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Trump: 'Is the Boston Killer Eligible for Obama Care to Bring Him Back
Donald Trump asked a politically sensitive question Friday after it was announced that the second Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had been captured.
Via Twitter, "Is the Boston killer eligible for Obama Care to bring him back to health?"
April 20th, 2013 11:41 AM

Correction: NBC Nightly News Didn't Ignore Boston Bombers Ties To Isla
Please see correction at end of post.
After the media spent the week praying the Boston Marathon bombers wouldn't have ties to radical Islam, it's now going to be interesting to see how they report the religious beliefs of the Tsarnaev brothers.
Failing miserably Friday was NBC's Nightly News which despite airing a 90 minute special broadcast on the ensuing manhunt in Watertown,…
April 20th, 2013 10:52 AM

New Robert Redford Movie Can't Quite Condemn Left-wing Violence
Christian Toto at Big Hollywood offered a review of the new Robert Redford movie "The Company You Keep." In short, he felt Redford bashed the profession of journalism, but couldn't quite do the same for violent leftists.
Redford plays a Weather Underground radical who changed his name and took up a new life as a defense attorney. This being Redford's movie, his character isn't really guilty…
April 20th, 2013 10:40 AM

Salon's Sirota Hits Conservatives Who 'Suddenly Pretend They Care Abou
Salon's David Sirota, who on Tuesday wrote a column called "Let’s hope the Boston Marathon bomber is a white American" and doubled down on Wednesday with "I still hope the bomber is a white American" (respectively noted by Noel Sheppard at NewsBusters here and here), has predictably continued his incoherent rants. In a subsequent column, he wrote about how the "Boston aftermath brings out…
April 20th, 2013 10:36 AM

Bozell Column: The Media Lobbyists Lose on Guns
President Obama suffered a large, embarrassing loss in the Senate on a slew of gun-control bills. If this were a Republican president, they’d be sounding the lame-duck alarms on the nightly newscasts. But most media outlets can’t do this. They were fully invested in this campaign alongside Obama, and to underscore his weakness is to acknowledge their own.
Since mid-December, the broadcast…
April 20th, 2013 8:17 AM

Fort What? Politico Asserts Obama 'No Longer Has an Unblemished Record
Add Anna Palmer and her blinkered editors at Politico to this week's outbreak of Fort Hood amnesia. In a piece on how the Boston bombings would affect the political scene, she asked, "Where does this leave Obama’s record on terror?" She answered herself: "President Barack Obama no longer has an unblemished record in stopping domestic terrorism."
To the Obama voters at Politico it all begins…
April 20th, 2013 7:39 AM

Unreal: AP's Kuhnhenn Writes of 'Tough Week for Presidency
To be clear, this criticism is not of President Obama. It is directed at the Associated Press's Jim Kuhnhenn, who seems to think that the impact of any and all events in the nation and the world on the status of Obama's "presidency" is more important than any other consideration.
I don't see any other way one can interpret the opening paragraph of Kuhnhenn's early Saturday dispatch (also here…
April 20th, 2013 5:33 AM

Bill Maher Jokes About John McCain and Lindsey Graham Being Gay Lovers
Bill Maher on Friday proved once again that when it comes to insulting Republicans, there's no floor to his indecency.
During the New Rules segment of HBO's Real Time, the host joked about Senators John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) being gay lovers (video follows with transcript and commentary):
April 20th, 2013 1:21 AM

Daily Kos Week In Review: The Tsarnaev Brothers, Honorary Conservative
The Boston Marathon bombing wasn't carried out by Tea Party Republicans or anyone else remotely associated with conservatism, yet one Kossack declared on Wednesday that conservatives, violence-prone "conspiracy driven racist[s]" that they are, thought the bombers just might be righties.
As usual, each headline is preceded by the blogger's name or pseudonym.
April 19th, 2013 10:59 PM

Slate Editor: 'Strong Consensus' That Dzhokhar Was 'Normal
"There's a strong consensus he was pretty normal." That's how Slate's Emily Bazelon described surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who seems to have been discovered by the police. You cannot make this stuff up. The Slate writer interviewed two family friends, who attended Tsarnaev's high school who said of him:
"He was really nice,” Sam Greenberg [Bazelon’s family…
April 19th, 2013 8:14 PM

Fox's Chris Wallace Asks: Perhaps Boston Residents Would Have Liked Fi
While discussing the ongoing manhunt for the second suspect behind the bombing of the Boston Marathon, Chris Wallace -- the host of Fox News Sunday -- linked the Monday terrorist attack with the debate on gun rights currently going on across the country.
Pointing to the fact that most of the region is in a tight lockdown due to the search for 26-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Wallace asked how…
April 19th, 2013 7:17 PM
Cal Thomas Column: Bombed in Boston
Editor's Note: This column was originally slated for publication on April 18. We apologize for the delay.
President Obama rightly asked us not to "jump to conclusions" about motives or responsibility for the two bombs that exploded Monday at the Boston Marathon, killing three and wounding more than 170.
That request was pre-emptively ignored. Some couldn't wait to project their biases and…
April 19th, 2013 6:27 PM
Cal Thomas Column: Bombed in Boston
Editor's Note: This column was originally slated for publication on April 18. We apologize for the delay.
President Obama rightly asked us not to "jump to conclusions" about motives or responsibility for the two bombs that exploded Monday at the Boston Marathon, killing three and wounding more than 170.
That request was pre-emptively ignored. Some couldn't wait to project their biases and…
April 19th, 2013 6:24 PM

NYT Headline Over Story on Bombing Suspects: 'Far From War-Torn Homela
The New York Times has been mostly steady and factual in its coverage of the bombings at the finish line of the Boston Marathon. But the paper is taking criticism Friday for its benign headline over its online story on two terrorist suspects from Chechnya, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, killed in a shootout early Friday morning, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, still on the loose Friday afternoon.
A…
April 19th, 2013 5:02 PM