Yesterday I noticed what passes for a hard-hitting editorial in the NY Times. Despite the usual boilerplate Obama excuses (“…he took office under an extraordinary burden of problems created by President George W. Bush’s ineptness and blind ideology. He has … Continue reading →
Please go to PJ for this piece of mine about the end of the press’s love affair with Obama. Did I say “the end?” To paraphrase (and invert) the famous Churchill quote: Now this is not the end. It is … Continue reading →
Jon A. Krosnick is a professor of communication, political science and psychology at Stanford University. As such, he no doubt knows how to spin a story, and he has done a bit of that in an op-ed he wrote that … Continue reading →
…that no one will believe, continuing its long slide downwards from news organization to propagandist for the left.
Continue reading →It appears we won’t have Helen Thomas to kick around any more, as the veteran White House correspondent has retired, effective immediately. And not a moment too soon. Thomas is turning 90 in August, so we can’t exactly call it … Continue reading →
…didn’t tell the Israelis to “go back to Auschwitz,” like a passenger on the Mavi Marmara told an Israeli Navy radio operator initially contacting the Turkish ship. The speaker was one of those gentle “peace activists,” no doubt. And by … Continue reading →
Perhaps you’ve already seen the video of Helen Thomas giving the Jews of Israel some decidedly unfriendly advice about just where they should go: And you’ve probably seen the calls for Hearst to fire Helen Thomas and encourage her none-too-early … Continue reading →
MoDo is puzzled by Obama’s lackluster performance lately: How does a man who invented himself as a force by writing one of the most eloquent memoirs in political history lose control of his own narrative? Let’s just start with the … Continue reading →
…because it knows it can. I don’t know if there might be any fire behind the mild amount of smoke generated so far by Sestak’s allegations that he was offered a job by the Obama administration in exchange for not … Continue reading →
When I saw the title of this Politico story—“Why reporters are down on President Obama”—I thought it would be about the press’s disillusionment with Obama’s policies as president. Not at all; silly me. It’s about the press’s disillusionment with Obama’s … Continue reading →
Here’s a long interview in the Telegraph with Obama biographer and New Yorker editor David Remnick. I already wrote about Remnick and his book here, but the interview provided a few more glimpses into the Remnick (and the general liberal/left … Continue reading →
Pigs fly, and NBC science reporter Jay Barbree is quite shaken when he notices a bold lie that Obama told. Fortunately for Obama, MSNBC’s Alex Witt jumps to the president’s defense and tries to mitigate the damage, as any good … Continue reading →