The Other McCain

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

Insulted Again

By Dan Riehl this time, seconding Melissa Clouthier’s “wild animal” characterization of journalists as inherently untrustworthy. At least he links me. Love me, hate me, as long as you link me. Here’s the thing: Media bias is a subject about which every conservative is his or her own expert. To denounce “the media,” whole hog, is obligatory for […]

California Journalists Caught on Video Making Fun of Sarah Palin Speech

“The dumbness doesn’t just come from soundbites” says one reporter in the open-mic moment after the Palin speech, while another asks: “How am I going to write about this? There’s nothing there!” To which a colleague replies: “Well, there’s your story.” This is nothing new. The first time I went to cover a Sarah Palin speech (“Sweetheart […]

WEIGEL RESIGNS

This is not good news for conservatives, no matter how much you hate Dave Weigel. UPDATE: In an e-mail to several bloggers last night, I observed: [O]nce the WaPo axed Ben Domenech, it was more than four years before they again tried a “conservative” blog. As someone who is BCC’d said to me on the […]

They Deserve Each Other: Olbermann and Daily Kos Break Up to Make Up?

There have been more than a few outbreaks of raw crazy on the blogosphere lately, and it’s reassuring to see that the same virus has infested the brackish waters at Daily Kos, where Keith Olbermann asks, “Et tu, Kossacks?” I used to read a lot about how people here would ‘always have my back’ and trust me this […]

VIDEO: Mike Barnicle Criticizes Obama, Gets ‘Castrated’ by Mika Brzezinski

Newsbusters caught this exchange on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe”: Barnicle was parrotting the decidedly negative reaction from MSNBC-oids to Obama’s Big Spill speech, and Mika fired back: BARNICLE: I’m wondering why he didn’t address more specifically the plight of ordinary Americans in the Gulf . . . What are we going to do about energy in […]

Helen Thomas Retires

Dateline, Treblinka: Veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas announced Monday that she is retiring, effective immediately, in the wake of a controversy over her comments on Israel, according to a report from her employer, Hearst News Service. Thomas told a rabbi at a White House event last week that Jews should “get the hell out […]

The Helen Thomas Dogpile

Why am I the last blogger on the planet to blog about this? I dunno. It’s not as if there has been any shortage of blogospheric rage raining down on Helen’s hate-filled head. What’s the point of my running in to give her an extra kick? Besides, once she’s been called an old, ugly Jew-hater […]

Associated Press: Bias? What Bias?

Strictly neutral and objective: Israeli naval commandos stormed a flotilla of ships carrying aid and hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists to the blockaded Gaza Strip on Monday, killing nine passengers in a botched raid that provoked international outrage and a diplomatic crisis. Dozens of activists and six Israeli soldiers were wounded in the bloody predawn confrontation […]

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