You may have seen this video flying around the internet. In it, NBC reporterette Norah O’Donnell ambushes a teenaged Palin supporter wearing a funny anti-bailout tee shirt, and confronts her on the “fact” that Sarah Palin “supported the bailout.”
On its face, there is a certain “gotcha” aspect to it, though it’s easy to say that [...]
Chris Matthews has been covering “Palinpallooza” all week, alternating between gushing over her personal popularity and condescending jabs at her intellect. Mostly, however, he’s been saying not to underestimate her, and exclaiming “I’ve never seen anything like this.”
So, Wednesday, on the opening day of Palin’s huge book signing tour, it was time for Chris to [...]
Keith Olbermann, who imperiously announces frequently that his is the number one news show in its time slot—despite drawing about 1/7 of the audience of The O’Reilly Factor—because he claims he is the “only real news program” in the schedule, sank to a new low (or revisited an old one) with his supposed “Number 1 [...]
Friday on Hardball, just after the announcement by Eric Holder that the Justice Department would bring Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other 9/11 terrorists to New York for a criminal trial, Chris Matthews was the only MSNBC host to express any common sense doubt about the plan.
MATTHEWS (Friday): … a show trial opportunity… Human rights matters, even [...]
Updated: What do the rest of the world’s leaders do in this situation?
Ever since Eric Holder made the announcement that the Justice Department was going to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a New York federal criminal court, the refrain from liberal columnists and TV hosts, administration flacks, and Democrat members of congress has been:
“We are going to show the world that we are better.”
Better than what? On [...]
President Obama belatedly hauled his teleprompter down to Fort Hood this week, ostensibly to comfort the families of the victims of Nidal Malik Hasan. But the person who would have drawn the most comfort from Commander-in-Chief’s bloodless and perfunctory address is General George “Diversity” Casey.
Casey drew considerable fire from military commentators, veterans and conservatives over [...]
Who is most likely to be the victim of a so-called “religiously motivated hate crime” in the United States—and who is mostly likely to be the perpetrator?
In the wake of the real life religiously motivated hate crime at Ft. Hood, where an Islamist gunman killed 14 and wounded scores more, Barack Obama, General Casey, Even [...]
On Morning Meeting with Dylan Ratigan and Contessa Brewer yesterday– the day after about 40 ultra-liberal Democrats announced they would scuttle Pelosi’s health care bill if taxpayers were not going to be on the hook for abortions– the storyline was still that it’s Republicans who are fatally divided. That conservatives are splintering the GOP and [...]
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This month, President Obama, despite his rather showy appearance to salute the coffins of American servicemen arriving at Dover– and finally showing up today at Fort Hood for the public memorial service– is proving how ignorant (if not indifferent) he is to the military’s traditions of how Americans honor our fallen heroes.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: I want [...]
Sometimes you can just tell that Bill O’Reilly resents the fact that he is undeservedly portrayed as a conservative. Yeah, he’s a patriotic guy, like your next door neighbor, and he’s right of center on most issues; but he’s basically an American populist.
Friday night, O’Reilly through his Talking Points Memo and an extremely vacuous interview [...]
On the night of the Fort Hood massacre, Keith Olbermann was worked up. Emotional, vein trobbing, voice trembling in fury worked up. The object of his wrath? Major Hasan who walked through an Army base gunning down unarmed Americans?
No, it takes Congresswoman Michelle Bachman to get him that agitated.
Here’s how Keith began his first segment [...]
Editor’s Note: See the previous installments of Forsmark’s “Meltdown with Keith Olbermann” series here.
While every other news channel at the top of the hour led with the mass murders committed by Army psychiatrist Major Malik Nadal Hasan, Keith Olbermann led Countdown with a hysterical rant about the health care demonstration at the Capitol, implying it [...]
