Sojourners’ head Jim Wallis recently got into a spat with Marvin Olasky of World magazine after Olasky charged that Wallis’ organization had received funding from famous lefty George Soros’ Open Society Institute. Wallis attacked Olasky, saying that “he lies for a living” and that Sojourners hasn’t gotten money from Soros. Wallis was wrong, and when […]
Former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens died in a plane crash Monday afternoon. I was never a big fan of Stevens, his penchant for pork represented the worst of the Republican Party. Stevens also held the distinction of being the only senator I ever pissed off in my previous life as a reporter. An article I […]
A couple of things jumped out at me recently as I've been reading some of how the purportedly mainstream media is covering the Journo-List and Tea Party "Racism" issues. First, the Journo-List, from Politico's Roger Simon: Recently, however, the conservative website The Daily Caller, run by Tucker Carlson, got hold of many Journolist e-mails and […]
Don’t bring a knife to a gun fight. Don’t engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed man. If you’re Chris Matthews, don’t try to better Rep. Paul Ryan – you’ll lose. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Click over to Newsbusters for the transcript.
Number 1 dumb thing: RNC Chairman Michael “The Disaster” Steele: Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is once again caught in the crosshairs, this time over comments he made regarding the war in Afghanistan in which he calls it “a war of Obama’s choosing.” He adds: “This is not something the United States had actively […]
You can find the Rolling Stone article everyone’s talking about here. In the article we learn a lot of things we already know: Vice President Joe Biden is an idiot. Rolling Stone doesn’t realize that Biden is an idiot. Rolling Stone tries to make hay out of the fact that McChrystal and Biden disagree on […]
This is a good read. To hear an ailing 82-year-old Thomas Edison speak, with the great inventor's voice, wheezy and high-pitched, growing husky and choked as he praised his good friend Henry Ford who stood alongside President Herbert Hoover on a stage on Oct. 21, 1929 is catching lightning in a bottle. Earlier that night, […]
Is it possible that advice like this was the cause of the financial crisis? From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro, and Ali Weinberg *** Pelosi on the Midterms: In an interview with one of us yesterday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi maintained that Democrats would hold on to the House after the midterm elections. “Take […]
I tell you, politics doesn’t get a whole lot better than this. First, we have Barack “I inherited this mess from Bush” Obama telling high school students to take responsibility for their own actions and to not blame others for their failures. Don’t believe me? How exactly can one be so completely unaware of the […]
The same article I reference below contains another, unrelated line that I want to highlight as an example of politicians (and their spokespeople) saying stupid things when trying to defend the indefensible. I also spoke with Becca Doten, communications director for Los Angeles City Councilman and Democrat Richard Alarcon. Doten relayed the Councilman's response to […]