Deutsch-Steele Spat As Donny Defends Reid Slavery Statement

Surely no one would be foolish enough to defend Harry Reid's statement analogizing ObamaCare opponents to those who resisted the abolition of slavery, right? Um, may I introduce you to Donny Deutsch?On Morning Joe today, the ad man suggested to RNC Chairman Michael Steele that there was nothing wrong with Reid's analogy.  When Steele didn't deign to dignify Deutsch's absurdity with a response, a…
Mark Finkelstein

Robert Gibbs Touts Gallup Numbers When They Support Obama

White House Press Secretary, Robert Gibbs, recently ridiculed a Gallup poll which showed the President's approval ratings at a record low for this stage of his presidency, for seemingly no other reason than they showed the President in a negative light.  Gibbs referred to the Gallup polling organization as a wildly fluctuating EKG, labeling their results as the equivalent of ‘a 6-year-old with a…
Rusty Weiss

'Today' Promotes a Radical Leftist's Version of American History

Show guests also make anti-war remarks.
Geoffrey Dickens

Bozell Column: Climate Skeptics Need Mental Help

Brent Bozell

UN Amb. Rice Pointedly Reminds Rachel Maddow That Threat From al Qaeda

How does earnest MSNBC polemicist Rachel Maddow expect anyone to take her seriously when she doubts al Qaeda still threatens American lives? It took Susan Rice, US ambassador to the United Nations for the most leftward presidency since LBJ, to remind Maddow that al Qaeda's deadly intent is not "hypothetical."Preceding Rice's appearance on Maddow's show Dec. 2 was this observation from Maddow…
Jack Coleman

Cartoon: ClimateGate's Deep Throat

Glenn Foden

Philbin Column: 'Danish Text' Another Leak in Global Warming Balloon

Matt Philbin

Political Cartoon: Harry Reid As Nurse Ratched

Glenn Foden

Dem to 'Lefty' Chris Matthews: 'You Should Run for Office

Inspired by Chris Matthews complaining about all the money spent on defense, instead of upgrading America's rail system, Michigan Democratic Governor Jennifer Granholm endorsed the MSNBC host, on Tuesday's Hardball as she exclaimed: "You should run for office!" During a discussion about how federal money should be spent on essentially make-work jobs, Matthews cited his own children's love of high…
Geoffrey Dickens

AP Stylebook Twitter Feed: Global Warming, Climate Change, Same Differ

I just caught this a few moments ago perusing @APStylebook, the Twitter feed for the Associated Press Stylebook. It was tweeted at 12:02 p.m. EST yesterday:#APStyle tip: Global warming and climate change can be used interchangeably. Go behind the scenes in Copenhagen with @AP_ClimatePool. Now if only @FakeAPStylebook would spoof this. Might I suggest:#FakeAPStyle tip: Oh, why not: Global…
Ken Shepherd

White House Attacks Gallup Now: '6-Year-Old With a Crayon

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs lashed out at Gallup polling today for releasing poll data that the administration does not like. The most recent Gallup poll shows President Obama's approval ratings at 47 percent, the lowest rating on record at this point in any presidency."If I was a heart patient and Gallup was my EKG, I'd visit my doctor," Gibbs told reporters today, referring to…
Lachlan Markay

Heckuva Job, Desiree: N.Y. Times Downplays 'Non-Religious Christmas' P

Tim Graham

Major Media Spread Erroneous U.K. Temperature Data

If you go to Google today and search on the phrase "warmest decade" you will get a result set with thousands of breathless articles claiming that 2000 to 2009 is the warmest decade on record. This is on the cusp of an announcement from the UN climate talks in Copenhagen where world leaders are desperate to speed past Climategate and refocus the world's attention on their apocalyptic global…
Terry Trippany

On Today: Climategate Already Forgotten but U.S. is 'Blamed' for Globa

On Tuesday's Today show, there was no mention of Climategate -- apparently the one mention of it on yesterday's show was enough for them –  but NBC's Ann Curry did pass along more global warming hysteria from the Copenhagen conference, including an admonition of the United States. During the 7:00am half-hour Curry noted, "Today at the climate summit in Denmark the head of the World Meteorological…
Geoffrey Dickens