An outtake from when he hosted Inside Edition a while back: Nice lingo, Billo. UPDATE: CBS has ordered YouTube to take down the video, but it can still be viewed here.
Grant Swank Goes Off The Deep End
Over at Renew America, Grant Swank shows what he’s all about in what of his best screeds ever: Muslim Michelle Obama lies for hubby Right away, we’re off to a rousing start, Michelle Obama not being a Muslim and all. But let’s stick our toe in. In a Midwest rally, Michelle Obama says her husband works for America by climbing … Read More
More On The Pre-9/11 “Safe House” Call
Dan Gilmour of the Center for Citizen Media takes journalists to task: A truly extraordinary example of journalistic malfeasance is playing out right now. Attorney General Michael Mukasey told a San Francisco audience last week that the Bush administration was aware in the days before the 9/11 attacks that an Al Qaeda official was making calls from a “safe house … Read More
Shorter Hindrocket
Shorter John Hinderaker: Sure, for years Bush as been polling in the low 30’s, but I prefer a more realistic and balanced approach to public opinion — such as this poll, which asks only questions about those few things that Bush did right, conducted by a Republican research firm.
Gibson Gone
The New York Times reports that John Gibson’s show on Fox is being pulled indefinitely. Tough week for conservative hosts (Tucker Carlson’s show was yanked from CNN earlier in the week). Perhaps their heydays are over.
You Have To Wonder….
I understand that many on the right really really really hate Islam — the entire religion — simply because of the extremist element within that religion contain some terribly bad people. But you have to wonder about a winger who is do dedicated to his anti-Islamic beliefs that he says he will commit suicide as a sign of protest against … Read More
Will O’Reilly Live Up To His Promises?
From a January 30 broadcast of The O’Reilly Factor: O’REILLY: Continuing now with "Campaign ’08." Earlier today, John Edwards dropped out of the race, as we said, but he’s still on bridge patrol. EDWARDS : I want to say to everyone here, on the way here today, we passed under a bridge that carried the interstate where 100 to 200 … Read More
Fox News Has Chyron Problems
These can’t all be accidents. When Republican congressman Mark Foley was busted for his gay teen stalking, Fox News "accidentally" put up this: When Republican Arlen Spector started grilling Alberto Gonzales and criticizing the Bush Administration, Fox News "accidentally" put up this: And yesterday, when Republican nominee (but no friend of conservatives) John McCain spoke, Fox News "accidentally" put up … Read More
Pat Boone: Modern Man
Seriously, this guy must have been big back in neanderthal times: Women shouldn’t be trained to kill, to engage in hand-to-hand combat or to risk death facing hate-crazed enemies. Now if that’s not bad enough, keep in mind that this is in the middle of an article talking about presidential nominees. Which makes me wonder what Pat actually thinks the … Read More
Hate Radio
Less than a week after Brave New Films launched a campaign against hate-radio host Michael Savage, four advertisers have pulled their ads from his radio show. The United Service Organizations (USO), however, is refusing to drop Savage and has demanded that Brave New Films “take the necessary steps to remove USO from [its] website entirely.”
Goldberg: “Conservatism Is A Mess”
I almost never agree with NRO columnist Jonah Goldberg, but I think he’s absolutely spot-on in his assessment of the conservative wing of American politics (a wing to which he belongs). A snippet: Much of this chaos is attributable to the fact that this is a very flawed field, or at least one ill-suited for the times we’re in. If … Read More
Jonah Goldberg on TDS
Even without (apparently) reading the book, Stewart pounces on some of the fundamental flaws of Goldberg’s dreadful new book Liberal Fascism: The book, whose thesis is that liberals are really fascists, is generating a lot of pixels on blogs. Some of the criticism is of the let’s-have-some-fun-with-Goldberg variety; others are quite serious takedowns (most notable, this review by Dave Neiwart … Read More
Glenn Greenwald On “Judicial Activism”
Glenn Greenwald writes the post that someone (myself included) should have written a long time ago. He skewers rightwing bloggers and pundits who bluster uncontrollably about "judicial activism". The thrust of Greenwald’s post is this: Our public discourse has taught conservatives that any time a court issues a ruling that produces an outcome that they dislike, that’s "judicial activism." But … Read More
Who’s The Dumbest Person In The World?
Today, at least, it’s Matt Barber, Cultural Director for the Concerned Women for America (yes, that’s Matt Barber and the Concerned Women for America — hee hee, we never get tried of that!) Who’s The Worst Person In The World? It’s not Osama Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. It’s not even Joseph Stalin, Pol Pot or Adolph Hitler. … Read More
The Media’s Role In Campaigns
This exchange last night between Tom Brokaw and Chris Matthews is revealing: BROKAW: You know what I think we’re going to have to do? MATTHEWS: Yes sir? BROKAW: Wait for the voters to make their judgment. MATTHEWS: Well what do we do then in the days before the ballot? We must stay home, I guess. BROKAW: No, no we don’t … Read More