Category: Media

Instead of Watching Embassies Burn Obama Watches Football Last Weekend

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

We are told that President Obama watched a lot of football this weekend. I guess it was more fun than attempting to deal with our embassies burning in the Middle East and our soldiers being killed in Afghanistan. The newsflash is courtesy of Amy Gardner’s twitter feed. Gardner, the White House reporter for the Washington […]

 

Joe Klein Desperate to Change Debate From Obama’s Foreign Policy Failures

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

As our embassies burn and our foreign officers are being murdered overseas, TIME Magazine’s Joe Klein is desperate to change the current narrative of Obama’s major failures in the Middle East. So, in his latest piece, Klein wants to go back to talking about Mitt Romney’s Massachusetts healthcare policies. Who can blame Klein for trying […]

 

Happy Birthday Occupy Wall Street

Posted on by Matt Vespa

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 […]

 

Why is the EPA Funding a Private Newspaper?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Environmental Protection Agency has been indulging its inner propagandist by spending at least $3.5 million to float newspaper that is purportedly “reporting” on the EPA’s pet issues. Unfortunately for the readers of this newspaper, the fact that the EPA is its sugar daddy is never told the reading public. So much for an independent […]

 

CNN Hides Facts: Cairo Riots Not About ‘Offensive’ American Movie, But Freedom of Blind Sheik The Goal

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Just before the crowd in Cairo, Egypt erupted in violence against the U.S. embassy there, CNN’s cameras were in the capital interviewing protesters who said that the main purpose for their protest was to have Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman (known as the ‘Blind Sheik’) released from a U.S. prison. Yet as soon as the riots began, […]

 

HuffPo Contributor: ‘Why Should I Care’ About Death of Ambassador Stevens

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Huffington Post contributor Sharmine Narwani took the occasion of the murder of our ambassador to Libya to launch into an anti-American diatribe that culminated in her asking why she is supposed to care about Ambassador Chris Stevens’ death or that of the other two killed with him. Sharmine Narwani, who is also a correspondent for […]

 

Maryland State Dems Claim Fundraising on 9/11 Is ‘Patriotic’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Here on the 11th Anniversary of the attacks that took some 3,000 American lives on September 11th, 2001, a pair of Maryland State Democrats are throwing fundraisers. If that isn’t bad enough, one of them even said it is “patriotic” to hold a fundraiser on the anniversary of the day we were so brutally attacked. […]

 

Media Blackout: GAO Says Obama’s Welfare Waivers Illegal

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

On Sept. 4, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) made a startling assertion saying that Obama circumvented the law when he summarily waived the work requirements in the welfare law. Perhaps not as shocking, to date, few news outlets seem interested in the story. In its Sept. 4 letter, the GAO found that Health and Human […]

 

Gawker’s Soft Peddling Pedophilia

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

-By Warner Todd Huston Recently, Gawker.com, a left-leaning and sometimes profane general interest website, posted a story that makes excuses for child rape, calling it an “orientation” instead of a crime and stating that raping children is “a sexual relationship,” as opposed to the violation that it truly is. The piece entitled, “Born This Way: […]

 

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

Posted on by Matt Vespa

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

Posted on by Matt Vespa

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] […]

 

NBC’s Absurdly Rosy Jobs Reporting

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Friday morning’s Today show on NBC did its best to paint the most rosy scenario possible on Obama’s latest dismal jobs report. Attempting to inoculate Obama from this economic downturn, host Matt Lauer said that analysts he had “been reading” claimed that the economy will add up to 12 million new jobs, “no matter who […]

 

Actress Kyra Segdwick On Hollywood’s Mistake: Ignoring Midwest

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Actress Kyra Sedgwick might be tempting fate in Hollywood with a recent interview on the Tavis Smiley show on PBS where she scolded her industry for ignoring the great middle of the country. Sedgwick was on the show discussing her recently concluded series The Closer on TNT and noted that the show was a great […]

 

HuffPo Scolds Dems for ‘Caving’ On Reinsertion of God and Jerusalem Into Platform

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It might appear odd, but Huffington Post seems to be scolding the Democrats for having “caved in” to pro-religion and pro-Israel forces in the Democrat Party for succeeding in having God and Jerusalem put back into the Democrat Party platform after they were removed earlier today. Clearly proving that there is a great division in […]

 

The Democracy Alliance: Soros-Linked Liberal Super Group & Its Secret Funding of Democrats

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Washington Free Beacon has undertaken a series of reports that are important for anyone interested in a follow-the-money investigation of one of the biggest influences on today’s Democrat Party. This is a hard-core group of far left extremists holding the Democrats purse strings and is called the Democracy Alliance. It is a George Soros-sponsored […]

 

The Atlantic Says GOP Leader Hopes Minorities Don’t Vote, But He Didn’t Say That at All

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Atlantic illicitly portrayed GOP House Speaker John Bohner as saying that he “said out loud he hopes blacks and Latinos ‘won’t show up’ this election,” but a look at what Boehener actually said proves that The Atlantic is purposefully misleading its readers. In its headline, The Atlantic Wire story for August 27 screams, “Boehner […]

 

Now Even The Word ‘Chicago’ Is Racist!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In our new media era where everything said, thought, or alluded to is “racist,” we can now add the word “Chicago” to that growing-by-the-minute list of words that are now to be considered racial slurs. Thanks to MSNBC’s resident “biggest jerk in the room,” Chris Matthews, we now know that just saying Chicago makes you […]

 

CNN’s ‘A Team’ Rather Do Hurricane Coverage Than RNC Convention

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Something interesting to note about the front half of this week’s coverage of the news over at CNN is that the network’s A team reporters — Soledad O’Brien and Anderson Cooper — have for the most part eschewed the GOP convention preferring to stand in the winds of hurricane Isaac rather than be faced with […]

 

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

Posted on by Matt Vespa

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 […]

 

Left Said Right’s Linking Katrina to God was Terrible But Left Linking Isaac to God is Fine

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In 2005 after hurricane Katrina hit the gulf coast like a sledgehammer, several folks on the right side of America’s political aisle suggested that the devastation the storm inflicted on New Orleans was somehow a punishment imposed on the city by God. Most on the right condemned the remarks. The left, of course, went apoplectic […]

 

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

Posted on by Matt Vespa

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 […]

 

Brit Columnist: We Hated Bush But Obama’s Just as Bad

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Left-wing, British columnist Owen Jones was not a fan of George W. Bush, it seems. While this is no surprise for as screaming a left-winger as Jones, what is a surprise is that he has decided that President Obama is no real improvement over the “repulsive” Bush. In a recent column in The Independent, Jones […]

 

WaPo Uncovers ‘Vast White Wing Conspiracy’

Posted on by Matt Vespa

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 […]

 

CNN’s Important GOP Convention News: Strippers Readying for Convention

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

CNN has a habit of getting to the real meat of a story, finding all the most important angles, and its coverage of the GOP convention is no exception. CNN has a reputation to burnish by finding only the most important convention stories and with its latest story about how an important sector of Tampa […]

 

Frmr Sec of State Madeleine Albright Says Her Bush Hate Lasts Forever

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Obama-pushing former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has at last revealed when Obama will stop blaming George W. Bush for every ill of our day. Never! At least that is what she told attendees at an Obama rally in Highlands Ranch, Colorado this week. Albright was speaking to a small audience of Obama supporters and […]

 

Liberal Math = Todd + Akin = Entire GOP

Posted on by Matt Vespa

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 […]

 

Ryanitis: Dowd Loses Her Delicately Balanced Mind in Ryan Fearmongering

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Usually I don’t write much about wholly meaningless people, but on Saturday, August 18, New York Times screedist Maureen Dowd turned in a particularly unhinged performance that just screams to be discussed. It might also scream that MoDowd’s Ryanitis is at such an advanced case of virulence that she might just need professional help to […]

 

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

Posted on by Matt Vespa

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 […]

 

Apologize! Boston Globe Slams VP Biden Over ‘Chains’ Remark

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Last week the talk of the news cycle centered on yet another “gaffe” by Vice President Joe Biden. In front of an audience half filled with African Americans Biden made the outrageous claim that Republicans want to put blacks “back in chains.” Many left-wingers and Democrats rushed out to defend Biden’s idiocy, but this weekend […]