Warner Todd Huston

We are Officially at $16 TRILLION In Debt

As the Democrat National Committee begins its 2012 convention, we are best advised to understand that Obama and his party have now gotten us to a $216 trillion debt.

Obama DID Claim He’d Save Janesville GM Plant

Phil Kerpen discovered the film of Obama claiming that he'd save the day and prevent the GM Plant in Janesville, Wis. from closing.

Calif. Dem Chair Says Romney/Ryan Like Nazi Joseph Goebbels

California Democrat Party Chairman John Burton is setting the Democrat National Convention off on the sort of demagogic footing that has characterized the Democrat's campaign this year by accusing Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan of being like Nazis, specifically Nazi official Joseph Goebbels.

The Atlantic Says GOP Leader Hopes Minorities Don’t Vote, But He Didn’t Say That at All

The Atlantic illicitly portrayed GOP House Speaker John Bohner as saying that he "said out loud he hopes blacks and Latinos ‘won't show up' this election," but a look at what Boehener actually said proves that The Atlantic is purposefully misleading its readers.

CNN’s ‘A Team’ Rather Do Hurricane Coverage Than RNC Convention

Something interesting to note about the front half of this week’s coverage of the news over at CNN is that the network’s A team reporters — Soledad O’Brien and Anderson Cooper — have for the most part eschewed the GOP convention preferring to stand in the winds of hurricane Isaac rather than be faced with covering Republicans.

Left Said Right’s Linking Katrina to God was Terrible But Left Linking Isaac to God is Fine

In 2005 after hurricane Katrina hit the gulf coast like a sledgehammer, several folks on the right side of America's political aisle suggested that the devastation the storm inflicted on New Orleans was somehow a punishment imposed on the city by God. Most on the right condemned the remarks. The left, of course, went apoplectic in condemnation.

Ad Wars: Obama’s ‘Republican’ Woman, Registered as Dem. for Last 6 Years

One of Barack Obama's recent ads for his re-election campaign is supposed to feature Republican women who have turned away from the GOP to support Obama/Biden. But, as it turns out, one of the women in the ad is not so "Republican" as she's presented, having been a registered Democrat for the last 6 years — several years longer than Obama has been president.

CNN’s Important GOP Convention News: Strippers Readying for Convention

CNN has a habit of getting to the real meat of a story, finding all the most important angles, and its coverage of the GOP convention is no exception. CNN has a reputation to burnish by finding only the most important convention stories and with its latest story about how an important sector of Tampa is readying for the convention, it appears the cable channel really is at its hard hitting best. What important sector is under the CNN microscope? Tampa's strip clubs, naturally.

Detached ‘Journalist’ Accidentally Admits He’s Part of Obama Chorus

Most "journalists" like to pretend they are separate from mere politics, but apparently MSNBC's uni-named Touré doesn't. He seems to assume he isn't merely observing and reporting on President Obama, but is part of Obama’s team. We might assume this by his on-air Freudian slip delivered to us on Wednesday, August 22.

The Free Press Act: A Proposal to Reinvigorate Our Freedom of Speech

In this day of mounting threats to our freedoms it is time to reinvigorate our Bill of Rights and so Senator John Kyl (R, AZ) has introduced S. 3493, The Free Press Act. This bill aims to prevent nuisance lawsuits meant only to quash freedom of speech, to stop the intimidation of journalists, bloggers, and those testifying before government.

Ryanitis: Dowd Loses Her Delicately Balanced Mind in Ryan Fearmongering

Usually I don’t write much about wholly meaningless people, but on Saturday, August 18, New York Times screedist Maureen Dowd turned in a particularly unhinged performance that just screams to be discussed. It might also scream that MoDowd’s Ryanitis is at such an advanced case of virulence that she might just need professional help to get over it.

Obama’s Constant BS About Thomas Jefferson and Islam

Every year he’s been in office, President Obama has hosted an “iftar dinner” to honor Islam in the White House. The President has also each time led his speech with the outlandish nonsense that Thomas Jefferson held the “first iftar dinner” in the White House. And every time it’s been utter hogwash. This year’s speech was no different in that respect.

Race to the White House: The American Media’s Lack of Moral Discernment

Many on the GOP side of the aisle have been complaining that Mitt Romney seems to be incapable of hitting back against the constant stream of lies, innuendo, and calumny that Obama and his minions have unleashed thus far in this campaign. Romney's campaign has been a veritable campaign of milquetoastiness by comparison. Yet the Old Media has the gall to claim that there is too much mud slinging going on by both sides.

Politco’s Full Court Press to Destroy Paul Ryan

Politico seems to have decided where it stands on Paul Ryan. On its main page on the afternoon of August 15, the news site seemed to carry a single message: Paul Ryan is a bad, bad man and Romney made a big mistake picking him as his wingman.

Family Research Council Shooting: Suddenly Media Not Ready to Blame Politics for a Mad Gunman’s Crim

Curiously enough, the August 15 shooting of a security guard at the Washington HQ of the Family Research Council perpetrated by an unhinged gay rights activist didn't spark the same hyperbolic claims from the Old Media establishment that politics is at the root of this violence, a claim that permeated reportage of past violence. No calls for investigations were made, no individual politicians were accused of fostering a "violent atmosphere," and no particular ideology was blamed as the cause of this crime.

NBC’s Lauer Knocks Down Obama Flack Stephanie Cutter With President’s Own Words

Obama flack Stephanie Cutter appeared on NBC's Today for what she likely assumed would be a softball interview but got a few hardballs from host Matt Lauer instead when the morning talker used President Obama's own words to slice Cutter down to size.

DNC Chair Wasserman Schultz Demolished by… CNN’s Wolf Blitzer?

The most unkind cut of all is when your paper thin understanding of the facts is shredded by someone you think is on your side. This is what happened to Democrat National Committee Chairperson Debbie Wasserman Schultz when she kept trying to tell CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that Ryan’s Medicare reform plan took Medicare away from everyone even though, as Blitzer repeatedly pointed out, the truth is that Ryan’s reforms only altered the entitlement for those 55 and younger.

New York Times: Gosh, Remember Obama’s ‘Jaw-Dropping’ Crowds?

For The New York Times, reporter Jackie Calmes must have found Chris Matthews’ leg tingle as she penned a story dreamily reminiscing about Obama’s “jaw-dropping crowds” he used to garner at campaign stops back in 2007-08.

Barack Obama: Hey Media, Stop Reporting What The Other Side Says!

According to The New York Times, President Obama is a “voracious consumer of news.” But he’s not at all happy with a media that has been apparently engaged this whole time in a one-sided love affair with The One. He has harsh words for the media establishment.

Business Owner Wants Her Deli Removed from Obama Campaign Ad

The owner of Krause's Deli in Cincinnati, Ohio, is extremely upset with Barack Obama for showing the front of her business in one of his TV commercials. It is causing her to lose customers and she says she was lied to when the video of her shop was taken. Now she wants the video removed from Obama's TV spot.