The Other McCain

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

Herman Cain Set to Win S.C. Debate

Herman Cain appeared on the Neal Cavuto show Wednesday afternoon to talk about Thursday’s debate in Greenville, South Carolina. Asked about the presumed GOP 2012 candidates who are skipping the debate, Cain said: “I think they’re making a mistake by not being here.” Indeed, the state’s new Republican governor says the same thing: With the […]

REPORT: Beck to End Daily Fox Show

Apparently, Glenn Beck has issued a press release announcing he “intends to transition off of his daily program” on Fox News Channel. Exactly what that means, we don’t know yet. UPDATE: The press release describes discussions about “a variety of television projects” in a vague enough way that media tea-leaf readers at both the Washington Post and […]

Caught on Tape: Fox News Executive Privately Doubts Obama Is a Socialist?

It’s another one of those “gotcha” moments with Media Matters as Wile E. Coyote and Fox as the Road Runner. Fox executive Bill Sammon (with whom I used to work at The Washington Times) was on a 2009 cruise sponsored by Hillsdale College and gave a speech where he said this: “Last year, candidate Barack Obama […]

Shepard Smith, Live From Tokyo

“. . . blackouts across this nation . . . epic earthquake . . . monster tsunami . . . nightmare scene from Hell . . . . a quickly growing humanitarian crisis . . . an economy teetering on the brink of collapse . . .” Fuck you, Shep. Fuck you and fuck your […]

Will Fox Dump Glenn Beck?

That’s what David Carr of the New York Times suggests: Beck’s contract is up in December and maybe he and the Fox folks don’t see eye-to-eye. Howard Portnoy at Hot Air Green Room is dubious about this theory, citing Scott Baker at the Beck-sponsored Blaze blog. I don’t watch Beck’s show enough to offer any […]

Jeff G. Schools Shep Smith

“Let me clue you in here, you vapid hair-do . . .” Just in case you’re wondering when Jeff went sour on Shep, let’s go back to September 2005, when Shep’s melodramatic flair was viciously satirized here, here and here. Shep brings to his coverage the kind of detached stoicism one usually finds on the front row of a […]

Everybody at CPAC Likes to Have Their Photos Taken With Celebrities …

. . . which is why some obscure dudes from a cable-TV show insisted on having their photos taken with Susannah Fleetwood and Sarah Rumpf: Video of the obscure cable-TV dudes at CPAC: Remember that most people tuned into cable TV at 3 a.m. are watching ads for the George Foreman grill or “natural male […]

Glenn Beck Wants You to Threaten Violence Against Harmless Academics

That’s what liberals have been claiming. The Nation published several nasty e-mails professor Frances Fox Piven received because she has become “the target of a relentless campaign to demonize her.” This accusation got repeated in a New York Times story with a scary headline: Spotlight From Glenn Beck Brings a CUNY Professor Threats And that leads […]

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