From NewsBusters: Give the guy a break, he deserves it. That was Katie Couric’s message a week ago in her Notebook blog entry about President Obama’s 49th birthday (emphasis mine): The job has aged him, as it did his predecessors. Dr. Michael Roizen at the Cleveland Clinic stated constant stress can age the Commander in Chief [...]
From Telegraph.co.uk: During the unprecedented appearance he was hoping to appeal to so-called “soccer moms” who are being heavily courted by the Republican and answered questions on family life and even the misfortunes of the actress Lindsay Lohan. Critics have accused Mr Obama of demeaning the office of President by appearing on the sofa of [...]
From CNSNews.com: President Barack Obama, the honorary chairman of the Boy Scouts of America, will not speak in-person before the group on Wednesday at Fort A.P. Hill in Virginia, as part of the organization’s 100th anniversary celebration. However, the president is sending a videotaped message to the scouts for Wednesday, the same day he will [...]
From NewsMax.com: Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich slammed the Obama administration’s firing of a USDA official Sunday as a panicky response that shows they’re not prepared for the big issues facing the nation. “If the Obama administration is this afraid of Glenn Beck, how do they deal with the Iranians?” Gingrich asked on “Fox News [...]
From News Busters: Chris Matthews made a delicious Freudian slip this weekend calling Barack Obama President Carter. In the first segment of the syndicated program bearing his name, Matthews and panel discussed what Democrats are going to have to do to win in the upcoming midterm elections. The consensus was that they can’t run on [...]
From Michelle Malkin: President Obama and the Democrats have been calling out Republicans who opposed extending unemployment benefits without a way to account for the expenditure and piling on more debt. “May God have mercy on your souls,” said resident lunatic Rep. Alan Grayson in a fit of non-secularism to Republicans opposing the unfunded extension. But, [...]
From The Heritage Foundation: It gets pretty boring to watch conservatives endlessly complain about a fawning press corps, and a biased media. Yes, a majority of the national media is left-leaning; even they will admit as much. Some journalists put political views aside, and do an excellent job of delivering the news. Others can’t bear [...]
Say “goodbye” to our First Amendment right of freedom of press and “hello” to soviet America. From News Busters: Effectively reporting on the Gulf oil spill is now a Class D felony, punishable by a fine of up to $40,000. That’s right, the most transparent administration in history has made it a felony, effective July [...]
From Michelle Malkin: Now that they’re being shunned fairly regularly, at some point, will the majority of the mainstream media ever regret doing Obama’s bidding-by-not-digging and helping carry him into the White House on their shoulders? I didn’t think so: Holed up with seven other global leaders in the woods of Muskoka, Canada, President Barack Obama [...]
From NewsBusters.org: This is one of those “I told you so” moments conservatives should really be out publicizing: The $787-billion stimulus passed early 2009 – it’s not working. And on CNBC’s June 25 broadcast of “The Call,” CME Group floor reporter Rick Santelli explained that all government spending is not created equal, and President Obama’s so-called [...]
From NewsBuster.com: As NewsBusters previously reported, America’s media on Saturday had a collective hissy fit over BP CEO Tony Hayward having the nerve to participate in a yacht race on his day off. At the same time, no such outrage was expressed concerning President Obama and Vice President Biden going golfing. This double standard continued Sunday [...]
From NewsBusters.com: Barack Obama’s presidency goes the way of Jimmy Carter’s if he doesn’t get control of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. So said New York Times White House correspondent Helene Cooper on the most recent installment of “The Chris Matthews Show.” As the opening segment’s discussion concerning the spill moved to [...]
From NewsBusters.org: On Friday’s Need to Know on PBS, co-host Jon Meacham – also of Newsweek – devoted the show’s regular “In Perspective” segment to highlighting “anger” and “hate” felt by some conservatives toward President Barack Obama, and included examples of protesters and anger expressed toward liberals. He began the segment by raising the possibility [...]
From the LA Times: The notorious and formerly funny movie director Woody Allen is apparently frustrated with the cumbersome operations of American democracy too. The one-time-father-now-husband-of-his-daughter tells the Spanish-language magazine La Vanguardia that the United States’ Democratic Smoker-in-Chief could accomplish a whole lot more from his White House if he didn’t have so many disorderly, annoying [...]
From Telegraph.co.uk: President Barack Obama has played golf 32 times since he took office, eight more than his predecessor George W. Bush – who was mocked by the Left for his fondness for the game – did in his entire presidency. Mr Obama’s latest outing on the links came on Sunday, when an opportunity opened [...]
From Examiner.com: In light of numbing revelations over the last several days concerning fraudulent statements on Barack Obama’s resume, this piece of information curiously comes to light. The White House has instructed the ‘mainstream media’ not to report what they may discover. The White House directive was issued as part of a deal struck between [...]
From PrisonPlanet.com: Democratic proponents of the health care bill have attempted to portray anger being expressed by the majority of Americans who opposed the bill as some kind of vicious and deadly mass assault, casting themselves as poor victims of a bloodthirsty mob, when in reality the only real instances of violence have been carried [...]
From TownHall.com: It was only a year ago that liberal elites in Washington were shoveling dirt on conservatism. James Carville was writing boastful books about 40 years of Democrat dominance, boasting in his typical way that he could call “time of death” on the Republican Party. Liberals believed their hype that Barack Obama would be [...]
From FoxNews.com: The Obama administration on Thursday failed in its attempt to exclude Fox News from participating in an interview of an administration official, as Republicans on Capitol Hill stepped up their criticism of the hardball tactics employed by the White House. The Treasury Department on Thursday tried to make “pay czar” Kenneth Feinberg available [...]
From NewsMax.com: It’s not just conservatives who accuse the media of showing a liberal bias. A new survey from the Sacred Heart University Polling Institute shows that 89.3 percent of Americans believe the national media played a sizable role in helping to elect President Obama. And 69.9 percent of respondents view the national news media [...]