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Open Thread: Obama on Video Saying He Wants Higher Gas Prices
Despite their hasty and persistent denials, evidence keeps piling up that President Obama and his Administration aren't exactly displeased at the prospect of higher fuel costs. One of the best pieces of evidence has been Department of Energy secretary Steven Chu's remarks about wanting fuel prices here to be comensurate with Europe's higher rates.
While Obama himself has also famously said…
March 16th, 2012 9:56 AM

March Madness: The Media’s Annual Spring Spin on Gas Prices
It happens every spring. The players take their positions
for the big game. The fans start screaming as the huge numbers on the board go
up and up and up.
March 16th, 2012 9:41 AM

Was Obama Playing Politics By Loading State Dinner Guest List With Gay
Allahpundit at Hot Air noticed two reporters at The Huffington Post are reporting an "unexpected surge in support to place same-sex marriage on the Democratic Party platform." Will this end the media-enabled charade that Obama (the "committed Christian") opposes "marriage equality"? Former CNN contributor Hilary Rosen insisted “I find it impossible to believe that this presidential election…
March 16th, 2012 7:05 AM

CNN's Burnett Lets Axelrod Dodge Question of Giving Back Maher's Milli
From David Axelrod's Magic Land of the Double Standard: "Cleanup attempt at CNN. Bring the hazmat suits."
Tonight on CNN, as reported by several outlets (Mediaite, Politico, LA Times, but not the Associated Press, which as of 11:45 p.m. on Thursday hadn't done a national story about Maher in 10 days), David Axelrod told Erin Burnett, in the process of dodging a question about whether an Obama…
March 16th, 2012 12:47 AM

Nets Spend More Time on Celebrities, Wine at State Dinner Than Obama D
ABC's Dan Harris trumpeted the "bromance between President Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron" on Thursday's GMA. Harris noted the presence of Vogue magazine head Anna Wintour at Wednesday's state dinner, but omitted that she is a major donor to Obama's campaign. Instead, he gushed over how "Michelle Obama and Samantha Cameron [were] both looking very regal in blue, floor-length…
March 15th, 2012 8:08 PM

No Time for Dissent: NPR Hails Suicide Advocate With 'Elfish Glint' an
Legalizing suicide is a controversial subject, but not to the liberal media. On Monday night’s All Things Considered, NPR honored Oregon activist Peter Goodwin, a major force in passing Oregon’s “Death With Dignity Act,” for employing his own law and taking his own life with some pills at 83. There was no airing or acknowledgment of the opposing side, those who believe that life should end with…
March 15th, 2012 7:31 PM

NBC's Williams: Fmr. British PM Tony Blair 'May Never Recover' From Be
In an interview with British Prime Minister David Cameron aired on Wednesday's NBC Rock Center, Nightly News anchor Brian Williams cautioned Cameron about one of his predecessors: "You'll concede, Prime Minister Blair may never recover from that label that was attached to him. Someone used the word 'poodle' to describe his relationship with President Bush as the march to war [in Iraq] continued…
March 15th, 2012 6:30 PM

Politico Editor Proudly Announces Story Calling Americans ‘Stupid
Politico editor John Harris--known to some for his tendentious questioning during a presidential debate which provoked Newt Gingrich's first of many attacks on liberally biased debate moderators--stepped forward yesterday to proudly proclaim that that it was his idea to create a story questioning the intelligence of the American electorate.
As noted by Tim Graham here at NB, the piece was a…
March 15th, 2012 4:33 PM

Rush Limbaugh: Wouldn't it Be Funny If Bill Maher's the 'First Casualt
Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh asked a great question on his program Thursday.
"Will Bill Maher be the first casualty in the war on women? Ha! Who woulda thought, folks?" (video follows courtesy Daily Rushbo with transcript and commentary):
March 15th, 2012 4:21 PM

Liberal 'Talking Points Memo' Blog Outclasses 'Objective' NYTimes in F
The partisan liberal news site Talking Points Memo managed to be tougher on President Obama's Thursday speech in Maryland than reporter Mark Landler of the New York Times, at least in his initial online filing on Thursday afternoon, "Obama Defends Energy Policy, Hitting Back at Presidential Candidates." TPM reporter Benjy Sarlin did the sort of aggressive fact-checking of Obama's claims that…
March 15th, 2012 4:13 PM

Anti-Catholic Ad OK in New York Times, But Similar Anti-Islam Ad Rejec
Neil Munro of the Daily Caller reports on a double standard on religious-bashing ads in the New York Times involving Pamela Geller (pictured), the activist against radical Islam whose "venomous" rhetoric the Times finds offensive, especially after her involvement in the opposition to building a mosque a few blocks from Ground Zero.
March 15th, 2012 3:24 PM

Video: Concerned Women for America Slams Obama For Ties to Misogynist
Our good friends at Concerned Women for America (CWA) have an excellent video that mashes up President Obama's attack on Rush Limbaugh for his Sandra Fluke comments with million-dollar Obama donor Bill Maher's misogynist slurs against women in politics from both sides of the aisle, such as Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton.
"Stop the hypocrisy. Tell Obama's Super PAC to donate the $1 million…
March 15th, 2012 3:21 PM

Ending the Great College Ripoff
He may have phrased it inartfully but Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum is on to something when he talks about how college isn't the panacea that the media is always touting it as. While college can be useful for getting a job in fields which require professional certification, in many cases, students are being sold a bill of goods by universities who care more about making money…
March 15th, 2012 3:11 PM

Daily Kos Profanely Bashes Brent Bozell
Some days you just have to laugh out loud at the Daily Kos. This morning, the diarist known as "kestrel9000" wrote a blog headlined "Brent Bozell carries Rush's water; draws false equivalency, snarls a lot." The first words of the article are "To be expected by a right wing s---bag like Bozell, naturally, posting on Newsbusters (of course)". But then he brilliantly makes Brent's point that…
March 15th, 2012 2:57 PM