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Source close to Trump: Fox News hosts are asking him to end his boycott so that their ratings don’t suffer

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2015/09/25...end-his-boycott-so-that-their-ratings-dont-suffer/

Posted: September 25, 2015

" Essentially, Ailes understands, that means his network looks like the unfair aggressor that Trump has accused it of being—rather than a neutral arbiter of the news—all while Trump continues soaring in the 2016 GOP primary polls. … An individual with knowledge of these matters told Breitbart News that Ailes is "furious" at Lowry for saying on Megyn Kelly's program The Kelly File on Wednesday that former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina "cut [Trump's] balls off with the precision of a surgeon, and he knows it, he knows it." … I think the real strategy here is straightforward: Boycott Fox and cast them in the role of Republican establishment villain, a bad place to be for a network that presumes to cater to the Republican man on the street…

Trump shuts down CNN at presser: “You are fake news”

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2017/01/1...trump-shuts-down-cnn-at-presser-you-are-fake-news/

Posted: January 11, 2017

That certainly looks as though it discredits the CNN report too, which might have been avoided with a little more researching to "suss out" truth from fiction -- or at least discovering the crucial context of the lesson on "disinformation," which puts an ironic twist on the ending of this episode. … CNN had also reported that intelligence officials claimed that Russian agents claimed to have damaging personal and financial information on Trump, when it appears now that the purpose of that part of the briefing was to impress upon Trump their ability to gin up that kind of "disinformation. … "When Mr. Trump went after our own Jim Acosta, saying he's 'fake news' and he isn't going to call for him, what I suspect we are seeing here an an attempt to discredit legitimate, responsible attempts to report on this incoming administration with irresponsible journalism that hurts us all and the media, going forward, should keep that in mind," Tapper stated, referring to Trump's refusal to call on a CNN reporter at the event…

Baier, Fox blast White House for blocking CNN from event

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2018/07/26/baier-fox-blast-white-house-blocking-cnn-event/

Posted: July 26, 2018

Despite some arguments floating around that the Obama team punished similar behavior, the incidents cited involve disruption of speeches and remarks, which is not at all what happened yesterday, as Guy Benson points out … Reporters ask questions during press sprays all the time, and occasionally get answers from the president during them, so it's not at all outside of the normal protocol -- certainly not so much that it warrants an ejection from a subsequent event. … " She also asked Trump if he is worried about what might be on any other tapes recorded by Cohen, and why Russian President Vladimir Putin had not yet accepted Trump's invitation to come to Washington."…

Obamateurism of the Day

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2009/10/14/obamateurism-of-the-day-138/

Posted: October 14, 2009

Nichols calls Obama a "whiner" later in this piece, but what he describes is a man (and a staff) that have no sense of the office which he holds -- in short, an amateur, and one not learning particularly quickly, either. … That is such a radically wrong response that it calls into question the whole communications strategy of an administration that has somehow managed to take a man who was elected with a mandate and lodge him in a corner where there are now serious questions about whether a Democratic president and an overwhelmingly Democratic Congress can enact basic elements of the Democratic agenda. … When Dunn was asked whether the president refused to accept interview requests from Fox because the White House sees the network as "a wing of the Republican party," the communications director responded: "Is this why he did not appear?…

Shep hits Tucker Carlson and Joe diGenova: It’s “repugnant” that Andrew Napolitano was called a “fool” for thinking Trump committed a crime

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2019/09/25...litano-called-fool-thinking-trump-committed-crime/

Posted: September 25, 2019

The main argument against Napolitano's position is a political one, not a legal one: Democrats just aren't going to convince the public that a president should be removed from office for violating something as byzantine and frequently dubious as campaign finance law. … The claim made by Napolitano that earned him the insult from diGenova was suggesting that Trump committed a campaign finance violation when he asked Zelensky to investigate a potential general election opponent. … He seems to view his role on the news side during the Trump era as a corrective to the partisan excesses of his own network's opinion hosts but I don't think I've ever seen him call out anyone else on the network by name (almost by name, I should say)…

NY Times Magazine forced to admit that Megyn Kelly might be great at her job

https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2015/01/21/n...admit-that-megyn-kelly-might-be-great-at-her-job/

Posted: January 21, 2015

In the process, Kelly's program has not just given America's top-rated news channel its biggest new hit in 13 years; it has demonstrated an appeal to the younger and (slightly) more ideologically diverse demographic Fox needs as it seeks to claim even more territory on the American journo-political landscape. … For those unfamiliar with the phenomenon, a Megyn moment, as I have taken to calling it, is when you, a Fox guest — maybe a regular guest or even an official contributor — are pursuing a line of argument that seems perfectly congruent with the Fox worldview, only to have Kelly seize on some part of it and call it out as nonsense, maybe even turn it back on you. … It's a rather rare moment when anyone from the elite enclaves of their Manhattan offices comes down to Earth and actually has something nice to say about any of the Fox News crew, and it's a surprisingly candid and positive piece about evening desk host Megyn Kelly…

NYT reporter kicked out of Trump campaign rally in Michigan

https://hotair.com/archives/karen-townsend/2020/09...nyt-reporter-kicked-trump-campaign-rally-michigan/

Posted: September 11, 2020

Danielle Rhoades Ha, vice president of communications for the Times, said in a statement, "We're disappointed that the Trump campaign refused to credential our freelancer and then, when she registered and attended as a member of the public, they ejected her from the event. … It's unlikely that if the anti-Trump networks do report about it that they will be honest enough to note that this isn't the first time a reporter has told a story about the limited access to a president. … As this is the anniversary of the 9/11/01 terrorist attacks, I'm not sure if this reporter's story will get the kind of play she was obviously seeking by posting tweets about being asked to leave the rally…

Rolling Stone’s tongue-bath interview with President Obama

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2010/09/2...stones-tongue-bath-interview-with-president-obama/

Posted: September 28, 2010

But right now, we've got a choice between a Republican Party that has moved to the right of George Bush and is looking to lock in the same policies that got us into these disasters in the first place, versus an administration that, with some admitted warts, has been the most successful administration in a generation in moving progressive agendas forward. … There are strains in the Tea Party that are troubled by what they saw as a series of instances in which the middle-class and working-class people have been abused or hurt by special interests and Washington, but their anger is misdirected. … And then Obama proceeds to whine for three paragraphs about how Republicans wouldn't support policies they have never supported, as if he suddenly paid attention to the GOP for the first time in his life on his first day as President…

Top House Dem: It’s time to send over the articles of impeachment. Wait, forget what I just said.

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2020/01/09...e-send-articles-impeachment-wait-forget-just-said/

Posted: January 9, 2020

Bolton implied that he had to make up his own mind about whether to testify before the Senate because the trial will necessarily be over quickly, within a matter of weeks; the same wasn't true with the House impeachment inquiry, which could have gone on indefinitely. … Then, if Sanders and Warren end up underperforming in the early states, the left will blame Pelosi for having sabotaged their chances by pulling a move with the impeachment timing which she knew would force them to miss the debate. … He must have been under the impression -- like a lot of other people in Congress right now, apparently -- that Pelosi really is on the verge of finally ending this charade and starting the trial, in which case it was no big deal for him to endorse doing so…

House Dems offer resolution to censure Trump over Charlottesville remarks

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2017/08/16...resolution-censure-trump-charlottesville-remarks/

Posted: August 16, 2017

Trump will never concede a mistake, though, especially when it was a mistake he made by speaking from the heart, and Bannon's dismissal now would be interpreted as an admission that he erred yesterday. … For any other pol, firing him now would be an obvious PR move: Bannon once touted Breitbart as the platform for the alt-right, Trump is under heavy fire for not denouncing the alt-right this weekend, ergo booting Bannon to appease critics would be the obvious move. … (1) does hereby censure and condemn President Donald Trump for his inadequate response to the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia on August 12, 2017, his failure to immediately and specifically name and condemn the white supremacist groups responsible for actions of domestic terrorism, for re-asserting that "both sides" were to blame and excusing the violent behavior of participants in the 'Unite the Right' rally, and for employing people with ties to white supremacist movements in the White House, such as Steve Bannon and Sebastian Gorka; and…

Obama campaign adviser also lobbying on the side

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2012/10/2...a-aide-campaign-adviser-also-lobbying-on-the-side/

Posted: October 22, 2012

She and her colleagues atSKDKnickerbocker, a communications firm, have built a growing list of blue-chip companies — food manufacturers, a military contractor, the New York Stock Exchange and the Canadian company developing the Keystone XL pipeline — willing to pay handsomely for help in winning over federal regulators or landing government contracts. … As a confidante of President Obamaand a senior campaign adviser, Ms. Dunn has helped prepare him for the debates this month, plotted campaign strategy and acted as a surrogate of sorts in attacking Mitt Romney for a "backward-looking attitude" on issues like women's rights and health care. … She played a key role in the Obama administration's war on Fox News, acting as the informal liaison between the White House and Media Matters in the ill-fated effort, but eventually left the White House communications office after noting that one of her heroes was Mao Zedong…

Brian Kilmeade to Trump: Why do you have such a problem lately with Fox News airing diverse viewpoints?

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2019/08/29...problem-lately-fox-news-airing-diverse-viewpoints/

Posted: August 29, 2019

That is to say, although Fox could theoretically do more damage to Trump by costing him the presidency in a freakishly tight election, the odds are far greater that Fox would sustain major damage to its ratings and its long-term prospects as a monopoly on right-wing infotainment if it did so. … The most anti-Trumpers could hope for is that relentlessly critical coverage in news programming would make *just* enough Fox viewers ambivalent about Trump that they don't bother turning out on Election Day, which ends up proving fatal to him when every swing state ends up tilting towards the Democrat by a hair's breadth. … So imagine his chagrin as Americans begin tuning into the Democratic primaries and thinking about the choice they'll have to make next year upon finding the polling arm of State Media putting out surveys showing him getting crushed by the likes of Joe Biden…

Rogue Stars Rising

https://hotair.com/archives/doctor-zero/2009/10/25/rogue-stars-rising__trashed/

Posted: October 25, 2009

Running a liberal squish in a largely conservative district will not cause moderate voters to squeal with excitement over the billowing expanse of the GOP's enormous tent, and rush to see what other wonders might be hidden inside. … Does anyone have difficulty imagining her sudden decision to support a bill that will address her "concerns" while guaranteeing "affordable access to insurance" for the twenty, thirty, or forty-seven million Americans, legal and otherwise, who will surely die without a government health plan? … The President took time away from his losing wars against Fox News, the Taliban, and economic reality to endorse the Democrat, who would doubtless prove a useful ally in the only war Obama is winning: the war on the American middle class…

Fox News staffers warn Trump to back off of Megyn Kelly after feud reignites; Update: “Unacceptable,” “disturbing,” says Ailes; Update: Hannity joins in; Update: Trump responds to Ailes

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2015/08/25...p-to-back-off-of-megyn-kelly-after-feud-reignites/

Posted: August 25, 2015

"More importantly, I am very pleased to see the latest polls from Public Policy Polling showing me at a strong number one with 35% in New Hampshire and the Monmouth University poll showing me, again at number one, with 30% in South Carolina. … And if Fox takes him on by cutting coverage of Trump way back and unleashing its hosts to excoriate him, it'll only seem to prove Trump's point that the network has an anti-populist agenda (with Trump himself being the avatar of populism in this formula). … Trump's core message to Republican voters is that powerful interests, including and especially interests that are ostensibly allied with them on the right like the GOP leadership in Washington, aren't really looking out for them…

Media Matters plots “guerrilla warfare and sabotage” against Fox?

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2011/03/2...plots-guerrilla-warfare-and-sabotage-against-fox/

Posted: March 26, 2011

"The strategy that we had had toward Fox was basically a strategy of containment," said Brock, Media Matters' chairman and founder and a former conservative journalist, adding that the group's main aim had been to challenge the factual claims of the channel and to attempt to prevent them from reaching the mainstream media. … The shift reflects the centrality of the cable channel to the contemporary conservative movement, as well as the loathing it inspires among liberals — not least among the donors who fund Media Matters' staff of about 90, who are arrayed in neat rows in a giant war room above Massachusetts Avenue. … The group, launched as a more traditional media critic, has all but abandoned its monitoring of newspapers and other television networks and is narrowing its focus to Fox and a handful of conservative websites, which its leaders view as a political organizations and the "nerve center" of the conservative movement…

“Completely hypocritical”: Trump himself is one of the press’s biggest “anonymous” White House sources, claims Jennifer Griffin

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2020/09/10...ymous-white-house-sources-claims-jennifer-griffin/

Posted: September 10, 2020

You can corroborate that memory with other sources to try to gain confidence that it's accurate but at the end of the day you're relying on the recollections and integrity of several people who may or may not have political axes to grind and aren't so exercised by the damaging remark that they're willing to go on the record to expose it. … There are good reasons why someone sharing unflattering information about Trump might not want their names in the press -- look what happened to the last guy who went on record -- but certainly it's fair to question the credibility of sources who seek anonymity in peddling dirt. … The example I always think of is Steve Bannon, another guy who broke big in politics inveighing against the political and media establishments and who then ended up talking himself out of the White House after he went on record with Michael Wolff and, allegedly, off the record with many others…

Obama: Say, Rolling Stone is a great example of reliable journalism

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2016/11/3...g-stone-is-a-great-example-of-reliable-journalism/

Posted: November 30, 2016

They socked Rolling Stone, Wenner, and Sabrina Rubin Erdely for $3 million in damages for their malicious fabulism regarding the University of Virginia and a rape hoax that Rolling Stone used to stoke a social panic. … And if we are gonna solve that, it's not going to be simply an issue of subsidizing or propping up traditional media; it's going to be figuring out how do we organize in a virtual world the same way we organize in the physical world. … Democrats were certainly "on the ground" in Senate, House, gubernatorial, and state legislative races, and wound up losing on all four levels despite having the natural turnout advantages of a presidential cycle…

U.S. Army officer: Turkish forces deliberately targeted us in northern Syria

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2019/10/13...sh-forces-deliberately-targeted-us-northern-syria/

Posted: October 13, 2019

If Obama had let Erdogan strong-arm him into handing over the Kurds to Turkey and then followed that up by ordering a full retreat after the Turks shelled American troops, citizen Trump would have tweeted that not only is he the weakest man we've ever had as president, he may be the weakest man the country's ever produced. … Looks like the tactic worked: SecDef Mark Esper announced this morning that all 1,000 American troops based in northern Syria will be withdrawing, leaving the Turks free to pursue their goal of massacring the Kurds without having to worry about any U.S. soldiers wandering into the line of fire. … One Army officer who has deployed to northeastern Syria and has knowledge of the situation said that multiple rounds of 155 mm fire were launched from Turkey's side of the border and that they had a "bracketing effect" in which shells landed on both sides of the U.S. outpost…

Breaking: Israel attacks Lebanese army (Update: Hostages being moved to Iran?) (Update: Hezbollah attacks Haifa) (Israeli ambassador: “War”)

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2006/07/13/breaking-israel-attacks-lebanese-army/

Posted: July 13, 2006

"I was a lunch with the Israeli Ambassador to the US when he announced that a Hezbollah rocket hit Haifa - the gasp from the crowd was an audible recognition of the major escalation that the attack represents, in part because it wasn't clear beforehand whether the rockets had sufficient range. … Their point is well taken, though: "It is possible that the escalation on Israel's borders, set off by elements supported by Iran - Hamas, Hizbullah and Syria - is meant to take the pressure off Iran by triggering a major military clash in the Middle East, which will divert international attention from Iran's nuclear program." … Bill Roggio, meanwhile, tosses out a name so shadowy and sinister as to border on myth: Imad Mughniyah, the Hezbollah arch-terrorist who allegedly masterminded the Marine barracks bombing in 1983 and dozens of other high-profile attacks…

WaPo wonders: Where’d Joe go? Update: Dunn?

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2020/02/07/wapo-wonders-whered-joe-go/

Posted: February 7, 2020

Combine the RNC's fundraising with the Trump reelection campaign's fundraising, and you see similar post-impeachment growth: from $105 million in the second quarter of 2019 to $125 million in the third quarter—when the impeachment inquiry began—to $154 million in the fourth quarter, during which the House voted to impeach. … Since late October, according to a recent Washington Post–ABC News poll, the percentage of Americans who strongly approve of Trump's job performance has jumped five points, while the percentage who strongly disapprove has fallen eight points. … According to RealClearPolitics' polling average, Trump's rating dropped a bit during the first month of the impeachment fight but has climbed ever since, and is now almost 45 percent—nearly as high as it has been during his entire presidency…

Video: Lamar Alexander advises Obama to stop being Nixon

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2009/10/2...lamar-alexander-advises-obama-to-stop-being-nixon/

Posted: October 21, 2009

Insurance companies, once the allies of the Obama health care proposal, have suddenly become the source of all our health care problems—because they pointed out, again correctly, that if Congress taxes insurance premiums and restricts coverage to those who are sicker and older, the cost of premiums for millions of Americans is likely to go up instead of down. … The Department of Health and Human Services imposed a gag order on a large health care company, Humana, who had warned its Medicare Advantage customers that their benefits might be reduced in Democratic health care reform proposals—a piece of information that is perfectly true. … " On that list of 20 people were people like CBS correspondent Daniel Schorr, Washington Star columnist Mary McGrory, Leonard Woodcock, the head of the United Auto Workers, John Conyers, the Democratic Congressman from Michigan, Edwin Guthman, managing editor of the Los Angeles Times, and several prominent businessmen such as Howard Stein, of the Dreyfus Corporation and Arnold Picker, vice president of United Artists…

War: Fox News claims airstrikes on Qaddafi’s compound called off when CNN reporters were used as human shields

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2011/03/21...off-when-cnn-reporters-were-used-as-human-shields/

Posted: March 21, 2011

Two: If Robertson's timeline is correct, that the reporters on the scene were only given 25 or so minutes at the compound, how can we even be sure that Qaddafi and company knew that there were new airstrikes coming in that time window? … That's the first clip; the second clip is of CNN's Nic Robertson, irate, not only denying the allegation and claiming that Fox had a cameraman at the scene too but basically accusing Fox's Steve Harrigan of being a goldbricker who's too timid to head out to dangerous hot spots. … They're not accusing CNN of being taken hostage, just of having been suckered into heading to the compound at the regime's invitation right around the time British jets were targeting it…

Poll: What was the Obamateurism of the Week?

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2009/12/06/poll-what-was-the-obamateurism-of-the-week-26/

Posted: December 6, 2009

"If you actually took the number of Muslim Americans, we'd be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world." … He could always lay the blame for these onto the voters who selected an unprepared amateur for the Oval Office, but that would be -- well, irresponsible. … It's time again for Hot Air readers to toast their favorite for Obamateurism of the Week, and it's been a boom week for selections, even if Obama was a bust with two different Prime Ministers this week…

It’s On: Wallace says MS-NBC “in the tank” for Obama

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2008/07/1.../its-on-wallace-says-ms-nbc-in-the-tank-for-obama/

Posted: July 15, 2008

Wallace accused MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann of inappropriately mixing anchor and opinion-making duties, and said Fox News drew a distinction between its reporters and opinion-minded hosts. … Continuing Fox News' war of words with MSNBC, "Fox News Sunday" anchor Chris Wallace accused its rival of being "in the tank" for Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, while further pressing the news channel's case that the mainstream press exhibits a liberal bias. … Chris Wallace launched a broadside at the cable network last night, telling reporters at an industry event that the cable outlet has "lost all credibility" and accused Keith Olbermann of unprofessional conduct…

Is there a “War on Thanksgiving”?

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2019/11/27/is-there-a-war-on-thanksgiving/

Posted: November 27, 2019

Guest host Emily Compagno was gamer than either of them, defending Trump's out-of-left-field point about objections to the name by saying, "I think the issue that a lot of people have to with potentially changing that name is the fact that in that name we're expressing gratitude and whatever historical connotations we can acknowledge. … Two: Two Fox News executives bet each other a dollar, a la the Dukes in "Trading Places," over whether one of them could turn an inane idea like the "war on Thanksgiving" into a bona fide moral panic among Fox's elderly Republican viewership. … "), Trump had the TV on and either misheard it or misunderstood it, he repeated it at his rally last night in Florida as some cheap applause material about political correctness gone mad, and now suddenly the imperative to support the president in all things requires righties to back him up by at least pretending there's a "war on Thanksgiving."…

College bans national anthem at sporting events

https://hotair.com/archives/tina-korbe/2011/06/09/college-bans-national-anthem-at-sporting-events/

Posted: June 9, 2011

The conservative cowgirl in me -- you know, that part of a conservative that says "rid the world of lawlessness, but, for the most part, let people be" (credit to writer Ross McCullough for that concept) -- says the school certainly has the prerogative to play or not play whatever songs it chooses. … Goshen College initially issued a statement Tuesday to Fox radio stating, "Historically, playing the national anthem has not been among Goshen College's practices because of our Christ-centered core value of compassionate peacemaking seeming to be in conflict with the anthem's militaristic language." … The board of the Mennonite liberal-arts college has asked its president to come up with a song "that fits with sports tradition, that honors country and that resonates with Goshen College's core values and respects the views of diverse constituencies," according to a press release…

Video: Eve Ensler opposes war, empowers genitals; Update: Fox asks protesters, “Do you want America to prevail?”

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2007/01/29/video-eve-ensler-opposes-war-empowers-genitals/

Posted: January 29, 2007

Note the point about the size of the anti-war rally versus the size of a hypothetical anti-Fox rally. … Charles Ryder was there on behalf of America's hawks to accept this generous propaganda freebie. … Bring out a squirrelly 9/11 revisionist to warm up the crowd, follow him with the bard of the pudenda (replete with an introduction about how "she freed our vaginas"), and stand her up next to one of the most reviled traitors in modern American history…

Comcast, Murdochs go to war over Sky News

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2018/02/27/comcast-murdochs-go-war-sky-news/

Posted: February 27, 2018

Either that, or Comcast will get Sky and Disney will miss an opportunity for media access in the UK. This should be an interesting, and yes, entertaining financial war between three giants in the news and entertainment industries. … In a research note on Tuesday, Polo Tang, a UBS analyst, said that Sky could be "strategically interesting" to a variety of bidders, given its content and its broadcast and streaming distribution network. … He had reached an agreement to buy up 21st Century Fox's non-news properties, mainly its entertainment-industry properties but also eventually including Sky, in a bid to gain more leverage in the digital media markets…

Poll: What was the Obamateurism of the Week?

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2009/11/15/poll-what-was-the-obamateurism-of-the-week-23/

Posted: November 15, 2009

"If you actually took the number of Muslim Americans, we'd be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world." … One has to wonder who Obama will blame for these follies, especially since he doesn't seem too shy about airing poor performances in the family. … It's time once again to choose the Obamateurism of the Week -- and this week, our friend Chris Muir should take a bow for his new OOTD graphics!…

Poll: What was the Obamateurism of the Week?

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2009/11/08/poll-what-was-the-obamateurism-of-the-week-22/

Posted: November 8, 2009

"If you actually took the number of Muslim Americans, we'd be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world." … I doubt that I could show my face anywhere but at my cousin Pookie's, and since I don't have a cousin Pookie, I'd be right up a creek. … I'd give a shout out to my favorite this week, but what happens if it gets beaten badly by voters?…

Poll: What was the Obamateurism of the Week?

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2009/11/01/poll-what-was-the-obamateurism-of-the-week-21/

Posted: November 1, 2009

"If you actually took the number of Muslim Americans, we'd be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world." … Feel free to campaign for your favorite in the comments section -- after all, we always have a full house there, and people generally say what they mean. … It's time to pick another Obamateurism of the Week, and I'm posting this early enough so that your golf outings won't interfere with your focus on this critical decision…

Poll: What was the Obamateurism of the Week?

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2009/11/22/poll-what-was-the-obamateurism-of-the-week-24/

Posted: November 22, 2009

"If you actually took the number of Muslim Americans, we'd be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world." … Obama is so good, he can make reset buttons work even when no one can see a difference, and omniscient enough to know the successful outcomes of federal trials even when the entire point is to consider defendants innocent until proven guilty. … It's time for our weekly salute to Barack Obama's amateurish stumbles, and of course, it's all about him, as is just about everything…

Poll: What was the Obamateurism of the Week?

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2009/12/13/poll-what-was-the-obamateurism-of-the-week-27/

Posted: December 13, 2009

The White House might gripe about these questions, but at least we're not leaving anything out, especially when we've already written it in. … We hold these public polls to choose the winners, which is more transparent than your average Obama administration workshop on openness. … It's time once again to choose the Obamateurism of the Week, as have been traditional on Sundays since Obama took office last year…

Poll: What was the Obamateurism of the Week?

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2009/12/20/poll-what-was-the-obamateurism-of-the-week-28/

Posted: December 20, 2009

By the way -- starting tomorrow, we will start conducting polls to narrow down the choices for Obamateurism of the Year. … We don't want to use scare tactics on you, but if you don't vote, you may be on the precipice of something ... good? … If you're not out buying better Christmas gifts than you receive, or creating tens of thousands of jobs with sexy caulk and insulation, take a few minutes to cast your vote for the Obamateurism of the Week…

Video: Ingraham rips Gibson on ABC’s This Week

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2009/10/26/video-ingraham-rips-gibson-on-abcs-this-week/

Posted: October 26, 2009

The clip they played of Kennedy showed how presidents prior to Obama realized that they couldn't allow themselves to descend to media infighting, lest they be seen as heavy-handed, petty, and thin-skinned. … I wish that Will's statement on diversity of thought had prompted more discussion, especially since that paragon of objective Murrow-like journalism MS-NBC got an invitation to a tete-a-tete with the President this week. … And out here is this one channel, Fox, and they're all up in arms because, in the words of Ms. Anita Dunn of the White House, it is "opinion journalism masquerading as news," which some of us would say describes the New York Times and certainly MS-NBC…

Dems fret that ISIS will force America to return to Iraq

https://hotair.com/archives/noah-rothman/2014/08/2...et-that-isis-will-force-america-to-return-to-iraq/

Posted: August 21, 2014

Even The Washington Post's editorial board, an influential group though slightly more hawkish than the average major urban newspaper, has noticed that America lacks a strategic approach to the ISIS threat and it needs to craft one immediately. … The California congressman recently said that what is occurring in Iraq "certainly looks like a war" and the president would be on "more constitutionally sound" ground to execute the mission in Iraq if he sought congressional approval for it. … The announcement by American officials that a raid into Syria aimed at liberating Americans in ISIS custody, including one who was later beheaded on camera by Islamic State terrorists, failed to achieve its objectives is dispiriting…

Jesse Ventura: MS-NBC took me off the air for opposing Iraq war

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Posted: November 28, 2009

This story could have had some entertainment value, if you enjoy literally adding insult to injury, if it had been delivered with a wry touch, the sort of thing that Jon Stewart or David Letterman could do without even thinking about it. … According to the Star-Tribune (article no longer online; see post #24 on the thread), the show averaged 249,000 viewers — a 39% bump up from the nature documentaries and such previously in the slot, but not exactly a home run. … Minnesota's other embarrassment jumped back into the news today when Jesse Ventura told the LA Times that MS-NBC bought out his contract and kept him off the year for being ... too critical of George Bush…

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