Today's Fresh Blogs...

• AP: La Raza Is Civil Rights Group, Minutemen Are Vigilantes

  Published: September 21, 2007, 11:59 am

  Tags: Double Standards, Fact Checking, Illegal Immigration, Immigration, La Raza, Naacp, Race Issues, Racial Issues, Frances Semler, Maria Sudekum Fisher, Associated Press, Journalistic Issues, Non Political Bias

  Press distinguish between racial supremacy groups and civil rights groups? Apparently not. AP writer Maria Sudekum Fisher covers the appointment of 73 year old Frances Semler to Kansas City's parks board, which Fisher opposes because Semler is a member of the Minutemen Civil Defense Corps. As Fisher writes, But Frances B. Semler's appointment

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• NYT's Paul Krugman Calls Republicans Racists

  Published: September 24, 2007, 10:21 am

  Tags: 2006 Congressional, 2008 Congressional, 2008 Presidential, Campaigns Amp Amp Elections, Moveon Org, Racial Issues, Racism, Paul Krugman, New York Times

  conservatism as a nonracial phenomenon, the partisan impact of racial attitudes in the South is stronger today than in the past." Here, as is typical for this shameless pol, Krugman ignored some of the other pertinent statistics from the 2006 elections. After all, if 62 percent of Southern whites voting for Republicans proves

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• Jena 6 Update: Memo To Alanis - THIS Is Ironic (I Really Do Think)

  Published: September 26, 2007, 8:40 pm

  Tags: Racial Issues, Jena 6, David Neiwert, History, Discrimination, Protests, Racism, John Gibson, Civil Rights, Race, Civil Liberties, Justice

  Jena, LA Mayor Murphy McMillin: not the sharpest fishhook in the tacklebox: McMillin has insisted that his town is being unfairly portrayed as racist an assertion the mayor repeated in an interview with Richard Barrett, the leader of the Nationalist Movement, a white supremacist group based in Learned, Miss., who asked McMillin to “set

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• Scarborough Slaps Sharpton For Not Going After 'Moron' O'Reilly

  Published: September 27, 2007, 7:08 am

  Tags: Racial Issues, Racism, Al Sharpton, Bill O Amp 039 Reilly, Joe Scarborough, Willie Geist, Msnbc, Video

  This could be a first: Al Sharpton criticized for being insufficiently inflammatory; faulted for not shooting from the hip. At the opening of today's "Morning Joe," host Joe Scarborough panned the Rev's "O'Reilly Factor" performance last evening, in which the normally obstreperous one was relatively subdued on the subject of

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• Jena Miscellania (Stay Up Forever Edition)

  Published: September 27, 2007, 8:11 pm

  Tags: Mychal Bell, Jena 6, Protests, Racial Issues, Godless Communism 11, Solidarity, Working Class, Class, Jim Crow, Race, Civil Rights, Justice, Video, Jena Six, Louisiana, Racism, Music

  is much broader, and the issues of our criminal (in)justice system are way bigger than Jena, Louisiana. Rachel also offers an up close and painfully personal glimpse at her own all-to-familiar (and familial) relationship with bigotry, noting that: [r]acism is so insidious that it anesthetizes people to suffering of others (even others who

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• Why Doesn't Carlson Dare Name Dem Consultants Who Call Republicans Racist?

  Published: September 27, 2007, 10:25 pm

  Tags: 2008 Presidential, Campaign Elections, Racial Issues, Racism, Peter Fenn, Tavis Smiley, Tom Andrews, Tucker Carlson, Msnbc, Video

  Smiley, billed as addressing issues of concern to black Americans. On the one hand, Carlson criticized the Republicans' reticence. On the other, he flashed anger at the way Dems play the race card. He concluded with a particularly tantalizing comment. View video here. TUCKER CARLSON: I do think the Democrats ought to stop calling everybody who

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• O'Reilly Thanks Bozell and MRC Staff: 'They're Doing a Great Job'

  Published: September 27, 2007, 10:22 pm

  Tags: Racial Issues, Bill O Amp 039 Reilly, O Amp 039 Reilly Factor, Mrc Nb News, Video

  a great job covering this racial deal. Thank you guys. On Thursday, the MRC issued a press release: BOZELL CALLS ON CBS AND CNN TO APOLOGIZE TO BILL O'REILLY; CBS and CNN Embarrassing Themselves by Associating With Dishonest, Far-Left Organizations Such As Media Matters. (As posted on NewsBusters and MRC.org) Video clip (15 secs): Real

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• AP Gives Platform to Racist Hate Group in Jena Case

  Published: September 28, 2007, 12:21 pm

  Tags: Ethics, Media Bias Debate, Racial Issues, Racism, Jena 6

  to fan the flames of racial unrest. Yesterday the AP piled on in that tradition by giving an often described hate group called the "New Black Panther Party for Self Defense" (NBPP) a platform to spread more lies in the case. A group called the New Black Panther Party for Self Defense now says it is organizing patrols in Jena

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• Scarborough Still on O'Reilly's Case

  Published: September 28, 2007, 7:09 am

  Tags: Anti Americanism, Foreign Policy, Iran, Racial Issues, Venezuela, Bill O Amp 039 Reilly, Eugene Robinson, Hugo Chavez, Joe Scarborough, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mika Brzezinski, Willie Geist, Msnbc, Washington Post, Humor

  Joe Scarborough is still trying to wring mileage out of bashing Bill O'Reilly over his Sylvia's comments. After calling the "Factor" host a "moron" yesterday, the "Morning Joe" host was back at it today. JOE SCARBOROUGH: How does Bill O'Reilly get away with this stuff? How does he get away with being shocked that

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• Jena 6 Update: On Good Samaritans And What Happens Next

  Published: September 29, 2007, 10:13 am

  Tags: Direct Action, Mavis Staples, Ry Cooder, Racial Issues, Jena 6, Civil Rights, Race, Justice

  and connecting of dots on racial issues, something that would prevent every American from asking stupid questions like, Are nooses hanging from trees really that bad? (Another version of the wearisome question: Is “nigger” really such a negative word?) We’ve detached racially charged incidents from a racial context, which

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• National Association of Black Journalists Wants Imus Kept Off The Air

  Published: October 10, 2007, 9:55 am

  Tags: Racial Issues, Don Imus

  remains outraged after the racially inflammatory insults made by Don Imus last spring. He used his free speech to broadcast hate speech. To put him back on the air now makes light of his serious and offensive racial remarks that are still ringing in the ears of people all over this country," said Barbara Ciara, NABJ president."It

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• CBS Early Show' Sees Racism Epidemic in America

  Published: October 11, 2007, 1:53 pm

  Tags: Culture Society, Racial Issues, Racism, Harry Smith, Morris Dees, Early Show

  We have systemic built-in racial bias and prejudice all across the United States." I guess Harry Smith feels we are getting back to basics with our "original" hatred of minority groups. To Dees' credit, at the very end of the segment he did mention instances of fabricated racist displays: We've seen a lot of these hoaxes

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• ABC Turns Presumption of Innocence Upside Down in Boot-Camp Case: 'Enough Evidence to Acquit?'

  Published: October 13, 2007, 9:03 am

  Tags: Crime, Judiciary, Racial Issues, Racism, Kate Snow, Martin Lee Anderson, Abc, Good Morning America, Video

  The principle that there is a presumption of innocence in favor of the accused is the undoubted law, axiomatic and elementary, and its enforcement lies at the foundation of the administration of our criminal law -- U.S. Supreme Court, Coffin v. United States [1895]. Was [there] enough evidence to find that they were not guilty? -- ABC News, Matter

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• CBS's Harry Smith: Rock Star' Obama Needs More Audacity'

  Published: October 15, 2007, 6:27 pm

  Tags: Campaign 2008, Democratic Party, Foreign Policy, Polling, Racial Issues, Barack Obama, Harry Smith, Early Show

  On Monday's CBS "Early Show,"host Harry Smith teased an interview with Barack Obama at the beginning of show and spoke of how the Democratic presidential candidate is often, "...greeted as a Rock Star," by voters. The toughest questions asked by Smith were questions of why Obama is behind Hillary Clinton in the polls,

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• CBS's Hannah Storm Labels Ann Coulter 'Right-wing,' Praises Christianity-Lite'

  Published: October 18, 2007, 4:48 pm

  Tags: Anti Semitism, Christianity, Conservatives, Culture Society, Judaism, Labeling, Racial Issues, Religion, Religious Bias, Ann Coulter, Hannah Storm, Joel Osteen, Victoria Osteen, Early Show

  In an interview with televangelist Joel Osteen and his wife on Thursday's CBS "Early Show,"co-host Hannah Storm began the segment by asking Osteen: "Last week, conservative right-wing pundit Ann Coulter made waves, she said, quote, "Christians consider themselves perfected Jews,"saying that it would be "a lot easier

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