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Liberalism's Death Croak
While inspecting the body politic, one encounters one clear sign that liberalism is dead. It is the condition of our political discourse. Polite commentators note that the dialogue is "rancorous." Some say toxic. Actually, it is worse than that. It is nonexistent.
From the right, from the sophisticated right, there is an attempt to engage the liberals. House Budget Committee Chairman Paul…
April 28th, 2011 3:54 PM
Disgraced Dan Rather Trashes Waste of Royal Wedding Coverage When 'Huc
On certain days, disgraced former CBS News anchor Dan Rather really lets his bitterness show that he was put out to pasture for spreading phony documents around about George W. Bush in 2004. On The Huffington Post on Thursday, he trashed all his former television colleagues for wasting precious resources on royal-wedding coverage:
Remember the millions of dollars, hundreds of staff and hours…
April 28th, 2011 3:46 PM
Eliot 'I'm Not Biased' Spitzer: 'I Don't Think There Is Any Such Thing
In an interview with FishbowlNY Wednesday, CNN's Eliot Spitzer dismissed any claim to objectivity in his reporting and answered "I don't know" when asked if he is a commentator or a journalist. This came after he recently told the Media Research Center's Brent Bozell "I don't have a bias," on his CNN show "In the Arena."
Spitzer told FishbowlNY that he doesn't know if he is a journalist or a…
April 28th, 2011 3:36 PM
Brent Bozell Announces Top 10 Recommendations to Replace Katie Couric
The votes are in and CBS, do we have a treat for you.
We received nearly 1,800 responses from our Facebook fans proposing who you should hire to replace Katie Couric. Ten people were recommended most frequently, listed below the page break.
Other entertaining suggestions include:
April 28th, 2011 3:26 PM
NY Times Flubs Timeline of 'Birther' Myth: First Spread by Hillary Cli
President Obama authorized the state of Hawaii to release a copy of his long-form birth certificate, resulting in massive media attention and a front-page splash by New York Times reporter Michael Shear on Thursday, “Citing ‘Silliness,’ Obama Shows Birth Certificate.”
But a Times media reporter wrongly suggested the “Birther” theories only erupted after Obama became president, among…
April 28th, 2011 2:22 PM
NPR's Media Reporter Falsely Claims Vieira 'Passively' Dealt With Trum
On Wednesday's All Things Considered, NPR's David Folkenflik erroneously claimed that NBC's Meredith Vieira "notably failed to contradict Donald Trump or others casting doubt on where Mr. Obama was born. Vieira...acknowledged those remarks passively." In reality, the Today show challenged the billionaire about the birth certificate issue, twice asking, "Do you believe he's [Obama's] lying?" […
April 28th, 2011 1:51 PM
NBC Uses Left-Wing Hollywood Fantasy to Cheerlead for Obama
In a report designed to separate fact from fiction on Wednesday's NBC Nightly News, White House correspondent Savannah Guthrie decided to blur fantasy and reality as she compared President Obama's press conference announcing the release of his birth certificate to a moment from the 1995 movie, "The American President." [Audio available here]
After a clip was played of Obama declaring: "We…
April 28th, 2011 12:49 PM
Harvard Law Prof to Justices Ginsburg & Breyer: Retire Now Before You
Didn't Harvard Law Professor Randall Kennedy get the word? Barack Obama's re-election is all but guaranteed if you believe the liberal mainstream media. Just today the CNBC head of news reported the belief that Obama's re-election would be guaranteed by the actions of the Fed. So why the concern about the health of Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer? Could it be that…
April 28th, 2011 12:36 PM
Wikileaks Dump Reveals Intel on Radical London Mosque; Royal Wedding-O
On Sunday, a Wikileaks document dump revealed files from Guantanamo Bay in which military commanders noted the Finsbury Park mosque in north London was a "haven" for Islamic extremists, "an attack planning and propaganda production base" that recruited jihadists to fight in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
But while the American mainstream media have been ga-ga over tomorrow's royal wedding, there's…
April 28th, 2011 12:20 PM
Jake Tapper Highlights Obama's 'Untruth' About Pro-Birther Bias Online
After Barack Obama bitterly complained that the "birther" issue dominated the news instead of budget matters in recent weeks, ABC News correspondent Jake Tapper on Wednesday exposed an "untruth" by the President online, but skipped the same information while reporting for World News. In his Political Punch blog, Tapper noted the falsity of Obama's claim that the media was aiding and comforting…
April 28th, 2011 12:00 PM
Study: MSNBC and CNN Covered 'Birther' Issue Far More Than Fox News
President Obama chided the news media Wednesday for continuing to focus national attention on the non-issue of his American citizenship. "Fascinating how many of Obama's birther remarks…were aimed at the media for stoking this," tweeted Howard Kurtz shortly after the speech.
The birth certificate issue was a distraction, Obama stated, and the White House decision to release his long-form…
April 28th, 2011 11:29 AM
Leftist Crap in the Comic Books: Superman to Renounce American Citizen
Left-wing storylines generally are not box-office blockbusters, yet Hollywood liberals insist on making message movies anyway.
The same is true, and has been for decades, for comic books.
The latest example involves the quintessential American superhero, Superman (h/t e-mail tipster John Craig).
April 28th, 2011 10:15 AM
NY Times Uses Wikileaks to Discredit Guantanamo Bay
Classified dossiers of detainees at Guantanamo Bay prison released by Wikileaks were naturally splashed on the front of Monday’s New York Times, which had editorialized in strong terms for the closing of the Cuba prison. Reporters Charlie Savage, William Glaberson, and Andrew Lehren filed “Details of Lives in an American Limbo.”
(In February 2009, Glaberson let two hard-left groups he called…
April 28th, 2011 10:00 AM
Reuters Laughable Excuses for Slow Economic Growth Report
Dismal economic growth.
It's hard to be upbeat about that but since it occurred during a Democrat administration, Reuters does its best to accentuate whatever positive it can find in its report. First the downbeat news as relayed by Reuters reporter Lucia Mutikani:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Economic growth slowed more than expected in the first quarter as higher food and gasoline prices…
April 28th, 2011 9:58 AM