Category: Media

Yes, Nate Silver is a Joke

Posted on by Matt Vespa

If you’ve ever gone on Nate Silver’s 538 Blog for The New York Times, you’ll see where reality ends, and fantasy begins. : It was more vividly displayed after the third and last presidential debate where I wrote, in a previous post,: for Hot Air that “the headline for his [Silver’s]: October 23 post: after the last presidential debate […]

 

Jonathan Chait, NY Magazine: Obama The Best Prez Evah!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Jonathan Chait has made his choice for 2012. Unsurprisingly, it’s Obama. But wait, there’s more. Chait decided to tell us exactly why he chose Obama in a recent column for New York Magazine and his reasons makes his endorsement one of the great howlers of the year. Chait tells us that Obama is one of […]

 

Obama’s Notorious ‘First Time’ Ad Ripped Off From Australia?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

You might recall the Obama political ad a few weeks ago that featured a practically unknown Hollywood “celebrity” talking about her “first time” in a video ad? The ad eventually revealed that her “first time” wasn’t her first time having sex, but was her first time voting for President. This ad was hailed as innovative […]

 

Gay SiriusXM Talker Tells Conservative Gay Caller to Commit Suicide

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Remember how liberals are the only ones tolerant of others? Well, keep that in mind as you listen to talk show host Michelangelo Signorile tell a gay caller who voted for Mitt Romney that he should take “arsenic” and commit suicide because he dared to vote for a Republican. Via our friends at Gay Patriot, […]

 

Democrat in LA Dist. Attny Race Gets Porn Star Endorsement

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Well, what could be better than getting the endorsement of a porn star if you are running for District Attorney? Nothing says “law enforcement” like getting the slut industry behind you like Democrat Los Angeles DA candidate Jackie Lacey has! I wrote about Lacey last week when I found out she had abused her position […]

 

Obama’s War on Energy is about Control

Posted on by Matt Vespa

When one thinks of energy, the thoughts about economic growth rarely come into play. : In fact, most take it for granted. : It charges our iPhones, laptops, and Kindles, but it also is the lifeblood that keeps our economy growing. : It’s also the critical element that keeps our health services running. : It allows us to channel […]

 

NPR: Romney a George Wallace ‘White Supremacist,’ GOP Women are ‘Battered’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Unfortunately, hate is the main selling point on the National Public Radio distributed Smiley & West radio show and last week we got a big dollop of bile spewed against Republicans in general and GOP nominee Mitt Romney in particular. The October 26 episode featured host Cornel West, a long-time radical lefty from Princeton, and […]

 

No, Conservatives Don’t ‘Hate’ Stephanie Cutter

Posted on by Matt Vespa

Here we go again. Those mean conservatives ganging up of a poor, helpless liberal from the Obama campaign, which happens to be the president’s deputy campaign manager. : We don’t “hate” Stephanie Cutter, which Amanda Marcotte suggested in her October 23 post on Slate’s feminist “Double X” blog. : Ok, let me walk that back — most […]

 

Texas Democrat Hazy on Which One the 2nd Amendment Is

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Many Americans wonder if members of Congress, especially the Democrats, know anything at all about the U.S. Constitution. Well, Democrat Rep. Rubén Hinojosa of Texas didn’t help quell those fears very much when at a recent rally he couldn’t even remember which one the Second Amendment was. Rep. Hinojosa was asked about the Second Amendment […]

 

Andrew Sullivan: Racist Romney Voters Like ‘The Old Confederacy’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

On the Sunday, October 28 edition of ABC’s This Week, Andrew Sullivan of The Daily Beast claimed that Obama might lose this election because the whole south is filled with racists that are somehow just like the Old Confederacy. As George Will noted, according to Sullivan all the whites that were not racist in 2008 […]

 

NCIS: Los Angeles — Of Republican Pigs and Democrat Saviors

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In chronicling the left-wing drum beat viewers are constantly subjected to by the entertainment industry we often find TV episodes that are stuffed full of anti-conservative messages and with this week’s NCIS: Los Angeles we were treated to one of the most blatant examples that has hit the airwaves in quite sometime. The October 23 […]

 

LA District Attorney Candidate Jackie Lacey’s Influence Pedaling to Avoid Consequences of Car Accident

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It seems Lacey will do or say anything for personal gain. Throughout the years Jackie Lacey has quietly perpetrated an easily-documented battle with the truth, earning the career administrator significant and sizable rewards both personal and political. On top of perjury and union-busting, it has come to this author’s attention that Jackie Lacey, the woefully […]

 

Live Action Advocate Exposes Planned Parenthood’s Botched Abortions and Cover-ups

Posted on by Matt Vespa

Lila Rose, of the Live Action Advocate, has released a video exposing Planned Parenthood’s negligence in the death of Tonya Reaves, who bled to death in a botched abortion at one of their clinics. : Additionally, the video contains recorded phone conversations with Planned Parenthood employees lying to would-be visitors about the health risks involved with […]

 

Ohio: Sen. Sherrod Brown is Stifling Big Government’s Best Friend

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Hey, Ohio, Senator Sherrod Brown is just not working. He’s one of the most extreme, left-wing Senators in Washington and his constant rubber stamping of Obama’s worst, big government boondoggles is hurting the Buckeye State’s economy, not to mention the country. I have to say, that ad is pretty funny. Senator Brown has been awarded […]

 

Nat’l Journal Warns Demos: ‘It’s Not 2008 Anymore’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Old Media establishment seems to be getting worried about Barack Obama’s reelection campaign. They see Romney surging and they are beginning to think that there may be no stopping him. So, lots of advice is being offered to the Democrats to help them come back from this tailspin. National Journal is only the latest […]

 

Frank Rich Laments: ‘Cockroach’ Tea Party Will Still Win In The End

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

One-time theater critic turned left-wing screedist, Frank Rich, is down in the dumps over that darned ol’ tea party. Far from being down and out, Rich says, the tea party is alive and well and living within the Republican Party itself. Far from being a political fringe, the tea party is still strong and in […]

 

Softening The Blow: NPR Edits Word ‘Tax’ Out of Democrat Debate Performance

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Voters do not like taxes. So, National Public Radio in New Hampshire seems to have thought it would be nice to help Maggie Hassan, the Democrat candidate for Governor, by doing a little editing work to take the word “tax” out of one of her answers at a recent candidates debate. The radio folks claimed […]

 

Putin Wins: Obama Shutting Down U.S. Pro-Democracy Radio Broadcasts in Russia

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It won’t be long before America’s voice for democracy will be silenced in Russia after the Obama administration fired most of the staff at the offices of Radio Liberty. In an effort to silence that U.S. voice for democracy, Putin’s Russia passed a new law on November 10 that makes it illegal to have radio […]

 

The NRCC Asks What do YOU Want to Tell Nancy Pelosi

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Now you have the chance to give San Fran Lib Nancy Pelosi a message — you know, the former Speaker of the House, heh, I LOVE to say former. Yes, you really have the opportunity to send Pelosi a message. And you might be lucky enough to have your message flashed onto a mobile electronic […]

 

U.S. Senate, Obama State Dept. Backing Wrong Horse in Ukraine

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In September, the U.S. Senate adopted a resolution threatening sanctions against Ukraine for the conviction and imprisonment of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, a leader of Ukraine’s opposition party. Secretary Hillary Clinton and the U.S. Department of State backed the U.S. Senate, calling for Tymoshenko’s immediate release. But just this month, even the jailed PM’s […]

 

Ed Schultz Now Claiming that He ‘Coached’ VP Biden on Ignorant Debate Style

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

After the vice presidential debates, MSNBC’s Ed Schultz proved once again why he is the clown prince of the whole MSNBC circus by taking credit for Joe Biden’s smirking, arm waving, belly laughing, constantly interrupting style of “debating” at the October 11 event in Kentucky. On October 13, During his little-heard radio show, Schultz somehow […]

 

Debate Moderator Crowley Lies About Obama’s Benghazi/Terrorism Lies

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

CNN’s Candy Crowley, the so-called moderator of the second presidential debate for the 2012 elections, misled 60 million viewing Americans in the debate when she wrongfully sided with Obama against Mitt Romney when Romney maintained that Obama refused to call the attacks on our Libyan embassy an act of terror in his Rose Garden address […]

 

In panel discussion on Ledbetter, liberals ignore shortchanging amongst Democrats

Posted on by Matt Vespa

On October 11, The Federalist Society held a panel discussion at The National Press Club on Lilly Ledbetter (who lost her pay discrimination case in the Supreme Court because she failed to comply with a statutory deadline) and the media’s oversimplification of gender issues. : It featured Jennifer Braceras, a columnist and former Commissioner for the […]

 

Politico Hires Name-Calling Journo Fired From Yahoo!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In the world of journalism, no bad deed goes unrewarded. Take the case of former Washington bureau chief for Yahoo! News, David Chalian. You may recall that he was fired after he was heard saying during the Republican National Convention that Republicans were “happy to have a party with black people drowning.” He may have […]

 

Biden Unhinged in VP Debate, while Ryan exuded self-control

Posted on by Matt Vespa

Last night’s Vice Presidential debate did put more pressure on Vice President Biden, who was tasked with delivering the same old progressive talking points about taxes, foreign policy, abortion, and health care — albeit with a little more spiritedness. : However, the pervasive grinning, smiling, and interrupting came off as egregiously arrogant and condescending. : Biden conveyed […]

 

NYTimes: Libya Attack Discussion is the Republican’s Fault?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Surprising to no one, The New York Times agrees with the absurd spin from team Obama that the only reason anyone is talking about the Obama administration’s week worth of lies about the attacks on our embassy in Libya — attacks that resulted in the deaths of four Americans, one of them our own ambassador […]

 

Did Steven Spielberg Say the GOP is Just Like the Slave Holding South?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

As he unveiled his epic new movie based on Abraham Lincoln’s civil war era presidency, Steven Spielberg said he doesn’t want his film to become a “political football” in today’s presidential election. But as he talked about it further, it seemed as if he went on to say that today’s Republican party is somehow just […]