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Cartoon Strip for Children Depicts Christian Boy as Islamophobic Bully
It's bad enough when a cartoon strip for children depicts an Islamophobic thug as a Christian. What makes it even worse is that this cartoon strip is published by a government-funded charity in Britain. Jonathan Petre of the Mail Online wrote an article about this latest attempt at understanding "diversity": A Government-funded charity was at the centre of a row last night after a magazine it…
April 5th, 2009 9:34 AM
Pope Benedict: 'Dangerous Underworld Automaton from Netherrealms of Ig
San Francisco Chronicle columnist Mark Morford always seems to be trying really hard to be the left-wing atheist equivalent of Ann Coulter. His Friday column seems designed to shock and appall traditional Catholics on the occasion of Pope Benedict's apparently unforgivable statement that condoms don't help with the AIDS epidemic. (He makes no attempt to square his argument with the Harvard…
April 5th, 2009 7:49 AM
NYT Columnist: 'Dark and Dangerous' Conservatives Attack Obama (Did He
Sometimes you just have to laugh at the Pauline Kael-like left. It seems that leftists in America are either mentally stunted or living in such an enclosed, bubble-world that they cannot discern reality from their own fantasy. Such is the case with the faux shock expressed by one Chuck Blow from The New York Times whose April 3 article is filled with the horror that some on the American right…
April 5th, 2009 7:29 AM
Obama's Week Through ABC's Prism: 'Cool Kid in the Class
In a q and a with George Stephanopoulos on Saturday's World News, ABC anchor David Muir decided to sum up President Barack Obama's week in Europe by displaying a picture of jovial Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev arm-in-arm with President Barack Obama during the G-20 group photo session, an image Muir contended showed how “other heads of state are…
April 4th, 2009 9:59 PM
Cramer Breaks Ranks: Calls 'Bolshevik' Democrats Card Check Legislatio
Although CNBC "Mad Money" host Jim Cramer has backed off his hyperbolic attacks on President Barack Obama ever since his "Daily Show" appearance, he's shown that he's not afraid to take on the Democratic-controlled Congress. So, to give credit where credit is due, the "Mad Money" host dedicated an entire segment to the Employee Free Choice Act, aka card check and how its passage by Congress…
April 4th, 2009 5:08 PM
News Photogs Flock to Obama's White House
The Obama White House is serving as a convenient new employer for members of the media as news outlets downsize, but would they have felt so comfortable coming aboard a GOP President's staff? The latest hires: Three news photographers -- from Time magazine, Cox Newspapers and U.S. News & World Report magazine -- are joining the team of photographers snapping pictures at events and meetings in…
April 4th, 2009 4:15 PM
Weekend Captionfest II
Speaking to Al Sharpton's National Action Network on April 3, VP Joe Biden decries "senseless violence" of Binghamton shootings. Note group's slogan on backdrop. Photo AP/Stephen Chernin.
April 4th, 2009 2:50 PM
Murdoch: Long-Term Economic Situation 'Dangerous'; Recovery 2-3 Years
No one can accuse News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch of being an economic cheerleader, despite his net worth of $4 billion according to Forbes magazine. In an interview with Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network anchor Neil Cavuto on April 2, Murdoch was not hopeful the financial markets would recover their value within the next 12 months. "Look, I'm not a market expert," Murdoch said. "I would…
April 4th, 2009 1:16 PM
Saturday Sports Open Thread
Let's get ready to rumble:8:47 PM ET (3) Villanova vs. (1) North Carolina6:07 PM ET (2) Michigan State vs. (1) Connecticut Vegas line: UCONN - 4 1/2, UNC - 7 1/2You folks know me: I go for the dogs unless I have a pony in the race. What say you?
April 4th, 2009 12:00 PM
Open Thread
For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Give President Obama a Grade.The good folks over at MSNBC.com are asking what readers think of Obama's performance. Given the leaning of their viewers, you can imagine how this will be skewed.With that in mind, let's give these folks a hand (h/t NB reader Stephany).
April 4th, 2009 10:47 AM
Reuters Knowingly Reports Lie About Binghamton Shooting -- The Taliban
Reuters published a story today, April 4, detailing some nonsense from a Taliban terrorist who has claimed "responsibility" for Friday's shooting rampage in Binghamtom, New York. The question that comes to mind is why? Why did Reuters imagine this idiotic claim, this obvious lie, was worth reporting to the world? Does Reuters not have the good sense God gave a door knob? Why would Reuters pass…
April 4th, 2009 8:48 AM
AP Uses Dem Operative to Slam Palin, But IDs Him Simply as 'Professor
Don't you love it when the Old Media dredges up some partisan hack Democrat supporter and presents them as an "expect" that is never identified as a partisan political hack? Well, you may not love it, but it sure seems to happen an awful lot. And here we see another example of that lame bias by our old friend Anne Sutton, an AP writer that is renown for her hit pieces on Governor Palin and her…
April 4th, 2009 6:29 AM