Woods makes his case as millions pause to watch
Across the media landscape, time stopped for 13 1/2 minutes as Tiger Woods emerged from the shadows with a much-awaited, tightly packaged video apology for his sexual escapades.
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No offense
Last week Rahm Emanuel expressed his disagreement with liberal groups attending a meeting with White House aides. The liberal groups discussed their plan to air ads attacking conservative Democrats balking at Obamacare. Drawing on his standard fund of eloquence, Emanuel upbraided the group with the epithet “f***ing retarded.”
Today Ben Smith [...]
Speaking stupid all the time
Harry Reid is not a smart guy, but he combines his stupidity with a large dollop of phony humility that is really unattractive. It’s an unendearing combination. Rush Limbaugh’s description of him as Dingy Harry has it just about right.
Reid is the subject of national attention today for having said of Barack Obama [...]
The creeping weaselization of David Frum
In the course of a relatively brief interview with David Frum over two segments on Monday, our friend Hugh Hewitt demonstrates with clinical precision that Frum is or has become something of a weasel. One reads the transcript of the interview with morbid fascination.
Hugh challenges Frum on two columns that are available here and [...]
Think Progress Ambushed by Facts
The Center for American Progress’s Amanda Terkel issues this apology for writing that Rush Limbaugh praised slavery and wanted Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassin to get a posthumous Medal of Honor:
The quotes attributed to Limbaugh of him praising slavery have not been substantiated. We have amended the post to strike through that claim, and we [...]
HuffPo Retracts False Limbaugh Quotes; When Will CNN & ThinkProgress?
The Huffington Post has retracted two quotes author Jack Huberman falsely attributed to Rush Limbaugh. Huberman wrote on the liberal website in 2006 that Limbaugh said James Earl Ray “deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor” and that Limbaugh praised slavery because “streets were safer after dark” back then. The HuffPo’s Mario Ruiz did not reply [...]
