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NPR Explores How Rapper Jay-Z Is the USA, and He Can't Get Bogged Down
Last Wednesday, NPR's Morning Edition ran a strange story picking up on how George Washington University professor Mark Lynch blogged for Foreign Policy magazine on how rapper "beefs" are a metaphor for foreign policy. Jay-Z, on top of the rapper heap, is the U.S., whereby a challenging rapper like The Game could be Iran. It prompted this funny letter, read on the air the next day: LINDA…
Did Rock And Roll Save America From Communism
I bet you thought rock and rollers in the '60s were all left-wing radicals advocating the violent takeover of America in order to replace our style of government with communism.According to Ralph Benko, a conservative human rights advocate, you couldn't be more wrong:[T]he evidence is that the greatest musicians of the golden age of Rock (to whose work we’re all still listening since nothing…
Newsweek, ABC Cheer End of Recession, But Economists, Politicians Rema
Even President Obama caught off guard by magazine claim.
FNC's O'Reilly Cites MRC Study on Media's Pro-ObamaCare Coverage
On Wednesday's The O'Reilly Factor on FNC, host Bill O'Reilly cited the Business and Media Institute's recent study finding that broadcast network evening and morning news shows have slanted their coverage of President Obama's health care proposals heavily in the Democratic President's favor, as O'Reilly introduced a segment with FNC analyst and former CBS News correspondent Bernard Goldberg. O'…
Iowa Woman Selling Her TVs - Reason: 'Obama On Every Channel and Stati
A Buyers' Market It is a bit of an understatement to say that when it comes to dominating the media, President Barack Obama is perhaps unequalled by any politician ever. Michael Jackson was the King of Pop, Obama the King of Pols.The Publisher of NewsBusters.org, Brent Bozell, wrote his syndicated column about the media's full-court Obama press just…
Way Too Early Williams Jokes: 'A Bit of Meth' To Get Going
Overcompensation: (psychiatry) an attempt to overcome a real or imagined defect or unwanted trait by overly exaggerating its opposite.Today brings a prime example of the phenomenon in the person of Brian Williams, overcompensating for his image as a pampered straight arrow by joking about having a vast staff of servants, looking forward to the prospect of watching some nude male swimming, and,…
Four Years After Kelo Ruling, Now-Barren Area Still Needs 'Springboard
Four years ago, on June 23, 2005, a 6-3 Supreme Court majority ruled in Kelo v. New London that the New London, Connecticut government could condemn houses in that city's Fort Trumbull area in the name of redevelopment. A bit over a year later, the city settled with the area's final two holdouts, the Cristofaro family and Susette Kelo.Since then the city has without success tried to engage a…
Chris Matthews Attacked Cambridge 911 Caller
Apparently, MSNBC's Chris Matthews could not wait for the audio (courtesy of Real Clear Politics) release of the 911 call made by Harvard employee Lucia Whalen. If he did, he would have discovered she never inserted the race of the individuals she was describing during her conversation with the 911 dispatcher, while she reported what she thought was a burglary in progress. Her call led to the…
Gore Vidal Writes About Gates Arrest; Lapses Into Incoherence
Perhaps it is time to recall William Shatner to the Tonight Show in order to read aloud, accompanied by bongos, leftwing novelist Gore Vidal's incoherent screed about the Henry Louis Gates arrest. Even Grampa Abe ranting aloud while spinning around on the church floor in "The Simpsons Movie" made more sense than Vidal. Perhaps it could be explained by one too many Ketel Ones but here is his…
Bad Polls for Obama; CBS Finds Bright Spots, NBC Skates Over Devastati
CBS and NBC released new polls Wednesday night which illustrated how the public is moving against President Barack Obama on health care as his overall approval, at least in the NBC survey, fell to its lowest-ever level. But while both networks conveyed the bad news for Obama, NBC's Chuck Todd failed to point out how more now disapprove than approve of Obama's handling of health care, a…
Newsweek: 'What Green Jobs? Washington Is Spending $60 Billion...But N
Newsweek magazine had yesterday a web exclusive entitled "What Green Jobs?" Subtitled: "Washington is spending $60 billion to create the careers of the future, but not a single green job yet exists. Obama's 'green czar' explains."The Leftist publication deserves some plaudits for exploring this $60 billion gaping hole in the $787 billion "stimulus" package President Barack Obama signed into law…
CNN Accuses GOP Rep. of 'Calculated Distortion' on Health Care, Provid
CNN’s Drew Griffin accused GOP Rep. Virginia Foxx on Wednesday’s Newsroom program of using a “a calculated distortion” that is “gaining credence in certain back alleys of the blogosphere” about the Democrats’ health care “reform” plan, specifically about the issue of end-of-life care for seniors. But all he did to try to disprove it was provide a link to the specific part of the legislation in…