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Liberal ‘30 Rock’ Show Jokes: Barack Obama Is a Muslim

Scott Whitlock

Sarah Palin Mocks 'Beatnik' William Shatner On 'Tonight Show

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin continued her historic climb into the hearts of Americans Friday by appearing on NBC's "Tonight Show" in a small cameo role.Host Conan O'Brien first brought out William Shatner to do a beatnik style reading of Palin's "Going Rogue" complete with music and bongos. When he was done, Palin surprisingly walked on stage to do her own reading from Shatner's…
Noel Sheppard

Taranto: If the AMA Are Climate Experts, Then Maybe CBS Reporters Shou

Tim Graham

WH 'Command and Control' EPA Threat Confirms C of C Head's Prediction

Has anyone else noticed how chilling it has been during the past few days? Not chilly (though it's been that too). Chilling. On Monday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency declared, in the Associated Press's words, that "greenhouse gas emissions are a danger and must be regulated." The AP, in the item just linked, and many other news outlets carried U.S. Chamber of Commerce President and…
Tom Blumer

MSNBC's Matthews: 'Miserable' Culture 'Pleasures Itself' Over Argument

Leave it to MSNBC "Hardball" host Chris Matthews to go into creepy mode over the possibility one could be skeptical about the theory of anthropogenic global warming. On his Dec. 11 broadcast, the same guy who got a thrill up his leg over President Barack Obama and made an awkward pass at CNBC host Erin Burnett on live television, used a bizarre portrayal to describe those who don't ascribe to…
Jeff Poor

California Dems Elect Gay Latino Speaker, San Fran Paper Cries 'Histor

Tim Graham

Roseanne Barr: Palin is 'Slave to Right-Wing Men,' 'Against All Other

Friday's Joy Behar Show on CNN Headline News showed a pre-recorded interview with Roseanne Barr in which Barr opined that, although Sarah Palin is "likable," the "stuff she says is half nuts," and she's "half crazy and out of her mind." Barr -- who herself has a recent history of doing such bizarre things as appearing in Heeb magazine dressed as Adolf Hitler removing Jewish gingerbread cookies…
Brad Wilmouth

Hmm -- AP Report on Uncle Sam's Monthly Budget Statement Acts As If We

In his coverage of Uncle Sam's November Monthly Treasury Statement released yesterday, the Associated Press's Martin Crutsinger reached the wire service's usual quota of errors and misstatements. But what's remarkable is that the AP reporter's article seems to betray a belief that the country is still in a recession. Fascinating. Along the way, Crutsinger omitted the fact that November's deficit…
Tom Blumer

Bozell Column: Frosty the Pervert

Brent Bozell

AccuWeather Forecaster on Climate Change: 'It’s Ice not Fire You’r

While the wizards of smart are convening in Copenhagen, attempting to solve what they perceive to be the biggest global societal ill - anthropogenic climate change, one of the things that likely won't be discussed is the possibility of the opposite occurring, global cooling. But AccuWeather's chief hurricane forecaster, Joe Bastardi warns it is a bigger threat than global warming. He says the…
Jeff Poor

Jack Cafferty All But Endorses Global One-Child Policy to Fight Climat

CNN’s Jack Cafferty all but endorsed a global version of China’s oppressive one-child policy on Friday’s Situation Room. He repeated the argument of Canadian journalist Diane Francis, that population control is the only way to fight global warming, and mentioned the opposition of “fundamentalist leaders” and others only in passing. All but one of the viewer e-mails that Cafferty read endorsed the…
Matthew Balan

Newsweek Writer: Open Marriages Key to Ending ‘Cheating Scandals

For Newsweek writer Jenny Block, it's not Tiger Woods who got himself into the trouble he's currently facing, it's his marital vows.   "What should not be tolerated is hypocrisy - and that's where Tiger's vow of marriage got him into trouble," she argued in a Dec. 10 article. "If you want to be monogamous, great - but don't think you can claim it while you sleep around. It's not fair and,…
Colleen Raezler

Scientist Uses UN Security To Stop Questions About ClimateGate

A Stanford professor with ties to Nobel Laureate Al Gore and the growing ClimateGate scandal used United Nations security officials at the climate conference in Copenhagen to halt questions about e-mail messages obtained from Britain's Climatic Research Unit.Dr. Stephen Schneider was speaking at the Bella Centre Thursday when Irish journalist Phelim McAleer began asking about ClimateGate.McAleer…
Noel Sheppard