Culture Notes: Christmas Without Christ

2,000 years ago, there was no room for Mary and Joseph at the inn in Bethlehem. Fittingly enough, in the past two years, there was no room for their baby at the network evening news shows. Every year, millions of Americans celebrate the most important Christian holiday by reflecting upon the significance of the birth of Christ. Families attend church, count blessings and exchange gifts, and yet…
Erin R. Brown
 

CNN Becoming Irrelevant: Lowest Prime Time Ratings In At Least 13 Year

Is CNN becoming irrelevant? According to TVByTheNumbers.com, the self-proclaimed most trusted name in news's prime time ratings this year are the lowest since at least 1997:
Noel Sheppard
 

WaPo Promotes Gay-Art Exhibitors Calling Conservatives 'American Talib

The Washington Post once again promoted the cultural leftists fighting the Smithsonian's removal of an ants-on-Christ video from a gay-left exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery. In a story headlined "Video outcry flares anew," art critic Philip Kennicott covered a very one-sided panel discussion in New York with the exhibit's very political activists. The nod to conservatives came at the…

Tim Graham
 

Name That Party: As Usual, Again-Indicted Former Detroit Mayor Kilpatr

It seems to be almost required by now that any indictment of Kwame Kilpatrick must be accompanied by two or more establishment media outlets reports that fail to inform readers that the former Detroit Mayor is a Democrat -- in fact, a Democrat who was singled out for copious praise during the early stages of Barack Obama's campaign for president. In unbylined reports, CBS News in Detroit and…
Tom Blumer
 

Scarborough Says 'Judge Not' . . . Then Calls Kyl And DeMint 'Un-Chris

Update: Joe denies judging Kyl and DeMint.  See video after the jump. Call it an episode of Short Self-Attention Span Theater . . . Mere moments after citing Matthew 7's instruction to "judge not, that ye be not judged," Joe Scarborough judged Jon Kyl and Jim DeMint to be "un-Christlike." Scarborough's strange self-contradiction came in the course of his diatribe against the two…
Mark Finkelstein
 

Maddow More Rational Than Letterman Who Argues WikiLeaks Could Have Sa

Searching for an upside to the WikiLeaks release of secret documents, Late Show host David Letterman on Wednesday night pointed to how such disclosures could have possibly prevented the 9/11 attacks since former President George Bush had disregarded “for months and months and months” the warning “that bin Laden and al-Qaeda were interested in hijacking planes and flying them into buildings,”…
Brent Baker
 

The Top 10 Worst Julian Assange Metaphors

Besotted lefty media falls over itself conjuring comparisons to anti-American hacker.
Alana Goodman
 

Salon Writer Greenwald: Bradley Manning Being Tortured By Being Held I

Yesterday on Twitter, Salon's Glenn Greenwald promised followers a forthcoming story detailing allegations of torture against Private First Class Bradley Manning, the soldier accused of leaking to WikiLeaks. Manning, you may recall, is currently in the brig at Marine Corps Base Quantico. "A major story brewing is the cruel, inhuman treatment - torture - to which Bradley Manning is being…
Ken Shepherd
 

Ed Schultz: Obama Did Better Job Selling Bush Tax Cuts Than Bush Ever

As one of the liberal media members that have expressed feeling betrayed by the President's recent tax compromise proposal, Ed Schultz on Wednesday said Barack Obama did a better job of selling the Bush tax cuts than George W. Bush ever did. So dismayed by today's 81 to 19 Senate vote in favor of the measure was the host of MSNBC's "The Ed Show" that he asked Nation magazine editor Katrina…
Noel Sheppard
 

CNN's Yellin: Congress's Low Polls Numbers Due to Failure to Repeal DA

On Wednesday's Newsroom, CNN's Jessica Yellin bizarrely implied that Congress's low poll numbers was linked to their failure to repeal "don't ask, don't tell." After noting the public's support for repeal, Yellin stated that "Congress has its lowest approval rating in the history of polling...So it's clear that the American people are in one place, and one place where they're not so happy with…
Matthew Balan
 

And A Child Shall Lead Us From the White House

Maturity isnt abandoning a press conference to the guy who used to have your job.
Dan Gainor
 

Reminder: 'God Hates Fags' Church Run By Democrats

Given the Westboro Baptist Church's protest at the funeral of Elizabeth Edwards, it's worth revisiting the old lefty canard that the group is "right-wing." The claim is especially popular in the liberal blogosphere, where it's made ad nauseum during any discussion of the
Lachlan Markay
 

Matthews to Michelle Rhee: Stay Away From Those Ideological Fools on t

On Wednesday's Hardball, Chris Matthews brought on former Washington D.C. chancellor of public schools Michelle Rhee to discuss the state of public education in this country and praised her for work on the part of students but also warned her to "stay away from the right wing" because she was "too good to be grabbed by some ideological fool." After Rhee explained to Matthews why public school…
Geoffrey Dickens
 

Carl Bernstein: Obama Inherited Worst Situation of Any President Since

MSNBC's "Morning Joe" hosted a pity party for President Obama on Wednesday. Discussing public opinion of President Obama amidst his trials as President, liberal Watergate journalistic "legend" Carl Bernstein won the pity prize, asserted that Obama inherited a bigger mess than any other president since the 1930s. "Very few presidents have come into office inheriting what President Obama has…
Matt Hadro