Sound Bite For the Day: "Let Me Finish My Answers the Next Time We Do An Interview"
Anyone care to wager a bet as to whether there will be a “next time?” Kudos to the reporter for asking actual questions in lieu of tossing softballs.
Anyone care to wager a bet as to whether there will be a “next time?” Kudos to the reporter for asking actual questions in lieu of tossing softballs.
From AFP: Canada’s first right-wing 24-hour television news network was launched Monday promising to shake up Canadians’ views on politics and the day’s events. But the Quebecor-owned Sun News Network assailed by critics as “Fox News North” continues to suffer
When she’s not busy name-calling on Twitter, Salon’s Joan Walsh says that “campaigning and governing might be the same thing right now.” Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
Nor will you see it from the Soros-funded progressive propaganda outlets. BUT, ZIONISM! An Israeli boy dies when after a missile attack on his school bus: Daniel Raphael Viflic, the 16- year-old who was critically wounded in an anti-tank missile
After the Tucson tragedy, the one that Democrats used to electioneer, fundraise, and attack conservatives, conservatives were lectured on the importance of civil discourse. They freaked out when conservatives would make jokes. Politicians created a silly Zoolander-esque National Institute for
The Freeper community caught something interesting in CBS’s footage of Madison’s tea party rally which featured Sarah Palin. First, check out this commentary: MADISON, Wis. – After weeks of relative quiet following the bruising battle over an anti-union collective bargaining
Freshman Congressman Joe Walsh calls out the media for the absence of their questions on Obama’s budget.
From Media Trackers: The national liberal blog Daily Kos – aided by a report in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – is raising misleading questions regarding the April 5 Supreme Court election because election results on the website of the Waukesha
[youtube NDS81Ibazdk nolink] Well this is unfortunate. Now WWD reports that the Number 10 “Best Place to See Right Now” is none other than… war-torn Libya. The 250-word blurb proclaims “a door long shut is open again,” and ends with
Thank you, Bill Maher. On this we agree. “All this talk about the people who burned the Koran and nothing about the people who reacted in such a stupid way. We’re always blaming the victim and not holding them, not
There was a lot of discussion in the media this week about using our soldiers as a “political football.” After we learned that a White House draft guidance targeted the pay of our service men and women as a way
Of course. Despite several ugly recent episodes and considerable movement by conservative activists to defund it, federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and National Public Radio survived an 11th hour deal on a spending bill to fund the
First off, we want to wish Glenn Beck the best in whatever it is he and his media company decide to do next. The way he and Fox News handled the decision to part ways is a model for all
NEW YORK (AP) – Glenn Beck is leaving his Fox News Channel show later this year. The network and Beck’s company, Mercury Radio Arts, announced the departure on Wednesday. Fox and the company said they will work together to create
When you have to ask … Sunday’s front-page story about Missouri Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder’s dozens of stays at upscale St. Louis hotels at taxpayer expense has prompted a thread in our story comments that the Post-Dispatch has overblown coverage
From Fox Nation: Fired NPR CEO Vivian Schiller spoke Tuesday at the Paley Center for Media in New York and lashed out at the videographers who exposed the bigotry in her organization, calling the undercover sting an “abomination.” She admitted
I’m sure the progressive media will decry this as uncivil as much as they decried Mike Huckabee’s goofy ‘gun point’ joke. Right? A bloody, severed pig’s foot was sent to Rep. Pete King over his hearings on Islamic radicalization: Authorities
St. Louis reporter Jake Wagman is taking heat for a slanted piece he ran over the weekend in the city’s daily paper. It looks as though Wagman has tried to turn oppo on Lt. Governor Peter Kinder — the unofficial
A great catch by Legal Insurrection: While the link was changed after the fact, the screenshot remains forever.
Mediaite: U.S. Pastor Kills Eight People, UN Workers Correcting the Right On “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” Tax Breaks Media Tale of Two Marches: Solidarity Saturday v. Pro-Life Sunday CORRECTION REQUEST STANDS: Media Matters Fudged Truth On Planned Parenthood Mammograms Correction Request:
[youtube 7ZjD-Km1C6Y nolink] “It’s the bombs that the government has been dropping around the world that are now blowing up inside the U.S. borders. We’ve got something stronger than bombs, we have solidarity. That dream of revolutionary change is stronger
Initially, I thought this was a joke. President Obama finally and quietly accepted his “transparency” award from the open government community this week — in a closed, undisclosed meeting at the White House on Monday. The secret presentation happened almost
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) – Hugo Chavez is getting a journalism award in Argentina. The Venezuelan leader regularly clashes with critical media, but the University of La Plata is giving him its Rodolfo Walsh Prize on Tuesday for what it
John Stossel to Al Pires, lead attorney in the Pigford settlement: “How do you know they’re farmers?” Answer: [long pause] “They fill out the forms… We HOPE they tell the truth.” [youtube L6xQLS33z1c nolink] More at Stossel’s blog: Want to
[youtube 6qXmtGFrxvM nolink] “This is the default position of the left, to shut people up. It’s time to fight these people, to expose them.”
[youtube wUN78IApjcA nolink] The idea of taking money from an old man for executing his an Indiana Jones-esque vendetta against Fox News, capitalism, America, et al., seems creepy to me. Anyone else?
From Slate: Andrew Brietbart’s ad hominem attack on Van Jones in The Daily Caller — right down to calling him a “commie punk” and “a cop killer-supporting, racist, demagogic freak” — violates the tenets of debate and civil discourse we
Watching Cenk Uygur deliver his commentary is like watching a plumber talk about dames and broads in my kitchen. [youtube O5SOOLHeXko nolink] ” Conservative media hoser and poseur Andrew Breitbart suggested in GQ Magazine this month … ” ” …
It says a lot about who’s #winning when progressive activist groups have to take their sugardaddy billions to train other progs to be as good as conservatives on air. Meet the new comedy hour: The primary mission of Media Matters,
The rumor mill has been pretty active on this issue over the past couple weeks; we’ll be keeping an eye on it. From the newspaper of record: The possibility that Glenn Beck will exit the Fox News Channel at the
Bernie Goldberg predicts what will happen to CBS anchor Katie Couri when her contract is up. Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com “Save this tape and I’d like you to play it to show what an oracle I really am.
If progressives love NPR enough to threaten to kill people on Twitter, then why can’t they channel some of than energy into reaching for their own wallets to fund it themselves? Weasel Zippers finds this gem: Like, seriously, do you
Apparently in bongo/protest/chanty-speak, reporting on actual things occurring in Madison, putting it online for people to watch protesters say and do ridiculous things with their own mouths, is “union lies!” We told you last week how Wisconsin protestors descended on
WASHINGTON (AP) – The House on Thursday voted to end federal funding to National Public Radio. Republican supporters said it made good fiscal sense, and Democratic opponents called it an ideological attack that would deprive local stations of access to
This is actual content on MSNBC. Lawrence O’Donnell doing his best Shocked Olbermann impersonation about the racial makeup of Michele Bachmann’s district, because race is the only thing that matters to progressives such as O’Donnell, apparently. “What makes those voters
NEW YORK (AP) – The rapid growth of smartphones and electronic tablets is making the Internet the destination of choice for consumers looking for news, a report released Monday said. Local, network and cable television news, newspapers, radio and magazines
From Politico: Meredith Shiner reports from the Hill that the House Rules committee will hold an emergency meeting Wednesday at 3 p.m. on H.R. 1076, the measure “to prohibit funding of National Public Radio and the use of Federal funds