Warner Todd Huston's Past Articles

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Obama WH Secret Phone Conferences Bear Fruit With TV Media’s Limbaugh Attack

published: March 03, 2009

Back on January 29, we discussed the daily strategy phone call engineered by Obama's Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel for friendly TV commentators and "reporters." Politico reported that Emanu...

A Reminder of What Jindal's Made of

published: March 01, 2009

We all saw the rocky performance that Bobby Jindal gave in his response to the president's not-the-state-of-the-union speech earlier this week. There was a lot of wincing going on during and after ...

So. Fla. Sun-Sentinel: Slams Hysterics Over Gun Banning While Advocating Gun Banning

published: February 26, 2009

Seriously, do the kindly folks at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel's editorial board even know what the definition of the word logic is? In theirs headlined, "Hysteria fuels sales of guns and am...

CNN Claims Obama The New Ronald Reagan, Reassigns 'Morning in America' to The One

published: February 25, 2009

Once again CNN goes over the top in its gobsmacked praise of its Obammessiah. This time appropriating Ronald Reagan's famous "morning in America" theme and assigning it to President Obama...

The Failure of 'Help': 'Modified Loans' Don't Modify Repayment

published: February 24, 2009

One of the fixes that Democrats are insisting upon to save people's homes is the idea of the "modified mortgage." A modified loan is an offer to homeowners that have either become delinq...

Tennessee's Stimulus Share Stimulates Government, not Economy

published: February 23, 2009

My good friend, Ken Marrero over at Blue Collar Muse, did some interesting research into where the money from Tennessee's share of the so-called stimulus payoff ends up going. Ken notes that there ...

Chigo Trib: GOP Doesn't Want to Help, 'No Interest in Family, Work or Neighborhood'

published: February 20, 2009

For the Chicago Tribune, Romney supporter turned Obama man Douglas Kmiec indulged in quite a litany of name-calling, finger pointing and demagoguery against the GOP that would have been amazing fro...

Where’s the Transparency? Obama’s Secret Orders Caught Media Unawares

published: February 19, 2009

Despite all claims to the contrary, President Obama has not been very vigilant about pursuing that idea of "transparency" he ballyhooed during the recent campaign. Politico reported on a ...

Unheroic Superheroes, Watch out for the Watchmen

published: February 18, 2009

If you thought the last Batman movie, The Dark Knight, was dark and cynical, wait until you see Watchmen, arriving in theaters on March 6, 2009. Brooding Bruce Wayne will have nothing on a "he...

Chuck Schumer: Liar, Propagandist, Anti-American, Killer of Free Speech

published: February 17, 2009

Usually I don't go for the hard-edged treatment of politicians as my headline here does. I don't often call individuals "liars" and the like, though I've been known to do so on occasion. ...

Obama to Hold 'Fiscal Responsibility Summit'... So Who's Gonna Teach HIM?

published: February 16, 2009

In January, then president-elect Obama announced that sometime in February he intended to hold what he was calling a "fiscal responsibility summit" as he would be planning his proposal fo...

When Did Obama Decide to Turn Against Himself?

published: February 16, 2009

Shocking video of Obama campaign promises that he wantonly violated with this stimulus bill! We were told by every love struck denizen of the Old Media that Barack Obama was bringing a "new...

Obama Dirt Digger's Brand New Gig

published: February 13, 2009

Back in 2007, many media outlets and their co-conspirators on the left were aghast that George W. Bush would try to place an "opposition researcher" for the GOP into the U.S. attorney gen...

The Lincoln We Need

published: February 12, 2009

These last 20 or so years has seen a bifurcated treatment of Abraham Lincoln. There are the enthusiasts and hagiographers that still revere him as the best that America has to offer -- the proverbi...

After Generations, CNN Suddenly Discovers That 'Alaska families struggle to survive'

published: February 11, 2009

The winter in Alaska has been a particularly harsh one this year. The early winter piled on top of economic hard times has caused some troubles for native people and those that live in remote areas...

Newsweek: Celebrating America as a New, Socialist France

published: February 10, 2009

Newsweek's Jon Meacham and Evan Thomas are tired of all this talk of socialism. We need to stop talking about yesterday's news, they say, and embrace the great new fact that America is already a so...

Another Example of How Liberals Destroy This Country

published: February 09, 2009

We often call them "our best and brightest." They are the men and women of our armed forces, all volunteers putting their lives on the line to defend our nation. Some of our most able and...

Ethics of Obama's New Labor Chief Questioned

published: February 09, 2009

Recently, we wondered aloud how anyone could expect a Secretary of Labor that has had a long history of being a member of various Big Labor groups can be expected to administer an agency that is su...

The Man the Left Wants Hanged for Tax Cheating

published: February 08, 2009

Tax troubles were all the rage for certain folks recently. ABC News screamed in a headline about one fellow that was, "America's Overnight Sensation... Owes $1,200 in Taxes." Huffintgon ...

Newspapers Launch PR Campaign Pleading for More Readers

published: February 05, 2009

A large grouping of newspaper publishers have joined together and launched a public relations campaign to inform readers that, yes, newspapers are still relevant -- despite the financial hardships ...

Paper Editor Alters Column To Say Writer is 'Bitter Conservative'

published: February 03, 2009

This is why newspapers deserve to be buried in the dust bin of history, at least unless they clean up their act. For well over 20 years a southwest suburban Chicago newspaper called The Reporter ha...

It's About The Change Yet Lobbyists and Tax Cheats Abound in New Administration

published: February 02, 2009

From the early days of his campaign, Obama made with the flourish that, should he be elected, lobbyists would not be welcome in his new tone Washington, his Washington of change and hope. Soon afte...

50 Years After His Death, The Boy Finally Meets his Father

published: February 02, 2009

The boy that was born two months after his famous father died in a tragic accident saw his father's face for the first time fifty years after the fatal day that stole the elder from our world. How...

Obama's WH Chief of Staff Holds Daily, Secret Calls With Pals in Media

published: February 01, 2009

Politico reports that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel holds daily chit chat sessions with several Old Media pals every morning to start his day. Apparently Emanuel has for years been involv...

I Don't WANT Rush Limbaugh as the Voice of Republican Party

published: January 29, 2009

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired of Old Media people like columnist Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post and liberals like Pelosi and Obama who keep claiming that talk show host Rush Li...