The Other McCain

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

Breaking News: MSNBC’s Ed Schultz Is Still an Angry, Dishonest Partisan Liar

The important background facts you should know about Ed Schultz: He was a sportscaster until he was 38 and began his talk-radio career attempting to be a conservative Rush Limbaugh imitator, failed at that and then re-invented himself as a “progressive” host, which provided the platform by which Ed got an MSNBC show in 2009. […]

How Soon Will This Madness Stop? And How Much of a Damn Should I Give?

‘Civil rights’ or lynch-mob mentality? Poster at St. Louis rally Saturday (via Gateway Pundit) “It’s likely that Martin’s death . . . would never have crowded into the national consciousness had it not been for Martin’s family, its lawyers and an enterprising PR man. “A pivotal, if little-known, figure in the Martin story’s development was […]

Inspired by MSNBC

Because I don’t want to leave the blog going stale while I crank out another 1,500 words, I’ll share a few thoughts that crossed my mind as I was sitting here with the office TV on MSNBC. Al Sharpton was once briefly in the same room with the Truth, But the Truth walked out the […]

Mega-Dittos, @RushLimbaugh! Credit Where Credit Is Due and More Questions

“So what you had here was a bureaucracy that was intent on making itself look good, and they were playing games with numbers. “So real crimes would be committed by students, not just Trayvon, and rather than being categorized as such they were just pushed over here into another column on the spreadsheet that said […]

L.A. Times Columnist @RobinAbcarian Watches CNN, Tells You How She Feels

Oh, look: LA Times has affirmative action for stupid women with pretty faces. @robinabcarian https://t.co/h1WFBRIOL1 — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) July 13, 2013 So there I was, doing my usual routine — sarcasm on that Twitter thing — and this woman I never heard of before decides to mock me. Fine, whatever, so it’s Daily […]

New York Times Buries the Lead — Deliberately — on Egypt Story

Yesterday, the New York Times put a story on its Web site with the headline: “Christians Targeted for Retribution in Egypt.” Then, evidently, the editors took over and turned it into a story headlined: “Egypt Calls for New Look at Morsi Prison Escape in 2011.” As they say in the newsroom, they added a new […]

Brett Kimberlin: The ‘Musician-Activist’ That @MonicaHesse Wants You to Forget

1992: Gary Trudeau’s cartoon strip frequently cited Brett Kimberlin’s claims The Prisoner and the Politician Brett Coleman Kimberlin, a convicted marijuana smuggler, says he sold marijuana to Dan Quayle in the early 1970s. — Mark Singer, The New Yorker, Oct. 5, 1992 “In any case, it was [Cody] Shearer who, during the 1992 presidential campaign, […]

Notorious Bush-Era Anti-War Protester Adam Kokesh Busted on Drug Charge

In 2007, fringe nutjob Adam Kokesh was arrested on Capitol Hill. In reporting the news, the Washington Post has rather deliberately obscured the reality of what kind of kook Adam Kokesh is, but those of us who first became aware of Kokesh as the poster boy for “Iraq Veterans Against the War” are unlikely to […]

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