The Other McCain

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

Send the Body to Keith Olbermann

So says Professor Glenn Reynolds, in not quite so many words. The Christian Science Monitor cites certain predictable sources to gin up speculation that the Pentagon shooter was motivated by “right-wing extremism,” but . . . eh, not so much:  Internet research shows that the guy was a 9/11 Truther and an anti-Bush nut case. So much […]

MSNBC’s Alternative Reality

While working on my taxes (trying to figure my mileage for 2009) I’ve had the TV in my basement office tuned to MSNBC. Unless Rachel Maddow and her cohorts are hallucinating, the most important story in the world is . . . Republicans are desperate! Obama and his health-care plan are overwhelmingly popular! Crazy right-wingers are going psycho […]

‘Tremble in Fear!!!!’

Mock fearmongering or fearmonger mocking? We report, you deride.  Speaking of fearmongers deserving of mockery . . . Charles Johnson. Allahpundit mocks Dylan Ratigan, whose performance prompts Dan Riehl to ask, “What is he, some kind of Olbermann wannabe?” and prompts Professor Reynolds to reflect: One of [Ratigan’s] producers called to ask me to be on […]

How SPLC Hypes the Hate

Dangerous extremist militias taking over America? The Southern Poverty Law Center reports “an astonishing 363 new Patriot groups appeared in 2009, with the totals going from 149 groups (including 42 militias) to 512 (127 of them militias) – a 244% jump” from 2008. OK, so let’s ask a question: How does the SPLC get these numbers? […]

MSM Promoting Parasite Annabel Park

A former New York Times “strategy analyst” attempts to create a left-wing clone of the Tea Party movement and — surprise! — gets gushy write-ups from both the New York Times and the Washington Post. Professor William Jacobson exposes Annabel Park for the deceptive phony she is. Remind me of this the next time Nancy Pelosi starts […]

CNN’s Cooper to Replace Couric?

There are rumors and denials that CBS is trying to recruit CNN’s Anderson Cooper as a replacement for Katie Couric, who’s been stuck in the Nielsen ratings basement almost from the moment of her “Evening News” debut. A Cooper-for-Couric switch would not significantly alter the traditional liberal slant at CBS. However, the utter flop of […]

The Manchurian Maverick: John McCain Claims Bailout ‘Brainwash’ Victimhood

“Barbara Espinosa must be doing a victory lap right now,” Da Tech Guy writes in reporting on how MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” battered John McCain today for claiming former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke  “misled” him into supporting the 2008 Wall Street bailout. Remember that on Sept. 24, 2008 — the day Crazy […]

Why Keith Olbermann Is Failing

Flipping through the channels this evening, I happened onto Keith Olbermann in media res. He was doing his “Worst Person in the World” list. Number 3 was just a dumbed-down rehash of a TPM item about Tea Party Express spokesman Mark Williams. Olbermann began by describing Williams as a “fired ex-Albany, New York, hate-radio host” and after excerpting the TPM […]

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