(edited March 12)

Soledad O’Brien and her CNN panel manage to stumble into Contessa Brewer territory in this appearance by attempting to paint Breitbart.com editor-in-chief Joel Pollak as a racist for making a point about Barack Obama’s support for a proponent of “critical race theory” during his days at Harvard Law School. Joel ends up in an argument with a woefully unprepared O’Brien on the theory itself, but the actual facepalm moment goes to one of her panelists, who asks Joel why he’s so afraid of black people:

Hot Air provides the punchline.
Update: Bill Whittle Responds to Soledad O’Brien

@aaronleewudrick: The guy currently on CBC representing “Canadians Against Electoral Fraud” was also a spokesperson for Occupy Ottawa. I’m just sayin’.
…and I’m sure that the CBC didn’t know this. /sarc.

Newt Gingrich isn’t likely heading to the White House anytime soon but he sure knows how to handle mainstream media buffoons like David Gregory, who are clearly taking their marching orders from Obama Inc.

The story was too good to be true… (h/t K. Shaidle)

If one didn’t know better, you might conclude that the entire script of Charlie Rose was written by the Obama regime:

Hopefully all Republican candidates have learned what John McCain failed to.

Why the World Needs Better Science Journalism

Sure, knowing whether cows line up with the Earth’s magnetic field will probably not change your life, but climate change and electric vehicles will.

Related… (h/t Manny)

Looks like they came up empty;

A little after 1 p.m. on Sept. 29, 2009, Karl Frisch emailed a memo to his bosses, Media Matters for America founder David Brock and president Eric Burns. In the first few lines, Frisch explained why Media Matters should launch a “Fox Fund” whose mission would be to attack the Fox News Channel.
“Simply put,” Frisch wrote, “the progressive movement is in need of an enemy. George W. Bush is gone. We really don’t have John McCain to kick around any more. Filling the lack of leadership on the right, Fox News has emerged as the central enemy and antagonist of the Obama administration, our Congressional majorities and the progressive movement as a whole.”
“We must take Fox News head-on in a well funded, presidential-style campaign to discredit and embarrass the network, making it illegitimate in the eyes of news consumers.”
What Frisch proceeded to suggest, however, went well beyond what legitimate presidential campaigns attempt. “We should hire private investigators to look into the personal lives of Fox News anchors, hosts, reporters, prominent contributors, senior network and corporate staff,” he wrote.

Related – US senator calls for News Corp probe and The curious link between Media Matters and the White House war on Fox

Inside Media Matters: Sources, memos reveal erratic behavior, close coordination with White House and news organizations

#luser

Washington Post offers buyouts for 5th time in recent years. (h/t EBD)

“The only thing that sets them apart from the Muslim extremists is that Sun Media will be charging you admission.” – John Miller, the Jack Kevorkian of journalism.

One gets the sense that traffic there’s a little slow.

Other accounts noted that in addition to threatening the United States, Khamenei said this: “The Zionist regime is a cancerous tumor and it will be removed.” While we don’t know how or why a mention of this element of the speech managed to get excised from the account in the Times, it’s a question worth pondering.

[A]pparently the Reuters reporters failed to fact check the Democratic talking points they were given before running them as a news story: So far, Reuters has published five separate corrections to the story (all noted at the bottom), in each case dealing with a factual assertion in the original that was blatantly false. An hour ago, there had only been three corrections published, so we should probably stay tuned for yet more.

The Earth must have entered into the Twilight Zone. How else to explain that our always professional, always objective, always unbiased state broadcaster could have possibly breached a whole host of ethics in their attempt to destroy a businessman.
h/t Maz2

Jan 6, 2012: The Globe & Mail Editorial Board proffers this:

The two best-positioned candidates coming out of Iowa are Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum – the least preferred among Tea Partiers. Mr. Romney’s strong showing among non-Tea Party Republicans secured his narrow victory in the Hawkeye state.
The decline of a grassroots movement without any central organization is not surprising in 2012. It is one thing to take over congressional nomination meetings, another to control the entire primary process. The establishment still matters when it comes to picking a presidential nominee, and Mr. Romney is very much the establishment candidate.

Jan 21, 2012: Newt Gingrich and voters of South Carolina prove that the Globe & Mail Editorial Board has absolutely no idea what they’re talking about.

You might have seen this, or some variation of it. Ann Coulter reveals some most interesting and pertinent facts about this story.