(The Root) — The Rev. Al Sharpton unleashed a formal assault on Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. today, accusing it of dredging up old tax debts for his civil rights organization in retaliation for holding his Reclaim the Dream rally the same day as Fox News TV host Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor event, which took place […]
Which purse do you think Obama's most like?
(Washington Informer) — Despite what some political analysts believed would be conflicting marches with diametrically opposing viewpoints, residents and visitors to the D.C. metropolitan area witnessed a congruent call for better citizenship and prayer from both camps. In one camp, Fox News commentator Glenn Beck, who had for months preceding the Restoring Honor Rally held […]
by Charing Ball So yesterday, I was clicking through various news websites, searching for interesting stories and topics, when a thought occurred to me: Is there such a thing as a liberal mainstream media? What struck me the most was this obvious spate of over-interest in folks like Fox News’ Glenn Beck and former Governor of Alaska […]
(New York Daily News) — Glenn Beck has stepped back from his claim that President Obama is “racist.” The bombastic Fox News commentator now says he misspoke when he said the Commander-in-Chief had a “deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture.” “It shouldn’t have been said,” the 46-year-old former disc jockey said on Fox News Sunday. “I […]
(Wall Street Journal) — Some African-American leaders are criticizing talk show host Glenn Beck for the date and location of his planned rally in Washington this weekend. The rally will be at the Lincoln Memorial, where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream Speech,’’ 47 years after King’s famous address. Beck has said he didn’t […]
During the fierce wars over affirmative action in the 1990s, King's words were even more shamelessly used to justify opposition to affirmative action. That was just the starting point for falsifying and then repackaging King to suit the GOP.
(News One) — August 28 will mark the 47th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s seminal “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. The occasion, however, will be marked by an orator of a decidedly different stripe standing at the foot of the memorial’s marble steps: Glenn Beck, frontman of the […]
(News One) — African-American leaders denounced TV and radio pundit Glenn Beck’s Tea Party rally next month that will occur on the same date and at the same spot where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech nearly 50 years ago. And as Beck hosts his “Restoring Honor” event […]
(TheLoop21) — There seemed to be few issues that the final candidates in the 2008 presidential election agreed on, except for one. Their families—specifically their kids—should be off limits. During her post-election appearance on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” Sarah Palin lamented what she saw as the media’s double standard in its willingness to adhere to […]
(News One) — Black Civil Rights leaders are furious that they will not be able to organize a march to commemorate the 47th anniversary of the historic March on Washington and Dr. Martin Luther King’s famed “I Have A Dream” speech at the location where it happened this year because infamous right wing Fox News […]