Well, looky here: it’s everybody’s favorite clueless MSNBC anchor babe, Contessa Brewer, the pride of Syracuse University, dealing with one of the contentious issues of the day with her usual winning combination of invincible ignorance and aggressive emotionalism. Does this
by Frank Ross27 Apr 2010, 4:11 PM PST0
That sound you’re not hearing is the media, holed up in their towers along Sixth Avenue and across the street from the old Show World Center porn palace on Eighth Avenue, noisily rising to the defense of Matt Stone and
by Frank Ross24 Apr 2010, 1:12 PM PST0
If even a blind pig can find an acorn or a truffle every once in a while, even a mainstream media journalist can figure out that there’s a new sheriff in town, although it generally takes him or her a
by Frank Ross22 Apr 2010, 1:14 PM PST0
Internecine strife, hurt feelings, jealousy, tears: no, it’s not a daytime soap opera but rather all in day’s work over at the cable channel nobody watches, MSNBC. It seems that someone named Donnie Deutsch — whose claim to fame is
by Frank Ross22 Apr 2010, 5:01 AM PST0
This piece, by Andrew Ferguson in Commentary, is almost too easy, but it sure is fun. Did the little furry mammals tuck into the dinosaur eggs with so much gusto? The tiny corner of the New York Times empire where
by Frank Ross19 Apr 2010, 8:21 PM PST0
The tragedy of the unprovoked attack on Allee Bautsch and Joe Brown in New Orleans recently is intensified by the media’s near-silence on the matter. In another example of its no-enemies-to-the-left mentality, the MSM has gone to ground. Not a
by Frank Ross18 Apr 2010, 3:25 PM PST0
As you know, more young people get their news from Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show that anyplace else. For a sizable swath of the population, it hasn’t happened until they’ve seen it on Stewart’s Comedy Central show, and that includes
by Frank Ross17 Apr 2010, 3:09 PM PST0
by Frank Ross16 Apr 2010, 12:49 PM PST0
Instapundit, naturally, has the roundup from all of today’s Tea Parties: Click, go, scroll, comment. The floor is all yours. We’ll be up all night, as usual…
by Frank Ross15 Apr 2010, 8:01 PM PST0
Think there’s been a media campaign to disparage and marginalize the grassroots Tea Party movement, almost from its inception, especially by the major networks? Think the coverage has been blatantly slanted and made to fit the liberal narrative? Well, maybe
by Frank Ross15 Apr 2010, 11:06 AM PST0
From Ronald Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress. This letter will appear as a full page ad in tomorrow’s Wall Street Journal and and Washington Post: WJC_letter_wsj-r5 –
by Frank Ross14 Apr 2010, 2:19 PM PST0
The Washington Post reports new revelations about Rep. Eric Massa and his serial “grope-age” of staff and interns. Just three months after Eric Massa was elected to Congress, his young male employees on Capitol Hill began complaining to supervisors that
by Frank Ross14 Apr 2010, 6:17 AM PST0
Intrepid Fox News reporter Jesse Watters caught up with Al Gore the other day and asked him a couple of questions including: “What is your reaction to the fact that Arctic Ice is actually increasing?” and “Do you stand to
by Frank Ross13 Apr 2010, 3:33 PM PST0
So says Paul Bedard writing in U.S. News and World Report: Big media, especially the TV networks, seem to be going out of their way to diss the conservative-leaning Tea Party movement as they work overtime to cheer on the
by Frank Ross13 Apr 2010, 12:25 PM PST0
Andrew Breitbart at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference. On racism: Why is it that the left is allowed to throw around the dangerous accusation of racism, without any evidence, as a means to malign half the country? Yet, if I
by Frank Ross12 Apr 2010, 3:10 PM PST0
Well, this certainly ought to drive the MSM crazy. From the National Journal: Of the many unflattering caricatures of Sarah Palin that litter the political landscape, the notion that she is a dummy or a puppet — a mere figure
by Frank Ross11 Apr 2010, 5:35 AM PST0
In light of the Obama Administration’s new drive to sanitize the image of Islam and Muslims by purging the new National Security Strategy document of all references to such outmoded concepts as “Islamic terrorism,” it’s worth going back to a
by Frank Ross10 Apr 2010, 7:05 PM PST0
Here’s Florida Congressman Alan Grayson, probably the most obnoxious member of that august body (if you don’t count Barney Frank), barging into a meeting of the Orange County Republicans executive committee yesterday and — this being “Die Quickly” Grayson —
by Frank Ross9 Apr 2010, 12:17 PM PST0
It’s official: David Shuster is in very bad odor at MSNBC. From Mediaite, quoting an email from Phil Griffin, Shuster’s boss, to a member of the public: From: Griffin, Phil (NBC Universal) Sent: Wed 4/07/10 11:16 PM Sorry, but this
by Frank Ross8 Apr 2010, 5:27 PM PST0
That would be Lt. Col. Allen West, running for Congress in Florida’s 22nd district. Because America needs more clear-eyed, unflinching truth-tellers like him: [youtube TkGQmCZjJ0k&feature nolink] You may recall the Atlanta-born Col. West from his service in Iraq, during which
by Frank Ross8 Apr 2010, 8:59 AM PST0
Just asking, Dr. Freud. Opening Day was not the first time Obama has referred to Comiskey Park, the old home of the Chicago White Sox, as “Cominsky” Field, er, Park. Here he is with Bob Costas, reminiscing about the good
by Frank Ross6 Apr 2010, 6:59 PM PST0
Here’s the Punahou Kid — an unequaled combination of Pericles of Athens and Oscar Robertson — tossing out the first pitch yesterday at the Washington Nationals’ home opener. The former South Sider also tells the world who his favorite Chicago
by Frank Ross6 Apr 2010, 8:09 AM PST0
Over at Commentary, the estimable Jennifer Rubin notices that even standard-issue, rank-and-file media apparatchiks like the Washington Post‘s Anne Kornblut finally seem to be figuring out that they’ve been had — something the rest of us have known since at
by Frank Ross5 Apr 2010, 7:09 AM PST0
Sire — the people are revolting: [youtube dHv1u-wExck&feature nolink] And this: [youtube k2iiirr5KI8&feature nolink] What’s the old Alinsky rule? You know, No. 5 in the “Tactics” section of Rules for Radicals? Oh yeah — Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.
by Frank Ross2 Apr 2010, 5:01 PM PST0
Sometimes you have to wonder if civilian control of the military’s all it’s cracked up to be: [youtube zNZczIgVXjg&feature nolink] That’s Rep. Hank Johnson (D, Ga.) expressing his fear that overpopulation on the island of Guam — an American territory
by Frank Ross1 Apr 2010, 7:10 PM PST0