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A Retrospective: 28 Media Leaders Who Died This Decade
As the face of media evolves, it’s important to honor the figures who helped define, shape and set the standards in their industries. These are some of the most prominent members of the media who...
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Fox & Friends Mocks Obama’s Mystery Appearances In White House Presidential...
Fox & Friends tackled a recent controversy surrounding the White House doctoring presidential biographies hosted on their website to include mentions of President Barack Obama. The Fox hosts then...
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NY Times Opinion Writer: ‘Give Up’ On The ‘Archaic, Idiosyncratic’ And ‘Evil’...
Georgetown University constitutional law professor Louis Michael Seidman has just about had it with the focus of his 40 years of academic study. As he writes in the New York Times on Monday, it is the...
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WATCH: The Greatest Jokes American Presidents Ever Told
We spend a lot of time talking about the policies and personalities of American presidents, but how often to we talk about their senses of humor? Outside of the annual Correspondent’s Dinners, not that...
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Rahm Emanuel Takes a Swipe at Obama While Bashing the GOP on CNN
In a wide-ranging interview with CNN host Jake Tapper, President Barack Obama’s former chief of staff and mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel, had some advice for the Republican Party. Ever a Bill Clinton...
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Reason’s Matt Welch Challenges MSNBC Anchor on ‘Myth’ That Obama’s a Great...
Reason magazine’s Matt Welch delivered Democrats and President Barack Obama’s supporters in the media a dose of tough medicine on Monday morning. MSNBC anchor Chris Jansing appeared discomforted when...
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Trump Defends Ban on Muslims: No Different From How FDR Treated Japanese
In an interview with ABC’s Good Morning America, Donald Trump defended his proposed ban on any Muslims entering the country by saying it was no different from how Franklin Delano Roosevelt treated...
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CNN’s Christiane Amanpour Formally Comes Out as Pro-Hillary, Anti-Journalism
CNN’s Christiane Amanpour argued Monday that media coverage of Hillary Clinton‘s Sunday collapse and blowback against the campaign’s lack of transparency was a sexist double standard. “Can’t a girl...
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FDR’s Second Bill of Rights
One of the more amazing revelations in Michael Moore‘s new film, Capitalism: A Love Story, is his discovery of long-buried archival footage of Franklin D. Roosevelt detailing his planned but never...
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Rachel Maddow Slams Spending Freeze: Obama Is The New Herbert Hoover
If President Obama’s goal this week was to alienate and anger just about everyone then it would seem he has succeeded. Last night’s late-breaking news that the president would announce a three year...
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Glenn Beck’s Tea Party Personality: A Lot More Ron Paul Than Sarah Palin
After a debut focusing on the variety of right-of-center opinions circulating in the Tea Party movement, Judge Andrew Napolitano‘s Fox Business program Freedom Watch outdid its star power last week...
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The ‘New Tone’ in Action: Keith Olbermann Forswears ‘Death Panel’ in Arizona...
In his own effort to ratchet down the temperature of political rhetoric, Countdown host Keith Olbermann seems to be putting his money where his mouth is. For months, he has been satirizing Sarah Palin...
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The Five Most Interesting Revelations From Roger Ailes Feature In New York...
This week’s issue of New York magazine includes an ambitious and thorough essay by Gabriel Sherman that provides an in-depth and fascinating portrayal of Fox News chief Roger Ailes. It is a must read...
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Chris Matthews: Can Obama Still Win Reelection With High Unemployment Numbers?
Chris Matthews today wondered how President Obama could get reelected with such high unemployment numbers to deal with. He brought up figures during the presidencies of FDR and Ronald Reagan, both of...
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Did Elizabeth Warren Predict Occupy Wall Street? 2009 Interview Goes Viral
“The more things change, the more they stay the same” is a refrain that’s comforting to turn to, because it tells us that there’s a pattern and a precedent to all things; there exists some sort of...
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NY Times Columnist Charles Blow Completely Wrong: GOP Didn’t Lose Black Vote,...
In his column in the New York Times on Thursday, Charles M. Blow took a moment to correct what he thought was the poor grasp of electoral history displayed by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on Wednesday when...
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Bush Delivers Emotional Speech At Library Dedication, Reaffirms Belief In...
On Thursday, former President George W. Bush addressed the crowd of dignitaries, former presidents, and members of his administration during the dedication ceremony for his presidential library. He...
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Chris Matthews: Ted Cruz ‘Fits In Tradition’ With Nazi Sympathizer Father...
Amid a segment discussing the new generation of Republican voices in the U.S. Senate, MSNBC host Chris Matthews railed against Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). Matthews said that Cruz “fits in the tradition” of...
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Kristol to Carl Bernstein: FDR ‘Rolling Over in His Grave’ for Being Compared...
Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol and legendary journalist Carl Bernstein clashed over the comparison of the Affordable Care Act to Social Security on MSNBC’s Morning Joe Tuesday morning, with...
View ArticleMediaite’s ‘Dead Presidents Draft’: Ideologies Claim Their Leaders
Last Friday was the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy‘s assassination. Along with that milestone came a day full of media retrospectives, think-pieces on JFK’s long-lasting legacy, and obnoxious...
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