Jon Stewart Gets Mad

Looks like the “unbiased” comedian Jon Stewart is a bit pissed with Steven Crowder. It seems Crowder received an email from a senior producer of Stewarts show in which he/she admitted “they never book conservative pundits.” Crowder released the email, Stewart got pissed, and after receiving a call from Stewarts office Crowder’s agent dropped him.

The life of being conservative in Hollywood:

Weekly Open Thread – Who Goes First Edition

Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) is reportedly “dug in,” refusing to resign despite the growing list of Democrats calling for his ouster. Perhaps Democratic leadership (the minority leader included) should have the nerve to kick him off his committees and publicly call for him to scram.

Meanwhile, Newt Gingrich’s senior staff and his Iowa crew have quit. En masse. Whether it was the general flakiness, the attack on Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) or the bizarre decision to go on a cruise just when the campaign was getting underway, his staff simply couldn’t take it.

The Politics of Central Planning and How It Affects Obama’s Reelection Chances [Reader Post]

President Obama and his administration have had a difficult (at best) time with his economic policies, and those policy decisions will (if we do our job) have an effect upon his reelection prospects. So let’s examine his policies and be knowledgeable so WE are ready to spread the word. As Lao-tzu (604 BC – 531 BC) said, “People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.”

Say What? June 13th, 2011 Edition [Reader Post]

Chris Matthews, after Mitt Romney said he believed in global warming: “”He [Romney] believes in science. Republicans on the right hate science, remember?  Certainly Rush does.  That’s ahead.  The battle between the college guys and the rubes. ”

Chris Matthews, who is becoming almost a parody of himself: “If [Weiner] stays, [Democrats] never get the leadership [in the House] back. They never get the speakership back. Because the people in the rural areas of this country who are Christian, conservative, culturally – you can say `backward’ if you want – they don’t like this stuff.”