Media

With a season of dissent circling Washington, reporters now, the infamous mainstream media — especially those associated with the White House Correspondents' Association dinner — will begin to bail and join the revolution. 

Once again it may begin to mean something to be a writer as it did to Ida Tarbell and Carl Bernstein and young'uns may flock again to journalism schools as they did after the Woodward and Bernstein days. An era is upon us, and a new generation, always an equal and opposite counterpoint of the last, will rise with it.

This morning from The Washington Post’s Kathleen Parker: "Breaking news: Conservative organizations suddenly have found common cause with one of their favorite objects of contempt — the benighted Mainstream Media ... Or as the tea party queen and former Alaska governor likes to put it, the ‘lamestream media.’ In a twist of irony, the two groups have coalesced around a common enemy: the U.S. government.”

The Tea Party queen here is, of course, Sarah Palin. Interesting, because Parker was among the first to announce, when Palin first arrived on the scene, that Palin was “out of her league.”

Friday’s bombshell admission that the IRS has been targeting political opponents since 2010 may have been trumped on Monday as it was revealed that the Obama Justice Department used its immense information gathering power against Associated Press reporters.

What a disaster for the Obama administration.

Utah Sen. Mike Lee, like Kentucky’s Rand Paul and Texas’s Ted Cruz have added much to the discussion this past semester, but I would like to suggest they misunderstand their forum. As a business model, the Senate today should be looked at as a pirate ship where full and honest discussion is considered seditious and principled management models are eyed suspiciously as cloaking dissent.

In a speech to the Heritage Foundation on Monday, Lee said: “The single most important policy would be federalism,” which means making “as many decisions at the most local level as possible.”

The word is out. I got calls from reporters about it all weekend: CNN is going to bring back "Crossfire."

Everybody wants to know: Do I think that’s a good idea or not? As a former co-host of "Crossfire," from 1996-2002, here’s my answer: That depends on which "Crossfire" you’re talking about, the real "Crossfire" or the “kiddie” version.

Brent Budowsky, yet again, takes to this space to defend President Obama and Democrats in Congress when they fail, lie, and try to pull the wool over our eyes and disregard the truth.

As the College of Cardinals begins to select the next pope, you hear the following said on almost all cable and network television coverage: The cardinals want to make the choice quickly to avoid an image problem.

This is one of the most ridiculous media inventions ever uttered on what has often been called the boob tube. Choosing a pope involves the selection of a man who will have the authority to offer doctrine that is deemed by the Church as infallible.

My answer to Cheri Jacobus is that a) mistakes were made and admitted; b) Hillary emerged from Benghazi with popularity huge enough to win her a presidential landslide.

So c) give it up, Republicans. You lost the election, deal with it; d) nobody cares about Obama golfing with Tiger Woods except bored (and boring) Republicans with nothing better to say, and e) if Republicans want to bang Benghazi forever, Democrats could revisit Bush 43 mocking the CIA warning him about planes flying into buildings before 9/11 or Dick Cheney's role in leaking CIA identities.

It would appear the press cares more about getting access to info on President Obama playing golf with Tiger Woods than it does about getting answers on Benghazi, American deaths and an apparent cover-up by the Obama administration.

The Obama administration has a new solution to address very high unemployment in the American black community. It intends to bring lawsuits against companies that refuse to hire individuals with criminal records.