Breakfast Scramble (Friday)

Note to senior blogger, Yes Eric you are still reading your blog.  Sometimes men do bite dogs and sometimes I do both bash Karl Rove and laud Chrissy Matthews in the same post.  These are strong times in which we

Ruth Marcus, Washington Post, is puzzled:

It was a jarring moment from an ordinarily smooth pol. Haley Barbour, governor of Mississippi, chairman of the Republican Governors Association and 2012 presidential prospect — which helped explain the big turnout

Otherwise, but out of trying to play language police.     The over hyped non story of the day is the fact that Doctor  Schlessinger  uttered the word Nigger a  whopping eleven times.    Dr Schlessinger only crime, as see it, is rhetorical

Dumbo’s green energy delusions, Robert J. Samuelson, Washington Post:

[Baracl] Obama has made vilification of oil and the oil industry a rhetorical mainstay. This is intellectually shallow, if politically understandable. “Clean energy” won’t displace oil or achieve huge

Is Dumbo Sane? From Byron York, Washington Examiner:

There was one particularly striking moment in President Obama’s widely panned Oval Office speech on the Gulf oil disaster. About midway through his talk, Obama acknowledged that he had approved new

None dare call it journalism.  Shublog, Ace of Spades, dissects the Washington Post:

News Judgment, Washington-Post style

Senator George Allen says “macaca” on camera? 131 articles, 13 on the front page.

Congressman Bob Etheridge commits battery on

Bye-bye Eric Holder? From the Sharp Tack, Clarice Feldman, American  Thinker:

Eric Holder has been a disastrous attorney general. “Classic 101 Boobery” was how one Democratic operative memorably called his decision, now on hold, to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

Year of the Woman? By Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Slimes:

GOP primary voters, a deeply conservative bunch, don’t appear to have much of a problem with strong women in public life anymore. Not only that: The GOP is consciously

We need a leader, Mitt Romney Useless Toady:

Has it come to this again? The president is meeting with his oil spill experts, he crudely tells us, so that he knows “whose ass to kick.” We have become

Presidential leadership failure, the problem for the President who is concerned about world opinions, at least the opinion of unelected tin pot dictators, is that he is simply not concerned about the opinion of the nation which he purports

The Obami speak, by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu, Arutz Sheva:

The Netanyahu government’s attitude to the United States shows it is “waiting for President [Sarah] Palin, an Obama official reportedly told Peter Beinart, writing for the Atlantic Monthly news

Welcome to the would have been longer Scramble.  Might get my first version up it it can be recovered.

Juan Williams rips Obama administration, from Fox News, via Jennifer Rubin, Commentary:

I think the problem here

Helen Thomas fired retires, from Politico:

“Helen Thomas announced Monday that she is retiring, effective immediately,” read a statement from Hearst Newspapers on Monday. “Her decision came after her controversial comments about Israel and the Palestinians were captured on

Question of the Day, from the Sharp Tack, Clarice Feldman, American Thinker:

We shall see if Jew-hatred is acceptable behavior in the eyes of Hearst and the WH press corps, and Thomas is still allowed her place of honor

Libtards do for the money, Chris Bowers, Open Left:

Only five years ago, the progressive political blogosphere was still predominately a gathering place for amateur (that is, unpaid or barely paid) journalists and activists unattached to existing media