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**Written by Doug Powers When the citizens of Connecticut need the pressing issues that affect their future aggressively addressed, Dick Blumenthal is there: U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal and U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney today called on the presidents of the NCAA and CBS to televise Thursday’s University of Connecticut men’s basketball game on CBS rather than [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Alternate headline: Progressives 11% More Inclined to Jump on “Defund NPR” Bandwagon US News: Conservatives have long complained that the public broadcaster has a liberal bias, a charge NPR’s defenders have denied. In at least one regard, however, NPR’s board and fundraisers have, as a whole, shown a marked lean to [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Twitter is thinking about relocating to a place that has no payroll taxes and more Happy Meals, and San Francisco is deciding on whether or not to up the tax break ante to keep them in town: San Francisco’s best shot to prevent Twitter from migrating south faces a key vote [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Sensing public funds slipping through their fingers, the board of NPR has decided to sacrifice a gazelle to the lions on the budget cut Serengeti and hope it’s enough to keep the Republican predators from stalking prey for a while. From the Daily Caller: Vivian Schiller, the President and CEO of [...]

This moronic attack started percolating on the blogs and Twitter over the past week: Fox News hosts and contributors including Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, yours truly, and others are greedy, union-bashing hypocrites who are card-carrying members of AFTRA. Here’s a typical rant: “FOX talking heads are all card carrying union members. Funny, they [...]

Media McBirthyism

Lara Logan in Cairo on Friday before she suffered a sustained beating and gang sexual assault. Image: CBS I haven’t always had kind words for CBS News, but I’ve always admired reporter Lara Logan’s guts and willingness to report on the ground and on the battlefield around the world — even if I didn’t agree [...]

**Written by Doug Powers I was hoping when Gregory asked Boehner how come he doesn’t spend more time lecturing people who aren’t entirely convinced President Obama was born in Hawaii that Boehner would have replied, “You probably see Chris Matthews more than I do, David, why don’t you do it?” But it wasn’t to be: [...]

**Written by Doug Powers So it is uttered, so it shall be done: Oprah called on President Obama’s critics on Friday to “show some level of respect.” “I feel that everybody has a learning curve, and I feel that the reason why I was willing to step out for him was because I believed in [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Nothing’s confirmed yet, but it would be a perfect match — Olbermann could spew the hot air and the ManBearPig could peddle the carbon offsets to Keith’s followers to protect themselves. It would be a “venom and antidote” business partnership made in heaven. From the New York Times: Keith Olbermann, the [...]

Game on

**Written by Doug Powers A few days ago it was announced that one of the main duties of Robert Gibbs’ replacement Jay Carney would be to “mend dysfunctional relationships” with the White House Press Corps. I don’t know when all that’s supposed to start, but it certainly didn’t start with the signing of START: President [...]

**Written by Doug Powers And no, it’s not the one that probably popped into your head first. The thrill up Chris Matthews’ leg has developed a wandering eye: With a script and a dramatic voice over befitting a trailer for the latest superhero movie out of Hollywood, one of the first promos for Chris Matthews’ [...]

**Written by Doug Powers After Obama won the election in 2008, Time Magazine, noticing that “New Deal II: This Time It’s Personal” was about to be released nationally, rode the wave: What a difference two years, some horrendously expensive spending (sorry: “targeted investment”) shams and pork orgies accompanied by the inevitable high unemployment, a sputtering [...]

**Written by Doug Powers It’s always fun to hear Robert Gibbs refer to the New York Times as if they’re just an extension of the White House press office, and yesterday was one of those days: White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters on Thursday to read a New York Times story on President [...]

The anchor who once shouted that he “wished he brought a gun to work” after his Magic Screen malfunctioned (h/t Allahpundit), and who works for the network that made “Crossfire” famous (see Doug Powers for an iconic screenshot), is now interrupting his show for real-time p.c. language self-policing of guests who use the term “crosshairs:” [...]

**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 [...]

Opinion-based fact-finder

**Written by Doug Powers Maybe Congress has raised the bar on morals and ethics just a tad, because the “sex scandals” are getting fewer and farther between — so much so that it looks like some are being forced to invent them where they don’t seem to exist. First, the allegations: Congresswoman Mary Bono Mack [...]

**Written by Doug Powers The president who doesn’t crave the spotlight will soon appear on his third Super Bowl telecast: The pro football playoffs begin this weekend, but Fox Sports is already making sure there’ll be solid television ratings no matter what teams makes it to the Super Bowl on Feb. 6. That’s because conservative [...]

Indecipherable to the most brilliant liberal scholars

**Written by Doug Powers By way of Politico, here’s today’s Obama-hits-the-links update… Human Events Senior Editor Emily Miller Twittered about how many rounds of golf Obama is up to these days: This prompted John Kim, who is a coordinating producer for PGA.com, to respond this way: Kim later noted how he should get elected president [...]

Motivations

En fuego!

**Written by Doug Powers What myth will be tested? The “stimulus created millions of new jobs” myth? The “unemployment checks are great for the economy” myth? No, the president is instead insisting that the Mythbusters re-test a myth they’ve already busted: President Obama has a personal request — to once again test the myth of [...]

Face of the enemy

**Written by Doug Powers On Face the Nation this morning, Bob Scheiffer’s round-table consisted of four authors who have written historical and/or political books. One of those authors was Edmund Morris, a Kenyan-born biographer residing in the United States who is obviously a fan of the movie My Cousin Vinny, but not a big fan [...]

This Week in Emasculation

**Written by Doug Powers This morning, Bob Schieffer had Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Face the Nation to discuss invasive airport security screenings that are starting to turn off just about any air traveler who doesn’t show up to the airport wearing a leather hood and a ball gag. When I heard Schieffer ask [...]