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The media world has gone stark raving mad, or at least the leftist media world has gone mad. Juan Williams being fired by National Public Radio (NPR) is absolutely foolish, nobody with half a brain can disagree with that. It

The face of broadcasting/webcasting is about to change. The Revolution will be televised. Beginning today in Reno (10am Pacific time) the Tea Party Express IV Tour will be webcast start to finish for all to see live on the internet.

It’s been 50 years since the famous Nixon/Kennedy debates first hit the airways, and Democrat Harry Reid hasn’t seemed to learn much about being on TV. Two nights ago, Reid, with his 24 years of experience in the US Senate,

Lou Dobbs committed the ultimate sin—he made a stand on principle. For years Dobbs has fought against illegal immigration. He did it on CNN, he does it on his radio show. Now, the most leftist magazine out there, The Nation

While Harry Reid and Sharron Angle have been going toe to toe (they are tied in the polls) there is a “Tea Party of Nevada” candidate, Scott Ashjian, who wants his 15 minutes of fame. The problem for Angle is

By now, the trash left behind at the Democrat “One Nation Working Together” near the Washington Monument has been cleared away—but a bunch of garbage remains. [youtube rNRR-8UxtHs nolink] For the last year and a half the left and their

I’ve always liked getting to the heart of the matter—something the activist old media has no interest in doing during this election cycle. November 2 is a mandate on whether America will remain a country based on the Constitutional values

The face of TV and politics changed forever on this date in history. It was 50 years ago this evening that John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon held the first of their 4 debates. It was clearly the most

There is now an actual “News Anchor Barbie.” Of the 124 previous careers that Barbie has had in her 51 years (she actually look so much younger) this is perhaps her best look yet. (You can insert any Fox News

I like Harry Reid personally. I’ve known him and his family for almost 30 years and I actually like them. I’d never vote for him in a million years, but personally, I have no problem with him or his family

We’re still waiting to see if the activist old media will cover the clear omission of “by their Creator” by Barack Obama. It’s sort of an important line from the Declaration of Independence. So far, no go. Plenty of stories

The activist old media is hitting an all time low. Quite a challenge for them. The same media that didn’t give a damn what Barack Obama did during the first 46 years of his life when he was running for

They are still virtual no-shows. The activist old media is putting itself on the sidelines with a Democrat Congresswoman who was caught on tape squeezing a lobbyist for cash. They will be pulled kicking and screaming into this story by

During the Reagan Administration news stories were everywhere on the homeless in America. Almost like Reagan invented homelessness. During the Bush Administration, again, more stories on the homeless. Almost like there is only homelessness while a Republican is in the

There’s new meaning to the word “viral.” Normally the word is used in a positive sense when something is so popular on the web that it is shared with as many people as possible and “hits” go through the roof.

Terry Jones is an insignificant minister from Florida who has 30, maybe 50 members of his church. Now that he has talked about burning Korans he has become a media hero. No doubt about it, the media and the American

Maybe it’s best if sports guys just leave the tweeting to the teenagers, or, at least leave them to those who can get the facts straight. Washington Post sports columnist Mike Wise got busted this week for tweeting something he

Please Larry King, retire already and take Al Sharpton with you. Blind leading the blind (that’s a Christian reference, by the way) as King and Sharpton discussed Barack Obama’s religion last night. Of course, they mentioned that Obama “cleared things

Was I shocked when I read Andrea S. Lafferty’s article about ABC News sending an undercover photographer into a crowd of Ground Zero Mosque protesters? Yes and no. Yes, because it’s something a news organization has no business doing. No,

Thank goodness the activist old media has something to distract them from the disaster being created by the Cold Hearted Social Engineer in the White House. They have Hurricane Katrina to talk about again. This week marks the 5th anniversary

It’s like watching your childhood home being destroyed. The bulldozers move a little slower in this destruction, but the outcome is still the same. A pile of junk hauled off to the landfill. Oh, maybe I’m a bit extreme with

Sometimes the media is blatant in its bias, sometimes subtle, sometimes both. Case in point, poll numbers. Certainly, there has not been equal treatment by the media when comparing the poll numbers of George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Obama’s

This has to be the media’s version of a comedy bit. Across the board from the activist old media we find the universal common thread, they ask: “Are we seeing a pause in the recovery?” When was the recovery? Are

Proposition 8 in California contains this simple statement, “only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.” A single judge in California reversed the vote of seven million people. Certainly, this issue will go to

The existence of the JournoList should surprise no one. I don’t know everybody on the list, but many of the names are easy to recognize and these are all the usual suspects. “JournoLists” combining with a common goal, to spread

Seriously? Sasha and Malia doing babysitting to earn extra cash and Barack Obama says he is not that far removed from what most Americas are going through? What is this, a Saturday Night Live Skit? Nope—a morning interview on ABC

Lemme get this straight: the media is talking about context. They want context! They’ve never cared about context in the past. When a person talked like a racist there were no excuses, no context, no explanation, no recovery allowed or

JournoList: How do you explain why members of the media, led by an employee of the Washington Post named Ezra Klein, put their political beliefs above their jobs, their careers and even their country? They are liberals first. The group

If you did not think that the American media has declared war on the public, think again. War is on, and I am not overstating this. We have taken years to get to this point, but two incidents last week

The Obama wave becoming a riptide. Having spent much of my youth surfing the waters of Huntington and Newport Beaches, I worked hard to spot them where I could and I hoped beyond hope that I would find the right

Farewell Phil Harris. Tonight the Discovery Channel will air a two-hour special dedicated to the life and times of Cornelia Marie Captain Phil Harris who died of a stroke earlier this year. Harris was hard living and hard charging. He

So CBS shows up and does Face The Nation from the Aspen Ideas Festival. Great idea. Perfect chance to talk to Eric Holder about the whistleblower who this week said Holder refused to prosecute a New Black Panther member because

Who should replace Larry King? Wow, the question of the decade right there! The excitement is mounting in CNN Land these days as we ponder who should replace the legendary broadcaster who many say actually left his show years ago.

The purpose of local TV news is to scare women 18-54 into watching the next newscast. I put that line in a column in Big Journalism last January and people had no problem figuring out what I meant. You can

We’ve blown it once again, another great opportunity to win the biggest sporting event on the planet and America comes away empty handed in the World Cup. I thought this was our year. The world was supposed to love us.

I’m watching the media reports on the change of command at the top of the war in Afghanistan and I’m thinking two things….one I figured out, the second, I’m a little confused about. First, my column of a couple days