http://twitter.com/#!/ESPNRobertSmith/status/460496570400505856 ESPN college football analyst Robert Smith wonders why the outrage wasn’t the same when Harry Reid made racially insensitive remarks about President Obama. http://twitter.com/#!/ESPNRobertSmith/status/460505626951417856 Read more: http://twitchy.com/2014/04/27/where-was-all-this-espn-analyst-notices-an-inconsistency-in-sterling-reaction/
http://twitter.com/#!/CommieJuice/status/464311549889613824 Last month, actress Melissa Joan Hart retweeted Michael Bloomberg’s $50 million answer to the NRA — an umbrella group called Everytown for Gun Safety. Yesterday, she tweeted her support for mothers testifying on Capitol Hill as part of an event hosted by Bloomberg-funded gun control group Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense: http://twitter.com/#!/MelissaJoanHart/status/464124208033705984 Note the shout-out to Everytown. This […]
http://twitter.com/#!/MarkSKrikorian/status/493919784359043073 Geraldo calls the term “illegal alien” a cheap shot. Sally Kohn says it is a slur. So does this guy. The term is verboten at many newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times, which prefers to say “immigrants who either entered the country illegally or overstayed their visas.” ICE, by contrast, refers to illegal aliens as, well, “illegal aliens.” http://twitter.com/#!/MarkSKrikorian/status/493919950671986688 A sampling: Appalling! […]
http://twitter.com/#!/Yahoo/status/460758676190801920 New York Congressman Grimm had reportedly turned himself in and been arrested. More from Yahoo! The Staten Island Republican was being booked on Monday at the New York FBI office in lower Manhattan. He was expected to be arraigned later. Prosecutors didn’t immediately specify the exact charges he faces. Investigators have been examining his […]
http://twitter.com/#!/MissyDuckWife/status/485043802785058816 According to a Pew poll, 72 percent of “steadfast conservatives” and 81 percent of “business conservatives” say they “often feel proud to be American.” “Duck Dynasty” star Missy Robertson shares the research results on “solid liberals.” http://twitter.com/#!/MissyDuckWife/status/485108604026892288 Other members of the “Duck Dynasty” cast are happy, happy, happy to celebrate Independence Day with friends […]
http://twitter.com/#!/timothypmurphy/status/488836023661920256 Mother Jones “senior reporter” Tim Murphy seems to be a rather gullible sort. http://twitter.com/#!/timothypmurphy/status/488833634741125121 He’s referring to the meme created to attack Holly Fisher, an American mother who dared question the wisdom of Obamacare. After hearing the president repeatedly promise that people who liked their doctors could keep their doctors, the cardiologist treating Fisher’s daughter was no […]
http://twitter.com/#!/michellemalkin/status/528234465672589312 As Twitchy founder Michelle Malkin wrote in her syndicated column Friday, while New York Times editorial writer David Firestone purported to investigate campaign fear-mongering, it’s independent-thinking women who give him the chills. Malkin writes: This week, Firestone took aim at “attack ads” sponsored by the National Rifle Association. The “worst commercial,” he says, “features a rape victim […]
http://twitter.com/#!/kerpen/status/414745043678003200 Here’s the press release: Today Log Cabin Republicans, the only LGBT advocacy organization on the Obamacare Repeal Coalition, denounced a video advertisement by Out2Enroll exploiting gay stereotypes to encourage gay men to enroll in the Affordable Care Act. “This cynical ad betrays the depths Obamacare advocates will sink to in order to pad their pathetic enrollment […]
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http://twitter.com/#!/Worcestershcott/status/512340712915238912 Change is coming to the Air Force: CNN JUST IN: U.S.Air Force ends mandatory "So help me God" part of enlistment oath — Vaughn Sterling (@vplus) September 17, 2014 More from the Las Vegas Review-Journal: A Creech Air Force Base technical sergeant who scratched the words “so help me God” from his oath paperwork […]