VIDEO Over the weekend a tipster directed our attention to a part of the "President Obama's African Journey" AC 360 special featuring the interviews Anderson Cooper conducted with President Barack Obama during his trip to Ghana. One line of the President's stood out as possible fodder for criticism in much the same way Judge Sonia Sotomayor's "wise Latina" comment became a conservative talking point. (more...)

VIDEO Ever find that sometimes when you're talking with friends or co-workers that a certain word keeps getting repeated over and over again?  Maybe it's a flashy one or just a really useful one, but it just keeps making the rounds in e-mails or chit-chat?  Well, you're not alone - the media also loves to reuse and recycle (not so much reduce).  Welcome to Mediaite's Meme Watch, a compilation of the media's most talked-about words... literally. This week? Wise Latina! (more...)

Lights! Camera! SCOTUS! All eyes this week are turned toward the confirmation hearing of Justice Sonia Sotomayor, President Barack Obama's first nominee to the Supreme Court and the person who has added "Wise Latina" to our lexicon. Legal eagles from around the land have flocked to the nation's capital to breathlessly cover these hearings, or at least stream them live on C-SPAN so that various Senators can put on their best camera-ready outfits (smashing blazer, Kristen Gillibrand!) and invoke those twin American traditions - case law and baseball  - in sonorous, stentorian voices and, in the case of Chuck Schumer, voices that sound like my former rabbi. (more...)