Bette Midler is spending the days before the Fourth of July blasting the left’s favorite target. Midler, who routinely uses her Twitter account to bash conservatives, outdid herself today when she accused the Koch brothers of un-American impulses. The veteran
The hosts of the Fox News show The Five went all Big Hollywood on Aaron Sorkin and his HBO show The Newsroom last week, lambasting the series and its creator in a tour de force segment that said many of
Former Vice President Al Gore released his mud chakra Tuesday, slinging the slime at the Koch brothers. Speaking of the Keystone XL Pipeline, Gore stated: And they want to put a pipeline right down through very environmentally sensitive parts of
On Thursday, Wall Street Journal writer Kimberley A. Strassel cataloged a series of 2010 statements by President Barack Obama and his surrogates at the time the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued its first “Be On The Lookout” (BOLO) list for
The Hollywood Reporter’s Paul Bond details what might be the lamest protest in the history of Los Angeles — which is saying a lot. Thursday, in Beverly Hills, a few dozen (the L.A. Times says 100) people showed up to
Former adviser to the President Austan Goolsbee was accused of looking into private tax records of White House critics. An IG investigation of the matter was completed two years ago but has never been released. Ten days ago, on Twitter,
Yesterday an organization of LA area unions organized held a rally in downtown Los Angeles to protest the possible purchase of the LA Times by the Koch brothers. The event was announced last week with a press release that promised
More conservative organizations and individuals have emerged to tell their stories of tax troubles after revelations surfaced that the Internal Revenue Service targeted conservative organizations unjustly. Speaker of the House John Boehner (R – OH) stated at the weekly GOP
During the 2012 presidential campaign, many conservatives complained that the IRS was targeting them for harassment, with some even claimed that Obama had an “enemies list.” At the time, the progressive media complex ridiculed these claims, but now the IRS
There’s been a lot of talk about the possibility of the Koch Brothers buying the Tribune Company (which owns the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Baltimore Sun, and others). However, Minding the Campus has another idea: Leaving aside the obvious arguments about
Employees of the Los Angeles Times have threatened to walk off the job if Charles and David Koch purchase the newspaper, as has been reported recently. Brent Bozell, president of Media Research Center, appeared on The Kudlow Report, Wednesday
In their tyrannical efforts to stop the Los Angeles Times from being sold to the conservative Koch brothers, members of the Los Angeles City Council have now announced that they want to cut pension investment in any firms that own
On the heels of reports that “half” the staffers at the L.A. Times would resign if the paper was sold to conservative billionaires the Koch brothers, the Newspaper Guild-Communications Workers of America, a journalist labor union, have issued a statement
Here is a fascinating look at our open-minded, objective, unbiased, not-at-all-liberal media: At a Los Angeles Times in-house awards ceremony last week, columnist Steve Lopez addressed the elephant in the room. Speaking to the entire staff, he said, “Raise your
I don’t know where to begin when nearly every sentence in this Slate post is silly. I am reminded of Ann Coulter’s characterization of arguing with liberals. After a barrage of idiotic statements, the conservative is basically forced to answer, “How is an
The recent plunge in ratings, readership, revenue, and credibility doesn’t frighten the media — but the idea of diversity-of-thought sure does. With the news breaking Monday that the Koch Brothers might be interested in purchasing the Tribune Co., the media
As you read this New York Times story about the Koch Brothers’ apparent interest in making a serious bid for the Tribune Company (publishers of eight local newspapers including the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune,) ask yourself how outlets
Daily Kos and a group called the Courage Campaign are running petitions to keep the LA Times out of the hands of the Koch Brothers. Together the two groups have gathered about 45,000 signatures. The LA Times is up for
In response to Koch Bros. to Buy LA Times?: I think this is a fantastic idea. If the Koch Brothers were to buy the Los Angeles Times I think it would be a wonderful opportunity for conservatives to get their
According to the Hollywood Reporter, the Koch Brothers might be interested in purchasing the LA Times. The Kochs, who some sources say are interested in the clout they could gain through the Times’ editorial pages, could bid on their own
The Los Angeles Times ran a Thursday editorial by Middlebury College Professor Bill McKibben arguing that allowing millions of illegal immigrants into America will reduce global warming. “I feel it’s urgent that we get real immigration reform, allowing millions to
Mark Tapscott, executive editor of The Washington Examiner, did an interesting spot-check yesterday. Using the search engines of a few high-profile news outlets, he documented the number of references each made to conservative political activists, “the Koch Brothers,” as compared
Politico’s Ken Vogel is obsessed with what private citizens do with their own money, especially those private citizens who don’t do what Politico tells them to do — support Obama. You would think that a “real” reporter would be more
This is a little off-topic, but my favorite part of this Politico article is the last line that reads, “Kenneth P. Vogel contributed to this report.” Talk about unnecessary. About half-way though the brutally-long 1600-worder, while my mind started to
When filmmaker Phelim McAleer sought to bring some sanity to environmental alarmism he called his documentary Not Evil Just Wrong. The folks behind a new movie slamming anyone who doesn’t attend the Green Church of Al Gore are taking a
Koch Industries recently published a response to the work of UK Independent journalist Steve Connor, whose work, Koch says, “misled readers.” The two articles accused Koch Industries of secretly funding attacks on climate change. The articles written by Connor “got
President Barack Obama’s first term energized Hollywood in direct proportion to the anger the industry aimed at his predecessor. Gone were the hard-hitting documentaries, protests and anti-authoritative rants that came to typify the celebrity response to two President George W.
Ever wonder why Hollywood shows such disdain for conservatives? Just take a gander at the Twitter accounts of some of the town’s biggest directors. Adam McKay, whose directorial credits include “Anchorman,” “Step Brothers” and the Koch Brothers-bashing comedy “The Campaign,”
Today, the Democratic Governors Association sent out a blast email suggesting that higher taxes on high-income earners was justified because it would target the Koch brothers. This is how low the left now stoops: they think that hurting the economy
The right-to-work legislation passed by Michigan lawmakers and signed into law by Rep. Gov. Rick Snyder has been widely recognized as accomplishing one major thing — it grants Michigan employees the ability to choose whether they do or don’t want
It was no accident that union thugs tore down the tent that protected seniors and women in Lansing, Michigan on Tuesday. The tent held those citizens who were part of Americans for Prosperity, a group backed financially by the Koch
What was the election really about? Class war. That’s not reactionary right-wing paranoia; it’s the claim of progressives themselves, as evidenced by the mainstream liberal group Campaign For America’s Future, who have launched a new website WageClassWar.org, which is, of
The demise of the Will Ferrell-era cannot come soon enough. Other than an overwrought and hysterical attack on the Koch Brothers, the politics of “The Campaign” are surprisingly even-handed. The real problem is the non-stop crudeness, a total lack of
The folks behind the home video of “The Campaign” picked a week before Election Day for its official street date. Savvy choice, no doubt. The film’s Blu-ray release is meant to remind viewers of how unchecked money impacts modern politics,
Sherrod Brown has been whining for some time about the wealthy folks on the Right who fund Super-PACs and how poor widdle Sherrod and the Democrats rely on wealthy people who only donate out of the goodness of their hearts.
President Barack Obama’s fundraising trip to Las Vegas on Wednesday–shameful though it may have been, in the midst of a deadly foreign policy crisis–was a sign of how important Nevada remains to his re-election prospects. Mitt Romney was in the
Damn. Double damn. Triple damn. No … GOOGLE damn. If you thought the latest damn personal email from the Obama damn campaign was going to damn stop using those tough words like damn, you’re damn wrong. And now that the
The CIA worked extensively – and preferentially – with the crew of the upcoming movie “Zero Dark Thirty” according to just-released documents obtained by Judicial Watch. The results? The filmmakers were able to “deep dive” into classified material in order
The folks behind “The Campaign” are pulling their hair out over wealthy Americans cutting checks to influence votes. They apparently have no problem, however, pouring millions into a 90-minute comedy meant to demonize conservative benefactors and the Citizens United case.
President Barack Obama is now campaigning and fundraising directly off attacks on the wealth of conservative casino magnate and prominent Jewish philanthropist Sheldon Adelson. Adelson’s good works enjoy bipartisan support–so much so that Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz, who
