I can’t wait to see Olbermann and the New York Times’ take on this one. After all, if this guy had ever been within 500 miles of a Tea Party, we’d never hear the end of it.

In 2001, in the months that followed 9/11, there was a wave of terrorist attacks which came in the form of Anthrax laced letters being mailed to politicians, news offices and others. The culprit turned out to be Bruce Ivins, a scientist who actually worked for the United States government.

Ivins committed suicide as the FBI closed in on him in July of 2008. New FBI reports have since been released and they paint a pretty weird picture.

Despite being an FBI target, Ivins was often forthcoming about the details of his strange obsessions and private life. For example, as seen below, when agents executed search warrants in late-2007, an FBI supervisor asked Ivins if he was worried about those raids. Ivins said he was, noting that he did things a “middle age man should not do,” adding that his actions would “not be acceptable to most people.” He then noted that agents searching his basement would find a “bag of material that he uses to ‘cross-dress,’” according to an interview report.

Three months before his suicide, surveillance agents sifted through trash Ivins left at his curb and discovered that the beleaguered scientist was disposing of pornographic magazines, fetish titles, and 15 pairs of stained women’s panties.

The FBI records show that some Ivins acquaintances shared with the FBI e-mail and instant message communications exchanged with the scientist. In a July 2008 e-mail, Ivins wrote that “Dick Cheney scares me. The Patriot Act is so unconstitutional it’s not even funny.” He added, “I’m voting for Obama!”

If Ivins was alive today and sitting in a jail cell, I wonder how he’d react to the news that President Obama signed the order to continue the Patriot Act just last weekend.

The Democrats had the numbers to make changes, but another civil war would have ensued.  In addition, it appears that when these controversial legislative pieces are passed by the Democrats, it makes it all better.  No more outrage from the MSM and the far-left, because the rules of war and engagement are clearly different because, you know, the Democrats are in charge.

The MSM won’t say anything about Obama signing the Patriot Act for the same reason they’ll never point out that Bruce Ivins was an Obama supporter. It doesn’t serve their agenda.

Had McCain won in 2008 and signed the Patriot Act last Saturday night, you’d find that information splashed across the front pages of the New York Times, The Boston Globe and on every major network by 6 pm. It would be used as a confirmation that Republicans and Conservatives are evil, Constitution shredding, non-humans. When Obama does it, it must have been the right thing to do, now let’s never discuss it again.

If Bruce Ivins had sent an email to a colleague saying “Hey, how about that Sarah Palin? I like her.” it would surely be newsworthy. But he didn’t say that. He sent a message to a colleague saying he was “voting for Obama!”

That should pretty much guarantee that we’ll never hear anything about it in “the news.”

Today on “This Week” guests Roger Ailes, the CEO of FOX News and Arianna Huffington had an interesting exchange where Huffinton tried to suggest to Ailes that FOX spreads misinformation and paranoia. The reply given by Ailes is excellent.

Here’s the video:

How ridiculous of Arianna to sit there and suggest that FOX promotes paranoia, meanness and misinformation. Has she never read her own publication? Did she miss these gems?

04/14/09 – Homeland Security Warns of Right Wing Extremism

08/16/09 – Another Blow to White American Lunatics (You know, like the people of Massachusetts)

01/14/10 – America is to Blame for the Suffering in Haiti

10/21/08 – The Strange, Strange Story of the Gay Fascists

07/03/09 – Palin Will Run in 2012 on ‘More Retardation’ Platform

And then there’s this list of notable moments caught by the Media Research Center. Enjoy!

While many news outlets rushed to convict activist filmmaker James O’Keefe of illegal wiretapping, Patterico led the charge to defend him since all the facts were not yet known.

When I first read a news story about this yesterday, it sounded to me like O’Keefe and company were being accused of an attempt to wiretap or bug Landrieu’s phones. Indeed, that’s the way I characterized the Government’s claim in my post based on a news story. But now I have had a chance to review the affidavit. And it doesn’t say that.

The link to the affidavit is here. I challenge you to find me the language that accuses O’Keefe et al. of a “plot to bug” Landrieu’s office, or an “alleged wiretap scheme.”

It isn’t there.

Now the Los Angeles Times is confirming that Patterico may have been right all along…

New Orleans – Four conservative activists accused of trying to tamper with a senator’s phones were attempting to record undercover video of her staff ignoring calls from constituents angry that she supported President Obama’s healthcare overhaul, one of their attorneys said Thursday.

The four — including James O’Keefe III, 25, who previously posed as a pimp and used a hidden camera to target the community-organizing group ACORN — were arrested Monday after targeting Democratic Sen. Mary L. Landrieu’s office in a New Orleans federal building.

Attorney J. Garrison Jordan denied that the suspects were trying to disable or wiretap Landrieu’s phones.

“You’re dealing with kids,” he said. “I don’t think they thought it through that far.”

Instead, Jordan said, they hoped to get embarrassing footage of Landrieu’s staff handling constituent calls. Her office received complaints last month that callers opposed to her healthcare stance couldn’t get through.

As if I needed another reason to dislike the Boston Globe, they are once again using their unique take on journalism and objectivity to sway the US Senate election in Massachusetts this January.

As noted by NewsBusters, the Boston Globe ran a piece on December 3rd where writer Derrick Z. Jackson began by proudly announcing:

“MARTHA COAKLEY will be the state’s next US senator.”

January election be damned. The Republican candidate Scott Brown doesn’t stand a snowball’s chance in hell to be elected in Massachusetts anyway, right Derrick? Might as well just announce the winner now.

Furthermore, a quick look at the Globe’s website today reveals another subtle but very real bias that puts the desires of the Boston Globe on full display. Today, the day after the primary, the Globe printed a picture of the Democrat and Republican winners. It’s a photoshop of two separate pictures that have been fused together. See if you notice any discrepancy in the photo below.

Wasn’t it nice of the Boston Globe to use a picture of Martha Coakley that includes not only her name in big block letters but the address of her official website?

I wonder which candidate the Boston Globe wants to win.

So bad that lefty journalist Jack Cafferty of CNN is asking his readers “What Can President Obama Learn From Sarah Palin?”

“With President Obama now below 50 percent approval for the first time, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd suggests the president could learn “a thing or three” from Sarah Palin.”

“Dowd writes that with the former V-P candidate back on the trail for her book tour, she clearly hasn’t boned up on anything and “she still has that Yoda-like syntax.”

“Meanwhile – it’s clear Sarah Palin is saying something people want to hear. She sold 300,000 copies of her memoir on the day of its release – one of the best openings ever for a nonfiction book, easily topping people like Hillary Clinton.”

“As for President Obama – the Gallup Daily Tracking poll puts his approval rating at 49 percent – the first time he’s dropped below 50 percent since taking office.”

“Here’s my question to you: What can President Obama learn from Sarah Palin?”

Here are a few of the choice quotes Jack Cafferty featured on the air and my responses:

Audrey from British Columbia:
He could learn that by being ignorant, vapid, divisive and stupid that the media will follow you around and make out that you are bigger and better than you really are. Sarah Palin is a “media phenom” and nothing else – just the fact that you have this question on your program should state the obvious to you.

ME:
You’re right Audrey. It’s too bad that the media doesn’t follow Obama around making him out to be bigger than he is. President Obama certainly isn’t a “media phenom.”

Chad from Alaska:
How to be a quitter in the middle of a term.

ME:
Good point Chad. At least Obama finished a single term as a US Senator before running for president. Oh wait.. He didn’t do that, did he?

Lisa says:
How to make bumper sticker catch-phrases sound like policy to 26% of the nation.

ME:
Lisa, do you mean empty catch-phrases like “Yes We Can?”

Thomas from Texas:
Not to wear shorts on the cover of news magazines if you are to be taken seriously as a politician.

ME:
Thomas, did no one at CNN tell you that Sarah Palin didn’t choose to have that photo on the cover of Newsweek? No, of course they didn’t.

Just a reminder… CNN is in last place among cable news networks.

Any wonder why?

Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit, who was instrumental in the removal of Van Jones from the White House, spoke recently at a conference on blogging and activism. In the video below, provided by Founding Bloggers, Hoft explains the failure of the MSM and the rise of conservative bloggers. Great stuff!

From the department of “You’re kidding, right?”

Time Magazine writes:

“Calling ‘Em Out: The White House Takes on the Press”

“The take-no-prisoners turn has come as a surprise to some in the press, considering the largely favorable coverage that candidate Obama received last fall and given the President’s vows to lower the rhetorical temperature in Washington and not pay attention to cable hyperbole. Instead, the White House blog now issues regular denunciations of the Administration’s critics, including a recent post that announced “Fox lies” and suggested that the cable network was unpatriotic for criticizing Obama’s 2016 Olympics effort.”

To be fair, as of November of 2008, Obama had only been on the cover of Time Magazine 23 times.

The editor of Newsweek called Obama “God” last June but that doesn’t count because he said “sort of.”

The Obama Administration saying they’re “taking on the media” is like the Beatles saying they’re “taking on crazed teenyboppers.”

Please.

Listen as this CNN anchor, who clearly had unlimited faith in Obama, freaks out over the bad news for Chicago’s bid for the Olympics. This is so telling.

This exemplifies the media’s ultimate faith in Obama. The Olympics Council rejected Obama’s personal plea and the idiots in the American media can’t believe their own ears.

I wonder if they’ll mention the fact that Obama’s Denmark sales pitch cost American tax payers a MILLION BUCKS.

So when lefties smash the windows of local businesses they’re called “peaceful protesters?”

The media doesn’t demean them and call them names like “Teabaggers?”

The New York Times, covering the violent lefty rioters in Pittsburgh, paints a very pretty picture…

Thousands Hold Peaceful March at G-20 Summit

“PITTSBURGH — Several thousand demonstrators espousing and denouncing a host of causes converged on downtown Pittsburgh Friday chanting, pumping up signs, and playing instruments in a peaceful and permitted march calling for solutions to a range of problems they attributed to the economic policies of the world leaders meeting at the G-20 Summit.”

“One group held a giant replica of a dove made of white fabric and held aloft with bamboo poles. A marching band with a French horn, several snare drums, and a trombone played amid a sea of black, American and Palestinian flags.”

Then, buried down in the fourth paragraph we get this…

“Dubbed the People’s March, the demonstration was sponsored by The Thomas Merton Center, a Pittsburgh peace organization. It came a day after raucous confrontations between the police and protesters resulted in 66 arrests. At least five people required medical attention, and about 19 businesses sustained broken windows or other damage.”

Compare these two videos, you hypocritical media scumbags…

PEACEFUL 9/12 Conservative protesters on 9/12/09.

VIOLENT G20 Leftist protesters on 9/24/09.

Hey Nancy Pelosi! Who’s un-American now? Who’s dangerous? Who’s violent? Who’s a threat to American National Security?

Who’s the HYPOCRITE?

Who’s the partisan FAKE?

Got any tears for your violent anarchist friends in Pittsburgh Ms. Pelosi?