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Why has Michele Bachmann suddenly become the It candidate? ANS: With her impressive New Hampshire debate performance, Bachmann has gone from a conservative Sarah Palin—lite curiosity to a potential game changer. For two hours onstage with her GOP rivals, Bachmann appeared polished, serene and in command. Her smooth performance was partly the work of a top-shelf team of veteran advisers (manager Ed Rollins, pollster Ed Goeas, forensic coach Brett O’Donnell). They sanded down some of her rough edges but let Bachmann be Bachmann, complete with zinging anti-Obama applause lines and sunny-side-up conservatism. Does she have a shot at the nomination?...

THR staff She is criticized for not questioning a number of unsubstantiated claims he made about President Barack's U.S. citizenship. read more...posted using frpa

In another example of a sort-of cultural suicide where western media types assume that all Muslims are blameless – while all Americans are at fault in this clash of civilizations between Islamism and the West – we have a recent episode of MSNBC’s Hardball with one-time Democratic operative Chuck Todd standing-in for host Chris Matthews. Todd was discussing the riots in Afghanistan sparked by Islamist ire over the burning of a Koran by a Florida pastor. During the interview Todd and a guest stated that the Christian Bible was just a book written by men while the Koran was the...

Jones, of course, killed no one. Suicide bombers kill as many people as they can for Allah. But Joe Klein is by no means alone in assuming that Muslims cannot control themselves and respond to insult with anything but threats and murder, and thus cannot be held responsible for their own actions. He thus reveals again the multicultural Left's bigotry and ethnocentrism. "Joe Klein Reserves Spot in Hell for Koran-burning Pastor Who's As 'Murderous' As 'Suicide Bombers,'" by Ken Shepherd for NewsBusters, April 4 (thanks to James): Burning a copy of the Koran is morally equivalent to flying a plane...

One thing you can always count on at (or towards) the end of a recession? An "end of the world," the "sky is falling," "it's never been this bad," "gloom and doom" article in Time Magazine, here are 4 examples: 1. "The Recession: Gloomy Holidays--and Worse Ahead" (December 1974): "Some consumers are so alarmed that they are muttering about a return of the Great Depression of the 1930s. Are even harder times coming? Probably. The recession still has some way to go, and though economists fore see an upturn some tune by next year, it is difficult to pick its...

There's been a ton of hilariously Photoshopped versions of Time magazines ridiculous Reagan/Obama cover. I swear it's like they had a meeting to figure out ways to ruin The Gippers 100th birthday and voted that this was one of them....at this point I would say it didn't work out so well for them. Here are some "leaked" rejected drafts of the covers. ;-D There's the good... the bad... and the ugly...

They would've had something different to Photoshop...

Is it just me or have the national media completely sold out for Obama? Okay, that’s a rhetorical question! Time Magazine’s latest Photoshopped cover image showing former President Ronald Reagan with his arm around Barack Obama is… well… ridiculous!

Swampland alum KT pointed out to a few of us this weekend something we’d missed in the already much-discussed Sarah Palin video that followed the Tucson shooting: the American flag placed behind Palin to add a presidential air to the recording is on the wrong side. Big deal, you say? Actually, yeah. The U.S. Flag code was passed by Congress nearly 70 years ago to provide exact rules for the use and display of the Stars and Stripes. One of the many rules dictates the positioning of the flag relative to a speaker: When displayed from a staff in a...

No one would ever mistake TIME Magazine for Commentary, or even The New Republic.  These magazines openly admit their political leanings.  "We're neoconservatives.  So what?  We're hawkish liberals; what's your point?" TIME, on the other hand, has always flirted with real journalism.  It markets itself as a "mainstream" publication with no political agenda other than reporting the news. Some people still buy into this fluffy muck.  But most others realize that a thin veneer of journalistic objectivity is all that separates them from TIME's true colors.  It is no longer surprising that TIME has a slant.  But what is...

As 2010 closes, Americans might be inclined to consider Osama Bin Laden or George W. Bush as Person of the Decade. (All the better if Bin Laden would agree to pick up the award in person.) But the designation should actually go to someone who is less familiar to us - and who has been dead since 1997: Deng Xiaoping, the former "paramount leader" of China. When Deng took power in 1978, China was still a poor country with collective farms and virtually the entire economy under state control. Mao had been dead for only two years, and his Cultural...

Time magazine's failure to choose the Tea Party as its Person or Persons of the Year surely reflects a desire that they will cease to be significant any day now. David Von Drehle's "runner-up" article in its Person of the Year issue concluded the Tea Party has already peaked and is well on its way to collapse: "The Tea Party is a hot brand, but there's no one in power to enforce the trademark. Now that the bailouts are history and Democratic hegemony is broken, what does it stand for? It's a sign of the incredible velocity of politics these...

Wire Update reported: TIME magazine will name WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange the 2010 ‘Person of the Year’ according to the Drudge Report, citing unnamed sources. Assange ,who was arrested Tuesday morning in England for sex crimes, was leading TIME’s online poll. The final decision by TIME magazine editors is expected later this month. Assange was taken into custody at around 9.30 a.m. UK time after he appeared at a London police station by appointment. He was wanted in Sweden on accusations of sexual molestation and rape, unrelated to his work for the controversial whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks which brought diplomatic hurricanes...

When Maine Militia State Commander Mack Page read an article about the “armed anti-government movement” of the radical right in a Time magazine cover story in September, he decided that it was time to take action. Positive action, that is. Page wants to let people know that the Maine Militia — which he said is adding members by the day — is not a threat to them, but rather a law-abiding group that aims to function sort of like a backup to the Maine National Guard. Though he was vague about the actual numbers of militia members — “somewhere between...

Via JWF, my sense/hope is that conservative enthusiasm is already as high as it can go. But in case you’re bummed that most of the wizened Democratic leadership comes from monolithically blue districts that makes them impossible to unseat, rest assured that there is in fact a way to knock them off next week.Break their spirits. Other Democrats are sure to follow Pelosi out of the Capitol. After the GOP lost the House in 2006, 27 Republicans called it quits. But in the case of Pelosi’s Democratic cloakroom, the exodus could be deeper: five of the 20 current committee chairmen...

The stock market may be dragging, but home prices are soaring, fueling a national obsession with real estate. Your house is now your piggy bank. —“Home Sweet Home,” Time Magazine, June 2005 Buying a house is supposed to make us better citizens, better investors and better off. But that American Dream may well be a fantasy. —“The Case Against Homeownership,” Time Magazine, September 2010 Longtime readers of NotMakingThisUp know exactly where we’re going with this—or at least the general direction. But before we get there, let’s recap the story so far. All human beings—and especially those creatures residing on Wall...

The latest issue of Time purports to explain "Why Israel Doesn't Care About Peace." (Hint: Blame the money-grubbing Jews!) There will be earnest efforts to point out why this is nonsense, but they will fall on deaf ears. These days a defense of Israel requires stronger measures. And perhaps nothing could do Israel more good than for the United States to declare war on it. After all, if you want to win the support of American academics, journalists, and movie stars -- if you pine for the approbation of the U.N. Security Council and NGOs the world over -- then...

TIME Magazine is partnered with CNN. Both happen to be the airport's favorite 'news' vehicles for bombarding travelers with liberal media bias. As CNN ratings plummet, we detect a heightened sense of desperation from Time's last-gasp efforts to sell issues of their rag. First, their cover depicting ‘Islamophobic' America and now their childish ‘anti-Zionist’ dust jacket.Ignoring sensationalism and rubbish is usually the best practice. So that’s exactly what we’re going to do...right after we illustrate how TIME deceptively manipulates its sheeple.

Time magazine has a cover that says that US soldiers should be protecting the women of Afghanistan from their men: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2007269,00.html Of all the reasons that I have heard for continued US involvement in Afghanistan, this is the most stupid. America went to Afghanistan to catch Osama Bin Laden, not to engage in social engineering. It is not the responsibility of America to bring freedom to Afghani women. That job belongs to the Afghani people.