David Herszenhorn and Jackie Calmes reported on Obama’s politically calculated visit to the Tastee Sub Shop in Edison, N.J. in Thursday’s “Obama Trumpets Party’s Small-Business Bona Fides.” The paper’s political team let Obama fully sell himself as a down-home populist by completely skipping (in the print edition) the fact that Obama would be departing from down-home Edison to two glitzy fundraisers in the Times’ home town Manhattan. Obama traveled by helicopter to a fundraiser at the Four Seasons in Manhattan, then to Vogue editor Anna Wintour’s townhouse for another. Read the rest of this entry »
Times Focuses on Obama’s Populist Sub Shop Stop in NJ, Skips Glitzy Manhattan Fundraising Tour
July 30th, 2010The Enablers of Charlie Rangel
July 30th, 2010House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is the world’s worst cleaning lady. How has she fulfilled her vaunted promise to “drain the swamp” and preside over the “most ethical Congress in history”? By shrugging her shoulders, downplaying the gravity of myriad ethics charges against corruptocrat Democrat Rep. Charlie Rangel and waiting for the “political chips” to “fall where they may.” Imagine a custodial service that fixed toilet clogs by letting the overflowing waste and polluted waters “fall where they may.” Read the rest of this entry »
As Ohio Goes . . .
July 28th, 2010Early in the afternoon of a warm, midsummer Saturday, Norman Roundell sat in a lawn chair in his front yard. He sipped from a coffee mug half-full of Old Milwaukee, with a second unopened can at his feet, next to his pack of Pyramid cigarettes. His wife, Nora, sat 20 feet away on a small deck attached to their modest rambler. Their topic of discussion: Barack Obama and the economy. Read the rest of this entry »
Obama Snubs Boy Scouts’ 100th Anniversary in Favor of ‘The View’
July 27th, 2010President Barack Obama, the honorary chairman of the Boy Scouts of America, will not speak in-person before the group on Wednesday at Fort A.P. Hill in Virginia, as part of the organization’s 100th anniversary celebration. However, the president is sending a videotaped message to the scouts for Wednesday, the same day he will be in Manhattan to tape an appearance for ABC TV’s talk show “The View.” Read the rest of this entry »
Why the Left Hates Conservatives
July 27th, 2010Of all the recent revelations to come out of JournoList, an e-mail list consisting of about 400 liberal/left journalists, perhaps the most telling is the depth of their hatred for conservatives. That these journalists would consult with one another in order to protect candidate and then President Obama and in order to hurt Republicans is unfortunate and ugly. What is jolting is the hatred of conservatives on display, as exemplified by the e-mail from a public-radio reporter expressing her wish to personally see Rush Limbaugh die a painful death — and the apparent absence of any objection from her fellow liberal journalists. Read the rest of this entry »
NYT Implies Fox to Blame for Sherrod, But White House Acted Before Story Ran
July 23rd, 2010The New York Times on Thursday picked through the sordid saga of Shirley Sherrod, fired from her post at the U.S. Department of Agriculture after a clip of a speech to a gathering of a rural chapter of the Georgia NAACP appeared to show her hostility toward a white farmer seeking assistance. Read the rest of this entry »
The Democrats’ War On the American West
July 23rd, 2010‘Why do they hate us?” It’s a burning question on the minds of border-dwelling taxpayers, small-business owners, and farmers, and of Rocky Mountain oil- and gas-industry workers suffering under punitive Democratic policies. Eighteen months into the Obama administration, the war on the American West is in full swing. Read the rest of this entry »
Tom Friedman Defends ‘Complex’ Hezbollah Terror Leader Fadlallah, the Alan Alda of the Middle East
July 21st, 2010Tom Friedman stepped into a journalistic controversy in his Sunday column, “Can We Talk?” protesting CNN’s firing of senior editor of Middle East affairs Octavia Nasr for posting this message on Twitter upon the death of Hezbollah founder Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah: Read the rest of this entry »
A Mosque Grows Near Brooklyn
July 21st, 2010Since a proposal to construct a 15-story mosque and community center two blocks from Ground Zero was announced last year, the project has been a focus of widening protests. To be named Cordoba House, the project would require demolition of two buildings at 45-47 Park Place and Broadway that were damaged on 9/11. They would be replaced by a glass and steel 100,000-square-foot structure with a new address, 45-51 Park Place. Read the rest of this entry »
MSNBC’s Ratigan: Tea Party ‘Full of Crap;’ Guest Compares It to Terrorist Organization
July 19th, 2010On Friday’s Dylan Ratigan show on MSNBC, host Dylan Ratigan reported on Minnesota Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann attempting to form a congressional tea party caucus and proceeded to rant: “…the tea partiers were nowhere when it came to ending the mass extraction in Wall Street, so I think they’re actually full of crap.” Read the rest of this entry »
