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**Written by Doug Powers Arizona voted to recognize the MLK holiday in 1992, but Donnie Deutcsh and Al Sharpton apparently get their information from the same courier service James Clapper uses: Come on, guys — Lean Forward and pick up a contemporary American history book. “We now return you to our regularly scheduled programming about [...]

**Written by Doug Powers NPR’s Scott Simon longs for the peaceful days of Walter Cronkite, when horrible events like the Tucson shootings were unheard of: SIMON: People have observed over the past few years, for example, that, you know, this just didn’t happen when 63 million people watched Walter Cronkite every night. Tim Graham at [...]

Toning down the rhetoric

Crazy from the heat

**Written by Doug Powers Hey, I’m sure they’ve made similar “mistakes” and accidentally shown fake covers of Clinton or Obama’s books instead of the actual covers. Okay, maybe not, but they might someday, and that’s the whole point: Newsday editor and colleague, Alan Fallick was watching CBS’ “Sunday Morning” this past Sunday, and watched Erin [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Tom Blumer at Newsbusters passes along this Associated Press headline/story about the DREAM Act being voted down yesterday: Republicans block youth immigration bill Senate Republicans on Saturday doomed an effort that would have given hundreds of thousands of young illegal immigrants a path to legal status if they enrolled in college [...]

Motivations

**Written by Doug Powers Late on election night, as bad news for Democrats continued to dump water on the electric thrill that used to run up Chris Matthews’ leg before it was short-circuited, a nightmarish thought obviously started gnawing at him: President Sarah Palin. Matthews then went on to dispute Palin’s stance on trade, taxes, [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Today’s “Great Moments in Homina-Homina-Homina” participants are NPR’s Nina Totenberg and a couple other members of the Inside Washington panel. Everybody on the panel was aware the kinds of things Nina Totenberg has said in the past that make NPR hypocritical for firing Juan Williams for violating NPR’s alleged “standards for [...]

**Written by Doug Powers In 2007 and 2008, the media went all-out to expose Barack Obama’s past connections with controversial people and organizations (pause for laughter), so now they’re setting their unbiased sights on the background of Republican Florida congressional candidate Allen West. Lisa Myers goes out of her way to try and strengthen some [...]

Dhimmitude of comic proportions

What’s so good about tax cuts?

**Written by Doug Powers The New York Times is running a front-page negative story about the politician who is a “perpetually tan golfer who smokes and accepts lots of money from Goldman Sachs and Google.” No, not that one — the Republican one, of course: That sort of alliance — they won a few skirmishes, [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Hot off the press from the AP’s Department of Double Standards we find this: 09/09/2010 AP Press Release Memo to AP staff from Standards Center: Guidance – planned Sept. 11 Quran burning Colleagues, As you know, a group known as the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Fla., has announced that [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Todd Palin can take down the fence, at least until this guy moves back in next spring: Palin’s neighbor of three months on Wasilla’s Lake Lucille, author Joe McGinniss, is packing his bags and notebooks and leaving Sunday for his home in Massachusetts to write the book he has been researching [...]

**Written by Doug Powers The challenge: to trivialize this in order to dismiss it as irrelevant: No simple task. The best way dismiss the gathering is to make it into a racial issue (no big surprise). This requires proving it’s all about racism, but in order to do so, the media must wade into the [...]

**Written by Doug Powers The Associated Press is now prohibiting its staff from using the words “Ground Zero mosque” in stories: The Associated Press, one of world’s most powerful news organizations, issued a memo today advising staff to avoid the phrase “Ground Zero mosque.” The Upshot reported Tuesday that the AP started using the phrase [...]

**Written by Doug Powers The media must be getting a whopper of a tax credit whenever they apply the term “unexpectedly” to reports of rises in jobless claims. Reuters double-dipped this week, first in the title of their story, and again in the opening sentence: Weekly Jobless Claims Post Surprise Jump, Hit 500,000 New U.S. [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Media Matters was all about getting the “full context” of Andrew Breitbart’s Shirley Sherrod video from day one. From that controversy, everybody walked away with a good refresher course in the importance of “full context” in the name of honest debate — everybody except Media Matters. From Media-Ite by way of [...]

It’s not news, it’s Rick Sanchez

**Written by Doug Powers Rush Limbaugh will be pleased that the money he spent to Fed-Ex Joy Behar a pair of kneepads in time for President Obama’s appearance on The View didn’t go to waste. From Media Bistro: “You’ve really done a lot, I think,” Joy Behar, who now has her own talk show on [...]

The media is filled with left-wing activists. The race card is the first and last refuge of liberal scoundrels. The race-card playing liberals in the media tried their best to whitewash Barack Obama’s radical ties to Jeremiah Wright and other race demagogues. We hold these truths to be self-evident, but it’s always useful to see [...]

See-BS

**Written by guest-blogger Doug Powers Somebody at the NAACP either needs a history lesson or is being intentionally deceptive about somebody’s horrid past just because the person in question was a liberal Democrat (don’t tell me which it is and ruin the suspense). From Mike Riggs at the Daily Caller: On Monday the organization [NAACP] [...]

Daily reaffirmations

Homewrecker

Well, it’s good to see the New York Times finally paying attention to Democrats who tell bogus war stories: At a ceremony honoring veterans and senior citizens who sent presents to soldiers overseas, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut rose and spoke of an earlier time in his life. “We have learned something important since [...]

That’s Rich

“Right to Life” is for suckers.

One down. Fiftysomething to go. An apology from Gannett Wisconsin Media for getting duped by Astroturf Ellie: A woman named Ellie Light (if that is her real name) recently duped dozens of newspapers around the country, including some here in Wisconsin, into printing her letter praising President Barack Obama as if she were a local [...]