What’s a Barack Obama Administration multi-billion dollar boondoggle without a Czar to oversee it? For the automobile industry bailout, the Lord Overseer was Car Czar Steven Rattner. This is the same Steven Rattner who late last year reportedly paid a
What is the Rose Parade’s connection to claimed Wall Street abuses? Nothing. But that isn’t stopping the LA Times, ABC local tv, Yahoo, and other media from dutifully promoting the decomposing Occupy movement’s plan to disrupt the century-old event. As
Attorney General Eric Holder gave a speech this week declaring that vote fraud is “uncommon.” He also said in an interview to The Washington Post, “You constantly hear about voter fraud … but you don’t see huge amounts of vote
His name is Stephen Bloom and he teaches journalism at the University of Iowa (that’s right, he’s on the taxpayer teat). Because he sees Iowans as little more than supporting players in “Deliverance 2: The Caucus,” he hates the idea
– “Journalist” (activist) Jose Vargas was kicked out of Romney event in Iowa when Vargas showed up to protest. Or report. To so many of them activism = “reporting.” – Foreign documentary filmmaker with an axe to grind shocked that
With Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney locked in a pitched battle at the top of the GOP pack and a cadre of other candidates looking to steal their thunder, the stakes could not be higher for tonight’s ABC News, Yahoo
– A video dedication to Eric Boehlert: [youtube 7YvAYIJSSZY nolink] – Brokaw on Trump: “[Trump] is an utterly shameless self-promoter” and the media should stop enabling him.” – An update to our story about the blogger slammed with the $2.5m
Jimmy Fallon is very, very sorry for insulting Rep. Michele Bachmann on his “Late Night” talk fest. Except Fallon never apologized on-air for the incident, and his house band’s punishment remains unknown. We know how Hank Williams, Jr. was punished
Much has already been revealed about the Obama administration’s cronyism when it comes to the Department of Energy. 80% of Department of Energy green loans are tied to President Obama’s most prolific donors including the now infamous Solyndra solar panel
Here’s The New York Times headline: Justice Department Counters Claim That It Misled Congress in Gun Inquiry Here’s the original AP headline the media outlets used, including MSNBC: Justice Dept. details how it got statements wrong The NYT headline makes
– Another media group calls on US mayors to end journalist arrests. Sure, just so long as we can tell them apart from the actual protesters. – Adam Carolla delivers and epic rant on OWS. – Twitter may classify for
Two weeks after the Richmond Tea Party delivered an invoice to Richmond Mayor Dwight Jones for costs incurred for previous rallies, we received a letter from the City of Richmond formally stating that the city is auditing our Tea Party.
Occupy Wall Street’s imploding, Obama and the Democrats own the chaos, and now the AP is panicking. But first a little context… Something happened this month that the mainstream media and the Left (but I repeat myself) never expected. Two
Columbia Journalism “Professor of Professional Practice” Sree Sreenivasan, still smarting from an encounter with James O’Keefe, seems to have declared himself the ultimate arbiter of what is, or is not, citizen journalism: PEOPLE LIKE O’KEEFE THINK THEY ARE ACTING LIKE
[audio: http://www.coffeeandmarkets.com/CoffeeandMarkets111511.mp3] Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Francis Cianfrocca to discuss a new push to politically unite Europe to save the Eurozone, how
Unnamed sources, vague allegations, and innuendo amount to nothing more than a media hit. Politico‘s attack on Herman Cain a week ago stunk, and it stinks today just as badly. Sharon Bialek, however, is a different story. The 50 year-old
Protection from the activist old media when scandal hits is a great deal when you can get it. Political figures know that a Republican who sneezes sideways gets blasted non-stop, and a Democrat can stand on top of the local
What to do U.S. House members Dan Burton, Allen West, Lynn Jenkins, Trent Franks, Tim Huelskamp, Mike Pompeo, Duncan Hunter, Devin Nunes, Dennis Ross, Vicky Hartzler, Raul Labrador, Quico Canseco, Blake Farenthold, Paul Gosar, Joe Walsh, Gus Bilirakis and John
[audio: http://newledger.com/podcasts/CoffeeandMarkets102411.mp3] Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Francis Cianfrocca to discuss earnings season, Google and Microsoft bidding for Yahoo, and the $1 trillion
Thanks to those stubborn things called facts, today it’s the Washington Post under fire, not the subject of their Thursday hit piece, Florida GOP Senator Marco Rubio. And now the WaPo memory-holing has begun. First, the Miami Herald came out
[audio: http://newledger.com/podcasts/CoffeeandMarkets102111.mp3] Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Francis Cianfrocca to discuss why an unprecedented 26 million Americans are underemployed, Rick Perry’s flat tax,
Austerity has become a household word. It’s been mentioned and repeated so many times that Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary honored the term as its word of the year in 2010 — that’s how many web searches were conducted on the “austerity”. Fiscal
Reuters ran a story last week that attempted to paint George Soros and his foundation’s donations as an organizing element of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) demonstrations. As much as this may be red meat to the right, I have
While no longer breaking news, the Iranian plot to assassinate a Saudi ambassador touches on another, larger story. It starts with how countries who export terror seek to infiltrate the US. Our various intelligence agencies and web of foreign contacts
At what point does a newscaster lose credibility? I’ll answer that myself. As long as you are a media leftist, you will always have credibility and have a seat at the table of activist, old media types. Dan Rather, he
