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Art Rant: The Washington Post Rails Against 'Small-Minded Intolerance
Liberal newspapers may claim that taxpayer-funded art galleries should take “public sensitivities” into account, but in reality, they don’t want members of Congress actually representing the insulted public by speaking out against anti-Christian exhibits.
Friday’s Washington Post led their editorial page with the headline “The censors arrive: Do Republicans really want to ride into power with…
Rachel Maddow Inexplicably Lapses Into Accuracy on Bush Tax Rates
Mark your calendar, who knows when you'll see this again.
Rachel Maddow provided two different takes about congressional action on extending the Bush tax rates during her MSNBC show Thursday, the first account characteristically wrong, the second belatedly accurate.
Here's Maddow at the start of the show, describing what occurred in the House that day (first part of embedded video, below…
Shame on CNN’s Fareed Zakaria
Yesterday Noel Sheppard reported on Fareed Zakaria's contradictory opinion on Bill Maher's understanding of politics. In addition to that post, I also found a problem with Fareed Zakaria's inteview with Bill Maher.
On Sundays I always watch CNN's Candy Crowley's "State of The Union", and "Fareed Zakaria's GPS." I watch Candy because she really is a fair, intelligent, and balanced journalist.…
Could Repeal of DADT Put Gay Servicemen, Partners in Jeopardy On Middl
In a brief entry at Newsweek.com entitled "What Repeal Will Mean," Eve Conant fleshes out some of the legal and cultural changes that allowing openly gay servicemen would entail.
For example, how would this impact conservative chaplains whose faith condemns as sinful homosexual practice?
But the last item Conant discussed seemed to me one that I've not heard in any of the coverage I've read…
Kathy Griffin Booed By Troops After Calling Bristol Palin Fat At USO E
As NewsBusters reported Sunday, vulgarian Kathy Griffin called Bristol Palin fat during her opening monologue of the USO's Divas Salute to the Troops broadcast on VH1.
New footage shows the potty-mouthed comedienne was lustily booed by troops in attendance (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Frank Rich: Weak Obama Suffers from 'Stockholm Syndrome' for Agreeing
It appears that President Obama is about to approve the extension of the Bush tax cuts and this has sent liberals into a frenzy. How to explain it? Well, Frank Rich of the New York Times has a very creative explanation: a weak Barack Obama has been spiritually kidnapped by Republicans and is now suffering from Stockholm Syndrome which allows him to sympathize with his captors. Here is Rich…
Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection Shutting Down Offices
The man at the forefront of conning governments and businesses into believing carbon dioxide is destroying the planet apparently is scaling back his efforts to do so.
According to Politico, Al Gore's political action group the Alliance for Climate Protection is shutting down some of its offices:
Open Thread: 1.4% Military Pay Raise Draws Fire
The 1.4 percent pay raise the Obama administration has proposed for the nation's servicemembers would be the lowest raise given since 1962 - when none at all was given.
The administration, which wants to freeze non-military pay for federal workers to tackle the deficit, says a 1.4% raise for the military would match average private-sector-wage growth and is in addition to earlier increases in…
Limbaugh's Liberal Howlers, and the Media Bias That Surrounded Them
December's Limbaugh Letter has these choice quotes from Speaker Pelosi on the 63-seat bloodbath of the House Democrats. “We didn't lose the election because of me...I'm the most significant attractor of support for the Democrats.” She said this on National Public Radio on the November 12 Morning Edition newscast. I went back to find out what did the interviewer say before and after this…
Atlantic’s Sullivan: GOP ‘Trying to Keep This Economy Bad,’ Are
Appearing as a panel member Sunday on the syndicated Chris Matthews Show, Andrew Sullivan of the Atlantic charged that Republicans are "trying to keep this economy bad" to hurt President Obama as the group discussed extension of the Bush tax cuts. He then tagged the GOP as "the most irresponsible political party I’ve seen."
Sullivan began his rant against Republicans as he jumped into the…
Hil, John, and Potty Politics
It took a man to break the porcelain ceiling in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had a hard time in Kyrgyzstan recently. She explained that "it requires, for a woman, usually in today's world still, an extra amount of effort." She explained that people tend to be extra critical of a female politician and how she looks. A member of the press went on to ask…
Kyl Repeatedly Corrects Schieffer: No Tax ‘Cuts’ for Rich, Just Ex
On Sunday’s Face the Nation, Republican Senate whip Jon Kyl kept correcting host Bob Schieffer about how extending tax “rates,” not “cuts,” is what is being debated, leading Schieffer to conceded “I gotcha” and even prompted Schieffer to let Kyl fill in for him the correct term. Schieffer: “Are the votes there now in the Senate, in your opinion, to extend these tax ah-“ Kyl: “Rates.”…
AP's Misnamed Wiseman Joins the 'BLS Must Be Wrong' Brigade, Questioni
At the Associated Press late Sunday afternoon, reporter Paul Wiseman, who may have the most inappropriate last name in the history of business journalism, engaged in a brazen "It's really not that bad" excuse-making exercise on behalf of the economy Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Ben Bernanke have created. In the process, he joined a Reuters reporter in questioning the validity of…
Kathy Griffin Calls Bristol Palin Fat at USO Salute to Troops
Vulgarian Kathy Griffin on Friday called Bristol Palin fat during her opening monologue of the USO's Divas Salute to the Troops.
"She's the only contestant in the history of ["Dancing with the Stars"] to actually gain weight," said Griffin. "She's like the white Precious" (video follows courtesy MTV.com with commentary):