Ron Futrell

I don’t know if you’re aware of this, but people actually bet on the Super Bowl. Real money.  Yeah, they pick a team, watch the game, and either collect the cash or rip up the ticket. Don’t let the NFL

Few have changed the game of college basketball like former UNLV basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian. To some, those changes have not been positive, and they think Tark should be locked up in an NCAA prison somewhere beneath O.J. Simpson’s Heisman

The media never disappoints with its asinine twisting and turning to ensure political correctness. You can no longer say a beautiful woman is beautiful during the broadcast of a live sporting event.  ESPN has issued an apology for their play-by-play

Every year at this time, the topic comes up around our house: “What is your favorite Christmas show?” Every year I give the same answer. That little ol’ half hour special that first aired in 1965, A Charlie Brown Christmas.

Here it is–ABC making sure Barack Obama knows how he can win re=election and save the nation from disaster, both at the same time–and they will be there to help. You may have heard there’s this storm on the east

“The Chris Matthews Show” is always good for entertainment. A handful of libs sitting around a small table chatting about how best they can get Dear Leader elected.  Once a week is about all of this anybody can take. Andrew

The media is trying to figure out how this happened. How could Mitt Romney be blasting his way to the top of the polls after just one debate? Would you like a very simple answer? Here it is: The media

If the media is one thing—it is transparent. It is also leftist and predictable, but that would be three things. So, here we go with a prediction born of the leftist transparency we find with the Activist Old Media.  Sometime

Heaven help us. This president just goes out there and says whatever sounds good at the moment, and the Activist Old Media watches from the sidelines, or often, encourages the deception.  Or, I could use the harsh word and call

To re-elect Barack Obama, the media has a long list of what they expect us to believe. We would have to “suspend disbelief” (as Hillary Clinton once said of General David Petraeus) to vote for Barack Obama on November 6th.

The Executive Editor of Time Magazine gets paid the big bucks to go on The Chris Matthews Show to say brilliant things like this: “The economic question is the heart of this whole race, who do you trust to handle

How can you check facts from a Convention before it begins. Easy. We know exactly what they’re going to say.  Let’s run down some of the things that will be said early and often and do our fact checking now.

Oh, the Activist Old Media finds many ways to blast people over the head with bias, but this common trick is much more subtle.  The networks send stories from the Mother Ship to their affiliates and you watch them on

This is the culture that Republicans and Mitt Romney are fighting during this election. Off-hand leftist comments in newsrooms are as common as Max Factor in the makeup room. This was just on display for all to hear.  I’ve spent

It’s tough to watch late night TV these days. David Letterman is just a bitter, angry old man. Jimmy Kimmel will take advantage of the “Late Show” host’s decline once ABC moves “Nightline” out of his way, but that doesn’t

It’s just a little word and you have to be paying attention to catch it, but it changes everything.  ABC’s David Kerley talking about the upcoming Republican National Convention on Good Morning America: “In Tampa, expect to hear a lot of

Quick question here, what was the price of a gallon of gas the day Barack Obama took office?  I ask this question because the media is talking a lot about gas prices right now, but they are leaving out the

I expected the worst when I heard ABC and NBC were going to do in-depth examinations of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. As a life long Mormon and journalist, I had gotten used to the media clouding

I don’t know what else to call this, other than a lie. Should I play nice and say it sounds like the President is being just a little disingenuous? Perhaps he didn’t know what was on his own web site.

Never forget the media template for this election. Barack Obama is the Rock Star who connects with voters on a level never before seen and there can be no other Rock Star. They pulled it off in 2008, they will

One of the biggest issues in this election, and every election as far as the eye can see, is stopping voter fraud. Preserving and protecting the process is essential to the future of our Republic. There have been recent victories

Why is the Activist Old Media so obsessed with Mitt Romney’s taxes?  He has released what is federally required, he has been as transparent as most other presidential candidates, so why the obsession? The short answer is that as Barack

A year ago I wrote a column here on Big Journalism detailing violence by leftists and expressing my desire that my friends in the media would spot it, expose it, and perhaps hold firm to their promise to “protect” the

The “Tiffany Network” is trying to sell that cheap cubic zirconia garbage. What else would you call journalism in which the biggest questions of the day go unasked in order to help the reportorial subject? Nancy Cordes shows up to

It was a safe prediction that I made earlier this week that the Activist Old Media would work to destroy Mitt Romney’s choice for vice president. The attacks began even before the early morning announcement of Paul Ryan.  Witness CNN

I make the mistake of watching ABC’s Good Morning America most mornings. It’s out of habit, having worked on air at an ABC affiliate for 25 years (plus, who wants to see Charlie Rose first thing in the morning?) These

Let’s first give credit where credit is due. Politico, the web site that is the brunt of a lot of criticism here, knows that there is something fishy with the collusion between the Obama camp and a pro-Obama SuperPAC and

We are used to shocking billboards in Las Vegas. Usually they are near The Strip and they show bodies in various stages of undress. These latest shocking billboards make a clear political statement.  The War on Wall St. took to

ABC has now doubled down on its “happy talk” towards gang warfare. I don’t know what else to call this.  This is about Serena Williams and the Crip Walk, Part II. After the weekend crew called the “Crip Walk” a

I almost….almost could not believe what I was seeing. ABC Good Morning America anchors celebrating the “Crip Walk.” Oh, I understand funny, silly, happy-talk news, but this was over the top. I’m guessing you don’t have to be a brilliant ABC

Let’s see if the media will do its job here. I have no delusions it will. Democrat Senator Harry Reid has made the insane allegations that Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney did not pay any taxes for 10 years. Reid

This is as automatic as the debt-ceiling growing under Barack Obama. The media will hate Romney’s choice for Vice President.  It does not matter whom Mitt Romney chooses; this person will be hated, despised, and compared to Sarah Palin. There

I guess you have to say what NBC wants you to say about the Olympics, or you could get your Twitter account suspended.  Don’t laugh. It has happened to Guy Adams. Adams is a journalist with The Independent. He works

Like any political campaign, you are told to attack your opponent’s strengths. Make no doubt about it, the Activist Old Media is Barack Obama’s most powerful SuperPAC, and they are out to attack Mitt Romney on his strength. Take the

The Activist Old Media is making it very clear who they want to win the White House in 2012. It’s the same guy they were rooting for in 2008. Lowering gas prices is one of the weapons they will use

I like to get to the heart of the matter, so I will use this column to ask one question of  President Barack Obama. Who authorized Fast and Furious? Since no answer will be given, I will rhetorically ask a