Tag: Obama

Former NY Times Executive Editor: ‘I Carry A Little Plastic Obama Doll In My Purse’

By Tim Graham Editor’s note. This is excerpted from a post at Newsbusters and is reposted with permission. Former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson is really letting her Democratic pom poms fly. Her latest column for the Guardian newspaper is headlined “Are we seeing signs of a Democratic wave in the primaries? It’s thrilling to …

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Historians Are Ruining Obama’s Mythical Memoir

By Brent Bozell and Tim Graham Editor’s note. This is excerpted from Newsbusters and reposted with permission. Like Pavlov’s dogs, the liberal media salivated over the arrival of Barack Obama to receive a “Profile in Courage” award from the John F. Kennedy Library. The mythic figure returned to accept the honor in the middle of a …

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Now that President Obama is about to leave, yes, we can!

By Dave Andrusko As is our custom with the last post of the day, this will be brief. With other more pressing things to do last night, I watched President Obama’s farewell address this morning. After watching and then reading the transcript, here are three quick thoughts. First, Mr. Obama ended his speech with his …

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ABC Loses It Post-Obama ‘Sermon on Democracy’; ‘Song of Hope’ Showing ‘What’s Possible’

By Curtis Houck My friends, it’s happened. Following President Obama’s farewell address on Tuesday night, ABC poured out warm fuzzies for the President as the assembled liberal journalists bowed down to his “sermon on democracy” doubling as a “song of hope” of “what [it] can look like now that we are a diverse nation.” While …

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Wonder if Obama counted noses when he “rallied” Democrats to oppose Republicans’ agenda?

By Dave Andrusko Kudos to WMAL’s Chris Plante who spoke eloquently about the double standard on display when it was announced the Democratic National Committees is building a ‘war room’ (staffed by “former aides to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign”) to fight every proposal from pro-life President-elect Donald Trump. The double standard is not that the …

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“Reclaiming Hope” or re-writing history?

By Dave Andrusko There’s been a fair amount of chatter, overwhelmingly positive, about an interview the former director of Barack Obama’s 2012 faith outreach gave to Emma Green of the Atlantic. I am considerably less positive, although the interview, which ran under the headline “Democrats Have a Religion Problem: A conversation with Michael Wear, a …

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Farewell gift from Obama to his friends at Planned Parenthood

By Dave Andrusko Back in September NRL News Today posted stories about a proposed Health & Human Services(HHS) rule that would nullify state eligibility thresholds that prioritizes Title X grants to full-service medical facilities. On Wednesday, the Obama Administration finalized the rule which will take effect two days before pro-life President-elect Donald Trump takes office …

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Comparing what two Presidents said on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade

By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. We are just over five weeks away from the 44th anniversary of the hideous Roe v. Wade decision, a commemoration that comes two days after pro-life President Donald Trump’s inauguration. This month we will largely post stories previously written about the commemoration. Next month we will post new stories. This …

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Obama using his time as a lame-duck to “shape the narrative” about his presidency

By Dave Andrusko What a morning it was as my wife and I shared astonishment over two stories from today’s Washington Post. The stories are so remarkable I’ll offer separate posts. The first will be reflections on David Nakamura’s story headlined, “Obama adopts a grand design to shape his legacy.” The second–a puff piece even …

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The insidious way Team Obama is funneling money to Planned Parenthood

By Rep. Diane Black (R-Tn.) Editor’s note. This first ran on Fox News.com. As President Obama runs out the clock on the last months of his Administration, promulgating sweeping rules and acting by executive fiat wherever possible, perhaps he should use his pen and phone to make another unilateral move: putting Planned Parenthood Federation of …

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A straightforward explanation “How Obama Gets Away With It”

By Dave Andrusko While Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and Sen. Bernie Sanders are awash in media coverage, Richard Benedetto, a retired USA Today White House correspondent and columnist, raises an intriguing question of selective media passivity in a column that appeared last Friday in the Wall Street Journal: “How Obama Gets Away With It.” What …

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New York Times Interviewer Tells Obama He’s ‘Amazing’ in Representing ‘Grief and Hope’

By Tim Graham James Taranto at The Wall Street Journal had some fun with President Obama earlier in the week, matching headlines: “Obama Makes Case Against Donald Trump, Saying Presidency ‘Is Not a Reality Show’ ”—headline, New York Times, May 7 “Barack Obama and Bryan Cranston on the Roles of a Lifetime”—headline, New York Times, …

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