The Other McCain

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

Blogging 101: Headline Juxtaposition

Food-Stamp Use Climbs To Record, Reviving Campaign Issue — Bloomberg News Mrs. Obama’s 2nd-Term Agenda: ‘Impact Nature of Food in Grocery Stores’ — CNS News Africa’s Elephants Are Being Slaughtered in Poaching Frenzy — New York Times Is there any actual relationship between these headlines? I don’t claim that such a relationship exists, but your […]

#EmptyChairDay : Angry?

by Smitty The European Desk is surfing the jet lag at 0300 and catching up on the RSS feed. I’ll see if I can find some piece of European furniture and some free WiFi to support Empty Chair Day. In case of furniture failure, how about some Alice in Chains? “Saw my reflection and cried […]

Just Doing My Job, Jerry

My friend Jerry Wilson at Goldfish and Clowns seems to have taken personally my failure to respond to his writings, and that’s OK. Neglectfulness is a problem with me and when I’m on the road, the problem is compounded. In case you didn’t notice, I spent the past week in Tampa at the Republican National Convention […]

Sticky Political References

by Smitty Bill Quick points to the maple syrup story in the great white north, and figures that the 15k barrels suddenly ‘missing’ from a Canadian warehouse were never filled in the first place. In the age of politics in everything, let me be the first to point out what an excellent metaphor we have […]

Breitbart in February: ‘You Want a Unity Speech? I’ll Give You a Unity Speech.’

FLORENCE, South Carolina Back in February at CPAC, Andrew Breitbart gave a speech in which he called for unifying conservatives to defeat the Left: Anyone that’s willing to stand next to me to fight the progressive left, I will be in that bunker, and if you’re not in that bunker ’cause you’re not satisfied with […]

‘No, Really. I Mean That.’

“Send me your links and tips! No really, I mean that. If you’re in Tampa and reporting on the convention, I’d love to link your stuff. Tweet it to me @tabithahale, or shoot me an email at [email protected].” — Tabitha Hale, “Convention Watch”

@DavidChalian Got Breitbarted
UPDATE: Video Interview With ‘Hating Breitbart’ Director Andrew Marcus

TAMPA, Florida This morning while I was on my way to the Media Filing Center here at the Republican National Convention, the story went viral that David Chalian, Washington bureau chief of Yahoo News, had been caught on an open microphone saying — in regard to the coincidence of the GOP convention and Hurricane Isaac […]

Chris Matthews: Pecksniff

by Smitty Via Hot Air, Politico, emphasis mine: “It is obvious that this is something I care passionately about: race was abused by white politicians in my lifetime, including Reagan. For someone to come on the program and deny that this is part of their process, I couldn’t take that,” Matthews said. “This is something […]

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