- CBS studio team “Tebows”: After a miracle finish on the first play of overtime to give the underdog Denver Broncos a stunning win over the Pittsburgh Steelers, the analysts and anchors at CBS Sports had only one response.

- CNN “Early Start” tries to prank Chuck Nice by calling him at 3am Pacific time, calls and wakes up wrong person. MEanwhile, Nice watched the whole thing happen on television, live.

- Charles Payne drops an F bomb on Fox!

- Bill O’Reilly defends Gateway Pundit, as does Rush. Our previous piece on the subject: What Is More Racist®?

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Christopher Knight writes for the “Culture Monster” a column over at ”The Incredibly Shrinking L.A. Times,” and guess what our progressive friend sees when he looks at this innocuous and obvious political cartoon of First Lady Michelle Obama:

Believe it or not, Mr. Knight sees an “uppity Negro.” Those aren’t my words, those are his:

The caricature of Obama as a profligate queen relies on the racist stereotype of an “uppity Negro[.]“

Who other than someone with their own disturbing prejudices would look at that obvious piece of political satire hitting the First lady up for her excessive and lavish vacationing and think “uppity Negro”?

Naturally, though, like all bigoted leftists, Knight attempts to project his own troubling racial issues on others:

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Browsing Gateway Pundit today, I ran across Michele Bachmann’s response to the hit piece that accused the Minnesota Congresswoman of suffering from “stress-related” chronic migraine headaches that “incapacitate” her and which she combats with “heavy pill use.”

I fully expected blogger Jonathan Strong to end the piece with: “Don’t trust anything that bleeds for a week each month and doesn’t die.”

Bachmann responded to this asinine “story” with her trademark professionalism, asserting that:

Like nearly 30 million other Americans, I experience migraines that are easily controlled with medication. . . Let me be abundantly clear – my ability to function effectively has never been impeded by migraines and will not affect my ability to serve as Commander in Chief.

Case closed, right?  Should be, but the narrative has been launched. This is, of course, part of Bachmann’s opponents’ efforts to paint Bachmann as some sort of crazy radical. The left has gone after her personal faith and social beliefs, as if they are relevant regarding the fiscal mess we’re in and what she might do to solve it, and now they are employing an old “women are nuts” narrative to tear her down.  That approximately 75% of migraines occur in women is no irrelevant fact here. I’ll be expecting feminists to come to Bachmann’s defense any minute now . . . oh wait, this is America; they are probably too busy silk screening a batch of “Michele Bachmann is an Addict (and a <insert expletive here>)” t-shirts.

As I see it, female politicians are generally tougher than nails. To excel in what is perhaps the quintessential male profession is impressive. I admire Hilary Clinton and Gabrielle Giffords in this regard as much as I admire Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann. Attacks like these attempt to tap into that old theme of women as prone to unpredictable bouts of anxiety and other debilitating mental imbalances: “You may like her, dude, but she’s a chick. She may just freak out one day.”

As someone who has close family members who deal with migraines on a continual basis, I can attest that they can be quite intense, and they can also be treated with a wide variety of medications, none of which create any sort of diminished capacity for thinking. And guess what?  In my personal case, these people are all successful professionals regardless. As far as I’m concerned, living with any chronic medical condition, and thriving in spite of it, is huge test of character.

The fact that Michele Bachmann has migraines only adds to her appeal. I am thinking, “Hold on.  She did everything she did and has migraines to boot?” That’s someone I want in my foxhole.

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At The Corner the other morning, Andy McCarthy points out the LA Times’ “mainstreaming of the Muslim Brotherhood” by providing a forum for Mousa Abu Marzook—at one time the most senior Hamas operative living in the US:

This was akin to giving equal time to the director of the FBI and the head of Cosa Nostra. Marzook is the most important Muslim Brotherhood operative ever stationed in the U.S. I discuss him in some detail in The Grand Jihad. During his 14 years here, which ended when he was deported in 1994, he actually ran Hamas (the terrorist organization that is the Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestinian branch) from his home in Virginia.

Mousa Abu Marzook

This was in the early 90s, during the Intifada. He also had a hand in the establishment of many of the Islamist organizations with which we are familiar today. The Islamist infrastructure he helped build here was the foundation of the Justice Department’s successful terrorism financing prosecution against the Holy Land Foundation for funneling millions of dollars to Palestinian terrorists.

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Below, you’ll find a compilation of 20 days worth of the death threats, vandalism, and intimidation practiced by pro-union thugs opposed to Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s budget repair bill. Wisconsin is my home state. I lived there until I was 27 years-old in 1993 and most of my family, including my parents still live there. For that reason and because the issue of education and teachers unions has been a passion of mine for going on two decades, I’ve been following this story very, very closely. My original intent was to compile all of this earlier in the week, but after reading Lee Stranahan’s superb editorial I decided to wait and see if that might have some effect on the national and local Wisconsin media in moving them towards giving the ongoing violence, intimidation, vandalism, and overall thuggery occurring at the hands of union activists and their supporters, the coverage it needs and deserves.

Actual note slid under office door of a Wisconsin legislator.

Not only should the local and national media be amplifying their coverage of this ongoing scandal because of the bar they themselves set with the Tea Party for what rises to the level of of racism, “predominantly white” protesters and troubling behavior — but in the wake of the tragic shootings in Tuscon you would think direct threats on elected officials would rate a little outrage. Well, obviously not when those threats come from the Left.

Politics aside, what’s happening in Wisconsin is downright frightening because, as you’ll see below, these incidents are growing in number and intensity. Furthermore, other than the Right, no one is calling for calm or civility. The local media is, at best, wrist-flicking these incidents, Democratic legislators have not called for calm, President Obama is AWOL, and worst of all, Public Union Workers not involved in the thuggish behavior taking place in their name, have been complicit with their silence.

This is more than a disgrace, it’s dangerous. Conservative radio talk show hosts and Governor Walker can talk all they want, but I fear that until the media starts a campaign of shame by focusing on these incidents, and responsible pro-union types begin to police their own side, someone is eventually going to get hurt.

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Over at Gateway Pundit, Jim Hoft reports:

It begins… School officials at Palm Beach State College kicked members of the Young America’s Foundation off campus after they saw anti-Obama literature at their table.

It was offensive.

Administrators and Campus Police Kick YAF members off campus after seeing anti-Obama literature at their table.

Other college groups were allowed to stay on campus despite not registering for the event.

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Is the Obama administration trying to ban sport fishing? Not at this time. Is the Obama administration setting up structures and processes that could, and probably will, eventually result in more regulatory restrictions on sport fishing? You betcha. But, with all due respect to anglers, that’s not the biggest problem with the “Interim Framework For Effective Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning” issued by the Interagency Ocean Policy Taskforce (latest version dated December 9, 2009). Government goes after industry long before it dares to subtly, oh-so-subtly, impose new restrictions on individuals. The framework, which we will now shorthand as “CMSP,” will affect off-shore drilling operations, commercial fishing and commercial shipping first and foremost.

Some conservative bloggers erupted in outrage when the report came to light, saying that – as Gateway Pundit put it – “Obama’s latest assault on your rights – he wants to ban sport fishing.” That was an overreaction, but an understandable one given the aggressive nature of this administration when it comes to environmental issues and the fact that the CMSP report specifically lists “recreational fishing” as an activity that needs to be “better managed” (page two of the report). Perhaps “better managed” translates into “leave them alone,” but one may be forgiven for thinking not.

On the other end of the spectrum, George Soros’ steno pool declared that worries about a sport fishing ban were “absurd,” as though nothing in the CMSP report could possibly have an impact on recreational fishing, even though the report itself kicked that particular door wide open. That is not to say that a ban on recreational fishing is in our immediate future, but it’s terribly naïve to believe that the CMSP framework won’t create the regulatory environment that will result in painful restrictions on the sport in the future. What does it all mean? Sit back, relax and let Dr. Environment break it down for you kids. (OK, so I don’t have an actual PhD, but seeing as how the University of Tennessee is awarding Al Gore an honorary doctorate, I’m sure that my degree just has to be in the mail).

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