As gas prices rose in 2008, network reporters mentioned President Bush in 15 times as many stories than they brought up President Obama in a similar period in 2011.
Bush drew gallons of coverage in 2008.
Geraghty’s Law: either the Constitution changed between the time that Barack Hussien Obama was a candidate for president and when took the oath of office, or more likely Geraghty’s Law remains in effect. Obama Question and Answer by Charlie
Lara Logan assault, from New York Post:
“60 Minutes” correspondent Lara Logan was repeatedly sexually assaulted by thugs yelling, “Jew! Jew!” as she covered the chaotic fall of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo’s main square Friday, CBS
Rush is Right, as usual, from Keach Hagey, Politico:
Glenn Beck and his colleagues on Fox News may have been complimentary of President Obama’s speech last night, but Rush Limbaugh sure wasn’t.
He criticized the timing of the
Slapping down the left, the leftosphere since the murder of Cristina Green and others have been trying to push the idea that hate some exclusive province of the right. There have been several notable rebuttals. However the tour de
The United States Navy screws up, from Steve Szkotak:
The KKK is gone, the Kennedy Kongressional Klan is gone. Free at last, free at last.
Class envy, from James Carroll, Boston Globe:
If a just society is defined by the relationship between the well off and
Does anyone remember Valarie Plame?
Of course you do. You will recall the left was having kittens over the mere suggestion that someone might have leaked her name to the press. There were calls for life imprisonment, etc., from the
DADT is dead, long live DADT,from David Woods, Politics Daily:
For the next few months and possibly for as long as a year, gays and lesbians in uniform will still be subject to investigation and discharge if they
Billy Hollis at Q&O today:
McQ hit these pompous fools when they first popped their heads up. I was too busy to chime in then, but the more I’ve watched this whole “No Labels” thing, the funnier it gets.
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Senator Fred Thompson Twitters today:
Has there EVER been a bipartisan deal with Democrats that didn’t involve spending great big piles of money? http://bit.ly/fV50r9 #ftrs #tcot
The answer of course is a resounding “No”, which is why, by its
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Some interesting thoughts on Sarah Palin’s new book…. which I happen to have started reading myself just the other day. I’ll leave Melissa’s thoughts on the book itself to her article. But she, in the process of laying the groundwork
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I have to give Bruce McQuain credit. He writes, today:
I know this comes as a shock – shock I tell you – but the left is just in a tizzy today about the GOP Senate caucus’s unanimous decision not
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Over at OTB, James Joyner looks at the current wave of reports surrounding Tom Delay:
Tom DeLay, the poster boy for everything that was wrong with the last Republican majority in the House, has been found guilty of money laundering.
Doug Mataconis over at OTB, is commenting on the Anti-Palin backlash going on, and seems to me quite willing to be part of that backlash.
I’ve already made note since the elections of reports of growing concern about Palin
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