The Other McCain

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

Why Did Fox News and Townhall Scrub the Todd Starnes ‘Saudi National’ Story?

Let me start by saying that I consider the obsession with the “Saudi national” — a student who was questioned after the Boston Marathon bombing — an annoying distraction from the main story of the terrorist act committed by the Brothers Tsarnaev. This is not to say that the story isn’t interesting in its own […]

The Blair-Glass ‘Sleeper Cell’ — British Tabloid Fabricates a Phony Scoop

Here’s a quote from the New York Times, about Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s trip to Russia last year: Kevin Brock, a former senior FBI and counterterrorism official, said, “It’s a key thread for investigators and the intelligence community to pull on.” On the top of Memeorandum last night was this headline from the British tabloid, the Mirror: […]

Fractious Methodist Jihadists Raging Against. . .Dryer Lint

by Smitty Wombat is on the prowl, and, as he does once or twice a year, he asked me to return to the FMJRA beat. Been a long time since I rocked and rolled, and I really should do some maintenance on the piece that generates this report. Lots of Twitter & Facebook links these […]

EVIL SHALL NOT PROSPER

Neal Rauhauser was a speaker at the 2010 Netroots Nation conference “Kimberlin’s associate Neal Rauhauser recently admitted in a complaint to my office that he introduced [Nadia] Naffe to attorney Jay Leiderman . . . “In the same document, Rauhauser declared that if Naffe is successful, he believes it will put an end to my […]

A Picture That Will Warm Your Heart

What a week, huh? The most outrageous image of the week — and it still makes me angry just to think about it — was the picture of “Suspect Number Two” (19-year-old Dzhokar Tsarnaev) placing his backpack bomb next to 8-year-old Martin Richard. But not every photo to come out of this week’s Boston Marathon […]

The #BlockedByDavidSirota Club: Membership Is Growing Rapidly!

Let’s make it a hashtag: Tweet Boston bombing facts at @davidsirota and join the #BlockedByDavidSirota club. @proteinwisdom #tcot — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) April 20, 2013 “Philadelphia mayoral candidate Dwight Evans yesterday accepted the resignation of his campaign manager and fired the deputy manager after learning that the deputy was linked to a bogus Web […]

‘We Got Him’

Cheers for #Boston. Prayers answered. Suspect in custody. twitter.com/mayortommenino… @mayortommenino — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) April 20, 2013 “We got him” — that’s what they told Boston Mayor Thomas Menino after Dzhokar Tsarnaev was apprehended — alive — Friday night, ending a weeklong manhunt that those of us who followed it are unlikely ever to […]

‘We’re Halfway There’

GRAPHIC CONTENT WARNING: Bloody Body of Dead #Boston Suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaevriehlworldview.com/2013/04/graphi… via @danriehl — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) April 19, 2013 Dan Riehl has the gruesome photo and quotes the Boston Globe: The image of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, dead and naked on a slab, snapped by an unknown person, was emailed repeatedly by law enforcement officers […]

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