NYT Sunday: 'Dread' as Right Wing Hungers for 'Strident Conservative'
After the shock resignation of John Boehner, should you fear and dread the rise of a revitalized right wing in Congress? Sunday's New York Times front page featured a "news analysis" on the surprise retirement announcement of House Speaker John Boehner. The takeaway from Jonathan Weisman and Michael Shear's label-heavy story was encapsulated in the headline: "The Post-Boehner Congress and…
'Moderate Wisdom' on Guns? NRA Are Screeching Monkeys
Beware when The Washington Post calls someone a “moderate.” It probably means they’re a liberal ranter. In Sunday’s newspaper, a book review by Post writer Michael Rosenwald of a book called Arms by a Canadian journalist named A. J. Somerset who loathes American gun culture. It's titled "Wisdom of a Gun-Owning Moderate."
For example: “The color white plays an important role in this history:…
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Chuck Todd Tosses Softballs to Hillary Over E-Mail Scandal
On Sunday, Hillary Clinton appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press and moderator Chuck Todd made sure to give the former Secretary of State some softball questions to help justify her use of a private e-mail server during her time at the State Department.
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Steven Spielberg/Lonesome Rhodes Failed to Make Hillary Likeable
Even Lonesome Rhodes, I mean director Steven Spielberg, couldn't make Hillary Clinton's image more likeable. According to a New York Post excerpt of Edward Klein's book, "Unlikeable," Spielberg acting as Hillary's "consigli di immagine," tried but failed in this difficult endeavor. When you see the video clip below of Lonesome Rhodes in the movie "A Face In the Crowd" giving similar advice to…
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Carly Fiorina Battles Chuck Todd Over Planned Parenthood Videos
On Sunday’s Meet the Press, moderator Chuck Todd attempted to lecture Carly Fiorina over her past statements regarding Planned Parenthood but the Republican presidential candidate repeatedly stood her ground. Throughout the combative interview over the authenticity over videos that purported to show a baby that survived an abortion Todd tried to press Fiorina on whether she was “willing now to…
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ABC’s Dowd: Republicans ‘Upset...America Is Now Less White’
On Sunday’s This Week, ABC’s Matthew Dowd used Speaker of the House John Boehner’s resignation as the perfect opportunity to attack Republican voters who were unhappy with his tenure. The so-called conservative proclaimed that Republicans are “really upset” that “America has changed...America is now less white, less married, less churched, less conservative, and that is a difficult prospect for…
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ABC’s Faris: How Does Hillary ‘Overcome’ E-mail ‘Distractions?’
On Sunday’s Good Morning America, ABC’s Paula Faris previewed This Week with fill-in host Martha Raddatz and the two did their best to lament the fact that Hillary Clinton has been unable to overcome the ongoing problems involving her use of a private e-mail server.
Gay Humorist on Marriage: 'I Wanted It to Be Ours to Spit On'
Gay humorist David Sedaris, who became famous for his “Crumpet the Elf’ Christmas-bashing on NPR and then his contributions to the NPR show This American Life, has a new essay in The New Yorker that ably illustrates the gay-lefty ambivalence about marriage: they want “gay marriage” at the same time they have contempt for it as unfashionably conventional. "I was all for the struggle, mainly…
NPR Honors Anniversary of Atheist 'Dark Materials' Trilogy for Kids
On Saturday, NPR’s Weekend Edition celebrated atheist author Philip Pullman and the His Dark Materials trilogy he wrote for middle-schoolers, a sort of anti-Narnia series. Anchor Scott Simon celebrated the 20th anniversary of the first book in this trilogy and interviewed Pullman as he sat a BBC studio in Oxford, hinting they have "maybe the mark of real excellence."
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CNN's Zakaria: Hillary Clinton 'Incredibly Impressive,' 'Very Smart'
Appearing on Friday's CNN Tonight to plug his interview with former President Bill Clinton, CNN's Fareed Zakaria -- host of Fareed Zakaria GPS -- gushed over Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, calling her an "incredibly impressive public figure," "very intelligent," "very well-briefed," and "very smart on policy."
He also suggested that, if only she had "charisma" and her husband…
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Nets Blast 'Unruly' GOP over Boehner News; Hypes '16 Chances Are Hurt
On Saturday morning, the major broadcast networks were at it again in bashing the “far-right” and “unruly hardliners” in the House Republican caucus for causing Speaker John Boehner’s impending resignation announced Friday that CBS added could hurt the party’s chances in 2016 if the “infighting” continues.
Radio Liberal Compares Speech by Bernie Sanders to Gettysburg Address
This may qualify as even more amusing than the spectacle of diehard secularists in the media swooning over the pope like teen scribes for Tiger Beat backstage after a Bieber concert.
Radio host Thom Hartmann, one of Bernie Sanders' most enthusiastic supporters in the left-wing media, has hosted Sanders on weekly "Brunch with Bernie" interviews for several years and, like Sanders, describes…
NYT Uses Pope to Lament 'Harsh and Unforgiving Tone' on Immigration
A heavily politicized preliminary version of Friday's front-page New York Times story on Pope Francis's visit to New York City was another example of the sudden respect a religious figure garners from the liberal newspaper -- at least when he happens to agree on the Times' pet issue of immigration. Reporters Marc Santora and Sharon Otterman noted that the Pope's "words cut against the current…
