Latest Blogs
Pelosi, Salon Writer Agree: 'Voter Suppression' Explains Dems' Debacle
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Aaron R. Hanlon, an infrequent columnnist at Salon, both have an excuse for Democrats' poor performance in this year's midterm elections: pervasive voter suppression.
You see, the left's new working definition of "voter suppression" — a definition which is never a subject of establishment press scrutiny — is apparently the following: "Many of the people who…
Greta Does Obama's Job on Sgt. Tahmooressi's Release from Mexico
Why in the world did Greta Van Susteren and all these others have to do the job that the United States government should have been doing with a U.S. Marine detained in Mexico? Certainly we’re not going to be getting an explanation from the Obama White House. Which in itself says something. Once upon a time America had a president with a very different view of his role in this kind of situation.
On PBS, David Brooks Admits Error: GOP Is The Mainstream Now
On Friday's PBS NewsHour, the 2014 election results were so hard to dismiss that even pseudo-conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks admitted that he's been part of the chorus that the Republicans were too extreme and outdated, "even I have said some of that." But with these results, Republicans "are the dominant party in this country right now." Mark Shields said Democrats should be…
NY Times Actually Misquotes Joni Ernst's 'Squeal' Line
In the wake of Tuesday's epic landslide for Republicans in the midterms, the New York Times ran a brief story titled "Rising Stars in the Republican Party." Accompanying the story were six photos of victorious Republicans, starting with Joni Ernst, whose victory in Iowa wrested control of the Senate control to the GOP.
"But now that the last ballots (well, most of them, anyway) have been…
Video Flashback: Mia Love Accepts in Jest on Behalf of Harris-Perry
Mia Love, who won a congressional seat on Tuesday representing Utah’s 4th district, last year took part in the Media Research Center’s annual “DisHonors Awards” where we ridicule left wing journalists. On behalf of MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry she accepted, in jest, the “Dan Rather Memorial Award for the Stupidest Analysis.”
Lefty Blogger Charles Pierce Touts 2016 Al Franken Presidential Bid
The Esquire blogger says that the “populist” Franken showed in his recent re-election campaign “how you embrace the themes on which Warren has based her career.” (Also, it would “cause Bill O'Reilly's head to detonate in a gorgeous orange fireball.”)
Jonathan Gruber Remains MIA as Obamacare Returns to Supreme Court
Ever since it was announced yesterday that the Supreme Court will once again take up Obamacare in the case of King vs Burwell, one figure has remained noticeably absent: Jonathan "Speak-O" Gruber. Since the case revolves around whether Congress intended what the law they wrote clearly states, that Obamacare subsidies can go only to states that established their own health care exchanges, not to…
Newsweek's Destroyers Mock Slow Launch of Sarah Palin Channel?
On Friday, Lloyd Grove at The Daily Beast made fun of the rather slow launch of the Sarah Palin pay-TV venue. The headline is “Stuck in the Lamestream: Sarah Palin TV Barely Registers on the Web.” This is instantly mockable since The Daily Beast is the Tina Brown-run outfit that drove the print edition of the formerly hallowed Newsweek straight into the hard cement.
25 Years After the Berlin Wall, How the Media Covered Communism
Twenty-five years ago, the largely peaceful revolutions of 1989 — epitomized by the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9 of that year — ended the grip of communism in Eastern Europe. Looking back at journalism’s track record on communism, one finds a press that was too willing to act as a mouthpiece for the world’s worst dictatorships, and too accepting of the perverse claim that communism…
Liberal Oliver Stone to Spin Putin as Misunderstood in New Film
Liberal filmmaker Oliver Stone, who has previously made sympathetic documentaries on dictators Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro, now plans to promote Russia's Vladimir Putin, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The director asserted he "would love to do an interview with [Putin] because he represents a different point of view that Americans don't hear."
CNN Hypes Laugh Similarity Between Joni Ernst and Disney Villain
On Friday's CNN Newsroom, Brooke Baldwin played up the apparent similarity between Senator-elect Joni Ernst's laugh and that of Cruella De Vil, the antagonist from Disney's 101 Dalmations. Baldwin aired a short segment on Ernst and two newly-elected Republican women in Congress. She ended the part about the Iowa politician with her comparison: "Don't forget about that laugh. Some people call it…
Barney, Frank: Admits Obamacare Clause Before SCOTUS Was 'Mistake'
Barney Frank lived up to his last name, and might live to regret it in Dem circles. Appearing on this morning's Up with Steve Kornacki, Frank admitted that the key Obamacare clause that the Supreme Court just agreed to consider was a "mistake." The clause on its face limits Obamacare subsidies to people obtaining coverage through state exchanges. Only 14 states set up exchanges, yet the Obama…
AP Pretends Obama Team Was Interested in 'Cooperation' at Friday Lunch
Late Friday afternoon, John Boehner, Mitch McConnell and Republicans in Washington got their first taste of what they will likely see from the supposedly "objective" reporters at the Associated Press, aka the Administration's Press, as they cover their relationship with President Obama and his White House apparatachiks during the next two years.
The headline at a story by Nedra Pickler and Erica…
Actress: ‘Fetuses,’ ‘Infants’ Not People Because They ‘Cannot Talk’
Forget speaking for the voiceless – according to Hollywood.
Actress and abortion absolutist Ellen Barkin took to Twitter Nov. 1 to declare when life begins. (She’s not a scientist, but maybe she played one on TV once.) According to Barkin, fetuses, babies and infants are not “persons” because they “cannot talk.” A Tony and Emmy award winner, Barkin has boasted roles in movies including, “The…