Civil Rights Fails
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Mainstream Media FAIL: Black Conservatives Blast Al Sharpton Protesters in DC 8/28 (youtube.com)
I noticed a resounding silence about this... Seems like when a Black defends the Conservatives they are ignored. To bad the Liberal media is so racist and biased. -
New York Times Book Review FAIL: 95% of Political Books Reviewed in New York Times Are by White Authors (npr.org)
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting says 95 percent of US authors reviewed in the New York Times Book Review were white, and 87 percent were male. The pool of book REVIEWERS tended to be even less diverse. -
Fox News FAIL: Playing the Intolerance Card for Political Gain (nytimes.com)
Rupert Murdoch's axis of demagoguery first ignored news that an Islamic cultural center was planned near "Ground Zero" in Manhattan. But after deciding it was an issue to rally the more rabid fringe of right-wing America, they piled on the vitriol. -
Mainstream media FAIL: Why didn't "fourth estate" create sensation about civil case in MLK's murder? (nytimes.com)
Janet Reno's "Justice Department officials said today that they did not try to reinvestigate all the circumstances surrounding the April 4, 1968, killing." Why did this story die? Tiger, Michael Jackson, or Balloon Boy sensations? But not this? -
Mainstream Media FAIL: CNN Discusses the lack of African-Americans in TV News (urbanradionation.com)
CNN's Howard Kurtz notes that almost no major network and cable news anchors are African-American -- including CNN itself. It was almost impossible to get African-American guests to discuss this problem. They were afraid their bosses would object. -
Andrew Breitbart FAIL: Shirley Sherrod Smeared by Andrew Breitbart (colorofchange.org)
The White House just fired Shirley Sherrod, a Black official from the Department of Agriculture (USDA), after she was smeared by race-baiting right-wing blogger Andrew Breitbart and his friends at Fox News. Tell President Obama to reinstate her now. -
The major Media FAIL: Obama ignores blatant voter intimidation by Black Panthers (resistnet.com)
Obama stops the prosecution of Black Panthers intimidating voters, no doubt because the perpetrators were black and so is Obama. . -
The major media FAIL: Obama goes after Arizona but not for Sanctuary Cities (weeklystandard.com)
Obama intends on going after Arizona for doing the job the Federal Government should be doing, but ignores the sanctuary cities which are openlly violating Federal Law. -
Fox News FAIL: "21st Century Willie Horton": Fox and friends continue the race baiting (mediamatters.org)
Fox News and its friends won't let die the phony, racially-charged story about the Department of Justice and the New Black Panther Party. Rather than stick to the facts, Fox tosses around debunked charges of racism and corruption in the DOJ. -
CNN FAIL: CNN Tells Us About the Risks of Obama Being an "Angry Black Male" (mediaite.com)
CNN is shocked that white Americans want Obama to show more anger because white's are typically afraid of "angry black men." WTF CNN? -
Clear Channel FAIL: Ohio Station Runs Contest for a ‘Weekend Chasing Aliens’ in Arizona (mediamatters.org)
A Columbus, Ohio Clear Channel station ran a contest, in which the winner received a free trip to Arizona “where Americans are proud and illegals are scared.” The trip is billed as "a weekend chasing aliens.” Who owns these airwaves, again?
