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Recently in the New York Times, JFK speechwriter and adviser Ted Sorensen commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy/Nixon debates: “When Kennedy Met Nixon: The Real Story,” reads the op-ed’s title. Turns out, however, that the “real story” as “revealed”

Lou Dobbs committed the ultimate sin—he made a stand on principle. For years Dobbs has fought against illegal immigration. He did it on CNN, he does it on his radio show. Now, the most leftist magazine out there, The Nation

Daniel Levy is the archetype of a media-friendly Middle East analyst. He has a pedigree of far left-wing government activism that allows journalists to label him a “veteran diplomat.” He’s available to turn convoluted geopolitical struggles into simplistic conspiracies, valorizing

Otherwise known as “political correctness.” Not just Geert Wilders is on trial in the Netherlands for the crime of “hate speech” — [youtube N6zzdNRysgs&feature nolink] — we all are: To quote Wilders: All there is to say has been said.

Gotta love this guy: [youtube 7fHEqSG2KD0&feature nolink] Now there’s a debate we’d pay to see. Who do you think would win? Col. West? Or the Commander-in-Chief?

In what can only to be described as a throwback to the seventh century, Dutch Parliamentarian and anti-jihad warrior Geert Wilders was back in court Monday on specious “hate speech” charges filed by a corrupt, criminal dhimmi court in the

The Gallup polling agency has released its annual assessment of how Americans view the Old Media establishment and it isn’t good for the Old Media. Gallup found more people than ever have no trust in the Old Media (57 percent)

Guess what, the little cabal of journalists is being broken up. This is frightening news to most of those in the activist old media, but for somebody like myself who has worked in that media for 30 years, I welcome

Dick Blumenthal is a nasty piece of work, the NPR-voiced Attorney General of Connecticut and “Vietnam veteran” who thought he was going to waltz into the U.S. Senate by default. But a funny thing happened on the way to the

An audiotape has just emerged on the website of the Las Vegas Sun, capturing Sharron Angle, the Tea Party/Republican candidate, in private conversation with a third-party spoiler candidate Scott Ashjian: [audio: https://media.breitbart.com/media/cdn/bigjournalism/files/2010/10/angle-v2.mp3] Some choice quotes: The Republicans have lost their

An audiotape has just emerged on the website of the Las Vegas Sun, capturing Sharron Angle, the Tea Party/Republican candidate, in private conversation with a third-party spoiler candidate, Scott Ashjian: You can listen to the audio here. Some choice quotes:

By now, the trash left behind at the Democrat “One Nation Working Together” near the Washington Monument has been cleared away—but a bunch of garbage remains. [youtube rNRR-8UxtHs nolink] For the last year and a half the left and their

Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself. … [I] hope we have once again reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There’s a

I am ashamed to admit that there is one thing the contemporary mainstream media does well. Having spent years studying politics, history, and language, I find it amazing that media is able to convince people to believe conflicting narratives. The

[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