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Why not? They fact-checked a Saturday Night Live Skit. But I’m not holding my breath.

On my way to work this morning, I heard a few seconds of a guy with a foreign accent awarding what sounded like a Nobel Peace Prize to Barack Obama. My reaction was: I was almost certain I was listening to [...]

During the Bush administration, the Times and other media outlets routinely disparaged job creation as somehow beneath the dignity of the workers, even as wages rose and unemployment fell. The work was demeaning and mundane, and the pay inadequate. Every chance they had to use anecdotal complaints about supposed burger-flipping or paper-shifting wound [...]

Last month, Newsbusters pointed out the bias in a McClatchy headline impugning Alaska governor Sarah Palin for the conduct of her extended family, “Those crazy Palins: Todd’s half sister indicted in break-ins.”

Newsbusters wrote:

Has McClatchy ever had any headlines like this: “Those Crazy Kennedys”? After all, there is a wealth of craziness with that demented [...]

Arizona State University says it will not bestow an honorary degree on President Barack Obama – the esteemed Harvard University Law professor, former U.S. Senator, best-selling author, Grammy Award-winner, and undeniable leader of the free world – saying it is not clear that his body of work justifies such an honor.

From those crack internet sleuths [...]

Jon Stewart, War Criminals and the True Story of the Atomic Bombs
Please watch.

A couple of articles, one in the Washington Post, the other in The Economist, are somewhat bittersweet for me. They show that people are beginning to realize how unprepared and perhaps unqualified Barack Obama is to be president at this critical time. They show that people are wondering why no one is leading in this [...]

The incompetence that led to Keith Olbermann naming Twitter the “Worst Person in the World” is staggering. He smeared the popular service, Fox News, and a fellow liberal Democrat enemy of Fox News, all because he got an email he didn’t understand, about a technology he didn’t understand, and neither he nor his staff did [...]

Like night and day:
Barack Obama, in 2004, practically got all three male PBS anchors to announce, right there on national TV, that they were gay for him:

Sarah Palin, in 2008, could hardly give a speech without making Gwen Ifill feel like vomiting:

Ifill’s loftiest (only) praise of Palin: “She delivered her speech word for word.”

I will pay good money to see someone with some video editing skills (Ryan?) put Charles Gibson’s Sarah Palin interview(s) up against his interviews of Barack Obama and John Edwards. Particularly, I am interested in seeing all three interviews mashed together, so that we can compare every question Gibson posed to the candidates.
Some have already [...]

Monday on CNN, Wolf Blitzer, Jack Cafferty, Jeffrey Toobin, and Gloria Borger discussed Charlie Black’s statement in Fortune magazine, where he suggested that a terrorist attack on America would turn voters to his guy, McCain. The CNN people piled on about how bad the comment was (the group collectively expressed shock, Cafferty called it “breathtakingly [...]

Here’s a description of the Saturday night priesthood meeting, which struck me as a little odd:

The session, which prohibits attendance by women, was also broadcast to church facilities worldwide via satellite. [Associated Press]

I wonder if this reporter bothered to ask anyone at the meeting if they would characterize the meeting as “prohibiting” attendance by women. [...]

both talk about the media’s treatment of mitt romney and contrast that with its treatment of the more liberal candidates, like john mccain.
joe scarborough:

ann coulter:
One clue that Romney is our strongest candidate is the fact that Democrats keep viciously attacking him while expressing their deep respect for Mike Huckabee and John McCain.
[snip]
Turn on any cable [...]

referring to the huckabee christmas ad:

In a holiday television ad airing in Iowa, he told of celebrating “the birth of Christ.”

cripes.

here are my random thoughts following romney’s ‘faith in america’ speech. i did not post this earlier because i had final exams.

1. “separation of church and state” does not mean “separation of religion and state.” from the beginning of our nation, our political discourse has included general references to a higher power. it is invoked [...]

(1) why in the world is one of the bombers recovering in the ICU at a glasgow hospital? the god-fearing part of me tells me i shouldn’t be asking this question, but WHY did someone save his life? this fact says something about the west: either we are too nice or too [...]