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Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 08, 2010 10 Comments

I posted yesterday about Jon Ralston, the high-profile Nevada political reporter and talk show host, and an exchange I had with him regarding whether he was accusing Sharron Angle of "race-baiting" over a television ad Angle ran on illegal immigration.  When I pointed out that Ralston appeared to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 07, 2010 16 Comments

So says Nevada reporter and political guru Jon Ralston about me.Some background.  I have been critical of Ralston for months over the way he has covered the Harry Reid - Sharron Angle Senate race.  While Ralston presents himself as a muckraking but neutral investigative journalist and talk...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 05, 2010 5 Comments

USA Today has a particularly trite, even by USA Today standards, article bemoaning the likely decrease in the number of women in Congress:The prospects for female congressional candidates have been hurt by a combination of a tough political landscape for Democrats — women in Congress...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 05, 2010 13 Comments

MSNBC has given up any pretense of being a news organization, and is staking out an explicitly left-wing political persona as part of a new marketing campaign under the slogan, "Lean Forward."As reported by The New York Times:MSNBC, once the also-ran but now the No. 2...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 04, 2010 1 Comment

The media trolls are out in full force trying to demoralize the opposition by floating stories about how the Democrats have regained their footing, are coming back across the country, and the Republican insurgency peaked early.  See Erick Erickson's column for a round up...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 03, 2010 10 Comments

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...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 02, 2010 16 Comments

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...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 01, 2010 3 Comments

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...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 01, 2010 10 Comments

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...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 29, 2010 7 Comments

Guenter Lewy, an emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachetts, filed a defamation lawsuit in 2008 against the Southern Poverty Law Center, and two one of its employees, (including Mark Potok) David Holthouse.The lawsuit arose from Lewy's historical research in which he...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 25, 2010 19 Comments

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain:Democrat Loretta Sanchez (CA-47) is being challenged by Republican Van Tran, who is of Vietnamese descent.  Sanchez made news when she said:"El Viatnamese y los republicanos tratando de tomar...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 22, 2010 5 Comments

Don't you just love it when someone in the mainstream media admits to the pervasive bias against conservatives?Via NewsBusters, here is the transcript of a segment between Harry Smith and John Dickerson on the CBS Early Show this morning, regarding Christine O'Donnell's announcement last night...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 20, 2010 3 Comments

When a tape of Christine O'Donnell commenting in the 1990s that she had "dabbled into witchcraft" surfaced, the media and left-wing blogosphere (and unfortunately, a few on the right) went wild.  There was nothing of substance to the story, as it turns out O'Donnell was talking about events...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 17, 2010 4 Comments

Kirsten Powers, almost alone among liberals, has been willing to denounce the sexualized attacks upon Christine O'Donnell, and now she does it again in a column at The Daily Beast titled Tea Party Mocking Needs To Stop:The Washington establishment has its nose out of joint...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 16, 2010 13 Comments

Tweet of the Day.Kirsten Powers gets it.  Once again, the mainstream media and left-wing blogosphere -- including liberal feminists -- are sexualizing a conservative female candidate.  They obsessed over Sarah Palin's breast size, and now they are obsessing over whether Christine O'Donnell masterbates and has had sex.Here is...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 16, 2010 3 Comments

Christine O'Donnell's nomination is HISTORIC because if she wins, she will be the first female Senator from Delaware. Ever.This is big and HISTORIC.  Which should guarantee overwhelmingly favorable mainstream media coverage.  Because we are not allowed to be against HISTORIC candidates, particularly one who will break...

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