The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Creative Ideas About Media Bias

There are few things more boring than listening to conservatives complain about liberal bias in the media. We’ve heard it all before and nothing ever changes, because the people who run the media sincerely believe one of two things: Their coverage is actually objective and balanced; or Republicans are a dangerous menace — genuinely evil [...]

‘They Just Want the Money’

Walter Russell Mead finds amusement in New York Times employees — members of the Writers Guild union — whining about a proposal to substitute 401(k)s for their current bloated pension plan: Nobody in the video talks about the changes in the news business that threatens to drive the Times into a deep dive. Nobody talks [...]

Nate Silver, the Experts and … Me

From Matt Welch’s article about dinosaur media: In 2008, a 30-year-old baseball stat nerd looked at the reams of public research product churned out by the nation’s 1,500-plus daily newspapers, and concluded that, though “there is nearly as much data as there is for first basemen,” the “understanding has lagged behind.” So Nate Silver launched [...]

Why Was NY Times Reporter Jeff Zeleny Doing Romney Campaign’s Bidding?

Rick Santorum has been using the “uniquely disqualified” line against Mitt Romney in his stump speeches for weeks to describe how RomneyCare makes the Massachusetts governor a poor choice to face Obama in November. So, while people are making a big deal of Santorum yelling “bulls–t” at New York Times reporter Jeff Zeleny for asking [...]

Bitter Fruits of a Bitter Seed: Envy, Feminism, Maureen and Meghan

HOLLIS, N.H. Time constraints have improved my ability to ignore Maureen Dowd. Many months now often elapse between my ever bothering to notice anything she’s written. Today, however, Pete Da Tech Guy called my attention to Ms. Dowd’s unseemly assault on Rick Santorum’s family. And then Pete sat down and wrote a rather stunning contrast [...]

Is Paul Krugman Simply Immoral?

by Smitty From Nobody Understands Debt, emphasis mine: Deficit-worriers portray a future in which we’re impoverished by the need to pay back money we’ve been borrowing. They see America as being like a family that took out too large a mortgage, and will have a hard time making the monthly payments. This is, however, a [...]

Show Me This ‘Social Contract’, Krugman

by Smitty Your latest piece of farce is titled ‘The Social Contract‘, and you quote Elizabeth Warren on the topic: Elizabeth Warren, the financial reformer who is now running for the United States Senate in Massachusetts, recently made some eloquent remarks to this effect that are, rightly, getting a lot of attention. “There is nobody [...]

NYT Editor: ‘We Wanted to Believe’

Another rube self-identifies: Just a few winters ago my wife and I took our daughters to witness the inauguration of a man who had campaigned on hope and embodied possibility. We are pretty immune to political euphoria, but, circulating among the footsore pilgrims, we could imagine our country had embraced the idea that we were [...]

Talk Like A Pirate Day, Twitter, And The NYT: ‘Tis A Merry Convergence

Paul Krugman Remains Free To Drop An Upper-Decker

by Smitty People may object to the use of a scatalogical term to describe a Krugman excretion, but I submit that the level of perversion on display by the gentleman supports the label. Allow me to object to Krugman’s choice of historical time frame, scope of analysis, boring guilt play, and refusal to understand federalism. [...]

Pardon Me While I Run The Fisk Bus Over Loco MoDo A Time Or Twa

by Smitty Fisking a Maureen Dowd column. It’s the blogger version of calisthenics, really. Maureen Dowd Smitty One day during the 2008 campaign, as Barack Obama read the foreboding news of the mounting economic and military catastrophes that W. was bequeathing his successor, he dryly remarked to aides: “Maybe I should throw the game.” Rules [...]

Jonah Goldberg, in Fine Form

Worked up into a long-overdue rant: Tom Friedman — who knows a bit about Hezbollah — calls the tea partiers the “Hezbollah faction” of the GOP bent on taking the country on a “suicide mission.” All over the place, conservative Republicans are “hostage takers” and “terrorists,” “terrorists” and “traitors.” They want to “end life as [...]

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