The Other McCain

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

Todd Palin Defense Fund Update

While I am grateful for the enthusiastic response to my suggestion that Sarah Palin’s supporters donate to create a legal defense fund for her husband, some of the commenters seem to be under the impression that I’m joking about this. But you see, as a veteran of 25 years in the news business, I understand the […]

The Todd Palin Legal Defense Fund

Todd Palin helps his wife sign autographs after her Sept. 5 rally in Manchester, N.H. (Photo by Peter Ingemi.) A source who doesn’t need to hide behind a cloak of anonymity: “This is a man who has been relentlessly stalking my family to the point of moving in right next door to us to harass […]

Somebody’s Taking My Advice?

One hesitates to presume influence, especially when what one advises is just common-sense stuff that seems obvious. So yesterday I wrote that Republicans should “relentelessly expose the Solyndra scandal” and added: GOP presidential candidates can help maximize the impact of exposure by making Solyndra the focus of their attacks on the incumbent’s policy agenda. We […]

The Recklessness of Joe McGinniss

Having already discussed his unspeakably vile “Jungle Fever” smear on Sarah Palin, now we learn — via Ace of Spades — that McGinniss expended considerable effort pursuing a story that depicted her father Chuck Heath as having created “a lynch mob mentality.” Rob Port at Say Anything was contacted by McGinniss because Port’s father was […]

Did You Know the Word ‘Miscegenation’ Was Invented by Democrats as a Smear?

Nineteenth-century American newspapers were, in general, partisan in their politics, and the New York World was a Democrat paper. In 1863, two writers for the World, George Wakeman and David Goodman Croly, wrote a 72-page pamphlet that was published anonymously with the title, Miscegenation: The Theory of the Blending of the Races, Applied to the […]

Looking Forward To GBTV

by Smitty Gabby Hoffman on Twitter tipped me to her Washington Times review of the Glenn Beck TV launch: Do you miss Glenn Beck, his chalkboard, and his Fox News show? Want the latest from Beck and Mercury Radio Arts? Fear not: conservative commentator and radio talk show host Glenn Beck is coming to a […]

CNN: Sarah Palin Turned Down Invitation to Appear in Tonight’s Tea Party Debate

TAMPA, Fla. Didn’t expect to get actual news during the media walk-through of the debate hall here at the Florida State Fair, but CNN Washington bureau chief Sam Geist disclosed to reporters that Sarah Palin had been invited to participate in tonight’s event sponsored by the Tea Party Express. Palin ranks third in the latest […]

Advice to Selena: Never Trust a Canadian

Oh, yeah, we know he acts all sweet and innocent and romantic, but it’s time to wake up and smell the juvenile womanizer: Canadian heartthrob Justin Bieber has announced he’d like to make one lucky gal his wife in the near future. “By 25 or 26 [years old], I want to see myself, like, married […]

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