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“Angry backlash from coast to coast,” ABC’s David Muir teased Saturday’s World News, “huge rallies across this country tonight against that new controversial immigration law.” On CBS, Jeff Glor teased: “May Day Message. Immigrant right groups rally from coast to coast against Arizona’s controversial new law.”

ABC reporter Eric Horng touted how “this is the fifth year in a row that nationwide immigration rallies have been held on May 1st, but this year emotions are particularly raw. They came by the thousands. A sea of demonstrators armed with a message.” He soon claimed “the state has been lampooned by comedians” and as evidence played the very same clip from the left wing Jon Stewart as had NBC’s Andrea Mitchell earlier in the week when she asserted Arizona had become “a laughing stock.”

From Phoenix, CBS’s Bill Whitaker began with how “the many citizens here say that if the politicians don’t hear their voices today they might hear them at the ballot box a little louder in November,” but moments later in his story Whitaker showcased an admitted illegal:

Gerardo, who asked us to conceal his identity, crossed illegally from Mexico to Arizona four years ago. With the new law he knows there’s a greater chance he’ll be arrested and deported…He has a daughter, a state job, a home which his an American born partner Jessica is packing up, fearing they might have to flee…So they joined the protest in Phoenix, fighting to overturn the law.

The guy has a “state job”? I guess if the state government won’t turn in their own illegal employee you can’t expect a journalist to alert authorities.

Not until deep in their stories did Horng and Whitaker mention the shooting of a deputy. Horng: “Just yesterday a sheriff’s deputy was wounded during a gunfight in a well-known trafficking corridor for drugs and illegal immigrants.” Whitaker: “Pinal County deputy shot allegedly by a drug smuggler crossing illegally from Mexico.”

(The Kentucky Derby meant no NBC Nightly News for most of the country.)

Earlier:

- Friday night: “NBC Promotes May Day Anti-Arizona Protests While CBS Finally Notices Crime that Fueled New Law”

- Thursday night: “CBS Trumpets Opposition to ‘Notorious’ Arizona Law from One Cop and Linda Ronstadt, Already Finds ‘Chilling Effect’”

- Wednesday night: “Couric Touts San Francisco as Proof of ‘Backlash Against Arizona’s New Immigration Law’”

- Tuesday night: “ABC and NBC Champion ‘Growing National Backlash’ Against ‘Laughing Stock’ Arizona”

- Monday night: “CBS Again Focuses on Victims in Arizona: ‘Many Feel the Sting of Racism in New Law’”

- Friday night, April 23: “CBS Frames Arizona’s Anti-Illegal Alien Law Through Eyes of Opponents: ‘Veto Racism’”

From Saturday night, May 1:

ABC’s World News:

DAVID MUIR: As we’re on the air this evening, there are angry protests under way across this country all because of that tough new Arizona law that allows police to stop anyone suspected of being in this country illegally. Coast to coast there are hundreds of thousands of demonstrators, and Eric Horng is at ground zero tonight in Phoenix.

ERIC HORNG: Good evening, David. People started gathering here early outside the Arizona state capitol. They brought signs. Some of them have even brought their birth certificates to show their citizenship. This is the fifth year in a row that nationwide immigration rallies have been held on May 1st, but this year emotions are particularly raw. They came by the thousands. A sea of demonstrators armed with a message.

WOMAN: I live here in Arizona for ten years. And do I look illegal to you?

HORNG: In Washington, dozens were arrested near the White House after refusing orders to leave. In Chicago and Dallas, marchers shut down city streets. And in Los Angeles, a massive crowd filled downtown.

WOMAN: I’m out here for my parents and for my family, for my people.

HORNG: But it was here in Arizona where calls for immigration reform seemed the loudest. Last month the state passed a controversial law requiring local police to question suspected illegals and making harboring an undocumented immigrant a crime.

SHERIFF CLARENCE DUPNIK, PIMA COUNTY: It’s stupid, and it’s racist. From my point of view, it’s a national embarrassment.

HORNG: Already, lawsuits have been filed challenging the law. Activists have called for a boycott of Arizona businesses and the state has been lampooned by comedians.

JON STEWART ON COMEDY CENTRAL: It’s not unprecedented having to carry around your papers. It’s the same thing that freed black people had to do in 1863.

HORNG: But supporters of the law aren’t laughing, citing growing violence at the Arizona/Mexico border. Just yesterday a sheriff’s deputy was wounded during a gunfight in a well-known trafficking corridor for drugs and illegal immigrants.

STATE REP JOHN KAVANAUGH (R): There’s a lot of street crime and that keeps customers away. There’s robberies, a lot of kidnapings that bring down property values in neighborhoods. On the border it’s even worse.

HORNG: In fact, polls show a slim majority of Americans support the new law as other states consider similar measures. Despite this call for national immigration reform, many say legislation is unlikely this year now that bipartisan efforts in Congress have stalled. David?

CBS Evening News:

JEFF GLOR: Across the country today there are storms of protest over the tough new Arizona immigration laws. In dozens American cities, large and small, hundreds of thousands of protesters used May Day rallies to voice their anger at the legislation. Bill Whitaker was at a rally in Phoenix. Bill?

BILL WHITAKER: The many citizens here say that if the politicians don’t hear their voices today they might hear them at the ballot box a little louder in November. They marched in Washington, DC. In Los Angeles, 100,000 protesters poured through city streets.

MAN: There has to be comprehensive immigration reform this year.

WHITAKER: Thousands more marched through downtown Dallas, snaked through Manhattan.

WOMAN: This country was founded on the backs of immigrants.

WHITAKER: In dozens of cities across the country this May Day, Latinos, immigrant activists, union members came out in force. Their cause, immigration reform. Fueling their passion, fierce opposition to Arizona’s tough new immigration law.

LOS ANGELES MAYOR ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA, AT PROTEST: We want change. We want reform, and we want it now!

WHITAKER: In Los Angeles, Cardinal Roger Mahoney, head of the country’s largest Catholic archdiocese, tended the flock.

CARDINAL ROGER MAHONEY: Any time you create an atmosphere of suspicion in society and actually encourage some people to turn other people in, that’s not America. We don’t do that.

WHITAKER: At the state capitol in Phoenix the week-long protest against the law was bigger today, the denunciations more intense. But here in Arizona, support for the new law is intense too. Polls show more than 60 percent of Arizonans want police to check for proof of citizenship when they encounter a suspect in a crime or violation. Why? Because of crimes like this. Pinal County deputy shot allegedly by a drug smuggler crossing illegally from Mexico.

SHERIFF PAUL BABEU, PINAL COUNTY: This has reached a critical mass for law enforcement and we’ve been calling out to our leaders in the state and at the national level that we need help.

WHITAKER: More people enter the U.S. illegally through Arizona then anyone else. Almost 700,000 arrested in the last two and-a-half years. Gerardo, who asked us to conceal his identity, crossed illegally from Mexico to Arizona four years ago. With the new law he knows there’s a greater chance he’ll be arrested and deported.

GERARDO: I’ve got no papers, I’ve got different color.

WHITAKER: He has a daughter, a state job, a home which his an American born partner Jessica is packing up, fearing they might have to flee.

JESSICA: He cannot st stay here. It will be difficult for him to go to work, to go to the store, to even be with my daughter outside.

WHITAKER: So they joined the protest in Phoenix, fighting to overturn the law.

WHITAKER TO GERARDO: Do you think this will make a difference.

GERARDO: Yeah, I hope.

WHITAKER: Meanwhile, 17 suspects has been picked up in connection with the shooting of that sheriff’s deputy. He’s recovering at home this evening, Jeff.

Live coverage of the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner will begin at 10PM EDT.

Any predictions? Any surprises? Interested? Couldn’t care less?

As Joan Rivers famously said for decades, "Let’s tawk." 

CNN political analyst/Obama publicist Roland Martin granted an interview to Time Out Chicago, and his dominant theme was America is full of stupid people:  

Roland Martin thinks you’re stupid. Well, not you, specifically, just a lot of you in general. “We got some pretty dumb people,” says the Chicago-based CNN contributor, relaxing in the network’s offices at Tribune Tower between appearances discussing “broken government.” “I mean, I know we’re not supposed to call Americans dumb…but sometimes you gotta go ahead and say it.”

Voters who barely show up at the polls, tea partyers who don’t know the federal stimulus bill included tax cuts, Obama supporters who haven’t done anything since the election but whine about how little the President has accomplished—they all burn him up.

He has some choice words for major media players, too: “They all go to the same parties, they all talk to each other…so what happens is they now decide that ‘Oh no, this is what’s important.’”

It’s easy to think of America has dumb when a man is convinced he is one of the smartest people in the land.

Martin began popping up in Stella Foster’s Sun-Times gossip column, linked with friends of now-President Barack Obama such as John Rogers of Ariel Investments and Valerie Jarrett. They’re the “black political elite, and he has become very much a part of that,” Feder says. “That’s also a part of what he’s selling—that access, an entrée, which is important…. Clearly, the Obama phenomenon could not have been better timed to help the Roland Martin phenomenon.”

That phenomenon includes artin’s 2010 book, The First: President Barack Obama’s Road to the White House as Originally Reported by Roland S. Martin (Third World Press, $19.95), whose cover features a Shepard Fairey–style treatment of both Martin’s and Obama’s profiles. Martin’s name is printed about twice as big as the President’s.

Martin strides through the lobby of his River North high-rise, trench coat thrown over his typically natty suit. A short-brimmed Scala cowboy hat perches on his head. He’s 41 and working on losing weight, but in person he looks taller and thinner than on TV…

“Wassup, doc?” Martin says. Like a hip, black Bugs Bunny, Martin uses a variation of this greeting constantly. Anyone he doesn’t know is “Doc,” from autograph seekers to the confused worker at the dry cleaner whose name tag clearly reads Louis.

Conservative author Ann Coulter Friday said she’s never seen the press lie about any issue as much as they have about the new anti-illegal immigration law in Arizona.

"Everyone is blatantly lying about what this law does," she told Juan Williams who was filling in for the regular host of Fox News’s "O’Reilly Factor."

"I’ve never seen anything, a law lied about, any public issue lied about so much," she continued.

"And I don’t mean commentators on other stations. I mean, they are delivering the news, claiming that this is going to be racial profiling. The cops can stop anyone. It’s like Nazi Germany. Just blatant, blatant lying" (video follows with transcript and commentary, h/t The Right Scoop): 

JUAN WILLIAMS, SUBSTITUTE HOST: But a new Gallup poll shows that those Americans who’ve heard about the Arizona law, 51 percent say they favor it. 39 percent oppose it.

With us now to analyze, conservative columnist Ann Coulter.

Ann, what do you think of this law? Is it about racial profiling as we’re hearing from the pop stars?

ANN COULTER, CONSERVATIVE COLUMNIST: No. Though I like listening to air-headed celebrities is almost identical to listening to news broadcasters on every station except FOX, excuse me.

No, everyone is blatantly lying about what this law does. Specifically racial profiling is prohibited by the law. Cops, by the way, cannot initiate contact with anyone under the law whom they could not initiate contact with before. It’s when they’re in the process of stopping someone or arresting someone if there’s a reasonable suspicion that the person is here illegally, not based on race, not based on a suspicion of the person’s national origin. But you know, other reasons. If a cop stops a, you know, a van pull full of car, a van that’s speeding and 20 people get out and run in 20 different directions, that would cause reasonable suspicion. And it’s not like Arizona is inventing this legal principle.

WILLIAMS: But wait a second.

COULTER: There are decades of law interpreting reasonable suspicion.

Yes there are. Readers are encouraged to read "Joe Scarborough Calls Arizona Immigration Law ‘Un-American‘" for an example of such interpretations. But I digress: 

WILLIAMS: Hold on. But today, for example, you have people in the state legislature who helped draft the bill saying you know what? We’re making changes. They call it modifications, clarifications, in order to address this racial profiling issue. So, maybe they think there’s an issue.

COULTER: That is certainly what all of the news has been. I mean, I’ve never seen anything, a law lied about, any public issue lied about so much. And I don’t mean commentators on other stations. I mean, they are delivering the news, claiming that this is going to be racial profiling. The cops can stop anyone. It’s like Nazi Germany. Just blatant, blatant lying.

WILLIAMS: Well, wait a second. When I hear from Rick Perry, governor of Texas, and a true conservative that you know what, I don’t want anything like this in Texas.

COULTER: Right.

WILLIAMS: I think to myself, hey, something’s up. When I hear from people who are conservatives.

COULTER: Right.

WILLIAMS: Connie Mac in Florida.

COULTER: Yes.

WILLIAMS: He says this is like the Gestapo.

COULTER: And Marco Rubio.

WILLIAMS: Asking people for their–and Marco Rubio.

COULTER: A little upset about that. Thought you were going to be good, Marco.

WILLIAMS: All right. And Karl Rove says, you know what? He doesn’t think it’s going to be an effective law.

COULTER: Right.

WILLIAMS: All right, so what do you say?

COULTER: I think they are responding to the nonsense that’s being published out there. I mean, people get bullied into taking silly positions as I said in my email to you earlier.

WILLIAMS: Right.

COULTER: I bet you — I mean 51 percent supporting the law, I’m shocked it’s even that high based on what it is said out there in the press. I mean, people are busy. They have jobs, they have families. They’re listening to the commentary. They’re not going and reading the law. And let me just say, everything you’ve heard about the law, except here tonight, is a lie. And also shockingly, yesterday, "The New York Times" ran an op-ed, which I link to it anncoulter.com, telling the truth about the law. Read that before saying whether or not you support the law.

But I think not only most Americans, but most recent immigrants from Mexico would support this law. Who are illegals taking jobs from?

WILLIAMS: But let me tell you, there’s an effort underway to even have a boycott–

WILLIAMS: Right.

COULTER: A boycott of the all-star game. There are lawsuits underway.

COULTER: Right.

WILLIAMS: We’re going to talk about that later in more detail, but it seems to me that there is a nationwide movement of people saying, you know what, this is–

COULTER: Right.

WILLIAMS: –this is not American. Asking people for their papers.

COULTER: Yes.

WILLIAMS: It reminds me of something.

Here’s the money paragraph, and what EVERY journalist in America should be required to inform his or her readers, viewers, or listeners: 

COULTER: They’re not, no, no, okay on the papers thing. Immigrants to this country, noncitizens are already under federal law required to carry papers. There’s nothing new added by the Arizona law. This only allows the cop to ask someone whom he has already legally stopped for probable cause and whom he has reasonable suspicion is an illegal to ask for something that an illegal or rather that an alien is required to carry by law anyway. So that isn’t something–

Exactly. That’s what the term "lawful contact" in the law means. Continue: 

WILLIAMS: No, hang on, hang on. If you’re a naturalized citizen of this country–

COULTER: Naturalized citizen, no, no, no. But you’re allowed to be here and be an immigrant.

WILLIAMS: Yes, you don’t have to have any papers.

COULTER: Yes, do you.

WILLIAMS: And — no, you don’t. And let me just–

COULTER: No, if you’re a noncitizen alien.

WILLIAMS: If you’re a naturalized American citizen.

COULTER: Or (INAUDIBLE).

WILLIAMS: Let’s say you’re — no, you don’t have any papers. And let’s say you’re born in the country.

COULTER: Right.

WILLIAMS: And you’re Hispanic, you don’t have to have any papers.

COULTER: No, no, no, that’s right. But if you are an immigrant from the Ukraine, I don’t mean a citizen yet. You’re allowed to be in the country and not be a citizen.

WILLIAMS: No, once you’re a citizen. Right. No, no, but let’s say–

COULTER: But if you are here legally and a noncitizen, you’re required to carry your immigration papers.

WILLIAMS: Okay, okay, but here’s my point to you. You’re driving down the street.

COULTER: Right.

WILLIAMS: Your family’s been here for generations. Mexico- Americans, whatever. Cop says hey, you got a taillight out, I want to see your papers, Ann Coulter.

COULTER: Well–

WILLIAMS: You look brown skinned to me.

COULTER: I’m glad you asked that.

WILLIAMS: Oh, you’re glad?

COULTER: Because, among the things you can produce are a driver’s license, that driver’s license that people get who don’t drive, whatever is that is called. There are a billion other things you can produce. And at that moment, the questioning stops.

Exactly. What media members are either missing or intentionally lying about is that folks are either being pulled over or stopped for probable cause, meaning suspicion that they have violated or are about to violate the law. Whether or not they have identification at the time of the stop is not the issue. They’re not being stopped to identify them. They’re being stopped for possibly having broken or intending to break the law:

WILLIAMS: So you think that what we were just hearing from Linda Ronstadt, who says I’m light-skinned Mexican American, so it’s not going to be a problem. The cop will never ask me for my papers, but I never ask Ann Coulter for her papers, but they’ll ask Juan Williams for his papers because he’s got brown skin.

COULTER: No, it’s because you are a Democrat.

(LAUGHTER)

WILLIAMS: Well, good, now I get it. Now I get it. I was wondering my whole life.

COULTER: No.

WILLIAMS: You know, I asked my mother this. I said, mom, why? You’re a Democrat. I figured it out. Thank you.

COULTER: But no, if I am driving a van with a busted taillight, and I’m speeding and taking illegal left turn and a cop stops me and 20 Hispanic-looking people who don’t speak English leap out of the van and run in all directions, yes, they will ask me for my papers. And, by the way, if I give them a legal driver’s license, poof, that’s it. No more questioning.

WILLIAMS: It couldn’t be the local soccer team?

COULTER: Well, there is — there are legal principles to determine whether there was reasonable suspicion. And I just want to say one more thing on all the idiot celebrities and apparently Rick Perry and Marco Rubio and the other one.

WILLIAMS: You’re just going after people tonight.

COULTER: There is also a great belief or has been up until we got snow in all 50 states this year in global warming, sometimes causes are just chic and chubby co-ed girls who want to fit in all claim to believe in global warming and claim this totally logical Arizona law is, you know, Nazi Germany.

WILLIAMS: All right. We’re going after chubby girls.  

In reality, all the media hyperventilation about this issue is born of either staggering ignorance or blatant dishonesty. As Coulter pointed out, there’s no other explanation. 

The New York Times Saturday made it clear that it is willing to fault the Obama administration for its response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

On top of the editorial previously reviewed by NewsBusters, the Gray Lady published a front page piece largely critical of the White House.

Makes you wonder what Times columnist Paul Krugman — who a day earlier scoffed at people for even considering the President to be at all to blame — is feeling as he watches his paper take a position quite contrary to his own.

But before we get there, here’s what Campbell Robertson and Eric Lipton surprisingly presented to readers (h/t Gateway Pundit via NBer Brinton Marsden):

BP officials said they did everything possible, and a review of the response suggests it may be too simplistic to place all the blame on the oil company. The federal government also had opportunities to move more quickly, but did not do so while it waited for a resolution to the spreading spill from BP, which was leasing the drilling rig that exploded in flames on April 20 and sank two days later. Eleven workers are missing and presumed dead.

The Department of Homeland Security waited until Thursday to declare that the incident was "a spill of national significance," and then set up a second command center in Mobile. The actions came only after the estimate of the size of the spill was increased fivefold to 5,000 barrels a day.

The delay meant that the Homeland Security Department waited until late this week to formally request a more robust response from the Department of Defense, with Ms. Napolitano acknowledging even as late as Thursday afternoon that she did not know if the Defense Department even had equipment that might be helpful.

Can you imagine that? The secretary of the DHS "did not know if the Defense Department even had equipment that might be helpful."

Forgive me, but we’re talking STAGGERING incompetence here: 

By Friday afternoon, she said, the Defense Department had agreed to send two large military transport planes to spray chemicals that can disperse the oil while it is still in the Gulf.

Officials initially seemed to underestimate the threat of a leak, just as BP did last year when it told the government such an event was highly unlikely. Rear Adm. Mary E. Landry, the chief Coast Guard official in charge of the response, said on April 22, after the rig sank, that the oil that was on the surface appeared to be merely residual oil from the fire, though she said it was unclear what was going on underwater. The day after, officials said that it appeared the well’s blowout preventer had kicked in and that there did not seem to be any oil leaking from the well, though they cautioned it was not a guarantee.

So, not only was the Administration slow to act, but also its decision-making was hapless:

Some oil industry critics questioned whether the federal government is too reliant on oil companies to manage the response to major spills, leaving the government unable to evaluate if the response is robust enough.

"Here you have the company that is responsible for the accident leading the response to the crisis," said Tyson Slocum, director of Public Citizen’s Energy Program. "There is a problem here, and the consequence is clear."

And here’s the money paragraph: 

But it is still the government, in this case the Coast Guard, that has the final say. A law passed a year after the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster makes the owner of a rig or vessel responsible for cleaning up a spill. But oversight of the cleanup is designated to the Coast Guard, with advice from other federal agencies.

Well, this will certainly come as a shock to Krugman who the previous day mocked anyone that might consider pointing a finger at the President.

Adding insult to injury, the Nobel Laureate added an update to his blog post that I’m sure he’d like to take back:

Update: He shoots! He scores! Media Matters: Rush’s conspiracy theory: "Environmentalist whackos" may have blown up oil rig to "head off more oil drilling"

Not exactly. More like, "He shoots, and breaks his stick on the ice before making contact with the puck!"