The Other McCain

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

Good News: Dan Rather and Chris Matthews Bummed About Mid-Terms

“Wouldn’t you LOVE to play poker with these people?” Update: (Smitty) Video URL

Oh, Joy! Guess What the Journolisters Had to Say About Sarah Palin?

Jonathan Strong is back with more delightful disclosures of progressive groupthink: In the hours after Sen. John McCain announced his choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be his running mate in the last presidential race, members of an online forum called Journolist struggled to make sense of the pick. . . . The tone […]

Irony Alert: Eric Boehlert Is an Expert on What Is ‘Ugly and Contemptible’

“. . . that didn’t stop him from launching the smear campaign. And that’s what Andrew Breitbart and Fox News and the right-wing media does. They’ve been doing it for a long time and it’s sort of ugly and contemptible, and if he had any decency, he’d apologize to Shirley Sherrod. He’d also stop with […]

Election ’08: Virtual High-Fives and Online Obamagasms for Journolist

As previously noted, the Daily Caller must have the complete Journolist archives, and now they share the unsurprisingly ecstatic Election Night reactions from?progressives. UPDATE: Instapundit has been a one-man aggregator of all things Journolist the past couple of days. James DeLong’s point that reporters on the list might be accused of “hijacking” the publications that […]

Drip, Drip, Drip: Leaks From Journolist Reveal More ‘Progressive’ Genius

It’s becoming obvious that the Daily Caller’s Jonathan Strong either (a) has obtained the entire archives of Journolist, or else (b) is receiving batches of e-mails directly from someone who does have the full archive. Monday, Strong published e-mails in which Journolisters collaborated in an effort to limit coverage of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s rants during the 2008 Democratic […]

Conservatism 101:
Never Let Your Enemies Tell You Who Your Friends Should Be

Conservative Republicans seeking political advice should not take it from a liberal Democrat like Jonathan Chait: You don’t have to love Sue Lowden to understand that a 90% chance of Lowden winning is better than a 20% chance of Sharron Angle winning. Nor is there any recognition on the right that conservatives paved the way […]

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 […]

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