Media

You don’t have to be a biblical scholar or have a degree in theology to know how deadly wrong Glenn Beck is about Jesus Christ and Christianity.

If you’ve ever even read the Gospels, just once, you know that Jesus loved, worked for and spent most of his short time on earth trying to help the poor.

“If you want to be perfect, sell all you have and give it to the poor,” he advised his followers. He also told them it’s easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

On March 7, on Chris Matthews’s Sunday morning political panel show, Dan Rather put his wingtip in his mouth. The former CBS anchorman — now Global Correspondent for HDNet — described President Barack Obama as a weak leader: “Look at the healthcare bill,” Rather said. “It was his No. 1 priority and it took him forever to get it through and he had to compromise it to death. ... He couldn't sell watermelons if … you gave him the state troopers to flag down the traffic.”

Sometimes we can find laughs in obscure places. An example would be the "Corrections" section of a newspaper, particularly one of those high and mighty ones like the Washington Post or New York Times.

Take this item in the Thursday WaPo: Read more...

You know how it is when a couple is going through a divorce. So often the friends feel obligated to choose sides. Sure you do. Larry David did a program about it. That's where I plagiarized the idea. With great "Enthusiasm," I might add. But I digress.

This split-up is happening right now with the disintegration of the Rahm Emanuel-David Axelrod marriage-of-convenience, which is agonizingly playing out for all the world to see — at least those in the world who read The New York Times and Washington Post. Read more...

It was eerily awkward to hear President Barack Obama’s promise at the State of the Union address earlier this year to eliminate all capital gains taxes on investment in small business. And then, see virtually no reporting of this commitment.
 
Maybe the liberal media was frightened by such a tax cut by reporting it so that the public generally and small-business employees specifically could hold the President to his promise. And maybe, by contrast, the conservative media did not report it because they did not believe what he was saying. 

What's so remarkable about this latest wet-kiss Washington Post article about White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is that it is appearing at all, and on the front page, no less. That and the fact there are none of the newspaper's trademark typos or grammatical errors.

It's the second piece in a couple weeks. As the often-profane Emanuel might say, "What the #@*! is THAT about?!" When did the Post become the Emanuel Manual? Why is there another piece that stoutly defends Rahmbo from the backstabbing and even front-stabbing that inevitably results when an administration stumbles?

On MSNBC’s “Hardball” Tuesday night, Chris Matthews took aim at Newt Gingrich — specifically, at a Monday night segment in which Gingrich, appearing on Fox News’s “The O’Reilly Factor,” told Bill O’Reilly that, yes, Barack Obama is a “socialist.”

By playing just a snippet of the exchange, Matthews distorted Gingrich’s more subtle argument. Read more...

Either television's star is rising again or this is the final nova, exploding into the Internet black hole. It doesn't matter. Forget primetime. Stay glued to your sets for the Daytime Olympics. Or at least set your DVR.

The television spectacular began last Friday, as we cringed while watching that golf automaton mechanically recite the contrite words and phrases his advisers had programmed into him. It was eerily amazing to see how human he almost seemed to be.

On Thursday night I appeared on "The Keith Olbermann Show" on MSNBC, discussing John Mellencamp and the Indiana Senate campaign. I drew a contrast between Mellencamp and his probable opponent, former Republican senator and later bank lobbyist Dan Coats.

Would Hoosiers rather have a senator fighting for workers to keep their jobs, homeowners to keep their homes and small America to survive and prosper? Or a senator who spent years going to fundraisers and then lobbying for those who foreclose on homeowners and outsource jobs?

I also expressed outrage toward those Republicans who want the president to fail so much, they also appear to want America to fail. The show can be seen here.

I was at the gym on Sunday (yes, I know, small miracle), watching the end of “Meet the Press,” when up on my TV screen popped President Barack Obama.

He was doing an infomercial on the pay-as-you-go budget rule that he just signed into law. It was a masterful art of political spin, because the president had actually signed a trillion-dollar-plus increase in the debt limit, giving the Democrats carte blanche to borrow more money from the Chinese to pay for bigger government.