Category Archives: Wonky Media

Ezra Klein Takes One For Team Climahysteria, Walks Back Gore Hurricane Comment

Lots of people, from pundits to scientists, have hit Gore for his comment about “category 6 hurricanes”. Like a good little disciple, Ezra Klein takes one for the team (via Junk Science) (Washington Post) On Wednesday, I published an interview with Al Gore in which he mentioned that the scientific community was beginning to consider […]

NY Times: Hey, What Happened In Egypt Really Isn’t Obama’s Fault

It must be the fault of Other People, you know How American Hopes for a Deal in Egypt Were Undercut For a moment, at least, American and European diplomats trying to defuse the volatile standoff in Egypt thought they had a breakthrough. As thousands of Islamist supporters of the ousted president, Mohamed Morsi, braced for […]

NY Times: Mostly Unnamed North Carolinians Fear Something

I’d like to know what the NY Times actually knows about “the middle way”, considering they operate out of a heavily Progressive city in a pretty heavily left voting state North Carolinians Fear the End of a Middle Way When Pat McCrory, a Republican former mayor of Charlotte, was elected governor last year, he pledged […]

Good News: POTUS Press Secretary Still A Clueless Fool

Jay Carney makes Baghdad Bob look like an awesome spokesperson (Daily Caller) White House Press Secretary Jay Carney dismissed a question Wednesday regarding the safety of George Zimmerman and his parents as “ridiculous.” Asked by The Daily Caller during the daily press briefing whether the president intends to take any action to protect the Zimmermans […]

Dana Milbank Upset Democrats Dare Accuse Bush, Bush Admin. Of Wrong Doing

Oh, wait, sorry, he’s upset that Republicans have suggested that Obama and his administration might have engaged in wrong doing and could be involved in the IRS targeting scheme Accuse first and ask questions later A third House committee joined the stampede to examine the IRS on Monday, and its chairman did exactly what you […]

NBC Makes Up Quote For Michele Bachmann: “I’m quitting my House seat in 2014”

Here’s their headline Nowhere in the story is that headline verified. Nor, if one listens to the 8+ minute video from Bachmann will you hear that phrase. A bit of bias, eh? For Max Baucus NBC had the headline Max Baucus heeds the call of Nature. And Harkin won’t seek 6th Senate term (for Tom […]

NY Times Editorial Board Upset That Illegals Have To Deal With Criminal Justice System

They’re basically recommending open borders. Perhaps they should look south towards Mexico, where illegals are treated harshly, or to most other countries in the world, which have strict immigration policies. Anyhow, here’s what the extremely white and male editorial board writes Border Injustice Those who view fixing immigration as simply a matter of getting tougher […]

NY Times Publishes Op-Ed Supporting The Justice Dept. Going After Reporters

Most in the press are taking a position similar to Brit Hume’s (Mediaite) “That places this administration in the position of saying normal news gathering activities are criminal. That is chilling.” Juan Williams, who likes to tick off both sides, said something earlier on Fox News about 20 minutes ago. Others are saying similar things. […]

Politico: Obama’s Narrative Goes Down Dark Alley

Over at Ace Of Spades, DrewM provided a handy dandy Obama scandal scorecard, for which I opined in the comments that of all the scandals, the most dangerous for Obama is the Associated Press phone records one. There are certainly ones which are worse overall, but, if the AP turns on Obama, or at least […]

Politico: Those Wacky TEA Partiers Now An Ally To Immigration Reform

Well, this is a fine how-do-ya-do for a hump day morning Immigration’s new ally: Tea partiers Did your BS detector just ping? Immigration reform supporters are about to get some new conservative bonafides — prominent tea party backers. Several conservative activists and tea party group leaders are meeting with Sen. Marco Rubio Tuesday afternoon to […]

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