‘RNC Promoting Anti-Semitic Lit’ Attack is Unfair and Misleading

Before I get started, 2 quick notes about the headline.  I know the blog post to which I’m referring makes 3 such accusations in the headline, but they wouldn’t all fit, so I chose the most inflammatory.  Second, yeah, if you say it fast, it sounds like “Anti-Semitic Clit,” but grow up. AmericaBlog makes the [...]

Jake Tapper Pits Bill Clinton vs Obama on Same Sex Marriage

This is from Wednesday’s briefing.  Robert Gibbs, and President Obama, can count on the press corps to take every shot they can to get better answers on same sex marriage and DADT.  In this case, Jake Tapper uses Bill Clinton’s recent epiphany on gay marriage (DOMA arigato, Bubba) as an entree’ into the subject, with [...]

Bicycle Podcast and Transcript of Yesterday’s Rose Garden Speech

Overall, I think I took going in on my own rather well. So now that everyone knows I ended up standing the whole time and looking like a spaz when I opted to raise my hand, we can continue. The briefing was pretty well uneventful save for the Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy, Judith [...]

Updated:Duh! Healthcare Bill Doesn’t ‘Outlaw Private Insurance’

Earlier today, Twitter was all a-Itself with news, courtesy of Investor’s Business Daily, that the House healthcare reform bill “outlaws private insurance.”  I knew, without knowing, that they were misreading the thing, but haven’t had the chance to run through it yet.  Luckily, the Heritage Foundation debunks them, while ladling on their own false alarmism. [...]

Fox News Fuels Birther Madness

News Hounds (formerly New Shounds, wasn’t as catchy), has catalogged a passel of examples (actually, 1 passel and 2.5 smidgens, to be exact) of Fox News amplifying the Birthers of a Nation and their attempts to question Barack Obama’s national parentage: Perhaps desperate for new ways to undermine Barack Obama’s presidency, Fox News has joined [...]