- 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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Debra Saunders: An island of sanity and resilience in San Francisco and in the media.

Hats off to Politico’s Roger Simon for pointing out that TSA Empress Napolitano has no clothes.

She has no real plan for catching terrorists; she’s just hoping to “discourage” them while spending vast sums of taxpayer dollars buying really expensive ElectroNudie scanners that embarrass regular travelers.  But, Simon observes that, ”as it turns out, the machines don’t detect explosives at all. They detect images on your body that shouldn’t belong on your body.”  Beautiful.

Dissecting Candy Crowley’s interview of TSA Secretary Janet Napolitano on CNN’s Sunday show,  Simon succinctly exposed Napolitano’s justification for the ElectroNudie-scanners’ shocking $300,000 million price tag:

One of the real successes of the machines and procedures, Napolitano said, is that they discourage terrorists from even trying to get on planes.  In other words, the machines keep us safe even if they don’t work at all.

Which means, I guess, that I should breathlessly await Napolitano to soon release the official 2010 “Number of Terrorists Discouraged” statistics, akin to the Administration’s infamous “Number of Jobs Saved” contrivances.  Of course, either set of numbers will be interchangeable with the University of East Anglia’s conjured global warming statistics.

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You say MSM, I say Politico. You say corrupt, I say Politico.

Today, Politico’s Roger Simon was kind enough to almost scold JournoList for its lasting effect on his precious little profession of journalism. At one point, he and the scrupulously non-partisan Chuck “Fire Glenn Beck” Todd hold hands and commiserate over how this unfortunate JounoList thing is tarring “those of us who don’t practice activist journalism.” If Roger Simon wants to rebuild his precious little profession’s reputation, a good start might be asking his very own publisher some tough questions.

Politico might be an online publication, a part of the New Media, but when it comes to corrupted, left-wing arrogance they make the Washington Post look somewhat honest … somewhat. Part of the reason I reserve a special place in my heart to store up a unique resentment for all things Politico is due to the very fact that they practice their dark arts online. Like a toxic virus they spread over to the Internet where the right (by design) and the left (by accident) are trying to forever kill off the very thing Politico is — wolfish left-wing propagandists hidden in the sheeps’ clothing of “journalism.”

And yet these are the same bastards “journalists” who launched a smear attack on a private citizen for asking Their One a perfectly reasonable question, obsessed over Sarah Palin’s wardrobe (and yet ranked Obama being asked about his relationships with Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers as a 2008 top-ten ”media blunder“), and though they occasionally find Levi Johnston worthy of note, Department of Justice whistleblower, J. Christian Adams, remained a ghost up until and including Ben Smith’s factually challenged Nothing-To-See-Here gift to his embattled president. (more…)

And the media wonders why people hate the media:

Note that Roger Simon immediately leaps to the “racism” meme, arguing that — since there are few blacks in Iowa — Obama’s race didn’t prevent him from winning the caucuses, apparently on the theory that blacks only vote for blacks and whites only vote for whites. He never stops to consider the reverse argument, which was the one Rush was making, that Obama’s race is precisely what helped him in a white state like Iowa, where the voters could feel they were striking a blow for race relations by voting for Obama over Hillary Clinton. (more…)