Author: Matt Vespa

Matt Vespa is a conservative blogger based in Virginia. Besides contributing to Right Wing News, Vespa writes for RedState, PJ Media, Independent Journal Review, and his personal blog Noodle Pundit. He's also the 2013 recipient of American for Prosperity Foundation's Andrew Breitbart Award For Excellence In Online Activism and Investigative Reporting

Obama Skirts Another Executive Duty To Pander to ‘The View’

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In the wake of a rather tragic and tumultuous events regarding American foreign policy in the Middle East, President Barack Obama plans to forego the opportunity for a one-on-one meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his visit to the UN this week.:  The reason is simple.:  It just could not wait. The president […]

 

U.S. Drops to 18th in Economic Freedom

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If you’re a Canadian, you should be happy. : Our friendly neighbors to the north are riding high with their recent placement on the Economic Freedom chart at number five. : Meanwhile, the United States dropped ten spots to number eighteen on the scale. : Gateway Pundit: posted about this story: on September 19 citing The National Post which reported […]

 

The Hill Cites Squishy Republicans To Portray GOP as ‘Alarmed’

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The media’s ongoing contribution to the Obama reelection effort is fairly obvious: omit or downplay news stories and polling data that cast the Obama administration in a negative light while hyping trivial Romney gaffes or media-manufactured tempests-in-teapots: in order to focus the election narrative on the Republican candidate’s deficiencies — real or or imagined – rather […]

 

PBS Anchor Gwen Ifill Touts Pro-Obama Polls, Dismisses Mideast Violence As a ‘Dust Up’

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On the September 19 broadcast of the PBS Newshour, anchor Gwen Ifill discussed the latest polls with Pew’s Andrew Kohut and Mark Blumenthal, “senior polling analyst” of The Huffington Post. : Her talk about voter engagement and enthusiasm got a little hazy — if not completely insensitive — when she referred to last week’s embassy attacks […]

 

CNN Anchor Tells Citizens United President David Bossie You Can’t Judge OWS By ‘Worst Members’

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With Occupy Unmasked being released today in select theaters, the September 21 edition of CNN’s Early Start with Zoraida Sambolin invited David Bossie, producer of the film and President of Citizens United to discuss the film.:  However, things got hazy towards the end of the interview where Sombolin shamelessly tried to convey the narrative that […]

 

Happy Birthday Occupy Wall Street

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It’s Occupy Wall Street’s first birthday. : Occupy: was supposed to address the frustration and anger of the 99%: is probably one of the largest operations in political astroturfing in American history. : I’ll let Andrew Breitbart and his team explain the rest when: Occupy Unmasked: comes out later this Fall. However, even if it’s astroturf, Occupy was an outlet for […]

 

Updated: Not ‘Two Decades’ After All… Lilly Ledbetter Deceived DNC, Knew Of Her Pay Disparity Since 1992

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It appears that not only is Lilly Ledbetter ignoring Senate Democrats who pay their female staffers less, but her claim that for “two decades” she didn’t know she was being shortchanged is patently false. : Hans Bader, Senior Attorney at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, emailed me his piece on Lilly Ledbetter’s speech — where he says: “it’s […]

 

Gawker Wants Us to ‘Sympathize’ with Pedophiles

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Cord Jefferson’s: September 7 column: on Gawker should churn your stomach. : He wrote about how some consider pedophilia a sexual orientation and how it deserves public sympathy. : The first sentence stopped me cold — “it’s not easy to listen to Terry talk about the time he had sex with a seven-year-old girl.” It started with him [Terry] […]

 

Obama Needs to Stop Saying ‘I Am GM, Hear Me Roar’

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If I have to hear left-wingers touting the “success” of the auto bailout one more time, I might as well toss a chair through my window. : It’s patently false to say that the auto bailout was a success. : Furthermore, it was more of an United Auto Workers union bailout than it was for the auto […]

 

Have The ‘Thought Police’ Arrived At Providence College?

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The bias police have arrived at Providence College. They may not be wearing brown shirts or steel tipped boots, but the school will have a “Bias Response Protocol (BRP) that will be enacted this upcoming semester. The story behind the creatin of this new protocl centers on a graffiti incident that allegedly had racial overtones. […]

 

MSNBC’s Schultz and Sharpton Falsely Claim Janesville Plant Closed Under President Bush to Slam Ryan

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During MSNBC’s August 29 GOP Convention coverage, Ed Schultz and Al Sharpton made patently false remarks during their post-speech commentary of Rep. Paul Ryan. Congressman Ryan was slammed concerning statements he made about the closure of the Janesville General Motors plant.:  Rep. Ryan reiterated that President Barack Obama promised to keep the plant open, but […]

 

Updated: Save for Gov. Nikki Haley, MSNBC Omits Coverage From Minority Speakers at ‘Racist’ RNC Convention

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Update/Correction: MSNBC aired South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s speech. Haley is Indian-American. A: funny thing happened on race-obsessed MSNBC tonight. The liberal network failed to give viewers coverage of the speakers who happen to be member of racial minorities. : As Francesca Chambers, Editor of Red Alert Politics,: reported on August 28th: When popular Tea Party candidate Ted […]

 

WaPo Uncovers ‘Vast White Wing Conspiracy’

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If you’re a conservative poll watcher on Election Day, you’re probably a racist! That’s essentially the charge leveled in an August 25 Washington Post-published article by AJ Vicens and Natasha Kahn of the News21 Carnegie-Knight Initiative.:  Entitled, “True the Vote and other poll watchers motives questioned,” Kahn and Vicens opened their article by noting the […]

 

Cook Report Renders Final Judgement, Akin Unelectable

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According to Gateway Pundit, the Cook Report labeled Akin “unelectable,” clearing the way for a second term for Democratic incumbent Claire McCaskill. : Pundit wrote: In four days Cook Political has moved the Missouri Senate race from: “solid Republican”: to“toss up”: to: “likely Democrat”: to: “unelectable”. Cook Political: Report has declared Todd Akin “unelectable” and moved the 2012 U.S. senate race in Missouri […]

 

Liberal Math = Todd + Akin = Entire GOP

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MSNBC’s Chuck Todd thinks Mitt Romney is to blame for the Akin meltdown. : Yes, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, and the entire Republican Party is responsible for what Mr. Akin said about ‘legitimate rape.’ : It’s definitely not the media’s fault. : That’s “a chicken and egg conversation,” which Todd had with Laura Ingraham on her radio show […]

 

PATHETIC! Obama’s Targeted Engagement of the Press

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The Blaze reported yesterday that the shameful KOB-FM radio interview with Obama was planned. : The Blaze’s source reported that “among the interesting tidbits: according to the message, the station did not request the interview, but was rather contacted by the president’s state campaign team.” From:: [Redacted] Date:: August 19, 2012 3:04:49 PM EDT To:: [Redacted] Subject:[Redacted] The President […]

 

Initiate Secondary Protocol? Missouri ‘Leans Democratic’ Thanks To Akin

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Since Akin’s unfortunate and avoidable gaffe, AllahPundit of HotAir reported yesterday that the Cook Report has moved Missouri from ‘toss-up’ to ‘leans Democratic.’ : As I’ve said before, if we do not have a Republican congress this year, it’ll be because Todd Akin was too proud to step aside. : Ignoring the words of the presumptive Republican […]

 

Barack Obama Flees From..Chris Matthews??

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Why is Obama so scared of his most supportive constituency? : No, I’m not talking about African-Americans (waiting on: Touré in 3..2..1.), but the media. : Obama was the media’s golden boy. : A person who could do no wrong in the White House. : AllahPundit of HotAir posted today the possible reasons why Obama is fleeing from the media […]

 

Ms.Christine O’Donnell, Occupy vs. Tea Party Isn’t Your Idea!

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Christine O’Donnell was a witch and now she’s a thief! : The failed Delaware Republican senate candidate has announced she will be hosting an Occupy vs. Tea Party debate during her ‘Troublemaker Fest,’ which is being held the same week as the Republican National Convention. : The problem is that the idea of having two most prominent […]

 

Obama’s ‘Fast and Furious’ Evasion of The WH Press Corps

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ABC News’s Jake Tapper: noticed an interesting trend with President Obama. : He hasn’t been around to take any questions from the press lately. : In fact, he has evaded the national press corps : for more than two months. : However, as Tapper noted on his blog today, Obama did have time to talk to: “reporters from: People Magazine: and Entertainment Tonight.” […]

 

Weak Sauce! Obama Recovery Worst In American History

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Great job Barack Obama. : You’ve given us the worst economic recovery we’ve ever had in our history. : According to Guy Benson of Twonhall.com who cited The Associated Press on August 15th: The: recession: that ended three years ago this summer has been followed by: the feeblest economic recovery since the Great Depression. Since World War II, 10 U.S. […]

 

Democrats Are Pushing Grandma Off The Cliff By Ignoring Facts

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First, it’s baffling that advocating for reform of a broken system is anathema to liberals. : I’ve never met anyone who is against efficiency. Second, who cares if the right tried to ‘end medicare as we know it.’ : Emancipation from wasteful government entitlement programs is inherently moral and enhances the freedom of the American people. : However, […]

 

FACT CHECKED! Latest Democrat Attacks on Ryan Inaccurate

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Team Obama has resorted to using old budgetary analysis to slam Ryan as the destroyer of Medicare and a scourge on the American middle class. Factcheck.org analyzed what Obama’s Deputy Campaign Manager,: Stephanie Cutter, said on Face The Nation on August 12. : In that broadcast, she: said on: “It says something about Mitt Romney that he’s picking someone […]

 

WHAT! Lefty Canuck Slams Jenna Jameson

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Jenna Jameson’s epic smackdown of left-wing trolls on twitter has gone international. : The vicious proggie twitter assault began when she tweeted that George Bush never destroyed her industry on August 5th—which prompted one particular lefty to respond by saying Jameson should kill herself. : Can you feel the tolerance? : Jameson responded to the depraved tweets: with a […]

 

Goldberg Tells MSNBC’s Mitchell to Leave Georgetown Bubble, O’Reilly Wants Ted Koppel Out of ‘Semi-Retirement’

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On The August 13 broadcast of the O’Reilly Factor, Bill had regular guest Bernie Goldberg discuss Andrea Mitchell’s absurd comment that Paul Ryan isn’t a pick for “suburban moms.” : This came after Ryan claimed that rights come from God, not government, but Mitchell seemed to think these two unrelated points, when combined, made a cogent […]

 

DESPICABLE! MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts Shamefully Exploits Teen Girls to Slam Ryan Vote on Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act

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Towards the close of today’s MSNBC Live, anchor Thomas Roberts presented a segment featuring three New Jersey teenage girls who started a petition on the left-leaning Change.org website demanding female moderators for the upcoming presidential debates. : The young ladies succeeded in getting 180,000 signatures for their initiative. But rather than simply hailing their civic activism, […]

 

BUSTED! Soledad O’Brien Caught Using Left-Wing Blog to Slam Ryan

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I had a REALLY bad episode of insomnia last night, therefore, I was unable to promptly respond to a tweet sent to me by Robert Stacy McCain concerning Ali Akbar exposing CNN’s Soledad O’Brien’s latest incident in liberal media bias. : Did she use Wikipedia again? Noel Sheppard of NewsBusters said “bravo, Ali! bravo” and who […]