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Obama Equal Reagan? So Far, It Ain’t Even Close

From Human Events: A week after Ronald Reagan’s 100th birthday celebration, comparisons between Presidents Obama and Reagan continue. The conversation began when Obama praised Reagan in a USA Today op-ed. He commended Reagan’s leadership, his confidence in and optimism for America, and his great ability to communicate his vision for the country. Reaganites like myself [...]

Oprah Calls for Respect for Obama; Possible Pajama Summit in the Works

From Michelle Malkin: 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 his integrity [...]

Time Mag: Obama Hearts Reagan

From Michelle Malkin: 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 economy [...]

Media Picks Up Latest White House Spin: Obama’s Humble… Just Like Reagan

From Michelle Malkin: Yesterday, the New York Times, as a Christmas gift to those of us who enjoy laughing until pumpkin pie and egg nog shoots out our noses, published a piece about how President Obama has a natural penchant for humility: “I think it speaks volumes about the man’s temperament,” said Robert Dallek, the presidential [...]

Chris Matthews Gets the Thrill Back

From Michelle Malkin: Chris Matthews had lost the thrill for a while, but who knew that all it would take for him to haul his Obamagasm Splat-Mat™ out of mothballs would be for the president to compromise with Republicans? Obama’s regained that “cute, wonderful little boy smile we all love.” There’s nothing like heading into a [...]

MTV Denies That Obama Telecast Is Political

From Human Events: Viacom networks MTV, BET and CMT are giving an hour of free air time to President Obama less than three weeks before the midterm elections. The so-called “A Conversation with President Obama” will be live and commercial-free on six Viacom networks at 4 p.m. on Thursday. The networks will not give equal [...]

Palin: Why No Probe of Barack ‘Hussein’ Obama?

From NewsMax.com: Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin alleges that the media has a blatant double standard, shining intense scrutiny on GOP Senate nominee Christine O’Donnell while turning a blind eye to then-candidate Barack Obama’s personal history in the 2008 campaign. During an interview with Fox News host Greta Van Susteren Wednesday night, Palin said: [...]

Katie Couric: ‘Obama Has Enough Stress to Last a Lifetime’

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 [...]

“Did You Feel the Earthquake, Mr. President?” and 10 Questions He Wasn’t Asked

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 [...]

Sunday Talk Shows All Start With BP Hayward’s Yachting, Ignore Obama’s Golfing

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 [...]

PBS’s Meacham Frets Over Anti-Obama ‘Hate’ from Right, Invokes McVeigh and Oswald

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 [...]

Barack Obama plays golf eight more times than George W Bush

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 [...]

White House to media–’Don’t report what you discover’

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 [...]

Pro-Obamacare Thugs, Not Tea Party Activists, Are The Real Violent Extremists

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 [...]

Administration Loses Bid to Exclude Fox News From Pay Czar Interview

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 [...]

Poll: 89% Say Media Helped Elect, Promote Obama

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 [...]

Obama’s Deception About “Saved Jobs,” Impossible to Measure

From The Wall Street Journal: The Media Fall for Phony ‘Jobs’ Claims The Obama Numbers Are Pure Fiction. By William McGurn Tony Fratto is envious. Mr. Fratto was a colleague of mine in the Bush administration, and as a senior member of the White House communications shop, he knows just how difficult it can be [...]

Obama Answers Planted Questions In News Conferences

From The Washington Post: Stay Tuned for More of ‘The Obama Show’ By Dana Milbank Wednesday, June 24, 2009 In his first daytime news conference yesterday, President Obama preempted “All My Children,” “Days of Our Lives” and “The Young and the Restless.” But the soap viewers shouldn’t have been disappointed: The president had arranged some [...]

Obama’s Cynical ‘Humor’ at White House Correspondents’ Dinner

From GOPUSA.com: We start our week with yet another double standard on display in the media. This time the setting is the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington, DC. This event is the “who’s who” of the Washington elite: journalists, politicians, liberal entertainers. The list goes on and on. Normally, comedians take this [...]

The Death of Journalism & Free Speech

This isn’t directly related to the theme of this blog, but it is an important event nonetheless which shows us the hypocrisy and monstrosity of mega-media which is responsible for Obama getting elected. This is the exact topic that is covered in the fantastic documentary which I highly recommend, Media Malpractice: How Obama Got Elected [...]