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Ok, what are we to make of this tweet from Mary Katherine Ham…(via J$) On @oreillyfactor with @marclamonthill (Juan’s out) at 8ish, talking Iran and Obama. Tune in to see us! After Hill’s very public “firing” by Rupert Murdoch no less, seeing Hill back on FNC this soon is rather odd. I mean there isn’t even a wind chill in Hades yet…

I'm watching Bill O'reilly (I know, I know) and radical leftist Marc Lamont Hill is back on the factor as a substitute for Juan Williams. Looks like he wasn't fired after all?

In 2008, a charismatic right-wing populist Republican governor won the heart of the party's base despite being forced to take a backseat to a more respectable "moderate" Republican. He was Mike Huckabee, and he is sad, and mad. Ben Smith followed Mike Huckabee around for a while as he sold his new Christmas book. Huckabee was the governor of Arkansas. He used to be fat, and then he got skinny, and now he is getting fat again. He's also basically as crazy Christian as they come, but he masks this with a genuinely likable sense of humor, which is why...

Last week's poll, "Do you believe Fox News is a legitimate news organization?" brought suggestions that we ask the same of MSNBC. So we are.

How did this show get past the ABC censors? How did the folks in Hollywood—good Progressives, all—let this program sneak onto the air? Were movie studio heads so distracted by attending yet another Washington fund raiser that a genuine alternate viewpoint was allowed to air? We may never know, but we can be grateful for the remake of V. Because it turns upside down every well known Left Coast trope. A Catholic priest (Joel Gretsch) has doubts. No, not those kinds. He distrusts the milky language of the Visitors and says so in his sermons. A Monsegnior insists the Vs...

ABC has run promos for All My Children (AMC) that are obviously false. Broadcasters receive licenses based on serving the public interest. A network that lies to attract viewers is not acting in the public interest. The FCC should consider revoking ABC's license allowing it to own individual television stations. I initially thought I wouldn't post this on blogs other than the one at Soap Central because it involves a show with fewer viewers than live in the 33rd most populous state, Arkansas. However, I realized that a network that will lie in promos for one show will likely lie...

The storys protagonist, Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), is a former Marine who was wounded and paralyzed from the waist down in combat on Earth. Jake is selected to participate in the Avatar program, which will enable him to walk. Jake travels to Pandora, a lush jungle-covered extraterrestrial moon filled with incredible life forms, some beautiful, many terrifying. Pandora is also home to the Navi, a sentient humanoid race that are more physically capable than humans, although considered primitive. Standing three meters tall, with tails and sparkling blue skin, the Navi live in harmony with their unspoiled world. As humans encroach...

Left-wing news commentator for MSNBC Keith Olbermann declared voter demonstrations against the Administration’s health care bill “terrifying” and urged that “they be stopped in some way.” The remarks came in response to a massive rally in Washington this past Thursday by opponents of the health care bill originally slated for a vote in the House of Representatives on Saturday. “Here are our duly elected members of Congress trying to do their job, trying to fix a broken health care system, when mobs of ignorant yahoos descend on them,” Olbermann complained. “How can we expect to govern the people of America...

With the news that Oprah Winfrey may take her daily talk show away from broadcast affiliates and to her own OWN cable network, that got us wondering: should Glenn Beck, now the #2 show on cable despite airing in he afternoons, be Oprah's syndicated replacement? Beck is well-rounded. Between his #1 best-selling books and comedy shows he's a three-dimensional talent that could easily adapt to daytimes. He could also use his radio audience to promote to local affiliates. Just yesterday, the New York Times reported novelists are considering Beck to be the "New Oprah," when it comes to endorsing political...

Shortly after the White House declared "war" on Fox's news division last month, calling it an arm of the Republican Party and attempting to freeze it out of a pooled press briefing, pundits on both the left and the right cried foul, summoning up comparisons to Richard Nixon's paranoid, vindictive presidency and based on the transcript of a Nixon tape below that comparison is very justified..... The White House has not been happy about Fox's relentless pursuit of the truth, unlike the rest of the mainstream media Fox has covered ALL the news including tea party rallies, anti-health care reform...

Our weekly, unscientific poll asks: Do you believe Fox News is a legitimate news organization? Results posted Monday.

Controversial filmmaker and author Michael Moore was recently asked to be on the next season of NBC’s The Biggest Loser series. Moore immediately accepted, NBC sent him contracts to lock in his appearance, and Moore signed and returned them by express mail the very next day. However, Moore, who claims he was previously unfamiliar with the show’s concept, has dispatched his legal team to negotiate his release from the contracts with NBC. Moore’s sources revealed to him months ago his nomination for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. Being positive he would win the famous award, Moore had already planned to...

"V" takes on Obamamania. Clip at www.daveweinbaum.com.

Our Mainstream Media sucks. They rooted for Obama. They voted for Obama. And they’re carrying the administration line without the slightest bit of curiosity. Obama even said it himself: “Most of you covered me… All of you voted for me.” (May 9, 2009) And the journalists in the room chuckled and applauded. Probably shouldn’t have laughed so fast because people are catching on. Press jobs are dying out with the rest of the economy. Ad revenues are slumping. Reporters are finding themselves out of work more and more. Most people (outside of the media think tanks themselves) blame the quality...

I made this as soon as I heard the remake of the old "V" mini-series goofs somewhat on Obama's galactic personality cult. Feel free to spread this virally and contribute your own versions. I could definitely see Michelle swallowing a few hampsters.

Do you believe Fox News is a legitimate news organization? YES, NO or WHO CARES?

Larry David joined the ranks of the rank this week when he whizzed on an image of Jesus Christ on his unfunny HBO show. I think this one will come back to bite you, LD. Yep, Larry, you should have indeed curbed your enthusiasm when you were contemplating POing Protestants and Catholics who watch HBO and buy your Seinfeld DVDs. FYI to ludicrous Larry: We “goofy” religious folks who number in the millions in the flyovers take our God seriously and don’t take a shinin’ to tools like you urinating on that which reps our Savior. Heck, we don’t even...

ABC News fields at least one real reporter. He’s White House correspondent Jake Tapper. Most AT readers, like many Americans, are thoroughly convinced that the legacy media reports with a bias toward Obama and the policies of his administration. So, when a notable exception surfaces, it’s only right that he or she be acknowledged. Jake Tapper has a front row seat at the White House (WH) briefings. He shows all the signs of being a for-real reporter. Here’s visual evidence of that. Remember the cell phone irruption episode back on May 19th during one of Robert Gibbs’ press conferences before...

Look it was bound to happen, I just didn't think it would happen so soon. The clown prince of the Florida Congressional team finally had a head explosion. It started back in the end of March when Neil Cavuto made mincemeat of him during an interview. That's when Grayson began his slide downhill. First it was his comment, “If you get sick, America, the Republicans’ health care plan is this: Die quickly.” Then, appearing on MSNBC, he said of former Vice President Dick Cheney: “I have trouble listening to what he says sometimes because of the blood that drips from...

CBS News skepticism regarding the number of jobs saved by the Obama Administration’s stimulus legislation raised ire at the White House. CBS News reporter Chip Reid aired a report revealing that many of the Administration’s claimed “job saved or created” totals were either exaggerated or false. Separately, CBS investigative reporter Stephen Stock worked undercover to expose a pattern of fraud at medical clinics operating in South Florida. This is part of an estimated annual $60 billion worth of fraud perpetrated in the government’s Medicare and Medicaid programs. “We’re putting CBS on notice,” said Barack Obama’s Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel....

Micheal Ruppet's vision of our future and it ain't pretty!

Congressman Alan "you are a whore" Grayson is a nut job who's lack of class should keep him from leaving the "padded room," but unfortunately he is a member of congress. In the spring Neil Cavuto had Grayson as a guest on his Fox show and pulverized him. It was arguably the most entertaining interview of the the year. It was a classic on the level of O' Reilly/Frank. Grayson is on Barney Frank's banking committee. He sponsored the "Pay for Performance Act of 2009." It would impose government controls on the pay of all employees (not just top executives)...

Andrew Breitbart has come a long way in a few short years. Starting off as an assistant to Matt Drudge, Andrew ended up forming his own news wire service and has rocked the media ever since, adding the entertainment media watch-blog Big Hollywood, and then exploding into deep political coverage with Big Government, whose first lead story damaged the credibility of ACORN. Here Andrew is doing an interview on C-SPAN. It’s worth a watch, not only because Andrew makes for a great interview, but how foolish some of the people calling in look in trying to take rather tepid cheap-shots...

Most cable news ratings are going to show declines from their election year heyday last fall, but for MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show (which debuted in September, 2008) those year over year declines have made October, 2009 its lowest rated month ever in both average viewers and the cable news targeted adults 25-54 demo, down 54% and 65% respectively from October, 2008

Just an FYI: 'By The People: The Election of Barack Obama' [HBO] http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/bythepeople/What's to bet there's nary a peep of a negative word.

FOX News announced that Rush Limbaugh will be the special guest on an upcoming FOX News Sunday with Chris Matthews.

Obama Administration advisor David Axelrod said his analysis of Fox News broadcasts confirms that “it is not really a news station and should not be treated as such. The President has requested that the Federal Communications Commission “review Fox’s broadcasts and determine whether its license should be revoked.” Two key charges against Fox are pending. One is that “its on-air personnel are insufficiently diversified.” “We feel fairly certain that the racial and ethnic composition of the on-air staff does not reflect a proportionate balance with the composition of the nation’s population,” Axelrod said. “This is a violation of the Equal...

Who would've thought the horror movie series I love would go political on me. I'm not going to spoil the movie, so I'll just tell you the political message of it. So the movie opens up and we see 2 people who are in cells and they're across from 1 another, Jigsaw comes on and he starts his speech, he says that they're PREDATORY LENDORS who take advantage of people who would never be able to pay back their loans. I turn my head to the right and whisper to hubby "did he just say predatory lenders" hubby smirks and...

VIDEO MESSAGE FROM BRENT BOZELL: Without a shred of proof, CNN and MSNBC continued to repeat completely fabricated racist quotes they attributed to Rush Limbaugh. Their reckless behavior revealed their deep hatred—not just for Rush, but for conservatives in general …

VIDEO: Communist Keith Olbermann, a member of Obama's "mainstream media" at MSNBC, repeated White House propaganda so accurately that you would think he lifted the words from Obama's beloved teleprompter. Olbermann, who's so far left that even the state-run MSNBC fired him from election coverage last year, lashed out in a grotesque display of journalism butchery against the Tea Party Express II, on October 22nd.

As an intellectual and sophisticated man of advanced education and refinement, President Obama should know better than to believe press clippings originating with the leftist media. An experienced political professional intent on playing on the world stage should also be able to accept criticism and dissent without unraveling to the point of utter distraction. After all, we do live a civilized society where the president serves at the pleasure of the people. He is neither deity nor royalty, despite what obedient armies of Obamanites and adoring media types tell him. Criticism and robust opposition come with the gig, Mr. President!...

Chris Mathews at it again! First, I am sure this is my last Matthews post for a while. Well I am pretty sure. But, I … well I just could not stop laughing. Chris Matthews and guests Pat Buchanan and Ron Brownstein kick Wall Street around (deserved) but then demean the entire system. Paraphrasing now but it boils down to … these guys on Wall Street produce nothing … and thus deserve nothing.

The comedy icon made pie-in-the-face gag a pop-culture phenomenon: It was a simple gag, but one that made Soupy Sales a household name: a pie in the face, or 20,000 pies, to be exact. That slapstick comedic trick, along with a warehouse of goofy faces and wacky characters helped elevate Sales (born Milton Supman) to one of the country's most beloved comedians in the late 1950s. Sales died on Thursday at the age of 83 at a hospital in the Bronx, after several years of declining health... With his loose-limbed physicality and malleable face, Sales honed his craft on children's...

The Fashion Time Magazine’s Best Dressed Of The Day, who could it be? There were many strong candidates embracing old school glamour and chic, but Blake Lively and Hilary Swank sartorially inspired us the Hollywood way. Hilary Swank walked the red carpet in New York for the “Amelia” premiere. The actress stunned — we saw stars — in a blue Vionnet Resort 2010 draped gown. Super!

Tina Fey, who only recently confessed before David Letterman's national television audience that she didn't have sex until she was 24, is outing herself again: she admires and respects the woman she imitates, Sarah Palin. And is teetering toward voting for Palin should the former Alaska governor run for president in 2012.

Mickey Kaus is one of the few left-wing bloggers I find worth reading. Does he seriously think that there is any corellation to be drawn by matching Fox, a conservative-leaning (barely) station in terms of opinion.... Click on the image to read the rest:

SLAM!! The White House got a major league bitch slap today as it tried to escalate its censorship of Fox News but received no cooperation from the other networks. On today's special report host Bret Bair told the story of Obama's foolishness (see video below). "Today there was an announcement by the administration," Baier said. "They were putting out the pay czar, Kenneth Feinberg, as we showed you earlier for the White House pool - that Feinberg would be doing a round-robin interviews with the five-network pool that covers the White House - basically shares the costs and the daily...

Apparently so and it is not even close. With nearly 21,000 votes cast Sarah Palin has a commanding lead of 63% to Oprah’s 37% on Which of the two women do you have a more favorable opinion of? and Are you interested in watching Oprah Winfrey’s interview of Sarah Palin? 59% say yes and 41% no. Going on The Oprah Show is clearly a very smart decision by the best selling author in the country, Governor Palin. She is not going on to sell her book but rather to reach and meet a very large audience of women. Most Americans...

I heard today that Sarah Palin has been invited to appear on Oprah Winfrey’s show. After picking my jaw up from the ground, I ran back over my archives. During the campaign, Oprah had Obama on enough time for her to qualify as one of his campaign operatives. Sarah Palin didn’t even get a consideration much less an invitation. Perhaps it is because her forthcoming book, “Going Rogue” is a bestseller even before it hits the bookstores. This link tells the story. People cannot get it yet and it has blown every single Democrat book that could even be considered...

Applause must be given to U.S. Congressman Mike Pence, for stating what should be obvious to everyone except the self-proclaimed Obama sycophants in the "mainstream media," and the Marxist Obama administration. Given that polls show self-identified conservatives outnumber liberals by almost a 2 to 1 margin, and that there are, amazingly, more conservatives than liberals in all fifty states, it's ironic that the "mainstream media" (CNN, New York Times, LA Times, MSNBC, etc.) is even referred to as the "mainstream media," considering only slightly over 20% of Americans refer to themselves as "liberal".

Sen. Lamar Alexander, (R-Tenn.), from the Senate floor today, likened President Obama's war against FOX News to former president Richard M. Nixon's infamous "Enemies List". Alexander cited numerous recent examples of groups under siege by Obama's White House, including, as left-of center Politico recently put it, attempting to "neuter" the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, similar to Nixon's tactics forty years ago. Alexander should know. He was an aid of Nixon's in the 1970's.

CNN just keeps embarrassing itself. Oddly enough, Rush Limbaugh could help them out, while doing himself a little good at the same time. Following close on its much-derided ‘fact checking' of an SNL skit poking fun at President Obama, and the humiliating pat-on-the-head it got as an Obama administration-certified legitimate news organization, CNN has now queried a psychiatrist as to why folks listen to conservative talk radio, especially Rush Limbaugh. CNN's Carol Costello interviewed psychiatrist Gail Saltz. (Video courtesy of Breitbart. Watch it!) The premise that one should ask a shrink, in seeking to find out why folks listen to...

Gov. Palin is going to appear on “Oprah” in an effort to tout the already-best-selling Going Rogue on Nov. 16. This, needless to say, has caused some consternation throughout the free world, although it’s provided much satisfaction to know that only Gov. Palin would have to take a slight step downward in order to appear on Oprah’s couch. As I’m not an Opraholic, before anything, I think we should get at sampling of the Oprahsphere regarding this announcement: “Oprah you have hit a new low. Allowing Palin airtime on the most popular daytime show the day before her book is...

Hugo Chavez has a history of criticizing the Venezuelan media that didn't overtly praise the dictator: As politicians in the U.S. discuss bringing back the so-called Fairness Doctrine, which would compel radio and TV stations to present both sides of any controversial issue, the question in Venezuela is far more serious: whether there can be more than one side -- Hugo Chavez's side -- that gets aired about anything. Addressing the nation on his weekly television show on Sunday, the Venezuelan president laid out plans for his next crusade, ordering his governors and mayors to draw up a "map of...

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In a post-apocalyptic America where the once-picturesque countryside has become a desolate and violent wasteland, one man (Denzel Washington) fights to protect that sacred tome that could hold the key to the survival of the human race in this futuristic thriller from filmmaking duo Albert and Allen Hughes (From Hell and Dead Presidents). Gary Oldman, Mila Kunis, and Ray Stevenson co-star in the Warner Bros. production. - Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

Rush Limbaugh has been the No. 1 topic of conversation in the sports media over the last couple of weeks, as his bid to become a part owner of the St. Louis Rams was torpedoed, in part, by commentators and NFL players suggesting that Limbaugh is a racist who has no business being a part of the NFL. But was Limbaugh treated unfairly by the sports media? Maybe. Michael Wilbon of the Washington Post and ESPN appeared on CNN's Reliable Sources this weekend and acknowledged that he did not have a credible source for a racist quote he attributed to...

for example, from his rant against big bottled water: "... the huge soda companies decided to sell you bottled water which is from the same source as tap water, but guess what? when you sell it as natural and in a bottle, it's unregulated. at least tap water is regulated." this from a guy who is currently fined up to his eye balls as a result of pimping unregulated natural supplements for every disease imagineable, while blasting regulated big pharma. shameless.

classic scene from Fargo.

Today's enlightened liberals are not so much into deconstructing rival iconic figures as they use to be. It may be because they are too busy fashioning alternative narratives, and sometimes even deliberately forgetting the lugubrious past history of some of their own cultural icons. Of course, there are grave errors inherent to this obscurantist approach, chief among which are the squandering of vitally important lessons for posterity, and a scoffing at wisdom that may otherwise be retained as a legacy they can proudly call their own. The indignant bickering from the Hollywood glitterati at the belated arrest of acclaimed Film...