Jon Stewart and Kumar Go to D.C.

This week’s Washington Times column:

On Tuesday night I was bestowed the honor of being ridiculed on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” with Jon Stewart. The segment in which I was featured had Mr. Stewart mocking those of us who dare criticize the new president. In the era of Obama, mainstream American political humor is now officially on the defensive.

Stewart lumped me with Sean Hannity, Mark Levin and Rep. Michele Bachmann, Minnesota Republican — a cross section of people you might expect to be critical of an administration implementing very liberal policies in a very short time.

The “joke” was that these right-wing zealots weren’t giving the new president enough time, that the previous president did worse things, and that I, in particular, was ridiculous for blaming the president for “St. Patrick’s Day” becoming “Potato Day” at my kids’ public school. (Yes, the name change took place. No, I did not blame President Obama — specifically.) (more…)

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Tags: " "The Daily Show, "The Colbert Report", Comedy Central, Democratic Party, Fox News
Posted Apr 12th 2009 at 4:13 pm in Celebrity News, Entertainment, Featured Story, Media Criticism, Political Humor, Politics | 104470One Commenthttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/abreitbart/2009/04/12/jon-stewart-and-kumar-go-to-white-house/Jon+Stewart+and+Kumar+Go+to+D.C.2009-04-12+23%3A13%3A21Andrew+Breitbart

Play That Funky Gay Card, White Boy

I’ll never forget a dinner party I attended in the early ’80s, where I first heard the term “African-American.”  I got a big laugh at the table when I declared, “Oh, that’ll never catch on.”  It was way too much of a tongue-twister for everyday use.

Today, “African-American” is as ubiquitous as “the” (and used to describe all US blacks, no matter where they come from).

Flash forward to 2002: Halle Berry pulls out all the stops, dedicating her Oscar win to “every nameless, faceless woman of color that now has a chance” (as the camera cuts to her white mom sitting in the audience).  The next morning, I’m in the office of a TV honcho when I overhear a curious voice mail on his speakerphone. (more…)

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Tags: 9/11, AA, AIDS, Barack Obama, cultural marxism
Posted Apr 2nd 2009 at 5:05 am in Featured Story, Politics, Religion | 8849895 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cwinecoff/2009/04/02/play-that-funky-gay-card-white-boy/Play+That+Funky+Gay+Card%2C+White+Boy2009-04-02+12%3A05%3A44Charles+Winecoff

Obama’s War on English

In an age when a waiter is a server, an actress is a female actor, and a dubiously-competent socialist cult leader is an American president, it was only a matter of time before the “Global War on Terror” became an “Overseas Contingency Operation” (OCO).  Thus Spoke Zarathustra this week via a memo sent to the Pentagon and select speech writers, officially establishing Team Obama’s redesigned terminology.  The War is over, long live the Operation! This should show the road-side bombers, suicide bombers, bombers-in-burqas, snipers-for-Allah, and other assorted, blood-thirsty, Jihadist savages that the US really means business now.  Victory through euphemism!

The unveiling of OCO capped-off a terror euphemism trifecta for the administration.  Previously, the Justice Department scrapped the ghastly “enemy combatant” to describe war prisoners in favor of the much more uplifting, “detainee.”  Additionally, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano─who may be the only member of the administration more intellectually troubled than Tim Geitner─rebranded terrorism as “man-caused disaster.” (To review:  mail carrier; police officer; business person; but man-caused disaster… maybe the errant sexism has something to do with Ms. Napolitano’s romantic leanings.)   (more…)

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Tags: Add new tag, Barack Obama, constitution, cultural marxism, doublespeak
Posted Mar 27th 2009 at 11:13 am in Featured Story, Politics | 897103 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/rhunter/2009/03/27/obama%e2%80%99s-war-on-english/Obama%E2%80%99s+War+on+English2009-03-27+18%3A13%3A23Riley+Hunter

America’s Heroes

During my undercover career in the FBI, I often reflected on a verse from the “Original Testament,” as Ron Silver liked to call it. Moses told Joshua, “The Lord himself will go before and be with you. He will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be discouraged, do not be afraid.” Those words gave me strength as I prepared many times to enter the belly of the beast. In fact, while standing at a Times Square urinal preparing for my first NAMBLA meet, I repeated the verse to myself…not sure that’s a scene for the Big Screen regardless of your religious beliefs.

In the New Testament, Paul admonishes us to “pray without ceasing.” I never understood that verse until I had a son deployed to a combat zone. Now I find myself praying for my son, his men, and their families almost constantly. Our Marine son is at a Forward Operating Base in Afghanistan. They have no running water, no heat, and only on occasion, electricity. The other evening I received a short email from him. His battalion lost three more men over the weekend. It was difficult for me to sleep that night, knowing somewhere in this nation mothers and fathers, wives, and children were mourning the death of a loved one.  (more…)

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Tags: Afghanistan, Oliver North, Oliver North's "American Heroes", Overseas Contingency Operation, war on terror
Posted Mar 26th 2009 at 6:27 am in Military, Politics | 88762One Commenthttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bhamer/2009/03/26/america%e2%80%99s-heroes/America%E2%80%99s+Heroes2009-03-26+13%3A27%3A41Bob+Hamer