[Cabinet Room, White House, January 3, 2011] OBAMA: All right, folks. Let’s begin. After your recess appointments to the Cabinet two weeks ago, I gave you all free rein while I was incommunicado playing golf in Ireland. Tell me what
Popular culture is in full-scale attack mode on the Tea Party. [youtube sBmT7XrDRpI nolink] I’m figuring they are very afraid of something. The Tea Party movement has caught the emotion and passion of America and network TV shows feel they
With the story of the Islamic supremacist mega-mosque at Ground Zero continuing to dominate the news cycles, I have been doing a lot of media, and readers of my website AtlasShrugs.com are well aware of the campaign of destruction that
Guess what’s on Rush Limbaugh’s reading list. In his opening monologue this morning, Rush Limbaugh touted the novel Early Warning, written by Big Journalism‘s own editor-in-chief, Michael Walsh and published earlier this month. Rush plans to steal Walsh’s term from
Business Insider is an online news outlet founded by a couple of tech wizards from Silicon Valley. Recently the magazine had an interview scheduled with the CEO of About.com to talk about the company’s outlook. Though the interview had been
The Washington Post‘s E.J. Dionne has just given us a new line of attack on the Tea Party: now the movement is just a giant scam out to hoodwink the American public. Is the tea party one of the most
One might think it would be big news that a Chief Steward for a local chapter of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is being investigated by the FBI for possible connection to overseas terror networks. Apparently, though, several Chicago
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
Over at the Weekly Standard, Bill Kristol tries to control his inner optimist: It would be unbecoming for us at The Weekly -Standard–we do have to uphold standards, after all!–to chortle with glee as the Democratic party melts down. It
In response to the success of the Tea Party rallies in April 2009, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) accused the nascent movement of being “astroturf”–a political term of art for a faux movement funded by traditional powers to give a
George Soros is the source of the dirty money behind the front group to destroy Israel, J Street, as J Street executive director Jeremy Ben Ami has finally admitted to the media, after lying about it since the group’s founding:
The face of TV and politics changed forever on this date in history. It was 50 years ago this evening that John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon held the first of their 4 debates. It was clearly the most
Yes, that would be MSNBC’s legendary “Mr. Ed” Schultz, doing his famous imitation of the pot and the kettle. Take a look: Is this the definition of chutzpah?
John Donvan and Caren Zucker have written a beautiful article for The Atlantic, entitled, “Autism’s First Child“, accompanied by a video packet that ran on Good Morning America and followed by a lengthy interview on NPR, about the first patient
There is now an actual “News Anchor Barbie.” Of the 124 previous careers that Barbie has had in her 51 years (she actually look so much younger) this is perhaps her best look yet. (You can insert any Fox News
From WGN: David Axelrod, a top advisor to President Obama and the main architect of his election victory in 2008, will be leaving the White House next year and returning to Chicago to work on the president’s re-election campaign, a
You can’t make this stuff up. From the Washington Post, the employer of the most ethically challenged bunch of pundits and bloggers this side of Pravda: This is a contest aimed at people who’ve read a column in a newspaper
In a recent article by Robert Schmul on AOL Politics, he has hit conservatives below the belt in a way that he hopes will stick. If you can’t get the American population to get behind your socialist President, then just
In a column she posted at the Huffington Post, USEPA Administrator Lisa Jackson continued in her attempts to rebrand the Agency into something it never has been nor was intended to be: a creator of wealth. Jackson surely recognizes that
It’s no secret that the Washington Post is known for its liberal bias. If you didn’t already know that, you might also be interested in learning that the earth is indeed round. But I came across a recent Post article
The White House Office of the Press Secretary September 23, 2010 Press Conference by President Obama 8:03 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Good evening. I have several announcements. Today, federal marshals delivered George W. Bush to The Hague for his war
He was the quintessential Timesman back in the days when that meant something. A New England neighbor, I used to see him at the train station, impeccably dressed for his foray down to New York City, tie perfectly knotted, silver
In a stunning front-page editorial the principal Juarez, Mexico newspaper El Diario has called for a truce with the ultra violent Juarez and Sinaloa Mexican drug cartels in wake of the murder of an El Diario photographer and severe wounding
The press is making a big deal out of incidents that occurred when Delaware GOP senatorial candidate Christine O’Donnell was in high school. The latest of which was a 1999 statement made on Politically Incorrect, where she said she “dabbled
It’s just been announced that not a single person watched a network evening news show in the 17th largest U.S. city, Fort Worth, Texas, in 2009-2010. Not one. Plus, about ten thousand visitors who happened to be in hotels there
