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The New Civil Rights Movement Announces Extraordinary Supreme Court Marriage Decisions Coverage

by David Badash ● 5:00 PM June 19, 2013
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The New Civil Rights Movement will publish news and opinion on the Supreme Court Prop 8 and DOMA decisions from our expert team of writers and editors, and a special team assembled from some of our community’s finest and most-respected attorneys, activists, politicians, and plaintiffs.

News

Two Men Sue NY Post Over Boston Bombing ‘Bag Men’ Cover Story

by David Badash ● 12:21 PM June 6, 2013
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The two Massachusetts men who were pictured on the cover of the New York Post with the headline “Bag Men” are suing the tabloid, according to the Washington Post.

News

Rupert Murdoch’s NY Post Has The Maturity Of A Six-Year OId

by David Badash ● 2:29 PM May 15, 2013
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Rupert Murdoch, effectively the owner of the New York Post, via his News Corp., thinks this is acceptable journalism. It’s not. New Yorkers should demand better.

News

Breitbart: Hitler Was Gay

by David Badash ● 10:24 AM May 13, 2013
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The intellectual giants at Breitbart have another winner! “NEW EVIDENCE FROM HIS DOCTORS SHOWS HITLER WAS GAY,” because, you know, “evidence.”

Legal Issues

Politifact’s False Claim: Only ‘Half True’ You Can Be Fired For Being Gay In 29 States

by David Badash ● 3:28 PM May 8, 2013
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Politifact is falsely claiming the fact that you can be fired for being gay in 29 states is only “half true,” but being fired for being gay from a full-time job doesn’t give you a part-time job.

News

New York Post Refuses To Apologize For Heinous Boston Coverage So Someone Does It For Them

by David Badash ● 1:34 PM April 20, 2013
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“This week, the New York Post has acted recklessly and with flagrant disregard for the principles of good journalism,” Animal’s fake apology for the Post’s Boston coverage reads.

Marriage

Time Magazine’s Dual ‘Gay Marriage Already Won’ Covers — Awesome, Beautiful, But

by David Badash ● 9:53 AM March 28, 2013
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Time published its weekly cover story, “Gay Marriage Already Won,” with dual covers of two same-sex couples kissing. Very cool, and yes, exciting. And beautiful. But…

News

Breitbart Ignores Obama Daughters’ Security By Publishing Vacation Location

by David Badash ● 5:11 PM March 25, 2013
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There are some thing real journalists don’t do. Of course the mission of Breitbart — the website and the late founder — is to violate those rules and standards, because, well, Obama.

Bigotry Watch

Fox News: Laura Ingraham Segment Uses NAMBLA In Southern Poverty Law Center Attack

by David Badash ● 1:10 PM March 9, 2013
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Fox News’ Laura Ingraham moderated a dishonest and one-sided segment that actually used NAMBLA in an attempt to paint the venerable Southern Poverty Law Center as dangerous and un-American.

News

Pokémon Master Herman Cain Hired By Fox News To ‘Provide Analysis’

by David Badash ● 2:08 PM February 15, 2013
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Herman Cain, whose embarrassing 2012 Republican presidential campaign exposed him as a misogynistic filanderer and part of his speeches as based on Pokémon poems, has just been hired by Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News.

News

Fox News Head Roger Ailes: Obama ‘Too Busy Getting Blacks To Hate Whites’

by David Badash ● 10:41 AM February 11, 2013
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Roger Ailes says President Obama “likes to divide people into groups” and is “too busy getting the middle class to hate rich people, blacks to hate whites. He is busy trying to get everybody to hate each other.”

News

Fox News Mistakes Lesbian Couple For Straight Couple, Posts Wedding Photo In Anti-Equality Op-Ed

by David Badash ● 9:19 PM February 8, 2013
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Fox News, apparently by accident, used a same-sex couple’s wedding photo to illustrate an anti-feminism op-ed by a conservative author. Wait — it gets better!

News

National Review Defends Nazism Because ‘Sensible Germans’ Supported Nazi Party

by David Badash ● 11:37 AM February 1, 2013
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The National Review’s Eliana Johnson this week wrote an opinion piece defending the Holocaust and Nazism in a thinly-veiled effort to attack President Barack Obama.

Guns

Wall Street Journal’s Murder Stats Falsely Put White Victims At Top Of Charts

by David Badash ● 8:47 PM January 27, 2013
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Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal takes a fascinating look at murder in America, and falsely puts white victims at the top of the charts.

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