Aug 28, 2009 9 Comments ›› Erik Wong
NewsBusters: Newsweek columnist and editor Jonathan Alter appeared on Friday’s Hardball and slammed Rush Limbaugh as the "great blowhard of our time." Host Chris Matthews prompted the quote when he discussed how Limbaugh had criticized him on his radio show for referring to Barack Obama as the "last brother" of the Kennedy clan. Matthews snarled, "What ...
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The Washington Examiner: Among the president's cabinet appointments, the Attorney General is unique. Whereas the Secretary of Transportation is responsible for the nation's highways and airways, and the Secretary of Agriculture oversees the nation's farms, the Attorney General's charge is upholding the rule of law - the glue that holds together a self-governing people. In the latest skirmish ...
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Israel Matzav: A new Smith poll in Friday's JPost shows that only 4% of Jewish Israelis believe that President Obama is pro-Israel. With a 4.5% margin of error, the poll leaves open the possibility that there is no statistically significant number of Jewish Israelis who believe that the President is pro-Israel - a stunning result in ...
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Didn't the President himself attend a racist and corrupted church led by a racist and corrupted preacher for over twenty years? The slant and bias in this video is.... Chilling.
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The Wall Street Journal: BOSTON -- A Democratic push to appoint a successor to the late Sen. Edward Kennedy is sparking a political tempest in Massachusetts, infuriating Republicans and dividing Democrats who only five years ago passed a law requiring that voters decide on Senate vacancies. On a day when members of both parties paid their respects ...
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H/T Mark Levin [A repost of a S&L article from December 2006.] This letter which details Senator Edward Kennedy’s offer to help the Soviet Union defeat Reagan’s efforts to build up the nuclear deterrent in Europe was unearthed by a Times of London reporter in the 1990s after the KGB files were opened. It got little or no ...
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ROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is launching legal actions against media in Italy and abroad, including Britain, France and Spain, for libel in their coverage of his private life, his lawyer said on Friday. His lawyer Niccolo Ghedini told Reuters that he and his colleagues abroad had already filed lawsuits against newspapers in ...
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Praising Castro, El Che, and Obama in the same two minutes? I think that gives it away. It also gives away that YOU are the true fear mongering, propaganda-perpetuating scum making this world a place, not I.
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CNSNews.com: The Obama administration’s decision to disengage from a major United Nations’ racism conference in Geneva moves the spotlight onto other democracies that have been troubled about the event but have not yet withdrawn. Opponents of the Durban Review Conference (“Durban IIâ€) are hoping the U.S. move will prompt others – including European Union countries and ...
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NY Daily News: President Obama's health care "plan" is going down like a handful of tacks, and the Democratic Party, experiencing the political equivalent of a nervous breakdown, is poised to commence a civil war over health reform that could virtually tear the party's leaders to shreds. The White House has made a series of irreversible blunders ...
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Haaretz: BERLIN - The Obama administration has agreed to Israel's request to remove East Jerusalem from negotiations on the impending settlement freeze. According to both Israeli officials and Western diplomats, U.S. envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell has recognized the fact that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cannot announce a settlement freeze in East Jerusalem. The officials ...
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Somali pirates holding a hijacked ship off the coast of Somalia fired at a U.S. Navy helicopter as it made a surveillance flight over the vessel, the first such attack by pirates on an American military aircraft, the Navy said Thursday.[...]The copter was flying on Wednesday over a Taiwanese-flagged ...
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American Thinker: The Congressional Budget Office came out with an update to its predictions of the federal budget this week. For some reason, the CBO did not title its report "Hell In A Hand Basket." It is difficult to put all these predictions into easily understandable apples-to-apples comparisons. But I will try. One thing ...
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FOX News: The most dominant political dynasty of the 20th century has lost its youngest son, leaving many to wonder whether the next generation has what it takes to continue the Kennedy family's legacy. At the peak of their power, the Kennedys scaled the highest political mountains and plumbed the depths of despair in near equal measure: ...
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The LA Times Blog: An advertising boycott against Fox News host Glenn Beck has succeeded in keeping most major sponsors from running commercials on his show even as the controversial commentator's viewership has grown. Beck attracted 2.81 million viewers Monday, his third-largest audience since his show launched on Fox News in January, according to Nielsen Media Research ...
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This is, quote me on this: f-ing horrendous. Cigar smoke? Anything but cigar smoke! I'd rather have a power drill to the temple then tobacco to the nostril! CNS News: Abd al Rahim al-Nashiri, according to the 9-11 commission report, was the mastermind of the Oct. 12, 2000, attack on the U.S.S. Cole that killed 17 U.S. ...
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