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Many in the mainstream media have been busy! It must be tough spending hour after hour trying to amp up supposed rivalries between GOP candidates. Plus, rereading Sarah Palin’s emails with a magnifying glass can get awfully taxing on the eyes. (more)

Broadside Books, Harper Collins’s new conservative publishing arm, is launching a series, Voices of the Tea Party, in an effort to give a media platform to grassroots conservatives who aren’t getting national attention. Editor Adam Bellow told The Daily Caller the series will offer local leaders an opportunity to highlight issues that interest them, instead of letting the mainstream media and establishment conservative media frame the conversation. (more)

For years, America’s left-leaning mainstream media outlets have belittled and rebuked members of the new media — questioning their credibility, impugning their integrity and assigning all manner of self-serving motivations to their contributions to the marketplace of ideas. (more)

For much of last year, MSNBC finished second to last in the cable news ratings race. However, in 2011 the network has returned to a more familiar territory — last place. MSNBC has fared particularly poorly during breaking news and special events. (more)

“Personally I wouldn’t advise a gay leading man-type actor to come out.” — Richard Chamberlain, a gay actor (more)

Comeback kids in politics, as in sports or any other competitive endeavor, are those that truly surprise us. The more the media labels someone a comeback kid before the comeback, or a politician claims to be one, the more likely the characterization, win or lose, will turn out to be untrue. (more)

It’s inevitable. A new party is forming. (more)

“Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough doesn’t let much slip by him – well not today, at least. (more)

When a member of the baby boomer generation like myself sees someone describe environmentalist author Ross Gelbspan as the “Columbo of climate change,” it’s a bit sad that the description is basically lost on the younger generations who probably have no idea who Lieutenant Columbo was. I loved that old ’70s-’80s television series, where viewers routinely saw the guest star’s character commit the “perfect crime,” only to be caught in the sights of homicide detective Columbo, played by Peter Falk. He would always begin asking ordinary questions as a matter of standard police inquiry, but ultimately pestered the criminal with unrelenting sporadic follow-up questions until the crime was exposed. It was priceless to see the pained look on the criminal’s face every time Columbo’s unexpected appearance was followed by his trademark “I don’t mean to bother you, but there’s just one more thing…” (more)

Last night on Barbara’s Walters’ annually insipid “10 Most Fascinating People” special, America was shown such a textbook example of media bias, hypocrisy and incompetence that it bordered on parody. Unfortunately, almost no one knows the full magnitude of what I am referring to because numerous important truths have been conveniently omitted from the narrative surrounding the story. (more)

For the rest of his life, Army Staff Sergeant Salvatore Giunta will be on the receiving end of salutes from every member of the uniformed military regardless of rank.  Rendering a salute to a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient is one of the coolest military traditions in an organization known for traditions.  And being a great soldier, SSG Giunta will probably never get used to returning the salute of a superior officer. (more)

A new television ad campaign featuring the family members of 9/11 victims has succeeded in garnering what 9/11 activists have lacked for years: serious treatment in the mainstream media. (more)

Tea Party candidates headed for Washington after winning on November 2nd should know three things about that often cynical and corrupt town. (more)

When President Obama speaks out on the campaign trail, he makes it resoundingly clear who his chief political target is: Republicans. (more)

One of the great curiosities of this year is the number of ways people are explaining America’s rage. (more)

The established media and ruling political party elites need to overcome any delusion about who is really serving up the anticipated GOP victory November 2nd. The credit belongs to the mainstream media’s brand of “extremists” — the loosely knit association of Americans who consider themselves members of the Tea Party. (more)

The Tea Party movement has been one of the most fascinating phenomena of modern politics.  In November of 2008, Barack Obama rode the hope and change wave into the White House and Democrats racked up huge margins in the House and Senate.  Democrats talked about a permanent political realignment, talking heads across the spectrum delivered the eulogies for the modern conservative movement and insiders talked about Republicans being in the political wilderness for decades.  Against this backdrop, a grassroots movement was born. (more)

I have just come across an article that, for me, is the last word on American journalism. It accuses journalists of being lazy, cowardly, and meretricious. And it was written in 1924. (more)

There are few sights in modern life more ridiculous and sickening than watching a journalist try and explain why people hate him and his profession. When asked why this is so, the journalist will breathe in deeply, adjust his mien to express both noble victimhood and self-righteousness, and explain that he is disliked because he tells the truth. Sometimes people don’t like to hear the truth. (more)

Democrats, wary of being seen in the same state, much less the same room as their baggage-laden leader, Obama, received a welcome respite this weekend from accused rapist and former President Bill Clinton, who was out campaigning for them.  Clinton, who was credibly accused of raping Juanita Broderick, apparently wields much greater star power among Democrats these days than does Obama. (more)