Soledad O’Brien to Republican Sen. Sessions: Why Pick on People on F
Appearing on Tuesday’s Starting Point, Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) was savaged by host Soledad O’Brien for daring to suggest the federal food stamp program should be one of the many programs that are trimmed in order to achieve spending cuts to avert the so-called fiscal cliff on January 1.
O'Brien predictably used a talking point that sounds a lot like the left-wing complaint that the GOP…
December 11th, 2012 1:18 PM
David Limbaugh Column: Conservative Media Are Not the Problem
It is really getting old to hear liberal politicians and pundits complaining about conservative media as being destructive, as if the country would be better off returning to the halcyon days of the monolithic liberal media.
That seems to be the view of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who complained about "the right-wing control of the American media, particularly starting with Fox News." During a…
December 11th, 2012 12:32 PM

NBC's Todd Heralds 'Less Confrontational' Obama Using 'Softer Tone' on
In a report for Tuesday's NBC Today, chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd touted President Obama supposedly being nicer to the GOP while in pursuit of a fiscal cliff deal: "Mr. Obama was noticeably less confrontational toward Republicans....The President's softer tone came just a day after he sat down with House Speaker John Boehner..."
While Todd focused on Obama's "softer" side,…
December 11th, 2012 11:59 AM

Special Report: Taking ‘Christ’ Out of Christmas
Christmas: a season of generosity, good cheer, preparation for Christ’s birth – and a swarm of lawyers seeking to purge any mention of Christianity from the public square.
Every Christmas, the so-called secular community starts shrieking whenever any mention of religion is brought into the public eye. Lawyers successfully targeted a school’s performance of ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas.’ Even…
December 11th, 2012 11:41 AM
Ed Asner: Sean Hannity's 'Behind On His Rabies Shots
NewsBusters reported last week that Fox News's Sean Hannity had come down on actor Ed Asner for his participation in an animated video depicting a rich person urinating on regular Americans.
Asner struck back Monday on Current TV's Young Turks saying, "I think he's behind on his rabies shots" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
December 11th, 2012 11:01 AM
Confidence Crash Mostly Concealed: AP Barely Notes, Bloomberg Minimize
The first entirely post-election reading from the University of Michigan-Thomson Reuters consumer confidence survey came out on Friday. It was awful. As reported at MarketWatch, the overall index "fell to 74.5 from 82.7 in November," far below expectations of 82.0, representing "the biggest one-month drop since March 2011." Zero Hedge noted that it's the "biggest miss on record" compared to…
December 11th, 2012 10:41 AM

Maureen Dowd Bids Farewell to 'GOP Universe of Arrogant, Uptight, Enti
New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd didn't hide her contempt for the GOP, or her pleasure in predicting its eternal demise, in Sunday's "A Lost Civilization."
The Mayans were right, as it turns out, when they predicted the world would end in 2012. It was just a select world: the G.O.P. universe of arrogant, uptight, entitled, bossy, retrogressive white guys.
December 11th, 2012 10:37 AM

Open Thread: Another Rich Leftist Avoids Taxes
Today's starter topic: He hasn't been relevant in a long time but the publicity French movie star Gerard Depardieu is getting for moving to Belgium to avoid France's new income tax laws can't be good. Exit question: How do wealthy leftists who advocate for politicians who want to raise taxes justify evading them once they are raised?
December 11th, 2012 10:33 AM

How Liberals Think: Mika Says 'It's Kind Of Simple'—Employers Should
I post this item not to mock Mika Brzezinski. But her comments this morning were so illustrative of the liberal mindset--in ignoring fundamental principles of economics--that they are worth highlighting here.
An entire Morning Joe segment had been devoted to discussing the wage dilemma in America. In the context of analyzing the right-to-work law soon to be signed in Michigan, the panel—…
December 11th, 2012 9:40 AM

Special Report: Taking Christ out of Christmas
Secularist Grinches have long sought to obscure “the reason
for the season.” But censorship of Christianity is increasingly a media mission
for all seasons.
December 11th, 2012 9:23 AM

Another Strange Communism Headline from NYTimes: 'Summoning Halcyon Da
Dictatorship and double standards invade the New York Times once again. Check the headline over Dennis Lim's Sunday Arts & Leisure profileof the director of "Barbara," set in Communist East Germany in 1980: "Summoning Halcyon Days Of Failed Ideals." "Failed Ideals"? Can one imagine the paper running a headline that suggested a fascist society like Nazi Germany was built on "failed ideals…
December 11th, 2012 8:57 AM

MSNBC's Chris Hayes Claims Energy Prices 'Too Low,' Preventing 'Sane C
Given the current sad state of the economy, when the price of something goes down, that's a good thing because you can buy more of it without breaking the bank, right?
That's not what the host of the MSNBC program Up With Chris Hayes said on Saturday, when he claimed that “the price of energy is too low” and “the massive, extractive energy boom happening in America right now” is getting in…
December 10th, 2012 9:12 PM
CNN Lauds Cory Booker's 'Pretty Extraordinary' 'Food Stamp Challenge
In the face of possible cuts to food stamp programs, CNN let Democratic Newark Mayor Cory Booker rail against the House cuts and publicize his own attempt to live off of food stamps for a week. On Friday night host Piers Morgan lauded Booker, calling his food stamp challenge "something really pretty extraordinary" and "a life-changing experience for him."
In addition, Morgan cast Republicans…
December 10th, 2012 6:45 PM

Jansing & Co. Presents Slanted & Misinformed Take on Michigan's Right
Michigan may very well become the 24th state to adopt right-to-work legislation on Tuesday, and liberal media outlets have given its opponents ample opportunity to state their case. While proponents have not been allowed to defend the law at all, MSNBC's Chris Jansing was more than happy to briefly play "devil's advocate" with her guest on Monday -- newly elected state representative Tim…
December 10th, 2012 6:25 PM