The Other McCain

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

Santorum’s Sunday Schedule Includes Appearances on ABC and CNN

Was Rick Santorum exaggerating when he accused Fox News of having a pro-Romney bias? We report, you decide: The “fair and balanced” network doesn’t have him scheduled for any interviews today. Santorum will appear on two other Sunday shows on ABC and CNN, while campaigning today in Louisiana before going to Illinois for a series […]

Fox Not ‘Fair and Balanced’? Santorum Finally Mentions Pro-Romney Bias UPDATE: Exit Polls Show Mitt Wins Mississippi? Newt 3rd in Alabama?

I’ve been saying this for weeks, and it’s probably not a good idea for the candidate to say so himself, but it’s unquestionably true: On Tuesday’s “Kilmeade & Friends” radio show on Fox News Radio, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum . . . accused Fox News of being in the tank for his competitor, former […]

New TV Ad Quotes Mitt Romney

This will probably be denounced as an “unfair attack,” given that Romney’s entire campaign has been about avoiding his own record: In a press release, Rick Santorum campaign spokesman Hogan Gidley said: “Since Mitt Romney refuses to talk about his own liberal record, we figured we’d show people what Mitt Romney says about Mitt Romney. We wanted […]

An Idiot Obsessed With Commenters

What can we say about Charles Johnson’s increasingly desperate efforts to simulate relevance? We will now examine (a) what happened, (b) what Charles Johnson wants us to believe happened, and (c) what the discrepancy between (a) and (b) tells us about Charles Johnson’s pathetic idiocy. OK, what happened: Fox News posted a story on its Web […]

Gingrich, Romney, Trump Monopolize Media; Santorum Keeps Campaigning

“[Obama] made the claim that his policies of taxing the rich is authorized by the Bible. That he is doing what is biblically called for by taxing the rich, by having the government tax the rich. Now, I’ve read the Bible, and I must have missed that passage. . . . This is an administration […]

Is Fox News the Problem?

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. After the debate last night, I talked to several people about the situation that we find ourselves in: Four days away from the crucial South Carolina primary and still we have three “not Romney” candidates — Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Rick Perry — dividing up the conservative vote. Another 10 to 15 percent of […]

Memo From the National Affairs Desk: How’s the Weather Today in Vanuatu?

“Santorum is a social conservative, and everybody seems to have convinced themselves that social conservatives are a dead weight impeding the Republican Party and therefore no one should ever express support for any social conservative anywhere, under any circumstance.” — Robert Stacy McCain, “Slouching Toward Cedar Rapids” “How long, O Lord, how long? Where will […]

SIOUX CITY IOWA DEBATE TONIGHT

Roundup: Frank Luntz on the Hannity special edition: Newt defined himeself as the Reagan conservative, Mitt Romney, the private sector conservative, Ron Paul, the civil liberties conservative, Rick Santorum, the conviction conservative, Jon Huntsman, the consistent conservative, Michele Bachmann, the female conservative, and my favorite is Rick Perry, the Tim Tebow conservative. My ratings: Rick […]

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