Newsbusters has the video. Ironically, in a small way I flipped off Maher’s audience myself last evening when, after getting home and taking off my shoes, I cursed up a blue streak at the teenager working the late night drive-thru at Taco Bell for shorting me a Baja Gordita. **** update: Bonus footage of Hitchens on the Daily Show last year (via Hot Air)

—You’re damn right.  Because I make the rules around this place.  And don’t you forget it. As for the little fella, well, he danced up a storm last night at the Rocky Mountain Blogger Bash—that is, until he got into a bit of a scrap with our cocktail waitress, who didn’t much care for a certain comment he made about her rather pronounced fun bags.  After that, the mood turned

Remember Editor and Publisher editor Greg Mitchell’s recent attacks on bloggers while rationalizing the use of propaganda in some of the photojournalistic coverage of the Israel / Lebanon skirmish?  Well, it seems old Greg maybe had a reason to pitch that particular fit of justification.  From Media Info, back in 2003, here’s Mr Mitchell: Since the press seems to be in full-disclosure mode these days, I want to finally come

Chris Matthews begs the paleocons to take back the GOP. Which—while unbelievably stupid—is only fair, I guess, because we pro-Bush Doctrine “conservatives” wouldn’t mind it if the Scoop Jackson Democrats took back their party. Of course, this has nothing to do with the far left and the far right reaching a kind of ideological common ground, even if their routes getting there are often quite different and seemingly incongruous. Because

From ABC News: A senior Palestinian security official said Friday he saw the “first promising signs” in efforts to free two Fox journalists who were abducted in Gaza nearly two weeks ago. The comments by Interior Minister Said Siyam of Hamas marked the first upbeat assessment by Palestinian officials since Fox correspondent Steve Centanni of Washington, D.C., and cameraman Olaf Wiig of New Zealand were seized from their TV van

…debuts today on Hot Air. Unfortunately, neither Bethany nor Mary Katharine appear anywhere in it.  Which is why I’ll be skipping it and watching “The View,” instead. So, whaddya say.  Who’s with me?

Sure, Editor & Publisher continues to attack blogs over the recent fauxtography scandals, but the blogs (bless their confrontational little prole hearts!), continue to fight back—and some in the media have even taken their side!—from Newsday’s Jim Pinkerton to the folks at FOXNews, who just today aired Zombie’s expose of the alleged attacks on Lebanese ambulances (this after they had earlier aired a German TV clip showing Green Helmet man

Jawa Report emails: I just learned that the Global Islamic Media Front–an al Qaeda propaganda outlet–has released documentation of the two Fox News hostages.  The message and vid were the same ones you saw yesterday, with the addition of photo IDs—including Centanni’s Congressional press pass. Centanni’s pass may be why this group of thugs believes his hostage taking could actually exert leverage, and the speculations that it was his Fox

I want to post a portion of an email I received from Dario, which points to one of the preferred talking points being trotted out of late by the Manichean “we’re the ones who are really tough on terror” / “what are you guys worried about?  There’s no such thing as an Islamic threat, you stupid Nascar loving bedwetters!” coalition of anti-war leftists, foreign policy lifers, and bongwater libertarians.  And