"Today's Tea Party adherents are George Wallace legacies," the Washington Post's Colby King charged in his weekly Saturday column, maintaining "they have been culturally conditioned to believe they are entitled to do whatever they want, and to whomever they want, because they are the 'real Americans,' while all who don't think or look like them are not" and so, "without folks like them, there would be no Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity or Pat Buchanan." King, the Post's deputy editorial page editor from 2000 to 2007 who in 2003 won the Pulitzer Prize for "distinguished commentary," began the column,... continue reading
In the midst of liberals condemning the tone of anti-Obama conservatives, Bill Maher on Friday pointed to a vulgar and sexually-explicit text message Tiger Woods reportedly sent, which promised aggressive sexual behavior, as representing the attitude Democrats should adopt from the "lying bullies of the right." Maher quoted from Woods: "I want to treat you rough, throw you around, spank and slap you and make you sore....I'm going to tell you to shut the f**k up while I slap your face and pull your hair for making noise." Maher declared that "perfectly represents the attitude the Democrats should now have... continue reading
Last week when President Barack Obama cited an impossible "three thousand percent" price reduction and referred to a woman who "upped her deductible...to the minimum," ABC's World News didn't utter a syllable about it, but in a Friday story on Sarah Palin headlining a John McCain campaign event in Arizona, ABC's David Wright found it somehow newsworthy to remind viewers Palin made verbal miscues in 2008 - as if those are what doomed McCain's presidential campaign. Noting that McCain plucked Palin "pretty much out of obscurity in the frozen tundra," but now she "has all but eclipsed" McCain in national... continue reading
CNN commentator Jack Cafferty predictably revisited his Palin Derangement Syndrome on Friday's Situation Room, hours after the former Alaska governor made a campaign appearance for Senator John McCain for his re-election bid. Cafferty used the "Caribou Barbie" label often used by the left, and blamed Palin for polarizing the American people. The CNN personality, who devoted 35% of his "Cafferty File" segments over a month period in 2008 to bashing the former Republican vice presidential candidate, couldn't resist devoting his 5 pm Eastern commentary to Palin's Friday appearance with McCain in Arizona. After getting out of the way the obligatory... continue reading
On Monday, MSNBC host David Shuster insisted Democrats would never stoop to Nazi analogies: "[W]henever we asked Democratic leaders, 'Look, do you support using a Hitler moustache on a poster of George W. Bush?' Every single time, they said 'Absolutely not, we do not approve of that. We want, of course, we want people to protest. But not like that.'" Shuster should take a nice look at the MSNBC archives - for Hardball on March 4, 2005. Sen. Robert Byrd compared Senate Republicans to Hitler for opposing the unprecedented use of the filibuster against Bush judicial nominees. Chris Matthews and... continue reading
Good Morning America's weatherman and resident environmental alarmist Sam Champion on Friday promoted Earth Hour 2010, a call for people to sit in the dark at 8:30pm local time on Saturday and reflect on global warming. Champion enthused, "So, tomorrow night at 8:30, you can turn your lights off and join people around the world as they say 'Hey, we simply care and that climate change is something we want to make a statement about.'" To make the concept very clear, the weatherman (see file photo at right) repeated, "That statement is simply that you care." Of course, Champion and... continue reading
On Friday's CBS Early Show, news reader Betty Nguyen continued the media barrage against the Catholic Church and Pope Benedict as she proclaimed: "They are circling the wagons at the Vatican , defending the Pope amid new charges that he helped cover up cases of sexual abuse when he was a cardinal." In the report that followed, correspondent Allen Pizzey treated the Holy Father like a corrupt politician: "The abuse scandal, highlighted with pictures of the Pope, glared from the front pages of every major newspaper in Italy today. And in a clear sign of just how much trouble Benedict... continue reading
Introducing a report on passage of the ObamaCare reconciliation bill on Friday's CBS Early Show, co-host Maggie Rodriguez referred to a couple upcoming rescue stories on the show and cheerfully remarked: "And speaking of rescues, the Democrats have rescued health care reform, once on death's door, after putting the final touches, finally, on the sweeping legislation yesterday." At the top of the show, co-host Harry Smith proclaimed: "Health care reform is a done deal after Democrats in Congress make final changes to the historic legislation." In the later report by correspondent Nancy Cordes, an on-screen headline read: "Done Deal; Obama... continue reading
Good Morning America's David Wright on Friday ominously warned that Sarah Palin's "tactics," which include encouraging conservatives to politically "reload" and putting cross-hairs over Democrats she wishes to see defeated, "may backfire." Wright vaguely explained that this was " after several congressmen received death threats this week. " However, Wright didn't specifically mention that Republican Congressman Eric Cantor had a bullet shot through his office this week. He also ignored the threats received by GOP Representative Jean Schmidt . In fact, Good Morning America didn't cover these developments at all. On Thursday, GMA eagerly played up violent warnings against Democratic... continue reading
An evening after all three broadcast network newscasts led by advancing the Democratic narrative of violent ObamaCare critics, a storyline intended to discredit conservatives as all gratuitously named Sarah Palin as a culprit, on Thursday night the same programs weren't so interested and only stumbled into the suddenly "bipartisan" victims - despite fresh revelations of threats and violence aimed at Republicans who voted no. "It's getting ugly as anger over health care reform erupts into some over-the-top rhetoric," Brian Williams announced at the top of Wednesday's NBC Nightly News, arguing "the debate over health care reform has gone too far... continue reading