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More Tea Parties Media Are Sure To Ignore
There were more Tea Parties today that media are sure to ignore. The picture to the right was furnished by Pious Agnostic who's all over the gathering in Orlando, Florida.Our friend Glenn Reynolds has more here and here.Below the fold are more pictures I'm sure readers will enjoy:
ABC's Stephanopoulos Declares Cap and Trade Dead for
If you needed some good news to brighten your Saturday evening, this could be it: ABC's George Stephanopoulos believes Democrats have abandoned their goal of enacting a carbon cap and trade program this year.For those unfamiliar, this is a scheme backed by global warming alarmists such as Nobel Laureate Al Gore designed to place prohibitive taxes on emitters of that dastardly carbon dioxide.Most…
AP: 'Obama Rhetoric, Reality Clash' But It's Not Really His Fault
"PROMISES, PROMISES: Obama rhetoric, reality clash" is today's offering from Liz Sidoti, the Associated Press White House correspondent. The piece begins with a harsh assessment:Barack Obama's optimistic campaign rhetoric has crashed headlong into the stark reality of governing.In office two months, he has backpedaled on an array of issues, gingerly shifting positions as circumstances dictate…
Special Olympics Bowler Challenges Obama: 'I Can Beat the Prez
In the wake of President Barack Obama's insensitive gaffe on Thursday's "Tonight Show," a Special Olympics bowler, with a staggering 266 average, has marvelously challenged the current White House resident to a match.Such was first briefly reported by TMZ Friday, with an elaboration by the Detroit Free Press Saturday:On Friday, a Special Olympian from Ann Arbor fired back: "I can beat the…
Krugman Criticizes Obama, Hell Freezes Over
Mark March 21, 2009, as the day pigs flew and hell froze over: the shamelessly liberal New York Times columnist Paul Krugman actually criticized the Obama administration.I kid you not.Unfortunately, he did so at his blog at the New York Times website, which means far fewer people will see his critique than if it had been published in print.But as it seems foolish to look a gift horse in the mouth…
Larry King: Obama's Bowling Gaffe Good Because It Focuses Attention on
President Barack Obama's much talked about bowling gaffe on Thursday's "Tonight Show" was good according to CNN's Larry King because it focuses attention on the Special Olympics.Although it was predictable that such rationalizations would be heard from the Obama-loving media, one really has to wonder whether King and his ilk would have seen any upside if former President Bush had made such a…
Olbermann: ‘Lunatic Fringe’ MRC ‘Fed Talking Points’ to Hume
MSNBC host Keith Olbermann, who has a history of using distorted or even factually inaccurate information -- much of which he gets from far-left sources like Media Matters for America and Think Progress -- on Friday's Countdown show accused FNC's Brit Hume of making a "dumbfounding" admission that "he was fed a buffet of daily talking points" by the "lunatic fringe, right wing" Media Research…
Maher: Glenn Beck Increasing Chance of 'Horrible Action' on Obama
Fox New's Glenn Beck is increasing "the chance for people to take horrible action" on President Obama.So said HBO's Bill Maher Friday evening in a lengthy discussion about FNC's new primetime star.I guess Maher missed the hypocrisy concerning his disturbingly caustic views of the Bush administration while they were in power, in particular his expression of regret that the March 2007 assassination…
Saturday Sports Open Thread
Wow, wow, wow! Was Friday exciting or what?After Western Kentucky took down Illinois Thursday, Dayton shocked West Virginia Friday followed by Wisconsin felling FSU and Cleveland State dunking Wake Forest.How are YOUR brackets doing?Some really great games today:
Time Celebrates Arianna Huffington, Internet 'Oracle
Time magazine celebrated Arianna Huffington, the new queen of the left-wing blogosphere, as "The Web’s New Oracle." (The Webster's dictionary definition for oracle is ""a person (or a priestess of ancient Greece) through whom a deity is believed to speak," or "a person giving wise or authoritative decisions or opinions." Despite the Huffington Post’s reputation for rabid left-wing celebrity hate…
Hypocritical Olbermann Maligns Hume for Using 'Lunatic-Fringe' MRC
The Media Research Center's annual “DisHonors Awards,” held Thursday night, furnished MSNBC's Keith Olbermann with comments to ridicule, but his rants exposed his own hypocrisy. As Brit Hume accepted our “William F. Buckley Jr. Award for Media Excellence” he thanked the MRC for providing information he could use, leading Olbermann to denounce Hume at the top of Friday's Countdown: “Brit Hume's…
NYTimes' Cooper Somehow Misses Obama 'Special Olympics' Jab
All day Friday the newspapers, TV stations, radio, and the Internet were abuzz with Barack Obama's failed joke about the Special Olympics Thursday night on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno. In shades of John Kerry's failed joke about the unschooled being "stuck in Iraq," the president's apologists said he was merely joking and didn't mean to say anything disparaging about people with developmental…
