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Wow. Déclassé. And I’m not even a Romney fan. From NRO: We just witnessed ESPN firing an employee for using the phrase “chink in the armor” in a headline about the New York Knicks’ Jeremy Lin. While no one could prove a desire

Operation Fast and Furious should have been brought up in Arizona’s debate. I’ve no idea how you can have a debate in a border state that is being sued by the Obama administration for enforcing its immigration laws and yet not discuss

During last night’s Republican presidential debate, a member of the audience stood up and asked the candidates a very simple question on Iran (my emphasis): QUESTION: Hi, my name is Ken Taylor (ph) from Wickenberg, Arizona and my question to

– The cost of gas jumps 10 cents during ABC’s “World News” broadcast. – Why was Fast and Furious not included as a main discussion in last night’s debate? The debate took place in Arizona of all places, a border state,

Troops at a Bagram Airfield were ensnared in controversy after burning copies of the Koran, it was revealed this week. The Korans, as reported by CNN, weren’t just Korans; they apparently also served as a form of communication between detainees with “extremist” writings in them:

What do Barbara Streisand, the Pritzker Family, Jewish Communal Fund and the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston have in common?  Along with other Jewish related charitable foundations they are all helping to fund the Antisemitism of Media Matters for

The former Speaker has been slipping in the polls and fallen out of the media eye and, thus, needed a breakout performance tonight. Going back to a proven strategy of attacking the media, Newt Gingrich garnered some of the biggest

Commentator Dick Morris picked up on it in a series of Tweets. It was so obvious, the Republican audience booed it and those looking in from home most likely understood what was taking place as well. Asked CNN’s John King: “Which candidate believes in

When presented with a rumor about him by one of his aides, Abraham Lincoln was said to have remarked, “For people who like this sort of thing, this is the kind of thing they will like.”  Whether it’s the debunked

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This, this is how the press should behave with the administration, with any administration, with any politician. Adversarial. Our administration shouldn’t reverse this role with the press and go a step further by punishing them for it. An abridged free press compromises one of

Back in another millennium, when radical left-wing blog queen Arianna Huffington was still a “conservative columnist” and wearing dowdy Republican elephant broaches, I was employed as her researcher. From 1997 to 1999, I worked with Arianna on her twice-weekly column,

When the Republican presidential candidates gathered in New Hampshire on Jan. 7 for the first debate of 2012, former Clinton communications guru George Stephanopoulos surprised Gov. Mitt Romney with a question about contraception that no one–on stage or in the

National Public Radio led its Morning Edition broadcast this morning with a story about rising gas prices that could have been written by the White House press office. Its basic message was as follows: President Barack Obama feels your pain. Really. Politicians like President

– Is Media Matters Obama’s Watergate? – Meghan McCain debates the Virginia law … without having read it or even an “emoticon” of familiarity with it. My favorite quote from McCain, ever: “Vaginal probing is something I’ve had friends texting me about ‘what

From Accuracy in Media’s Logan Churchwell: While some conservative leaning blogs are beginning to grumble that a popular NPR personality is hosting a fundraiser for the Obama campaign this week, POLITICO and other outlets carrying the original Minnesota Public Radio report are only skimming the surface of

Ed Schultz on his show played the shortest excerpt Soros bloggers could get of my radio show without proving themselves wrong (41-seconds of a three hour broadcast, two hours of which was commentary on this specific issue) and falsely stated that the

Over at USA Today, a self-employed massage therapist from Austin, TX has a letter to the editor responding to an editorial suggesting that Occupy Wall Street has lost its way. Here’s what this fellow wrote: USA TODAY’s editorial is right to say that Occupy might

– Day three and progressives still have yet to counter the fact that Virginia’s law, does not in fact, require transvaginal ultrasounds, aka “rape” to progressives. Don’t ask them what that makes abortion, if an ultrasound is “rape.” Granted, the law

The Daily Caller reported last week that Media Matters, the progressive-fascist group funded by wealthy leftists to silence anyone who dare fail to meet their political purity test, received a $50,000 grant to “fact-check” religious broadcasters. Coincidentally, last November, religious broadcasters found

The popular liberal website Democratic Underground had a vicious, factually inaccurate post about Bigs contributor Brandon Darby and our work on the story of assaults at Occupy. I decided to correct these errors and my post was promptly banned by

Remember this? [youtube Wdqbi66oNuI nolink] Famous moment. I was in seventh grade when it happened and remember it well. Our dutiful teacher made sure to use it in the lessons for the next few days. Dan Quayle is actually an exceptionally bright

Global warmists finally have an email “gate” of their own that they can turn against “deniers” and they are taking full advantage of it. The Warmists are excited that the Heartland Institute, a Chicago-based state policy group, has been “outed”

The Daily Kos has blacklisted one of their bloggers, Eric Allen Bell, after he published his concerns over a mega-mosque: [youtube -kMDPk47cgc nolink] Eric Allen Bell was a regular blogger for the “Daily Kos” until he was recently banned for the