On June 24, 2010, I had a post on BigHollywood that examined Robert Redford’s asinine statements about the Gulf Oil Spill. From his support of a drilling moratorium to the fact that he literally blamed the spill on Dick Cheney to the way he expected George W. Bush to respond instantly to Katrina, while making excuses for President Obama’s slow response to the BP disaster, his words were just another proof that many actors in Hollywood are out of touch with reality. And although I hoped Redford would rethink his pomposity before speaking again on topics that he seems unable to …
In recent days, Paul Moore, the former campaign manager of Kansas Republican congressman Jerry Moran ,?has endorsed Moran’s opponent, Moran’s colleague Todd Tiahrt . In his Tiahrt endorsement letter , Moore, a former assistant U.S. attorney, explains that after working for Congressman Moran for a brief period, he concluded that?Moran “was not instinctively conservative and that his willingness to actually lead against the tide of …
What would your reaction be if President George W. Bush, his father, or any president of the last 100 years had referred to African-Americans as a “mongrel people?” You’d be shocked at the tone-deafness, right? Maybe outraged, determined to vote for his next opponent, maybe even calling for his resignation? How about if President Obama said it? President Obama calls African-Americans a ‘mongrel people’ President Obama waded into the national race debate in an…
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-By Warner Todd Huston This is how the left treats those with whom they disagree, folks. Daily Kos contributing editor and Examiner.com writer Steven Andrew has suggested that anyone that disagrees with the globaloney of global warming should commit suicide in a “Soylent Green world.” In his examiner column headlined, “ Studies Show Dramatic Decrease in Plankton ,” Andrew made what he called a “symbolic suggestion” that might…
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Last week, Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans demanded a hearing on the New Black Panther Party shenanigans of the Obama Department of (Social) Justice. Sen. Pat Leahy has replied. Cliff Notes’ version: Blame Bush. Hide behind Abigail Thernstrom. Wait for Eric Holder’s next spin cycle. Read the response right here: 7-29-10 PJL to Sessions Re – NBBP Speaking of Thernstrom, Andy McCarthy responds to her latest weak sauce at NRO — and her own obstructionist refusal to get to the bottom of the NBPP case: On July…
In Impromptus today , I express a little disgust at something I found in Encyclopedia Britannica. I was needing some information about the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989 — how many were killed, etc. And the relevant entry was headed “Tiananmen Square incident.” I found that word “incident” a little?.?.?.?weak. And a little outrageous. How dainty we are, when speaking of ChiCom mass murder! I have some follow-up thoughts. Should we refer to that …
Abigail Thernstrom, vice chair of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, has written what?Pete Kirsanow aptly described as a “bewildering” response to my column of a week earlier. I had taken issue with Thernstrom’s absurd claim that the Justice Department’s dismissal of the New Black Panthers voter intimidation case is “small potatoes.” I haven’t gotten around to replying yet, but Pete (Thernstrom’s fellow commmissioner) and former Justice Department official? Hans von Spakovsky (Thernstrom’s friend) have both demolished Thernstrom’s response. There remain a few more things to say, but for now, I have a pressing question for Dr. Thernstrom:?Are you serious? In her NRO responsive …
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews on Wednesday demonstrated how the dissemination of Democrat talking points and marching orders via the JournoList can be even more effectively employed on television. In a “Hardball” segment about a new Democratic National Committee ad that looks to connect the Republican Party with the “more extreme elements” of the Tea Party, Matthews chatted with Republican strategist Todd Harris and the George Soros-funded Center for American Progress’s Jennifer Palmieri about whether the strategy will work. What was most …
A key part of the Justice Department case against Arizona, which Judge Bolton seems to have swallowed, is that, as Andy put it below , “Arizona can’t ask the federal government for verification of the immigration status of arrestees . . . because that would tremendously burden the feds.” Specifically, the claim is that too many legal-status requests will be submitted to ICE’s Law Enforcement Support Center (LESC); in the words of the ruling : Thus, an increase in the number of requests for determinations of immigration status, such as is likely to result from the mandatory requirement that Arizona law enforcement officials and agencies check the immigration status of any person who is…
-By Warner Todd Huston You really have to hand it to Media Matters for America. I mean, they deserve an Olympic Gold Medal for the gymnastics that they evince while spinning the news to the extreme left-wing of the political spectrum. This whole Fox-didn’t-push-Sherrod story is a perfect example. Eric “Boomarwrong” Boehlert is shamelessly spinning the story of the firing of USDA employee, Shirley Sherrod, as a Fox attack job with all his little Maoist heart. He is desperate to make Sherrod’s firing a result of a Fox …
