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Backfire!

Bernie — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:15:45 +0000

The media did Barack Obama no favors when they deified him, when they tried to turn him into a saint during the presidential campaign. Now the American people are seeing that he’s not transformational, not post-partisan, not post-political — all the wonderful things he claimed to be, with hardly a raised eyebrow by his pals [...]

Is the End Near for Olbermann?

Bernie — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:15:09 +0000

This article from JedEckert.com is so good, I wanted to put it up as a guest column. Please, post your comments. Chaos at MSNBC While the Olympics continue in Vancouver, we’re hearing that things continue to fall apart at “The Place for Politics.” Despite having Olympic lead-ins to their prime-time line-up, ratings continue to be [...]

A Pulitzer for the Enquirer?

Bernie — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:13:02 +0000

I got an email the other day from FOX News asking me if I would talk to Megyn Kelly on her new afternoon show about whether the National Enquirer should be in contention for the most prestigious of newspaper awards, the mighty Pulitzer, for its coverage of the Edwards sex scandal. My first reaction was, not [...]

Connecting the Dots — Part 2

Bernie — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:53:12 +0000

Imagine that there are anti-poverty demonstrations all over the country. Imagine that speakers get up at podiums and address big crowds, telling them that it’s morally wrong to have so many poor people in America; that poverty is unjust; that poverty must end in America. Imagine that they march with signs to stamp out poverty. And [...]

Liberal Media Playing Connect the Dots — Again

Bernie — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:40:58 +0000

As that great American philosopher Yogi Berra once said: It’s deja vu all over again. When Timothy McVeigh blew up the federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995 it took the mainstream media — and other liberals — about 2 seconds to blame conservative talk radio in general and Rush Limbaugh in particular for what happened. [...]

The “Sort of God” and the Politician

Bernie — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:36:55 +0000

Barack Obama was going to be different. At least that was the storyline. Sure he was a politician, but only technically. He was so much more than that, according to the narrative. In Barack Obama we had a candidate who was smart and charismatic and wasn’t going to behave like any old time politician who came [...]

An Open Letter to …

Bernie — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:54:44 +0000

This is a response to a reader’s comment about my most recent column, “Attention All Bigots!” I have never responded this way to a critic. But I think that what I have to say here is worthy of an entire column, not simply a reply. I will first re-publish the original post. As always, I [...]

Attention all Bigots!

Bernie — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:14:15 +0000

You’re a bigot if you utter the word “Negro” – even though Negro is not a slur, merely outdated. If you don’t believe me, just ask Harry Reid. You’re a bigot if you use the word “retarded” – even though the word used to be used in polite company all the time, but now, like Negro, [...]

All the News that Fits Our Biases

Bernie — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:12:20 +0000

You can always tell what a newspaper finds important by what it puts on the front page. It’s also a good way to learn about the paper’s biases. You may recall that the New York Times wrote very little on page one, or anyplace else in the paper, about the relationship – whatever it was – [...]

Politics, Arrogance and The Smartest Kid in the Room

Bernie — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:37:09 +0000

It isn’t simply President Obama’s left-wing politics that has a lot of Americans turning on him. It’s not just the trillion dollar-plus health care bill. Or the stimulus package that looked more like a Christmas tree loaded with goodies for Democratic constituencies. It’s not only his gazillion dollar budget or the prospect of huge tax [...]

Just Asking …

Bernie — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:09:45 +0000

This was floating around the Web and wound up in my in-box. A case for profiling? You decide 1. 1968 Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed by: a. Superman b. Jay Leno c. Harry Potter d. A Muslim male extremist between the ages of 17 and 40 2. In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred by: a. [...]

We Need a Million Muslim Man March on Washington

Bernie — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:28:33 +0000

This is one of those good news bad news stories. The other day, as the “Underpants Bomber” was pleading not guilty to the Christmas Day attempt to blow up Northwest flight 253, a group of American Muslims were demonstrating outside the federal courthouse in Detroit “to show the world,” as a newspaper report explained it, “that [...]

And What Exactly is Wrong with Profiling?

Bernie — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:31:54 +0000

Several years ago I flew from Miami to Tel Aviv on El Al Airlines. Right after I got my ticket at the El Al counter, and long before I got anywhere near the airplane, a young woman from the airline gave me the third degree. Where did I live? What synagogue did I go to? [...]

The Price Is Right — Washington’s Version

Bernie — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:27:08 +0000

Let’s say you own a little business. Any kind of business. It doesn’t matter. And let’s say you need a permit from the city to expand. You are painfully aware that the process of getting permission from the bureaucracy can be cumbersome and take a long time, But you need the permit now. If you [...]

A Break from the Usual … Just this Once

Bernie — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:22:52 +0000

As most of you know, this space is normally reserved for my incredibly witty, scintillating and brilliant observations about issues and ideas, big and small. Then you, my friends, get to weigh in and tell me what you think. With the first year of our new Web site coming to a close, I’d like to take [...]

What Passes for News in the U S of E

Bernie — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:48:44 +0000

I don’t know about you, but I don’t need any more news about Tiger Woods and his “situation.” I already know enough. More than enough, actually. I’m in the camp that believes even celebrities are entitled to some privacy. But in the United States of Entertainment there was no way Tiger was going to get a [...]

A Conscientious Objector in the Culture War …

Bernie — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:57:56 +0000

I used to be a liberal, along with all my friends, but then I evolved. I was liberal on civil rights. I didn’t even object to affirmative action in the beginning. But then it started bothering me that a black kid whose father or mother was a lawyer or a doctor would get better treatment than [...]

About the Firestorm I Touched Off …

Bernie — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:43:13 +0000

The other day, on Bill O’Reilly’s show, I tried to explain why elite liberals go nuts at the mere mention of the name – Sarah Palin. And in the process, I touched off a firestorm I never envisioned, or intended. Here’s what happened: While I have never supported Sarah Palin, publicly or privately, I have long [...]

The Best of the Worst … My List

Bernie — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:00:42 +0000

Let’s be kind and simply say that news coverage of the carnage at Fort Hood wasn’t journalism’s finest moment. It seems that lamestream journalists had a great deal of trouble uttering the word “terror” or “terrorist” or “Muslim” – even though the gunman is a Muslim terrorist. You’d think that his many jihadist statements might have [...]

Fort Hood and the PC Cowards

Bernie — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:19:54 +0000

Not long after the massacre at Fort Hood, when it became clear that once again the lamestream media were going out of their way to avoid the obvious, I went on Bill O’Reilly’s program on Fox and said: Political correctness is a virus running through the bloodstream of our culture, and it is killing American [...]

… And it’s Killing American Journalism

Bernie — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:53:47 +0000

I got an email from a journalist friend this morning, about the big news of the day, the massacre at Fort Hood in Texas. Here’s what it said: “While the mainstream media is busy downplaying the shooter’s religion, just think if an O’Reilly or Goldberg book was found in his home or, God forbid, [...]

Katie Couric Wants to Help the GOP — Sure!

Bernie — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:20:36 +0000

I’m always amused when liberal Democrats pretend they care about the well-being of the Republican Party. This is how the argument usually goes: Republicans have moved too far to the right. They’ve alienated the center. They’ve allowed Rush Limbaugh to hijack the party. They’ll never win again unless the party becomes more moderate. Republicans need to [...]

Three Cheers or One?

Bernie — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:52:04 +0000

Did you hear the one about how President Obama, upon taking office, learned that the economy was in even worse shape than he thought – so in order to save money, he had to fire 17 journalists. The reason the joke works is that it has (more than) a ring of truth to it. The media [...]

The White House War on FOX

Bernie — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:46:24 +0000

The White House war against FOX News has just escalated. Now it’s not simply the president’s relatively unknown director of communications going on CNN to denounce FOX as some kind of phony news organization. Now, the president has rolled out the big guns. On ABC’s “This Week,” White House senior advisor David Axelrod told George Stephanopoulos [...]

Great News: I’m About To Win the …

Bernie — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:07:52 +0000

I just got some very good personal news. I found out I almost certainly will win the next Nobel Peace Prize. No, I didn’t actually get a phone call from Oslo making it official. Not yet anyway. But who needs a phone call. I found out about my good fortune by turning on the television and [...]

Just Wondering …

Bernie — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:17:30 +0000

How would the Hollywood liberals who signed the Free Polanski Now petition feel if a man in his 40s gave their 13-year old daughter drugs and alcohol then sodomized her? Would they sign a Free Him Now petition if the pervert wasn’t a liberal like Roman Polanski – but a conservative like Rush Limbaugh? If a conservative [...]

What Liberal Bias?

Bernie — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:32:17 +0000

The question today, class, is this: Is there any hope for the New York Times – or is its liberal bias so ingrained in the current day culture of the newspaper that nothing short of bankruptcy (if that) will change it? I bring this up because the “public editor” of the Times, a fellow by the [...]

The Murky Waters of Race

Bernie — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:04:44 +0000

I read an interesting column about race the other day. It was by Charles M. Blow of the New York Times who was writing about what he called “the murky waters of racism” in America. First he mentioned the now well-known Jimmy Carter quotation, about how “an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President [...]

ACORN and — GASP!!! — Liberal Bigotry

Bernie — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:25:42 +0000

Until now I thought that the ACORN people in those hidden camera videos were merely corrupt, at least morally. I mean don’t you have to be morally corrupt to sit there and try to help a “pimp” and a “prostitute” get a mortgage to set up a brothel where 13 and 14-year old girls brought [...]

“Mainstream Media” Must Go!

Bernie — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:03:14 +0000

mainstream- Main-stream (mayn-streem) Main or current thought or behavior: the ideas, actions, and values that are most widely accepted by a group or society, e.g. in politics, fashion or music -0- Since there is very little mainstream about the so-called mainstream media, it’s time for all of us to stop using such a misleading term – and come [...]