
NBC’s Gregory Frets: If Only Republicans Had Caved Earlier on Tax Hi
Getting reactions to the “fiscal cliff” deal/postponement from Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles – they of the much-cited “Simpson-Bowles Commission” – Meet the Press host David Gregory wistfully speculated on what might have been, had only Republicans agreed a year ago to raise income taxes.
He cued up Bowles: “Had Republicans conceded the point on revenue earlier, say, in 2011, could we have…
January 6th, 2013 3:36 PM

Desperate DUer Self-Deletion After Rush Reveals Tax Complaint Post
Imagine the situation of poor DUer NCTraveler. He makes a post at the Democratic Underground complaining about the increase in 2013 taxes that now takes a bigger chunk out of his paycheck. No big deal he must have thought. Just another post among thousands. In fact, he probably forgot about the post by the next day...until Rush Limbaugh read it for all the world to hear and laugh at. Now panic…
January 6th, 2013 2:37 PM

'Killing Lincoln' TV Producer: John Wilkes Booth 'Could Be a Poster Ch
Fox News's Bill O'Reilly might dub Erik Jendresen a "pinhead" for his comments about the Tea Party - assuming the host wants to mock the man bringing O'Reilly's "Killing Lincoln" book to television.
Erik Jendresen, the writer and executive producer behind the upcoming NatGeo production, compared Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth to the conservative grass roots movement during a press…
January 6th, 2013 12:19 PM

WashPost Scribe Can't Root for Right-wing Notre Dame Football
Terence Jeffrey at CNSNews.com reports that two days before Notre Dame will face off against Alabama in college football’s national championship game, the Washington Post has published a piece--“Should American Catholics cheer for old Notre Dame?”--in which Post reporter Michael Leahy discusses his understanding of how Catholics might view the game and expresses his belief that the Catholic…
January 6th, 2013 12:18 PM

Bob Woodward: A Tea Party Speaker of the House Would ‘Lay Down and L
The Washington Post's Bob Woodward took a ridiculous swipe at the Tea Party Sunday.
Appearing on the syndicated Chris Matthews Show, Woodward said, "We'll see if the White House is going to realize it's much better to have a Speaker Boehner with that mindset than somebody from the Tea Party or the more extreme right which would just lay down and, you know, let the country burn" (video follows…
January 6th, 2013 11:42 AM

On Fox Business, MRC's Tim Graham Rips GOP 'Civil War' Narrative of th
MRC director of media analysis Tim Graham appeared on Neil Cavuto's prime-time show on Fox Business on Thursday night to discuss how the media rained down critiques of House Speaker John Boehner for delaying more federal aid for Hurricane Sandy victims. Cavuto said they tried to turn Boehner into "Satan" as the New York Daily News ran the headline "STABBED IN THE BACK: N.Y. pols blast Sandy…
January 6th, 2013 9:26 AM

Michael Moore Recommends Soldiers Punch the Lights Out of People Who T
On New Year’s Eve, schlockumentary filmmaker Michael Moore made a resolution to stop saying he supports the troops.
On Thursday, Moore put an exclamation point on this anti-American insanity publishing a piece at the Huffington Post entitled “Those Who Say 'I Support the Troops' Really Don't.”
January 6th, 2013 8:16 AM

Most DUers, Kossacks Supportive of Al Gorezeera Hypocrisy
If you think that the DUers at the Democratic Underground or the Daily Kos Kossacks would be mostly outraged over the fact that Al Gore tried to avoid paying his "fair share" of taxes on the wealthy when he attempted to sell his low rated Current TV to Al Jazeera before the beginning of the year, then I have some carbon credits I would like to sell to you. In addition, "Mr. Environment" sold…
January 5th, 2013 1:45 PM

So the Fiscal Cliff Bill Protects 'the 99 Percent' From Income-Tax Hik
On Wednesday, as President Obama signed -- er, auto-penned -- the legislation preventing the onset of the "fiscal cliff" passed by Congress the previous day, the establishment press was busy understating its impact. A Friday evening Wall Street Journal editorial (note: not a regular news report) in today's print edition lays out the gory details.
But first, I will cite four examples of…
January 5th, 2013 10:46 AM
Bozell Column: Murdoch's KGB-Friendly Series
In August, Rupert Murdoch’s FX picked up a Cold War series set in the 1980s titled “The Americans.” Liberals might have braced themselves for the worst. It sounded like some kind of Chuck Norris-style “jingoistic” homage to freedom-loving intelligence agents. But this is Hollywood, so the show instead focuses on KGB spies who speak perfect English, working to destroy Reagan-era America, which…
January 5th, 2013 8:30 AM

Leno Asks Current TV’s Joy Behar ‘Osama Bin Laden Is Your New Boss
Jay Leno on Friday took a delicious swipe at Al Gore’s decision to sell Current TV to Al Jazeera.
Chatting with Current’s Joy Behar, the NBC Tonight Show host asked, “Osama bin Laden is your new boss?” (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):
January 5th, 2013 8:22 AM

New York Newspaper's Gun Permit Map Already Having Negative Repercussi
Many of those who expressed outrage at the publication of a two-county interactive map of pistol permit owners by Gannett's White Plains, New York-based Journal News just before Christmas have raised serious concerns that the paper's action would directly harm law-abiding citizens. Evidence is pouring in that those fears are legitimate.
Fox News, doing something the wire services should have…
January 5th, 2013 8:11 AM
Bill O’Reilly Calls Out ‘Hypocrite’ Al Gore for Trying to Evade
The start of the new year always ushers in new taxes that people are expected to pay rather than find ways to keep as much of their money as possible. At least, that's what liberals claim others should do.
But on Thursday, Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly charged that former vice president Al Gore is a hypocrite for attempting to sell his low-rated Current TV cable channel for an estimated $…
January 5th, 2013 5:50 AM

Daily Kos Week in Review: Adam Lanza, Conservative Activist
The Sandy Hook shootings inevitably became a salient issue in the debate over gun laws, but this past week one Kossack politicized the slaughter exponentially by alleging that "murder-suicide massacres...are the purest expression of the conservative mentality as it now exists in this country."
As usual, each headline is preceded by the blogger's name or pseudonym.
January 4th, 2013 11:35 PM