On Thursday, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus demanded that GOP politicians and committee staffers boycott MSNBC after the network sent out a tweet accusing the “rightwing” of being offended by a commercial featuring a biracial family.
The Obama ‘Apology Tour’ is the Latest Republican Talking Point
Conservatives were all over Fox News pushing the talking point that President Obama just came off a so-called ‘apology tour’. Ted Cruz also shared his thoughts on why the President should apologize for Obamacare.
Fox News Freaks Out Over Oprah Race Comments
“Does Fox News monitor every word that comes out of Oprah Winfrey’s mouth, just waiting for something they can use to call her a racist? If not, how else to explain at least four prime time segments last night to analyze her comments to a BBC host that she thinks President Obama is disrespected because of his race? And …
Can The Mainstream News Media Police Itself?
On a recent episode of CNN’s Reliable Sources, NPR’s David Folkenflik interviewed Eric Stern, a Salon writer who bothered to fact check some of the more outlandish claims made on Sean Hannity’s show about the alleged failures of Obamacare. But instead of discussing Hannity’s duplicity, the interview became a discussion of whether outright lying might be acceptable on an …