The Other McCain

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

Crazed Ex-Cop Kills 3 People After Quoting Mia Farrow in Bizarre Manifesto

ABC News reports: The rage-filled “manifesto” written by former police officer Christopher Dorner before he went on an alleged cop killing spree around the Los Angeles area was dismissed by the head of the Los Angeles Police Department today as “self-serving” and “ramblings on the Internet.” Dorner is believed to have killed one police officer […]

Washington Post Reports Menendez Corruption, Downplays Jailbait Hookers

Even when they can’t find a way to avoid covering a Democrat Party scandal, they strive valiantly to retain their precious moral superiority. Front-page headine in the Washington Post: Sen. Menendez contacted top officials in friend’s Medicare dispute However, as Jeffrey Meyer points out at Newsbusters, the 43-paragraph front-page story ignores the sexual allegations against […]

CNN Endorses Terrorist Organization That Incited Gun Violence in D.C.

Nice Deb thinks the Southern Poverty Law Center should be classified as a “hate group,” but I prefer the term “terrorist organization,” because of the political/religious nature of the jihad that SPLC inspired against the Family Research Council. Also, in light of what we know about the Obama administration’s policy, it may be possible to order […]

The Wrong ‘Yaneisi Fernandez’? Stupid Media Trick Fails to Clear Menendez

Univision interviews wholesome non-prostitute Yaneisi Fernandez Well, isn’t this special? “Fernandez” isn’t exactly a rare name in Latin America, and “Yaneisi” is more common that you might have suspected, so when a Univision TV crew barged in on a 21-year-old woman named Yaneisi Fernandez, who was horrified by the accusation of being a call girl […]

HookerGate: What Did @AliciaMenendez Know, and When Did She Know It?

“Alicia Menendez is a Senior Advisor to NDN and its sister organization, the New Policy Institute. . . . Ms. Menendez comes to NDN/NPI as a well-established television commentator and experienced organizer in important emerging communities. You can find her talking about national politics just about every week on the cable news networks, Fox and […]

Elite Pundit, Belatedly Catching Up With Me, Recognizes the ‘Fox Trap’

How long have I been talking about the “Fox Trap”? Forever, it seems, but for example, here’s a description from February 2009: Media-wise, the GOP made the mistake of putting all its eggs in one basket. I enjoy Fox News, but it has created a syndrome where Republicans watch Fox all the time and delude themselves […]

A Scandal Too Far: Steve Capus Terminated as NBC News President

The New York Times spins it this way: The longest-serving president of any of the three network news divisions, Steve Capus of NBC News, stepped down from his position on Friday, six months after Comcast restructured its news units in a way that diminished his authority. Exactly how voluntary was this “stepping down”? John Nolte […]

Help Wanted: Clairvoyant Police

In Atlanta, an armed police officer in a school — y’know, like the NRA has recommended — disarmed a shooter after only one person was injured. This good news wasn’t good enough for Piers Morgan: REVEALED: Armed guard was NOT able to stop Atlanta school shooting – sltrib.com/sltrib/world/5… — Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) February 1, 2013 […]

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