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[youtube ApYih-e-1KI] Last night on Anderson Cooper 360, there was a political panel discussion that focused on the growing doubts over whether racial epithets had, in fact, been hurled at members of the Congressional Black Caucus on the day of

What happens when a conservative politician makes a reasonable and legally sound argument challenging the push for same-sex marriage? His words are twisted to make him look like a hateful bigot, thus setting off a media ruckus. That’s the case

We’ve already seen in the past how symbiotic the relationship is between MSNBC (whose ratings are cratering among adults 25-54) and Media Matters. Witness the now infamous “interview” conducted by suspended MSNBC employee David Shuster and Andrew Breitbart. His question

Ever wonder what it must be like to be standing right in the middle of the action when a huge story breaks? Thanks to Kerry Picket at the Washington Times, you can come close to that experience. Except, in this

Rachel Maddow had a story to tell. The story was that Hannah Giles and James O’Keefe’s ACORN videos were “severely edited” to make an innocent man who did the right thing look as though he was doing something nefarious, immoral

Over the past few days there has been a manufactured firestorm over comments Erick Erickson made on his local Georgia radio show last week. You can hear his full remarks by clicking here. Today the White House joined in the

The other day on his local radio program, RedState.com blogger and CNN Contributor Erick Erickson delivered a 13 minute segment on the census and the lengthier, American Community Survey (ACS). It was a solid bit of talk-radio monologue, including extensive

Yesterday we asked our readers for information about this guy: Quincy Pundit thinks they found him. According to them, this guy is a dead-ringer for Brian Dimarzio. Considering Dimarzio is the Field Director for the Nevada Democratic Party and prior

Over the past two days, BigGovernment.com has been exposing the identities of members of IBEW Local 357 who taunted, harassed, intimidated and threw eggs at peaceful Tea Party protestors in Harry Reid’s hometown of Searchlight, Nevada last weekend. This could

When thousands of peaceful, Tea Party protestors came to Harry Reid’s hometown of Searchlight, Nev. last Saturday, you would have thought that the favorite son of this hardscrabble, mining town would garner tons of local support. Not so. Members of

Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE) has announced their annual awards for investigative journalism. I’m sure you’ve already guessed the winner in the “On-line” category. Of course, it was a tough call for them. The competition was stiff: Big Hollywood’s expose

There are rumblings that journalism schools, as we have known them, are on the decline in America. It’s assumed that this is tied to the decline in job opportunities in newsrooms and magazines as those industries die an agonizingly slow

ObamaCare and ACORN dominated the subject this past week with guests Mike Flynn, Adam Baldwin, Andrew Breitbart, Kurt Schlichter, Jeremy Boering and Patrick (Patterico) Frey chiming in. This week’s highlight show also features my repeal strategy for the Republicans, Patterico’s

This is what it has come to. In this “news” column from the AP on the Tea Party rally in Harry Reid’s hometown of Searchlight, Nev., yesterday, the AP puts the burden of proof on Andrew Breitbart to prove that

I wonder if MSNBC can get its money back on that special “Watergate Jr.” graphic and the ominous theme music they used when throwing their resources (and reputations) at James O’Keefe? The charges against O’Keefe and three other men have

What happens when a journalist asks the right questions and gets a politician a few minutes past their talking points? Well, sometimes, as Michael Kinsley has pointed out, we get to the truth. That’s what happened this morning on WLS

The response from the left over CNN’s hiring of Erick Erickson as a political contributor has been typically over-the-top. From Salon (What was CNN Thinking?) to Huffington Post (It’s Enough to Make You Throw-up) to our pals at Media Matters

Last week, while trying to rally support for last minute maneuvers designed to push his health care “reform” scheme through the House of Representatives, President Obama made a revealing statement. “We are going to make history!” he exhorted a crowd

This past week, the Stage Right Show (below the fold) featured a great line-up of guest hosts because I was travelling on a cruise ship and unable to broadcast. Guest hosts included Adam Baldwin, Mike Rauseo, Billy Hallowell, Ben Shapiro

James O’Keefe has to be destroyed in some way. And the best way you can attack an effective conservative in America today is to call him a racist. In the past year the tactic has been used against Rush Limbaugh,

Howard Zinn wants teachers to bring in whatever materials they want to your child’s class room. He wants them to use their own judgement to teach whatever they think is appropriate. He wants them to subvert the rules regarding the

**Post updated with higher quality video and audio. A funny thing happened on the last day of CPAC. Max Blumenthal, recently corrected and embarrassed “journalist” from Salon.com paraded through the convention with a camera crew. Like last year, he was

On this week’s highlight show (listen in below the fold), we start with John Nolte talking about the incredible back-and-forth he had this week with Roger Ebert over his semi-coherent Twitter ramblings. We also have an interview with Andrew Breitbart

On Monday, February 22nd, a very special, one-night-only theatrical event will take place at the Geffen Playhouse in Westwood, CA. With proceeds going to benefit the American Red Cross, an all-star cast will perform a staged reading of 110 Stories,

On this week’s highlight show, we start with the hilarious”feud” between Andrew Breitbart and “TV’s Andy Levy” from Fox News’ “Red Eye” that began on Twitter and ended up on “The Stage Right Show.” They were arguing about Ben Shapiro’s

Max Blumenthal is attempting to stand behind his story. His article at Salon.com remains unchanged even though the Village Voice and Dave Weigel at The Washington Independent have written detailed corrections contradicting Blumenthal’s post. At his personal website he recounts

David Weigel at the Washington Independent interviewed Marcus Epstein, organizer of the “Race and Conservatism” event that has been labeled as a “Racist Forum.” He flatly denies allegations that have been made that James O’Keefe worked at the event or

**UPDATED** 2/3/10, 1:26 PM PST Max Blumenthal has called my post yesterday at Big Journalism “fact-challenged” and “riddled with falsehoods”. I found five assertions in the piece that I had lied. I will address them in order of their appearance:

It started with a blog post at something called One People’s Project, in which someone named Daryle Jenkins claimed: (In 2006) ..there was this white supremacist forum that we had called attention to and eventually attended that featured American Renaissance’s

Last week, Howard Zinn passed away. It was only a few weeks after the History Channel had premiered the film “The People Speak” honoring his controversial book “A People’s History of the United States.” Prof. Zinn never hid the fact

We all laugh a lot about Keith Olbermann and his manic, over-the-top style, but I suggest that you look beyond his performance (bordering on self-parody in light of Jon Stewart’s recent skewering) and read the text of his “Special Comments.”

Two very reliable web sites (Patterico and Politico) are reporting two different versions of the same basic story: The identity of Ellie Light. From Ben Smith: Well, the mystery may be over. A woman who said her name was, in

The first thing you need to know about “Race,” the new play by David Mamet currently running at the Barrymore Theatre on Broadway, is that it isn’t really about race. Well, not entirely about race. The setting is a conference

The same country that brought us Leni Riefenstahl is now set to deliver Hope: The Obama Musical. I’m serious, they are really doing this. The musical is set to open in Frankfurt on Jan. 17th and, in all fairness, it

Fox News has signed former Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin as a contributor: ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) – Sarah Palin, former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate, will take her conservative message to Fox News as a regular commentator, the