Ever since Bitter-gate broke last month, I’ve been trying to figure out how the media could knowingly side with Hillary Clinton and John McCain– two Washington lifers, both worth at least $100 million– in painting a black man raised by a single mother on food stamps who a little over a decade ago was making […]

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I’m not going to say Barack Obama has a chance to win Pennsylvania.  He doesn’t.  But I can’t imagine anything making a stronger case for his campaign theme of moving beyond old school Washington politics than the ABC News debate last night.  I’m guessing that for every undecided voter who watched that debate and came away […]

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For some reason, I thought there was a debate scheduled tonight.  At 8:00 p.m., I turned my television to ABC expecting to see Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama answering questions posed by objective journalists.  Instead, they were showing some two-hour infomercial on why Hillary Clinton should be the Democratic nominee, hosted by former Clinton senior political […]

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The interesting thing about the world Sean Hannity lives in is that his version of being “pro-American” or patriotic is in almost direct contradiction to the founding fathers. Our democracy, and our America, is founded on debate, dissention, criticism, and course correction. The greatest Americans have been the ones who have questioned, challenged, and changed […]

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If you don’t know who Taylor Branch is, he won a Pulitizer Prize for his three-book America in the King Years biography of the life of Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights movement.  I’m only midway through the first book, but already the level of research, detail, and insight is staggering.  So imagine my surprise to […]

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Unsatisfied with the hour and a half a week they already use to try and make Hillary Clinton seem hip, Saturday Night Live will do four half-hour comedy specials on Thursday nights this fall focused solely on politics.  Reporting on NBC’s upcoming season schedule, Variety writes:
Peacock will once again air hourlong “Office” episodes in September. The next month, […]

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In attempting to find a rationale… any rationale for their candidate to remain in the race, Clinton supporters have soared to new heights of desperation, most recently resorting to this argument:
In the race for the most popular votes in the Democratic Party’s presidential primary contests, Sen. Barack Obama’s lead over Sen. Hillary Clinton is about 711,000 […]

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Lou Dobbs attempts to talk about race and gets about one syllable away from ending his career:

For those of you who may be confused, the phrase he was going for was “cotton-pickin’.”  Which connotatively is probably not the best expression to use when discussing African-Americans and our country’s history of race relations.

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I never really understood the value of a show where four people– moderated by Barbara Walters– who have little expertise and generally no idea of what they’re talking about, get together to do nothing but talk for an hour.  Think about it.  Would you have Rachel Ray do an hour-long talk show about sports?  Would you have Tucker Carlson do a show […]

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 If Pat Buchanan were to publicly use a racial slur, he would no doubt be fired from his pundit-on-call position at the various networks and labeled rightly as a nutjob.  The hateful diatribe Buchanan posted today on his website, titled “A Brief For Whitey”, will allow him to keep his job and whatever respectable reputation he enjoys, but it […]

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The media is already scrambling to find evidence that Barack Obama attended one of Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s inflammatory sermons, which would contradict Obama’s claim that he never personally heard Wright make the kind of controversial statements that are currently circulating on YouTube.  I said in the previous post that it was a dangerous game for […]

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Not really sure how you get canceled off MSNBC.  Chris Matthews often spends the entire 5:00 pm hour making noises with his armpits, and he’s the highest rated show on the network.  Can’t say I’ll miss Tucker, but he had his moments:

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I for one support CNN’s editorial decision to research this important matter further.  And it was an especially good move to ask the opinion of a man who believes that Hurricane Katrina was caused by gay pride parades and the Catholic Church is “the great whore.”

Coming next week to CNN: Is Barack Obama the reincarnated soul of Pontius […]

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Several people have noticed a difference between Barack Obama’s handling of Louis Farrakhan with his handling last year of Donnie McClurkin, the pastor who made a number of controversial statements about homosexuality.  When pressed about McClurkin’s support last October, Obama said this:
One of the things that always comes up in presidential campaigns is, if you’ve got multiple supporters all […]

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There’s been a lot of complaining in recent weeks by the Clinton campaign about what they perceive to be the media’s uneven treatment between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.  But Jonathan Martin over at Politico caught a moment in Tuesday’s debate where the media very noticably gave Clinton a pass.  When asked if she could […]

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