The Other McCain

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

CNN Parker-Spitzer Anti-Palin Hour

OK, so Monday they brought on Aaron Sorkin to call Sarah Palin names and Tuesday it was Oliver Stone’s turn: As Larry O’Connor at BreitbartTV says, this seems to be a nightly feature: “Let’s get some famous Hollywood lefty on the show to badmouth Palin, because that’s what CNN’s dwindling audience of people stuck in airport […]

‘Kathleen Parker Is an Idiot — a Remarkably, Stunningly, Jaw-Droppingly Incompetent and Mean Woman’

Oh, wait — Aaron Sorkin wasn’t talking about CNN’s new co-hostess with Client Number Nine! Let’s be clear about who Aaron Sorkin is and what he does: He is most famous for having created a prime-time soap opera during the 1990s whose only evident purpose was to glamorize liberal Democrats and demonize conservative Republicans. This is a […]

Palin Backers Suspect Huckabee Loyalists on Joe Miller Staff Behind E-Mail Leak

“This is the worst sort of betrayal I’ve ever seen,” one source close to Sarah Palin said in describing the leak of an e-mail that Todd Palin sent to Joe Miller, the Alaska GOP Senate candidate. The source noted that some of Miller’s campaign staff have connections to 2008 Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, and suggested that […]

Hey, Look at Bristol Now!

Bristol Palin on Dancing With the Stars: Via Cubachi, who also links Rachelle Friberg’s interview with Bristol, who broke my heart: I don’t read blogs . . . She really knows how to hurt a guy, huh? Here I fly all the way to Alaska and drive to Wasilla to hang out with the First Dude, […]

Attagirl, Michelle! Malkin Endorses Tancredo for Colorado Governor

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: The GOP gubernatorial candidate in Colorado, Dan Maes, is now in full meltdown mode. . . . Republican primary voters were forced to choose between entrenched, ethics-challenged establishment candidate Scott McInnis and untested businessman Maes. GOP voters made the right choice given the options at the time. […]

America: Let’s Make Bill Maher Cry!

This is simply beyond description: “I am not here to carry water for this or any administration, but the facts of the coming election are Democrats have real accomplishments to run on. . . . [W]hen it comes to voting, when we only have two choices, you got to grow up and realize there’s a […]

One Bright Ray Amid the Gloom

Regular readers are by now aware that (a) my friends got invited to speak at Smart Girl Summit while I did not, and (b) the blog went kablooey today. Things have been going from bad to worse ever since that deer killed my car, and the situation now seems so impossibly hopeless that all I can […]

There’s Crazy, and Then There’s Crazy

How crazy was it that I got to hang out with Todd Palin and got Tweeted by Alyssa Milano in the same month? But I am, after all, a professional journalist and these gonzo adventures are just part of what I do for a living. (Hey, have you hit the tip jar yet?) On the […]

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