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CBS, AP, N.Y. Daily News Play Twitter Tag on Conservatives With the Au

It’s getting tiresome that the liberal media will use the ramblings of any extremist on Twitter and try and associate them with the conservative movement. CBSNews.com [on their 48 Hours Mystery page] blogged the AP and the New York Daily News reporting that Austin suicide pilot Joe Stack has fan pages on the Internet: "Finally an American man took a stand against our tyrannical government that no…
Tim Graham

Tony Blankley Rebuts Arianna on 'Undertones of Violence' at CPAC

Arianna Huffington just keeps slamming our Olbermann floor mats. Plugging her own appearance on the public-radio show Left, Right, and Center (based at Santa Monica NPR station KCRW), the Huffington Post blurb writer suggested CPAC was based in Texas: "Taking the temperature of the conservative GOP: To judge from their conference in Austin, they're quite cheery, yelling Run Dick Run to Dick…
Tim Graham

ABC Gives Credibility to Claim ‘Queen of Fake Outrage’ Palin ‘Ov

Now that actress Andrea Fay Friedman of the Fox television series the Family Guy has spoken out publicly against Sarah Palin’s criticism of the show, ABC News has aired a story on the controversy, which ran on Saturday's World News. The Family Guy episode in question not only treated Down’s Syndrome as something to laugh at (credit to NB reader Birch Barlow for emailing in the link as a tip), but…
Brad Wilmouth

Glenn Beck Delivers Keynote Speech To Enthusiastic CPAC

Glenn Beck gave the keynote speech to conclude this weekend's CPAC meeting Saturday, and the Fox News host did not disappoint.The rising conservative star touched on familiar themes saying that progessivism "is the disease in America.""It is a cancer," he said. "It must be cut out of the system because it cannot co-exist. And you cannot cure cancer by saying, ‘I'm just going to give you a little…
Noel Sheppard

Rachel Maddow Miffed That Constitution Allegedly Sullied by Accompanyi

After strolling through the exhibition hall of CPAC 2010 on Thursday, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow told viewers that night of her impressions.Here's Maddow describing one of the things she didn't like --MADDOW: There were lots of people giving away copies of the Constitution, but in a thing that sort of bothers me, they couldn't resist adding their own documents to the Constitution. So you can get the…
Jack Coleman

Breitbart Takes On Salon's Blumenthal For Calling O'Keefe Racist

Conservative publisher Andrew Breitbart had a heated exchange with Salon's Max Blumenthal at CPAC Saturday. A few weeks ago, Salon published an article by Blumenthal disgracefully titled "James O'Keefe's Race Problem." The subheadline was even worse: "A photo of the righty stuntman at a white-nationalist confab illustrates a career marked by racial resentment."With pressure from Breitbart's…
Noel Sheppard

Newt Gingrich Invokes Reagan and Freedom in Address to CPAC

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich addressed a huge audience at CPAC Saturday offering his plan to save America."I think this is the most important CPAC meeting since Ronald Reagan came and said that we have to have no pale pastels but bold colors," the Speaker stated to thunderous applause."I believe we are now in a struggle over whether or not we are going to save America."Of course, one of the…
Noel Sheppard

Crossing the Red Sea

First, we will face several plagues. Locusts, frogs, tax hikes....etc. 
Glenn Foden

Rev. Stephanopoulos Brought Religious Aura to Fighting Bimbo Eruptions

Felix Gillette of the New York Observer favorably profiled George Stephanopoulos, but the weirdest part came when he tried to suggest that somehow destroying the credibility of any woman claiming an affair with Bill Clinton made him priest-like. Since when does a priest say "forget that sixth commandment, just look away"?His father was a priest in the Greek Orthodox Church. So too his grandfather…
Tim Graham

FNC Notes NYT, Daily Beast Plagiarism Scandals, Lack of Media Interest

Saturday’s Fox News Watch gave attention to two recent plagiarism scandals – one involving Gerald Posner of the Daily Beast, the other involving Zachery Kouwe of the New York Times. Host Jon Scott summarized the stories:First, chief investigative reporter for the DailyBeast.com, Gerald Posner, admits to lifting five sentences from the Miami Herald. Posner says he was horrified and has no idea how…
Brad Wilmouth

Breitbart to Media: The Gig Is Up - You're Not on the American Team

Conservative publisher Andrew Breitbart called out the mainstream media Saturday saying, "The gig is up. We figured you out. You're not on our team. You're not on the American team."Speaking to a lively crowd at CPAC, Breitbart attacked the entire liberal establishment: "This multicultural crap that you instill in our kids the second they get into college, and you separate them and pit them…
Noel Sheppard

NBC Notes Obama Made Dalai Lama Sneak Out of White House Past Trash Ba

Uniquely among Friday’s broadcast network evening newscasts, NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams gave his viewers a glimpse into the undignified exit from the White House endured by the Dalai Lama, who was made to walk past a number of trash bags as President Obama sought to keep the Chinese government from noticing the meeting. A photograph of Tibet's exiled Buddhist spiritual leader walking…
Brad Wilmouth