Is It Wrong To Use Clinton's Heart Procedure In Healthcare Debate
Some media members are taking heat from the Left for bringing former President Bill Clinton's recent heart procedure into the healthcare reform debate.On Friday, the perilously liberal website Think Progress chastised "Fox & Friends" with the headline, "Fox Politicizes Clinton’s Heart Surgery, Suggests He Wouldn’t Have Received Treatment Under Health Reform." Later that evening, MSNBC's Keith…
Labor Protest and Campaign Against Toyota Get Kid Gloves from AP, Fair
In late August 2009, Toyota announced that it would close its New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. (NUMMI) factory in Fremont, California at the end of March. The plant had been a joint venture of the company and General Motors until June, when GM withdrew. Almost six months later, in the wake of a series of Toyota product recalls, and roughly seven weeks before the plant's scheduled shutdown,…
Keith Olbermann Blames 9/11 On George W. Bush
Keith Olbermann Friday blamed 9/11 on former President George W. Bush."3,000 people died on September 11th, 2001 because George Bush did not prioritize," the "Countdown" host disgracefully told his small number of viewers."Perhaps no one says it because it is such a painful, awful truth to confront, 3,000 people dead because Bush and Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld and others simply had other…
Open Thread
For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.V.) rips Obama (video here):He says 'I'm for clean coal,' and then he says it in his speeches, but he doesn't say it in here. And he doesn't say it in the minds of my own people. And he's beginning to be not believable to me. Are even Democrats beginning to sour on Obama?
Olympics Open Thread
How'd you like the opening ceremonies? Any must-watch events today? Are you even going to watch?
Bozell Column: A Rosie O'Donnell Indoctrination
Rosie O'Donnell knows that cute kids can sell anything. When she hosted her afternoon talk show back in the late 1990s, she put out two books of children's jokes titled "Kids Are Punny." That same principle is at work in her new HBO documentary, titled "A Family Is A Family Is A Family: A Rosie O'Donnell Celebration." But it's not a celebration. It's an indoctrination. O'Donnell and HBO are…
WaPo Still Celebrates Liberal Media Dominance of the Vietnam-Watergate
The Washington Post championed a new documentary on Friday, a film airing only at one art theater in town. It’s still championing America-bashing radical leftist whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg in a new film titled "The Most Dangerous Man in America."In a large spread that starts at the top of the front page of the Style section, film critic Ann Hornaday celebrated Ellsberg’s "moral courage" for…
Washington Post’s King Disparages Palin as ‘Simple-Minded’ and
Sarah Palin “doesn't have any substance there behind her” and her remarks at the Tea Party convention were “embarrassing at points” since she delivered “simple, simple thoughts, very simple-mindedly expressed,” Washington Post columnist Colby King charged on Inside Washington. Jumbling the famous “most of the American people are mediocre. And they have a right to be represented” quote and its…
AP ClimateGate Apologist/Participant Borenstein Can't Keep Global Warm
Poor Seth Borenstein of the Associated Press. Since the AP science reporter wrote his December 12, 2009 defense of the alleged scientists who have promoted the alleged perils of human-caused global warming, the scandal known as ClimateGate has inexorably widened. It has deeply tarnished never-deserved reputations; revealed the entire premise to be based on fraudulent, corrupted, manipulated and…
Bill Maher Denounces Scott Brown, Suggests Obama Stick Tea Bag Up Beck
Bill Maher granted an interview to Patrick Gavin of Politico.com, and he employed several profanities in denouncing the emerging conservatives on the political scene. He insisted new Sen. Scott Brown will be "a real a**hole" and "a regular Gandhi – if Gandhi took off his diaper and posed for Cosmo."This is strange territory for Maher – mocking someone for nude pictures, and yet Maher has been a…
CBS and ABC Lament Patrick Kennedy's Exit as 'End of an Era
Reporting Congressman Patrick Kennedy's decision to not run for re-election this fall for his House seat representing Rhode Island, CBS and ABC on Friday night bemoaned the impending lack of a Kennedy in the House or Senate – presuming no other Kennedy runs and wins this November – as the “end of an era.” CBS even created a chart to display the timeline for Kennedys in office, as fill-in CBS…
CNN: President Made 'Pants on Fire' Claim on Health Care; AP: 'Hyperbo
CNN refreshingly called out President Obama on Friday's Newsroom concerning his false claim that "for the first time...you saw more people getting health care from government than you did from the private sector." CNN's Suzanne Simons and anchor Tony Harris both used the "pants on fire" expression to describe the President's statement. The AP, on the other hand, merely labeled it "hyperbole."…
Headline of the Day: 'Message to Chris Matthews: Shut up
No matter what the topic, it's hard not to find joy in a newspaper column headlined “Message to Chris Matthews: Shut up!” -- a column in which the author also expressed a yearning “to shove a sock” in Matthews' “big mouth” and colorfully described Matthews' “moon face coloring up like a pumpkin with hay scattered on top.”Can't beat that.It all came in a column by Harry Jaffe, a veteran of the…
TPM Trumpets Racist Rebuffed by Tea Party Groups as 'Prominent' 'Leade
The liberal website Talking Points Memo continues to report on a bigoted individual who speciously claims to represent 6 million members of the Tea Party movement as a "leader." In fact, he doesn't represent anyone but himself.Readers can only infer from TPM's consistent coverage of one Dale Robertson that the website is attempting to play up the most radical figure it can find who associates…
