The good news for the White House is that despite the Benghazi, IRS, and AP subpoena perfect storm of crises within a week, President Obama’s job approval ratings are up. The bad news is that because of the violation of the fundamental crisis management rule about getting the truth out …
Read More »The trouble with presidential libraries
Congratulations to President George W. Bush! His new presidential library is a tribute to his leadership. But that does lead to a question. As the fight gets underway to claim the Obama Presidential Library – the University of Hawaii versus the University of Chicago – is the original intent of …
Read More »Should President Obama ban football?
“I’m a big football fan, but I have to tell you if I had a son, I’d have to think long and hard before I let him play football,” President Barack Obama opined in the New Republic. “You read some of these stories about college players who undergo some of …
Read More »Global warming guru Al Gore becomes rich hypocrite with sale of Current TV to Qatar, Inc.
How much does presidential election loser Al Gore hate conservatives? Enough that he wouldn’t sell his little-watched Current TV to conservative Glenn Beck, but he would sell it to anti-American terror mouthpiece Al Jazeera for half a billion dollars. According to The Wall Street Journal, “Glenn Beck’s The Blaze approached …
Read More »Obama vs. Fox News — behind the White House strategy to delegitimize a news organization
There is no war on terror for the Obama White House, but there is one on Fox News. In a recent interview with The New Republic, President Obama was back to his grousing about the one television news outlet in America that won’t fall in line and treat him as …
Read More »White House Influenced Pennsylvania Politics?
Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: To Tell the Truth California Republican Congressman Darrell Issa says his effort to get the truth behind Pennsylvania Democrat Joe Sestak’s claim that the White House offered him a job to get him to abandon his Senate bid will not end once …
Read More »What You Need to Know About Iran
I’m going to start today with a little pop quiz: What did Iran do this week? You might have answered that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced Iran will deliver a “telling blow” to global powers on February 11 (the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution). Yes, he did do that. But that’s …
Read More »Young People Less Tied to Organized Religion, Poll Finds
Affiliation with organized religion is at a 50-year low among young people, according to a study by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion. The study focused on the generation known as The Millennials — those under 30, born after 1980. But the data “doesn’t necessarily mean that young people …
Read More »What Really Matters to Media Matters?
If you’re like me — and, congratulations if you are — then you try to enjoy your weekends. For example, I spent last Saturday in bed, watching my favorite soaps, eating doughnut holes basted in NyQuil. I call them Happy Holes and after seven of them, you think you’re an …
Read More »So This Is Change?
The 2008 election was supposed to be about change: Yet another politician promising to change the tone in Washington. We were told unifying times were ahead; this was the great healer. But every single time this administration is met with opposition, what’s the response? Is it honest debate? An open …
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