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Progressive Utopia In Bloom

If the world and the humans inhabiting it were evolving towards the positive, I believe I would be more supportive of progressives. But near as I can tell in my 47 years, man is not generally predisposed to good. Sure, … Continue reading

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Regarding The Media

The press’s job is to stand in the ramparts and protect the liberty and freedom of all of us from a government and from organized governmental power.  When they desert those ramparts and decide that they will now become active … Continue reading

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Olympics, Romney, And A Dying Press

Remember back in the day, when Mitt Romney was vilified in the press for having the temerity to comment critically on the London Olympics? “It’s hard to know just how well it will turn out.  There are a few things … Continue reading

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Shameless and Shameful: Andrea Mitchell

It was bad when she aired the selectively edited Romney tapes. But Andrea Mitchell’s non-apology when airing the whole tape spoke volumes about her obvious bias and the absence of professionalism. I don’t have a problem with opinion or editorial … Continue reading

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The Slow Death of Mainstream Media

From The Deacon’s Bench at Patheos: I’m tired.  Truly.  I’ve grown weary of trying to defend the indefensible and explain the inexplicable.  For years, people have stomped their feet and pounded their fists and snorted “Liberal media bias!” and I’ve … Continue reading

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The Media Is Corrupt

Of course, you knew that. “No longer can they be called objective journalists. They’re playing for the other side.”  -Andrew Breitbart MSNBC gleefully trotted out a doctored, edited slam on Mitt Romney. Dubbed “Wawagate,” it used his words out of … Continue reading

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Dear Juan Williams

Dear Juan Williams: I am nobody. Yes, I am a “blogger,” but not really. I’m just some schlub who bought a URL, paid for hosting, installed WordPress and started news aggregation of stories he likes and politics he agrees with. … Continue reading

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Chart-Fu

From Business Insider: HOLY CRAP: Look What Just Happened To Newspapers! And just in case you thought that TV Media was faring better.

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Shamelessly Worshiping in the Cult of Personality

Maureen Dowd had an absolutely marvelous piece on Obama in Sunday’s NY Times, titled, “Dreaming of a Superhero.” Seriously. On Friday, an ugly job market report led to the stock market’s worst day of the year. As the recovery flat-lined, … Continue reading

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Obama’s Religion: Off Limits. Romney’s Religion: Fair Game.

This past weekend we saw the Obama Campaign attack Mitt Romney for an unaffiliated ad campaign that was going to go after Obama’s association with Reverend Wright, the hush money he was offered, and the personal visit from Obama telling … Continue reading

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LA Times Upset by Correspondents Dinner

The liberal stalwart Los Angeles Times went to the mat outraged by shots taken at their Icons: Host Jimmy Kimmel joked that Current TV failure and toxic TV liberal host Keith Olbermann had “more pink slips than Marcus Bachmann,” prompting … Continue reading

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Hard Truth for the Media

Teresa in Ft Worth brings the truth to the media over at RedState: An uncomfortable truism of the free market is that there are ALWAYS other choices. And consumers tend to go with the “brands” that they know they can … Continue reading

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President Obama slow jammin’ the news. Seriously. HotAir has a take. Legal Insurrection also takes a shot, comparing Obama’s performance to Romney’s Victory speech. And Ace points out that our arrogant narcissist of a President is starting to get irritated … Continue reading

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Obama in Rolling Stone

Obama is counting on votes from kids young enough to not remember his promises broken, or embarrassed at voting for him (because they were too young). The President did an interview in Rolling Stone magazine that’s light on issues and … Continue reading

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As if we’d believe them now: NY Times Pledges ‘Unbiased Political Reporting’ Does it take a psychic to see the result will be “Hey, this Obama guy is A-OK!”

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If I Wanted America To Fail

HT Ace of Spades HQ

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Robinson Doubles Down: Civility for Thee, But Not for Me

Eugene Robinson has a particularly polarizing and divisive piece up at the Washington Post. After the anti-war movement and the left spent 6 years vilifying and threatening GW Bush, after the left viciously attacked Sarah Palin, after the media parroted … Continue reading

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Remembering Andrew

The following is the Complete Transcript of Andrew Breitbart’s Speech at CPAC 2012 (emphasis mine): [Added:] Video at Youtube I’m looking for you, you Occupy Freaks with your glitter bombs. Bring it on! Bring on the glitter. Everything has changed. … Continue reading

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Fox Mole Terminated

From the Houston Chronicle: The network said Joe Muto, who worked on “The O’Reilly Factor” and said he had been working at Fox News since 2004, was identified and fired. Fox said it was “continuing to explore legal recourse against … Continue reading

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