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Barack Obama hasn't yet served a single day in office yet MSN Money writer, Jon Markham, has confidence that he can solve our economic problems for the most fatuous of reasons: he is a good speaker like Ronald Reagan which is why his article is titled, "Why Obama is the new Reagan." In fact, the actual economic policies themselves take a backseat to eloquence according to Markham.  First Markham…

In response to Chris Matthews' claim that his job is to make the Barack Obama presidency a success, the Los Angeles Times Washington bureau chief Doyle McManus suggested the MSNBC host needs to see a neurologist.Although I agree that Matthews clearly has a fixation that needs attention, I'm not sure it's physiological rather than purely psychological.Regardless of the cause, the symptom was the…

To show how foolishly hyperbolic the Old Media and the ignorati in our universities are, the Associated Press issued a dire report that breathlessly informed us all that Barack Obama is facing a "nation in crisis" and it's all "just like Lincoln and FDR." The AP even gets an historically illiterate university professor to sonorously declare how Obama is "one step away" from Lincoln and FDR. But…

I don't begrudge Obama supporters a celebration.  After eight years in the presidential wilderness and an election that was, yes, historic, it's natural to whoop it up.Even so, if Frank Rich were an NFL player [willing suspension of disbelief required], his end-zone dance of a column today would earn him a 15-yard penalty for unsportsmanlike conduct.Annotated excerpts:

To answer the question of my headline, no CBS isn't joking. CBS is actually pretending that the Old Media must be "won over" by a President Obama. It makes one wonder just how much more the press can be in love with The One? As multiple studies have shown, the Old Media has been far more in Obama’s corner than not yet now CBS wants to pretend they are skeptical of Obama? Now CBS wants to act as…

UPDATE: Many more videos have been added!!!We wanted to try something new this evening: The Anti-SNL Comedy Video Open Thread.As Saturday nights were made for comedy -- despite what Elton John once sang -- we thought we might post humorous -- but always tasteful and non-controversial -- videos for your viewing pleasure so that you don't have to put up with the liberal bias on "Saturday Night Live…

Is there anything a Republican can do that would please the folks at the New York Times short of losing an election, resigning from office, or getting caught in a career-ending scandal?You would think the gracious, post-election comments expressed towards president-elect Obama by folks such as John McCain, Sarah Palin, and Rep. Michelle Bachman (R-Minn.) would have been greeted with joy by…

Washington Post columnist Colby King charged Friday night that a look those who attended McCain-Palin rallies -- presumably meaning all-white -- versus those who went to Obama events, plus a “look at the census projections and what do you see? The Nationalist Party of South Africa.”On Inside Washington, a weekly show produced and aired over the weekend by Washington, DC's ABC affiliate, but first…

The post-election unity was on full display Friday evening when MSNBC political analyst Lawrence O'Donnell told syndicated columnist Pat Buchanan that the Republican Party celebrates ignorance.This set off a fiery exchange on the new "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue" that included O'Donnell claiming the GOP forbids members to accept the theory of evolution, and Buchanan countering that he would…

The media's post-election truth leaks are in full swing now as the Washington Post will publish an admission from its ombudsman Sunday that it was clearly biased towards Barack Obama in its coverage of the just-concluded presidential campaign.Isn't the truth great when it doesn't hurt your agenda?Although Deborah Howell's piece "An Obama Tilt in Campaign Coverage" will appear in Sunday's print…

Talk about "change." The latest version of president-elect Barack Obama's ever-evolving ideas for "community service" promises to pass out quite a bit of it to America's college students. The "America Serves" (link is to Google cache) and "Service" sections of Team Obama's Change.gov site have, uh, changed quite a bit over the past day or so after many, including Kerry Picket of Newsbusters,…

First, was last Saturday's Texas-Texas Tech matchup the game of the year so far? Does anything on today's schedule have the same potential?No. 11 Ohio State at No. 24 NorthwesternNo. 20 Georgia Tech at No. 19 North CarolinaNo. 1 Alabama at No. 16 LSUNo. 9 Oklahoma State at No. 2 Texas TechNo. 21 California at No. 7 USCIn the NHL, are the Sharks and Rangers for real? In the NBA, Atlanta, Utah, and…

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Piling on Palin.Since Wednesday, media and so-called McCain campaign insiders have been bashing poor Sarah Palin. What do you think is behind this?More importantly, will she survive this onslaught? Does she still have a political career, or will all these attacks send her back to Alaska for good?