'Malice in Wonderland' Rewrite has Tea Party Led by 'Mad Hatter' Miche

Lefty media website says tea party members have "'officially gone 'Down the Rabbit Hole.'"
Erin Brown
August 23rd, 2011 2:40 PM

A Tale of Two Interviews: CNN's Morgan Shows Contempt for Tea Party

In two separate interviews of Republican presidential candidates, CNN's Piers Morgan exhibited an obvious contempt of Tea Party politics as well as a double standard toward moderate and conservative presidential candidates. In Monday's interview with Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman, CNN's Piers Morgan baited the moderate candidate to criticize the Tea Party for its unwavering…
Matt Hadro
August 23rd, 2011 1:35 PM

Inspired By Obama, NYT Churns Out Another Sympathetic Story on Illegal

There’s a jubilant undercurrent in Julia Preston’s Tuesday report in the New York Times on Obama’s new policy limiting deportations of illegal immigrants who have not committed a crime, “U.S. Issues New Deportation Policy’s First Reprieves.” Preston has a reputation for sympathetic coverage of illegal immigration policy. In December 2010 she lamented a Senate vote blocking a bill granting…
Clay Waters
August 23rd, 2011 1:09 PM

ABC Labels 'Pro'-Rights Liberals, Tags 'Anti,' Negative Conservatives

Liberals are "pro" and bestow rights on people. Conservatives are "anti" and negative. That's the impressions that viewers would get from watching ABC. On Tuesday, Good Morning America's Bianna Golodryga mentioned the possible presidential candidacy of George Pataki, noting the former New York governor is "pro-choice, pro-union and pro-gay rights." Yet, on June 30, 2011, World News reporter…
Scott Whitlock
August 23rd, 2011 12:32 PM

Newsweek's Tomasky: Huntsman a 'Narrow Thread of Hope' for GOP

Newsweek's Michael Tomasky counts himself as one of many "impressed liberal[s]" who are heartened by Jon Huntsman's attacks on Rick Perry. Writing yesterday on the Daily Beast website, Tomasky suggested the former Utah governor was "a narrow thread of hope about the future" of the GOP dominated by both leaders and rank-and-file primary voters who are far from "reasonable." As such, Huntsman…
Ken Shepherd
August 23rd, 2011 12:12 PM

'Malice in Wonderland' Rewrite has Tea Party led by 'Mad Hatter' Bachm

The left and its media allies have systematically reduced Tea Party members to caricatures, calling them everything from "bigots" to "racists" to "terrorists," hoping to make something stick. The latest installment is a rewrite of the famous story tale "Alice in Wonderland," in which their "Mad Hatter" leader is none other than GOP presidential contender Michele Bachmann. TBTM Media, the…
Erin R. Brown
August 23rd, 2011 10:57 AM

WaPo's Richard Cohen: Perry's Global Warming Beliefs Make Him Joe McCa

The media must really believe Rick Perry can defeat their beloved President Obama for they are coming at the Texas governor with guns blazing. On Tuesday, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen likened Perry to the late Sen. Joe McCarthy because of his disbelief in manmade global warming:
Noel Sheppard
August 23rd, 2011 10:41 AM

Open Thread: Romney, Perry, Bachmann, and Paul All in Close Race With

Contrary to the media myth that none of the Republican presidential candidates can beat President Obama next fall, a new Gallup poll suggests that the top four GOP candidates would actually all have close races with Obama if the election were held today. Mitt Romney polled 2% above Obama, 48% to 46%, Rick Perry was tied with Obama, at 47%, Ron Paul lagged polled 2% below Obama, 45% to 47%,…
NB Staff
August 23rd, 2011 10:34 AM

NPR Sees Tea Party Racism in 'Almost Neuralgic' Opposition to Spending

On Monday night's All Things Considered On National Public Radio, anchor Robert Siegel followed up a story on the new Martin Luther King Jr. memorial in Washington D.C. with an interview with a "longtime civil rights activist," recent NAACP chairman Julian Bond. Siegel omitted any reference to any of Bond's splenetic rages against conservatives (see below), but instead invited him to denounce…
Tim Graham
August 23rd, 2011 8:30 AM

Yes, Virginia There Is a Surplus

While the federal government continues to drown in a sea of debt, several states are reporting surpluses, thanks to policies Washington would do well to emulate. Nowhere has the economic turnaround been more immediate than in Virginia. When Governor Bob McDonnell took office in January 2010, he was faced with a $2.2 billion shortfall bequeathed to him by outgoing Democratic governor (and now…
Cal Thomas
August 23rd, 2011 8:00 AM

On Libya, Dean Aims At Romney, Shoots Self In Foot

It's enough to make you scream . . . On Morning Joe today, Howard Dean rapped Mitt Romney for calling on the Libyan rebels to turn Gaddafi over to the US for trial.  According to Dean, Romney's suggestion made "no sense" and exposed his lack of foreign policy experience. There was just one little problem with Howie's hypothesis.   Romney never called for the rebels to turn Gaddafi over to…
Mark Finkelstein
August 23rd, 2011 7:59 AM

Obama's HHS: 'Children Are Sexual Beings

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is offering advice to parents and teens about sex education, including assurances that teens may “experiment” with homosexuality as part of  “exploring their own sexuality,” and that masturbation should be of concern only “if a child seems preoccupied with it to the exclusion of other activities.” The information, located on a “Questions…
Penny Starr
August 23rd, 2011 7:45 AM

AP's Social Security Disability System Writeup Inadvertently Corrects

To borrow from a certain president's former preacher, the "chickens are coming home to roost" in Social Security's disability program. It's nearly bankrupt, and set to run out of cash by 2017. In the Associated Press's writeup ("Social Security disability on verge of insolvency") of the situation occasioned by a congressional report repeating the obvious, Stephen Ohlemacher surprisingly and…
Tom Blumer
August 22nd, 2011 10:37 PM

Did Sharpton Hint An Ambitious VP Giuliani Might Bump Off President Pe

Did Al Sharpton just suggest that if Rudy Giuliani were ever to become Vice-President, the former Mayor of New York might try to murder the president?  It sure sounded like it. On his MSNBC show this evening, Sharpton asked Bob Shrum: "would you ever want to be president with Rudy Giuliani as the Vice-President, given his ambition?" Video after the jump.
Mark Finkelstein
August 22nd, 2011 10:24 PM