Andrew Breitbart has a job to do and he does it well. Breitbart’s job is to lie and distort the truth in order to advance a right-wing agenda, embarrass liberals, and undermine the Obama administration.
Breitbart is not a journalist, researcher, or pundit. He is a propagandist. [Read more →]
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Old, dirty energy meets new, clean energy. As found just off Interstate 80, in Geneseo, Illinios.
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On the Saturday, March 20, the weekend of the historic health care vote in Congress, Tea Party protesters outside of the Capitol apparently spit on and hurled racial and gay slurs at Democratic lawmakers. Republican Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Amy Kremer, coordinator of the Tea Party Express, both denounced the incidents, and characterized them as “isolated” occurrences. This is despite the fact that Tea Party, in their short history, have a long record of offensiveness. [Read more →]
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Seriously, 600 people showed up at the first-ever National Tea Party Convention at the Opryland complete in Nashville and this makes page A1 of the New York Times? Four times as many paying people (2,435) attended my journalism educators convention in Boston last year, and I can tell you we didn’t get any mention in the New York Times.
But, props to the Times for pointing out that “the convention was losing sponsors and participants right up to its opening day because of accusations from other Tea Party groups that Tea Party Nation, which is unapologetically for-profit, was profiteering.” [Read more →]
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