The Other McCain

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

Damn You, #FreeKate Liars! UPDATE: Parents of 14-Year-Old Girl Speak Out

Following up on Wednesday night’s post, Thursday morning I wrote an article about the Kaitlyn Hunt case at The American Spectator: It is a felony in Florida to have sex with 14-year-olds. Hunt was expelled from Sebastian High School — where she and the younger girl had sex in a restroom stall — and charged […]

Experience Matters: Old Man Schieffer Puts Young Punk Pfeiffer in His Place

“It looks like they’ve lost Bob Schieffer,” says John Hoge, which might be a slight exaggeration. Schieffer is a liberal, but he’s also a veteran Washington journalist who has seen enough scandals to know what a scandal looks like, and he was having none of the Jedi mind trick — “These are not the scandals […]

CNN Now Aiming for Zero Ratings

The Third-Place Cable Network Nobody Watches™ has decided to give America’s Least Popular Cable News Personality™ a special assignment: “White in America.” Paul Bedard reports: CNN correspondent Soledad O’Brien, known for her “Black in America” documentaries that sometimes irk viewers, is now turning her cameras on whites. . . . “We’re not just working on ‘BIA,’ […]

A Short Lesson in Liberal Media Bias: Has Alex Koppelman Forgotten Fitzmas?

Alternate Headline: It’s Not a Real Scandal, Until @alexkoppelman Decides ‘There Is Something to It.’ newyorker.com/online/blogs/n… | @jeffgurner — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) May 12, 2013 Scandals always highlight the disparity in how differently the media treat Republicans and Democrats. We are grateful to Alex Koppelman for this latest example: It’s a cliché, of course, but […]

Hope and Chains: #WarOnWomen Kidnapper Is Cuyahoga County Democrat

Amanda Berry (left); Ariel Castro (center); Gina DeJesus (right) “If any of the brothers were a Republican, this news would have been trumpeted by the mainstream media as tangible proof of the Republican War on Women — a narrative invented by Democrat strategists and maintained by the media in a successful effort to defeat Republican […]

The ‘How Dare You’ Defense on Benghazi

Pocan (D-WI) says “there’s no smoking gun… from this.” line seeks to minimize the testimony near end of the hearing.pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/05… — Arthur Kimes (@ComradeArthur) May 8, 2013 Associated Press: Let’s Quote Democrats Dismissing the Testimony Before We Quote the Witness bostonglobe.com/news/nation/20… | @vjmfilms — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) May 9, 2013 “This has been a […]

Unsurprising Media Consensus: ‘Shut Up About Benghazi, You Stupid Republicans’

Even before the six hours of congressional hearings began, CNN telegraphed its disinterest in the Benghazi “whistleblower” testimony by cutting away to Cleveland, Ohio, for what Wolf Blitzer falsely promised would be the first public statement by kidnapping victim Amanda Berry. What actually happened in Cleveland was a ginormous media scrum for a statement by […]

Muslim Student Association Doesn’t Get Credit for Soccer League Sponsorship

Kind of an interesting omission, don’t you think? Coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing has ignored admitted bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s connection to his college’s Muslim Student Association, a group that has close relations with both the Muslim Brotherhood and a local imam friendly with an al-Qaida operative. Although a student leader and the mainstream media […]

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