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Oops! GLAAD Leaves CNN Off the List of 'Wear Purple' Media Outlets Aga
Despite CNN committing five segments to helping the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) celebrate the new "Spirit Day" against anti-gay bullying, GLAAD somehow left CNN out of their list of participating TV "news" outlets.
On her Facebook page, Canadian teen Brittany McMillan started the new day of obli-gay-tion, and wrote: "Many of [the teens] suffered from homophobic abuse…
October 23rd, 2010 6:03 PM
Greg Gutfeld Rips Maureen Dowd's 'GOP Mean Girls' Column
Greg Gutfeld on Saturday marvelously ripped Maureen Dowd's "GOP Mean Girls" column published by the New York Times last Sunday.
Appearing on "Fox News Watch," Gutfeld ridiculed the hypocrisy of lamenting the "evils of smearing women right before smearing women" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
October 23rd, 2010 4:24 PM
Obama Fundraises At Google Exec's House Same Day Company's Tax Loophol
Hours after Bloomberg News revealed Google's billion dollar scheme to avoid corporate taxes, President Obama spoke at a Democrat fundraiser held at the home of one of the Internet giant's executives.
From what I can tell, only the Washington Examiner's Byron York thought the timing of this event was at all odd (h/t Seton Motley):
October 23rd, 2010 3:18 PM
Krauthammer Directly Challenges Totenberg on NPR’s ‘Hypocrisy’ i
“Why is it okay for Nina to express opinions, as she has tartly, sharply, unashamedly and openly” while serving as “an honored correspondent” for NPR, while Juan Williams, “because he expresses his opinions, gets canned from NPR?” So Charles Krauthammer demanded while sitting Friday with Totenberg on the same Inside Washington set. “In fact, the standard ought to be lower in the case of…
October 23rd, 2010 2:51 PM
Jeb Bush: I'd Endorse Palin For President - You Betcha
The media seem fascinated these days asking Republicans if they would endorse Sarah Palin for President in 2012.
When CNN's John King asked that question of former Florida governor Jeb Bush Friday, he didn't bat an eye (video follows with transcript and commentary, h/t HAP):
October 23rd, 2010 1:47 PM
Juan Williams Strikes Back: Here's What You CAN Say on NPR Without Get
Juan Williams struck back at his former employers on Friday by pointing out the hypocrisy of him being fired for his comments about Muslims when others at NPR have said far worse without receiving any disciplinary action whatsoever.
Filling in for the regular host of Fox's "The O'Reilly Factor," Williams gave the radio station he dutifully represented the past ten years a well-deserved piece…
October 23rd, 2010 1:00 PM
James Carville Contests View Anger At Obama Is Racist
For well over a year, the media have been unashamedly claiming the anti-Obama sentiments sweeping the nation are all because the President is black.
According to Howard Kurtz, former Clinton adviser James Carville told Saturday's Innovators Summit in New Orleans that this is all nonsense:
October 23rd, 2010 12:05 PM
Ed Schultz Calls Drudge and Breitbart Liars: They Cherry-picked Harry
MSNBC's Ed Schultz on Friday called internet giants Matt Drudge and Andrew Breitbart liars for supposedly cherry-picking Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's "but for me we'd be in a worldwide depression" comment (video follows with transcript and commentary):
October 23rd, 2010 10:29 AM
Reid 'Depression' Remark Ignored by AP Until GOP Responds; TARP 2008 D
When a Democrat or leftist makes an ill-advised remark, it seems that there's a three-stage process at the Associated Press, and perhaps in most other establishment press outlets, for handling it. It goes roughly like this:
Stage 1 - Ignore it as long as you can. If there isn't much outcry, keep ignoring it.
Stage 2 - If there ends up being enough of an outcry from conservatives or…
October 23rd, 2010 10:23 AM
Open Thread
For general discussion and debate about politics, the economy, sports, or anything else that tickles your fancy.
October 23rd, 2010 9:42 AM
Gutfeld’s Case Not to Defund NPR: We Need Them to Remind Us What Sub
It appears Juan Williams’ firing is just what the public needed to realize their tax dollars are being poorly handled through subsidies from the federal government given to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to prop up National Public Radio.
However, “Red Eye” host Greg Gutfeld makes the most reasonable case not to deprive NPR of its taxpayer subsidies. On the Oct. 23 broadcast of his…
October 23rd, 2010 9:37 AM
Bozell Column: Shock and Awful Art
Rocco Landesman is the chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, and boy, does he know how to spin the official line on offensive art. In a recent interview in Cincinnati, he was asked vaguely about controversy. “The best art taps into deep feelings, sometimes to comfort and sometimes to confront. Art can be very uncomfortable,” Landesman said. “What can lead to strong reactions -- for…
October 23rd, 2010 8:46 AM
Brian Williams Sniffs: Juan Has No 'Right to Be Employed' by NPR
Alissa Krinsky of the TV Newser blog talked to NBC anchor Brian Williams in Chicago Friday on his way to a Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation fundraiser. Williams refused to join the crowd of liberal reporters and celebrities who've called it a mistake. He even refused to condemn the firing for giving Williams to chance to explain himself.
October 23rd, 2010 8:26 AM
On Maher, Rob Reiner Equates Tea Party to Hitler: ‘All They're Selli
Prefacing his remarks by proposing “you never get into a political discussion unless you bring the word Hitler in. You have to have Hitler, so let's put Hitler out there,” as if that caveat lessened the vulgarity of his impending comparison, on Friday night’s Real Time actor/director/writer Rob Reiner (IMDb page) contended all the Tea Party needs to match Adolph Hitler is a charismatic…
October 23rd, 2010 8:06 AM