The Other McCain

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

The GOP School of Media Relations

Pioneered by Ron Ziegler during the Nixon Administration, the Republican Party policy of contemptuous mistreatment of the press corps produces yet another predictable “success” : WARSAW — A Mitt Romney aide told reporters to “shove it” Tuesday morning after the American press corps here shouted questions at the presidential candidate. As Romney was walking away from […]

Tina Brown’s Bankrupt Magazine Newsweek Calls Mitt Romney a ‘Wimp’

Newsweek magazine lost $20 million last year, each weekly issue therefore representing an operating loss of $400,000. Two years ago, Sidney Harman bought the magazine (and its $50 million debt) for a token $1, and subsequently merged it with Tina Brown’s Daily Beast, which has spent the past four years losing $10 million annually in […]

CNN President Jim Walton Resigns; Network Stuck in Third Place

Associated Press: CNN chief Jim Walton said Friday he is quitting, saying the company needs new leadership at a time its flagship U.S. network is suffering through some of its poorest ratings ever. Walton built the company into a profitable international news organization in his 10 years as president of CNN Worldwide, and said it […]

Barack Obama Is the Antichrist — and Other Neutral Objective Facts

“I agree with the late Hunter S. Thompson that a lot of what passes for ‘objective journalism’ is bullshit. . . . The reason so many Americans hate the news media is because so many supposedly ‘objective’ journalists are transparently dishonest in what they’re doing.” — Robert Stacy McCain, April 16, 2009 The futile pursuit […]

No, Richard Kim, The U.S. Is Not As Jacked Up As Syria, Despite Your Ilk

by Smitty Melissa Harris-Perry’s show featured Richard Kim from The Nation.com spouting what initially seemed more Commie piffle, but then I realized it’s kind of revelatory: Do we want to live in that night?”Not with your creepy little indecent self, Kim. Why don’t you go line up for Sarah Silverman? Kim Smitty “The Dark Knight […]

The Daily Disgrace

The front-page headline in this morning’s New York Times: GUNMAN KILLS 12 AT COLORADO THEATER; SCORES ARE WOUNDED, REVIVING DEBATE The headline is different in the online version of the story, but the “debate” the editors have in mind is referenced in the fifth paragraph, which declares that “once again . . . the nation […]

Rewarding Failure, Punishing Success

Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged is in many ways too radical — with dangerous overtones of Nietzsche — but clearly enunciates certain basic insights. In one of her characters’ monologues, Rand expresses the fundamental problem with the Marxist maxim, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.” What’s wrong with that? It […]

VA AG Ken Cuccinelli, Truth Teller

by Smitty Mitchell challenged his claim that the president’s proposal to allow the Bush-era tax cuts to expire for anyone making more than $250,000 would be detrimental to the middle-class. “Of course, their argument is that only two or three percent of the people would be affected by the, uh, middle-class tax cut,” she said […]

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