So, the focus of this special episode of Red Eye is alcohol.

Or, to be more precise: the Red Eye stories that made us drink the most.

And my pick is the media’s pathetic response to the public’s growing dissatisfaction with President Obama.

The media, befuddled that Captain Awesome wasn’t getting any love from an angry America, imploded. Whined. Fretted.

But these dopes also pointed fingers. Mostly at America. And of course, the Tea Party. As I have said before, the Tea Party is the most organic movement I’ve seen since the time I ate a box of Fibercon.

Yep, the Tea Party is a populist movement so antithetical to trumped up media trends like killer bees, push presents, or manmade global warming, that it actually caused three phony, manufactured movements as a response!

Yep – the gloating Jon Stewart rally, the silly No Labels wussfest and the ridiculed Coffee Party arose because the Tea Party scared the crap out of hacks, who had no choice but to flee to their treehouses and map out a response.

But it wasn’t just them. The Tea Party incurred wrath from the other usual suspects: Matthews, Olby, Maddow, Contessa Brewer, and every other lefty still sleeping in a onesy.

All because they couldn’t control this thing.

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The short clip floating around where “Dancing with the Stars” champ Jennifer Grey says it felt damn good to beat Bristol Palin — and who can blame her? — is a wee bit deceptive if you look at the entirety of her interview with MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell. While he goes on and on like a DWTS Truther about the Tea Party supposedly stuffing the ballot boxes in favor of Bristol, Grey refuses to take the bait. Actually what O’Donnell is doing is more like throwing chum, but still Grey refuses to bite and join him in his sad conspiracy mongering or say anything negative about the Tea Party.

O’Donnell also spends a few minutes hoping to coax the “Dirty Dancing” star into saying something negative about Bristol Palin, either personally or about her dancing abilities. But once again, Grey keeps it classy:

Grey: I have to say that [Bristol] really came a long way.
O’Donnell: No, you don’t have to say that.
Grey: No, she did.
O’Donnell: I saw her dance.
Grey: Did you see her at the beginning, see her at the end? Totally different, and she’s a lovely girl.
O’Donnell: How could she not improve slightly? If they keep her — if the fake votes keep her in the competition the whole time.
Grey: Well, bully for her. Bully for her.

Grey couldn’t have been any more gracious. And I want to thank her for that. If you don’t insult me or mine I don’t care how you vote. So all remains good on the “Dirty Dancing” front, which is a relief because I’m kind of an eleven year-old girl when it comes to that one. (more…)

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“Minimalist celebrity” Vincent Kartheiser doesn’t own a car, won’t have kids, is a vegetarian and went to all that trouble to zero-scape his lawn, which sounds both difficult and clever. 

He also doesn’t own a toilet:

In fact, I have been in a slow process of selling and giving away everything I own.”

He has? Like what?

“Like, I don’t have a toilet at the moment. My house is just a wooden box. I mean I am planning to get a toilet at some point. But for now I have to go to the neighbours. I threw it all out.”

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If there’s one thing I learned in life, it’s that when a despicable character actually shares your opinion, it might be time to reevaluate said opinion.

Case in point: Fidel Castro’s recent analysis of the midterm elections. In an essay published by the state-run paper Granma (which I always thought carried stories about ribbon candy, shawls, and Triscuits), he announced that the Democrats’ debacle was the consequences of racism. He spouts: “The most reactionary sectors in the United States are sharpening their teeth,” and then warns that “all power (will fall) to the extreme right in the United States.”

Mind you, this is the exact same opinion held by everyone at MSNBC, the batwing-haired boob Graydon Carter, and anyone else who thought “Fair Game” was an accurate portrayal of two self-promoting tossbags. Anyway, for all you folks who still think tea partiers are racist (despite electing two black men to Congress), please reconsider this view, now that a third-rate commie dictator agrees with you.

I mean, this tool has been wrong on everything, while desperately clinging to power and atrocious facial hair. It should make you think that racial politics is old hat – when that diapered chucklehead is wearing it.

Look, I always change my views after hearing from my enemies. When Islamic extremists condemn homosexuality as an abomination, it causes me to embrace gay people even more. And when some nutbag emails me to say that radio signals in his fillings are telling him I look awesome in purple sweaters – I know it’s time to stop wearing purple sweaters. (more…)

The takeaway from the three clips below is that when you have to explain yourself, you’re losing — and Stewart is desperately having to explain himself. Rachel Maddow obviously likes and admires Stewart but doesn’t buy his above-it-allery for a second or, in a desperate effort to retain his clown nose, his latest spin that he’s being criticized for not getting out on the playing field as opposed to — and this is the subtext of Maddow’s criticism — admitting he already is.

Maybe Stewart isn’t being dishonest. Maybe the left-wing comedian honestly doesn’t see himself for what he is — a political warrior for the Left disguised as a lofty satirist. Does the “Daily Show’ host not possess enough self-awareness to understand that when you have to run around doing rehabilitation interviews that maybe it’s not everyone else who’s got it wrong?

‘Restore Sanity” was a bridge too far and damaged Stewart’s brand. HE became the story and whether by design or due to a crippling inability to turn anything resembling a penetrating insight onto himself, the disingenuous posturing finally caught up to him. Blame it on a raging case of Beck-Envy.

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And herein lies my real problem with NBC/MSNBC. What Keith Olbermann does as a private citizen and with his own money should be the least of  NBC/MSNBC’s concerns. But they are so delusional over there that they’ve convinced themselves that a two day suspension over a few thousand dollars in private campaign contributions will in some way bestow “journalistic integrity” on the very same network that would seek to legitimize a racist leftist like cartoonist Ted Rall, who is now openly calling for a violent revolution to overthrow the American government and put a stop to the Tea Party. 

“Are things in our country so bad that it might actually be time for a revolution? The answer is obviously ‘yes.’”

That’s not a Ted Rall statement, that’s MSNBC anchor Dylan Ratigan. As you watch the video below, imagine the (justifiable) uproar had those words come from a Hannity or Beck in the same context as this — an interview with a right-wing extremist calling for violence against his political opponents:

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For those of you not familiar with Rall, he’s a witless, radical left-wing editorial cartoonist who’s probably most famous for his inability to draw, but thanks to the venomous left-wing viewpoints he holds, he’s enjoyed an incredible amount of mainstream success. According to his own site, the same cartoonist who called Condi Rice a “house nigga” and is now calling for organized violence in order to “bully” his insidious left-wing worldview on the rest of us, “now appear[s] in more than 100 publications around the United States, including the Los Angeles Times, Tucson Weekly, Willamette Week, Newark Star-Ledger, Village Voice and New York Times.”

Here’s an excerpt from his new book, “The Anti-American Manifesto”: (more…)

Rap mogul and purple-prosed hyperbolist Russell Simmons over at the HuffPo:

If [Keith Olbermann] goes we lose the Edward Murrow of our generation, the voice that spits truth to power and vested interests. I have devoted my entire adult life to truth telling. Without Olbermann, MSNBC can’t survive — and the voice of progress will fall to the dark ages, when one unholy church dictated a fictional version of the truth.

When exactly did one unholy church dictate the truth? Prior to the creation of talk radio, the Internet and Fox News, we remember the one unholy church of left-wing newsmen disguised as sober, objective reporters, but our guess is that that’s probably not what Simmons mean — our guess is that Simmons has no idea what he means.

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A couple of days before his suspension, Keith Olbermann sat for an interview with the New York Times to discuss this and that, and here’s what the Indefinitely Suspended “Countdown” anchor had to say about Jon Stewart’s above-it-all-ery:

NYT: You wrote on Twitter that Stewart had jumped the shark. Are you suggesting his show is in decline?

Olbermann: I said he jumped a small shark. If he believes he has no political viewpoint, that’s ludicrous. For him to now say, ‘‘I’m not in the media, I’m not poised in this world of political expression, I never take gratuitous shots at people or go over the top and I’m not particularly pointed in one direction,’’ each of those things was ludicrous.

And this is how Jon Stewart effectively turned himself into a joke over the past few months. Even Olbermann sees through the clown nose and is willing to publicly point and scoff. Stewart drained a ton of political and moral capital with his “Restore Sanity” rally, and especially with his wildly hypocritical and sanctimonious lecture at the end. 

The whole affair was a lose-lose for Stewart. His ratings might have gotten a bump but the Dems still got hammered in the midterms and in the process of hoping to stop that Stewart built a glass house and lost the power he once held to shame others. Now he’s just another marginalized, left-wing comedian with a show that attracts less than 5% of the population –even Keith Olbermann sees that.   (more…)

Mediaite finds Michael Moore whining about half-decade old jokes told by Glenn Beck and Bill O’Reilly at his expense worthy of a write up and so we thought we’d counter by giving you a couple opportunities:

1. Please do watch the video and mock the outrageous phoniness of the oh-so-precious tone and staged professorial sobriety during this exchange between Moore and the just as insufferably sanctimonious Rachel Maddow –two people who couldn’t summon a hi-ho-hearty damn about the racist beating of Kenneth Gladney at the hands of pro-Obama SEIU thugs.

2. Since quotes old enough to be in the first grade are suddenly up for grabs and obvious jokes can be interpreted as some sort of scary call to violence, we present you with Michael Moore’s greatest “violent” hits:

First up, from 2003, Mr. Moore calls for the arming of the Palestinians so they can kill them some Joooooooooos: (more…)

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10. No one will ever say that David Letterman is “too smart to believe what he believes.”

9. Whatever was left of Dave’s edgy sense of irony died while engaging in a serious discussion about the ethics of journalism with… Rachel Maddow… of…. MSNBC…  

8. Dave hasn’t figured out that “scaring smart people” puts your ratings in the toilet.

7. Dave will believe any lie told by a humorless partisan wearing purple glasses.

6. Two negatives do not equal a positive. Maddow’s inability to feel joy plus Letterman’s similar affliction equals less audience pleasure than a discussion about undercooked meatloaf between two nursing home residents. (more…)

In 2008, liberals won everything they have ever wanted and now, just two years on, the terrible consequence of their big government god is glaringly apparent for all to see, from the unemployment lines right down to the Gulf of Mexico and the Arizona border. Out of ideas and fully exposed, all they have left to hold onto power is the threat of labeling their critics — everyday Americans, as racist. 

Naturally, under the mistaken assumption that things are as they’ve always been, Leftist Hollywood’s jumped on this racism bandwagon. But things are no longer what they once were, and God bless ‘em, the American people are finally refusing to be racially blackmailed, most especially when it’s a willfully ignorant, unbelievably cruel, joyless celebrity doing the blackmailing:

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For decades now, we’ve watched lying, sanctimonious, superior, left-wing celebrities step into the political arena to sling their toxic nonsense without ever having to face an opponent. We’ve also watched lying, sanctimonious, superior, left-wing race baiters win the day with an equally toxic divisiveness and the hollow promise of ”just give in on this one and we’ll stop calling you racist.” (more…)

Okay, here’s my favorite headline of the day – no, make that year.

Take a look-see, for yourself, see.

Yes, the AP headline reads: “NY car bomb suspect cooperates, but motive mystery.”

Yeah it’s only a mystery if you’re in the media, and really stupid. Everyone else pretty much understands why the terrorist left a fuel bomb in an area filled with families.

He hates us. He hate our country, our culture. He wants you dead.

But the media – an entity full of fragile egos and bubble-encased boobs – just can’t see that. In fact, it’s kinda awesome how huge and gaping their blind spot toward radical Islamic fundamentalism is. If only there could be other motives for the mayhem, so they’d never having to place blame on anything (except America, of course).

So I thought I’d help them out, and find motives the media could be comfortable with.

So why did Faisal Shahzad try to blow up Time Square? (more…)

[Rosie] O’Donnell said she wanted to “build on what Oprah began and excelled at for 25 years, in my own style and with new adaptations and ideas.”

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So a new Gallup poll profiled Tea Party supporters, and found that they were all racists.

I mean, by the MSNBC definition – they would be racist. After all, 79 percent of those polled were white.

That’s a lot of white people, and Chris Matthews must reckon, a lot of hoods.

But is it a lot when you compare it to the general population? The gen. pop. is 75 percent white, which is only 4 percent less than the tea people. The poll measured other variables – from education to employment, and there was little difference between the TP’s and the rest of America. Even with the obvious lack of liberals – the TP’s represent the “public at large.” Essentially these people manage the hardware store and watch your house when you’re on vacation. They probably hate rap music AND Gossip Girl.

Now, you think the fact that tea-partiers reflect America will stop Matthews, Janeane Garofalo or Keith Olbermann from calling teapartiers violent racists? Of course not – because the left actually feels the same exact way about America that they do about tea-partiers. (more…)

So yesterday on the Cartoon Network, Chris Matthews did a segment on Bret Baier’s interview with President Obama.

Matthews, still suffering from Obama-erotica Syndrome, was astounded by Bret’s treatment of his Precious Prince. To make sure he got his point across, he had a pair of chuckling chuckleheads on standby, in the form of Joan Walsh and Cynthia Tucker. Gosh, they’re adorbs!

Check it out, check it outers:

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“Buccaneer buddy?” What the hell is that? Is that like a gay pirate or something?

Look, the real star of that clip wasn’t those three bozos, but the editor who left out all of the Dear One’s filibustering. The editor just clipped the ends of Obama’s statements when Brett tried to get the Great One back on track. It’s sneaky. But so what. I suppose I could go through Chris Matthew’s illustrious career, and find examples of his self-righteous screeching at guests – something Baier never does. But there are just way too many examples, and it’s nice outside. (more…)

Watch the video (full segment is here). Some of it’s just strange. Hanks hand-wrings over parents not being able to get their kids to the hospital if GM is no longer in business. At least that’s what I think he says, because when you live in a bubble where no one ever says ‘Huh?,” much less challenges you, those are the kinds of things you start to say and believe. Scary.

And when Hanks speaks of a propaganda network doing the President’s bidding, does he not see the irony of his being on MSNBC? The day before he was on Good Morning America. Really, Tom, no irony at all as you do the Obama Propaganda Network Tour?

The Oscar-winner then says that citizens should be stewards to the political process, which can only mean that the same man who produced the spectacular HBO mini-series “John Adams” doesn’t appear to have watched it. (more…)

Now, there’s always a scene in zombie movies, when one non-zombie character will turn to another, and say, “If I ever turn into that, I want you to kill me.” Then they make love, and reload.

Well, I want you, dear viewer, to make the same promise to me. Except instead of killing me if I become a zombie, I want you to kill me if I ever turn into Dylan Ratigan.

I am not joking. If you see symptoms of me frothing, twitching, or ranting until my eyeballs pop out and roll across the floor – I want you to hack me to pieces with a hatchet. Try to make it quick.

See, there is a reason why no one should ever be Ratigan. He has a hard time being himself. Check him out interviewing a Tea Party leader, Mark Williams, as if Williams himself ran a concentration camp in the 1940’s. (more…)

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If you follow a movie critic on Twitter, chances are you follow him because you admire his ability to critique the many offerings of Hollywood. Unfortunately, if you follow Roger Ebert, you also get endless tirades on greedy corporate fatcats, ”nutjob Teabaggers,” and how dumb Sarah Palin is.

Ebert is, like many liberals, showing his true colors – and they ain’t pretty. His obsession with Sarah Palin and Tea Partiers provides the perfect example. He spent ample time Tweeting about the recent Tea Party Convention, where Sarah Palin was a featured speaker and – gasp – was paid $100,000 for her appearance (which he must now know that she pledged to donate to other candidates and causes).  

When Roger Ebert Didn’t Trash His Fans With Pornographic Slurs

Ebert makes a number of references to how much Palin was being paid by both the Tea Party Convention and Fox News - a curious fixation considering he built his long and storied career by discussing the work of screenwriters, directors, actors and actresses – many of whom get paid millions of dollars a pop, as do the ”corporate fatcats” at the studios who back these films.

But here, Ebert goes above and beyond the pale, managing to crassly insult both Palin and the Tea Party attendees by saying: (more…)