'It's A ClimateGate Christmas': Seasonal Global Warming Carols

Our friends at Minnesotans for Global Warming have released a fabulous new video just in time for the holidays.Entitled "It's a ClimateGate Christmas," Elmer and his team took your favorite Christmas carols and inserted lyrics involving Nobel Laureate Al Gore's favorite bogeyman.As you would expect, Gore is the subject of many of the tunes (video embedded below the fold with partial song list):
Noel Sheppard

Thomas Friedman on CNN: ClimateGate an 'Idiot Debate,' 'Nonsense

Thomas Friedman of the New York Times dismissed the ClimateGate scandal during an interview on Thursday’s Situation Room on CNN, labeling it “nonsense” and an “idiot debate.” Anchor Wolf Blitzer only pressed Friedman slightly when he repeated his call for a “price on carbon that would trigger mass innovation in green technology,” meaning a large surtax on fossil fuels.Blitzer raised ClimateGate…
Matthew Balan

ChiTrib Blogger: Do Pro-Abortion Nuns 'Strengthen the Church

In what is easily the dopiest question I've read from a religion blogger in a while, Chicago Tribune's Manya Brachear closed her  December 8 The Seeker blog post by asking readers if "dissenters" like pro-choice nun Sister Donna Quinn of Chicago "strengthen the church." In November, Quinn went public with news that she has "been rebuked for escorting patients into a Hinsdale clinic that provides…
Ken Shepherd

Will Smith: 'Barack Obama as an Idea Marks an Evolutionary Flash Point

“Barack Obama as a person is a fantastic individual, but Barack Obama as an idea marks an evolutionary flash point for humanity,” gushed actor Will Smith (IMDb page), who will co-host Friday's Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo. His idealization of Obama came during a recorded interview, from Norway, with CNN's Dan Lothian run shortly before 5 PM EST on Thursday's The Situation Room.Asked if Obama…
Brent Baker

Matthews: Can Obama Lead Cheney, Rove and Neo-Cons 'Out of the Valley

Geoffrey Dickens

Sarah Palin Says Critics Of Her WaPo Op-ed 'Got All Wee-Weed Up

Showing the sense of humor millions of Americans fell in love with last year, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin said Thursday that critics of her previous day's op-ed in the Washington Post "kind of got all wee-weed up about it and wanted to call me and others deniers."Palin, chatting with conservative talk radio host Laura Ingraham, was obviously poking fun at something President Obama said…
Noel Sheppard

‘Glambert’s’ Record Sales Indicate Not All Publicity is Good Pub

"View" host Barbara Walters claimed "any publicity is good publicity" to "American Idol" runner-up Adam Lambert this morning, but the record sales of his first album tell a different story. While "For Your Entertainment" sold 198,000 copies and took the number three spot on the Billboard charts during its debut week, sales dropped 74 percent in its second week, causing the album to tumble to…
Colleen Raezler

Breitbart Unveils 'Big Journalism' to Combat 'Democrat-Media Complex

Battling the "Democrat-media complex" is hard work, but Andrew Breitbart shows no signs of letting up. He announced today in an interview with Mediaite that he will launch a new site entitled "Big Journalism" in January designed solely, in his blunt words, to "fight the mainstream media."Big Journalism will be the latest addition to the prominent network of Breitbart's sites, which include…
Lachlan Markay

CNBC’s 'Squawk Box': All the Media Attention Could Actually Benefit

There has been a lot of media focus dedicated to the alleged Tiger Woods scandal - even so much that when examined quantitatively, it overshadows more serious issues. So what will the net result of this media scrutiny be for Tiger? CNBC's sports reporter, Darren Rovell, took a crack at answering that on the Dec. 10 broadcast of "Squawk Box." "It's 12 straight days in the [New York] Post right…
Jeff Poor

ABC's Liberal Weatherman Sam Champion Tweets: ClimateGate Is ‘Not Re

[See update below.] Good Morning America weatherman and global warming alarmist Sam Champion asserted on Twitter that ClimateGate is "not reportable as such." This analyst queried him on the site about why the morning show has completely ignored hacked E-mails showing that some climate scientists are faking data on global warming. On Wednesday, Champion Tweeted back: "i kno what u refer to! there…
Scott Whitlock

CNN's Amanpour: Criticism of Obama's Nobel Peace Prize 'Overdone

CNN’s Christiane Amanpour lashed out at the widespread criticism of the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Obama on Thursday’s American Morning: “Can I just say, I think it’s overdone, this pushing back against his award. He’s obviously done something very significant, and that is...the United States has now had a new relationship with the rest of the world” [audio clip from the…
Matthew Balan

Olbermann Defends Never Having Opposing Viewpoints on 'Countdown

Sometimes libtalkers just make you shake your head in disbelief. Keith Olbermann trumpeted his most recent example of bias-denail on Daily Kos over the weekend, where he insisted that his show does not tout a partisan agenda, and simply serves as a watchdog against others' unchecked opinions (h/t Olbermann Watch's Johnny Dollar).I'll wait for readers to stop laughing. Done? Okay. It truly is…
Lachlan Markay

Newsweek's Connolly: Obama's Nobel About 'America the Ideal

Newsweek writer and native Australian Katie Connolly set out to lecture American readers today on the magazine's Gaggle blog yesterday about how Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize isn't really about the man or the United States as a country, but rather the U.S. as a lofty ideal -- an ideal she reckons in the eyes of "the collective world" to have been "almost entirely undone" by the Bush…
Ken Shepherd

WaPo’s McCartney: Archdiocese of D.C. Should ‘Cut a Deal’ on Hom

Apparently the Catholic Church is welcome when it promotes causes near and dear to liberal hearts, but it's shown the door as soon as it takes a hard line against controversial issues like homosexuality and abortion. Robert McCartney of the Washington Post admitted as much in his Dec. 10 column about the effect legalized same-sex "marriage" could have on the charitable activities of the…
Colleen Raezler