“Fraaa-geeee-lay. That must be Italian.”

It was a press conference pep rally: Barack Obama held a press conference the other afternoon after Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell was repealed and the liberal Senate passed START Treaty and the 9-11 Emergency Responder’s Bill.

The first reporter Caren Bohan from Reuters praised Barack Obama as “The Comeback Kid.”

It was a celebration.

Of course, the media congratulated Obama for extending the Bush tax cuts.

Even though not that long ago Obama blamed the Great Recession on those same Bush tax cuts.

But, don’t expect the media to report this. It’s not on the agenda.

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Try to count the instances of “speaking truth to power” by our stalwart White House press corps:

November 2^nd was not a pendulum swing, it was the beginning of a movement.

The activist old media and their Democrat friends act like this is just another fad that will come and go quickly—just like they saw in 2008 with their Dear Leader elected as President. Since they saw the rise and fall happen to them, then it must happen to us. Oh, their inability to see themselves is always entertaining.

When Republicans lost in 2008 there were stories everywhere about the Death of the Republican Party.  The one in Time Magazine was most enjoyable. While this article talks about the possibility of a comeback, Michael Grunwald can’t mention often enough that Republicans are an “endangered species” and even calling them the Donner Party. Who’s eating their own now?

Republicans went more conservative as a party and just completed perhaps the most amazing sweep of this nation in our lifetimes. 63 House seats, 6 Senate seats, 12 Governorships and nearly 700 State seats went Red in 2010. While repeating those numbers seems unlikely in 2012 (we’re just looking mainly at that Top Spot and a bunch of those Senate seats up for grabs), few honest observers could doubt this move to the right will continue.

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Our pals at the Media Research Center bring the Christmas cheer with a highlight reel of the year in liberal media bias.  Enjoy:

From WGEM, and the only thing funnier than their headline is the thought that WGEM likely receives a lot of ad money from the union in advertising.

It’s Christmas caroling with a message.

Wednesday night, locked out workers from Roquette America in Keokuk staged a very unique protest.

They took a break from the picket lines to go caroling outside the homes of top Roquette executives who live in Quincy.

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They took a break from the picket lines to go caroling outside the homes of top Roquette executives who live in Quincy.

The union workers have been off the job for almost three months now.

Roquette locked them out on September 28th, and contract negotiations have pretty much stalled ever since.

Are you kidding me? A caravan of 80 people to sing insults and, according to eyewitnesses, shouting “F*CK YOU” at various houses right before Christmas? This isn’t “caroling,” this is intimidation. On private property. I’m told by locals that one of the houses they visited was down a private lane of an elderly couple whose granddaughter often stays with them (and luckily wasn’t the night the union struck) – the union trespassed.

As for the carols:

It went like this, “God bless ye very wealthy men,we’re here so you can see. The workers who helped make you rich are now out on the street. You locked the doors while profits soared, how greedy could you be? Oh tidings of capital gains, oh what a shame, all you care about it capital gains.”

Yes, those evil business owners who are trying to cut costs because a president who the unions supported and donated money to is forcing business to trim costs so they can afford his massive health control law and other regulations thrown on them. If the unions are unhappy with this then perhaps then need to look at the economic situation this president has created instead of blaming skittish business owners simply trying to stay afloat in a dismal economic period. The president for whom these unions worked has created an economic environment wherein there is less discretionary money to go around, thus less demand for goods and services, thus less revenue for small business, and so on and so forth. Union members should be “caroling” the source: their union bosses. Unions have become the very thing which they were formed to fight and many good men and women (my family is predominately union) are caught up as pawns in a game played by favored fat cat union bosses who send their workers out to engage in extortion and intimidation in exchange for work. (more…)

No, not this cameo,

the one on Rap News, wherein two white dudes, one English, rhyme the day’s news into lefty spin.

I don’t get why Assange makes a window-washing move twice in the video, like it’s his only move. Come on. If you’re going to act like a rockstar you need more moves than some rehashed Rose Royce routine.

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The New York Times is all verklemmt over Justice Scalia’s involvement in a tea party seminar:

When the Tea Party holds its first Conservative Constitutional Seminar next month, Justice Antonin Scalia is set to be the speaker. It was a bad idea for him to accept this invitation. He should send his regrets.

The Tea Party epitomizes the kind of organization no justice should speak to — left, right or center — in the kind of seminar that has been described in the press. It has a well-known and extreme point of view about the Constitution and about cases and issues that will be decided by the Supreme Court.

Wait – a publication that has derided the movement is condescending to tell them who they are? The same publication that once called the movement a “minstrel show?” The movement they called racist? So were they purposefully ignorant this whole time so as to present a false characterization of the movement with the goal of persuading their readers to hate it? Or did they just now find the light? Hallelujah! It’s a Christmas miracle.

Now the NYT is terrified that somehow the tea party, so devoted to the Constitution, would influence a Supreme Court justice to be devoted … to … the Constitution. They leapfrog through reasons, trying them on, seeing which has the most affect.

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The Girls ask why the Jets are trippin’, discuss John Boehner’s “emotional” issues, and the snowman hit-and-run.

Produced and edited by Bob

Intelligence Director James Clapper was apparently previously unaware of the London terror arrests, which, when you consider that his job is to brief the President daily on national security, is sure to inspire lots of confidence in the administration. He learned about it from Diane Sawyer in this interview, around 3:40 in:

SAWYER: “I was a little surprised you didn’t know about London, Director.”

CLAPPER: “Oh, I’m sorry, I didn’t.”

Clapper’s first response was to slam Sawyer, calling her question “ambiguous.”

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I can’t wait to see the Soros elves at MMfA scramble to spin this:

Remember Glenn Beck’s fuzzy math, which calculated that 10% of Muslims are actually terrorists? Well, according to one of those WikiLeaked diplomatic cables, the man may have been wildly underestimating. At least when it comes to British Muslim students, one-third of whom “believe killing in the name of religion is justified,” according to a survey reported in the Daily Mail.

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Democrats and their media lapdogs and busy exploiting first responders in the Zadroga bill in whatever way possible to gain political advantage. Despite President Obama telling the NY delegation that he opposed funding the legislation earlier this year and waffling back and forth, Democrats and their state media have inundated America with headlines accusing the GOP of refusing to pass the Zadroga bill due to coldheartedness.

Backbone

In reality, the problem lies with Democrats refusal to cut any of their entitlement spending in order to pay for it. See, while our first responders are important to them when it’s time to issue a sound bite, they cease to occupy the same space on Dems list of priorities – which included a pork-laden omnibus bill with enough earmarks to fund the Zadroga bill many times over.

Republicans have applied the brakes due to their desire to discover and eliminate earmarks and to make sure that the heros who risked their lives for us on 9/11 actually get their money and that it’s not a repeat of Pigford.

In the Pigford fraud, as evidenced by many attorneys and original victims in the case, people who had never farmed (but expressed a desire to do so) were given the same $50,000 as someone like Jimmy Dismuke, who’d spent his entire life farming. The discrepancy is one that the GOP wishes to avoid, and surely Democrats do as well. Because “anywhere from 10-50%” of the claims are fraudulent in this just-signed settlement, says Huffington Post reporter Lee Stranahan, you can imagine the caution felt by some on the right in entering this legislation. Yes, those who risked their lives for America may be eligible for care but you have to wonder: if it’s as important as Democrats say it is, then why would they oppose safeguards to make sure that those who need help aren’t looted out of it by shysters?

This bill has languished in congress for awhile now. Democrats passed a $26 billion-dollar EduJobs teachers’ union bailout before this. They passed a failed stimulus before this. They passed DADT before this. They debated the Omnibus with billions of dollars of earmarks before this. All of these things apparently infinitely more pressing than helping first responders, which, now that the cameras are on, is suddenly important to the left. When Democrats had the chance to turn it into action they compromised themselves by choosing a procedure that impeded their ability to shove it through.

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… thy name is Julian Assange:

He accused his media partners at The Guardian newspaper, which worked with him to make the embarrassing leaks public, of unfairly tarnishing him by revealing damaging details of the sex assault allegations he faces in Sweden.

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Mr Assange said he had enough material ready to destroy the bosses of one of the world’s biggest banks.

Speaking from the English mansion where he is confined on bail, the 39-year-old Australian said that the decision to publish incriminating police files about him was “disgusting”.

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Mr Assange claimed the newspaper received leaked documents from Swedish authorities or “other intelligence agencies” intent on jeopardising his defence.

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To the Editor:

Yesterday’s feature, “Monitoring America,” by Dana Priest and William Arkin, intentionally distorts the role of outside experts training local law enforcement in matters related to terrorism.

In an effort to smear the Center for Security Policy, Arkin and Preist erroneously describe the Center’s book, Shariah: The Threat to America, as “expanding on what [Walid] Shoebat and [Ramon] Montijo believe.”

This is false. In fact, Shariah: The Threat to America is an independent work of nineteen national security experts, including the former Director of Central Intelligence, former directors of military intelligence agencies, a former counterterrorism agent in the FBI, experts in Shariah law, and many others. Each of the authors is an expert in his own right on a diverse array of national security issues; in that capacity, they can authoritatively address the nexus between America’s national security and Islamic law, called Shariah.

The study of Shariah is important to the nation’s national security because America’s Islamist enemies—from the inhabitants of al Qaeda-linked training camps in Yemen and Pakistan to homegrown American “lone-wolf” bombers—declare, above all other concerns, that they fight to install Islamic law and in furtherance of its explicit dictates.

Shariah: The Threat to America demonstrates that the mainstream legal code understood by many of the world’s Muslims to be divinely sanctioned law (Shariah) is a knowable system of law, making the practice of Islam possible in an organized way.  Its foundational rulings—on issues like jihad, relations with non-Muslims, mandatory punishments for adultery and apostasy, and more—are objectively knowable. The book takes great pains to present the most mainstream Islamic sources, like the classic of Shafi’i law, Umdat Al-Salik (or Reliance of the Traveller: The Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law) and, in describing the tenants of Shariah, use texts written by Muslims for an Islamic audience.

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Funness abounds.

I particularly like the “The Barbra Streisand Political IQ Award for Celebrity Vapidity.” Winner?

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They need to get a room. If it’s not the tingle down his leg from a speech, it’s the “boyish smile” he loves.

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CNN announced that its partnering with the Tea Party Express to co-host a debate:

They have some things in common — the need to rebound from recent woes and to carve out identities against fierce competition — but CNN and the Tea Party Express would seem like unlikely candidates for a partnership.

In fact, Friday’s announcement that they will co-host a Republican presidential debate for early September 2011 in Tampa, Fla., seems like a risky play for both.

I really, really disagree with this:

“This is nothing more than a press stunt for CNN that cries out ‘Pay attention to us!’” said Everett Wilkinson, an organizer with the South Florida Tea Party, who said there’s been talk in tea party circles about protesting the debate or even infiltrating it.

Is the goal to change hearts and minds or just to win an argument? If it’s the latter then congratulations, count yourselves amongst the progressive mindset on that one, because that’s their only goal. Don’t complain about how the MSM ignores the movement and then when it attempts to do something to recognize or work with it (even if the “it” in this case is a consultancy group masquerading as the leading entity of the grassroots movement) pitch a fit because now that liberal entity with whom you were mad for ignoring the movement has committed the sin of daring to remedy it. At least give them credit for trying, otherwise you come off sounding like a hypocrite and the people whose hearts may have been softened just enough may hardened them again when their efforts at being balanced are rebuffed. I know I would.

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Last week, Neil Cavuto gave a devastating rant against Chris Matthews for his attack on Gov. Chris Christie’s weight. Within days, Matthews’ colleague Kieth Olbermann showed a video of Cavuto appearing to criticize the Surgeon General for being too fat.

Left-wing blogs grabbed hold of the Olbermann hypocrisy charge and plastered it everywhere. Even the usually-right-on-target Frances Martel at Mediaite took the bait:

The victim of said “racism” was a presidential nominee for surgeon general Regina Benjamin, who Cavuto then described as “not a lot fat, but fat enough fat for my next guest to say ‘fat chance,’” in an old segment Olbermann dug up. For this Cavuto won his runner-up spot on Olbermann’s “Worsts” segment today, where he railed against Cavuto’s “hypocrisy.”

Of course, the problem with Olbermann’s hysteria is that he is completely, 100% wrong. Cavuto’s comments that were grabbed to make Olby’s point were a lead-in to an interview. During the interview, it is clear that Cavuto is defending the Surgeon General and attacking his guest for calling her obese.

Here is the FULL segment Olbermann is referring to. As anyone can see, Mr. Cavuto spends the entire interview DEFENDING the Surgeon General and criticizing his guest’s attacks on her weight:

So far, there is no comment from Olbermann. Presumably he is still busy defending his smarmy and sycophantic interview with Michael Moore who seemed all to willing to excuse rape charges as “hooey” just so he can bond with Julian Assange. After all, the three seem to have a common enemy: the truth. (more…)