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Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 01, 2010 19 Comments

My my, how Paul Krugman worries that our President may come under criticism from the vast right-wing conspiracy for the Eight Days In April.The Eight Days In April during which our President twiddled his environmental clean-up and emergency response thumbs in the face of what...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 27, 2010 21 Comments

It is over-the-top and out-of-control when it comes to the Arizona immigration bill recently signed. Not the law itself, but the reaction.Linda Greenhouse's opinion piece in The NY Times epitomizes the absurd rhetoric (emphasis mine):I’m glad I’ve already seen the Grand Canyon.Because I’m not going...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 27, 2010 1 Comment

Politico has figured out that "Obama the uniter" never existed.Obama created momentum by identifying enemies against whom to campaign, and has continued that practice in office. The only change is that in an earlier incarnation, the enemies were groups, whereas now the enemies are individuals.As...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 27, 2010 14 Comments

There are many voices of hate, but the voices most ignored by the mainstream media come not from Tea Parties or maligned conservative groups, but from the intolerant left. After someone who did commercial voice-overs for Geico was fired for leaving threatening messages at FreedomWorks (which...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 24, 2010 25 Comments

"Marc Ambinder is the politics editor of The Atlantic. He has covered Washington for ABC News and the Hotline, and he is chief political consultant to CBS News."Given Ambinder's shoulder-deep mainstream media plumage, I was shocked to read that Ambinder thinks conservatives have gone mad.Much...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 19, 2010 10 Comments

Oh, the world they live in. Surrounded by enemies, they sit in their guarded lairs waiting for "the other" to approach.And then it happens. The guards are no more, and they must face the menacing horde. Alone with their paranoia and hypocrisy and thousand...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 19, 2010 10 Comments

For two years, opponents of Obama's agenda have been painted by the mainstream media, left-wing blogs and Democratic leadership as racist and extremist white supremacists.The charges are malicious and false, as documented here dozens of times.So what happens when there is a real white supremacist,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 17, 2010 4 Comments

Mea Culpa -- The second incident referred to below was by Kelly O'Donnell, not Norah O'Donnell. My mistake, corrected below. The point remains the same.-----------------------------------This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain:Tonight is a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 14, 2010 6 Comments

Syria dialogue going, Syria Gave Scuds to Hezbollah, U.S. Says New era of openness going, Obama's disregard for media reaches new heights at nuclear summitSupport for freedom-loving peoples going, At nuclear summit, Obama snubs an ally--------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter and Facebook ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 13, 2010 14 Comments

New Year, same plans to crash Tea Parties in order to create a pretext for the non-stop Democratic smear machine which seeks to paint all opposition to Obama's agenda as racist and extremist.We saw this last April, as I documented in my post When Fascism...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 05, 2010 2 Comments

in the Democratic party, mainstream media and nutroots who insist that everyone who opposes Obama's agenda is an extremist, and that the Tea Parties are the extreme of the extreme:Gallup - Tea Partiers Are Fairly Mainstream in Their DemographicsThe Hill - Four in 10 Tea...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 03, 2010 6 Comments

The jobs numbers released yesterday were nothing to cheer. Strip out the temporary hiring of Census workers, and a weather-related adjustment from February, and there was almost no net job growth. As the stagnant 9.7% overall jobless rate reflected, there was no meaningful job...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 02, 2010 2 Comments

McClatchy reporter William Douglas was instrumental in spreading the claim that protesters at the Capitol shouted racial epithets at Congressmen.As Jack Cashill at American Thinker documents, Douglas either was a speed writer of epic proportions, or Douglas pre-wrote much of the article in advance. You...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 01, 2010 6 Comments

Oh, how the columnists at the NY Times and the left-wing blogs desperately want a militia threat with which to beat law-abiding citizens over the head in the name of Obamamania.Sorry to disappoint Count Frankula and the other fear-mongers and race-card players, once again (h/t...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 30, 2010 28 Comments

Here is how Tucker Carlson described the purpose behind the Daily Caller (emphasis mine):Tucker Carlson announced plans to launch DailyCaller.com, a conservative-leaning news site that will aim to be an answer to the Huffington Post...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 29, 2010 7 Comments

The anti-Zionist fringe nut who threatened to kill Eric Cantor was an Obama supporter and campaign contributor.You know exactly what I mean when I say, "Can you imagine if Norman Leboon threatened to kill Obama and Leboon were a McCain or Tea Party contributor?"We would...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 28, 2010 6 Comments

Frank Rich has a blood lust as do many of those pushing the false meme that opposition to Obama equals racism and violence, as witnessed by Rich's latest polemic in the NY Times today, The Rage Is Not About Health Care.As happened with the Bill...

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