I don’t expect top-notch commentary whenever The Huffington Post is concerned, but I do expect accuracy.

In their latest piece, HuffPo accuses Andrew Breitbart of “editing” this clip wherein Norah O’Donnell exclaims to Jay Carney: “We got nothing!”

It was a video requested by me for this post and I watched the broadcast as I was prepping for my radio show. I reached out to Breitbart.tv editor Larry O’Connor and asked him if he saw it and if he could, to pull that clip straight from the air, as he has the ability to do so with live television. O’Connor did not “edit” the video in anyway, I did not “edit” that video in any way, and Breitbart certainly did not edit the video in any way and any rational, bipedal human with more than two brain cells to rub together could see that as well.

I watched the entire presser and even within the context of O’Donnell’s questions it was difficult to make out the beginning of her remark due to crosstalk, which was noted in the original article and skimmed over by HuffPo. I wrote of this on Big Journalism:

It’s difficult to tell if O’Donnell is quoting the Democratic base for the sake of the question (inaudible due to crosstalk in the beginning) or if she included herself in that “we” to cast her lot in with Democrats on this, but it’s an interesting clip.

What makes it even more interesting, though, is when Carney tells O’Donnell: “We didn’t get the grand bargain … up front.”

Wait! that’s on … a… Breitbart site? A post that debunks the entire narrative coming from HuffPo? But, but! Why is it an interesting clip? Because a member of the press that isn’t Ed Henry or Jake Tapper is arguing with the White House. A “hate-hate” (strong, but you get the idea) relationship, exactly as the media and government should be.

Shame they skipped clarifying this in an effort to avoid writing about how Joe Biden and almost every single MSM outlet yesterday called tea partiers “terrorists” and/or “extremists” in a tantrum over the economy. That seems like a pretty big “edit” from the pages of HuffPo, no?

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The once-passionate, even slobbering, love affair between the media and Barack Obama is rapidly cooling.  Writing in the Washington Post, Richard Cohen bemoans “Obama’s Shrinking Presidency:”

One of the unintended results of the redecoration of the Oval Office was the downsizing of Barack Obama. In last week’s prime-time address to the nation, the president sat behind a massive and capaciously empty desk, looking somehow smaller than he ever has — a man physically reduced by sinking polls, a lousy economy and the prospect that his party might lose control of Congress. Behold something we never thought we’d see with Obama: The Incredible Shrinking Presidency.

This is an amazing and, to me, somewhat frightening, turn of events. The folks who ran a very smart presidential campaign in 2008 have left the defining of the Obama presidency to others, in this case people on the edge of insanity. For example, a recent Pew poll reported that “nearly one in five Americans (18 percent) now say Obama is a Muslim, up from 11 percent in March 2009.” In other words, the longer Obama has been in office, the more ignorant people have become about him.

Luckily, there’s still hope for these crazy kids yet, and Cohen has the solution: (more…)

There’s been a lot of rhetoric lately about the so-called ground zero mosque on all sides: Governor Christie saying that the mosque was merely being used as a “political football,” Mayor Bloomberg saying that opposition to the mosque is treating Muslims differently and giving a “victory to the terrorists,” Obama saying it’s not keeping with American “values” in his speech to the Muslim community at a Ramadan dinner and then later “politicking” by saying he wasn’t commenting on the “wisdom” of building the mosque.

Few, if any, though, could compare to Norah O’Donnell on MSNBC when she said this about the opposition to the mosque:

Rather than articulating the standard liberal straw-man argument  of the left, “the mosque has the right to be built there” — few, if any in the opposition have claimed otherwise — she goes for the “They’re like the 9/11 terrorists” angle. (more…)

For everyone who read the above headline and said, “not bloody likely,”  give yourself two points.   The silence is frightening.

People Magazine’s latest piece on that rapidly dimming Northern Light known as Levi Johnston is no surprise to people who know and respect Sarah Palin.  The only ones astonished to discover that a 17-year-old boy lied in order to get famous are the professional journalists who would rather interview Tina Fey pretending Sarah Palin than to be forced to actually speak with the former vice-presidential candidate herself.

It was a pretty good ride for Levi Johnston. After surfing the wave of celebrity that was primarily fueled by a willingness to lie about almost everything about Sarah, Todd and Bristol Palin, Levi has finally come clean in the pages of People, admitting; “”I publicly said things about the Palins that were not completely true.”

Not completely true?  As in, you lied, Levi?   You lied about the impending divorce of Sarah and Todd?  How about the story you told claiming the former Governor joked about her Down Syndrome baby, referring to the child as “retarded?”  What about the whoppers told on the CBS Morning Show, The Today Show, or Tyra Banks show? (more…)

A recent New York Times poll finds the stupid, racist Tea Party people are really smarter, wealthier and better educated than MSNBC (and even the Times) would have you know. The recently released survey shows:

1. Fewer than 1 in 5 Americans consider themselves Tea Party People (18%)
2. They believe Sarah Palin is not qualified to be President
3. They blame Congress (not just Bush) for the economic problems we are experiencing.
4. Ninety percent think America is headed in the wrong direction (compared with just 60% of the general public).
5. Their major issues are health care, the economy, and the deficit.

Four of the five facts posted above might lead you to believe that the Tea Party is in line with the thinking of most of America, leading one to wonder: just what is the problem with mainstream media and these Tea Party people, anyway? What in the world will Ed Schultz, Nora O’Donnell and the MSNBC Progressive Friends Club do when they discover that they have so much in common with the Tea Party people?

Oh wait… Let’s not forget the “R” word.  “RACISM” is the deal breaker in this potential relationship. (more…)

ARF!

Bo here, the conservative dog in the White House. I’m in the Oval Office with Barry and the boys while they decide on a strategy for the State of the Union speech. They can’t make up their minds. Big surprise, huh?

It’s been quite a week here since the Massachusetts senate race, all of them whining and moaning like a litter of pitbulls finding out they’ve just been sold to Michael Vick. Barry, of course, has been hardest hit. A retiree in Pompano Beach, Florida, gets bit by a sand flea, and Barry is hardest hit.

Still, the Scott Brown victory was a genuine blow to the faithful. Barry thrives on self-delusion, so the team here firehoses him with flattery non-stop. The One. The Lightbringer. Captain Smooth. Except for Rahm, the only guy who can tell Barry the truth. The only one who actually enjoys telling Barry the truth. Teleprompter Jesus. President Fist Bump. Harry Reid’s Immaculate Negro. Barry doesn’t appreciate it, but Rahm doesn’t care. Anyway, Scott Brown’s election really shook the place up. I was there. I smelt the fear…

“Now what?” Barry kept saying as he flipped through the channels looking for good news. “Now what?”

On CNBC, Norah O’Donnell woodenly read the latest vote tallies, mascara running down her cheeks like Chuckie the killer klown. Keith Olbermann was in the background, loudly vomiting into a waste basket. (more…)