Sad news came Sunday (January 8) that Tony Blankley, the long-time leading conservative thinker, author and columnist, who served House Speaker Newt Gingrich and later ran the editorial pages for the Washington Times, passed away at age 63.Back on Thursday, March 27, 2003 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC, Blankley pitched in at the last-minute to help us when a planned speaker (Rush…
Three
weeks after CBS’s 60 Minutes delivered a friendly sit-down with
President Barack Obama in which Steve Kroft gently chided him for being
too willing to compromise with Republicans, the show didn’t even attempt
a matching approach to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor. Instead,
Lesley Stahl relayed a portrait painted by liberals (“He’s working on
humanizing his image, and presenting…
A departure tonight from my usual Saturday offerings of news media/politics-related humor clips. Instead, something a bit more light-hearted about an until now un-chronicled historic breakthrough. Tom Hanks has produced a bunch of HBO mini-series, including Band of Brothers, The Pacific and John Adams, and Thursday night on CBS’s Late Show he made some fun of himself as he presented a promotional…
“After 13 years with ABC News, correspondent Jim Sciutto is leaving the network and TV news. He’s moving to China where he’ll be Chief of Staff to U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke,” TVNewser’s Chris Ariens reported Thursday in noting the latest journalist to join the Obama administration, this time working for Locke, the former Democratic Governor of Washington. Sciutto should certainly feel…
The passing Thursday of Christopher Hitchens, at age 62 from cancer, reminded me of one of his finest moments, which occurred during this hour (11 PM ET Friday) five-and-a-half years ago (August 25, 2006) when he gave the finger to the pretentious, left-wing Los Angeles studio audience of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher. As he laid out the case for how it’s Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad…
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live this past week put together a pretty entertaining video dubbing Republican debate audio into the animated Charlie Brown Thanksgiving show. FNC’s Special Report played most of it Wednesday night where fill-in anchor Shannon Bream set it up as a “creative mash up that pairs the Peanuts gang with the 2012 GOP field at the Thanksgiving table.”On ABC’s site, the full “Kimmel…
Picking up on a blog post by a far-left group devoted to silencing Rush Limbaugh, ABC’s World News
on Monday night dedicated an entire story to one word used by the
conservative radio host, a comment the other networks failed to find
newsworthy. “Loaded words,” fill-in anchor Georgre Stephanopoulos
ominously teased, “the First Lady booed at a NASCAR event. Now Rush Limbaugh weighs in,…
ABC’s Christiane Amanpour, on Sunday’s This Week, hit House Speaker John Boehner repeatedly from the left to raise taxes, a hostile approach she failed to apply a month earlier to the House’s top Democrat, Nancy Pelosi. Amanpour demanded of Boehner: “Do you not feel that by opposing” a tax hike on millionaires to pay for Obama’s jobs bill “you’re basically out of step with the American people on…
The media’s infatuation with the far-left “occupy” protesters is so uniformly recognized that it got some ridicule on the new episode, of Comedy Central’s animation series, South Park, carried this past Wednesday night,.On Friday, FNC’s The Five host Greg Gutfeld opened the program with a clip, which he set up: “On their latest episode, South Park took on the media’s beloved Occupy Wall Street…
President Barack Obama did it again Thursday and FNC’s Bret Baier has again provided slow-mo play-by-play of Obama’s “talk to the hand” ill-timed wave which blocked the face of another world leader during a group photo-shoot. In September, at the UN in New York City, his victim was the President of Mongolia. At the G-20 in Cannes, France his hand went up in front of the face of India’s Prime…