Category Archives: Wonky Media

cBS News: Presidential Vacations Are Hard!

I bet you didn’t know that presidential vacations are actually interrupted by the news, and having to make decisions and listen to briefings. I know I sure didn’t know that from January 2001 through January 19th, 2009, because the State Run Media never told me. Headline: News Interrupts Obama’s Hawaii Vacation. No, seriously. I’m actually […]

Fish Wrap: Debate Shows Obama’s Pretty Much Politics As Usual

The NY Times attempts to pretty much tell us, oh so gently, that Hope-n-change was pretty much all mule fritters, and Obama is nothing more than a typical inside the beltway politician. Were Obama a Republican, the Times would excoriate him for having run as a transformational figure who would do away with all the […]

USA Today Provides The Duck And Cover For Obama

It appears as if MSM worship of Obama has now trended towards excuse making. Not that they haven’t been doing that all along, but, as they watch their artificially created Messiah flounder and fail, much like Howard The Duck at the box office, they are in full on duck and cover mode: Obama’s hopes for […]

Fish Wrap Wonders If VATs Are The Cure For Deficits

Sure, why not, another tax on everyone is a good thing in Liberal World: Many See the VAT Option as a Cure for Runaway Deficits Runaway federal deficits have thrust a politically unsavory savior into the spotlight: a nationwide tax on goods and services. Members of Congress, like their constituents, are squeamish about such ideas […]

Are Wireless Phones The Next Liberal Bugaboo?

The Fish Wrap Of Record has a  long, long, long story, which appears on the front page of today’s edition, about the dangers of driving and wireless phones. There is also quite a bit of information regarding the profits (which, we all know are EVIL in Liberal World) that the industry makes. Is this just […]

Sarah Palin’s So Popular, She Even Brings The Media Out In Droves

For good or bad, when Sarah is speaking, everyone wants to be there, even the media Sarah Palin’s 11-minute speech before Washington’s Gridiron Club at its Winter Dinne tossed a few barbs at the gathering of journalists, who she compared to “death panels.” “Sometimes you got to trust your instincts, and if you don’t, you […]

Today’s Girly Man Whine Courtesy Of E.J. Dionne, Jr.

If it’s Thanksgiving, must be just another day to whine about how meanly Barry Obama is being treated It’s now official: So in vogue are attacks on President Obama that even his proclamation calling the nation to a day of Thanksgiving has become the focus of criticism. Presidential Thanksgiving messages are a routine bit of […]

About That “AGW Is Causing A 1 1/2 Inch Sea Rise” Talking Point

Apparently, the Talking Points went out in the last day or so, perhaps in an attempt to deflect attention away from the CRU emails and documents Since the 1997 international accord to fight global warming, climate change has worsened and accelerated — beyond some of the grimmest of warnings made back then. So, what the […]

NY Times Discovers That MSNBC Is Full Of Lefty Partisan Hacks

Well, really, I don’t blame them that much for taking so long. Why should anyone who works at the Grey Lady watch the network? No one else does: MSNBC Presses Obama on Campaign Promises If President Obama happened to glance at “The Rachel Maddow Show” last Monday, he might have winced. And Maddow would have […]

President Neophyte Gets Snippy Over Afghanistan Questioning

I suppose when you are used to the press treating you like you are a barely teenaged Disney TV star, you get a bit snippy when they ask you tough questions President Barack Obama made no effort to conceal his irritation when his press corps used the first question of his maiden Far East trip […]

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