Fox News and the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) are peddling flimsy or downright false statistics in hopes of sabotaging immigration reform. CIS’s “five-hundred percent surge” doesn’t hold up to even a little scrutiny. “We’ve seen a 500 percent surge in the … Continued
Americans for Legal Immigration PAC president William Gheen paints an apocalyptic view of America after the downfall of the “white European descendent male Christian demographic” in a post that was removed yesterday afternoon. Gheen cited website damage for the loss … Continued
The Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement has a unique opportunity to stamp out antisemitism every chance it gets. A fantastic op-ed was recently published calling out the OWS opponents who are focused, not on countering antisemitism, but on using incidents … Continued
Excuse the pun but an old British proverb reminding us that “a fox should not be of the jury at a goose’s trial” certainly applies to a recent controversy surrounding Fox News. One of my favorite Yahoo News bloggers, Michael … Continued
It sure does suck to be a journalist these days. Just ask Keith Olbermann, who was suspended from his job on Thursday for making donations to political candidates as a private citizen. Olbermann’s $2,400 donations to three candidates is a … Continued
United Farm Workers President Arturo S. Rodriguez appeared on “The Colbert Report” on July 8 as part of the national “Take Our Jobs” campaign aimed at recruiting U.S. citizens and legal residents to fill jobs that frequently go to undocumented … Continued
When a media personality makes more news than he actually reports, then there is something seriously amiss. Such has been the case with Glenn Beck for some time. His conspiracy theories and far right rhetoric continually stoke the embers of … Continued
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) is calling out Fox host Bill O’Reilly for his vilification of immigrants. The national media watch group has documented a pattern of gross bias and outright falsehoods in O’Reilly’s reporting in the wake of … Continued
As we find with most extremist violence, the urge to classify killers as act-alone outliers is comforting but normally wrong and often dangerous. Amanda Robb writes a great investigative piece for Ms. Magazine about the web of pro-life extremists and … Continued
Eric Boehlert of Media Matters for America wrote a compelling piece on the significance of April 19 to far-right militia groups, and the connection between their potential for violence and the rhetoric spewed by Glenn Beck on FOX News. Reading … Continued