Politico has taken action against on of their own: POLITICO reporter Joe Williams has been suspended pending review of recent controversial comments he made on television and Twitter, POLITICO editors informed staff late Thursday night. On MSNBC today, Williams made a remark suggesting Mitt Romney was only comfortable around white people. The video was first […]
Are conservatives really this stupid? On the dust jacket of his new book, “The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas,” best-selling conservative author and commentator Jonah Goldberg is described as having “twice been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.” In fact, as Goldberg acknowledged on Tuesday, he has never been a […]
The U.K. Parliament has released a scathing report into the News of the World hacking scandal: In a report on the malpractice at Murdoch’s now shuttered News of The World tabloid, legislators accused Murdoch and his son James of overseeing a corporate culture that sought “to cover up rather than seek out wrongdoing.” Parliament’s cross-party […]
This is how liberal your Sunday talk shows are: Single-source interviews are the showcase segments on the Sunday shows, which tend to compete for access to guests they consider the top newsmakers—which, in the world of Beltway media, usually means politicians. In the eight-month study period, partisan-affiliated one-on-one interviews were 70 percent Republican—166 guests to […]
The publication of conservatism has been having a race problem and they are finally taking notice: Following the uproar over John Derbyshire’s racist rant that led to his firing last week, National Review ended its relationship with another racist writer today. Robert Weissberg, who was a contributing writer to the magazine for years, was fired […]
Clear Channel is doing some big layoffs here in the Cincinnati market: Tony Bender, Program Director for 55KRC and ESPN 1530, is gone. He writes “23 years. It was a good run. Tomorrow will be a good day.” Also gone is traffic man Brian Pitts. Another casualty was 700 WLW Promotions Director Sherry Rowland. She […]
Jim Hoft, aka Gateway Pundit, is at it again. In reference to this article, Hoft posts this: Hoft then goes on to quote the article: A member of the Occupy New Haven movement was raped in a tent at the Occupy camp late on Monday night or early Tuesday morning, police said. Police said a […]
And the fallout continues: Radio-Info.com reports that Premiere Networks, which syndicates the Rush Limbaugh show, told its affiliate radio stations that they are suspending national advertising for two weeks. Rush Limbaugh is normally provided to affiliates in exchange for running several minutes of national advertisements provided by Premiere each hour. These ads are called “barter […]
Rush Limbaugh looks to no longer be immune from his misogynistic name calling that has polluted our public airwaves for 20 years: Premiere Networks, which distributes Limbaugh as well as a host of other right-wing talkers, sent an email out to its affiliates early Friday listing 98 large corporations that have requested their ads appear […]
Over the weekend Rush Limbaugh issued his apology to Sandra Fluke for calling her a slut. Instead of doing an on air apology like other personalities have done in the past, Rush took the most cowardly of approached, releasing a statement through a spokesperson late on a Saturday afternoon. This hasn’t helped Rush’s problems. Advertisers […]