The Other McCain

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

Why Is This Idiot on National TV?

The enduring mystery of Chris Matthews: Matthews insisted that he opposes intervention into Syria and said that America spends too much of its energy intervening in Arab nations. . . . “As long as Syrians are fighting Syrians, that’s better than us fighting Syrians,” Matthews continued. “If we don’t stop killing Arabs on international television […]

Blame Bush: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Does!

Notice the not-too-subtle Washington Post spin here: The 19-year-old suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings has told interrogators that the American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan motivated him and his brother to carry out the attack, according to U.S. officials familiar with the interviews. From his hospital bed, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has acknowledged his role in […]

Why Did Fox News and Townhall Scrub the Todd Starnes ‘Saudi National’ Story?

Let me start by saying that I consider the obsession with the “Saudi national” — a student who was questioned after the Boston Marathon bombing — an annoying distraction from the main story of the terrorist act committed by the Brothers Tsarnaev. This is not to say that the story isn’t interesting in its own […]

Joe Biden Invents Phony Gun Statistics — Because SHUT UP HATERS, That’s Why!

Stephen Gutowski describes the goofball’s latest anti-gun idiocy: By combining, apparently in his head and on the fly, the demonstrably inaccurate “80,000 plus people a year” with the debunked claim that 40% of gun sales in America don’t require a background check, Mr. Biden reaches the completely unverifiable claim that “between 30,000 and 50,000 who […]

Shorter @DylanByers: ‘Hurry Up, FBI, So We Can Start the Media Blame Game!’

So, my three most recent stories for Viral Read were about: A dead 8-year-old boy; A dead 29-year-old woman; and A press conference where the FBI said they are conducting a “wide open” investigation into the Boston bombing. While doing a search for more coverage to include in my updated aggregation, I happened upon this ghoulish blog […]

Why Is the New York Times Now Campaigning for Anthony Weiner?

First, the dishonest puff-piece feature, now a transparent “news” plug for Congressman Meat-Tweet. What’s going on here? I’ve got a few hunches about their motives, but no time to explain my theory just now. But there was time for Neutral Objective Journalism at ViralRead: The New York Times has attempted to assist Weiner’s political rehabilitation, publishing an […]

How the Left’s Online Meme Machine Helped Create a Murder Myth in Texas

MSNBC’s Martin Bashir interviews SPLC’s Mark Potok, April 1 Officials in Kaufman County, Texas, have arrested Eric Lyle Williams, a former justice of the peace, who is expected to be charged with the murder of three people — a crime to which MSNBC’s Chris Matthews devoted an eight-minute segment of his April 3 show, portraying […]

MSNBC: The Network America Turns to for Irresponsible Speculation About News

You can call Chris Matthews anything you want — “dimwitted political hack” would be entirely appropriate — but please don’t insult an entire profession by calling Chris Matthews a “journalist.” On March 30, Kaufman County, Texas, district attorney Mike McLelland and his wife were shot to death at their home. Five days later, Chris Matthews […]

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