CIA Told Obama Case for Bin Laden Being in Abbottabad Was Weaker Than

Peter Bergen, CNN's national security analyst, said Sunday that President Obama was informed by CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell in December 2010 "that the circumstantial case that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction was better than the circumstantial case that bin Laden was in Abbottabad." This astonishing revelation was made on CBS's Face the Nation (video follows with transcript and…
Noel Sheppard
April 29th, 2012 6:41 PM

On Front Page, USA Today Connected Trayvon Shooting to Rodney King, L

USA Today put racism front and center in Friday’s weekend edition. Beneath a banner promo touting a big story in Sports on “Racist tweets reflect poorly on hockey, Boston,” the paper highlighted the alleged similarities between the Rodney King beating in 1992 and the Trayvon Martin shooting today. Reporters Marisol Bello, Haya el Nasser, and William M. Welch found “activists” and “scholars”…
Tim Graham
April 29th, 2012 5:53 PM

GOP Strategist Smacks Down Maddow: 'I Wish You Were As Right About Wha

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow on Sunday's Meet the Press tried to advance the bogus liberal position that women in America still only make 77 cents on the dollar compared to men. Fortunately for viewers actually interested in the truth, Republican strategist Alex Castellanos was on the panel to correct her after marvelously teasing, "I love how passionate you are. I wish you were as right about what…
Noel Sheppard
April 29th, 2012 4:00 PM

HHS Sebelius Forced to Admit Total Constitutional Ignorance of Health

Get me outta here! I'm being forced in a most humiliating manner to reveal to all the world my profound ignorance of basic constitutional issues. Something like that thought must have been rolling around inside the mind of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius while she completely choked under questioning about these legal issues by South Carolina Congressman Trey Gowdy. Even…
P.J. Gladnick
April 29th, 2012 3:01 PM

Hillary on Bin Laden Situation Room Photo: 'Way I Usually Look When My

Hillary Clinton says the expression on her face in that now iconic picture of the White House Situation Room taken the day Osama bin Laden was killed is "the way I usually look when my husband drags me to an action movie." Such was told to NBC's Brian Williams for a Rock Center special to be aired Wednesday which was previewed on Sunday's Meet the Press (video follows with transcript and…
Noel Sheppard
April 29th, 2012 2:59 PM

Gay Pride at Parade

Parade Magazine, the nationwide Sunday newspaper supplement has a cover touting “How Top Chefs Stay Slim.” Two of the three cover subjects are gay: Art Smith, a former personal chef for Oprah Winfrey, and Cat Cora, an “Iron Chef” star. Both are good subjects for a slimness cover: Smith lost 120 pounds after a diabetes diagnosis, and Cora lost 25 after giving birth to a son. Parade did dig…
Tim Graham
April 29th, 2012 1:44 PM

Google Chairman Schools Krugman: 'Surely You're Not Arguing Government

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt gave a much-needed economics lesson to New York Times columnist and Nobel laureate Paul Krugman on ABC's This Week Sunday. During a lengthy discussion about liberal and conservative views on how to stimulate the currently soft recovery, Schmidt - a known Barack Obama supporter - marvelously said to his left-leaning co-panelist, "Surely you're not arguing that the…
Noel Sheppard
April 29th, 2012 12:51 PM

Romney Dog on Roof-Obsessed Gail Collins at NYT Has Ignored 2003 Rescu

Per her bio, Gail Collins at the New York Times "joined the New York Times in 1995 as a member of the editorial board and later as an op-ed columnist. In 2001 she became the first woman ever appointed editor of the Times editorial page." So she was hanging with the Old Gray Lady in 2003. The columnist's presence at the paper that year is quite relevant. You see, Ms. Collins has brought up the…
Tom Blumer
April 29th, 2012 10:36 AM

Fareed Zakaria Shocker: Buffett Rule Is 'Bad Politics' for Obama

A truly shocking thing happened on CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS Sunday. The perilously liberal host - with journalistically corrupt ties to the current White House - came out against the millionaires' tax known as the Buffett Rule calling it "bad politics in the long run for Obama" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
April 29th, 2012 10:28 AM

Kimmel at WHCD: Difference Between Maher and Limbaugh - 'People Who Wa

Jimmy Kimmel attacked conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh at Saturday's White House Correspondents' Dinner first calling him a slut and then jabbing him with a juvenile prescription drug joke. The comedian also took a shot at HBO's Bill Maher while bashing Limbaugh and his "extreme" right-wing fans (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary, mild vulgarity warning):
Noel Sheppard
April 29th, 2012 9:18 AM

Maureen Dowd's Screech: 'American Women Are Hunted Creatures' by Catho

New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd would like to think her columns are full of keen and incisive thinking. But her columns on the Catholic Church have all the elegance of someone playing the piano with their head. Witness Dowd’s overwrought head-banging introduction on Sunday: “IT is an astonishing thing that historians will look back and puzzle over, that in the 21st century, American…
Tim Graham
April 29th, 2012 8:45 AM

A Year Ago, IBD Noted Venezuelan Funding of Flawed 'Gasland' Documenta

A year ago in March, an Investor's Business Daily editorial ("America's Enemies Don't Want U.S. Drilling") informed readers that "the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington put out a Twitter post expressing disappointment that the documentary 'Gasland' didn't win an Academy Award." Specifically: "Sadly, 'Gasland' didn't win an Oscar, because a Vzlan helped make it," Venezuela's Twitterer whined." IBD…
Tom Blumer
April 29th, 2012 1:30 AM

Jimmy Kimmel Slams Marcus Bachmann With Gay Jokes at White House Corre

Is the White House Correspondents' Dinner the proper venue to make gay jokes about the husband of a current female member of Congress? NBC's Jimmy Kimmel certainly thought so as he took a page out of vulgar comedian Bill Maher's playbook claiming Keith Olbermann "has more pink slips than Marcus Bachmann" (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
April 28th, 2012 11:55 PM

Jimmy Kimmel Trashes Keith Olbermann and Al Gore at White House Corres

Jimmy Kimmel on Saturday trashed former MSNBC and Current TV anchor Keith Olbermann as well as the controversial commentator's former boss Al Gore. During his keynote address at the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner, Kimmel said, "I’d like everyone to look under your seats. Under each one you will find a copy of Keith Olbermann’s resume" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
April 28th, 2012 11:30 PM