[VIDEO] Kellyanne Conway: ‘The Biggest Fake News was That Trump Couldn’t Win’
Posted: December 10, 2016 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Barack Obama, Capitol Hill, D.C., Democratic Party (United States), Donald Trump, fake news, Harry Reid, Hillary Clinton, Hot Air, Joe Biden, Kellyanne Conway, media, MSNBC, news, News satire, video, Washington 1 Comment
At Hot Air, Ed Morrissey writes: In the clip above, Conway wonders aloud what message Democrats thought they were selling during the campaign. “I don’t know what her message was to America,” Conway says, “other than ‘I’m not Donald Trump and you shouldn’t vote for him’.” Conway also argues that Hillary didn’t do much to move the needle with women, scoring 54/41 in exit polls, almost identical to Barack Obama’s 55/44 over Mitt Romney in 2012. How did she fail to leverage that advantage, Conway asks?
The near-hysteria generated by advocates of this latest social panic has reached almost ludicrous heights. In the past 48 hours, we have now been lectured about “fake news” by Hillary Clinton, former NBC News anchor Brian Williams, and outgoing Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid. Hillary’s reliance on lies and half-truths in the campaign was well documented, especially when it came to her e-mail scandal and the slow unfolding of contradictory facts that exposed those lies — let alone Hillary’s claim to have been in New York City on 9/11, “Tuzla Dash” claims in 2008, her supposed rejection by the Marine Corps over her gender, and especially the attempt to slough off the planned terror attack on our Benghazi compound in 2012 as a spontaneous reaction to a YouTube video when speaking to the families of those killed in the attack. Brian Williams lost his position as anchor for repeated instances of fabulism, including in on-air remarks. Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] Academic Decay: Harvard Students Triggered by Pro-Lifers and American Flags
Posted: April 9, 2016 Filed under: Education, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Academia, American flag, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Fox News Channel, Harvard, Hot Air, Megyn Kelly, Pro-Life, Rachel Huebner, Republican Party (United States), SJW, Social Justice Warrior, Special Snowflake, Ted Cruz, Twitter Leave a comment
Matt Vespa writes:
…Last week, Fox News’ Megyn Kelly had Rachel Huebner, staff writer for The Harvard Crimson, on her show, where she detailed how the PC police are destroying these institutions of learning because the latest batch of college students are coddled, soft, and downright incorrigible.
One would think that the faculty or the administration would be the point of the lance in this war of free speech, but it’s not; it’s the students.
Huebner described an incident where a student felt she could not learn, let alone be in the same room, if she knew a classmate was pro-life. Having a view that’s different from your own is very, very offensive in delicate snowflake land.
More disconcerting is a separate incident involving Huebner’s friend trying to put an American flag on the wall of his dorm room.
He’s a freshman who was unpacking his things, when his roommate stopped him from displaying the flag, considering it an intolerable political statement that “he was unwilling to make.” This story drew laughter from Kelly’s crew–and rightfully so…(read more)
Source: Hot Air
‘Quod me nutrit me destruit’
Posted: November 12, 2015 Filed under: Censorship, China, Education, Mediasphere | Tags: Black people, college, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Free Press, Hot Air, Jazz Shaw, media, Quod me nutrit me destruit, Twitter, University Leave a comment
Pulse of the Nation: 64% Want a Border Fence with Mexico: Blacks, Hispanics, Democrats…
Posted: September 4, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Health and Social Issues, Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Blacks, Border Fence, Democrats, HIspanics, Hot Air, Illegal immigration, Immigration, Mexico, Polling, U.S. Mexico Border, YouGov 1 Comment
Majorities.
Source: Hot Air
‘Hey, I Could Get Reelected’ Poll: 68% ‘No’
Posted: August 10, 2015 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: Democratic Party, Ed Morrissey, Hillary Clinton, Hot Air, Obama, Poll, POTUS, Term Limits, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post 1 Comment
Just 30 percent of people polled said that the next president ‘should take an approach similar to that of Barack Obama’.
Ed Morrissey writes:
So much for continuity. Recently, Barack Obama bragged that he could win a third term in office if the Constitution didn’t prohibit it, but a new Monmouth poll shows that Americans overwhelmingly want a change of direction and approach. Only 27% would support a hypothetical Obama re-election, and more than two-thirds would vote for someone else if Obama appeared on the ticket:
The poll also looked at Pres. Barack Obama’s overall standing with the public. In a recent speech, Obama said that he could win a third term if the Constitution didn’t limit him to two. The poll’s results suggest this may be a bit of wishful thinking. Just 26% of American voters say they would vote to re-elect Obama if he was allowed to run for another term while fully 68% would vote for somebody else. 
It’s no surprise that Obama would find little enthusiasm for another four years in the White House among Republicans (5%) or even independents (23%) at this stage. However, his support among Democrats is not particularly strong either – just 53% would back the incumbent for a third term while 43% of his fellow partisans would vote for somebody else.
[Read the full text here, at Hot Air]
“Well, it was worth a shot,” said Murray. “It’s not like the president’s claim could ever be tested for real.”
Pres. Obama’s job rating has dropped after temporarily poking its head above water last month. He currently has a negative 45% approve to 50% disapprove rating with the American public. That’s lower than the 47% positive to 46% negative rating he held in July, but it is similar to his job ratings from earlier in the year. Currently, 79% of Democrats approve of the president’s job performance – similar to 80% in July – whereas 85% of Republicans disapprove – up from 80% in July. Independents give Obama a negative split at 39% approve and 52% disapprove, which is slightly worse than last month’s rating of 42% approve and 48% disapprove.
Part of this might be the Iran deal, which reminds Americans why term limits in this office are a good idea. While a large number of people remain unsure about the deal, a narrow plurality (27/32) opposes it, with independents breaking almost exactly with the public at large (27/33). Read the rest of this entry »
Hillary to CNN: ‘I Was Never Subpoenaed’. Gowdy: ‘Really? Here’s the Subpoena’
Posted: July 8, 2015 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Law & Justice, Politics | Tags: 2016 Presidential Campaign, Benghazi Committee, Clinton Foundation, Congressional Investigation, Court order, Email server, Guy Benson, Hillary Clinton, Hot Air, Pantsuit Report, Sidney Blumenthal, Subpoena, U.S. Department of State 1 Comment
Guy Benson writes: People “should and do” trust her, she insists, laughing off ugly polls on that very question. After all, why on earth would anyone doubt Mrs. Clinton’s veracity?
Chaser, via Congressional investigators:
And what was the Select Committee requesting?
Gowdy’s devastating press release:
“Secretary Clinton had a statutory duty to preserve records from her time in office, she had a legal duty to cooperate and tell the truth with congressional investigators requesting her records, and she was personally subpoenaed the moment the Benghazi Committee became aware of her exclusive use of personal email and a server, and that the State department was not the custodian of her official record. For more than two years, Clinton never availed 
herself of the opportunity, even in response to a direct congressional inquiry, to inform the public of her unusual email arrangement designed to evade public transparency. The State Department, which should have informed congressional investigators years ago, failed to do so either. The fact of the matter is it took the Benghazi Committee to uncover Secretary Clinton’s use of personal email and a server to conduct official State Department business. And it was Benghazi Committee inquiries that led the State Department to confirm Clinton failed to turn over all emails that should be part of her public record; that Clinton’s personal emails and server in fact do contain classified information; that her emails from Sidney Blumenthal were solicited; and that she used more than one device for electronic communication, undercutting her ‘convenience’ claim. With regards to Secretary Clinton’s claims today, the committee does not know why or when she chose to wipe clean her personal server, but we do know her way of doing things provided an incomplete public record.”
In short, she’s lying about everything….(read more)
‘Hey America, Shut Up’: The War on Speech and the End of Discussion
Posted: May 26, 2015 Filed under: Censorship, Mediasphere, Reading Room | Tags: Bryan Fischer, Buzzfeed, Ed Morrissey, End of Discussion: How the Left’s Outrage Industry Shuts Down Debate Manipulates Voters and Makes America Less Free (and Fun), Guy Benson, Hot Air, Mary Katharine Ham, Megyn Kelly, Townhall.com 1 Comment
At Hot Air, Ed Morrissey writes: On June 9, Crown Publishers will release a new book, End of Discussion: How the Left’s Outrage Industry Shuts Down Debate, Manipulates Voters, and Makes America Less Free (and Fun), written by our own Guy Benson 
and Mary Katharine Ham. “They want to shut you up,” Guy and MK write, “but don’t let this be the End of Discussion.” The book encourages all Americans who value the open exchange of ideas to fight back against this strategic effort to make America less free, less feisty, and less fun.
[Pre-0rder MK Ham‘s book “End of Discussion: How the Left’s Outrage Industry Shuts Down Debate, Manipulates Voters, and Makes America Less Free (and Fun)” from Amazon.com
In an exclusive to Hot Air and Townhall readers, we are publishing the first chapter of End of Discussion, “Head Explosions.” At the same time, readers can sign up for the chance to win a free copy of the book!
[Read the excerpt of Guy Benson and MK Ham‘s book here, at Hot Air]
The war on speech and the End of Discussion: An excerpt from @guypbenson & @mkhammer‘s new book! http://t.co/TDwPZBR2pN
— Ed Morrissey (@EdMorrissey) May 26, 2015
In the meantime, the book’s website has the links to pre-order End of Discussion, so be sure to visit there and find out more about the book….(read more)
BONUS: You know who else has a book about the Left’s War on free speech? Kirsten Powers.
[Order Kirsten Powers book “The Silencing: How the Left is Killing Free Speech” from Amazon.com]
[VIDEO] Bill Clinton on Muslim Immigration and ‘The World’s Greatest Double Standard’
Posted: January 15, 2015 Filed under: Censorship, Mediasphere, Politics, Religion, White House | Tags: Bill Clinton, Charlie Hebdo, Freedom of speech, Freedom of the press, Hot Air, Islamism, Jihadism, media, news, Paris March, Paris Massacre, Seth Meyers, Television 2 Comments. @GregGutfeld : Bill Clinton ‘Saying Publicly What Wimps Say Privately’ http://t.co/uwyo9QIPjU @TheFive pic.twitter.com/1huIAom1TG
— FoxNewsInsider (@FoxNewsInsider) January 15, 2015
Freedom of Satire: Who’s Pro-Freedom, Who’s Pro-Censorship? Majority of Republicans Think Media Should Publish Mockery of Religion, Democrats, Not So Much
Posted: January 12, 2015 Filed under: Censorship, Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Charles C. W. Cooke, Charlie Hebdo, Democrats, Freedom of speech, Freedom of the press, GOP, Hot Air, Paris Massacre, satire, Theocracy Leave a comment
Theocrats! MT @hotairblog: Majority of GOP think media should publish satires of religion; plurality of Dems disagree http://t.co/MiGr5s7NYF
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) January 12, 2015
UnHope and UnChange
Posted: November 3, 2014 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: 7-Up, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Democrats, Hope and Change, Hot Air, Midterms, Noah Rothman, Shellacking, Triangulation, Uncola 1 Comment
[Vintage Upside Down 7 Up the Uncola Glass]
“…In the wake of the Democratic Party’s 2010 defeats, it seemed as though Obama might go the way of Bil
l Clinton; triangulate, moderate, embrace centrism. The president did work with newly ascendant Republicans to strike a deal increasing unemployment insurance for a temporary extension of the Bush-era tax cuts, and he appointed the business-friendly Bill Daley to serve as his chief of staff. It did not last. A freshly reelected Barack Obama made repeal of those tax cuts for the nation’s top earners a priority. Daley lasted just one year in his role before he movedon to more productive pursuits.
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It seems this time around, Obama is not even pretending to be interested in shifting to the middle. Instead, his allies target Democratic partisans with a message of defiance. The fight, they insist, will continue. The cause endures. But it is a mere feint. There is no stomach in the Oval Office for anything other than showpiece battles over Potemkin legislation…”
The Nurse Protests: ‘Maine is Apparently Considering Making its Self-Quarantining Guidelines Slightly Less Voluntary’
Posted: October 29, 2014 Filed under: Health and Social Issues, Mediasphere, Science & Technology, U.S. News | Tags: Ebola, Hickox, Hot Air, Human rights, Kaci Hickox, Noah Rothman, Nurse, Quarantine 1 Comment
Noah Rothman writes: This should be perfectly intuitive for anyone who has had even fleeting exposure to human nature, but it is easy to suspect that an administration that reflexively bleats “science” in lieu of a cogent argument may lack the requisite experience to know that people will instinctively resist internment.
The media appeared certain that they had in nurse Kaci Hickox a figure they could transform into a victim of the imperious bully Chris Christie when she was involuntarily quarantined after returning to the United States from West Africa where she aided Ebola victims. In creating an object of pity out of Hickox, the press perhaps believed they could take some of the heat off of President Barack Obama who, in opposing the quarantining of those returning from West Africa, is on the wrong side of 80 percent of the public just days before a national election. Read the rest of this entry »
Oh Wendy, Wendy, Wendy
Posted: October 14, 2014 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Davis, Democrat, Democratic Party, Hot Air, MSNBC, Noah Rothman, Republican Party (United States), Texas, Texas Monthly, Wendy Davis Leave a comment
“Davis is an example of the perils that await politicians who believe their own hype. The left will soon forget they ever placed so much faith in Davis, and move on to the next flavor of the month who they will convince themselves can finally lead them to the destiny Democrats believe is their demographic due.”
Wendy Davis is falling apart – Noah Rothman
Headline of the Day: ‘Huffington Post Under Fire for Hiring Vaccine Denying, 9/11 Truther who Killed a Guy’
Posted: September 4, 2014 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Donté Stallworth, Florida, Hot Air, Huffington Post, Onion, Politico, September 11 attacks 1 Comment
Another gem by Hot Air‘s Noah Rothman. Read it all here.
It’s hard to think of a worse candidate for a reporter covering national security issues than a once-committed 9/11 truther, but The Huffington Post apparently could.
“The Huffington Post’s Washington bureau has hired professional football player and 9/11 truther Donte Stallworth as a fellow, covering national security,” Politico’s Dylan Byers wrote in a lede that would not seem out of place in The Onion.
The Huffington Post was apparently not deterred by either Stallworth’s controversial views on the September 11 attacks, or his concern that the swine flu vaccine was part of an elaborate plot, or his criminal record.
In 2009, Stallworth plead guilty to manslaughter after killing a pedestrian while driving drunk in Florida. His plea netted him a light sentence – just 30 days for the DUI charge alone.
Byers noted that some of Stallworth’s comments are well outside the mainstream…(read more)
White House Scandal Management Steps
Posted: May 17, 2014 Filed under: Politics, White House | Tags: Barack Obama, Dude, Hot Air, Internal Revenue Service, Mary Katharine Ham, President of the United States, scandal, United States, USMLE Step 1 Leave a comment
Hot Air’s Mary Katharine Ham provides this inspired examination of the administration’s step-by-step playbook for avoiding questions and blame on scandals. See the whole thing here, it includes a YouTube video of ABC’s Jon Karl on the receiving end of White House Press Secretary Jay Carney’s indignation…
Step 1: “We’re just finding out about this ourselves and are as appalled as anyone over these allegations. We vow to get to the bottom of this and, if true, right this wrong swiftly and thoroughly. Nothing less than the honor of our nation and our people is at stake, and that will not come to harm on my watch.”
Step 2: “We are investigating ourselves right now to make sure we get to the bottom of this. It’s important that we get all the facts from ourselves, and in the meantime it would be inappropriate for ourselves to answer questions about the investigation we’re conducting on ourselves.”
Step 3: “Didn’t I just tell you we started an investigation of ourselves? Also, we noted our outrage. I cannot possibly make any statements about the very obvious wrongdoing that occurred on our watch until the investigation we’re conducting of ourselves is completed, printed on paper and in my hands. Anything else would jeopardize the integrity of our investigation of ourselves. Is that what you want?”
Step 4: “Only crazy wingers even ask questions about stuff like this. Are you a crazy winger? Do you think it’s a grand conspiracy in which the President of the United States conspired to personally hurt veterans? Do you think that’s an appropriate question to ask?”
Step 5: Wait six months, refer to formerly outrageous scandal as phony.
Step 6: Slow walk investigation and especially the release of requested and possibly incriminating documents for a year or more.
Step 7: “Oh, that ‘scandal’? Dude, that was a year ago. Who’s still talking about that?”
[VIDEO] Obamacare’s Trio of Doom
Posted: March 17, 2014 Filed under: Health and Social Issues, Politics, White House | Tags: BarackObama, Democratic Party (United States), Guy Benson, Hot Air, Medicare, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Physician, United States Leave a commentGuy Benson has the video. Edited by Guy Benson and his associate Sarah Jean Seman, it captures the essence of the the president’s trilogy of rotting, stinking, dead promises.
From TownHall: In light of President Obama’s dramatic goalpost shifting on his ironclad “keep your doctor” pledge, we decided to highlight what’s become of three core promises made by Democrats during their frenetic Obamacare sales pitch:
(1) If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.
(2) If you like your plan, you can keep your plan.
(3) Everyone’s premiums will go down, with the average family saving $2,500. Americans were also assured that the law wouldn’t add to deficits, would bend the government’s healthcare spending “cost curve” down, and wouldn’t negatively impact Medicare — none of which have been borne out by reality…
[VIDEO] Detroit Home Invasion Doesn’t Go as Planned
Posted: February 22, 2014 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Guns and Gadgets, Self Defense | Tags: Chief of police, crime statistics, Detroit, Detroit Police Department, Hot Air, James Craig, Kevin D. Williamson, Law Enforcement, YouTube 1 CommentA case study in why Detroit PD Chief James Craig wants the locals to own guns…
YouTube « Hot Air [See also Detroit Police Chief: Armed Citizens Can Make City Safer]
As Kevin D. Williamson says,
“Detroit isn’t a monster. It’s just ahead of the curve.”
[CHART] Americans’ Trust In Congress: Low When Dems Control Senate, Higher when GOP Has Majority
Posted: January 28, 2014 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, Think Tank | Tags: Democratic, Ed Morrissey, Hot Air, Republican, Senate, United States, United States Congress 1 CommentAbout this chart, Hot Air’s Ed Morrissey concludes: “This is evidence of correlation, not causation … but it’s an intriguing correlation. Be sure to read Jeff’s post for the explanations of methodology.”
Jeff concludes: “Vote Republican: help America regain trust in Congress.”
Here’s Jeff’s post, from his blog The Voice in My Head:
Back in July of 2010 I used the occasion of a Gallup Poll on the trust Americans have in various institutions, as related by a post Ed Morrissey did at Hot Air, to compare that trust in the US Congress with the number of Republicans serving in the Senate.
Well, this morning there was another Morrissey post that caught my eye. In a post about Congressional approval ratings, Ed writes:
Here’s the problem with this analysis of the poll, however — Congressional approval ratings always stink. These may stink more than usual, but the 90%+ reelection rate for Congressional incumbents is probably not in serious danger, except perhaps in the Senate, where the numbers don’t favor Democrats.
We’ve had a couple more elections since my 2010 post, so let’s run those numbers again.
TIME Magazine: Home of Revolving White House Staffers, Keepin’ it Classy
Posted: November 7, 2013 Filed under: Breaking News, Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: Chris Christie, GOP, Greenroom, Hot Air, journalism, media, New Jersey, PJ Media, Time 2 CommentsALLAHPUNDIT reports: “Not the first time they’ve hit him with a headline on the cover that can easily be taken the wrong way. Last time they called him “the boss,” which I’m pretty sure was a Springsteen allusion but which Christie himself took as a mafia reference.”
Coming in early 2016: “A jumbo-sized victory.”
Reality Check: 34.3 % of Americans Don’t Want a Job
Posted: November 4, 2013 Filed under: Economics, Mediasphere, The Butcher's Notebook, U.S. News | Tags: Andrew Figura, Barack Obama, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Hot Air, Katie Pavlich, Labor force, Occupy Wall Street, Regis Barnichon, Republican, Self-employment, United States, Wall Street Journal, Workforce 3 Comments
During the 2012 presidential campaign, as I listened to the competing slogans from Republicans and Democrats, phrases repeated endlessly on the campaign trail, I had a bad feeling that the traditional GOP message was failing to recognize a hidden truth about modern America. A truth that the Democrat campaign understood, and successfully tapped into. Many Americans actually don’t want a job.
It was a subversive, nagging thought. I wanted to dismiss it. Because I wasn’t just thinking about the welfare-dependent, or Occupy Wall Street anti-capitalists, or the the aimless couch-surfers in their parents’ basement, or members of the undocumented criminal economy, or the federal and state workers, the privileged, well-connected political classes who enjoy job security and fat pensions—the other, perfectly legal criminal economy–I was thinking about a lot of normal, regular people. People for whom the tried-and-true GOP-playbook phrases about the ‘Great American Work Ethic’ fails to impress.
Women move into the wartime labor force – NARA – 292121 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Work does suck. Even for those that don’t want a get-out-of-work-free card, the modern workplace is a numbing, soul-sucking, hamster-wheel cage that’s increasingly unrewarding, humiliating, and for tangible less reward.
Between the nanny middle-managers, human resources rule-makers, petty tyrant bosses, the modern workplace a less dynamic environment than it used to be.
Add to that the diminishing opportunities for advancement, portable technology invisibly leashing employees to workplace concerns even when they’re not on the clock, and flat wages, the American workplace has become a treacherous, all-bullshit, all-the-time environment that doesn’t exactly inspire industrious, risk-taking, enterprising folks the way it did a few elections ago.
“If gun control worked, Chicago would be Mayberry”
Posted: August 24, 2013 Filed under: Mediasphere | Tags: Cam Edwards, Chicago, Gun control, Hot Air 2 CommentsA good find from from Jazz Shaw at Hot Air
Hot Air LOVES the New York Times
Posted: July 5, 2013 Filed under: Mediasphere | Tags: Allahpundit, Arts and Entertainment, Business, Ed Morrissey, Erika Johnsen, Hot Air, Krugman, Mary Katherine Ham, New York Times, Paul Krugman Leave a comment
Loves it. Truly, madly, deeply. Can’t make it through a news cycle without reading every page. Generously linking to NYT articles, daily. Sometimes, multiple articles in a single day.
Unbeknownst to the rest of us, apparently, It’s a must-read paper! Can’t miss it. While many of us could go several weeks without reading a single word of the increasingly-irrelevant New York Times Editorial page, even several months, and not miss a thing, or even notice, the folks at Hot Air? Unthinkable! Hot Air staff would be in acute withdrawal, if they miss a single day.
Bravo, Times Editors. You’ve got fans in conservative media, some of them depend on you, and hang on every word! A toast to Brooks, Krugman, Friedman, security guards, janitors, everyone. To the whole NYT staff and management. Courageous talents, tastemakers, and trendsetters in Manhattan media, your input is truly needed. Keep up the good work.
pundit from another planet 
[VIDEO] Mary Katharine Ham Accepts 2014 Pundit Planet Media Blogger of the Year Award (also Wins CPAC Award)
Posted: March 7, 2014 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, The Butcher's Notebook, U.S. News | Tags: Allahpundit, Bill O'Rielly, Blog, Comment (computer programming), Conservative Political Action Conference, Hot Air, Marco Rubio, Mary Katharine Ham, Ted Cruz | Leave a comment“Pundit from..what? Who? I’ve never heard of this website..or this award…but..thanks..I think…”
In related news, Mary Kathrine Ham was also honored at CPAC
(contgrats MKH!) Hot Air
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