Bozell Column: The Bill Press Hate Machine

Bill Press has a new book out called “The Obama Hate Machine.” To read the blurbs, you might wonder if Press thinks no one should be allowed to criticize the president. Here’s Nancy Pelosi touting the book: "In a poisoned political climate, negative personal attacks on President Obama must have no place in our public discourse." What’s next? A mandate forbidding inappropriate free speech?…
Brent Bozell
February 21st, 2012 10:42 PM

Sarah Palin: 'Lamestream Media' Are 'All Wee-Weed Up' About Santorum's

Sarah Palin on Tuesday weighed in on the press's reaction to comments Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum made about Satan in 2008. Appearing on Fox News's Hannity, the former Alaska Governor said, "For these lamestream media characters to get all wee-weed up about that, first you have to ask yourself, 'Have they ever attended a Sunday school class even? Have they never heard this…
Noel Sheppard
February 21st, 2012 9:39 PM

MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Sneaks Insult That Republicans Have ‘Devo

She's clearly not even trying anymore. Today on her MSNBC program, Andrea Mitchell used words that clearly were meant to paint the Republican Party as retrograde.  After insisting that President George H.W. Bush had supported Planned Parenthood as a congressman decades earlier, she posed the question “So how has the Republican Party devolved to the point where we are now re-litigating all of…
Brent Scher
February 21st, 2012 6:29 PM

Matthews: 'We Should Stop Inviting [Franklin Graham] to Talk About Pol

Christian evangelist Franklin Graham made some comments about President Obama on MSNBC's Morning Joe Tuesday that have liberals across the fruited plain hopping mad. So angered is MSNBC's Chris Matthews that on Tuesday's Hardball he said, "I think we should stop inviting this guy to talk about politics...he ain’t his father’s son" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
February 21st, 2012 6:29 PM

View's Whoopi Goldberg Compares TN Bill Restricting Teaching of Gay Is

The bizarre allegations continued on ABC's The View, Tuesday, with co-host Whoopi Goldberg comparing a new Tennessee bill restricting the teaching of gay issues to "slavery." The liberal comedienne derided the legislation, which would stop schools from discussing homosexuality until high school. She linked, "What's funny is I remember in my youth that they referred to black folks kind of the…
Scott Whitlock
February 21st, 2012 5:30 PM

Piers Morgan, Guest Comedian Lampoon GOP Field, 'Ship of Fools

CNN host Piers Morgan joined comedian David Steinberg in mocking the Republican field on Monday night. On his prime time show, Morgan teed up Steinberg to rip the field as a "ship of fools." [Video below the break. Click here for audio.] On Tuesday morning, the anti-Republican abuse continued on CNN as Muslim comedian Dean Obeidallah quipped that "There are people in the Taliban who would…
Matt Hadro
February 21st, 2012 5:14 PM

Aww, Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O'Donnell Kiss and Make Up After Parti

So nice to see they're again acting like they like each other. Quick in the wake of MSNBC colleague Lawrence O'Donnell's passive-aggressive criticism of her views on the Health and Human Services contraceptive mandate, the seemingly selfless Rachel Maddow leaped to O'Donnell's defense on her show last night. (video after page break)
Jack Coleman
February 21st, 2012 4:39 PM

'Fanning the Flames': NBC Claims Santorum's Mention of Jeremiah Wright

At the top of Tuesday's NBC Today, co-host Ann Curry admonished Rick Santorum for accurately describing President Obama's religious history: "Fanning the flames. Rick Santorum takes a new shot at President Obama's faith by mentioning his controversial former pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright." In a later report, correspondent Peter Alexander announced: "Rick Santorum isn't backing down from…
Kyle Drennen
February 21st, 2012 4:36 PM

UPDATED |WashPost Runs Cartoon Depicting Drunken Bishop, Refused to Ru

Updated at 22:51 EST (see bottom of post) | Wiley Miller's "Non Sequitur" strip is syndicated in newspapers throughout the country, including the Washington Post. To the extent Miller delves into politics and social or religious critique, it's generally from the left. Today, the day before Ash Wednesday, Miller's February 21 cartoon was entitled "Divine Intervention" and depicted a bishop in…
Ken Shepherd
February 21st, 2012 4:11 PM

CBS's Rose to Gingrich: Are You 'Questioning the Patriotism' of Obama

Charlie Rose sparred again with Newt Gingrich on Tuesday's CBS This Morning, hounding the former House Speaker for apparently casting aspersions on President Obama's patriotism: "By saying...that the President of the United States is running over the Constitution...you seem to be saying that the President is not patriotic. You seem to be questioning [his] patriotism" [audio available here;…
Matthew Balan
February 21st, 2012 4:02 PM

Chris Matthews Concedes: 'Liberals Don't Want to Pay More Taxes'; 'It

Liberal MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews conceded on Monday night, "Liberals don't want to pay more" in taxes. "It's all a game," The Hardball host admitted this while appearing at Ford's Theater on Monday night to discuss presidential leadership. The wide-ranging discussion included historians Harold Holzer and Michael Beschloss. Matthews wandered off the main topic of Lincoln and Kennedy. In a…
Scott Whitlock
February 21st, 2012 3:51 PM

While Beating Up Republicans, Press Lets Obama Super-Sized Fib About H

Since when does a "few" mean thirteen? The answer appears to be: "When Barack Obama says it does, and when the press won't call him in it." Rush Limbaugh today talked about a January 25 speech President Barack Obama made at Conveyor Engineering and Manufacturing in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and pointed to a particular segment demonstrating in his view that Obama was deliberately "downsizing the…
Tom Blumer
February 21st, 2012 3:45 PM

Al-Jazeera English Wins Prizes, Leftists Want More Access to American

The liberal media are increasingly bold in trying to “mainstream” al-Jazeera English by offering them journalism awards. Fox News is excluded from these honors -- because they're owned by an Australian-American? But networks owned by an Arab monarch like Sheikh Hamad bin Thamer al-Thani are included. The “nationally renowned George Polk awards in journalism” – that’s what they call it…
Tim Graham
February 21st, 2012 3:36 PM

The Way Black History Month Is Presented Ignores Contributions of Cons

Black History Month honors the achievements of African Americans throughout history and that is a good thing. Unfortunately, a reliance on family and faith, which allowed many African Americans to survive the horrors of Reconstruction, racial injustice and violent acts of discrimination, has become a casualty of the modern welfare state, which has contributed to the destruction of family…
Cal Thomas
February 21st, 2012 3:25 PM