I know I’m going out on a limb with that title, given that we’re still in the first month of the year, but I can’t imagine anything topping this one for sheer guffaw power for at least the next 12 months. You know how Palin supporters are always complaining about how the media is obsessed with Sarah Palin? Well, now they’re mad because Dana Milbank wrote a column pledging NOT to write...

As the inevitable blog posts, comments in blogs and news stories come out suggesting that MSNBC’s now-departed “Countdown” host Keith Olbermann may have parted ways with his network because COMCAST merged with NBC and has it in for liberals, a new report suggests Olbermann was ready to leave and may have left to create his own media empire. The Wrap: It was Keith Olbermann’s decision...

Since Keith Olbermann was the subject of at least a handful of columns I have posted on TMV, I feel compelled to add my two cents on his departure from MSNBC’s Countdown show. Good luck and good night. It was a nightly sign off – he proudly parroted the great Edward R. Murrow during the heyday of television journalism at CBS. Keith Olbermann was not even in the same ballpark as Murrow or Cronkite...

Keith Olbermann announced Friday night on his “Countdown” show, that this would be his last televised show for MSNBC. UPDATE Saturday January 22, 2011. Word from cable channel pundits and hosts speculate that Mr. Olbermann had been in process of a buyout of his contract… whether jumping or being pushed… perhaps both. There appears to be much talk about him signing what sounds like a...

Sorry, but there is NO EXCUSE for this. And if some nutjob talk show host on the left made similar comments, that person is equally reprehensible. So spare us the comments about so and so’s language. If someone suggests shooting someone, no matter how it is framed, then they do not deserve the audience they most assuredly will get for inflammatory comments such as this.

Yesterday, I mentioned anti-Muslim crusader Steve Emerson in a post about Rep. Steve King’s planned congressional investigation of “radicalized Islam” in Muslim-American communities. As part of that mention, I linked to an article on Emerson’s website, Investigative Project on Terrorism, in which Emerson accused New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie of having a “strange relationship with...

The First Lady has been accused of many things, but this one deserves a “Memmy.” According to Barbara Harsha, executive director of the Governors’ Highway Safety Administration, Michelle Obama’s anti-obesity campaign could be one of the factors to blame for the increase in pedestrian deaths during the first six months of 2010. According to the GHSA, 1,891 pedestrians were killed in the first six...

Are policymakers in the United States so married to a ‘zero-sum Cold War mentality,’ that they are damaging relations with China? Or is China a genuine threat that manipulates its currency and shamelessly steals American intellectual property? According to this editorial from the state-run China Daily, those who see China as an adversary are shooting themselves – and the world – in the...

I mean, REALLY. Truly. Honestly. What is the point?

Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity lose their station in Philadelphia.

The U.S. Federal Reserve, despite all of the recent criticism over quantitative easing and its bailouts of huge corporations, foreign and domestic, receives a loud and clear vote of confidence in this article by columnist Lourdes Sola of Brazil’s Estadao. According to Lourdes, the FED’s independence and effectiveness at moments of crisis make it a fitting template for up-and-coming Brazil’s...

CNN’s Anderson Cooper tries to set Dr. Laura Schlessinger straight on a matter of accuracy in media…or should we say accurate in talk show host assertions:

With President Hu visiting the country, perhaps he’ll take a moment to use America’s open Internet to read this article about history and academic freedom by columnist Ding Dong of China’s state-controlled Nan Fang Daily. Did the United States achieve most of its scientific and industrial prowess by absorbing the Jewish intellectual elite from Hitler’s Germany and the rest of Europe?...

The dots connect between Sarah Palin’s self-absorbed interview on the Tucson shootings and the response of Lee Harvey Oswald’s mother after the death of her son who killed JFK and was gunned down two days later. In Washington to testify before the Warren Commission investigating the assassination, Mrs. Oswald told reporters she was miffed about not being invited to the White House by Lady Bird Johnson. “After...

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While the issue of illegal immigration from Mexico gets most of the media attention, nations across Latin America have their share of people risking life and limb to get to the U.S. This editorial from El Salvador’s El Mundo reflects frustration with U.S. handling of Salvadorans that in many cases, know of no home other than the United States. The El Mundo editorial says in part: On Monday, the usual...

This item isn’t news but its low profile is: Nobody knows better than journalists that the best way an organization can bury an announcement it knows will make news is to do so late on a Friday. So it’s little wonder that the Society for Professional Journalists decided to announce its retirement of the Helen Thomas Lifetime Achievement Award on January 14. Of course, the SPJ’s release makes...

Is the rise of the Tea Party movement the ugly twin of the youth uprisings of the 1960s? According to Veronique Saint-Geours and Jean-Sebastien Stehli of France’s Le Figaro, the Tea Party, ‘which considers the government tyrannical, the elected as sodomites, and the country’s demographic changes as a menace to be fought by force of arms if necessary’ may be spawning a far more violent...

Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. On the occasion, my hometown newspaper published a wonderful editorial appropriately titled, “Still resonating in America: MLK’s message of peace … and senseless violence.” USA Today also had an excellent opinion piece titled “MLK was a religious visionary, too.” Both are right. King was a visionary on many fronts. Witness his repeated calls for nonviolence,...

Come on, Repubs, give Bill Kristol something to work with, won’t you? I mean, don’t leave him flapping on the line like a fish gasping for life, guys! That’s not nice!