CHRIS MATTHEWS: Obama “Carteresque.”
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It is perhaps fitting that my youngest nephew celebrates his first birthday today (three days before the actual event) on the 113th anniversary of the birth of his great-great Aunt Ruth and the 190th anniversary of the birth of the greatest English novelist who ever lived, Mary Anne Evans Cross [...]
Among the sixty Senators voting to begin debate on Harry Reid’s 2,074-page health care bill were thirteen from states which voted for John McCain last fall, five of them from states which haven’t voted for a Democrat for President in forty-five years. Alaska’s Mark Begich (who wouldn’t be in [...]
Having used creative bribery (with our tax dollars), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid apparently has all sixty Democrats on board for a cloture vote to begin debate on his 2,074-page health care bill. While this vote will bring the legislation one step closer to passage, we still have a [...]
As Sarah Palin once again finds herself in the national limelight, largely due to the publicity surrounding the release this week of her bestselling book Going Rogue: an American Life, many of us have been reviewing the events of last fall’s campaign as well as contrasting her record to [...]
This morning, I read the first 100 pages (about one-quarter) of Sarah Palin’s book, Going Rogue: An American Life. And despite the “narrative” that this book is whiny, with the former Alaska Governor portraying herself as a victim trying to settle scores, there is no trace of that in [...]
If, in the immediate aftermath of the 2008 election, you had asked me to put together a broad-based panel on reviving the right, I would surely have chosen to include David Frum. Yeah, I know he had been strongly critical of John McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin as his running [...]
Long before the 2008 presidential campaign, I found CBS News Anchor Tracy Flick Katie Couric annoying. Like Reese Witherspoon’s character in the 1999 flick Election, Couric comes across as smug and self-righteous. It seems she believes that her prominence means she knows better than the rest of [...]
When a reader sent me an e-mail on how Sarah Palin’s ex-son-in-law-to-be was not made welcome at a swank Hollywood Party this weekend, I begin to feel sorry for the teenager:
Levi Johnston flew first class to LA for the party and calls himself “Ricky Hollywood,” but he was barely [...]
While I’m up in San Francisco spending Thanksgiving with the most important person in the state, I’ll be organizing a brunch for our readers next Saturday, November 28. Given that reader Leah will also be in the Bay Area and wants to see the Asian Art Museum (one of [...]
Maybe those climatologists who had predicted ever-increasing temperatures wouldn’t be puzzled by the failure of global temperatures to keep rising had they not relied on doctored data. When someone hacked into “a major global-warming advocacy center in the UK [and had] the data published on line“, we [...]
With his “stimulus” boondoggle going bust and unemployment at its highest rate in a quarter-century, in California at its highest rate since Barbara Boxer was in Kindergarten, the president is at his wits end; he doesn’t know what to do.
So, he’s holding a jobs summit at the White House and [...]
So says meteorologist Mojib Latif of the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences in the northern German city of Kiel. He is also one of Germany’s best-known climatologists. The facts have begun to overtake the fiction (NBC’s shrill Green Week was undeterred, however).
Global warming appears to have stalled. Climatologists are [...]
When I read last night that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid released his healthcare proposal, I was all but certain that no matter what was in the bill, California’s junior Senator, Ma’am Barbara Boxer, would vote for it, given how she marches in lockstep with her party. But, now that [...]
Last night, when I heard Sean Hannity ask former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin what she would do to get the economy growing again, I hoped you would reply in the same manner as former HP CEO Carly Fiorina did when Greta van Susteren asked her a similar question.
In one minute [...]
Earlier today, while doing cardio to warm up for my workout, I watched the TV screen where the local CBS affiliate was constantly cutting to live footage of students (and associated 1960s leftovers) protesting a fee increase. And their constant coverage got me wondering if the same station offered the [...]
Wondering about the Newsweek cover story of the former Governor of Alaska, David Harsanyi asks:
a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation recently found that 48 percent disapprove of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, a woman busy writing policy that affects all of us. Does this not require a “How Do You [...]
I wrote my recent post on Al Gore primarily to contest the characterization of this crusading environmentalist as a thinking man. He may have reached his conclusions about the threat of global warming based upon sound science, but in leading a movement to impose strict government controls on carbon [...]
In a post this morning, Jim Geraghty points out that Sarah Palin’s approval rating among independents is 41 while that of the president is 43 and the vice president 42.
And she doesn’t have the advantage of a fawning press corps.
[...]It all sounded good when spouted out of the mouths of MSM babes (Chris Matthews, Rachel Maddow and the like) and other children of our time (Joe Biden): $787 Billion to “jumpstart” the economy, and create MILLIONS of jobs!
But just like nearly all of Obama’s principles and promises — this [...]
One of these people has the moral authority…. the other is a political hack nominated by the President.
-Bruce (GayPatriot)
[...]Democrats sure do like to hold big health care votes on Saturdays when most people are paying more attention to their families and devoting more time to recreation and relaxation than to politics. According to the Washington Examiner, Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin says a vote to move forward [...]
Perhaps, it was reading stories about Robin Hood as a boy that I first came to admire Richard the Lionheart, King of England from 1189 until his death ten years later. He was the noble ruler who, when returning from the Crusades, removed his usurping brother John from the throne [...]
It seems that many of Sarah Palin’s critics are pushing the narrative that the former Alaska Governor has used her book and is using her book tour to settle old scores. They have bought into the Democratic talking point that the book in “political payback“. A headline in the [...]
So writes prominent Palin critic and libertarian blogress Megan McCardle.
McArdle begins her post reminding her readers that she really doesn’t like Sarah Palin, even takes issues with folks (like yours truly) who fault the media for being “just a bunch of elitist hooligans who are out to get” the former [...]
With Sarah Palin all over the news this week, we encounter yet again the power of the media, even in the twilight of their influence to shape popular opinion. Despite her record of accomplishment as Governor of Alaska, including her regular bucking of the Republican establishment and cooperation with Democratic [...]
Had President Obama not claimed the Democrats’ “stimulus” would keep unemployment at or below 8%, he would not “own” the jobless rate so early in his term. But, now it’s his problem in more ways than one. ABC’s Rick Klein contends: “The administration asked for this — dare [...]
Sarah Palin may seek out the limelight, as some of her critics contend, but unlike most in this town (Hollywood) who see such attention, this much (and usually falsely) maligned Republican woman gets it. AP tasks 11 Reporters to “fact check” her book. The DNC churns out press [...]
It’s amusing to watch Democrats and associated leftists get worked up into a lather at there mere mention of Sarah Palin’s name. We’ve got critics bringing her up in the comment sections of posts which don’t even mention that charismatic and accomplished woman.
And Democratic National Committee (DNC) operatives have gone [...]
I’ve bought the book, it is in the mail, and I watched Sarah on Oprah.
More later… I just figured we could use the bump in traffic with a Palin-related headline.
Crass, I know. But funny, huh?
-Bruce (GayPatriot)
[...]When accepting her Oscar for Places in the Heart in 1985, Sally Field famously said to her Hollywood audience
I haven’t had an orthodox career. And I’ve wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn’t feel it, but this time I feel it and [...]
The biggest lost opportunity of the Obama Administration came in his first hours, nay, its first minutes. The then-new President could have departed from the text of his inaugural address to chide those who had booed his predecessor. He could say that while they may not agree with Bush’s policies, [...]
If Matthew Continetti were a liberal journalist writing about a charismatic (or even a colorless) Democratic governor who had suffered the same treatment from the media that Sarah Palin did, his book The Persecution of Sarah Palin: How the Elite Media Tried to Bring Down a Rising Star would [...]
With Sarah Palin’s memoir, Going Rogue: An American Life going gangbusters on amazon, currently their #1 seller (it was released only today, yet has spent 50 days in the online bookseller’s top 100), it’s clear that this accomplished former Governor can both infuriate liberals and sell books.
It seems [...]
Last week, our state’s junior Senator, Ma’am Barbara Boxer, traveled with great fanfare to San Diego to boast about how many jobs the “stimulus” created only to have a news organization debunk her claim. They found that the $787-billion bill she so energetically supported had created a grand total of [...]
Those who observed me doing cardio at the gym last night must have thought I was watching something on Comedy Central. Instead, I was watching a performance by a feminist on Larry King Live that had it been cut and pasted into a Saturday Night Live sketch, it would not [...]
And it’s not just that the mere mention of her name can whip liberals into a frenzy.
It’s that she is a natural politician who can, as few leaders have in recent years, command a stage and capture the popular imagination. She has a natural charisma and public presence similar [...]
Had President Obama not promised the “stimulus” which passed at the start of his term would keep the unemployment rate down below 8%, with multitudinous new jobs created driving that percentage down even further, he–and his party–would not own the increasing unemployment rate as they now do.
Nationwide, nearly three million [...]
You know, even if I didn’t appreciate Sarah Palin’s accomplishments in the years leading up to her election as Alaska Governor and in her short time in office nor recognize her gifts to move an audience (more on this anon), I would have the same kind of respect for [...]
That’s certainly the impression I get from reading the Anchoress’s post on Obama supporter Oprah Winfrey’s interview with former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin:
Palin struck me as too guarded and needlessly defensive. Toward the end, Oprah asked if she had anything else to say, and Palin unwisely blurted out, “you can’t [...]
If Chuck DeVore wants to run against Dede Scozzafava, he should move to New York. I believe she’s up for reelection next fall to the State Assembly.
But, since he seems determined to run against Carly Fiorina for the Republican Senatorial nomination here in the Golden State, he need address her [...]
The nation’s largest publisher of newspapers serving the gay and lesbian community has shut down.
Laura Douglas-Brown, editor of Southern Voice newspaper in Atlanta, said she arrived at work Monday to find the locks changed and a note saying parent company Window Media LLC had closed down.
She said [...]
Given a weekend cluttered with events, I have not had as much time to blog as I would like, so apologize if I appear to be hitting the same theme in subsequent posts.
One reason I return to the President’s grandiosity is that I was struck by the apparent contradiction in [...]
Now that I’ve been checking my AOL e-mail more regularly through my browser rather than via its own application, I get to see the latest headlines they feature as I do those on Yahoo! And just like their sister server, they have a similar liberal bias and intense animus against [...]
It is quite possible that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed may go free after masterminding the 9/11 attacks. Why? Because AG Holder’s decision to move KSM and the other al-Qaeda suspects out of the military courts and into the civilian courts may throw a lot of evidence out the window. This is [...]
Was it on AOL or Yahoo!’s homepage where a story about former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s dinner invitation to her ex-son-in-law-to-be led for (what seemed) the better part of the day?
Perhaps, I should have saved the link, but, well, the story didn’t much interest me. (It was the media’s obsession [...]
Why is that President Obama must make it appear that the world began anew with his inauguration not quite ten months ago? In his videotaped speech to the audience assembled to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of fall of the Berlin Wall, he mentioned his own accomplishments more than those of [...]
In my early days in Hollywood, when I focused more on the business of entertainment than I do today, I used to try to predict (before I realized there were websites dedicated t0 that very science) how well certain new releases would do at the box office on a given [...]
It’s not always a good idea to recommend a book of which you’ve read only the first 18 pages. But, if the remaining 208 pages of Matthew Continetti’s The Persecution of Sarah Palin: How the Elite Media Tried to Bring Down a Rising Star are as good as its Prologue, [...]
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