The Other McCain

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

Narrative Control: Woodward Gets a Warning from Gene Sperling

“Woodward, I think, leans to the left, but he is unafraid to call out the President of the United States when he’s lied to.” — Stephen Dethrage, University of Alabama Obama has been lying about the sequester, and when famed Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward blew the whistle, this made Woodward the demonized enemy. Anyone […]

Never Forget: Joe McCarthy Was Right!

Senator Joseph McCarthy, a courageous and patriotic American. “Senator Cruz’s substantive point was absolutely correct: in the mid-1990s, the Harvard Law School faculty included numerous self-described proponents of ‘critical legal studies’ — a school of thought explicitly derived from Marxism – and they far outnumbered Republicans.” — Catherine Frazier, spokeswoman for Sen. Ted Cruz Democrats […]

BREAKING NEWS: Dan Rather Is Still Alive, Imagines Someone Gives a Damn

Hey, Dan, are you a Travis Tritt fan? @danratherreport — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) February 23, 2013 Call someone who’ll listen And might give a damn . . . But don’t you come around here Handing me none of your lies. Here’s a quarter, Call someone who cares. It may be necessary to remind younger […]

What Coordinated Messaging Looks Like

The Left does this “Meme of the Day” trick all the time, but I thought this example (via Memeorandum) was particularly obvious: House Republicans Strip Protections From LGBT Victims In New Violence Against Women Act — Think Progress Top Dems Reject House GOP’s Violence Against Women Act: ‘Simply Unacceptable’ — Talking Points Memo VAWA 2013: House GOP […]

Ratings-Killer @Soledad_OBrien Fired by Obscure Third-Place Cable News Network

Soledad O’Brien: Nielsen needed a microscope to measure her audience America’s Least Popular Cable-News Personality™ has joined the growing ranks of the nation’s unemployed, and you’ll excuse me for being so late to blog about it, but it took a while before I could stop dancing long enough to sit down and type. Inside sources at […]

Enforcing the Liberal Media Omerta

The other day, Jim Vandehei and Mike Allen of Politico published a long story about the dysfunctional relationship between the Obama administration and the White House press corps, saying that the lack of access and deliberate manipulation were making it difficult for reporters to do their jobs. A basic rule of life: If you volunteer to be […]

Boyle on Menendez: ‘Miller Cut His Teeth in Democratic Scandal Management’

The shameful partisan effort of the major media to discourage attention to the Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) scandal gets a brutal beatdown from the man who originally broke the story last fall: The New York Times on Saturday published a story with a headline claiming “Inquiry of Democratic Senator Started With a Partisan Push,” referring […]

Sources Tell Washington Post FBI Can’t Find Menendez’s Dominican Hookers

There’s a good news/bad news factor here. The good news is, the Washington Post can’t keep ignoring or downplaying the allegations: A team of FBI agents has been conducting interviews in recent weeks in the Dominican Republic and the United States, looking into allegations that Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) patronized prostitutes in the Caribbean nation, […]

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