Former Governor Howard Dean drew a characteristic rebuke from Fox News' Michael Clemente when he accused the network of "absolutely racist" coverage of the Shirley Sherrod story. Clemente called Dean a "failed candidate" who "blame(s) Fox for almost anything."Speaking to Dylan Ratigan fill-in and Young Turks...
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Shortly after my interview with New Black Panther Chairman Malik Zulu Shabazz, during which I confronted him about a number of inflammatory statements by NBPP members, a video surfaced of Shabazz praising Osama bin Laden. I never got the chance, then, to ask him about it, but Alan Colmes remedied that situation...
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Fox News is certainly enjoying watching the rest of the media begin to pick up the DOJ Black Panther story. On The Factor tonight, Bill O'Reilly and Bernie Goldberg started discussing how the likes of Bob Scheiffer and Howard Kurtz could have missed and dismissed the story so thoroughly. The conversation quickly...
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The Washington Post should have covered the New Black Panther Party intimidation story earlier and alleged lack of staff on the National desk can't be blamed for the oversight, WaPo managing editor Raju Narisetti said today in a chat with readers.
Coming to the defense of Ombudsman Andrew Alexander, who chastised...
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If you have been following the New Black Panther story on Fox News, you probably know it as the "DOJ Whistleblower Case," a frame that suggests that J. Christian Adams is just an ordinary public servant, pushed to extraordinary lengths by his noble conscience. While he doesn't quite fit that bill, US...
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This morning on Reliable Sources, Howard Kurtz asked Face The Nation anchor Bob Schieffer the question Megyn Kelly wanted the answer to - why didn't he ask Attorney General Eric Holder about the New Black Panther/DOJ story in his exclusive last week?His answer: he would have asked it had...
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Dave Weigel has a particularly harsh take on Megyn Kelly's driven (some might argue obsessive) coverage of the Black Panthers story. Broadly speaking he thinks Kelly is covering the Panther story because makes for good television. But then he speculates that Kelly may have some darker motives -- or at least...
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Is the Civil Rights Commission investigation into allegations of voter intimidation against the New Black Panther Party merely an excuse for the GOP to attempt to topple the Obama administration? That's what Abigail Thernstrom, the Vice Chair of the Civil Rights Commission -- the very commission charged with investigating the charges -- thinks.
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In a bit of wise timing, Pittsburgh rapper Jasiri X has just released a rap video, based on a Tim Wise essay, that imagines "What if the Tea Party Was Black?" Amid a war of words between the NAACP and the Tea Party, and the racially-charged hype surrounding the New Black...
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Mission: Accomplished. In a search for a sequel to last year's Summer of Angst over health care reform, the "manufactured menace" of a New Black Panther-controlled election has gripped California's 27th District. In a video featured on Fox News earlier yesterday, Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Ca) was asked about the case,...
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