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WashPost: People Who Give Flowers 'Are Terrible For Mother Earth'
On Thursday, Jennifer Grayson, who fancies herself as an "environmental journalist," exposed herself as a truly annoying scold.
Grayson wrote in a Washington Post column that those of us who show our appreciation for others by giving them flowers as part of our overall enjoyment of life are really showing that we are either ignorant of or don't "care about Mother Earth." Grayson concocts her…
May 10th, 2015 8:41 PM
'SNL' Awkwardly Notes (Not Mocks) Fear of Drawing Muhammad
NBC's Saturday Night Live awkwardly made fun of things you just cannot depict at risk of death. In a TV game show called Picture Perfect -- that looked a little like Pictionary and a little like NBC's own Hollywood Game Night -- cast member Bobby Moynihan (complete with Chris Farley-esque hair) was asked to draw an image of "The Prophet Muhammad." "Hilarity" ensued when he and fellow cast…
May 10th, 2015 3:40 PM
Wouldn’t Be Taking Fiorina ‘Seriously If She Weren’t a Woman’
Eight years after Barack Obama launched his presidential campaign, national media journalists have changed their tune and discovered an interest in experience and accomplishments in those running to occupy the Oval Office. To wit, on Sunday’s Meet the Press, Ruth Marcus, the veteran Washington Post reporter turned columnist, dismissed Republican Carly Fiorina: “I don’t think we would be taking…
May 10th, 2015 2:15 PM
Nation Writer: America ‘Severely Corrupted’ By Right-Wing Money
According to columnist Eric Alterman, prominent journalists tend to realize that most Republicans are “ideological extremists” whose agenda, dictated by “the super-wealthy,” warps our politics. The problem, he added, is that the news stories those journalists write don’t reflect that realization.
Instead, argued Alterman in a piece for the magazine’s May 18 issue, “even our best reporters feel…
May 10th, 2015 1:48 PM
Latino Columnist 'Nauseated' by 'Racist' Halperin Queries to Ted Cruz
Bloomberg TV host Mark Halperin drew a serious rhetorical beating from columnist Ruben Navarrette over his prove-you’re-a-Cuban line of questioning to Ted Cruz on his program With All Due Respect. (The “respect” seemed to be missing, or as phony-sounding as it can be during an argument.)
The interview came on April 30, but the columnist just picked up the argument. Would a liberal Latino get…
May 10th, 2015 1:15 PM
'Oberlin Choir' Ridicules Feminist 'Victims' of 'Microaggressions'
One of the more simultaneously annoying and alarming developments on college campuses these days is how the idea of "microagressions" has regained visibility after four decades of previously well-deserved obscurity, largely under the establishment press's radar. Almost no one in "the real world" would know what microaggressions are if it weren't for stories and critiques at center-right media…
May 10th, 2015 9:57 AM
Saturday Night Funny Video: 6th Grader Tells Obama to Wrap It Up
FNC’s Bret Baier ended his show this past Monday with a clip the Tonight Show featured of President Obama at an event the previous Thursday with middle schoolers at a library in Washington, DC, to promote reading. Baier explained that “when the President began to ramble a bit, the moderator gave him what those of us on live TV know as ‘the hard wrap.’”
May 10th, 2015 12:41 AM
Reuters Poll: Stewart, Colbert 'At the Peak of American Punditry'
Maurice Tamman at Reuters put spin on the latest Reuters poll in a blog headlined “Fake newscaster, real credibility: Jon Stewart stands at the peak of American punditry poll.”
Tamman reported: "As Jon Stewart winds down his 19-year stint as host of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, he and Stephen Colbert sit at the peak of American punditry despite their left-leaning view of life, the universe…
May 9th, 2015 11:06 PM
Blogger: Increasingly Diverse America ‘Profoundly Unsettling’ to Right
Edmund Burke wrote that “a state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.” To American Prospect blogger Paul Waldman, “change” for conservatives means living to fight another day by conceding battle after battle to liberals.
“Much of the history of the United States,” wrote Waldman in a Friday post, “is a slow but inexorable movement in a progressive direction,…
May 9th, 2015 8:58 PM
NYT Suggests UK's Conservative ('Nasty') Party Lacks Generous Spirit
Conservative Party leader David Cameron led his party to a shocking outright win in Thursday's general election in Britain. But the honeymoon is already over for Cameron, at least on the front page of the New York Times, which featured Steven Erlanger's "news analysis" of the win by the mean and "nasty party": "To Cameron, the Tory Victor, Go the Headaches."
May 9th, 2015 8:10 PM
Rush On The Media, Trapped: Are They Islamophobic or Homophobic?
So which is it? Is the liberal media Islamophobic? Or homophobic? If drawing cartoons of The Prophet is - as the New York Times insists - an “exercise in bigotry and hatred posing as a blow for freedom”? And - again from the Times - a “blatantly Islamophobic provocation”? All because drawing cartoons of the Prophet violates the Islamic faith? Then what, exactly, is gay marriage? Like drawing…
May 9th, 2015 7:47 PM
On Maher, Crystal Delights in Telling Anecdote Placing Reagan in Hell
Appearing on Bill Maher’s HBO show Friday night, actor/comedian Billy Crystal delighted in recounting a phone call he supposedly received from the late Robin Williams on the day of Ronald Reagan’s funeral in 2004. Crystal, now a star of FX’s The Comedians, impersonated Williams impersonating Reagan calling from Heaven and wondering why it was so hot.
May 9th, 2015 3:02 PM
'Hitler' Finds Out Conservatives Have Won 2015 UK Election
Remember those poll numbers on the eve of the parliamentary election in Great Britain that showed an even split between the Conservative Party and Labour? Oops! They were wrong. Man how they were wrong! The Conservatives won a clear majority and the big losers besides Labour are the pollsters.
Although many Americans on this side of the pond find British politics to be a bit confusing, this "…
May 9th, 2015 2:44 PM
Oops: Clooney Loves Hillary, But Mistakes Benghazi as a 2008 Scandal
George Clooney is a big Hillary fan. He was asked by Fusion host Jorge Ramos “Are you going to be helping her for 2016?” Clooney replied, “Sure, whatever she wants, whatever I way I can help.” He added, I think she would be a tremendous candidate...I know her, and I think the world of her, and I think that I would be very happy if she were president.”
But Ramos pointed out “You said in 2008 she…
May 9th, 2015 12:11 PM