The Other McCain

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

KaplanGate: Is the Washington Post Covering Up Its Own Financial Scandal?

Rusty Weiss at Accuracy in Media examines the relationship between the Washington Post and Kaplan, a lucrative for-profit education firm owned by the Post‘s parent corporation: [T]here is a longstanding history of allegations of fraudulent practices, with hundreds of millions of dollars of profits diverted to Kaplan executives. Perhaps it’s also Kaplan’s generation of such […]

Media Gets ‘Tantalizing’ Thrill From 2007 Palin E-Mail Joke About Divorce

You’ve really got to wonder about people who would waste time chasing after stuff like this: Also there is one tantalizing e-mail from Sept. 26, 2007 — almost a full year before she was tapped for the unsuccessful GOP presidential ticket — with the subject line saying “Marital Problems.” Addressing two of her gubernatorial aides, she said “So […]

Rick Santorum On Meet The Press

by Smitty Rick Santorum does a fine job standing up to the job the American media won’t do with respect to any public figures on the Left: Santorum is using more ‘Teatard’ phrasings like ‘equality of opportunity’. Will the hefty Catholic presence in Michigan make the difference for Santorum on Tuesday? I rather hope so. […]

CNN ARIZONA DEBATE

10:05 p.m. ET: It’s over. I actually nodded off for a few minutes there. The important thing, I think, is that Santorum was in the cross-hairs all night, and didn’t really sustain any serious damage. 9:27 p.m. ET: Newt Gingrich talks Iran and Ahmadinejad. 9:25 p.m. ET: Santorum reminds us that we have civilian control […]

Satan Angered by New Poll Showing Santorum Ahead 34%-18% in Wisconsin

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. Stopped in here at McDonald’s and got online to discover that Satan’s plan to destroy America is now the top story in the country. This is why neutral objective journalist George Stephanopoulos interviewed neutral objective Mitt Romney supporter Chris Christie about the urgently relevant Satan issue today. Stephanopoulos and Christie: What a team, […]

‘News’ From the Liberal Media Meme Factory: Women Hate Rick Santorum

You may have already seen this Rick Santorum campaign ad, but I ask you to take 30 seconds to click and play the video again. Try to watch it while asking yourself, “Will women vote for this guy?” Sure! Why the heck not? Maybe he’s not movie-star handsome like Mitt Romney, but you can’t say […]

Free-Market Heartland Institute Victimized by Liberal Hoaxers

One of my smoking buddies at CPAC was Jim Lakely, a veteran newsman (and former Washington Times colleague) who now makes his living as communications director for Chicago’s Heartland Institute. And he’s outraged by the shoddy work of liberal journalists: Yesterday afternoon, two advocacy groups posted online several documents they claimed were The Heartland Institute’s […]

The Madness of David Brock

Fascinating article about Media Matters: David Brock was smoking a cigarette on the roof of his Washington, D.C. office one day in the late fall of 2010 when his assistant and two bodyguards suddenly appeared and whisked him and his colleague Eric Burns down the stairs. Brock, the head of the liberal nonprofit Media Matters […]

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