CBS Wants Walmart to Compromise with D.C. By Paying Higher Wages

O’Donnell: ‘Very smart’ to call for retail chain to give in.
Kristine Marsh

AP Heralds How Holder and Team Obama Stand for 'Voter Protection' in t

According to the Associated Press, the Obama administration has taken an aggressive stand in favor of “voter protection,” and Republicans in Texas and North Carolina are apparently in favor of voter assault. Reporters Keith Collins and Pete Yost summed up Attorney General Eric Holder’s speech to the National Urban League with an introductory flourish:
Tim Graham

Poll: People’s View of Race Relations Plummets 25 Points Since Obama

An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released earlier this week get a lot of attention for President Obama’s declining favorability rate especially as it pertains to his handling of the economy. What the media seemed to largely miss is that since January 2009, people’s opinion of race relations in this country has plummeted by 25 percentage points.
Noel Sheppard

PBS’s Judy Woodruff to Harry Reid: Why No Black Democrats In The Sen

Judy Woodruff sat down for a cordial conversation with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Wednesday’s PBS NewsHour, and the veteran anchor was not afraid to play up partisan and racial politics. For her final question, Woodruff asked Reid for his reaction to President Obama’s remarks last week on the Trayvon Martin saga and the plight of black men in America, but she added a second part to…
Paul Bremmer

Norah 'We Shouldn't Editorialize' O'Donnell Regularly Editorializes<p>

Norah O'Donnell had a memory lapse on Friday's CBS This Morning, as she expressed her disgust over San Diego Mayor Bob Filner's alleged sexual harassment of women. O'Donnell exclaimed, "I know we shouldn't editorialize, but this behaving badly – it's gone overboard at this point." [audio available here; video below the jump] The anchor apparently isn't self-aware, because she has regularly…
Matthew Balan

Confused Former Juror: Zimmerman 'Got Away With Murder' Yet Was Not Gu

Many were ready to convict George Zimmerman based on the poisonous claim made by race hucksters like Al Sharpton and reinforced by the leftist blogosphere that the verdict was in some way unfair. Now, ABC News reports, one juror has poured gasoline on that bonfire. She has come forward and said that Zimmerman “got away with murder” and feels that she owes an apology to Trayvon Martin’s parents…
Howard Portnoy

Jay-Z Slams George Zimmerman's Not Guilty Verdict as 'Blatant Racism

It's been nearly two weeks since George Zimmerman was acquitted of murdering black teenager Trayvon Martin, but the verdict continues to draw heated reaction from across the country. One of the latest responses came from Shawn Carter -- a rapper better known by his stage name of Jay-Z -- who declared that everyone knows the verdict “was wrong,” and it left him “really angry” because the…
Randy Hall

Leno: Pope Told Brazilians ‘Give Up False Idols of Success and Money

Jay Leno took some more comedic shots at NBC Thursday. During his Tonight Show opening monologue, Leno said, “In his speech earlier this week in Latin America, the Pope told the people to give up the false idols of success and money. That's the same thing NBC just told me.”
Noel Sheppard

On Media Mash, Brent Bozell Slams Media's Effusive Coverage of Obama's

On FNC's Hannity last night, NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell teed off on the media's effusive reaction to President Obama's remarks last Friday about race and the Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman case. Various journalists had described the President's speech as "extraordinary," "beautiful," and "a symphony." Bozell had a different word: "dishonest." (Video and partial transcript below the…

NB Staff

Oxford Dictionary to Adopt Gay-Friendly Marriage Definition

Reality, n. Pronunciation: Brit. /rɪˈalᵻti/ , U.S. /riˈælədi/ 1.Real existence; what is real rather than imagined or desired; the aggregate of real things or existences; that which underlies and is the truth of appearances or phenomena. 2. The opposite of however the Oxford Dictionary is going to redefine Marriage to suit current political taste. The Queen just signed gay marriage into law in…
Lauren Enk

Open Thread Friday

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NB Staff

Dems Leave Detroit in Ruins; Networks Won't Say Which Party Is to Blam

 It's now been a week since Detroit filed for bankruptcy and yet ABC, CBS and NBC have resisted considering what caused the financial failure, details such as the city's massively high tax rate, failed educational system and the total Democratic dominance for over 50 years. On Sunday's Meet the Press, anchor David Gregory bluntly asked Chuck Todd, a former Democratic operative, who was…
Scott Whitlock

‘Camp’ Short on Dads, Laughs

Ashley Ciandella

‘Suits’ – Scheming, Betrayal and Forgiveness

CMI Staff