Saturday night, “Saturday Night Live” opened with this sketch. Yes, that’s a comedian, pretending to be President Barack Obama, making jokes. Yes, that was stating the obvious. Unless you’re CNN, then you decide that these jokes are worthy of a fact-check. Do you remember CNN “fact-checking” when Tina Fey/Sarah Palin falsely stated (for effect) that […]
It happens all the time. “Smart” people reveal themselves to be amoral, unethical fools as they look to curry favor among the enlightened Hollywood elite. Today’s case in point is Washington Post columnist Anne Applebaum who thinks that child rape isn’t anything to get worked up over as long as a famous director was the […]
I seriously cannot make this up. Check out the Politifact.com summaries for their “fact check” of two statements by the National Right to Life Committee regarding Democrat Sen. Max Baucus’ health care reform plan. Let’s start at the bottom and work our way back up. It is true that the Baucus bill “contains provisions that […]
Former Bush 43 adviser Karl Rove made a statement on Fox News the other day that Politifact.com decided needed to be fact-checked. Rove’s statement: “Obama used to be a lawyer for ACORN.” Now, this is a fairly straightforward statement. It seems to me that it can only be “true” or “false.” There’s no gray there. […]
Despite, earlier reports that the Pimp/Ho sting had failed in San Diego, it didn’t. If you’re unfamiliar with the story, you must be watching the mainstream media. Fake journalist Jon Stewart hilariously brings you up to speed. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c The Audacity of Hos www.thedailyshow.com Daily […]
Can you just imagine Karl Rove or Andy Card saying this before a gathering of Republicans about Democrats in general and still having his job? Can you imagine the delight with which the mainstream media would replay this video over and over – probably not bleeping out the expletive? Yet, Obama’s “Green Jobs” Czar still […]
MSNBC wanted to use one of the recent town halls as a jumping off point to paint Obamacare protesters, as Janeane Garafalo puts it, people who “hate that a black man is president.” Take a look at the first part of the video – you don’t need to watch the roundtable discussion. Notice anything odd […]
My former employer, the San Diego Union-Tribune, is doing another round of layoffs, rumored to be targeting 120 positions throughout the company. In keeping with the legal conditions surrounding my receipt of my severance from the company, that’s all I’m going to say.
This post is probably just an excuse to link to this bit of comedy over at imao.us likening the infamous [email protected] e-mail address to the weird Six Flags guy on TV. However, I've thought about former ABC newswoman Linda Douglass’ creation of the aforementioned e-mail address and her plea to the public to do her […]
The big news Friday was that the unemployment rate had ticked back down 0.1 percent to 9.4 percent even though more people were unemployed in July than in June. The cause of that discrepancy is that even more people were removed from the available workforce because they’ve become “discouraged workers” – people no longer looking […]