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Sarah Palin Thanks Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh
In the acknowledgments of “Going Rogue,” Sarah Palin gives a hearty and extended thanks to conservative media figures, using only their first names.
To some media professionals whom I admire because you don’t let anyone tell you to sit down and shut up, please keep making the idiots’ heads spin. Thank you for not taking our [...]
Pro-Palin Book Takes on Tina Fey, Feminists
Paul Bedard gets an early look at “The Persecution of Sarah Palin,” the second book by young Weekly Standard writer Matthew Continetti, which draws lessons about the media, feminism, and elitism from the former Alaska governor’s rapid rise and fall. In this excerpt, Continetti analyzes the meaning of Tina Fey’s iconic impersonation of Palin.
It was [...]
When Is a Czar Not a Czar?
With an assist from Politico, which has completely bought into Glenn Beck’s campaign against “czars” — on Monday, the publication sketched out a “GOP czar revolt” that consisted of work by Michelle Malkin, a joke by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), and a comment from former House Speaker Newt Gingrich — conservatives are arguing that the [...]
Far-Right Site Gains Influence in Obama Era
WorldNetDaily, which published hundreds of items questioning President Obama’s citizenship, boasts 6 million unique visitors each month and an email list of 335,000.
Cheney to Face Searing Questioning on Torture Sunday
When he goes on Fox News! Yes, the former vice president is going to sit down with Chris Wallace on Sunday to discuss the CIA’s torture disclosures and the discrepancy between what they say and what he said they’d say. Right, Chris? Yeah?
If It’s Tuesday, It’s Michele Bachmann
Smart Politics crunches the numbers and finds that Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), newly minted as the Democrats’ “enemy No. 1″ makes a cable news appearance every 9.1 days. The chart is revealing:
Poll: Whites, Southerners, Republicans, Few Others, Trust Fox News
An interesting poll from Daily Kos/Research 2000 asks Americans which of the three main cable news channels they watch. Some hypotheses are confirmed right away: Republicans mostly watch Fox (25 percent of them daily), Democrats mostly watch MSNBC (14 percent of them daily), and independents, who don’t particularly watch anything, mostly gravitate towards CNN.
Pew Poll: 39 Percent of Republicans Want More Coverage of Obama’s Citizenship
A new poll from the Pew Research Center finds that 28 percent of Americans believe that there’s been “too little” coverage of “allegations that President Obama was not born in the United States” — including a plurality, 39 percent, of self-identified Republicans. Only 14 percent of Democrats and 30 percent of independents share that view.
“If [...]
Michelle Malkin Appearing on ‘This Week’
The conservative blogger/reporter/columnist, author of “In Defense of Internment” and “Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies,” will join the panel on ABC’s Sunday talk show “This Week.” The probable subject of discussion: How the liberal media shuts down conservative voices.
Blaming the Media for the Birthers
Bill Pascoe, who worked for both of the luckless Republicans who ran against Barack Obama in the 2004 Illinois U.S. Senate race, tells his party to distance itself from the “birthers” already. It’s worth reading, but this assertion rings false.
Am I the only one to notice that mainstream media attention to the “Birthers” has picked [...]
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