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Don’t take that tone of voice with me, mister! The new rule for political debate and news coverage.

Ace posted about how Mika Brezinksy not only dutifully spun the White House line immediately upon receiving an email correction, but went above and beyond the call of duty by “absolving the White House from any bad behavior regarding Fox News at all.” Watch, then keep reading:

“A very calm and understated manner.”
Got that? That’s the [...]

Deny, deny, deny. Then deny some more.

Cover of A Guide for the Married Man

Theblogprof has some fun ridiculing the MSM for being taken in by the real fake protesters (or is it the fake real protesters?) at the healthcare townhalls. (Trust me, neither “real fake” nor “fake real” is an oxymoron in this case.)
While the MSM does, as the good professor [...]

When iconic images collide . . .

Well, in this case, the end result seems rather obvious.

Think they’ll stop complaining now that the white face is gone? Nah, me either.
UPDATE: I changed the original Joker image to include the “Socialism” caption. I’m still catching up  on my  reading about this, and didn’t realize the caption was part of the original artwork. Speaking [...]

Hilarious: big lefty Alec Baldwin complains of elitist media mindset

So, you’ve probably heard about Jack Cafferty questioning Alec Baldwin’s qualifications for public office. Cafferty wrote at his CNN blog:
Baldwin’s credentials are questionable… but Al Franken is no slouch. He’s Harvard educated and one of his first duties will be as a committee member for the confirmation hearing of Sonia Sotomayor next week.
Alec Baldwin is [...]

Cold Fury, indeed!

Mike at Cold Fury is plenty pissed at Palin’s slanderers. He recognizes we can’t take the bullshit attacks lying down, because that will only encourage more of them. Some people might call this a temper tantrum, but I think it is a call to arms that should be heeded:
Sue them, bankrupt them, ruin their lives, [...]

One army for which I have no respect

The OKA. A phrase well-coined (apparently) by Clyde at The Patriot Room.

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Sanford may get lucky again

No, not that kind of lucky, as in “I hope you get lucky!” The kind of lucky that has one of the world’s most famous sex symbols and the world’s most famous accused pedophile and plastic surgery victim die the day after you announce your affair, thus bumping your admission out of the most-written about [...]

Sarah Palin’s Detractors Explained

I like Sarah Palin a lot. I’m not sure I’d support a presidential run, and I worry that she was too gravely wounded in the 2008 election to recover, especially in time for 2012. But I do love her not just for her values, but for her ability to bring out the worst (or the [...]

A respite from coverage of the freak

For anyone else sick of the coverage of the freak, there’s a nice slide show of Farrah Fawcett here. (Hat tip: American Power)
Let’s talk a little about my use of the word “freak.” I don’t say it with gusto, nor do I say it with venom. Well, not venom for Michael Jackson, anyway. I say [...]

Et tu, Fox News?

To my great disappointment, the coverage of Michael Jackson’s life and death has been as all-consuming on Fox News as it has been on the other news channels. One reporter referred to him as “Michael” this morning. That’s probably been rather common, but I haven’t kept the TV tuned there long enough to know.
I’m irked, [...]

You want relentless? Here’s your relentless.

Maybe I’ve been remiss in not following the whole Letterman-Palin flap. Maybe it didn’t interest me too much because — without knowing the details of what happened, admittedly — I was afraid conservative commentators were making too big a deal out of it.
Apparently, there are people who just are not going to let this thing [...]

Ever wonder why reporting on environmental issues seems so nonsensical?

If the caption accompanying the below photo in our newspaper is any indication, it is because journalists reporting on environmental issues are wearing a pemanent pair of beer goggles, finding beauty where there is none.  Here’s what the paper called “a meandering arroyo and a sustainable landscape of flowering, drought-tolerant native or Mediterranean plants”:

If that looks to [...]

Digging up biases is not the same as a personal attack; why the lefty coordination to investigate Obama critics’ backgrounds doesn’t piss me off

When I read this post a American Glob about lefty groups coordinating with each other to investigate Obama critics, I was prepared to be pissed off.  The post’s title said the groups were “digging for dirt” on Obama’s critics, and the quotes from the referenced Politico piece seemed to imply a rather nefarious scheme to expose [...]

Stop trying to mitigate what Rush said and embrace it instead

Image by Getty Images via Daylife
Patterico has a poll of sorts up, asking people to answer this question in the comments to his post (yes, with bullets AND numbers!):
However, when [Rush Limbaugh] says “I want Obama to fail,” what did he mean? His line could have meant one of two things:

1. Rush opposes President Obama’s [...]

A slip of the pen at MSNBC

I was caught by surprise by MSNBC’s blunt headline on its article concerning Nancy Pelosi’s audience with Pope Benedict: Pope to Pelosi: Catholics cannot back abortion.  But something in the first paragraph of the article really caught my eye.
Pope Benedict, underscoring the Vatican’s ruling on an issue that divides Americans, told U.S. House Speaker Nancy [...]

The “Obameter” – Change you can keep track of

The St. Petersburg Times has started a page at its PolitiFact site for tracking President Obama’s progress (or lack thereof) on campaign promises.  The Obameter’s ambitious mission:
PolitiFact has compiled about 500 promises that Barack Obama made during the campaign and is tracking their progress on our Obameter. We rate their status as No Action, In [...]

This is why you need to be skeptical . . .

Remember how we conservatives were so upset when Democrats labeled increased spending as “cuts” merely because the increase in a budget was not as big as expected or asked for?  Huh?  Remember that?
Looks like our side may have been guilty of the same thing regarding the defense budget.
Big difference, though.  Whereas the shameless Left will [...]

Inaugural crowd “guesstimates”

What’s a million or so people between friends?  Quite a bit, actually.
The estimates of the number of people who witnessed President Barack Obama’s inauguration on Tuesday range from a high of 1.8 million to a low of 800,000.
Arizona State University Journalism professor Stephen Doig is responsible for the lower figure.
“My job as a journalist is [...]

Turning skepticism on and off like a light . . .

Our lefty friends keep telling us that the only biased media outlet is Fox News. Everyone else stands for truth, justice, and the American way
So how do you explain a Washington Post columnist who, after eight years of savaging President Bush, wonders out loud if he should be as skeptical of a President Obama?
Honestly, they [...]

Again, the Religious Left misses the point, and will get a complete pass.

I really don’t like the religious left, for the same reason I don’t like the Left generally.  Missing the obvious, twisting history and religion, dishonest (or honest but stupid) criticism are their hallmarks.  But at least I have a faith in common with them . . . which makes their alliance with secular lefties all [...]

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