Dems Threaten Anti-Iran Rally Organizers With IRS Attack if They Let P

News has emerged that the organizers of that anti-Iran rally that famously got snarled up in Senator Hillary Clinton's ire at Governor Sarah Palin last week were threatened by New York Democrats with IRS action against their tax-exempt status if they allowed Palin to speak. CBS local NY news reported this little fact and so did NBC but most of the national news has ignored this outrageous threat…
Warner Todd Huston

Weekend 'Treat'? Streisand: 'Lovely Democratic Mem'ries/Of the Way We

At a Tuesday night fundraiser for Barack Obama held at the Regent Beverly Wilshire, donors heard Barbra Streisand sing, but as ABC's Jake Tapper noted in his “Political Punch” blog, “the press was not permitted (inflicted?) with permission to hear her.” So, there's no video of it, which reminded me of how back in 2002 the Fox News Channel played a brief clip from her appearance at a September 29…
Brent Baker

Ultimate Palin Derangement Syndrome: NOW Endorses Obama

UPDATE at end of post: this is the first time NOW endorsed a presidential ticket without a woman on it! In the finest example of Palin Derangement Syndrome yet, the National Organization for Women on Tuesday endorsed Barack Obama for President.In its formal announcement at the National Press Club (video embedded right), members of NOW, along with leaders of other women's groups, personally…
Noel Sheppard

Media Not Reporting Failed Financial Agencies Are Big Donors to Obama

**Video Below Fold** A 2005 Video of Fannie Mae CEO Shown Affirming his Connection to Congressional Black Caucus and Barack Obama, Where is the Media? In a 2005 video Daniel Mudd, at the time the interim CEO of the catastrophically failed mortgage lender Fannie Mae, affirmed his fealty and that of Fannie Mae to the Congressional Black Caucus. The top three campaign donation recipients were…
Warner Todd Huston

WaPo Feminist Film Critic Loves Bella Abzug

Tim Graham

LAT, NYT Near Silent On Palin E-Mail Hack

Imagine if Barack or Michelle Obama's e-mail had been hacked. Would the reaction from the folks at the Los Angeles Times be so muted? If an Obama were the victim, it's easy to picture Times editor Tim Rutten penning a hissy-fit op-ed, angrily demanding a federal investigation, and trying to formulate how the McCain campaign was directly involved.The Times relegated the story of Palin's e-mail…
Dave Pierre

AP: US 'A Nation That Enshrined Slavery in its Constitution

Mike Bates

New Republic Senior Editor MIA on Joe Biden While Slamming Palin

P.J. Gladnick

IBD: Carter More to Blame for Financial Crisis Than Bush or McCain

Much as Bush-hating media members conveniently ignore historical events that led to the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, their current finger-pointing at the White House, John McCain, and all Republican politicians for the collapse of the financial services industry lacks any honest assessment of decades-old legislation that laid the groundwork for today's problems.In particular, 1977's Community…
Noel Sheppard

PDS in Action: Sullivan's Vitriolic 'S**t Fit' Too Much for Maher

(This item contains a vulgarity. It also overlaps with an earlier posting by Noel Sheppard, but I wrote this up last night and even had the video ready to go, then fell asleep, so here's a different angle with video.)  The suggestion that talking about Sarah Palin is not important, sent HBO Real Time guest panelist Andrew Sullivan, a media veteran who now writes the “The Daily Dish” blog for The…
Brent Baker

CNN Fact Checks McCain Ad: 'Not Always Black and White

Mike Bates

AP's Racist Poll: If Obama Loses It's Because He's Black

UPDATE at end of post: Polling agency VIPs have contributed to Democrats including Obama.Are you getting tired of the mainstream media meme that if you're white and you don't vote for Barack Obama it's because you're a racist? Or that if John McCain wins, it's because he's white and Obama isn't?Well, on Saturday, the Associated Press and Yahoo News released results of a new poll, and the major…
Noel Sheppard

PDS, Harlem-Style: Rangel Calls Palin 'Disabled

In the Palin Derangement Syndrome parade, this one has to be at or near the front. It comes courtesy of tax scofflaw, financial-disclosure report fudger, rent-controlled apartment hoarder -- Harlem's one, and only, Charles Rangel (D-NY). When asked Friday why Democrats are so afraid of Sarah Palin and her popularity, he answered: You got to be kind to the disabled. It's on video here at Breitbart…
Tom Blumer

Susan Estrich Sounds Smitten With 'First Dude

P.J. Gladnick