Gallup puts out the statistics that affirm the the outrage we share with you on a daily basis:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — For the fourth straight year, the majority of Americans say they have little or no trust in the mass media to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly. The 57% who now say this is a record high by one percentage point.

The 43% of Americans who, in Gallup’s annual Governance poll, conducted Sept. 13-16, 2010, express a great deal or fair amount of trust ties the record low, and is far worse than three prior Gallup readings on this measure from the 1970s.

Trust in the media is now slightly higher than the record-low trust in the legislative branch but lower than trust in the executive and judicial branches of government, even though trust in all three branches is down sharply this year. These findings also further confirm a separate Gallup poll that found little confidence in newspapers and television specifically.

Nearly half of Americans (48%) say the media are too liberal, tying the high end of the narrow 44% to 48% range recorded over the past decade. One-third say the media are just about right while 15% say they are too conservative. Overall, perceptions of bias have remained quite steady over this tumultuous period of change for the media, marked by the growth of cable and Internet news sources. Americans’ views now are in fact identical to those in 2004, despite the many changes in the industry since then. (more…)

You can’t make this stuff up.  Welcome to the Bizarro-World of CNN:

The most odious member of Congress, the soon-to-be-former-Rep. Alan Grayson of Florida, is justly celebrated for his vicious partisanship, intellectual dishonesty and a thin skin that makes Barack Obama looks like a Patton tank.

Here’s a new low:

Nice work by Sean Hannity and Sen. Thune, taking this apart. (more…)

Rahm “the Ballerina” Emanuel may announce that he’s abandoning the foundering hulk of the S.S. Obama Administration to go back to the criminal racket known as Chicago Democratic politics.  According to the Wall Street Journal:

Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff who has one eye on the exit, has made scores of calls to Chicago politicians, businessmen and labor leaders to clear a place at the starting line in the race to succeed Mayor Richard M. Daley.

People close to Mr. Emanuel say he might resign from his current job as soon as Friday, though according to Rep. Danny Davis, family concerns are giving him pause. Said the Illinois Democrat, who met with Mr. Emanuel last week—and who may run himself: “I got the impression he’s very close to announcing. Much of our conversation centered around the likelihood that he would run.”

By sheer coincidence, Emanuel’s partner in the Obama brain trust, David Axelrod, recently announced that he, too, is returning to Chicago.

Considering Obama’s poll numbers — as well as those of Axelrod’s warmup act, Mass. Gov. “Cadillac” Deval Patrick… (more…)

Recognize this boor?  He’s soon-to-be-former-Rep. Bob Etheridge of North Carolina.

Uhh… Bob?  Remember that streetside interview after which, in a perfect world, you should have been brought up on charges of battery?

Maybe, just mabye, on Nov. 2… (more…)

Andrew Breitbart on the Hugh Hewitt Show:

Westin, Klein, Zucker… the old order passeth. (more…)

It doesn’t fit the narrative, but the truth still hurts:

And in Beverly Hills, no less. (more…)

Over at the Weekly Standard, Bill Kristol tries to control his inner optimist:

It would be unbecoming for us at The Weekly -Standard​—we do have to uphold standards, after all!—to chortle with glee as the Democratic party melts down. It would be unkind to whoop at the top of our lungs as Obama White House big shots quit or get fired, and to cheer with gusto as the GOP leadership behaves sensibly, the Tea Party goes from strength to strength, and momentum builds towards a huge Election Day repudiation of big government liberalism.

So, instead, we’ll simply point out, calmly and quietly, that the Democratic party is in meltdown, the Obama White House is in disarray, and the voters are in rebellion against both of them.

… Meanwhile, much to the amazement of experienced laborers in conservative and Republican causes, the Republicans aren’t blowing it.

Yes, yes… don’t want to get too cocky, don’t want to count our chickens, etc. Still… (more…)

That would be Mike Malloy:

Isn’t it great when the mask of “tolerance” slips and we see these people for the hateful, soul-corroded creatures they really are?

From the Los Angeles Times:

Larry Elder, the self-proclaimed “Sage from South Central,” has heard you missed him. Now he’s back.

Elder, the African American talk-show host who frequently provoked black listeners with his conservative views during his 15-year stint on KABC-AM (790), is returning Monday to the station he abruptly left almost two years ago. He will take over the 9 a.m. to noon weekday slot vacated Friday by the more lighthearted “Frosty, Heidi and Frank” show.

“I’m tanned, rested and ready,” Elder quipped last week in a phone interview, echoing the oft-told one-liner about former President Richard Nixon on his political availability after his impeachment. Elder added in a more serious tone, “[KABC] approached me, and I was ready to get back in the game. I think I have been missed, and I believe I will be welcomed and embraced.”

His return to KABC, where he formerly occupied the afternoon drive-time slot, will bring a more unified conservative tone to the station, which is also home to commentators Sean Hannity and Mark Levin, said program director Jack Silver, who took charge of programming two months ago. (more…)

In case you’ve forgotten how we got here:

And what the MSM doesn’t want to remind you about.

Say goodnight, Barry, Nancy, Harry, Barney et al.:

Yes, that would be MSNBC’s legendary “Mr. Ed” Schultz, doing his famous imitation of the pot and the kettle. Take a look:

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Because Kolbert was so darn funny in his testimony to the Klowns in Kongress?

Is it just us or does Madame Speaker always seem to be in a bit of a… how to put this delicately… (more…)

It takes Mika Brzezinski and Lawrence O’Donnell to make you feel warm and fuzzy about Donald Trump:

Don’t you wish more guests would speak to them like this? (more…)

Democrats didn’t talk enough about health care?

Yeah, right.

We knew that Congress was fundamentally unserious, but we had no idea it was this unserious:

Unbelievable. Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren, who invited the fake “conservative” “journalist,” should be ashamed of herself. Meanwhile… (more…)

Arrogant? Entitled? Petty? You be the judge:

From WGN:

David Axelrod, a top advisor to President Obama and the main architect of his election victory in 2008, will be leaving the White House next year and returning to Chicago to work on the president’s re-election campaign, a White House aide said Thursday.

Axelrod has not specified a departure date, but he plans to remain in his current position “well into 2011,” the aide said.

Axelrod, who calls himself a “Chicagoan on assignment,” has long made clear he missed his hometown and would return before the end of the four-year term. His wife still lives in the city.

One of Obama’s most trusted aides, Axelrod occupies a small office just steps from the Oval Office. On a wall in Axelrod’s office hangs a picture of the White House drawn by his daughter. The Chicago skyline is shown in the reflecting pool.

Axelrod, a former Chicago Tribune reporter and City Hall bureau chief-turned-campaign consultant, is the latest of the Obama crew to voluntarily dive overboard, joining Peter Orszag, Christina Romer, Larry Summers and, soon enough, fellow Chicagoan Rahm Emanuel. (more…)

You can’t make this stuff up. From the Washington Post, the employer of the most ethically challenged bunch of pundits and bloggers this side of Pravda:

This is a contest aimed at people who’ve read a column in a newspaper or watched a talking head on TV and thought: “Hey, I could do that.” It’s for people who may already regularly voice their opinions — but wouldn’t mind a bigger audience. It’s for people who want to influence the national debate.

If you’re one of those people, then this is your chance to put your opinions to the test — and win an opportunity to write for The Washington Post and launch your opinionating career.

Start making your case.

We’ll accept entries as soon as the online entry form goes live on Sept. 20, 2010 at 12:01 p.m. ET. Use the form to send us a short opinion essay (400-word limit) pegged to a topic in the news and an additional paragraph (100-word limit) on yourself and why you should win. Entry deadline: Oct. 1, 2010 at 11:59 p.m. ET. Post editors will pick the top 50 entries on the basis of style, intelligence and freshness of argument (but not on whether we agree or disagree with your point of view). And then we’ll be looking to readers to help us narrow the field to ten finalists.

How pathetic is this? (more…)