Achtung! Andrew Sullivan Goes Nuclear; Hints Palin = Hitler

May 27th, 2011 3:54 PM
Andrew Sullivan's vendetta against Sarah Palin reached a new milestone on Friday after he insinuated that the former Alaska governor was somehow akin to Adolf Hitler. Sullivan referenced Leni Riefenstahl's infamous pro-Nazi movie after quoting a former Palin spokeswoman on what he labeled "the upcoming propaganda movie, 'Triumph Of The Will' 'The Undefeated.'" The writer, who is a top…

Salon: Pawlenty 'Has His Own Rev. Wright

May 26th, 2011 4:16 PM
Mild-mannered Minnesotan Tim Pawlenty may have his own Rev. Wright, Salon.com's Justin Elliott sensationally alerted readers of the War Room blog Thursday morning. The reason, Elliott argues: the former Minnesota governor's preacher believes in manmade global warming and wants a liberal immigration reform policy enacted into law:

Daily Kos Week in Review: Ring-Kissing, Leg-Humping Republicans

May 22nd, 2011 5:13 PM
What is Daily Kos full of? Many things, of course, but this past week one correct answer to that question would have been "advice for conservatives." One Kossack suggested that if Republicans want to win in 2012, they'll have to adopt Newt Gingrich's Meet the Press position on Paul Ryan's Medicare reforms. Another asserted that GOPers ought to profusely thank President Obama for not destroying…

What Part of the Apostles' Creed Does Sally Quinn Not Understand

May 20th, 2011 4:17 PM
In her May 20 Moderator's View blog post at "On Faith," entitled "May 21, 2011: Not the end of the world," Washington Post's Sally Quinn at one point describes a belief in the "end times" as one held by "a large segment of Christians." But that's kind of like saying "a large segment of Hindus believe in reincarnation."

Irony: Far-left ThinkProgress Takes Foreign Funds, But Media Yawn

May 20th, 2011 9:37 AM
In October of last year, the far-left blog ThinkProgress alleged - with exactly zero evidence - that the Chamber of Commerce was illegally using money collected from foreign corporations to fund its American political activities. The charge was breathlessly repeated by major media outlets, including the New York Times and MSNBC. Well it turns out that the Center for American Progress Action…

Boston Who? Establishment Press 'Colleagues' Virtually Ignore WH Shuto

May 19th, 2011 12:03 PM
Imagine if the Bush 43 administration had decided to exclude a newspaper's reporters from full access to presidential events--regardless of the ostensible reason. Does anyone believe that the New York Times or Associated Press would have ignored the story? Well, in a thoroughly predictable but nonetheless sad development, that is what has happened since the Boston Herald's Hillary Chabot…

Time's Sorensen: Obama Campaign Jumps the Shark with Birth Certificate

May 19th, 2011 11:55 AM
Even some liberal journalists are rolling their eyes at the Obama campaign's dopey move to sell campaign merchandise emblazoned with the president's birth certificate. Time's Adam Sorensen scoffed that the "Birtherism Death Watch [Has] Jumped the Shark" in a May 18 Swampland blog post:

Time's Grunwald: Florida 'Insane' to Have Rejected High-Speed Rail; Pr

May 12th, 2011 4:23 PM
According to Time's Michael Grunwald, it was insane for Florida Governor Rick Scott (R) to reject $2.4 billion for a Tampa-Orlando high-speed rail project. And yet in the same Swampland blog post he confessed that a similar high-speed rail project going forward in California is dubious at best and that Scott's rejection of the pork project means that the money is now broken up to aid rail…

Abortionist Rants on Daily Kos: 'Extreme Religion Stops a Thinking Bra

May 10th, 2011 1:22 PM
Denizens of the Daily Kos were delighted Monday by a more-than-6,300-word rant by an abortionist from Texas bylined "Beket." The headline was "Extreme Religion Stops a Thinking Brain -- and Kills Women and Teenage Girls." Naturally, it was "One of the best diaries I have read on DKos," wrote one thrilled commenter. "Well-written. Well-thought out."  Dr. "Beket" began: "I am a proud, even…

Joe Klein: President Bush 'Deserves Both Credit and Blame' for bin Lad

May 2nd, 2011 4:50 PM
In his May 2 Swampland blog post "Osama Gone, and Now...", Time's Joe Klein makes some arguably contradictory assertions in his thoughts on the role former President Bush played in ultimately finding and killing Osama bin Laden:

Time's Amy Sullivan: Rev. Wallace Charles Smith Is No Jeremiah Wright

April 29th, 2011 6:17 PM
The pastor who preached the Easter sermon that Barack Obama heard this past Sunday is not another Jeremiah Wright, Time's Amy Sullivan insists in an April 29 blog "Swampland" blog post entitled "Conservatives Go After Another Obama Pastor." Sullivan was responding to the complaints of conservative talkers Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, who highlighted some controversial remarks Smith made to…

'On Faith' Contributor Calls Paul Ryan Budget Supporters to Repentance

April 21st, 2011 11:13 AM
Are you a Christian who also is supportive of Rep. Paul Ryan's budget plan? Then you'd best repent of your sin and be renew your mind with the social gospel. That's the pronouncement of liberal theologian Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite in an April 18 post at the Washington Post/Newsweek "On Faith" website. Brooks Thistlethwaite -- who previously hit Tea Party conservatives as tribalistic --…

ABC Presents Rep. Mica's Pet Project As GOP Hypocrisy on Budget Reduct

April 20th, 2011 1:38 PM
Damned if you do, damned if you don't. That could accurately describe Republicans' relationship to the liberal media on budget matters. While the mainstream media often raise a clamor about GOP plans to cut back on arts funding -- see this article from yesterday's Washington Post -- it seems any move to do the opposite will also face scorn. Take ABCNews.com's "The Blotter" and its take on…

Liberal Website Wonkette Disgracefully Attacks Trig Palin On His Third

April 20th, 2011 11:55 AM
What has become of today's liberalism that makes it acceptable to attack the mentally handicapped if they or their parents are conservatives? Consider the following disgraceful posting about Trig Palin published at the left-leaning website Wonkette Monday: