I’ve received quite a response to my most recent column on these pages, entitled “Ron Paul is a bigot.” I’ve learned that Ron Paul supporters don’t take kindly to having their candidate criticized. Here’s a sampling of some of my fan mail: (more)
For a different take on the Ron Paul newsletter controversy, click here. (more)
Texas Republican Rep. Ron Paul’s foreign policy outlook isn’t so dissimilar to that of President Obama’s long-time pastor and mentor the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, says Washington Post editorial writer Charles Lane. (more)
In an effort to preempt what could be a damaging political issue for President Obama’s re-election campaign, Democrats are warning Republicans against reviving his relationship with controversial ex-pastor Jeremiah Wright. (more)
1.) Do we finally have Cainfirmation? — We now have a second Herman Cain accuser with a specific accusation, and the first to be named like a Bond girl. TheDC’s Jeff Poor reports: (more)
Video obtained exclusively by The Daily Caller shows Illinois Senator Barack Obama, then campaigning for Democrats before the 2006 midterm elections, praising Reverend Jeremiah Wright and telling an audience that he “stole” the title of his book “The Audacity of Hope” from Wright’s sermon of the same name, which he “loved.” Obama also referred to Wright as “my pastor.” (more)
The shocking mass murder visited upon Tucson a week ago Saturday by a lunatic loner provided the nasty Left with another opportunity to show that they haven’t a shred of decency. The Associated Press led the yellow hoard with minute-by-minute accusations before the victims of this horrific tragedy were even evacuated to the hospital. The so-called mainstream media coverage went something like this: “Most people believe there is a Tea Party and Sarah Palin connection to all of this.” That was before the name of the shooter was even known. (more)
Barack Obama is a ball-busted man. To anyone who has seen how he acts whenever Michelle Obama is around — or even at the mere mention of her name — this is beyond dispute. The man lives in terror of his wife, who, unlike her husband, is actually from the streets of South Chicago. (more)
As this year’s Election Day approaches, let’s take a look back at the last election and evaluate the media’s influence. (more)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, President Barack Obama’s controversial former pastor, accused people who wrongly believe Obama is Muslim of catering to political enemies during a fiery speech Sunday in Arkansas. (more)
Radio and TV host Glenn Beck said Sunday he doesn’t want to retract his controversial charge last year that President Obama is racist, but does want to amend it since reading more about “liberation theology.” (more)
The so-called “mainstream media” has spent the past week trying to determine how anywhere from one-fifth to one-quarter of the American people could conclude that President Obama is a Muslim. The commentary has almost universally condemned Americans as “ignorant,” “ill-informed,” “racist,” or “bigoted,” asserting disdainfully that it’s “obvious” that Obama is a Christian. (more)
According to the website CNN.com, some of the criticism of first lady Michelle Obama is driven by partisan politics. However, “others say the attacks are rooted in white resentment of the ‘uppity Negro.’” Two things quickly come to mind. The first is that no one other than Harry Reid uses the word “Negro” anymore. Second, that it is the 21st century and yet there are those who continue to talk about race as if it were 1955. (more)
Maureen Dowd’s recent article – prompted by the First Lady’s recent trip overseas – wondered aloud why First Lady Michelle Obama has been missing in action at times during President Obama’s toughest days this year. Over the course of his presidency, Mr. Obama has had a lot to answer for to the media and, most forcefully, his Republican critics. His stimulus plan hasn’t worked to the point that there are now discussions brewing about a second stimulus package. The White House’s response to the oil crisis has dogged by all sides due to slow response times and off-and-on drilling moratoriums. Even the legendary suaveness of “No Drama Obama” from the 2008 campaign days hit a snag during episodes such as the Henry Louis Gates “Beer Summit” situation from last year and the heightened partisan sparring going on nationally. (more)
Black Americans have rallied around the president as perhaps no constituency has ever supported an American politician. As of this week, fully 88 percent of black voters approved of Barack Obama. Many predicted Obama’s election would herald a new era of African-American leadership. And yet, curiously, something different has happened. In the last year and a half, Obama has failed to support, run away from or pressured to resign at least ten significant African American political figures – a count does not include his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright. (more)
Democratic Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell said last week on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that it is not impossible to imagine a primary challenge to President Obama in 2012 from an anti-war progressive who opposes the administration’s policy in Afghanistan. A spokesman for Rendell clarified the governor’s remarks to The Daily Caller saying that such a challenge would only come from a candidate from the “left fringe” of the Democratic Party. (more)
Speaking in Turkey on Tuesday, British Prime Minister David Cameron slammed Israel and called Gaza a “prison camp.” (Apparently Gaza is the first prison camp with luxury shopping malls.) The British Foreign Office has been taking the blame for this betrayal of Israel, but they’re claiming they were as surprised as anyone. Now, a high-placed and knowledgeable source has informed me that it was Obama’s people who put the slamming of Israel into Cameron’s speech. (more)
Prior to the 2008 election, the Obama Presidential campaign’s narrative, echoed by the media, told voters that any reporting on then presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama’s, dubious associations with Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers was nothing more than a desperate distraction. (more)
Left-wing bias in the media is nothing new. Regardless, journalists and the free press have been regarded as the peaceful guardians of America’s liberal democratic republic. In 1787, Thomas Jefferson wrote: (more)
In 2007, when Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein founded Journolist, an online gathering place for several hundred liberal journalists, academics and political activists, he imagined a discussion group that would connect young writers to top sources. (more)
