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Sunday Open Thread: Motherhood Is Political

I’ve discussed this topic a lot all across the country, the wave of women, of mothers in political activism. [youtube fsUVL6ciK-c nolink] Why have so many mothers become so active? Because motherhood is political. I have two sons. One day

John Stossel Takes On Pigford

In his second in-depth examination of the Pigford case, investigative journalist John Stossel puts enriched Pigford attorney Al Pires to the test in a dramatic interview which ends with Pires name-calling and ending the interview. [youtube 7zzrWXZQ544 nolink] It’s refreshing

Sound Bite For the Day: The Smackdown Heard 'Round the Country

Lawrence O’Donnell attempted to debate interview Condoleezza Rice and Rice promptly are his lunch. Ate his lunch and slapped him around. Ate his lunch, slapped him around, and completely owned him. I can’t with either a straight face or accuracy

Color of Change Claims It Runs MSNBC's Programming Decisions

Color of Change, the group founded by admitted Marxist and 9/11 truther Van Jones, is chest-thumping all over Twitter essentially saying that they, not Dylan Ratigan, run “The Dylan Ratigan Show.” Writing on Daily Kos, Color of Change’s James Rucker

Controversy Surrounds Staging of President's Speech for Photo Op

From Poynter: Reuters White House photographer Jason Reed describes how the president made his speech to a single TV camera, then immediately after finishing, he pretended to speak for the still cameras. Reed writes: “As President Obama continued his nine-minute

In the Left's Rush to Politicize Bin Laden They Overlook Their Hypocrisy

Here’s the interesting quandary: the left, including our President, has railed against “enhanced interrogation techniques” for years. Obama even moved to prosecute those who engaged in using such techniques to extract pertinent information from terrorist detainees: President Barack Obama left

Introducing: 'Administration Fellation'

Gary Eaton and Shelli Eaton, the talented songwriters behind Retracto’s theme song, have penned a fabulous tune based around a phrase I use to describe the incessant water-carrying done by the left: administration fellation. They’re a fantastic band, an amalgam

A Big Collection of Race Cards

I’m not a birther, but the left is not helping their cause by hysterically mischaracterizing anyone who disagrees with the President on policy – or even asks why it took him three years to release a birth certificate – as

Open Thread: Happy, Joyous Easter

Ed. Note: In addition to Dana’s lovely message, let me also recommend Marcia Morrissey’s “The Easter Sunrise of My New Life” and The Anchoress. Perfect, poignant, insightful Easter reading. — JN In their fright the women bowed down with their

Open Thread: Happy, Joyous Easter

In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground but the men said to them, “Why do you look for living among the dead? He is not here, he has risen!” Luke 24: 5 “Look at

Saturday Open Thread: Prayers for St. Louis

I got this photo in a text message from a friend. It’s a photo of his friend’s house, and the family was due to close on it this week. St. Louis isn’t a stranger to storms; by the time you

Wonkette Removes Trig Post

Applause, Internet. You did this. Read here: A post on this page satirizing Sarah Palin using her baby as a political prop was very badly done and sounded like the author was mocking the child and not just Sarah Palin/Sarah

Wonkette's Jack Stuef 'Apologizes' For Trig Smear

First Wonkette deleted comments, then they deleted Stuef’s byline. Now this: UPDATE: I regret this post and using the word “retarded” in a reference to Sarah Palin’s child. It’s not nice, and is not necessary, but I take responsibility for

Item of Interest: "Administration Fellation"

Gary Eaton and Shelli Eaton, the talented songwriters behind Retracto’s theme song, have penned a fabulous tune based around a phrase I use to describe the incessant water-carrying done by the left: administration fellation. They’re a fantastic band, an amalgam

Wonkette's Half-Hearted Mea Culpa

Is this supposed to make it all better? Posted by Dave Weigel at Slate: UPDATE: Wonkette editor Ken Layne looped me in on an e-mail to AdWeek, in which he wrote that Steuf has been admonished. I have four kids

Papa Johns, Huggies Pulls Advertising From Wonkette After Trig Taunts *UPDATE Holland America Line Drops Wonkette *UPDATE #2: Nordstrom Drops Wonkette *UPDATE #3 Two More Companies Pull Ads *UPDATE #4 DealSwarm, Coldwell Banker Drops *UPDATE #5 More Drop

As a result of this morning’s post condemning an outrageous post from Wonkette in which blogger Jack Stueff mocks Trig Palin over his Down Syndrome and suggests that Todd Palin slept with his daughter, outrage spread across Twitter and now

Wonkette Makes Fun of Trig Palin, Calls Him "Retarded"

The Wonkette brand of Myspace satire strikes again. Calling him the “greatest prop in history,” Wonkette proceeds to make fun of the little boy on his birthday because that’s what good writers who know about politics do. They consider this

Examples In Myspace Journalism: Wonkette on Sarah Palin and Cheese Curds

Wonkette, the website that popularized and repackaged JV-grade sarcasm as “snark” published a piece wherein the author crosses his fingers for violence when Sarah Palin speaks in Madison on Saturday. I’m consistently amazed at how progressives, who profess such an

Katie Couric's Low Approval Rating

On the heels of Katie Couric’s departure from CBS, an odd poll: Following media reports that she plans to leave her post as anchor of the CBS Evening News in June, Katie Couric will exit with virtually the same favorable

Correcting Eliot Spitzer, Rep. Speier, and Mediaite

Earlier tonight I appeared on “In the Arena” with Eliot Spitzer. Neither Spitzer or Rep. Jackie Speier were fully forthcoming in the facts about federal funding for abortions. I also wish that the times Rep. Speier repeatedly interrupted me were

Ad Hominem Alert! Louise Slaughter: "They're Here To Kill Women"

Continuing our commitment, free of charge, to helping AOL/Huffington Post keep their website ad hominem-free, we’ve discovered yet another AOL/Huffington Post contributor making ad hominem comments, this time Rep. Louise Slaughter. “Now they’re here to kill women,” Slaughter says in

Matt Lauer To Leave "Today" in 2012

NY Daily News: Matt Lauer will follow Meredith Vieira out the door at NBC‘s “Today” show. But not for a while, according to “Entertainment Tonight,” which reported the veteran show host had told his NBC bosses he’ll leave when his

Credit Where It's Due: Slate Praises Ryan Budget Plan

I’ve had my own questions about the plan; yesterday I interviewed Rep. Todd Rokita of Indiana who helped to draft the Path to Prosperity, and he confirmed my fears: in order for the plan to work, Democrats have to a)

It's Official: Couric is Out

Couric discusses her regrets: Outgoing “CBS Evening News” anchor Katie Couric says America wasn’t ready for the “overly ambitious” change she brought nearly five years ago as the first woman to helm a nightly network newscast. “In retrospect I would

Mediaite: U.S. Pastor Kills Eight People, UN Workers

At least, it says as much in the headline: Eleven people-including several officials of the United Nations-were killed in Afghanistan today, and ABC News is reporting the killings may have been motivated by the burning of a Koran by Florida

Correcting the Right On 'Sarah Palin's Alaska' Tax Breaks

While we at Big Journalism spend most of our energy correcting bias and falsehoods originating from the left, every now and then we must take a moment to gently correct things that go off track with our friends on the

Correcting the Right On "Sarah Palin's Alaska" Tax Breaks

While we at Big Journalism spend most of our energy correcting bias and falsehoods originating from the left, every now and then we must take a moment to gently correct things that go off track with our friends on the

Sound Bite For the Day: It's Because You're a Woman, Isn't It?

The takeway from this is Vivian Schiller’s remarks that she’ll be back — ”I’m not done. I certainly plan to stay in journalism. I feel too passionate about it, and so yes, I will be back in some position at

Ad Hominem Alert: "Foamy Chancre On the Ass of Subhumanity"

It’s getting to be a full-time job monitoring AOL/Huffington Post for the ad hominem attacks they want to avoid, but we don’t mind helping for the public good. From the Daily Caller: Jason Linkins, Banned from HuffPo Front Page! Today,