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Frankly Rude: Barney Cuts Haines Interview Short
It's a conversation, Barney, not a soliloquy . . . Discussing the regulation of executive pay with CNBC's Mark Haines today, the testy liberal Dem from Massachusetts was affronted when Haines tried to get in a word edgewise.Before long, Barney announced that the interview was over, and ripped off his earpiece. Unruffled, Haines got off a good last line: "Fine, goodbye sir. We'll manage without…
Holocaust Museum Killer Conservative? Not So Fast
UPDATE at end of post: this so-called conservative might have been targeting the offices of the Weekly Standard! Not surprisingly, the Left and their media minions are accusing conservative talkers such as Rush Limbaugh for inciting Wednesday's shooting at the Holocaust Museum Memorial in Washington, D.C.As NewsBusters' Geoffrey Dickens reported Wednesday, Salon editor-in-chief Joan Walsh was…
Letterman Responds To Palin By Repeating Offensive Jokes
"Late Show" host David Letterman, in response to Sarah Palin's statement concerning a disgusting joke he made Monday evening about her daughter getting knocked-up by Alex Rodriguez in the middle of a Yankee game (video embedded right), made a feable attempt at apologizing to the Governor and her family by -- wait for it! -- repeating the joke on Wednesday's show.Classy, huh?For those that can…
Ford, Jr.: Letterman Wrong, But Palins 'Unique
Harold Ford, Jr. is the epitome of the equivocating politician who tries to play things both ways. But that strategy came a cropper for the MSNBC contributor on Morning Joe today. Ford claimed that though Letterman was wrong to make sexual jokes about Sarah Palin's teenage daughter, somehow the Palins are "unique," and thus presumably an understandable target. Mika Brzezinski came down on him…
Old Media Ignore Teacher Firing -- He's Conservative Naturally
You might recall back in 2008 when Diantha Harris, a teacher from a North Carolina grade school, made a YouTube splash for having verbally berated a soldier's young daughter that said in class she was for John McCain instead of Barack Obama for president. Of course the righty blogs immediately went wild for the story, but eventually the Old Media came to the teacher's rescue and reported that the…
FNC Highlights Media's 'Consensual Seduction' by Obama and Their Obama
FNC's Bret Baier on Wednesday night highlighted how the former top editor at the hardly conservative San Francisco Chronicle wrote a blog entry (Tuesday morning NB post by Noel Sheppard), “Love or Lust, Obama and the Fawning Press Need to Get a Room,” in which Phil Bronstein suggested “the Obama-press dance is a more consensual seduction where, in the old-fashioned sense, we're the girl” and…
Dionne: Don't Let Paying For It 'Get In Way' Of Nationalizing Health
I don't take Ed Schultz too seriously. So when he says again tonight, as he did in the inaugural episode of his MSNBC show, that he wants national health care and doesn't care how much it costs, it's just so much noise.But, at least in theory, E.J. Dionne, Jr. is a serious player, a card-carrying member of the liberal establishment. So when the WaPo columnist declares that he doesn't want…
On Hardball: Journalist Links Rush Limbaugh to Holocaust Museum Shooti
Salon.com Editor-in-Chief Joan Walsh, on Wednesday night's "Hardball," cited "conservatives" like Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Malkin and Bill O’Reilly for "whipping up" a climate that sparks the likes of alleged Holocaust Museum shooter James Von Brunn and "Hardball" host Chris Matthews wondered if access to guns were to blame for the tragedy as he cried, "It's easier to get your hands on a gun than…
CNN's Rick Sanchez Insists Cindy Sheehan is Still Newsworthy
On Monday’s Newsroom program, CNN anchor Rick Sanchez tried to justify that Cindy Sheehan is still worth covering, as the unrelenting left-wing activist recently protested near the Dallas home of former President George W. Bush. When Republican strategist Rich Galen advised that she should stop protesting and that the press ignore her, Sanchez went out of his way to find an angle for covering her…
Barneynomics: Congressman Wants to Force Executives to Pay Companies f
House Financial Services Chairman Rep. Barney Frank tells CNBC some executives should face negative compensation for losses due to risk taking.
Palin Responds to Letterman's Joke About Daughter Getting 'Knocked-up
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has officially responded to David Letterman's disgusting joke about her daughter getting knocked-up by Alex Rodriguez at a recent Yankee game.For those that missed it, Letterman on Monday evening's "Late Show" said (video embedded right):One awkward moment though during the game, maybe you heard about it, maybe you saw it on one of the highlight reels. One awkward moment…