Media Matters: where scare quotes magically transform facts into “smears”


 
One of the left’s favorite (and lamest) rhetorical tricks is to simply reprint one of their opponent’s statements, verbatim, and without comment. You see, the statement’s idiocy and offensiveness is self-evident, and will surely shock the conscience of any “right thinking” reader. No rebuttal required.
It’s a lazy, sophomoric ploy. I suppose the left has been [...]

From the Pen of David Horowitz: September 24, 2009


Contrary to your assertions, the left is in fact more vibrant and more powerful than it has ever been. How else did it manage to put a million activists in the streets to prevent the United States from taking down a monstrous regime and liberating millions of Third World people, and did so (unlike Vietnam) [...]

MSNBC’s Hot Dog Palin Obsession


MsNBC attack Palin even through video selection for stories on her.

MSNBC Commentator: Republicans “Want to See You Dead…They Kinda Like It When That Woman Has Cancer”


On the Wednesday evening edition of “The Ed Show,” MSNBC commentator Ed Schultz stated that Republicans want Americans to die, and that they enjoy it when middle-aged women contract cancer. He then suggested that moderate Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine should allow tumors to spread through her body if she ever gets cancer.
Schultz, whose [...]

Islam: Never an anti-Semitic Faith?


Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, the renowned U.S. writer and broadcaster, was on Anderson Cooper 360 last night, discussing his noble and admirable activism against Ahmadinejad’s and Gadhafi’s visit to the United States.
The Rabbi was involved in demonstrations outside the U.N., and he also had helped to block plans for Gadhafi to set up [...]

Don’t Count on a Serious ACORN Probe


Glenn Beck advised his TV audience Wednesday not to hold their breath waiting for Congress to launch a serious investigation into the activities of the left-wing crime syndicate ACORN.
He noted that House Judiciary Committee chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.) and House Financial Services Committee chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) asked the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service to research [...]

Losing My Religion: Chris Matthews Now Agnostic on Dissenters’ Racism


PRESIDENT OBAMA:  Well, first of all, I think it‘s important to realize that I was actually black before the election.
During the Ted Kennedy memorial coverage, Chris Matthews suddenly decided to become the voice of hard-headed reason on MSNBC—at least compared to his outwardly socialist colleagues who scream that anything less than government-run health care is [...]

Artificial Sweetener: If You Can’t Get the Money Quote, Manufacture One


In some alternate dimension, there is a Rachel Maddow who makes reasoned arguments. She never stretches the truth or invents stories out of thin air. She never unfairly smears her opponents and is not afraid to bring them on her show for a friendly chat. Somewhere, Rachel Maddow is smiling a smile  filled with something [...]

Bill Maher Embraces Sugar Stalinism


Stalinism hasn’t really gone away. It’s just gotten a lot wimpier — and sweeter.
Case in point: Bill Maher’s most recent New Rules segment from Friday’s “Real Time” (reprinted as always at Arianna Huffington’s leftist mega-blog Huffington Post):
And since Americans can only be prodded into doing something with money, we need to tax crappy foods that [...]

Obama’s Applause Lines Tell Us Everything


David Horowitz commented on The One’s sellout speech to the UN this morning. Sometimes one stray fact is enough to tell a whole story: The biggest applause lines by far were his declaration that “America does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements,” and his pledge to end the Israeli “occupation that began in [...]