Breitbart Warns MSNBC: 'We’re Watching You to Play the Race Card

Conservative publisher Andrew Breitbart issued a strong warning to the disgracefully biased cable "news" network MSNBC Friday. Appearing at the Conservative Political Action Conference, Breitbart said, "We’re watching you to play the race card" (video follows with transcript and commentary, vulgarity warning):
Noel Sheppard
February 11th, 2012 11:52 AM

Weekend General and Sports Open Thread

For general discussion and debate about anything you want including sports.
NB Staff
February 11th, 2012 11:27 AM

Mitt Romney's Full Address to CPAC

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney addressed the Conservative Political Action Conference Friday. Videos of his full speech follow in two parts:
Noel Sheppard
February 11th, 2012 11:26 AM

Evan Thomas and Chris Matthews: Jackie and Serial Adulterer JFK Had a

Despite the revelations that, while having an affair with an intern, President Kennedy, pimped the teen out to staffers, gave the young girl drugs and helped her look for an abortion doctor, journalists Chris Matthews and former Newsweek editor Evan Thomas insisted that JFK and Jackie Kennedy had a "good," "full" marriage. [See video below. MP3 audio here.] Thomas appeared on Wednesday's…
Scott Whitlock
February 11th, 2012 11:22 AM

Breaking: Dashing Media Hopes, U.S. Bishops Say HHS Must 'Rescind the

The press was eager to jump on initial remarks by U.S. bishops that President Obama's announcement yesterday of what the Wall Street Journal aptly described in an editorial this morning as the "Immaculate Contraception" -- namely, the idea that insurance companies would somehow pay out of their own pockets for costs relating to "contraceptive services" to which the bishops objected to having…
Tom Blumer
February 11th, 2012 10:48 AM

WSJ Almost Uniquely Raises Self-Insurance Issue in 'Immaculate Contrac

Yesterday's announcement by President Obama (headlined at the White House's website as "Remarks by the President on Preventive Care") of planned revisions to an ObamaCare-driven rule which, in the President's words, "if a woman’s employer is a charity or a hospital that has a religious objection to providing contraceptive services as part of their health plan, the insurance company -– not the…
Tom Blumer
February 11th, 2012 9:54 AM

Maher Slams Santorum as the 'Little Creep That Could,' Romney Arrived

During the opening monologue on Friday's Real Time with Bill Maher, host Maher derided Rick Santorum as "the little creep that could" because of the GOP presidential candidate's recent electoral victories. He also mocked the concern conservatives have about abortion by cracking that Mitt Romney had come to CPAC with a "fetus in a jar" to try to outdo Santorum with the audience. (Video below)…
Brad Wilmouth
February 11th, 2012 9:31 AM

Hayes Panel Plays 'Celibate Men Lack Moral Authority' Card on Catholic

Suffer me to begin with a suggestion: if you ever have the chance to hear the Rev. William Dailey of Notre Dame law school speak, jump on it.  Dailey is a stunningly brilliant advocate, among the best I have ever encountered on any issue. Dailey appeared on today's Up With Chris Hayes on MSNBC, where he masterfully made the case against the Obama administration's order forcing Catholic…
Mark Finkelstein
February 11th, 2012 9:24 AM

Evan Thomas Calls Obama's Contraception Edict 'Crazy

Politico's Evan Thomas on Friday made perhaps the best observation about the Obama administration's edict requiring the Catholic Church to provide contraception for its employees. Appearing on PBS's Inside Washington, Thomas said, "It seems crazy to me what they are doing" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
February 11th, 2012 9:09 AM

Krauthammer Mocks Inside Washington Host for Citing MSNBC's Fineman

It was rather telling on Friday when Gordon Peterson, the host of PBS's Inside Washington, cited the Huffington Post's Howard Fineman calling Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney "a giant hairball" on MSNBC. Luckily for viewers with some objectivity, syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer was there to call Peterson out saying, "I like your choice of objective sources" (video…
Noel Sheppard
February 11th, 2012 8:32 AM

Bozell Column: Another Fleeting Failure for NBC

Super Bowl XLVI was a good football game, marred once again by the bohemian elite at NBC. NBC could have prevented, but failed to stop, the broadcast of a female rapper "flipping the bird" at 114 million viewers during Madonna's halftime show. It was another "fleeting expletive" of the hand-gesture variety, and somehow, despite elaborate rehearsals, no one at NBC could seem to stop it. The…
Brent Bozell
February 11th, 2012 8:05 AM

Why Would a Guy Who Forecast 'Death of Conservatism' Be Time's Designa

Time magazine decided to publish a symposium on "What Is a Conservative?" in its February 13 edition employing "voices of -- and experts on -- the right," including Erick Erickson, Rich Lowry, Ramesh Ponnuru, Ann Coulter, Grover Norquist, Pete Wehner, and libertarian Nick Gillespie. The obvious non-conservative "expert" in this group is Sam Tanenhaus, editor of the New York Times Book Review.…
Tim Graham
February 11th, 2012 8:03 AM

Daily Kos Week in Review: Confusing Ground for Religious Haters

This past week, Kossacks were eager to advise religious conservatives (e.g., that their faith should lead them to endorse, not condemn, homosexual activity) as well as malign them (e.g., allege that they're dictatorial idiots). But CPAC is like an al-Qaeda meeting?   As usual, each headline is preceded by the blogger's name or pseudonym.
Tom Johnson
February 11th, 2012 6:56 AM

Al Sharpton: 'You Cannot Have Rights Voted On' - It's 'Tyranny By The

UPDATE AT END OF POST: The Confederacy's Jefferson Davis railed against "the tyranny of the majority" wanting to end slavery. Al Sharpton on Friday said something that every American on both sides of the aisle should totally fear. "You cannot have rights voted on," the MSNBC anchor actually said on HBO's Real Time. "You have tyranny by the majority" (video follows with transcript and…
Noel Sheppard
February 11th, 2012 12:28 AM