Chris Matthews, on Monday's Hardball, invited on his old boss, former President Jimmy Carter, to commiserate about the rise of the Tea Party as the two condescendingly praised the movement at first, with Matthews admitting "they're not all crazies, they're regular people" but then went on to ridicule them as dupes of the rich. After Matthews asked if the Tea Partiers realized that "they're being backed by big corporations and all this conservative money at the top," Carter responded that they had no idea that they were "suborned" by those "who don't give a darn about low-class working people" like... continue reading
Former President George W. Bush can't even put exhibits in his own presidential center without offending some leftists. New York Times reporter Michael Brick in Dallas handed some of them a megaphone to complain about the megaphone Bush used to address rescue workers from the rubble of the World Trade Center in moving fashion three days after the attacks in " Opening of Exhibit on Bush Reopens a Campus Rift ." Picking things up at paragraph three: But now Mr. Bush is bringing out the bullhorn. "Breaking New Ground: Presenting the George W. Bush Presidential Center," an exhibit set to... continue reading
Left-wing MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, on Monday's Today show, disgustingly tried to link pro-life candidates running in this year's midterm elections to the murder of abortion Dr. George Tiller, as she told Today co-host Matt Lauer "the thing that has surprised me the most is how much" Tea Party candidates were "going back to hard line...positions on abortion" and, as she plugged her upcoming documentary on Tiller, warned viewers: "I think it's important that it's airing right now because there are, there are five Senate candidates running right now who have a position on abortion that has never really been... continue reading
On Fox News Sunday, Brit Hume condemned NPR for its "howling double standard" in firing Juan Williams for expressing an opinion, a standard "manifestly not being applied to other NPR people." He forwarded the theory that "in the culture of NPR, appearing on Fox is a sin" and "for an African-American man" to "be kind of a Bill Cosby liberal, not a down-the-line liberal, is a sin as well." Hume's assessment came after host Chris Wallace read from a column in which Cokie Roberts denounced Glenn Beck as "worse than a clown. He's more like a terrorist," showed a clip... continue reading
"Why is it okay for Nina to express opinions, as she has tartly, sharply, unashamedly and openly" while serving as "an honored correspondent" for NPR, while Juan Williams, "because he expresses his opinions, gets canned from NPR?" So Charles Krauthammer demanded while sitting Friday with Totenberg on the same Inside Washington set. "In fact, the standard ought to be lower in the case of Juan because he's an analyst, whereas Nina is a correspondent." Krauthammer had picked up on NPR CEO Vivian Schiller's contention that the network had canned Williams because he violated the policy that "news analysts may not... continue reading
Prefacing his remarks by proposing "you never get into a political discussion unless you bring the word Hitler in. You have to have Hitler, so let's put Hitler out there," as if that caveat lessened the vulgarity of his impending comparison, on Friday night's Real Time actor/director/writer Rob Reiner ( IMDb page ) contended all the Tea Party needs to match Adolph Hitler is a charismatic leader: He wasn't a majority guy, but he was charismatic and they were having bad economic times - just like we are now - people were out of work, they needed jobs and a... continue reading
On Friday morning, after airing a full report on the Democratic strategy of painting Republican candidates as "dangerous" and "extreme," CBS's The Early Show co-anchor Maggie Rodriguez seemed surprised when Republican guest Eric Cantor disagreed with her view that "there is no question these Tea Party Republicans are outside the Republican mainstream," and her suggestion that next year Republican congressional leaders may be in the "tricky position" of "feeling indebted to these candidates while trying to keep them in line." And, picking up on Republican accusations of Democrats being extreme, the CBS anchor also wondered, "If these Tea Party-backed candidates... continue reading
Brian Williams touted New Jersey Governor Chris Christie as a "star" on "the rise" in the Republican Party before adding a "however" and haranguing him from left over his opposition to massive spending for a new tunnel from his state to New York, reciting as an oracle the criticism from far-left New York Times columnist Paul Krugman without ever identifying the source of the supposed wisdom beyond "the op-ed page of the New York Times." For Thursday's NBC Nightly News, Williams traveled to the Garden State to sit down with Christie. Williams contended Christie "took a big hit for saying... continue reading
Thursday's NBC Nightly News led, yes led, with a lame attempt to advance the desperate Democratic spin about the "secret fortune" going into campaign ads leading to "a return to the days before Watergate, Wild West days," a story anchor Brian Williams touted as containing "exclusive new information," but which merely passed along stale and vague generalities suggesting some sort of vast right-wing conspiracy in efforts to dare exercise the same unfettered free speech rights practiced by NBC News. "Tonight, we have exclusive new information about the enormous amount of money, a kind of secret fortune that has been flowing... continue reading
On Wednesday's CBS Evening News, correspondent John Blackstone reported on the growing influence of Latino voters, making sure to focus on Republican setbacks: "They favor Democrats over Republicans, 62 to 25 percent....in Nevada, Latinos were urged not to vote in a controversial ad....created by a conservative Latino group, seemed designed to help Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle." Blackstone went on to deride Angle's campaign: "In ads promising to get tough on illegal immigration, Angle has been accused of stereotyping Latinos and in a much-viewed video she told Hispanic students some of them looked Asian." He then turned to problems in... continue reading