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Her name is Alyssa Rosenberg and I will not link to her wretched piece on the movie which is at the Washington Post, but in her twitter account she boasts of how her husband works for Media Matters. Why does the Washington Post allow her to write anything which is obviously so partisan? She makes no attempt to even hide it. What a partisan hack.

During an appearance at a Jon Huntsman “No Labels” event, a female audience member named Lauren Batchelder played the role of a female antagonist toward candidate Donald Trump. ADVERTISEMENT However, Ms. Batchelder is not just an average audience member. She’s a paid political operative of the GOP and a paid staff member of Team Jeb Bush: NH 6 Within minutes of her scripted performance at the event, the producers of CNN were quickly editing soundbites and framing a narrative. That story was pushed into the media stream within hours. CNN’s Jeanne Moos was the delivery vehicle for the a hit...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) complained that House Republicans are refusing to bring some Senate-passed legislation to the floor—but dismissed the question of when he might bring many House-passed measures up for a Senate vote. “I can give you a long list of things we haven’t done,” Reid said at his weekly press conference when CNSNews.com asked if he would ever bring languished GOP bills up for a vote. … Reid, as majority leader in the Senate, controls the floor schedule—deciding which bills will come to the floor and when. When asked again if he might bring any of...

Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) calls Republicans "dead-beat debtors" among other things during a Democratic press conference on Wednesday morning. "The debate and fight is not between Democrats and Republicans. It's between some Republicans and their sort of cult fringe as I refer to them out there," Harkin said. "Democrats are willing to do whatever is necessary to raise the debt ceiling, not for future borrowing but to pay the debts that we racked up in the past. Which, mostly was racked up by a Republican House, a Republican Senate and a Republican President in the last 8 years. Yet, they're...

Nancy Pelosi says Obama created more jobs in 2010 than G. W. Bush did in eight years. In a post-State of the Union speech interview, the fired speaker and current minority leader was quick to dish out more Democrat propaganda to shore up what she thought was an excellent SotU speech by the president. Proving the Democrats are anything but for a new, civil tone, contrary to the calls for just that by Obama, Pelosi also tore into the GOP, defaming them as the “Just Say No To Jobs Party” for their repeated opposition to Obama’s “job-creating” initiatives in his...

James Bradley’s incendiary new book about Theodore Roosevelt is not really packed with secrets. Much of the material it discusses has long been hidden in plain sight. But Roosevelt biographers often subscribe to certain orthodoxies, and one of them is this: When Roosevelt made noxiously racist and ethnocentric remarks about Anglo-Saxon greatness, so what? He was just voicing the tenets of his time. Mr. Bradley, the author of “Flags of Our Fathers,” does not simply cite Roosevelt’s egregious talk. He presents this much-ignored aspect of Roosevelt’s thinking with sharp specificity (“I am so angry with that infernal little Cuban republic...

Joe Biden will be appearing at the National Domestic Violence Hotline Center and attend a Democratic National Committee lunch in Austin Texas on Tuesday, April 28th. The National Domestic Violence Hotline Center is located conviently on the corner of 5th and Congress. Google Map to Center

Now that Barack Obama is assuming the presidency, partisan criticism is suddenly passé. Really, it's all just so churlish, so "yesterday." Just ask Chris Matthews. In the course of cheerleading the MSNBC coverage of Hillary Clinton's confirmation hearing today, Matthews suggested that the media shouldn't cover the Republican National Committee's criticism of Clinton. The comments came during the Hardball host's chat with Newsweek's Jonathan Alter. A few minutes earlier, Matthews had assured us that those who had the privilege of knowing Hillary personally were aware of what a "wonderful" person she is. Then it was time to attack Republicans for...

Huffman takes Senate Dist. 17 seat in runoff By ALAN BERNSTEIN Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle Dec. 16, 2008, 11:32PM 1 2 STEVE UECKERT CHRONICLE BuzzRepublican Joan Huffman defeated Democrat Chris Bell in Tuesday's runoff election for a Houston-area seat in the Texas Senate, setting a new high for the number of women in the 31-member legislative chamber. With votes from all precincts counted, Huffman, a former judge and prosecutor, had 56 percent against the former congressman and Houston councilman, according to results that will be made final and official in a few days. "I have my supporters and thousands of...

"White House reporter Helen Thomas (L) poses with documentary film maker Rory Kennedy at the White House in Washington, D.C. in this undated publicity photograph released to Reuters August 14, 2008. Next week on cable network HBO, Thomas, 88, makes a rare appearance as an interview subject in a documentary "Thank You, Mr. President: Helen Thomas at the White House," produced and directed by Kennedy, whose uncle "Jack" was the first Oval Office occupant Thomas followed as a reporter."

Since the revelation that Richard Armitage, a former high-ranking official in the State Department, was the source of the much-ballyhooed Valerie Plame "leak," many in the media have refused to touch the story with a ten-foot pole. This was quite a turnaround since before the Armitage involvement was known, many journalists believed the CIA leak story was one worth pursuing on a daily basis. Some even believed it could bring down the Bush White House, or at least end the careers of Karl Rove and Dick Cheney. One of the biggest media figures boycotting the Plame story has been MSNBC...

SNIP.... MINOR EDITINGMAC Cosmetics has censored Sandra Bernhard for bashing the GOP. The cosmetics giant, owned by Estée Lauder, got hundreds of complaints after it posted an online ad this week for its Plushglass lip gloss in which the balloon-lipped comic does some free-form ranting, including a riff about an "intimidated, frightened, right-wing Republican thin-lipped bitch." But Mac oddly didn't cut a line in which Bernhard cheekily discusses the bodily fluids of a horny barnyard bird.

WASHINGTON, April 22 — In 1998, when President Bill Clinton ordered military strikes against a suspected chemical weapons factory in Sudan, Mary O. McCarthy, a senior intelligence officer assigned to the White House, warned the president that the plan relied on inconclusive intelligence, two former government officials said. Ms. McCarthy's reservations did not stop the attack on the factory, which was carried out in retaliation for Al Qaeda's bombing of two American embassies in East Africa. But they illustrated her willingness to challenge intelligence data and methods endorsed by her bosses at the Central Intelligence Agency. On Thursday, the C.I.A....

MIDI - CABARET You're caught red-handed but claim you've been wronged That seems a little odd Mary Mapes, welcome into our...political jihad Worse than a sandwich in which to be caught Between Fat Ted and Dodd Mary Mapes, welcome into our...political jihad When you tells lies, and then you cry No sympathy you'll be receiving...we're enjoying that you're grieving CBS let you try pulling your scam They gave you a wink and nod Mary Mapes, welcome into our...political jihad When you tells lies, and then you cry No sympathy you'll be receiving...we're enjoying that you're grieving You thought that...

MIDI - DANIEL Danny is doing his Wednesday night show Off into the sunset all the FReepers are watching him go That partisan hack...he spent his years pushing his leftist views It was quite amazing...people thought he was doing news Danny, your Memogate scandal...is how you're finally nailed You angered your execs...they suggested you bail Dan, you are a phony...and so full of your baloney Danny, wave goodbye...please say "courage," then cry-y-y-y-y Danny still will not admit they were fake Even though the whole world knows, he's stubborn and never will break That partisan hack...he spent his years pushing...

Political polls, town hall meetings, dramatic interviews: The Iraqi elections will get intense American style coverage, even as security concerns mount for US broadcasters.Beginning today, big name anchormen will report live in Baghdad and beyond-a full six days before the elections scheduled for Saturday.In one of his last hurrahs before stepping down March 9 as 'CBS Evening News' anchorman, Dan Rather will head to what is described as 'The Triangle of Death'--30 miles south of Baghdad--to patrol with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit.'The Marines will show Dan Rather how they are preparing for the election in an area known for...

MIDI - TEENAGER IN LOVE It's so embarrassi-ing...our fathers we can't choose Perhaps Bill gave him cocaine or Teddy gave him booze I am depressed and feeling so sad...I'm hoping Ben Barnes isn't really my dad John Kerry is his neighbor...it's that Nantucket thing John would be in his debt...if big bucks he'd bring I am depressed and feeling so sad...I'm hoping Ben Barnes isn't really my dad From his comb or his razor...I will get dad's DNA A lab can then check mine...I'll settle this today I hear his lies about George Bush...it is real so surreal How...

WASHINGTON - Two Republicans on the Sept. 11 commission have given money to President George W. Bush's re-election campaign while serving on the panel, and a Democrat has donated to three of her party's presidential candidates. In total, half of the 10 commission members have made contributions to federal candidates or organizations since their appointment in late 2002. snip Jamie Gorelick, a Democrat and former deputy attorney general under President Bill Clinton, has given more than any commission member - $13,250 in the last 16 months, including $2,000 last spring to Sen. John Kerry's presidential campaign. She also gave to...

Prove It or Correct It. It’s time for the Times to weigh in on its error-prone economist. I hereby issue a public challenge to the New York Times. When is the "newspaper of record" going to run a correction of Paul Krugman's egregious mathematical error in which he claimed, in his August 1 column, that growth in real per capita California state spending from $1,950 in 1990 to $2,211 in 2003 was "only 10%," when anyone with a pocket calculator can tell that it is really 13.4 percent? And when will it correct Krugman's flatly deceptive claim that this growth...

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