Glenn Beck interviews John McCain

“How are you Glenn, you old jerk?”

Here’s the transcript.

O’Reilly interviews Hillary

In the first of a two-part interview, (airing today and Thursday) Hillary sits down with Bill O’Reilly.

Be sure to tune in to what should be an entertaining bit of political carnival.

“The O’Reilly Factor,” airs on the FOX News Channel at 8 p.m.

Gen. Colin Powell praises Obama, but “hasn’t decided who to vote for yet.”

Wan’na buy a bridge?“

 I’m looking at all three candidates,” Ret. Gen. Colin Powell said in an interview with Diane Sawyer on today’s “Good Morning America” on ABC.

“I know them all very, very well. I consider myself a friend of each and every one of them. And I have not decided who I will vote for yet.”

Powell, a Republican, who has been mentioned as a possible vice presidential candidate in almost every election since his retirement, expressed admiration for Obama.

“It (the speech on race) was a good (speech),” Powell said. “I admired him for giving it. And I agreed with much of what he said.”

MSM MIA : The question is “Why?”

Left-leaning press treating Americans like mushrooms—Keeping us in the dark under a thick layer of manure

 Barack Obama’s Bill Ayers problem makes his more than questionable associations with “mentor” and bigoted, anti-American minister, Jeremiah Wright, appear to be a walk in the park.

And then there is his close friend, donor and business associate, Antoin “Tony” Rezko. What should be another colossal headache for Obama somehow stays mostly under the radar. This NRO article reveals the corrupt connections that beg for wider exposure and in-depth explanations.

The link was provided by Hugh Hewitt in his incisive column that is a must read for fact-seekers.

And the winner is…a loser

Michael Lacey, executive editor of the nation’s largest alternative newspaper company, including the infamous Phoenix New Times, angered dozens of Arizona journalists Friday night when he used a racial slur commonly referred to as the “n-word” during an awards speech.

Lacey used the slur while accepting an award from the local chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. Lacey’s reference to an old friend of his, the late Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Tom Fitzpatrick, as “my (n-word),” sparked immediate reaction from those who attended the event. The short, impromptu speech also included vulgar phrases.

After receiving angry responses from outraged attendees, he later apologized.

Lacey was invited to the event to accept the organization’s President’s Award, which recognizes outstanding contributions in the field of journalism, according to the East Valley Tribune.

Not surprisingly, he and business partner Jim Larkin were honored last month by the ACLU Foundation of Arizona with its highest award—the Civil Libertarian of the Year Award.

Will unprecedented revenue plunge matter to the AZ Republic?

Continuing with leftist, slap-the-readers-in-the-face agenda

According to Editor and Publisher, new data released by the Newspaper Association of America, discloses that total print advertising revenue in 2007 plunged 9.4% to $42 billion compared to 2006 — the most severe percent decline since the association started measuring advertising expenditures in 1950.

Read the entire article here.

Friday musings: Harvard, Muslims, Obama and Romney

Article VI Blog runs a thought-provoking piece on the mainstream media’s double standard regarding religion in the public square.

The femmes might not like this, but Ben Stein gets it right

With financial news grabbing everyone’s attention, this article is topical.

In Invasion of the Money Honeys, Ben Stein, writes a gutsy and thought-provoking piece for BestLife magazine, explaining how business news became the new Victoria’s Secret catalog…and what you can learn from the sirens of stock TV. 

A well-known columnist, humorist and actor, the multi-faceted Stein has also worked as a lawyer and teacher. He is a former financial reporter for the Bureau of National Affairs. His father was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers

Here they go again

Compliance with DUI laws and hiring regulations harming businesses, according to the state’s largest newspaper

Just when you think they’ve run out of ways to get their immigration laxity across, the daily Fish wrapper delights us with a new and refurbished slant.

We imagine they run employee contests to come up with innovative concepts to tackle illegal immigration and the impact of employer sanctions.

Today, they actually outdid previous attempts to conceal their true agenda. In yet another front-gage, above-the-fold article titled Economy serves up an unhappy meal, readers are led to believe they are being informed about the economic downturn as they read that, despite a financial dip, people are still eating out–albeit in less expensive restaurants.

Okay. At one time when reporting standards actually meant something to the daily, this would have merited a puff-piece in the D index entertainment section.

But we might have guessed this comes packaged with their immigration agenda. Read on, and it becomes obvious that this article is yet another vehicle to bemoan the employer sanctions law and deride the federal E-Verify program, a means of ascertaining only legal employees are hired.

In their zeal, they quote restaurant owner, Ken Nagel, who “scoffs at the E-Verify system,” saying his own daughter flunked the eligibility check. He is married to former state Rep. Candice Nagel who resigned her seat in the1990’s.

Also receiving blame is the increased state minimum wage. The law they endorsed they now fault as accelerating labor costs, cutting into restaurant profits.

Further, we read that Chicago-based restaurateur Richard Melman, with 75 businesses across the country, recently scratched plans for adding a Scottsdale site since having to comply with the law was too problematic for him.

But we’ve saved the best for last. This outrageous comment comes straight from the article: The public crackdown on drunken driving in Arizona not only has cut into alcohol sales, but hurt dining out generally, owners say.

So, not only do they advocate hiring illegals, but they deride laws which crackdown on DUI offenders.

That’s our hometown paper!

Showboating Grant Woods: Would you buy a used car from this man?

   

      

Our favorite squishy ex-Attorney General and onetime radio talk show host, Grant Woods is a showboater extraordinaire. Last week we caught him as he appeared on CBS’s 60 Minutes, with his shorts in a knot over what he declared the “mistreatment” of former Alabama governor, Democrat Don Siegelman. The governor was convicted in federal court of bribery and is serving a seven year prison sentence.

Woods, a RINO, who has threatened to reregister as a Democrat, would have us believe Siegelman was unfairly targeted by Republicans since he was the “one Democrat they could never get rid of.”

Turns out Woods’ statements have been scrutinized and found wanting by the very reporter who worked for the Mobile Press Register and exposed Siegelman’s wrongdoings through a series of articles.

Eddie Curran, no longer with the paper, is now writing a book about the administration, the trial and the aftermath. He contacted the producers at CBS to set the record straight on numerous factual errors. Here is the disapproving and clarifying letter Curran sent.

Curran questions why Woods’ longtime friendship with the former governor, which would render him unreliable as the independent voice of reason he portrayed, was not disclosed during his appearance on the reliably left-wing program.

In fact it was Woods who gathered the signatures of 52 former attorneys general in defense of his friend, Don Siegelman—another fact conveniently undisclosed by interviewer Scott Pelley.

Watch the skewed 60 Minutes segment Did Ex-Alabama Governor Get A Raw Deal?