The Other McCain

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

Conor, You Lost Me At ‘Fix’

by Smitty Friedersdorf is normally Dan Riehl’s favorite target of derision, but one of our readers emailed a URL to article #74,325 in the “Until Republicans Fix [The Signal-To-Noise-Ratio], They Can’t Fix Any Problems” series. The inability to judge arguments on their merits and separate fact from fantasy is what ails the conservative movement. Later, […]

Oh, That’ll Go Over Like The Vagina Monologues In Quantico

by Smitty Breitbart: The Obama administration’s shifting claims on what took place in Benghazi, Libya on 9/11 became more defiant yesterday when unnamed officials suggested that no amount of security would have mattered in Libya, not even a detachment of US Marines. Yeah, “unnamed officals”, you’d best ensure that you’re anonymous while tossing the U.S.M.C. […]

Obama Talking Point: ‘Opportunistic’

“The best information we have now, the facts that we have now, indicate that this was an opportunistic attack.” — Matt Olsen, head of the U.S. National Counter-Terrorism Center, testifying to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee “President Barack Obama said he thinks Muslim protests against Western criticism of Islam are ‘natural.’ ” […]

OMG! I Thought The Obama Flag & Blood On The Wall A Tasteless Joke. . .

by Smitty CONTENT WARNING: lefties say this image “mocks American dead” pbs.twimg.com/media/A3NLBLsC… — David Burge (@iowahawkblog) September 20, 2012 But no, that upper image is, unexpectedly, a sale item: Let me be perfectly clear. Obama wasn’t joking when he talked about ‘fundamentally transforming America‘. This is why I tell people: the election in five weeks […]

Obama: An Authentic Phony

Back during the 2008 GOP primary campaign — most of which actually happened in 2007 — I wasn’t yet an independent blogger, but was “a man under authority” at The Washington Times. Working on the news side of the operation, the public expression of my opinions was streng verboten, which of course didn’t mean I […]

$105,000 Worth of Champagne

What else would you expect to drink when you attend a fundraiser for the Man Who Stopped the Rise of the Oceans? President Barack Obama attended a fundraiser at Jay-Z’s 40/40 Club in Manhattan that featured a champagne tower of 350 bottles worth $105,000 — more than twice the median household income of an American family. […]

Barack Obama At Loyola In 1998: ‘I Actually Believe In Redistribution’

by Smitty Via Director Blue, Fox News has a bombshell: Few points: Barack sounds only a little left of center here. Either he was couching his rhetoric more carefully, or he was simple less of an ideologue 14 years ago. Probably the former. His point could nearly be tolerable if “giving everybody a fair shot” […]

Hyperbole Help For The Telegraph: ‘Romney Singularity Threatens Space-Time Continuum’

by Smitty The spectacular implosion of Mitt Romney means a no-choice US election, emphasis mine: It is impossible to imagine Ronald Reagan saying, or thinking, that 47 per cent of Americans should be written off. He would have wanted to try and persuade those overly reliant on the state that they could be liberated, and […]

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