Category Archives: Wonky Media

ABC News Shocked At The Emotional Outpouring For Pope Visit

No, really, it’s like the can’t imagine the love Catholics have for the Pope Pope’s Arrival in Mexico Sparks Surprising Emotion It’d be surprising if they were mad, upset, angry, and so forth, but So well before dawn Saturday, two dozen youths from a Guadalajara church group gathered near the school where the Pope Benedict […]

NY Times Attempts To Become More Irrelevant

Question: how often do you see NY Times articles featured at Memeorandum or the blogs you read? Not that often anymore. When the Times tried their “Times Select” program, pay-walling certain content, the opinion articles were barely ever featured. They removed the wall, and suddenly Maureen Dowd, Paul Krugman, and the others were showing up. […]

AP Tries The “More Supply Doesn’t Decrease Price” Trick

Statistics can tell you anything you want (WRAL) It’s the political cure-all for high gas prices: Drill here, drill now. But more U.S. drilling has not changed how deeply the gas pump drills into your wallet, math and history show. A statistical analysis of 36 years of monthly, inflation-adjusted gasoline prices and U.S. domestic oil […]

About That “Obama Reaches 50% Approval” Poll…

Al Reuters breathlessly tells us that the guy presiding over the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression and making a serious hash of it rocks For the first time since early July, more Americans approve of the job President Barack Obama is doing than disapprove, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll that shows his […]

Media Works Hard To Protect Obama On Gas Prices

The 90% liberal/Democrat media is sure to do all in its power to protect (NMP) Obama regarding the rising gas prices, which have been high for the majority of Obama’s time in office, and that protection is starting at the Washington Post, which forgets that its cost of doing business is going up and profits […]

CNN: Even Evil Guys Like Rush Deserve Their Free Speech Rights

Think I’m kidding about the evil part? Alas, no (CNN) Editor’s note: Marc J. Randazza is a Las Vegas based First Amendment attorney. He is licensed to practice in Arizona, California, Florida, Massachusetts and Nevada. He is the editor of the law blog, The Legal Satyricon. I despise Rush Limbaugh. I despise almost everything I […]

USA Today Picks Up The Mantle That Obama’s Not At Fault For Gas Prices

Ah, how times change Anyhow What can U.S. do to halt rising gas prices? Not much Rising gas prices are always a bad thing for an incumbent president, especially one heading into a tough re-election battle. But President Obama admitted in a speech in Miami recently that there’s not all that much he can do […]

Washington Post: It’s Like Totally Dangerous That Obama Doesn’t Talk About Climate Change Thay Much

No, seriously, that’s the headline A dangerous shift in Obama’s ‘climate change’ rhetoric Perhaps Obama’s just tired of discussing the weather President Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday was a prime example of this shift. The president said “climate change” just once —compared with zero mentions in the 2011 address and two in 2010. […]

Eugene Robinson: Extreme Rick Santorum Shouldn’t Be Let Near White House

One thing that I have missed during the King Obama years has been the truly unhinged lefties being unhinged. They were a lot more fun when Bush was president, but, hey, with the 2012 silly season in full swing, they are coming out of the woodwork (Washington Post) Before there was the Tea Party to […]

New Hampshire “Scientists” Urge GOP Contenders To Embrace Climate Change Hoax

The Warmists just won’t give up their cultish beliefs, and The Hill is there to run with the story without any fact checking Fifty New Hampshire scientists Thursday called on the Republican presidential candidates to accept the “overwhelming” scientific evidence behind climate change. The scientists issued the joint statement just weeks before the Jan. 10 […]

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