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October 2010

Ben Jealous, President of the NAACP, has launched a high-profile media and web campaign to demand that people in the Tea Party movement renounce racist "elements" in the movement.  As I have posted before, Mr. Jealous took islolated, and in some cases planted, signs at...

Not just any photos.Photos of communist and socialist participants.But not just any photos of communists and socialist participants, because that would be too easy.No, the photos I want are of communists and socialist participants which appear in the mainstream media.I want examples of the mainstream...

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain:Gloria Allred earns a special place at the Saturday Night Card Game table for her performance this week in jumping the race card shark with a late-September Surprise on Meg Whitman,...

Last Sunday I highlighted the famed "Coexist" bumper sticker, which seems to be everywhere (at least in Ithaca, Berkeley and Cambridge).But there are liberal non-conformists out there, who refuse to wear the "Coexist" sticker on their cars just because all their friends are doing it.Melissa...

Is this NY Times profile of Christine O'Donnell not too bad, or am I just so used to complete, all-out hack jobs when it comes to O'Donnell that anything short of an all-out hack job seems okay?An Overnight Political Sensation Re-Emerges Into the Media Glare--------------------------------------------...

Greg Sargent who blogs at The Washington Post has been the single greatest blogospheric force in going after Sharron Angle and Christine O'Donnell, nitpicking their every word, and ascribing the worst motivations to ambiguous or out of context statements to portray them as dangerous extremists, liars, and worse.  Sargent...

NPR Will Be the Dominant News Force By 2020:NPR will be one of the dominant forces in media in ten years because their membership-based funding model is finely tuned to the habits of millennial news consumers. That's the prophecy of Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist...