In the January edition of Vanity Fair magazine Christopher Hitchens becomes the latest in a seemingly endless parade of name callers and reputation-smudgers intent on spreading lies about Tea Partiers, Glenn Beck, and just about anyone else he doesn’t agree
by Mike Opelka16 Dec 2010, 9:54 AM PST0
If you were still wondering about China’s plans to control more (if not all of) the world, look no further than their actions regarding the upcoming Nobel Prize ceremony. 1. Nobel Awards announced 2. China stomps its’ feet in anger
by Mike Opelka8 Dec 2010, 10:10 AM PST0
If Keith Olbermann’s viewers know what’s best for HIS show, why don’t you the people know what’s right for America? Less than a month after he removed the benchmark segment “Worst Person In The World” from his MSNBC television program,
by Mike Opelka19 Nov 2010, 9:30 AM PST0
The electronic media was abuzz on Friday with huge news of MSNBC’s President Phil Griffin and his decision to indefinitely suspend their prime time firebrand Keith Olbermann from the flagging cable news network. This story was so big that CNN
by Mike Opelka7 Nov 2010, 4:05 AM PST0
Working as a reporter for the election night coverage on Glenn Beck’s Insider Extreme webcast the other night, I spent five solid (and painful) hours tuned in to the cable network that uses the word Progressive so often that one
by Mike Opelka4 Nov 2010, 4:36 AM PST0
It was a beautiful Fall day, perfect weather to inspire a person (liberal, 18-30, mostly white) to jump on one of 200 buses paid for by the great comedy supporter Arianna Huffington and come to the Nation’s capital for some
by Mike Opelka1 Nov 2010, 9:48 AM PST0
Tuesday’s edition of Hardball on the ratings-challenged MSNBC featured host Chris Matthews bailing out Florida gubernatorial candidate Alex Sink just one day after she was caught cheating during a commercial break in a televised debate. As most politically savvy folks
by Mike Opelka28 Oct 2010, 1:13 PM PST0
Following last week’s cable news bloodbath featuring the replacement of network chiefs at both CNN and MSNBC, I had to think, “What will MSNBC and CNN be doing differently today, effectively the first day of the rest of their newsy
by Mike Opelka28 Sep 2010, 7:31 AM PST0
Bill Maher wants to be given credit, dammit! After Christine O’Donnell surprised the Left by winning the GOP primary in Delaware, giving the Tea Party another win and more momentum, the politics of personal destruction kicked into overdrive. First there
by Mike Opelka20 Sep 2010, 10:57 AM PST0
The last-place cable news network, CNN, is the channel Wolf Blizter regularly calls “the place for politics.” It also operates a website with the motto, “all politics, all the time.” So you would expect the outlet to offer only the
by Mike Opelka15 Sep 2010, 9:27 AM PST0
If, in a county where President Obama won 69% of the vote less than two years ago, the President cannot fill a Community College Recreational Center with a scheduled event, you might consider that to be newsworthy. Apparently the Mainstream
by Mike Opelka9 Sep 2010, 3:02 PM PST0
In an era when satellite imagery allows one to count cars from space, and in a country fascinated with numbers (weekly box office take, home runs, calorie counting, etc) the MSM is having a difficult time with the math on
by Mike Opelka30 Aug 2010, 5:58 AM PST0
In his latest Time.com piece, Mark Halperin, Editor At Large and Senior MSNBC Political Analyst, has decided that the GOP must not jump into the furor surrounding the latest slip of the First Tongue as it relates to the controversy
by Mike Opelka16 Aug 2010, 3:21 PM PST0
Remember the day when “Nothing Happened?” to Ralph Melish back in 1973? [youtube hps0TsJvqEA&feature nolink] Oddly enough, 1973 was also the year that gave us Rachel Maddow, star of the ratings-challenged MSNBC. Perhaps as an infant, young Ms. Maddow heard
by Mike Opelka6 Aug 2010, 8:56 AM PST0
(This is lesson #2 in our study of the Obama Kakistocracy – And for those who do not remember the definition; Kakistocracy – noun, government by the worst persons; a form of government in which the worst persons are in
by Mike Opelka26 Jul 2010, 6:33 AM PST0
(Kakistocracy – noun, government by the worst persons; a form of government in which the worst persons are in power.) This coming November 2nd will be two years since the election of “Change” brought then-senator Barack Obama into the White
by Mike Opelka20 Jul 2010, 6:56 AM PST0
It was April 15, 2009 when Speaker Pelosi pronounced the Tea Party protests as fake, using the term AstroTurf (as in phony grass roots). [youtube P44q7Jt68DA nolink] The entire MSM covered that story and many worked overtime to brand the
by Mike Opelka17 Jul 2010, 9:12 AM PST0
Just a few short days after Octavia Nasr tweeted her fondness for the late Hezbollah leader Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, she’s out of a job. The offending message? “Sad to hear of the passing of Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah… One
by Mike Opelka7 Jul 2010, 5:47 PM PST0
Breaking news – NASA has been re-focused and re-purposed. As reported by FoxNews.com; “NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a recent interview that his ‘foremost’ mission as the head of America’s space exploration agency is to improve relations with the
by Mike Opelka7 Jul 2010, 10:28 AM PST0
For everyone who read the above headline and said, “not bloody likely,” give yourself two points. The silence is frightening. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy People Magazine’s latest piece on that rapidly dimming
by Mike Opelka7 Jul 2010, 9:00 AM PST0
Parenting books are filled with examples of how children learn by watching and imitating their parents. So it should comes as no surprise to anyone when elected officials like Congressman Fortney Hillman “Pete” Stark treat them like fools or mock
by Mike Opelka2 Jul 2010, 6:22 AM PST0
Chalk up another one for MSNBC. No, no, no, silly… Not another gigantic, record-setting, massive, basic cable audience tuning in to see the liberal firebrand spewing his “Progressive” agenda to the MSNBC Kool-Aid drinkers… That never happens. But do not
by Mike Opelka24 Jun 2010, 1:55 PM PST0
The President’s recent commencement address to Hampton University students in Virginia counseled the young minds about the dangers of being bombarded by too much information, but who knew that Joe Lieberman was listening when the President said: Meanwhile, you’re coming
by Mike Opelka20 Jun 2010, 5:14 AM PST0
Wonkette needs to grow a pair… or buy a pair and have them installed. Either way, I won’t care. The recent “did she or didn’t she” piece about Sarah Palin’s breasts is just one more in the seemingly endless supply
by Mike Opelka11 Jun 2010, 4:49 AM PST0
Carpe BP? – That seems to be a theme heard all across the MSM when it comes to what should be done with British Petroleum. Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich has called for the temporary takeover of the oil giant
by Mike Opelka10 Jun 2010, 4:35 AM PST0