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Final Jeopardy.

On ABC News this morning at George Stephanopoulos’s This Week roundtable, fellow Fox News contributor and conservative radio talk show host Laura Ingraham took Charlie Gibson to task for his ignorance of the ACORN scandal (which, you’ll remember, a condescending Gibson said he thinks the MSM should “leave to the cables.”)
Brava. Keep calling them [...]

What could possibly have been discussed in President Obama’s meeting with left-wing opinion journalists that required secrecy?
What is being kept from the American public about the two-and-a-half hour confab?
Goodbye, watchdogs. Hello, bootlickers.
How about a full list of those who attended the off-the-record meeting?
Where’s the openness and sunlight and disclosure?
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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Ann Coulter tears into [...]

A reader just sent this fresh missive from the Fox News Deranged-foot soldiers at MoveOn:
From: Noah T. Winer, MoveOn.org Civic Action moveon-help@list.moveon.org
Subject: Stay off FOX
[Recipient name redacted]
Date: Tuesday, October 20, 2009, 2:05 PM
Dear MoveOn member,
All year, FOX has worked 24/7 to block President Obama’s agenda—repeating lies about “death panels,” promoting Tea Party protests, and whipping [...]

The criminalization of conservative speech has been a recurring theme on this blog.
In particular, I’ve spotlighted the efforts of open-borders groups to marginalize, criminalize, and demonize those of us who have raised our voices for years about lax immigration enforcement — and to impose a Fairness Doctrine-style policy on amnesty opponents.
Keep all that in mind [...]

Tough times at the NYTimes:
October 19, 2009 , 2:49 pm
Times Says It Will Cut 100 Newsroom Jobs
By Richard Perez-Pena
The New York Times plans to eliminate 100 newsroom jobs – about 8 percent of the total – by year’s end, offering buyouts to union and non-union employees, and resorting to layoffs if it cannot get [...]

Plus: Anita Dunn on getting around the “filter.”

Busy with family.
Throwing out a couple discussion topics:
* What good is an “opposition” party that wants to elect its own worst opponents? Related: Where is Sarah Palin?

* Rush shreds the RAAAAAAACIST card. Related: First newspaper retracts fake RAAAACIST Rush quotes.
* Out: Dissent is patriotic! In: Fox News Channel’s dissenting anchors are unpatriotic!
* ACORN whistleblower [...]

Another must-read from Diana West.

Just an update to the bizarro ad hominem attack that I responded to last night:
Johnny Dollar takes you on a tour of the MSNBC Misogyny Hall of Shame.
And liberal Tommy Christopher calls out the deranged Keith Olbermann for his “dehumanizing terms.”
Much appreciated.
Christopher contacted MSNBC for comment. They had none.
The silence speaks volumes, but it’s no [...]

Scroll for updates…Rush dropped from Rams bid…
The apocalyptic hysteria over Rush Limbaugh’s interest in buying an NFL team is yet another stark reminder of the limits (and double standards) of left-wing tolerance.
Doug Powers lists the cretins the NFL welcomes into the fold. As for partisanship in sports, there’s Obama-philic Steelers owner Dan Rooney. And as [...]

Washington Post reporter Ann Gerhart’s Page A1 conservatives-are-horrible-ogres article led MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann to liken me tonight to a “big mashed up bag of meat with lipstick” and to rail about my “fascistic hatred.”
But remember: Only conservatives are horrible ogres.
Newsbusters has the report for the 99.99999 percent of Americans who don’t watch Olbermann’s misogynistic [...]

“…sour, angry, even dangerous.”

Photoshop credit: Leo Alberti
The New Orleans Times-Picayune reports tonight that the ACORN/Rathke embezzlement sum was $5 million, not the widely cited $1 million figure admitted publicly to date by the left-wing racketeering group.
But guess what? The figure is not new — and it is not news to the whitewashers at the New York Times. More [...]

Looks like shark-jumping season at the Washington Post. The PR team has just launched a contest for “America’s Next Great Pundit.”
Really.
Just arrived in my e-mailbox:
Aspiring pundits across the country have the chance to be “America’s Next Great Pundit” by entering The Washington Post’s political columnist competition.
Starting today The Washington Post opinions section is asking [...]

“Insufficient tuned-in-ness.”

For once, Jon Stewart takes a break from Fox News-bashing to ask where the hell the establishment media reporters have been on the ACORN scandals.
Behold his momentary lapse of sanity.
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Meanwhile:
ACORN, calling the actions of some of its employees “indefensible,” has suspended advising new clients as part of its service programs and is setting up an [...]

Stung.

Who said it: “The real story to all this is how these myriad entities allow them to shuffle money around so much that no one really knows what’s getting spent on what.”

One of my favorite reporters is making a move.
From Media Bistro:
John Stossel, the longtime ABC News correspondent and co-anchor of “20/20,” is leaving ABC to join Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network. TVNewser has learned Stossel will host a weekly, one-hour program for the 2-year-old business channel. He’s expected to signed a multi-year [...]

Shhhhh….

Montel Williams is now a moonbat talk show host for Air America.
The formerly civil TV personality is now a foaming-at-the-mouth nutroots-panderer who wishes GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann dead.
Radio Equalizer Brian Maloney reports:

WILLIAMS (1:30:32): Michelle, slit your wrist.
Go ahead… or, do us all a better thing [sic].
Move that knife up about two feet.
Start right at the [...]

Just got the news from Regnery this afternoon: Culture of Corruption is #1 on the New York Times best-seller list for the 5th week in a row.
Bottomless thanks again to all of you who have bought the book, shared it, spread the word, and used it as a resource to create real Hope and Change [...]

The NYTimes has a round-up of blog posts decrying Jenna Bush’s new job at the Today Show and assailing nepotism run amok in the world of political families.
Can you spot the missing words?
One starts with “K” and ends with “Y.”
And rhymes with “TENNEDY.”
Also missing: A word that starts with “B” and ends with “N.”
And rhymes [...]

Torrid.

In case you missed it yesterday, Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck spotlighted Team Obama’s direct and indirect threats to free speech — and how the Fairness Doctrine (or some stealthier form of it) might be reinstituted.
Watch the whole thing.
Rush has the full transcript. An excerpt:

BECK: Now joining me on the phone is radio talk [...]

Mark Levin held the #1 spot on the NYTimes best-seller list for 12 weeks this summer.
Culture of Corruption has held the top spot for the past 3 weeks.
Glenn Beck’s latest book has topped the paperback non-fiction list for 9 weeks.
The latest broadside against Obama from Dick Morris and Eileen McGann has also been on the [...]

Before Culture of Corruption hit #1 on the NYTimes best-seller list and other lists this week, my friend Mark Levin’s Liberty and Tyranny held the top spot for 12 weeks and has never ranked lower than #3 over the past 19 weeks. A truly amazing phenomenon. CNS reports:
While President Barack Obama and Congress have been [...]

The far Left Center for American Progress has its tentacles everywhere.
I noted in my column on the Internet Snitch Brigade this morning that former CAP operatives have been installed at HHS and work closely with the health care czar.
At Newsbusters, Seton Motley reports on the new FCC “Diversity Officer” — a racial engineering czar who [...]