Olbermann leaves Kos
Keith Olbermann, criticized at Kos for his rare putdown of Obama the other night, takes his ball and goes home. What’s the big surprise—did he fail to study his French Revolutionary history?
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Watch the rats leave the sinking ship: Olbermann, et al, on the President’s oil spill speech
Please watch this video response to the president’s oil spill speech. I believe that commenter “chemman” at Hot Air has summed it up best: I think a rogue worm-hole momentarily transported us to an alternate reality. Visit msnbc.com for breaking … Continue reading →
Pigs fly, and the Times chides Obama on the oil spill
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 →
The press and Obama: where’s that lovin’ feeling?
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 →
Apparently, the MSM coverup of Climategate has worked
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 →
Reuters makes excuses…
…that no one will believe, continuing its long slide downwards from news organization to propagandist for the left.
Continue reading →Helen Thomas retires
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 →
Well, at least Helen Thomas…
…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 →
Helen Thomas and the Polish homeland of the Jews
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 →
Maybe Maureen Dowd should start reading Jack Cashill
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 →
The White House stonewalls on Sestak…
…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 →
Obama: the press’s abusive lover
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 →