Fox News founder Roger Ailes has had enough of the vitriol aimed at popular talk show host Glenn Beck. And no, I’m not talking about the sickening vitriol coming from leftists but from Fox staffers. Yeah, seriously:
A column in the Washington Post on Monday revealed that some Fox staffers are concerned the celebrity pundit is “becoming the face of the network.”
Ailes pointed out that the information in The Post’s column was leaked by Fox’s Washington bureau.
“For the first time in our 14 years, we’ve had people apparently shooting in the tent, from within the tent,” he told them.
It goes without saying that Ailes is right. Attacking a fellow Fox News employee – no matter who he might be – is simply not done. read more…
Media Matters‘ latest “gotcha” goes like this:
National Catholic Reporter Endorses Health Care Bill
With some pro-lifers trying to make the health care debate an argument over abortion, it was interesting to see the National Catholic Reporter, which knows a thing or two about anti-abortion views, come out in favor of the Obama health care plan.
And then they quote the NCR editorial at length.
Trouble is, I read the National Catholic Reporter every week for years, when I worked at a Catholic paper that considered itself the Canadian equivalent of NCR. And I can assure you that a lot of Catholics wouldn’t recognize the Catholicism in NCR’s pages.
The paper has always more or less promoted “hippie Jesus” (see above) Marxist liberation theology, female ordination to the priesthood, nuclear disarmament, the writings of dissident priests and nuns, and other trendy “Spirit of Vatican II” stuff. To NCR, Pope John Paul II and his work to destroy the Soviet Union, are a distinct embarrassment, to say the least.
So Media Matters’ triumph at having discovered a “Catholic” endorsement of Obamacare is pretty comical. And a bit sinister, since they quite deliberately neglect to tell readers that many critics feel NCR distorts Church teachings in a leftward direction.
In other words, they’re those “social justice” Christians that Glenn Beck has been so critical of lately. (“Social justice” being, as I like to think of it, “the stubborn application of unworkable solutions to imaginary problems.”)
Paul Cooper penned a piece pummeling Dennis Kucinich for selling out his progressive “principles” for rides on Air Force One with the president.
But Kucinich has sold out his “principles” before. Like many Democrats in the post-Roe era, Kucinich — like Dick Gephardt, Jesse Jackson, and Al Gore — reversed his pro-life position as soon as the heat got turned up by interest groups.
Check out this nonsensical reply in 2003 he gave to a debate moderator who wanted to know why he’d abandoned his pro-life position: read more…
“Progressivism is a cancer in America,” Glenn Beck said during his keynote speech at CPAC this year. He’s also repeatedly said it on his show. Jon Stewart, a progressive, reacted last night with a long monologue styled after Beck. And, I must say, it was pretty hilarious, topped off by Jon Stewart wearing white sneakers with his suit. Watch when he bends over onto the floor, at one point he actually shifts his feet, maybe realizing it would be better to hide them.
I guess when your feet are never on camera, it’s tempting to be relaxed and dress that way. I have used Skype to do a T.V. show before, and I have done just that. Knowing only the upper half of my body would be seen, I sometimes wear my gym shorts underneath. I’ve been tempted to take it a bit further but I live with family.
Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich, who flipped his vote from “no” to “yes” after his ride with President Obama on Air Force One, just admitted on Fox & Friends what we suspected all along. If the current version of Obamacare passes – as it looks increasingly likely that it will – an even more radical Obamacare II lies ahead. Kucinich said that he received an endorsement from Obama of his wish list for more changes, which happens to include a “robust” public option.
This is typical of how the Progressive movement operates, as Glenn Beck has repeatedly pointed out on his show. And it fits in with Obama’s own declared intention to get a foot in the door with phase 1 of universal health care, and then march on toward a single payer solution akin to Canada’s model. read more…
When I close my eyes and think of Susan, it is thirty-five years ago and she is coming out of Peter Collier’s office at Ramparts, the radical magazine where we all work. The Ramparts suite is located near Fisherman’s Wharf in the
San Francisco marina, and the room we are standing in is drenched in the salt light reflecting off the Bay. Peter and Susan are engaged in an animated discussion about the article she is writing, which is itself a reflection of the radical adventures in which we are all involved and which engage our innocence and our yet unbroken dreams of worlds to come. It is Peter who has thought up the title of the article, “The Politics of The Orgasm,” and when it appears in the next issue of the magazine, it will provide the writer with her fifteen minutes of progressive fame. read more…
It’s the meme that just won’t die: “Nobody should have to die because they don’t have health insurance.” Yesterday, a New Jersey paper repeated the idea: “Living without health insurance is a risk no one should have to take — and it affects all of us.” It’s an echo of the “viral” Facebook status from a few months back:
“No one should die because they cannot afford health care, and no one should go broke because they get sick.”
This is apparently the argument that swayed Dennis Kucinich’s vote: “something,” he said, “is better than nothing” when so many people have had to go without.
Let’s break this down. read more…
Former Detroit Councilwoman Monica Conyers clutched a $1,000 Louis Vuitton handbag as she emerged from a chauffeured Lincoln Town Car to attend her sentencing for a bribery conviction.
Just days later, a federal judge declared her indigent and appointed a public defender to represent her. Now taxpayers will foot the bill for the “destitute” Mrs. Conyers’ to appeal her plea-bargained 37 month sentence. Never mind that her husband, U.S. Rep. John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich), pulls down $174,000 a year. read more…
No, he really said that. Fresh from the Leftist Parallel Universe:
And in other news:
- The color pink is responsible for ManBearPig.
- Beets killed Mohammed al Dura in cold blood.
- People who wear black and brown in the same outfit grow spaghetti in Switzerland. read more…
With the back and forth this week between men not understanding women and women not understanding men, I’m starting to wonder if I understand the members of my OWN sex.
Click Read more to see who (what?) Sandra Bullock’s husband cheated with.
Beyond belief. read more…
Fox-al-Arabia News Swings Its Guns Toward Israel As Obama Administration Ramps Up Pressure On Netanyahu
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in one Hell of a spot. Tiny Israel, surrounded by Muslim States whose leaders want nothing more than to obliterate Her and drive any surviving Jews into the sea, is now taking fire from Fox-al-Arabia News. The Obama Administration is directing world condemnation at the Israelis – for building homes in the Israeli capital of Jerusalem. The United States is knuckling under to appease the World of Islam, and is throwing our best friend Israel under the bus. This is hope and change?
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton began to pressure Netanyahu after the new housing construction was announced during Vice President Joe Biden’s recent visit to get the ersatz peace talks going once again. The Muslims want Jerusalem and they want Israel gone – forever. Over at the American Thinker Jed Gladstein has noticed that Fox-al-Arabia’s Shep Smith and Amy Kellogg did some Israel-bashing this week. With thanks to Diana West, Gladstein’s entire piece is here. read more…
Art and politics in the same discussion? Don’t scoff. Art is highly-charged with political high-jinx and politics is low art on a lower road. Both are theatre… Read more
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