As They Pound Palin with Polls, Where Are the Gallup and Network Polls
November 17th, 2009 12:22 PM
As several networks run around with new ratify-our-liberal-bias polls insisting that Sarah Palin is completely unqualified to be president -- exquisitely timed to ruin her book tour and channel all their very obvious and partisan Palin-loathing -- where are the polls that are about 2009, as opposed to 2012? A scan of Gallup.com and Pollingreport.com suggests that neither Gallup nor any of the…
CNN Again Touts Apparent Rise in Militia Activity
November 16th, 2009 2:34 PM
On Monday’s American Morning, CNN’s Jim Acosta rehashed a three-month-old report from the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center about the apparent rise in militia activity in the U.S., and extensively featured a militia from Michigan whose members purportedly “could not specify which of their constitutional rights are being peeled away.”Acosta didn’t use any specific ideological labels to…
Bill O'Reilly and Geraldo Rivera Debate Terrorist Trials In NYC
November 14th, 2009 2:06 PM
On Friday's "O'Reilly Factor," the host and his guest Geraldo Rivera had quite a lively debate on Attorney General Eric Holder's announcement concerning Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other terrorists being tried in New York City.As you might imagine, Rivera was all for it, and Bill O'Reilly, well -- not so much.Although this wasn't on par with their classic battle over illegal immigration in…
NYT: Trying Terrorists In NYC Will Repair 'Damage Wrought By Bush
November 14th, 2009 9:44 AM
The New York Times told readers Saturday that Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to try five Guantanamo Bay terrorist detainees in New York City was "a bold and principled step...toward repairing the damage wrought by former President George W. Bush."Not surprisingly, while the Times editorial board cheered Friday's decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and others with suspected ties to the…
'60 Minutes': Medicare Fraud Raises 'Troubling Questions About Our Gov
October 25th, 2009 11:18 PM
"60 Minutes" did a fabulous exposé Sunday on Medicare fraud that should be required viewing for all people who support a government run healthcare program in this country. The facts and figures presented by CBS's Steve Kroft were disturbing as were the details concerning how shysters bilk the system for an estimated $60 billion a year. As Kroft warned viewers in the segment's teaser, "We caution…
Networks, Newspapers Ignore Partisan, Racially-motivated Obama DOJ Act
October 22nd, 2009 11:53 AM
The Obama ascendency, the president's acolytes have been keen on telling us, is the dawn of a new post-partisan era. But a development that undercuts that fiction -- the Obama Justice Department's recent move to scuttle non-partisan local elections in Kinston, North Carolina, on the basis of racial and partisan considerations -- has escaped the interest of the mainstream media.Both the Washington…
WaPo Shocker: Torture Restrictions and CIA Investigations Don't Make A
September 1st, 2009 5:23 PM
"No one can possibly believe that America is now safer because of the new restrictions on enhanced interrogation and the subsequent appointment of a special prosecutor."So wrote the Washington Post's Richard Cohen in an op-ed Tuesday that is SURE to raise some liberal eyebrows.In fact, the following snippets will likely raise some conservative ones as well (h/t Steve Malzberg):
CNN's Malveaux Asks Steele About 'Those in Your Party Who Compared Oba
August 25th, 2009 7:46 PM
On Tuesday’s Situation Room, CNN’s Suzanne Malveaux questioned RNC Chairman Michael Steele about the debate over ObamaCare, and alleged that protesters “from your own party...have talked about and compared President Obama to Hitler” at the health care town halls. The anchor also bizarrely asked Steele if he gave Attorney General Holder “credit...for breaking away from President Obama.”Midway…
Eric Holder CIA Investigation Announcement Unleashes Kossack Political
August 25th, 2009 8:33 AM
Liberals in the mainstream media may publicly pretend that the appointment of a prosecutor to investigate so-called torture in the CIA is non-political but to the members of the Daily Kos it is all about politics. The politics of revenge. On the heels of the Eric Holder Justice Department dropping a voter intimidation case against members of the New Black Panther Party for threatening voters with…
L.A.Times Still Calling it the ‘So-Called War on Terror
July 23rd, 2009 7:05 AM
In the L.A. Times on July 22, writer Catherine Lyons again revealed a bit of her Bush Derangement Syndrome by calling the war on terror a “so-called war on terror.” What is with these people that simply cannot accept terms of reality? It’s like this every time they use the word terrorism, or “terrorism” as the Old Media so often terms it, and the war on terror. The Old Media simply refuses to…
FNC's O'Reilly Interviews Liberal Attorney Who Witnessed Black Panther
June 3rd, 2009 4:59 AM
On Friday’s The O’Reilly Factor on FNC, host Bill O’Reilly interviewed liberal civil rights attorney Bartle Bull about the Justice Department’s recent decision to drop charges against Black Panther members who engaged in voter intimidation in Philadelphia polling place last November. Bull – who worked for both Robert F. Kennedy and Jimmy Carter – was an eyewitness to some of the intimidation, and…
Dude, Where's My Torture Prosecutions
May 23rd, 2009 9:57 AM
There has been very little attention paid in the MSM to a meeting on Wednesday between President Obama and various leftwing "human rights" groups except for a brief mention at the CBS News Political Hotsheet. However, according to a detailed report provided by Newsweek's Michael Isikoff on Rachel Maddow's MSNBC show, Obama has revealed that there won't be any prosecutions of Bush administration…