Brian Fitzpatrick, a writer, editor, and commentator on political and cultural issues, is the Senior Editor at Media Research Center's Culture & Media Institute. Brian has also served as editorial director for Salem Communications, the largest religious radio broadcasting company in the United States, and as executive director of Accuracy in Academia. He served on the board of directors of Americans for Truth about Homosexuality. He was educated at Dartmouth College and Capital Bible Seminary. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BrianFitzpatrick http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BrianFitzpatrick TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2008 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:52:23 GMT Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:52:23 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ An "expatriate" is a person banished from his homeland or who chooses to live abroad. The expatriate may renounce allegiance to his homeland, or he may not, but he is not physically present there. What do you call a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BrianFitzpatrick/2008/07/02/the_expatriots becd797d-65cf-4e13-9e29-dc1703f639ff Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:52:23 GMT Thank God for the alternative media. Unlike the big newspapers and TV networks, small conservative online news sites are reporting the growing threat posed to religious liberty by the burgeoning homosexual rights... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BrianFitzpatrick/2008/06/10/media_ignore_impending_collision_gay_rights_vs_religious_liberty ab713177-7b2e-4c21-a22d-f3449a1907ed Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:08:16 GMT Are the media ever going to tell us what Barack Obama believes? After months of embarrassing revelations about the unpatriotic, conspiratorial views of Rev. Jeremiah Wright and others, Democratic presidential candidate... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BrianFitzpatrick/2008/06/03/is_obama_off_the_hook db20076b-14c9-4590-a50e-4bbe34d8c69a Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:28:46 GMT The liberal media aren't reporting it, but presidential candidate Barack Obama told an Oregon audience we're "goners" if we fail to stop global warming, and he intends to ask - or tell - Americans to stop driving SUVs,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BrianFitzpatrick/2008/05/20/media_cover_up_obamas_malaise_speech 168d0669-bee8-49f6-8754-c3db7b609e53 Tue, 20 May 2008 21:31:09 GMT Some of the media elites gave old-fashioned patriotism a clout to the jaw on May 1, May Day. When a reporter for a major American television network calls Fidel Castro "Cuba's revolutionary hero," without a hint of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BrianFitzpatrick/2008/05/06/mayday,_mayday,_patriotism_under_attack 8f8c1b99-1f8d-4b42-b407-0bf172f70a4b Tue, 06 May 2008 18:24:10 GMT Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama finally denounced Rev. Jeremiah Wright, but he will never get past the Wright controversy without resolving the questions it has raised about his credibility, judgment and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BrianFitzpatrick/2008/04/30/obamas_pastor_souljah_moment 255a17e7-6177-4822-94c4-97b5518cbfdb Thu, 01 May 2008 02:46:21 GMT Tuesday was Earth Day, the highest holy day of the year for practitioners of shoddy journalism. No subject, not even Barack Obama and the New Camelot, inspires reporters to drop any pretense of balance and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BrianFitzpatrick/2008/04/24/gaiag_me_with_a_spoon 3109ec98-6546-4a63-ada2-c8c36ff9d179 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:47:28 GMT Take cover, ABC! Incoming! "[Charles Gibson and George Stephanopoulos] disgraced the American voters, and in fact even disgraced democracy itself." - Will Bunch, Philadelphia Daily News "Perhaps the most... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BrianFitzpatrick/2008/04/19/character_questions 7677ccd7-a063-449e-acd5-f1c69aca6ab1 Sat, 19 Apr 2008 22:14:36 GMT My grandfather, a college football star, played for the NFL champion Providence Steam Roller back in 1928, so this weekend I was looking forward to seeing George Clooney's new 1920s football movie, Leatherheads. That's... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BrianFitzpatrick/2008/04/10/no_forgiving_charlton_heston 41275054-599c-447b-849a-a45869be302a Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:21:50 GMT When will Hollywood's secular bigots figure out that Bible-believing Christians have nothing in common with fundamentalist Muslim terrorists? On Wednesday, Law & Order served up another of those famed episodes ripped... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BrianFitzpatrick/2008/03/22/hollywood's_holy_week_christophobic_fantasy b1a4f132-c836-4a28-ac2c-19f9bfaaad4e Sat, 22 Mar 2008 10:56:12 GMT "So?" It may become the word that defines Dick Cheney. Much to the chagrin of ABC's Martha Raddatz, Vice President Richard Cheney dismissed the importance of an ABC poll finding that two thirds of Americans think the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BrianFitzpatrick/2008/03/20/abc's_raddatz_recoils_from_true_political_leadership 527e07c6-d165-4bac-8377-dd71df2d96df Fri, 21 Mar 2008 01:42:48 GMT After Hillary Clinton lost the January 3 Iowa caucuses, she made "improving likeability" a central campaign strategy, as U.S. News & World Report revealed on January 11.* All of the questions listed in this parody... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BrianFitzpatrick/2008/02/14/hillary,_queen_of_all_media cc0ebedb-7b61-46c3-ab6b-8d01139977bd Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:45:06 GMT Coverage of Super Tuesday shows how deeply the far-left world view is influencing the media and the entire nation. This year's presidential campaign coverage, especially of the Democratic contest, is much more about http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BrianFitzpatrick/2008/02/07/how_the_media_stir_the_brew_of_identity_group_politics 1ec31c3a-bc81-41b0-a32d-a837b705df4d Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:28:14 GMT Will the slugger do what's best for baseball and for the nation, and accept responsibility for what he's done? Or will he continue his selfish, feeble effort to protect himself? Indicted slugger Barry Bonds has... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BrianFitzpatrick/2007/11/16/will_barry_bonds_get_off_the_low_road bc9f6ebd-6067-4733-9b3b-24ac283d25d9 Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:31:21 GMT It feels like morning in America again. The Culture and Media Institute doesn't usually go in for labor strikes, but in Hollywood's case we're happy to make an exception. It isn't every day the industry spearheading... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BrianFitzpatrick/2007/11/06/hollywood_out_on_strike__don't_hurry_back 4b99564d-cb04-4804-bc3b-aeda22563b4f Tue, 06 Nov 2007 19:00:14 GMT