It's come to this.

High drama preserved for posterity by Noah Rothman so that future generations might know what it looks like when a man presses the record button on his digital camera. Lefty media has been throwing a ticker-tape parade for this guy replete with multiple interviews over the past week after he revealed his identity, which was [...]

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"Loyal to no one.”

That’s been the headline takeaway from Jimmy Carter’s interview with Piers Morgan from last night — that, and Carter claiming that his grandson won the election for Barack Obama by producing the “47 percent” videotape.  Oddly, that hasn’t improved relations between Obama and the Democratic President whose policies Obama most closely emulates, at home and [...]

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Gifts.

The polite praise initially showered upon Mitt Romney for having waged a good fight against President Obama has given way to a plea from some Republicans: Please stop talking. A week after the election, as Republicans examine how to recalibrate and regain their footing, Mr. Romney’s suggestion that he lost the race because of the [...]

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47 percent?

He told Hannity in early October that his “47 percent” comments were “completely wrong” but he doesn’t sound convinced of that here. Not exactly makers-versus-takers, but close: In a conference call on Wednesday afternoon with his national finance committee, Mr. Romney said that the president had followed the “old playbook” of wooing specific interest groups [...]

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Dropping the 47% argument.

Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei argue at Politico that the reinvigorated connection between Mitt Romney and the middle-class voters he needs began on Wednesday night.  I’d argue that it began with Romney’s 60-second TV spot in which he talked directly into the camera about the economic concerns of the middle class and how his policies [...]

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I'm shameless. Oh, honey, I don't have a prayer.

Chutzpah, thy name is Charlie Rangel: “Nothing can be further from the truth than Gov. Romney’s ridiculous remarks that nearly half of American people do not pay federal income taxes, they pay other federal and state taxes. The 47 percent figure cited by the Republican presidential candidate covers only the federal income tax and ignores [...]

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100 percent.

“The last several years you’ve seen greater and greater divisiveness in this country,” said the GOP hopeful. “We had hoped to come back together. But instead you’ve seen us pull apart. And politics has driven us apart in some respects. So my campaign is about the 100 percent of America. And I’m concerned about them. [...]

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Triple standards?

The last 48 hours of media commentary has evinced an interesting, and entirely unsurprising, double standard, or perhaps triple standard.  When undercover videos of ACORN and NPR by James O’Keefe or of Planned Parenthood by Lila Rose get published, the media immediately insinuates that they contain deceptive editing and demand that the full videos get [...]

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Makers and takers.

A top advisor to Mitt Romney said Tuesday that the controversy over the GOP nominee’s comments about President Obama’s supporters as dependent on government and not paying income taxes would blow over. “It has to,” said senior advisor Kevin Madden, though he said that whether the dust-up would subside was partly dependent on the media. [...]

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