MSNBC president coins great new slogan: We’re not the place for breaking news

http://twitter.com/#!/jeffgill24/status/341569353382248452 Because this story might qualify as “breaking news,” MSNBC staffers probably won’t learn about what the president of their channel said by watching their own station. Fortunately Twitchy is on it: http://twitter.com/#!/ByronYork/status/341398927280586752 From the New York Times: At a time of intensely high interest in news, MSNBC’s ratings declined from the same period a […]

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‘I just became pro dictatorship’: Netroots lefties beg Elizabeth Warren to run

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http://twitter.com/#!/stephenkruiser/status/490147309645475840 Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, aka “Fauxcahontas,” gave a speech to an excited bunch of left-wingers at the Netroots convention in Detroit. Warren was the rock star of the convention of “progressives” so far: http://twitter.com/#!/MichaelLaRosaDC/status/490143929686179840 http://twitter.com/#!/YeaYouRite/status/490142206549037056 Step aside, Hillary, because many Netroots lefties are begging Warren to run for president: http://twitter.com/#!/akadjian/status/490143676534767617 http://twitter.com/#!/nicolesandler/status/490141076540239872 http://twitter.com/#!/ptoledo1/status/490152831538569216 http://twitter.com/#!/ChadLivengood/status/490132222121226241 http://twitter.com/#!/anthonycaldwell/status/490128658007592960 […]

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Rut-roh … looks like Barack was a bully, too; Update: He also trash-talked a young black man

http://twitter.com/#!/gabrielmalor/status/200641990063427585 Hmmm … apparently when Obama wasn’t eating dogs, he was picking on schoolmates. Female schoolmates. From the desk of our president: So apparently *nobody* read Dreams from My Father. Way to #VetthePrez, mainstream media! Seriously. If savvy conservatives weren’t looking out for this stuff, who knows what else would continue to fly under the […]

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51 Reasons Living In Chicago Ruins You For Life

View this image › Creative Commons / Flickr: chewbackski View this image › Creative Commons / Flickr: christopherf 1. Because pizza anywhere else will seem like pizza for ants. View this image › Creative Commons / Flickr: jonapark And “Chicago-style” just ain’t the same. 2. Because Central Park is pretty, but Millennium Park is a […]

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More #NBCFail: Olympics fans sick of MSNBC propaganda

http://twitter.com/#!/DannyTaylor14/status/229281484299714561 Like water and oil, sports and politics don’t mix. Along with a mountain of other complaints about NBC’s gaffe-plagued, stone-age Olympics coverage, many fans are griping about being bombarded with relentless ads and commentary from MSNBC’s extremist left-wing personalities. https://twitter.com/satluru10/status/229554344767410176 The liberal propaganda being blasted on every Olympics commercial by MSNBC is getting really […]

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Nick Kristof: ‘Liberals [may have] oversold benefits of health insurance’

http://twitter.com/#!/NickKristof/status/331073992523927552 Why yes, they certainly did. Twitchy readers may recall that the New York Times ran a column three and a half years ago bemoaning the plight of an Oregon sawmill worker, John Brodniak, who couldn’t get treatment for cavernous hemangioma because he didn’t have health insurance: Without insurance, John has been unable to get surgery or […]

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‘It’s just the way we roll’: Sen. Mary Landrieu defends keg stand photos

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http://twitter.com/#!/StevenTDennis/status/514162298853031937 @StevenTDennis who is a keg stand critic? — Reid J. Epstein (@reidepstein) September 22, 2014 Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) gained a great deal of attention for a bit of constituent outreach last weekend, when she helped a man do a keg stand at a Louisiana State University tailgating event. The photo was disseminated widely on […]

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Schooled! Govs. Jindal, Malloy take their tangle to Twitter; Guess who won

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http://twitter.com/#!/BobbyJindal/status/438327950816329728 This. Governor Jindal rightly believes we can do better than #ObamasMinimumWageEconomy and he has taken that message to Twitter. http://twitter.com/#!/BobbyJindal/status/438328401838223360 Bingo. But the governor hasn’t only been blasting Obama. He also took Democrat Connecticut Governor Malloy to task. http://twitter.com/#!/dcseth/status/438315560724484096 Bless his heart. “What the heck was a reference to white flag when it comes […]

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Racist? Cher calls for boycott of Zillow over home sales to ‘FKNG’ China

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http://twitter.com/#!/Noelisdumb/status/522297809437863936 Yeah, Cher. WTF! Or has she always harbored these potentially racist views on China? #CHINA IS ON REAL ESTATE BUYING SPREE ALL OVER USA. #ZILLOW Has Agreed 2Make Their Listings Available 2 CHINESE CONSUMERS😱 BOYCOTT #ZILLOW 😡 — Cher (@cher) October 15, 2014 THE STATE DEPT IS FKNG NUTS.WE SOLD THE“WALDORF ASTORIA HOTEL”2 THE FKNG […]

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Bette Midler worries about effect of climate change on birds

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http://twitter.com/#!/BetteMidler/status/514826986091724800 She’s an expert on climatology, and now she’s an ornithologist, too. But does she know that birds face an even greater threat than that posed by “climate change”? @BetteMidler @audubonsociety And many more are threatened by pet cats allowed to roam free in residential neighborhoods. — John Z. (@jzanier468) September 24, 2014 Related: Bette Midler […]

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