Kardashian Mom Slams Obama for Hypocritical Comments About Kim and Kan
August 12th, 2013 1:28 PM
President Obama last month did an Amazon Kindle interview wherein he ridiculed Kanye West and Kim Kardashian for their lifestyle and what they represent to the youth of America.
On her television program Friday, Kardashian's mother Kris Jenner struck back and marvelously exposed the hypocrisy in Obama's comments (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):
NBC Hypes State Fair Mocking Obama Like 'Klan Rally'; Not News on CBS
August 12th, 2013 12:24 PM
On Monday morning, only NBC's Today deemed President Obama being mocked during a rodeo at the Missouri State Fair to be national news, going so far as to wonder if it was "Rodeo Racism" and playing a sound bite of one spectator declaring the incident to be "Like an effigy at a Klan rally." Neither ABC's Good Morning America nor CBS This Morning mentioned the local controversy.
The mockery in…
Not Establishment Press News: Reid Says Obamacare Just a Step Toward S
August 11th, 2013 11:23 PM
Though many of us have known a fundamental truth about Obamacare for several years, the fact that Harry Reid admitted to the truth is important.
How important? So important that despite plenty of bloggers and other new media outlets taking note of it, the Associated Press, New York Times, Washington Post (the latest stories here and here are from before Reid made his admission on Friday…
Priebus Scolds CNN’s Crowley: ‘You Ought Not Be Adopting’ ‘Spi
August 11th, 2013 2:53 PM
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus on Sunday scolded CNN’s Candy Crowley for echoing White House talking points.
Appearing on CNN’s State of the Union, Priebus told his host, “The fact that it's on the Republican Party I just think is spin from the Democratic Party that you ought not be adopting. I don't know why you're adopting that spin” (video follows with transcript and…
Ted Koppel: 'Terrorists Achieved More With One Phone Call Than We Achi
August 11th, 2013 1:24 PM
Ted Koppel made a fascinating observation about terrorism and the recent embassy evacuations that certainly won't please President Obama or his supporters in the media.
Appearing on NBC's Meet the Press, Koppel said, "With a conference call, Al Qaeda has effectively shut down 20 U.S. embassies around north Africa and the Middle East...The terrorists have achieved more with one phone call than…
Conrad Black: 'Why Rush Limbaugh Has 30 Million Listeners and Network
August 11th, 2013 12:01 PM
Former newspaper publisher Conrad Black made some interesting observations about the media Sunday.
After telling CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, “I don't think the majority of Americans would be quite as enthused about this administration as you are,” he proceeded to offer his opinion as to "why Rush Limbaugh has 30 million listeners and the network newscasts have declined” (video follows with…
Attention Media: Almost Half the 30 Million Newly Insured Under ObamaC
August 10th, 2013 1:59 PM
When President Obama said during his press conference Friday, "The one unifying principle in the Republican Party at the moment is making sure that 30 million people don't have health care," the liberal media predictably echoed his sentiments.
Yet if they did a little research, such folks would find that almost half of that 30 million are those being forced to buy health insurance against…
Leno: Obama Discussing Economy With Greek Prime Minister Is ‘The Bli
August 10th, 2013 12:27 PM
After throwing nothing but softballs at Barack Obama Tuesday, NBC Tonight Show host Jay Leno got back to humorously attacking the President Friday.
“President Obama talking to prime minister of Greece about the economy," Leno said during his opening monologue. "It's the blind leading the blind.”
Live Blog: President Obama's August 9 Press Conference
August 9th, 2013 3:09 PM
President Obama is taking questions from the news media. In the comments section, tell us what you would ask if you were a White House reporter.
I'll be covering the questions journalists ask of the president below the page break. As always, I'm doing this on the fly, so transcriptions of questions may be imperfect:
Broadcast Networks Drop the Ball on Obama’s Smarmy ‘Phony Scandal
August 9th, 2013 2:08 PM
For more than two weeks, President Obama and his spokesmen have scoffed at the various investigations of potential wrongdoing surrounding his administration, belittling them as “phony scandals” that have “distracted” Washington. But a Fox News poll released Thursday finds that even among Democrats, Obama’s “phony scandal” is falling flat, discovering that “voters across the partisan spectrum”…
Obama Delays Meeting on Syria to Talk Basketball With Dallas Mavs Owne
August 9th, 2013 12:41 PM
This will give you an idea of Barack Obama’s priorities.
On June 13, the President delayed a meeting with staff about Syria to discuss basketball with Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban.
So said Cuban on NBC’s Tonight Show Thursday.
Huffington Post Front Page Headline Torches Obama: 'Did He Lie On Nati
August 9th, 2013 11:02 AM
Here's a headline you probably never imagined you'd see about Barack Obama at the perilously liberal Huffington Post:
DID HE LIE ON NATIONAL TV?
Yet there it was:
Weasels: In Its 'Corrected' Story, AP Fails to Tag Obama's 'Gulf Ports
August 9th, 2013 10:33 AM
Following blowback which began at Michelle Malkin's Twitchy.com and spread to Matt Drudge, Rush Limbaugh, and surely other online locales, the Associated Press, aka the Administration's Press, has issued a thoroughly unsatisfying "correction" to the story I covered here Wednesday about President Obama's "Gulf ports" gaffe.
The fix applied to the original story by Russ "Nobody's Fool" Bynum's…