Hypocritical Janeane Garofalo Contradicts Herself on Dissent and Lies

There is a great expository video called "Janeane Garofalo on Dissent: Then & Now" put together by therightscoop. It shows Garofalo on Countdown with Keith Olbermann in both 2003 and 2009 completely contradicting herself on the subject of dissent. First see what Janeane Garofalo in 2009 has to say about the tea party protests:Let's be very honest about what this is about. This is not about…
P.J. Gladnick

WaPo Business Columnist Tells David Gregory Taxes Are Going Up

As Tea Parties ensued from coast to coast last week, the Obama administration and their media minions depicted attendees as not understanding that the new president has decreed taxes will be going down for 95 percent of Americans.On Sunday's "Meet the Press," Washington Post business columnist Steven Pearlstein let the cat out of the bag: Tea Partiers are right. Taxes are going up.This revelation…
Noel Sheppard

Chicago Tea Partiers to Roesgen: 'CNN Sucks!' 'CNN Go Home

After Susan Roesgen unprofessionally attacked attendees of Wednesday's Chicago Tea Party, she and the network she represents were summarily booed and chided by those in the crowd.This eventually resulted in Party goers chanting "Liberal Bias," "CNN Sucks," and "CNN Go Home!"This new revelation appeared in a video posted at YouTube. Let's see how long it lasts (video embedded below the fold,…
Noel Sheppard

CNN Scrubs Roesgen's Unaired Tea Party Interview From YouTube

On Thursday, NewsBusters shared with readers a video showing what happened after CNN's Susan Roesgen disgracefully attacked Chicago Tea Party attendees the previous day. The "most respected name in news" apparently didn't like America knowing the full story, and has requested YouTube remove the video pursuant to copyright laws.Patterico reported Sunday (h/t Glenn Reynolds):
Noel Sheppard

Donaldson on ABC's This Week on JFK Assassination: I'd Like to Ask Cas

ABC's Sam Donaldson let a little of his inner-conspiracy theorist out this morning on This Week with George Stephanopoulos.  In a discussion of President Barack Obama's lessening the sanctions on Fidel Castro's Cuba, Donaldson began his analysis with one of a number a Kennedy-Truther notions that have been knocking around ever since President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas on…
Seton Motley

Meghan McCain: 'Most of the Old School Republicans Are Scared Sh--less

One has to hand it to Meghan McCain. She has certainly found the perfect shtick for extending herself beyond her allotted 15 minutes of fame. And the method Meghan has discovered is to slam conservative Republicans. That is her meal ticket to getting invites on cable news shows such as Larry King and, "OMG," she is also going to be guest co-host of The View for a couple of days this week. Think…
P.J. Gladnick

Lucas County (OH) Sheriff Indicted; Toledo and OH Media Almost Never N

On April 14, The Toledo Blade, apparently having temporarily misplaced the comma key, reported that "Longtime Lucas County Sheriff James Telb and a top commander and two former deputies were indicted by a federal grand jury Tuesday on charges related to the 2004 death of an inmate at the jail" (HT to Maggie Thurber in an e-mail). The Blade, which likes to brag about the over 1,000 articles (I'm…
Tom Blumer

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N.Y. Times Columnist Blasts John Madden for Not Mounting a Soapbox for

Tim Graham

N.Y. Times Front-Page Story on Gays Is Perfect -- In Banning Conservat

A Friday New York Times front-page story on "gay marriage" by Jeremy W. Peters was a piece of perfection – if you believe conservatives should be banned from the pages of the Times. Gov. David Paterson introduced a bill to establish same-sex marriage as the same thing as heterosexual marriage, and Peters utterly failed to locate a conservative source or a conservative argument. Instead, readers…
Tim Graham

S.F. Chronicle Blogger Upset Over Climate Change Skepticism; Likens Is

Want to see the bitterness of media elitism? Take a look at what San Francisco Chronicle's environmental blog, "The Thin Green Line," thinks of the public's attitude about global warming. According to an April 17 Rasmussen Reports poll, only one out of three voters believes global warming is caused by human activity. For Cameron Scott of the Chronicle's "The Thin Green Line," this isn't due to…
Jeff Poor

BBC Reporter: Americans 'Bellicose', Exhibiting 'Hostage Jingoism

BBC Kenya-based reporter Karen Allen is happy that the problem of Somali piracy, and the underlying problem of Somalia as a failed state, has been brought to the fore by the recent Maersk Alabama hostage crisis. But -- and you knew there was a but coming -- she complains that the approach favored by Americans may well be too "bellicose":The downside, though, is the bellicose way in which the…
Ken Shepherd

Goldberg: Double Standard for NBC Networks Criticism of FNC's Tea Part

Despite all the criticisms of the Fox News Channel broadcasted on MSNBC for promoting tea party coverage, one thing hasn't been pointed out - how the NBC networks, including CNBC and MSNBC are given a pass for their shameless promotion of their Green Week and Green is Universal network events. Jonah Goldberg, editor-at-large for National Review and author of "Liberal Fascism," appeared on Fox…
Jeff Poor

WaPo: 'In Washington, The Obama Girls Are the Latest Craze

Think Obamamania is limited to only His Messiahship and Michelle Obama's well toned arms and J. Crew wardrobe?  Think again.  Today's front page of the Washington Post features "Move Over, Miley. In Washington, The Obama Girls Are the Latest Craze" by staff writer Ellen McCarthy.  The tone of this thoughtful analysis is set early in the article:The tween girls of the Washington area have…
Mike Bates