
Kathleen Parker: Tea Party Won’t Have ‘Same Clout’ in 2012 Elect
Kathleen Parker this weekend demonstrated that even so-called “conservative” media members long for the death of the Tea Party.
On the syndicated Chris Matthews Show, the Washington Post columnist predicted, “The Tea Party’s not going to have the same clout in the 2012 election as they did in the last cycle” (video follows with transcript and commentary):
April 1st, 2012 4:15 PM

Sunday Guests Fret Public Naivete on ObamaCare Benefits as Friedman Bl
Reeling from the possibility the Supreme Court might undermine ObamaCare, two members in good standing of the liberal media elite, both with the New York Times, took to the Sunday shows to lament the lack of public recognition for the great benefits of the law. “On health care,” columnist Tom Friedman rationalized on NBC’s Meet the Press, “that’s partly a failure of communication.”
A…
April 1st, 2012 3:47 PM

Tom Brokaw Appears on Chinese Communist Television
In today's "How Fitting" segment, former NBC Nightly News Tom anchor appeared on Chinese Communist television Saturday evening.
As reported by The Weekly Standard:
April 1st, 2012 9:31 AM

NPR's Diane Rehm Denounces House GOP Wasting 'Precious Time' on the Pa
On Friday's Diane Rehm Show distributed across America by NPR, the host could not stand Republicans getting praised -- the Paul Ryan budget to be precise.
Doyle McManus, a columnist and former Washington bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, acknowledged, "this is a huge, ambitious, bold budget that would restructure the tax system. It would lower the top tax rate to 25 percent. That would…
April 1st, 2012 7:08 AM

RINO Joe: Mocks Romney Gaffes, Says GOP Favors 'Chaining Women to a Ra
On Friday's Morning Joe, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough was smearing "his" party with aggression. He mocked Mitt Romney for mutilating himself (rhetorically) -- "He is a cutter, a political cutter" -- and then smart-mouthed a poll result showing the GOP losing by 25 to Obama among women: "I guess that idea of chaining women to a radiator in the kitchen, that the Republicans wanted to put on…
March 31st, 2012 11:10 PM

WashPost's Wemple Thinks Spike Lee Has Atoned for Maliciously Seeking
Spike Lee erroneously tweeting the address of an unrelated elderly couple, rather than George Zimmerman, was a "mean, boneheaded, thoughtless and harmful thing to do." But alas, he's shown, and tweeted contrition, Washington Post's Erik Wemple blogged approvingly yesterday. Heck, Lee even "repeated the apology in a phone call, a conversation that left the couple feeling better about the ordeal…
March 31st, 2012 8:25 PM

NPR's Nina Totenberg: ObamaCare In Trouble Because Bush Judges Are 'Ve
On Friday's Daily Rundown on MSNBC, anchor Chuck Todd asked about the sour outlook for ObamaCare: “There’s a lot of panic at the White House, to be frank. They really thought this wasn’t going to be that hard of a case....Now they’re biting their fingernails. Should they be biting their fingernails?”
NPR’s Nina Totenberg responded: “Yeah, they should be biting their fingernails." Totenberg…
March 31st, 2012 2:30 PM

Randi Rhodes Compares Clarence Thomas to Scalia's Family Dog
As liberals lecture about deep-seated American racism, liberal radio host was slamming Justice Clarence Thomas on Wednesday. After playing a soundbite of Anthony Kennedy, she said, "I mean, he's thinking out loud and this what they do right -- except for Clarence Thomas who doesn't think. At all."
Thomas, she joked, was just like a dog: "Whatever Scalia does that's what he does. Well, Scalia…
March 31st, 2012 11:37 AM

ABC Not Sure Whether Death Threats In Trayvon Martin Aftermath 'Going
Is it right to make death threats against George Zimmerman and his family? ABC News isn't sure. In a Good Morning America segment today on the Trayvon Martin case, as an ABC reporter spoke from Sanford, Florida, this graphic was displayed across the bottom of the screen:
"ARE DEATH THREATS GOING TOO FAR?" Video and screencap after the jump.
March 31st, 2012 10:01 AM
All Purpose Weekend Open Thread
So we got NCAA Final Four, Trayvon Martin, ObamaCare looking like it might go down, Wisconsin primaries, and a booming stock market.
Anything else you want to talk about?
March 31st, 2012 8:21 AM

Bill O'Reilly: 'Is the Media Now Inciting Racial Violence
In the wake of the press's nonstop hyperventilating regarding the Trayvon Martin issue, Fox News's Bill O'Reilly appropriately asked Friday, "Is the media now inciting racial violence?"
In his opening Talking Points Memo, O'Reilly also pointed a finger at Al Sharpton and Roland Martin saying, "MSNBC and CNN to some extent have a vested interest in seeing Zimmerman punished because they've…
March 31st, 2012 7:39 AM

Bozell Column: Whose Movie Is Propaganda
It's more than a little shocking when someone makes a movie that deals harshly with abortion. This is Hollywood after all. Abortion is a feminist sacrament. The movie "October Baby" just debuted on 390 screens and registered in eighth place for the weekend, with an estimated $1.7 million gross.
"October Baby" is a drama loosely based on the real-life story of Gianna Jessen, born with cerebral…
March 31st, 2012 7:38 AM
U.S. Racism Makes Us 'A Very Sick Country
Alice Walker is best known as the author of 'The Color Purple," but she is an activist who is often welcomed on the taxpayer-supported radical-left Pacifica Radio show "Democracy Now." On Friday, she was brought on to diagnose the United States after Trayvon Martin's death as a "very sick country" due to its racism: "We have been abused for such a long time here in this very misguided…
March 31st, 2012 7:34 AM

Daily Kos Week in Review: The Anti-Rainbow Coalition
Kossacks seldom tire of declaring conservatives' alleged hatred of minority groups, and are especially energetic about doing so in the wake of racial incidents such as the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin. This past week, one even dared to assert that the right believes it's "a-okay to murder black children."
As usual, each headline is preceded by the blogger's name or pseudonym. Daily Kos…
March 31st, 2012 7:01 AM