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How do you call someone a racist without actually calling them a racist? By inventing, jujitsu-style, a euphemism that says just as much. Witness the spectacle of all those “Senior Fellows” stuffed into the clown car known as “Media Matters

Now even the sportswriters are getting into the act. Here’s CBS Sports.com’s national columnist, Mike Freeman, on the All-Star Game, scheduled to be played next season in Arizona: The following scenario could actually happen. In America. In the 21st century

In case you didn’t know it, Linda Greenhouse covers the Supreme Court for the New York Times. Not surprisingly, her coverage has long been infused with her leftist agenda, during which she has sometimes confused her personal beliefs with her

Well, looky here: it’s everybody’s favorite clueless MSNBC anchor babe, Contessa Brewer, the pride of Syracuse University, dealing with one of the contentious issues of the day with her usual winning combination of invincible ignorance and aggressive emotionalism. Does this

If even a blind pig can find an acorn or a truffle every once in a while, even a mainstream media journalist can figure out that there’s a new sheriff in town, although it generally takes him or her a

Internecine strife, hurt feelings, jealousy, tears: no, it’s not a daytime soap opera but rather all in day’s work over at the cable channel nobody watches, MSNBC. It seems that someone named Donnie Deutsch — whose claim to fame is

This piece, by Andrew Ferguson in Commentary, is almost too easy, but it sure is fun. Did the little furry mammals tuck into the dinosaur eggs with so much gusto? The tiny corner of the New York Times empire where

As you know, more young people get their news from Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show that anyplace else. For a sizable swath of the population, it hasn’t happened until they’ve seen it on Stewart’s Comedy Central show, and that includes

Instapundit, naturally, has the roundup from all of today’s Tea Parties: Click, go, scroll, comment. The floor is all yours. We’ll be up all night, as usual…

Think there’s been a media campaign to disparage and marginalize the grassroots Tea Party movement, almost from its inception, especially by the major networks? Think the coverage has been blatantly slanted and made to fit the liberal narrative? Well, maybe

From Ronald Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress. This letter will appear as a full page ad in tomorrow’s Wall Street Journal and and Washington Post: WJC_letter_wsj-r5 –

The Washington Post reports new revelations about Rep. Eric Massa and his serial “grope-age” of staff and interns. Just three months after Eric Massa was elected to Congress, his young male employees on Capitol Hill began complaining to supervisors that

Intrepid Fox News reporter Jesse Watters caught up with Al Gore the other day and asked him a couple of questions including: “What is your reaction to the fact that Arctic Ice is actually increasing?” and “Do you stand to

So says Paul Bedard writing in U.S. News and World Report: Big media, especially the TV networks, seem to be going out of their way to diss the conservative-leaning Tea Party movement as they work overtime to cheer on the

Andrew Breitbart at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference. On racism: Why is it that the left is allowed to throw around the dangerous accusation of racism, without any evidence, as a means to malign half the country? Yet, if I

Well, this certainly ought to drive the MSM crazy. From the National Journal: Of the many unflattering caricatures of Sarah Palin that litter the political landscape, the notion that she is a dummy or a puppet — a mere figure

In light of the Obama Administration’s new drive to sanitize the image of Islam and Muslims by purging the new National Security Strategy document of all references to such outmoded concepts as “Islamic terrorism,” it’s worth going back to a

Here’s Florida Congressman Alan Grayson, probably the most obnoxious member of that august body (if you don’t count Barney Frank), barging into a meeting of the Orange County Republicans executive committee yesterday and — this being “Die Quickly” Grayson —

It’s official: David Shuster is in very bad odor at MSNBC. From Mediaite, quoting an email from Phil Griffin, Shuster’s boss, to a member of the public: From: Griffin, Phil (NBC Universal) Sent: Wed 4/07/10 11:16 PM Sorry, but this

That would be Lt. Col. Allen West, running for Congress in Florida’s 22nd district. Because America needs more clear-eyed, unflinching truth-tellers like him: [youtube TkGQmCZjJ0k&feature nolink] You may recall the Atlanta-born Col. West from his service in Iraq, during which

Just asking, Dr. Freud. Opening Day was not the first time Obama has referred to Comiskey Park, the old home of the Chicago White Sox, as “Cominsky” Field, er, Park. Here he is with Bob Costas, reminiscing about the good

Here’s the Punahou Kid — an unequaled combination of Pericles of Athens and Oscar Robertson — tossing out the first pitch yesterday at the Washington Nationals’ home opener. The former South Sider also tells the world who his favorite Chicago

Over at Commentary, the estimable Jennifer Rubin notices that even standard-issue, rank-and-file media apparatchiks like the Washington Post‘s Anne Kornblut finally seem to be figuring out that they’ve been had — something the rest of us have known since at

Sire — the people are revolting: [youtube dHv1u-wExck&feature nolink] And this: [youtube k2iiirr5KI8&feature nolink] What’s the old Alinsky rule? You know, No. 5 in the “Tactics” section of Rules for Radicals? Oh yeah — Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.

Sometimes you have to wonder if civilian control of the military’s all it’s cracked up to be: [youtube zNZczIgVXjg&feature nolink] That’s Rep. Hank Johnson (D, Ga.) expressing his fear that overpopulation on the island of Guam — an American territory

The Chicago Tribune company, which also owns the Los Angeles Times, is on the verge of bankruptcy. In hock to a Lebanese-Mexican billionaire, the New York Times is trying desperately to stay afloat, laying off staff even as it pays

Who is this man? To remind our readers, this fine gentleman thrust his finger in a journalists face and shouted “Get him out of here, or I’m going to jail today!” We’re pretty sure he didn’t mean he was going

Well, isn’t this just ducky: This Thursday, CBS “Early Show” co-anchor Harry Smith will go one-on-one with Pres. Barack Obama in a court-side interview. Then, Smith and his CBS Sports colleague NCAA basketball analyst Clark Kellogg will shoot hoops with

It wouldn’t be an Ann Coulter appearance without some “controversy,” especially as manufactured by the Pavlovian lapdogs of the MSM, and last week’s appearance by the author and syndicated columnist at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ont., was

In the Wall Street Journal, Jena Pincott tries to answer Freud’s famous question — “What do women want?” — and comes up with a surprising answer: in developed countries, they want men who look more like women: Why Women Don’t

FOUR MEN CHARGED WITH MISDEMEANOR OFFENSE OF ENTERING FEDERAL PROPERTY UNDER FALSE PRETENSES NEW ORLEANS, March 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Joseph Basel, age 24, Stan Dai, age 24, Robert Flanagan, age 24, and James O’Keefe, age 25, were charged in a

From the Jerusalem Post: Post poll: Obama still in single digits Just 9 percent of Jewish Israelis think US President Barack Obama’s administration is more pro-Israel than pro-Palestinian, according to a Smith Research poll taken this week on behalf of

Time Magazine: Andrew Breitbart sits in an Aeron chair at an iMac computer gazing out the sliding glass door of his Los Angeles home office. On the patio, a hula hoop and a portable basketball rim await his children’s return

Mark Steyn, at NRO, has this to say about Ann Coulter‘s recent Kafkaesque experience in Canada: A couple of days ago, I mentioned François Houle, the leftist apparatchik and provost of the University of Ottawa who threatened Ann Coulter with

A picture is worth a thousand words: The caption contest is now open.