Neil Cavuto Calls Chris Matthews A "Pretentious Snob"

Mediaite.com:

Neil Cavuto noticed the intense coverage as of late for many potential Republican presidential candidates who are often dismissed by the mainstream media as being on the “fringe.” Cavuto suggested that the reason the media tries to laugh them off is because many are “seriously worried that these possible candidates aren’t jokes.”


Cavuto shared with his audience how when he started on Fox News, nobody took him or the channel seriously. Now that he and Fox have grown in prominence and credibility, he realized that the way he previously was treated is the the same way Republican candidates are being treated now. Cavuto suggested that the motto of the media is “if you can’t beat’em, laugh at ‘em and hope folks dismiss them.” Yet if all the Republican candidates are clowns, Cavuto wonders why do so many news outlets continue to cover them?


The most intriguing moment came with Cavuto’s not-so-subtle jab at Chris Matthews. Cavuto asked, “if one pretentious snob at another channel says Michele Bachmann looks like she’s hypnotized, what is behind her hypnotic appeal on your not so appealing show?” And more generally, he questioned “if Donald Trump is a flash-in-the-plan, why do you keep flashing the same plan?” Instead, Cavuto seems to suggest that even if the media tries “to make a collective joke out of all of them along the way,” one of these supposedly “fringe” candidates very possibly could emerge as the legitimate Republican nominee.

Good stuff.

Snooki Gets $32,000 To Speak At A College, Nobel Prize Winner Toni Morrison Gets $30,000

The sad state of our college universities (esp. on the east coast) around the country are pretty much summed up here:

Big hair scores big bucks in speaking fees at New Jersey's state university. A Nobel prize? Not so much.


Rutgers University on Friday defended spending about $32,000 to bring reality television star Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi to campus this week, despite several students questioning if it was a wise use of money.


That's $2,000 more than the school is paying Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winning author Toni Morrison to speak at graduation on May 15.


"We have more than 200 events on our campus during the course of the year, everything from scholarly presentations to entertainment," Rutgers spokesman Steve Manas said.


"The students canvassed for who they wanted here and had the funds available," he said.


More than 1,000 people came to the New Brunswick, New Jersey, campus to hear Snooki of MTV's "The Jersey Shore" speak Thursday.


Student Hina Rehman, 20, said she found it "disappointing" her tuition money was going to fund the event.


"The fact that our school spent $32,000 to bring her is ridiculous," she said. "It's fine the money used here is meant for entertainment purposes, but I think we can get better entertainment than that."

Liberal Wisconsin Teacher Charged With Threatening Republican Lawmakers

CBSNews.com:

A 26-year-old woman is being charged with allegedly sending email threats to a handful of Wisconsin lawmakers during the state's contentious battle over collective bargaining rights earlier this month.


The woman, Katherine Windels, is being charged with two felony counts and two misdemeanor counts, for sending computer messages threatening injury or harm, and for propagating bomb scares.


According to a criminal complaint filed in the Dane County Circuit Court, Windels, under the alias "Lisa Patterson," first sent threatening emails to State Senator Robert Cowles on March 9, stating that "Because of your actions today and in t=e past couple of weeks I and the group of people that are working with me =ave decided that we've had enough. We feel that you and your republica= dictators have to die." (Spelling errors appear as in original complaint provided to CBSNews.com.)


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The email went on to outline a plan that involved "arriving at your house and=putting a nice little bullet in your head," as well as planting bombs "in various locations around =he areas in which we know that you frequent" - such as "your house, yo=r car, the state capitol, and well I won't tell you all of them becaus= that's just no fun."


In a second e-mail, sent by the same alias to 15 Wisconsin state Senators, Windels warns of having planted strategically-located bombs, and threatens, "you will be killed and your familes=will also be killed due to your actions in the last 8 weeks."


"Please explai= to them that this is because if we get rid of you and your families then =t will save the rights of 300,000 people and also be able to close the def=cit that you have created. I hope you have a good time in hell," says the e-mail, the subject line of which reads: "Atten: Death threat!!!! Bomb!!!!"


The woman, when questioned about the emails, said "I sent out emails that I was disgusted and very upset by what [Republican lawmakers] were doing," according to the complaint.


The report states that Windels told investigators she had not intended to follow through with her threats, and when questioned about a particular line in the email, she said, "I know I said that, but I don't know why I said that."

Somehow too, this crazy loon wasn't arrested. Can't imagine all the hype and controversy that would take place if this were a conservative woman threatening Democrat pols.

Hilarious Xtranormal Cartoon Shows Office Debate On Obama And Libya Vs. Bush And Iraq

Mediaite.com:

Thanks to user-generated video site Xtranormal, we know that guys who sort of look like your grandfather can get down as well as anyone and understand precisely what “quantitative easing” means thanks to a couple of adorable kittens. Now, Xtranormal is showing us what many on the right have been quietly claiming for years now: Some Obama fans can have a tendency of being, well. A little overzealous in their love and admiration for our Commander in Chief, even as he embarks in military action in Libya.


In this video, two office buddies discuss how Barack Obama’s actions in Libya compare to former president George W. Bush’s handling of Iraq. Obviously, the issues brought up are overwhelmingly Conservative talking points, but the we think the humor translates to people on either end of the political spectrum. One highlight? “My Labradoodle takes more time deliberating where to lie down,” says the young man in the too-short tie, “than Obama spent on bombing Libya.” Sick burn, bro. And his questionably accessorized office mate’s response? “I don’t care. Obama is awesome.” Eloquent.


And then there’s this little exchange:


Tie Guy: Do you realize you are making Charlie Sheen seem rational?


Zebra Earring Lady: Winning.


Tie Guy: Indeed.

Distorted Valerie Plame Flick Bombed at the Box Office

He who laughs last:

You might think that given the abysmal box office record of left-wing movies about the Iraq war that "Fair Game," a highly distorted version of the tired controversy surrounding former CIA non-agent Valerie Plame Wilson, would never have been made.


Of course, since Hollywood is dominated by leftists, economic sanity did not prevail. Economic reality did prevail, though, as "Fair Game" ended up being a total bomb. It grossed just $9.5 million domestically. Add in the international ticket sales and the fiction flick just barely managed to recoup its production budget of $22 million.


My source for those numbers of the St. Petersburg Times which still seems to believe the utter fiction that the Plame "disclosure" was the work of the nefarious Bush White House:


Fair Game was a generally well-regarded movie (it got a good 79 percent favorable rating on the movie website Rotten Tomatoes) that starred big-name actors in Naomi Watts and Sean Penn. It was about CIA operative Valerie Plame (played by Watts) whose cover was blown in Bob Novak's widely read Washington Post political column.


The information was allegedly leaked to Novak by White House officials to discredit her husband, Joseph Wilson (played by Penn), who had written a column in the New York Times in 2003 that said the Bush administration distorted intelligence information to justify the invasion of Iraq.


The staff reporter throws in "allegedly" for good measure but that really doesn't cut the mustard. But don't take my word for it, SPT, just listen to the Washington Post which took the rare move of denouncing a movie (this one) in an editorial last year, as noted by NB's Noel Sheppard:


"Fair Game" also resells the couple's story that Ms. Plame's exposure was the result of a White House conspiracy. A lengthy and wasteful investigation by a special prosecutor found no such conspiracy - but it did confirm that the prime source of a newspaper column identifying Ms. Plame was a State Department official, not a White House political operative.


The Post's conclusion is right on the money as well:


Hollywood has a habit of making movies about historical events without regard for the truth; "Fair Game" is just one more example. But the film's reception illustrates a more troubling trend of political debates in Washington in which established facts are willfully ignored. Mr. Wilson claimed that he had proved that Mr. Bush deliberately twisted the truth about Iraq, and he was eagerly embraced by those who insist the former president lied the country into a war. Though it was long ago established that Mr. Wilson himself was not telling the truth - not about his mission to Niger and not about his wife - the myth endures. We'll join the former president in hoping that future historians get it right.

Chuck Schumer Caught Telling Senators To Smear GOP, Speaker Boehner

It's like Schumer get his orders from Media Matters or something:

So much for civil discourse. Sen. Charles E. Schumer briefly revealed his true face Tuesday as reporters listened to him instruct fellow Democrats in how to paint Republicans and House Speaker John Boehner as extremist Tea Party zealots in the budget debates.


“I always use the word extreme,” Schumer told his fellow Democrats. “That is what the caucus instructed me to use this week.”


Republicans were quick to blast the remarks.


“It just lends to the fact to what we’ve always known, that this is a political game," said Rep. Allen West on Fox News. "It’s about gamesmanship, it’s about maneuvering, and it really is about politics. It’s not about doing what is best for the American people, it’s not about reducing the size and scope of the federal government so we can get back to have long-term, sustainable economic and job growth. I think Charles Schumer showed his hand. Now it’s up to the American people to realize who are really the ones who are standing as an obstacle for us to move forward.”


West added that Schumer, Harry Reid, and Obama want a shutdown so that they can use it to blame Republicans, and position themselves for 2012.


The brief peek behind the curtain came as Schumer was about to start a conference call with reporters on Tuesday morning, according to The New York Times. The No. 3 Democrat in the Senate was apparently unaware that many of the reporters were already on the line when he began revealing what passes as strategic messaging for Democrats.

Glenn Beck Strikes Back At Media Matters

Doesn't seem scared to me.

H/T: Mediaite

Donald Trump Doubles Down On Call For Obama To Produce His Birth Certificate

Of course, since Donald Trump is already mega-rich, probably isn't going to really run for President and isn't a pol anyway, he's in the perfect position to take on Barry regarding this stuff:

Potential 2012 GOP presidential contender Donald Trump is doubling down on his call for President Barack Obama to produce a birth certificate, saying “facts are emerging” that have raised a “real question” as to whether Obama is constitutionally eligible to serve as president.


The president has spent “millions of dollars” in legal fees to “trying to get away from this issue,” Trump said.


The billionaire’s remarks came Monday morning in an exclusive interview with "Fox & Friends" co-hosts on Fox News.


Trump said that, when he initially raised the issue last week on ABC’s "The View," he believed Obama was born in the United States and should simply produce the birth certificate to clear up any questions.


As recently as Thursday, Trump told Newsmax in an exclusive interview: “I assume that Obama was born in the United States. I assume he was probably born in Hawaii.”


But following his controversial remarks on "The View," Trump said Monday, new information has emerged to give him serious doubts where Obama was born.


Asked point blank by Fox News host Gretchen Carlson whether he believes Obama was born in the United States, Trump replied: “I am really concerned. And I will tell you, when this all started a week ago, I assumed . . . Hey look, you have no doctors that remember, you have no nurses — this is the president of the United States — that remember.


“That ad that was placed in the . . . paper, that was placed in the paper days after he was born,” Trump said. “So he could have come into the country, and they did it for social reasons they put it in. They did it for whatever reason, there are a lot of reasons they could have put an ad in, but he could have been born outside of this country.


“Why can’t he produce a birth certificate?” Trump said. “And by the way, there’s one story that his family doesn’t even know what hospital he was born in.”

Politiks As Usual: In The News 3/28/11

Defense Sec: Libya Did Not Pose Threat To U.S., Was Not 'Vital National Interest' To Intervene

Donald Trump Won't Back Off Obama's Birth Papers

The Anthony Weiner Waiver Wormhole

Why Liberals Hate Clarence Thomas And Sarah Palin

Obama's Fiscal Policies Doom Retirement For Millions

The Atheist Mormon-Trashing Musical

CBO: Employment, Economic Output Not Expected To Recover Until 2016

Target Sues San Diego Homosexual Group

Huffington Post Axes Andrew Breitbart 

Hispanics Become U.S. 2nd Largest Group With 50.5 Million

Chris Wallace To Newt Gingrich: If You Live In A Glass House Maybe You Shouldn’t Throw Stones?

Gee, for a network that's supposedly nothing but an arm for the GOP, here we find another Republican getting grilled on FOX. Again, it's why they're consistently No. 1. Of course, since Bill Clinton wasn't impeached for cheating on his wife, but for lying under oath, Newt did a pretty good job here:

In addition to being frustrated with the White House, Chris Wallace interviewed likely Republican candidate for President Newt Gingrich and showed no mercy. Suggesting the excuse that Gingrich previously provided for his marital problems was “kinda lame,” Wallace asked, “you love your country and you’re working hard and so you strayed. That wouldn’t work with my wife?”


Gingrich recovers somewhat smoothly, saying that he hopes voters will realize he has matured and that instead they focus on who best could solve America’s problems. Yet Wallace persists, wondering how it could not have been hypocrisy for Gingrich to lead the charge for President Bill Clinton’s impeachment, when he himself was having an affair at the same time? With the interview growing more tense by the moment, Gingrich insists his actions were not hypocritical since Clinton perjured himself in federal court, and that no leader should be above the law.


Wallace, not yet satisfied with the answer, concludes by questioning Gingrich “man to man” about whether he ever stopped to think “I’m living in a really glass house, maybe I shouldn’t be throwing stones?” Yet Gingrich thinks, regardless of what material his house is made of, if he didn’t call for Clinton’s impeachment, then he should have resigned for not being able to do his job properly. Gingrich argues that he is not perfect, but that one doesn’t need to be perfect to be a good leader and that he is willing to take a “tough beating” from Wallace and others in order for the potential opportunity to be a leader again.

Radically Leftist Group Media Matters Admits Obsession With FOX News

What's funny about this is that they really seem to think they have a chance to bring down the nation's No. 1 news channel, much less make a dent in 'em. But as we've learned in recent past, not many people outside of Media Matters seem to care what they think. Why? Because most non-liberals know bullshit when they see it:

The liberal group Media Matters has quietly transformed itself in preparation for what its founder, David Brock, described in an interview as an all-out campaign of “guerrilla warfare and sabotage” aimed at the Fox News Channel.


The group, launched as a more traditional media critic, has all but abandoned its monitoring of newspapers and other television networks and is narrowing its focus to Fox and a handful of conservative websites, which its leaders view as political organizations and the “nerve center” of the conservative movement. The shift reflects the centrality of the cable channel to the contemporary conservative movement, as well as the loathing it inspires among liberals — not least among the donors who fund Media Matters’ staff of about 90, who are arrayed in neat rows in a giant war room above Massachusetts Avenue.


“The strategy that we had had toward Fox was basically a strategy of containment,” said Brock, Media Matters’ chairman and founder and a former conservative journalist, adding that the group’s main aim had been to challenge the factual claims of the channel and to attempt to prevent them from reaching the mainstream media.


The new strategy, he said, is a “war on Fox.”


In an interview and a 2010 planning memo shared with POLITICO, Brock listed the fronts on which Media Matters — which he said is operating on a $10 million-plus annual budget — is working to chip away at Fox and its parent company, News Corp. They include its bread-and-butter distribution of embarrassing clips and attempts to rebut Fox points, as well as a series of under-the-radar tactics.


Media Matters, Brock said, is assembling opposition research files not only on Fox’s top executives but on a series of midlevel officials. It has hired an activist who has led a successful campaign to press advertisers to avoid Glenn Beck’s show. The group is assembling a legal team to help people who have clashed with Fox to file lawsuits for defamation, invasion of privacy or other causes. And it has hired two experienced reporters, Joe Strupp and Alexander Zaitchik, to dig into Fox’s operation to help assemble a book on the network, due out in 2012 from Vintage/Anchor. (In the interest of full disclosure, Media Matters last month also issued a report criticizing “Fox and Friends” co-host Steve Doocy’s criticism of this reporter’s blog.)

Planned Parenthood Covers Up Rape, Incest

TheHill.com:

Former Congresswoman and anti-abortion rights advocate Marilyn Musgrave (R-Colo.) suggested Planned Parenthood covers up sexual assaults against underage girls during the Conservative Principles Conference in Des Moines on Saturday.


When asked by another advocate in the audience how to best pressure the Senate into defunding Planned Parenthood, Musgrave recalled watching a recent interview with former star NFL linebacker Lawrence Taylor discussing allegations he had sex with an underage prostitute.


"You know what I thought about? Underage prostitutes, runaway girls, girls in crisis. Guess what folks? Planned Parenthood will readily give them birth control. Planned Parenthood will cover up statutory rape, incest, whatever," Musgrave said.


"I think we all need to pause in our daily lives and think about what Planned Parenthood really does. And, you bet, the Senate is a problem right now when we're talking about defunding them."