TagsTagsHeman Cain's campaign has announced that he requested Secret Service protection yesterday -- protection from journalists. Cain spokesman J.D. Gordon said Thursday night that the campaign asked for the protection after The Washington Post posted an article online that morning detailing a series of physical skirmishes involving journalists at Cain ...
Watching the debate last night, I was struck by the fact that we've now seen several of these gabfests unfold without a single mention of one of the Republican Party's biggest and most irrational problems -- their total rejection of science in many important areas. In the early debates we saw ...
Republican Party, Debate, Anti-Science, Media, Right Wing, Evolution, Climate Change, Global Warming
See, this is what I keep saying -- Brooke Alvarez will crush you. Like a bug.
Brooke Alvarez will crush you like a bug. [Video]
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Onion, Satire, Comedy, Video, Joad Cressbeckler, Parody, Media
Sarah Palin is publicly castigating The Hill: Twitter / Sarah Palin: The Hill: get it right ... The Hill: get it right, please; I did NOT tell O'Donnell to only speak to Fox News. Where do u all get this stuff? Pls report truth. Thanks Of course, this is right ...
Sarah Palin, Refudiation, Alaska, Resignation, Running Away, Media, Christine O'Donnell, Lolcat
In Louisville, Kentucky, for a Rand Paul fundraiser, Sarah "Mama Grizzly" Palin encounters reporters from the local media (including Joe Gerth, political writer for the Louisville Courier-Journal) -- and turns and runs away. It's utterly bizarre to see all these GOP big wheels doing this (Palin, Rand Paul, Sharron Angle, Christine ...
Sarah Palin, Refudiation, Alaska, Resignation, Running Away, Media
Dennis DiClaudio has a good take on the question of how much blame the media should bear for the media's coverage of the Terry Jones media feeding frenzy: Media Reports on Media Wondering If Media Maybe Had Some Role in Terry Jones Becoming Media Darling. Will Terry Jones end up ...
Ground Zero, Park51, Cordoba House, Mosque, Bigotry, Islam, Dove World Outreach Center, Bad Craziness, Media
The Onion, as usual, is two steps ahead of the next massive outrage.
Most of the media have uncritically adopted the term "Ground Zero Mosque," a dishonest, inflammatory phrase coined by bigots. It's a disgrace. Today the Associated Press finally issued a directive telling staff to stop enabling the Bigot Brigade. (Not in so many words, of course.) The Associated Press, one of world's ...
Ground Zero, Cordoba House, Park51, Mosque, Pamela Geller, Shrieking Harpy, Bigotry, Bad Craziness, Media
An exquisitely bizarre moment, brought to you by the weirdest GOP candidate out of a very weird batch. [Video]
Rand Paul, Kentucky, Ron Paul, Bad Craziness, Far Right, GOP, Bong Hits, Kidnapping, Media
ONN panelists debate what can be done about the scourge of truck-canyon-rafter violence — and more importantly, who to blame. [Video]
Onion, Satire, Humor, Comedy, Video, Media, Trucks, Canyons, Crevices, Rafts
Dave Weigel tells his side of the story in Esquire: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Sarah Palin (Kinda). Over the first churning 48 hours of this whole mess, I resisted — and then accepted — a new sympathy for a politician I’d never pretended to admire much: ...
Dave Weigel, Washington Post, Media, Journalism, Ethics, Bias
Jon Stewart rips CNN for hiring right wing blogger Erick Erickson; apparently, calling a Supreme Court justice a “goat-f*cking child molester” is now a good thing to have on your media resumé: CNN Hires Erick Erickson. [Video]
Jon Stewart, Comedy, Erick Erickson, CNN, Right Wing, Extremism, Media, Video
As mainstream news organizations increasingly find it difficult to turn a profit in the Internet Age, Pew Research has been studying the attitudes of news consumers toward some of the proposed solutions; and the prospects are pretty grim for news organizations to convince consumers to pay for something that they ...
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British journalist/humorist Charlie Brooker explains how to report the news. [Video]
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You have to wonder what they’re afraid of. Word from Nashville on Monday was that the First National Tea Party Convention next month will be closed to the press, other than for a limited number of “selected” journalists. No word on who or how many. This from the people who brought ...
It seems almost inevitable somehow, like asteroids on a collision course; the New York Times Media Decoder blog reports: Former Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska has signed on as a contributor to the Fox News Channel. The network confirmed that Ms. Palin will appear on the network’s programming on a ...