The Discovery Channel would do well to hire Secretary Rumsfeld for a very special episode of “Mythbusters,” as Candy Crowley of CNN recently learned the hard way. Secretary Rumsfeld is busting tail to promote his book, Known and Unknown, A Memoir and Sunday’s stop on the whirlwind tour of interviews and media appearances was an interview with Crowley. By the way, Donald Rumsfeld is busting tail so hard because, being the evil Republican that he is, all proceeds will go to aid military families. Unlike the proceeds of then Senator Obama’s books; like most Lefties, Obama believes that charity begins at home, only in your home. Not in my backyard and not in my wallet! Plus, have you seen the price of arugala? Sheesh!

Anyway, during the interview (video after the jump) Ms. Crowley trotted out the tired, lame trope about how the entire world totally hearts us now. Because, Obama. As Andrew Malcolm of the LA Times reported, Ms. Crowley then seemed utterly flabbergasted that Secretary Rumsfeld called her on the idiocy, and falsity, of such claims. How can this be? He is historic and The One and all. Here is part of an exchange, in which Candy Crowley kept trying to persist in her delusion that President Obama’s awesomeness wipes out, you know, actual fact:

She stated: “Well, he seems to be quite popular overseas in a way that President Bush was not. The streets aren’t full of people burning him in effigy.”

She continued: “There does seem to be a new — a chance to look at America in a different way than it did during the Bush administration. You don’t think that’s true?”

Rumsfeld replied: “I don’t think that’s true and I don’t think that there’s data that would support that.”

Crowley didn’t need any data. She persisted: “Even though the streets look differently?”

As you might expect from some stubborn Republican, Rumsfeld stuck to his guns: “I just don’t think it’s correct.”

Andrew Malcolm also helpfully provided some photographic evidence, since reading is hard – and for Ms. Crowley, so is reality.

Huh. Those look like effigies to me, but I’m no fancy pants journalist, I suppose.

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Number three on our list almost violates the criteria that I set up in the first piece I wrote for this series. I said then that denizens of the Old Media that are too much a “cartoon of journalism” would not be included on my list. Yet despite my dismissal of such Old Media clowns, in the number three slot on the list you’ll find Paul Krugman of The New York Times.

Given today’s revelations about the JournoList, we now know Krugman either participated in a media conspiracy to get Obama elected or at least witnessed it first hand and did nothing to stop it.  Consider this fact merely the latest insight into a man who’s done more consistently left-biased journalism than nearly anyone in America.

Krugman is indeed quite a cartoon of modern liberalism. He is hidebound and far from a new or even a very free thinker. But he makes the list simply because he is not only a Nobel Prize winner but is one of the leading media figures in America today. So, despite that he is not an original thinker and is steeped in liberal orthodoxy, his prominence argues for his inclusion here.

And besides that he is a true liberal loon.

Krugman’s January 17 piece is a perfect example of the nonsense that he tries to pass off as political analysis. In his piece headlined “What Didn’t Happen,” Krugman seriously tried to claim that one of Barack Obama’s biggest failings was that he doesn’t blame Bush enough for his own failings.

Mr. Obama didn’t… shelter himself from criticism with a narrative that placed the blame on previous administrations.

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After more than 20 agonizing months in exile at an undisclosed location, Mayor Ed Koch’s runaway mind made a daring escape from its captor, Obama-mania, this week and has at last come home safe and sound. At 85, the former New York mayor’s mind—a little haggard, a little road-weary—nevertheless appeared to be in full control of its former lucidity after a long stint in captivity to the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize laureate’s New World Order.

Before discussing their safe reunion with the Mayor’s body, let’s recall the day the Kochian faculties took their abrupt and surprising leave of absence, stunning New Yorkers who still harbored fond memories of their Greenwich Village bachelor mayor. It was September 9, 2008 when Mayor Koch—after supporting Hillary Clinton throughout her failed primary—wrote this:

So the issue for me is who will best protect and defend America. I have concluded that the country is safer in the hands of Barack Obama, leader of the Democratic Party and protector of the philosophy of that party.

That was Day One of captivity for the mayoral mind. The Koch endorsement of Obama was not solely founded on defending America from the threat of terrorism, as it had been, for example, when he endorsed George W. Bush in 2004, stating then “the overwhelming issue for me was international Islamic terrorism, including al-Qaeda.”

No, on September 9, 2008 Koch’s mind already displayed significant traces of Stockholm Syndrome support for Obama’s full-fledged progressive agenda, along with what would become the liberal’s fail-safe prescription, a strong injection of Sarah-phobia: (more…)

There’s a question oft-posed by the proponents of global warming… or of “climate change,” as the new term of art has it, thus allowing warmists to claim both the snowstorm now blanketing America’s East Coast, as well as the melting of that snow, as evidence for their theory.

“To what end?” the warmists ask the skeptics.  Or, in the lingua franca of conspiracy theorists everywhere: “Cui bono, my friend, cui bono?”

Well, lots of people are benefiting from the practical implications of this theory. There’s Nobel Laureate Al Gore for one, who is on track to become the first green billionaire:

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