On Monday, NSA leaker Edward Snowden did a live online chat with The Guardian (UK). Asked whether the debate over surveillance was panning out as he thought they would, Snowden answered: Initially I was very encouraged. Unfortunately, the mainstream media now seems far more interested in what I said when I was 17 or what my girlfriend looks like rather than, say, the largest program of suspicionless surveillance in human history. It’s hard to argue with him there. Ben Shapiro is Editor-At-Large of Breitbart News and author of the New York Times bestseller “Bullies: How the Left’s Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences America” (Threshold Editions, January 8, 2013).      Read more CompleteNSA Leaker: Media 'Far More Interested' in Girlfriend's Looks than Biggest Surveillance Program in History … Read entire article »

The Guardian reporter Glen Grenwald pushed back hard at politicians who are calling for his investigation and prosecution for his involvement in the NSA snooping scandal.   Greenwald, who broke the exclusive story of whistle-blower Edward Snowden and the PRISM program that consists of data mining and collection of digital calls, internet usage, emails and instant messages of millions of Americans, appeared on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 Wednesday night. He specifically challenged Rep. Peter King’s (R-NY) assertion that Greenwald should be prosecuted for publishing the leaked information from Snowden.  King, who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee, has  said he wants Greenwald prosecuted for threatening to reveal the identities of CIA agents. Meanwhile, Greenwald claims he never made such a threat. He said King and other politicians are targeting him for “the crime of doing journalism.” Watch the … Read entire article »

CBS News investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson appeared on “CBS This Morning” to discuss the hacking of her computer, which CBS News says they have verified through what Attkisson describes as an “independent cyber-security firm.” She added that whomever did the hack was “highly skilled and used very sophisticated methods.” - - Throughout the reign of Barack Obama, Attkisson has distinguished herself in media as the rare reporter actually willing to do more than protect, cheerlead, and play stenographer for the White House. She has aggressively pursued two scandals the rest of the media have either ignored or tried to cover up: Benghazi and Fast and Furious. Though Attkisson wouldn’t speculate about the who or why of the hack, she did say that the hunt was on to track down the hacker. In … Read entire article »

No one who watched the mainstream media coverage surrounding the Supreme Court deliberations about same-sex marriage needs a Pew study to tell them how horribly biased the coverage was. The only surprise is that the margin of stories favoring same-sex marriage, as compared to stories that voiced opposition, was only 5-to-1. In a period marked by Supreme Court deliberations on the subject, the news media coverage provided a strong sense of momentum towards legalizing same-sex marriage, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center. Stories with more statements supporting same-sex marriage outweighed those with more statements opposing it by a margin of roughly 5-to-1. … Almost half (47%) of the nearly 500 stories studied from March 18 (a week prior to the Supreme Court hearings), through May 12, primarily focused … Read entire article »

Red State’s Erick Erickson and the Media Research Center’s Tim Graham joined Bill O’Reilly for an entertaining look at how a 20% ratings collapse has affected MSNBC’s approach to programming. Chris Matthews, specifically, has gone even further off the rails with his personal attacks against Bill O’Reilly and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). Matthews compared Cruz to anti-Semitic Father Coughlin and claimed that Bill O’Reilly, Cruz and other conservatives have “black Irish” features. – – It isn’t just the drop in ratings worrying MSNBC; it is also the drop in Obama’s ratings as this pile-on of scandals takes a toll on Obama’s job approval numbers, credibility, and his agenda. All of Obama’s MSNBC minions and all of Obama’s Tweety McTingles’ are frustrated at not being able to put Obama back … Read entire article »