The Other McCain

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

Media Matters: Arbiters of Legitimacy?

Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs has bulldogged the Ground Zero mosque story from Day One, helping organize and promote opposition to the Islamicization of Lower Manhattan. So how does the Left respond? Memo to media: Pamela Geller does not belong on national television Media Matters is telling TV producers not to give airtime to the woman who is arguably […]

Bill Press Is Correct: We Are Spoiled

by Smitty (h/t Fausta) She has a couple of other reactions to this clip, too: After a fascinating Triple Lindy at the Obama apologist diving competition, Press arrives at a correct conclusion about Obama’s tanking popularity: I think this says more about the American people than it does about President Obama. I think it just […]

Rachel Maddow and the Politics of Stupid

Why hasn’t the American public completely repudiated the policies of the Obama administration? At a time when the unemployment rate has been hovering near 10 percent for nearly a year, Obama’s job approval numbers are very near dead even, and Republicans are just barely leading on the generic ballot. Why isn’t the administration’s abject failure on economic issues more […]

‘The Unfortunately Named Contessa’

That’s how Andrew Breitbart always refers to MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer, who complained in an interview with Media Bistro about how hard it is to interviewing guests who “come on and they are prepared to be challenging and to be difficult.” In another segment from the same interview, Brewer says it makes her “crazy” when blogs point […]

Gulf Cleanup Pussy Just Pluckered Out

by Smitty (via HotAir) We heard Anderson Cooper’s tale of woe regarding the mostly opaque level of transparency set by the Hopium and Changeeba Administration. Reacting quickly, and noting that the 65′ First Amendment FTW zone applies to humans, we dispached Sissypuss the Blog Kitty. Sissypuss, we discovered, had been hanging around Philadelphia, thinking to […]

Elena Kagan Confirmation Hearings Resume; Media Failure Continues; UPDATE: Yoest Calls for Investigation UPDATE II: Yoest Video Added

UPDATE 8:55 p.m.: Video of Charmaine Yoest’s testimony: She was introduced — and subsequently cut off at the 5-minute mark — by Sen. Charles Schumer (D-EadBabies). UPDATE 7:45 p.m.: From the testimony of Charmaine Yoest, president of Americans United for Life: First, I urge this Committee to officially investigate the discrepancies that have arisen this […]

How to Lose $56 Million a Year

Hire Jon Meacham as editor of your magazine: The auction of Newsweek looks to be heading to some sort of ending. Final bids for the troubled weekly are expected by 5 pm Thursday at investment bank Allen & Co., according to the New York Post. There are five parties in the running, including Newsmax Media, OpenGate Capital, […]

Subversive Newspaper Columnist

No, not Paul Krugman or Dave Weigel. I’m talking about Vicky Pelaez, a columnist for the Spanish-language El Diario for more than 20 years, who was among the suspected Russian agents rounded up by the FBI yesterday. Patrick Ishmael at Hot Air Green Room: Dig around the Internet and you’ll find a few choice nuggets written by […]

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