The Other McCain

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

Dave Weigel, Joe McGinniss, Jesse Griffin and the Palin-Hater Next Door

I consider David Weigel a friend, and have often praised him as one of the best young reporters in Washington. But Weigel’s “See-No-Evil” attitude toward Joe McGinniss, who moved in next door to the Palin family to work on his anti-Palin book, seems absurdly naive. While you can’t fault a journalist for associating with potential sources, a commenter in a previous post […]

Not Good News for James O’Keefe

A guilty plea: The four defendants who were arrested in January in Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office in the Hale Boggs federal complex in New Orleans pleaded guilty Wednesday morning in federal court to entering real property belonging to the United States under false pretenses. Magistrate Judge Daniel Knowles III sentenced Stan Dai, Joseph Basel and […]

This Just In: TWITTER IS NEWS!

Twitter pal Sissy Willis tipped me to a Don Irvine post about a study that found Twitter to be more about news than networking. Which means . . .? You guessed it: RT @SissyWillis TWITTER = NEWS http://bit.ly/bCE0ev [] Which means @Alyssa_Milano = Walter Cronkite? C’mon, Alyssa: Just one re-Tweet is all I’m asking for […]

On Conservative Journalism

Matthew Yglesia is a blogger, not a reporter, at Think Progress — edited by former DNC researcher and Democratic congressional aide Faiz Shakir — which is on the tab of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, which is headed by former Clinton chief of staff John Podesta. Despite these stubborn facts, Yglesias feels entitled to […]

‘Dear Zionist Douchebag’?

Jeffrey Goldberg at the Atlantic Monthly disengages from Sully: Each time Andrew Sullivan writes negatively about Israel (which is to say, almost every day), my e-mail in-box becomes flooded with pleas that I respond. . . . Yes, it’s upsetting that Andrew Sullivan . . . has become an anti-Israel propagandist. But it’s not my […]

If the Tea Party Had Started With 40 People at Panera in West Palm Beach . . .

. . . I’m pretty sure we never would have heard the end of the media guffawing. And I’m damn sure the Palm Beach Post never could have been bothered to notice. The Post is owned by degenerate heirs of the Cox family, who have notoriously plundered and ruined the Atlanta papers. Those treacherous elitist bastards did all they could […]

Holy Crap! The American Spectator Offers Gift Subscriptions for Just $29

Well, no wonder I always have such a hassle trying to get Al Regnery to pay my travel expenses! Give the gift that keeps giving throughout the year. That, of course, would be THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR. As a subscriber, you already know the value and enjoyment that only THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR offers. Now you can […]

‘Chief Investigative Reporter’ for Tina Brown’s Daily Beast Resigns After Plagiarism Scandal

At least he wasn’t just making up stuff: Amid additional allegations of plagiarism, journalist and South Beach resident Gerald Posner announced via his blog and Twitter that he has resigned from The Daily Beast, the year-old Internet news publication co-founded by Tina Brown. Posner wrote that his boss, Daily Beast Executive Editor Edward Felsenthal, called […]

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