Denver Post editor explains deletion of ‘socialist’ from shooter’s profile

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http://twitter.com/#!/LAColacioppo/status/412016907827441664 Ace over at Ace of Spades HQ alerts us to an interesting development from the Denver Post. As Twitchy noted, the newspaper quietly edited its profile of Arapahoe school shooter Karl Pierson, changing a student’s description of Pierson as “a very opinionated Socialist” to simply “very opinionated.” Lee Ann Colacioppo, senior news editor at the […]

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Jezebel’s dismissal of ‘old Hillary Clinton story’ mocked with flashback

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http://twitter.com/#!/dfgalvin/status/478596825268510720 The Washington Free Beacon has released an audio recording from the early 1980’s which features Hillary Clinton discussing a 1975 criminal case on which she served as the court-appointed attorney defending an accused child rapist. The story itself has been known for a few years, but the audio recordings haven’t before been released. Some […]

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Did they ‘pay the black guy?’: GOP selfie at the Spurs game [pic]

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http://twitter.com/#!/JohnCornyn/status/478345235466960896 When you mix politics and sports, you’re usually not going to get tepid responses. http://twitter.com/#!/ErnieLies/status/478345879854669825 http://twitter.com/#!/Mr_Berman/status/478345885479219200 http://twitter.com/#!/JumpinJezebel/status/478349029538299904 “The black guy.” Facepalm. http://twitter.com/#!/BadtotheBohn/status/478349595487899648 Heh. Read more: http://twitchy.com/2014/06/15/did-they-have-to-pay-the-black-guy-gop-selfie-at-the-san-antonio-spurs-game-pic/

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‘You people are idiots’! Slate sees value in moronic Holly Fisher-jihadi graphic; Updated

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http://twitter.com/#!/JonathanRyrie1/status/486231821860868096 Tell us something we didn’t know. As Twitchy reported, over the weekend, giddy lefties gleefully passed around a graphic likening conservative mom Holly Fisher to a female jihadist. Today, Slate got in on the idiocy: http://twitter.com/#!/Slate/status/486229823891972096 Three cheers for “real journalism”! http://twitter.com/#!/lachlan/status/486230165308313600 Ben Mathis-Lilley, who wrote about the graphic for Slate, graciously conceded that Fisher […]

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Jim Geraghty wonders if he heard CNN report about Michelle Obama correctly

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http://twitter.com/#!/jimgeraghty/status/423589093356736512 National Review’s Jim Geraghty might have been wondering if his ears deceived him, but they didn’t. Here’s a short video from a CNN report today discussing Michelle Obama’s plans after leaving the White House, followed by a partial transcript: Partial transcript: CNN reporter: Politics is not for her. She’s never liked it although she’s […]

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Tweet praising Bowe Bergdahl deleted from Sen. Thad Cochran account

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http://twitter.com/#!/willstauff/status/474245919953539074 A tweet welcoming home Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl and thanking him for his service from the account of Mississippi Republican Sen. Thad Cochran has been deleted. http://twitter.com/#!/BluegillRises/status/474277622059659264 Cochran is headed to a runoff election against Tea Party-backed challenger Chris McDaniel, and somebody obviously decided the tweet wasn’t in the best interest of his campaign to […]

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Frank Rich tweets prison rape joke about former Va. Gov. Bob McDonnell

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#Turnabout @frankrichny @babyberkshire Some are praying #McDonnell gets what he wanted for others. #fairplay #probe — Ima Khivar (@AntarianRani) September 05, 2014 On Thursday, former Va. Gov. Bob  McDonnell was was found guilty on 11 corruption and fraud counts. He will be sentenced in January. Former New York Times columnist Frank Rich, currently Executive Producer of the HBO […]

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Dying! Progs of pallor at ‘Flood Wall St.’ need ‘more diversity up front’

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http://twitter.com/#!/JuliaTillou/status/513716361248251904 Well, some people noticed they were not at the “People’s Climate March” on Sunday. Whole foods is gonna be a nightmare full of white girls in bandanas fueling up for the climate march with Luna bars and kombucha — σοβακα (@DipJoint) September 21, 2014 White people be excited to march about something. #PeopleClimateMarch — […]

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Actress apologizes — sort of — after mocking Romneys’ grandchild on MSNBC

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http://twitter.com/#!/michellemalkin/status/417778325461819393 Actress Pia Glenn must’ve thought she was pretty clever when she took shots at Mitt and Ann Romney’s adopted grandson on MSNBC. See, even though she was mocking an innocent child of color for the hell of it, she didn’t seem to think she did anything unsavory: http://twitter.com/#!/PiaGlenn/status/417742583461605376 There it is! She didn’t pick […]

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‘Oh racists, look at you’: Bloomberg Politics yanks tweet after outcry [pic]

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http://twitter.com/#!/nbj914/status/524334156571213824 Well, maybe not quite the end … but this definitely isn’t Bloomberg Politics’ best day. If you give the news site the benefit of the doubt, they were only trying to link to a weekend story about White House chef Sam Kass. But it was the accompanying photo juxtaposition that made many tweeters take notice: […]

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