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Cal Thomas Column: The Dark Shadows of Islamism
The opening scene-setter for the 1996 film "Independence Day" might serve as a metaphor for what Egyptians could face if a draft constitution written by a panel dominated by Islamists and based on Sharia law wins approval in a referendum: "A loud rumble is heard. Suddenly, we are covered in darkness as the shadow engulfs us. Only the image of our Earth hangs in the air, until a huge silhouetted…
December 4th, 2012 4:36 PM

Matt Damon Tells Crude 'Tossing Salad' Joke On Today Show, Lauer and G
Actor Matt Damon made a crude sexual joke about "tossing salad" on NBC's Today show Tuesday.
Although the topic was food, co-hosts Matt Lauer and Savannah Guthrie both clearly understood the reference and laughed along with Damon and others on the set (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):
December 4th, 2012 4:35 PM

NBC Gushes Over Obama's 'Very Fashionable Decision' to Possibly Name
At the top of Tuesday's NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie cheered the news that President Obama may make one of his major campaign donors, Anna Wintour, an ambassador: "Going Vogue? A report this morning that the President could appoint Vogue's famed editor-in-chief Anna Wintour to be his next ambassador to England or France. More on what could be a very fashionable decision." [Listen to the…
December 4th, 2012 4:33 PM

Front-Page NYT Praise for Obama's 'Cliff' Negotiator, 'Policy Nerd' Wh
New York Times's Sheryl Gay Stolberg profiled White House chief of staff and "fiscal cliff" negotiator Jacob Lew (who may be the next Treasury secretary) on Sunday's front page, calling liberal Lew "a policy nerd" who "morphs into a warrior" when it comes to helping the poor. Yet he's also a "pragmatist," just like his boss Barack Obama, and also makes "a mean potato kugel."
December 4th, 2012 4:20 PM

Time's Picture of 2013 Va. Gov's Race: 'Dyed-in-the-Wool Tea Partyer
The 2013 gubernatorial races may be in many ways a prelude of the 2014 congressional midterms. That certainly was the case in 1993 and 2009. So it's no surprise that the liberal media are doing their best to start writing the narrative about presumptive Virginia Republican gubernatorial nominee Ken Cuccinelli, who presently serves as the commonwealth's attorney general.
In a December 4…
December 4th, 2012 3:58 PM

Jason Biggs Tweets Profanity to the Pope
Everyone’s favorite irrelevant celebrity is at it again. Jason Biggs, whose wife famously tweeted about child rape, joined an avalanche of lefties who are spewing hatred on the Pope’s new Twitter account.
On December 3 Biggs tweeted to the Pope, “Hey @pontifex since u obvs like the web and shit u should totes peep christianmingle.com lots of great ass ur welcome.”
December 4th, 2012 3:49 PM

Apocalypse Soon at the New York Times: 'Higher Seas and Greater Coasta
New York Times environmental reporters Justin Gillis and John Broder teamed up on Monday to unload some hot warming bias: "With Carbon Dioxide Emissions at Record high, Worries on How to Slow Warming." Gillis (pictured) in particular has a history of apocalypse-now! style climate reporting that has been ridiculed by actual scientists in the field. He and Broder certainly didn't hedge, taking as…
December 4th, 2012 3:27 PM

Lawrence O’Donnell Hypes Ann Romney Crying After Election
Despite President Obama’s reelection nearly a month ago, MSNBC has continued to attack Mitt Romney and his family every chance it gets, with the latest being a vicious critique of Ann Romney on the December 3 The Last Word w/ Lawrence O’Donnell. Mr. O’Donnell brought on Washington Post writers Jonathan Capehart and Philip Rucker to comment on recent articles they penned on the Romneys.
Mr.…
December 4th, 2012 3:01 PM

CBS Blames Jovan Belcher Murder-Suicide on 'Gun Culture' in NFL and U
Jim Axelrod filed a completely one-sided report on Tuesday's CBS This Morning linking the Jovan Belcher murder-suicide to a lack of gun control inside the NFL – and in the country in general. Axelrod turned to only pro-gun control advocates as talking heads – Brady Center flack Marcellus Wiley, NBC's Bob Costas, and New York Times sportswriter William Rhoden.
Rhoden blamed the widespread…
December 4th, 2012 2:20 PM

Politico Report: HuffPo Misrepresented Walmart
Slanted lefty “journalism” at HuffPo? Say it ain’t so!
Walmart complained about an article written by the Huffington Post, according to the online news outlet Politico. Walmart spokesperson Randy Hargrove told Politico that the story, entitled “Walmart’s New Health Care Policy Shifts Burden To Medicaid, Obamacare,” was “riddled with inaccuracies.” Hardly shocking, given that it was a hit…
December 4th, 2012 1:50 PM

Howard Fineman Apologizes for 'Ayatollah' 'Smear' Against Norquist
Former Newsweek editor Howard Fineman apologized on Monday for his "inadvertent smear" against Grover Norquist. First reported on NewsBusters, Fineman appeared on the December 3 Hardball and slammed the President of Americans for Tax Reform. The journalist railed, "A long time before the Tea Party existed or had a name, Grover Norquist, the famous anti-tax lobbyist in Washington, was running…
December 4th, 2012 12:49 PM

CNBC's Cramer Slams Norquist: You Want to Sacrifice Economy 'On the Cr
During the panel discussion on Sunday's NBC Meet the Press, CNBC Mad Money host Jim Cramer launched an assault against Americans for Tax Reform president Grover Norquist for holding Republicans to a pledge not to raise taxes: "What this is about is avoiding a recession which is going to happen....You're going to sacrifice that on the cross of two percent. Is that what you want?" [Listen to the…
December 4th, 2012 10:46 AM

Bozell Statement: ABC Plunges Off Credibility Cliff
The "fiscal cliff" is looming, but ABC has already plunged off the credibility cliff. No serious news organization could possibly commit 17 times more coverage to touting tax hikes as the solution to this crisis than spending cuts. ABC News is nothing more than the press office of the Obama Administration. They’re an embarrassment to the profession.
Instead of telling the American people the…
December 4th, 2012 10:17 AM