Amazing. Just amazing. The Washington Post Editorial Board has put out this editorial titled: "For Republicans, bigotry is the new normal." The editorial is an assault on, well, just about everybody in GOP-land. But just a few years ago, the Post rhapsodized over Franklin Roosevelt, with no admission of how bigotry was very normal for the Democrats of his time, and racial resentment still works for them.
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December 12, 2015, 5:31 PM EST
In the middle of the furor over Donald Trump’s Muslim remarks, Hillary Clinton managed to get out an e-mail titled “A Word on Donald Trump.” There was nothing unexpected in one sense. She disagreed and was attacking him. Ho hum.
But then she bragged of how she defended women.
December 5, 2015, 11:02 PM EST
One has contempt for Christians.
And both think the Jihadist attack in San Bernadino by an Islamic couple is the fault of the NRA. And oh yes, one also thinks the problem in San Bernadino is Mr. and Mrs. Joe Doaks America and their shopping tastes in guns. Really. What gutless cowards at the New York Daily News and The New Yorker.
November 28, 2015, 9:40 PM EST
The brazenness of the double standard is increasingly stunning.
This time around? The dustup began as an offshoot of Donald Trump’s allegation that Muslims in Jersey City cheered as the towers fell on 9/11.
November 21, 2015, 7:47 PM EST
Donald Trump saw his remarks about illegal immigration twisted into supposed advocacy for a database of Muslims, and the MSNBC headline came with a major twist: "Trump’s plan for a Muslim database draws comparison to Nazi Germany."
This is shameful. Utterly unprofessional journalism. And utterly typical. And you wonder why the American people have such a low opinion of journalists?
November 14, 2015, 3:18 PM EST
To borrow from the theme of the 2012 Obama campaign, General Motors may be alive, but clearly Islamic terrorism is not dead.
November 7, 2015, 2:48 PM EST
For the good part of a day America was being fed a story about Ben Carson that wasn’t true. Was Carson deliberately lying? Clearly not. One can quibble over the wording in his book, or even criticize him for imprecision or a foggy memory, but in fact there was no “there” there.
The ladies of The View slammed Carly Fiorina for having a "demented" look, which set up a new showdown on that chat show. And Latino groups protested NBC giving Donald Trump any air time to host Saturday Night Live. The Left does not look pretty.
October 31, 2015, 2:44 PM EDT
It’s time for a GOP talk radio debate. Specifically on February 26th of next year. Why February 26th? Because of this news…welcome news…from Republican National Chairman Reince Priebus. The RNC has now pulled the GOP from the February 26th GOP debate that was to be hosted by NBC.
In the wake of the disaster that was the CNBC debate - which was an open attack on the candidates - Priebus has released this letter.
October 24, 2015, 10:50 PM EDT
Mitt Romney sounded just like a liberal reporter. “There was a time when we all got the news with the same facts, if you will. We had three networks we watched for the evening news. Most of us got newspapers. Everybody in the middle class got a newspaper, so we got the same facts whether we agreed or not with them.”
Now, according to Romney, people “get their news on the web” and “they tend to read those things which they agree with.” He said people are “not seeing the other side” and “not even getting the same facts” with Fox News and other outlets. He really suggested conservative media are making America worse. It's no wonder he's not president.
October 17, 2015, 10:09 PM EDT
The headline in The New York Times says it all: "CNBC Gives In to Donald Trump on Details of the Debate."
In other words? Donald Trump takes on the media -- again -- and wins.
October 10, 2015, 11:01 PM EDT
The Washington Post was shocked. “Ben Carson said Thursday that Adolf Hitler’s mass murder of Jews 'would have been greatly diminished' if German citizens had not been disarmed by the Nazi regime."
From the Huffington Post to ABC to Time and more (and more!) the liberal media was out there to dismiss Carson’s comments to Wolf Blitzer’s quite legit question as somehow as wacko as it was inflammatory. Even the Anti-Defamation League jumped in to say that Carson’s remarks were "historically inaccurate and offensive.” Stop.
October 3, 2015, 12:34 PM EDT
Mark Levin was relentless. Sean Hannity, too. They called for new Republican leadership in Congress. It is now abundantly clear that talk radio, not the elected GOP leadership, is the place conservatives are looking to for leadership on conservative principle. They aren’t looking to the GOP leadership in Washington, they are looking to talk radio.
September 26, 2015, 6:20 PM EDT
As the late Yogi Berra would say, it’s déjà vu all over again.
Speaker John Boehner resigns - and the New York Times knew exactly what to headline: "Boehner to Resign, Pressured by the Right."
September 19, 2015, 9:09 PM EDT
I like the Washington Post's Erik Wemple. Even when he goes after me in his column, because, hey, it wonderfully illustrates the liberal media's double standard.
September 12, 2015, 11:01 PM EDT
Donald Trump hates women? Then Republican women rally to Trump. Ted Cruz shut down the government and the GOP is to blame? Then GOP voters will rally in 2014 to give the GOP control of the Senate and just about everything except the White House, which wasn’t on the ballot.
When it comes to dealing with liberal media narratives, how to play? In two words? Fight back. Anything less telegraphs to GOP voters that the candidate in question has met the Liberal Media Narrative of the moment and surrendered.
September 6, 2015, 8:09 PM EDT
If it were up to today’s media, there would still be slavery. And once the Thirteenth Amendment ended slavery, today’s media would have championed segregation and racism.
Say what?
August 29, 2015, 7:47 PM EDT
Call it Trump paranoia. Or Trump Derangement Syndrome Be afraid. Be very afraid.
That is the unsubtle message from The New Yorker magazine this last week as its cover flap promoted the notion in big and bold white letters. "TRUMP And The White Nationalists: By stoking paranoia about immigration, Trump has energized the far right and is creating chaos in the G.O.P."
August 22, 2015, 9:53 PM EDT
The New York Times hates Donald Trump’s immigration plans. But back in the 1950s, they were solidly behind President Eisenhower's actions to deport illegal Mexican aliens.
August 15, 2015, 8:52 PM EDT
“I will tell you that a very senior talk radio executive, somebody with responsibility for a large number of talk radio stations, expressed to me just this week his concern that talk radio as we know it could be largely gone in five years….”
So spoke Randall Bloomquist, “a long-time radio executive and president of Talk Frontier Media ” as identified here in a Daily Beast article from back in 2011 - almost, yes, five years ago. (And Bloomquist wasn't alone in expressing the "talk radio is dying" sentiment, either.) As of this moment, with only another six months to run, talk radio is not only not “largely gone” - it is the subject of another story line altogether.
August 8, 2015, 11:40 PM EDT
CNN has hired a conservative commentator. Me.