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NBC: One Gunman ‘Loved Guns and Hated America,’ Other ‘Passionat
For both the Binghamton, New York, shooting spree, and the Pittsburgh case, Saturday's NBC Nightly News made a point of relaying word that the gunman either had a love of guns or was "passionate" about supporting gun rights. During a report on Jiverly Voong, who attacked the immigration center in Binghamton, correspondent Ron Allen referred to "some reports" that Voong "loved guns and hated…
Kos on Pittsburgh Shootings: Conservatives Prefer to Kill Cops
UPDATE AT END OF POST: Moulitsas was less concerned about the four Oakland police officers killed just miles from his home two weeks ago. Shortly before Markos Moulitsas blamed Glenn Beck for instigating the senseless shooting of three Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, police officers on Saturday, the proprietor of the far-left website Daily Kos said that conservatives would rather shoot cops than…
ABC Continues Push for More Gun Control, Laments 250 Million Guns in A
One night after ABC's World News featured Diane Sawyer and Pierre Thomas fretting over the lack of interest by Congress in passing new gun laws in response to recent shooting sprees, Thomas appeared on World News Saturday and again treated as problematic the statistic that there are "more than 250 million legally registered guns in this country," and seemed to complain that Congress is not…
Obama's 12-Teleprompter Entourage Is Not Newsworthy, or Humor-worthy
On Monday, the UK's Evening Standard, at its "This Is London" site, matter-of-factly noted the following in the final sentence of its report about President Obama's upcoming European trip (bold is mine):Accompanying the party will be a total of 500 officials including kitchen staff, 35 vehicles in all, four speech writers and 12 teleprompters.This more than vindicates yours truly's "President '…
Leftwing Bloggers Blame Glenn Beck for Pittsburgh Cop Killings
Three Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, police officers were killed on Saturday, and according to prominent left-wing bloggers including the Atlantic's Andrew Sullivan and Markos Moulitsas of Daily Kos, it's because of conservative talk show hosts on radio and television.Most frequently named as the culprit in such vitriolic postings was Fox News's Glenn Beck.Such a disgusting conclusion stems from…
Sunday Sports Open Thread
It's Opening Day for MLB! Make your division winner predictions now so that we can make fun of you later. :-)NBA heading towards playoffs: can Boston or Orlando stop LeBron from facing the Lakers in the finals? NHL heading towards playoffs: Boston and San Jose pulling away. Are they heading towards a faceoff for the cup?Any final thoughts about yesterday's college b-ball games?Anything else?
Open Thread
For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: North Korea launches rocket.North Korea fired a long-range rocket over Japan on Sunday, provoking international outrage and triggering an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council as it succeeded in grabbing the world's attention. The reclusive communist state's official media said a satellite had been launched into orbit, and it was…
Cartoon Strip for Children Depicts Christian Boy as Islamophobic Bully
It's bad enough when a cartoon strip for children depicts an Islamophobic thug as a Christian. What makes it even worse is that this cartoon strip is published by a government-funded charity in Britain. Jonathan Petre of the Mail Online wrote an article about this latest attempt at understanding "diversity": A Government-funded charity was at the centre of a row last night after a magazine it…
Pope Benedict: 'Dangerous Underworld Automaton from Netherrealms of Ig
San Francisco Chronicle columnist Mark Morford always seems to be trying really hard to be the left-wing atheist equivalent of Ann Coulter. His Friday column seems designed to shock and appall traditional Catholics on the occasion of Pope Benedict's apparently unforgivable statement that condoms don't help with the AIDS epidemic. (He makes no attempt to square his argument with the Harvard…
NYT Columnist: 'Dark and Dangerous' Conservatives Attack Obama (Did He
Sometimes you just have to laugh at the Pauline Kael-like left. It seems that leftists in America are either mentally stunted or living in such an enclosed, bubble-world that they cannot discern reality from their own fantasy. Such is the case with the faux shock expressed by one Chuck Blow from The New York Times whose April 3 article is filled with the horror that some on the American right…
Obama's Week Through ABC's Prism: 'Cool Kid in the Class
In a q and a with George Stephanopoulos on Saturday's World News, ABC anchor David Muir decided to sum up President Barack Obama's week in Europe by displaying a picture of jovial Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev arm-in-arm with President Barack Obama during the G-20 group photo session, an image Muir contended showed how “other heads of state are…
Cramer Breaks Ranks: Calls 'Bolshevik' Democrats Card Check Legislatio
Although CNBC "Mad Money" host Jim Cramer has backed off his hyperbolic attacks on President Barack Obama ever since his "Daily Show" appearance, he's shown that he's not afraid to take on the Democratic-controlled Congress. So, to give credit where credit is due, the "Mad Money" host dedicated an entire segment to the Employee Free Choice Act, aka card check and how its passage by Congress…
News Photogs Flock to Obama's White House
The Obama White House is serving as a convenient new employer for members of the media as news outlets downsize, but would they have felt so comfortable coming aboard a GOP President's staff? The latest hires: Three news photographers -- from Time magazine, Cox Newspapers and U.S. News & World Report magazine -- are joining the team of photographers snapping pictures at events and meetings in…