuous violation - not only of President Obama - but…
MSNBC, Thy Name is Racist
September 12th, 2009 8:59 PM
You would think MSNBC would have learned after getting caught in a deliberately doctored piece of video, which tried to portray town hall protestors as white racists. The video showed a man ‘packing heat' outside an event where the President was speaking, but was edited in such a way as to conceal the fact that the man was actually African-American. Yet, the opposite has occurred. MSNBC seems…
Scarborough Attempts To Sedate Delusional Joe Klein
September 11th, 2009 3:11 PM
Is there a doctor within shouting distance of 30 Rockefeller Center? Joe Klein, a guest on this morning’s edition of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” is suffering from massive historical hallucinations.In fact, just make that general hallucinations.Among the litany of reality-bending ideas he presented were: The overheated rhetoric during the Bush years was much less disturbing than the overheated rhetoric…
MSNBC’s David Shuster: GOP ‘All White Males With Short Hair Cuts
September 10th, 2009 6:25 PM
During the 4PM ET hour of live coverage on MSNBC Thursday, co-host David Shuster denounced the behavior of Republicans at President Obama’s address to Congress, declaring: “You look at the image of the Republican Party, all white males with short haircuts. They look sort of angry. No women, no minorities, and it looks like they’ve sort of become unhinged.”Shuster and co-host Tamron Hall moderated…
CNN Tries To Tie Gov. Perry to Secessionist, Hints He's a Closet Racis
September 2nd, 2009 6:33 PM
On Wednesday’s Newsroom, CNN’s Rick Sanchez used a recent pro-Texas secession rally in Austin to renew attention on Governor Rick Perry’s April 2009 speech to a tea party where he appeared to endorse this political view. Sanchez, along with CNN political analyst Roland Martin, later strongly hinted that Governor Perry could be painted as a racist for using “states’ rights” language.Sanchez began…
CNBC's Cramer on Glenn Beck Advertisers: 'I Think They All Come Back i
August 24th, 2009 5:21 PM
Keith Olbermann, Ed Schultz and the brain trust at ThinkProgress probably won't like this, but CNBC "Mad Money" host Jim Cramer thinks the Glenn Beck boycott won't have an impact on NewsCorp's (NASDAQ:NWSA), the parent company of Fox News, bottom line. During the "Stop Trading" segment on "Street Signs" Aug. 24, Cramer explained that Unilever (NYSE:UN) was going all out with its advertising, by…
Company on Decision to Pull Ads from Beck TV Show: 'We Do Not Want to
August 14th, 2009 2:55 PM
UPDATE: Sargento says Colors of Change did not influence company's decision (at bottom)What constitutes "hateful speech?" It depends on the views of the individual, or in this case the advocacy group propagating the claim. Earlier this week, Plymouth, Wisc.-based Sargento Food, Inc., along with several other companies, pulled their advertising from the Fox News Channel's "Glenn Beck" program,…
ABC Tries to Tie Health Care Town Hall Protesters to Hate Groups
August 14th, 2009 11:48 AM
ABC News correspondent Brian Ross tried to connect the health care town hall protesters to hate groups on Friday’s GMA. Ross cited the Southern Poverty Law Center, whose left-wing political affiliation he omitted, and used two sound bites from the SPLC’s Mark Potok, who hyped that President Obama supposedly “triggered fears among...white people...that they are somehow losing their country.”The…
