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Take a look at this news report from Mobile, Alabama’s WALA on the illegal-immigration bill making its way through the Alabama state house: Is it possible that the reporter couldn’t find anyone to speak out in favor of the bill?

From Agence France-Presse: Turkey is demolishing a monument built to promote friendship with neighboring Armenia. For decades, relations between the two countries have been soured by the massacre of Armenians at the hands of Ottoman Turks in 1915.

Here is how the AP describes the video below: “Mobs set two churches on fire in western Cairo on Sunday as clashes broke out between Muslims and Christians, killing up to 12 people and injuring more than 200.” “Clashes between

From the Associated Press: Holding signs and chanting “We love sluts!” approximately 2,000 protesters marched Saturday in Boston, as the city officially become the latest to join an international series of protests against sexism and rape, known as “SlutWalks.” As

From the Associated Press: Al-Qaida on Friday confirmed the killing of Osama bin Laden and warned of retaliation, saying Americans’ “happiness will turn to sadness.”

From the Associated Press: Since the early hours after the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, the U.S. story about what happened inside the compound has changed sharply.

From the Associated Press: Protesters in the Philippines expressed their anger over the death of Osama Bin Laden on Friday, as controversy continued around the world over the manner of his killing.

On Tuesday evening the New York Observer posted an interview with Andrew Breitbart written by Kat Stoeffel. In it she invented a new and preposterous claim about the Shirley Sherrod story: According to Mr. Breitbart, fellow Tea Partier Glenn Beck

Sen. Kyl actually said 90% of what Planned Parenthood does is abortions.

This morning on Talk Radio Network’s nationally syndicated, “America’s Morning News,” George Will told co-hosts John McCaslin and Amy Holmes that he is happy to see Glenn Beck leave the Fox News Network. Will said that Beck’s “drift into more

Hubris defined. [youtube bOM5OnY5uDk nolink] The president of tax-exempt, Soros-funded Media Matters for America didn’t take this opportunity to reprimand Mr. Matthews for his recent demand that President Obama produce his birth certificate. Also not mentioned was the fact that

What has happened to the writers of ‘Glee’? I don’t get it. These guys pride themselves on being the vanguards of tolerance and understanding. They have been awarded by no less than GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) for

Well, that didn’t take long. The useful idiots and Talking Points Memo have started echoing NPR’s false defense that their recently released e-mails show that they rejected the gift offered by the pretend Muslim Brotherhood front group in Project Veritas’

Just like in Watergate, where the initial players tried to write-off the scandal as a “third-rate break-in,” the bigger story lies in the power wielded by executives trying desperately to cover their tracks and pretend they didn’t do something extraordinarily

As reported here at Big Journalism on Tuesday, NPR made seriously conflicting statements when attempting to perform damage control in the wake of the undercover video report released by Project Veritas. NPR insisted that they had “repeatedly refused” a $5

Just like in Watergate, where the initial players tried to write-off the scandal as a “third-rate break-in,” the bigger story lies in the power wielded by executives trying desperately to cover their tracks and pretend they didn’t do something extraordinarily

When James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas released their latest undercover video investigation targeting National Public Radio this morning, NPR was lightening fast with their response. They denounced Vice President of Finance Ron Schiller’s comments and said they were “appalled” by them.

After decades of perennial best seller status, Ayn Rand’s epic novel “Atlas Shrugged” has finally made its way to the silver screen. “Atlas Shrugged, Part 1” is due to arrive on April 15, 2011 and its stunning trailer has already

It’s come to this. The totalitarian Ministry of Newspeak er, I mean Media Matters for America has so much Soros money that they actually employ a guy to watch what we are saying on Twitter, even if it’s trash talk

What a difference a day makes. On Monday, former “Journ-O-list” gadfly and current Slate.com blogger Dave Weigel explained to the universe why the video investigation of Planned Parenthood conducted by Live Action has “fizzled“. In a column reeking more of

Remember when undercover, hidden camera sting operations conducted by citizen journalists were criticized and ridiculed as “not real journalism”. Remember when any report produced under those auspices were supposed to be immediately disregarded as a hoax and severely edited? And,

Well… not THAT dirty work, but pretty close. In an article released in today’s Politico, reporter Kate Nocera excitedly declared to her readers that she had “exclusively obtained” a letter signed by 27 liberal groups addressed to Congress calling on

With the over-the-top headline: “Why Is Live Action Doctoring Its Planned Parenthood Audio?“, Media Matters of America has offered its readers (all the content producers at MSNBC and network news) a pitiful story meant to plant the idea that the

From Breitbart.tv: [youtube _ZCuQcSYV-I nolink] So, what was really up with the televised feed of Rep. Bachmann’s State of the Union response? Our sources tell us that CNN had originally agreed to use the live feed set up by Tea

MSNBC’s Chris Matthews has gone on a three-day Bachmann-bashing binge over a speech she gave in Iowa last weekend. In the speech, Rep. Bachmann pointed out that the scourge of slavery was a horrible chapter in our country’s history, but

The politically correct chickens are coming home to roost in the Orwellian world of the organized left’s free-expression-stifling speech codes. To paraphrase Martin Niemöller’s famous admonition about complacency with totalitarian fascists: “First they came for Rush Limbaugh and called his

Did the team that promised to bring diplomatic glory back to the USA misspell Chinese President Hu’s name on the White House web site? Here is a screen cap grabbed at 11:30 PM ET (click on it for full-size view):

Rep. James Clyburn (D- SC) went on government-funded radio Monday to advocate for censorship and government controlled “restraint on speech”. He positively yearns for the romantic time of the 1960’s, before the internet, when the government’s “Fairness Doctrine” controlled the

Debra Saunders: An island of sanity and resilience in San Francisco and in the media.

It’s impossible to work in the theatre industry and not have colleagues, business partners and life-long friends who are gay. I have always viewed this fact as one of the most wonderful and enriching dynamics of the theatre community. It’s

ABC News continues to behave like they are working hand-in-hand with the Obama Administrations’ health care take-over message machine. The latest effort came from ABC News Political Director Amy Walter as she offered a harsh warning to Republicans: Don’t mess

Washington Post blogger and left-wing Journo-List founder Ezra Klein made a curious admission on MSNBC today: Such an old document is impossible to understand? Forgetting the obvious slams that could be made at young Mr. Klein with regard to his

Pretty astounding to see such a lack of effort to conceal the regurgitation of the President’s talking points. Remember when media existed to question The Man? No? Me either. [youtube GGvQ_1VPYfY nolink]

Actor Chris Tierney, dressed in the iconic Spider-Man superhero costume, teetered on the edge of the set piece representing the Brooklyn Bridge. After a dramatic moment, Tierney leapt out toward the audience, just as Director Julie Taymor had choreographed. The

Try to count the instances of “speaking truth to power” by our stalwart White House press corps: