Category Archives: Wonky Media

Washington Post: What’s Up With You Righties And American Exceptionalism?

You right wingnuts keep using that phrase, and Karen Tumulty of the Washington Post has a problem with that Is this a great country or what? “American exceptionalism” is a phrase that, until recently, was rarely heard outside the confines of think tanks, opinion journals and university history departments. But with Republicans and tea party […]

NY Times Hypocrisy Watch: We’ll Publish Wikileaks Info, But Not ClimateGate

Powerline makes an interesting observation The New York Times is participating in the dissemination of the stolen State Department cables that have been made available to it in one way or another via WikiLeaks. My friend Steve Hayward recalls that only last year the New York Times ostentatiously declined to publish or post any of […]

Man Of Vague Religion Arrested In Bomb Plot At Portland Christmas Tree Lighting

Janet Napolitano will surely institute enhanced groping in order to attend future Christmas tree lightings The FBI thwarted an attempted terrorist bombing in Portland’s Pioneer Courthouse Square before the city’s annual tree-lighting Friday night, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Oregon. A Corvallis man, thinking he was going to ignite a bomb, drove a […]

Washington Post Covers For Team Obama With Body Scanner Poll – 53% Idiocy

It is not just the Obama Administration that is tone deaf as to what is going in with airport checkpoints: you can add the Washington Post and writers Jon Cohen and Ashley Halsey III to the list – Poll: Nearly two-thirds of Americans support full-body scanners at airports Nearly two-thirds of Americans support the new […]

Sunday Funnies: NY Times Editorial Board Tells GOP To Try Governing

Liberals have long been having fits on the editorial pages, ranging anywhere from Hissy to Conniption to Unhinged Tools. Saturday’s full feeling of the paper is wacky and unhinged enough to make one go WharrblGarbl! Try Something Hard: Governing Yeah, it can be hard, which is why a man with virtually no real world experience, […]

Latest Liberal Midterm Loss Conspiracy: It’s Joe Lieberman’s Fault

You just can’t make this stuff up, folks. Well, really, it can be made up, just not by you, because you are not raving paranoids living in a unicorn infested world of hopey changey unreality, like Ezra Klein does Since the election, there’s been a lot of talk about what President Obama and the Democratic […]

Say, About That “Bush Wouldn’t Vote For Or Endorse McCain” Meme….

It’s pretty much mule fritters Former President George W. Bush is denying a report that he once said he would have endorsed Barack Obama in 2008 if the Democrat had asked. “This is ridiculous and untrue,” Bush spokesman David Sherzer told POLITICO. “President Bush proudly supported John McCain in the election and voted for him.” […]

Suddenly, The Politico Is Worried About GOP Women

Obviously, the article is meant to portray the Republican Party as a Patriarchy, with women as second class citizens. But, really, how many women would want to run after the way the Democrats and liberal media treated, and treat, them? O’Donnell, Fiorino, Whitman, Angle, and McMahon are just a few of the GOP female candidates […]

Oh, Snap! Could MSNBC Move Even Further Left Due To Election Massacre?

The humorous headline for this Politico article: “Is losing good for business?” Why is that humorous? Both on the front page and at the top of the single article page, they feature a picture of Rachel Maddow. You know, the Rachel Maddow who was prominent on that loser of a liberal radio station, Air Deadbeat, […]

Politico’s Michael Kinsley Goes Full Unhinged: American Not Greatest Nation Due To TEA Party Fools

Perhaps Mikey is looking for a little attention, just wanting to make a splash. Perhaps he really believes this filth of an opinion piece. Regardless, this has to be one of the most disgusting things I have read from a major news outlet in quite some time, even with Eugene Robinson still being employed by […]

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