The Other McCain

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

Shhh, Breitbart: Let The Studio Squeeze Out ‘Zero Dark Thirty’

by Smitty Breitbart is making a valid point that, after latest Middle Estern riots, Zero Dark Thirty could be seen as a provocation. Maybe releasing that movie is a bad idea. But consider this: The people staging military attacks with YouTube clips as a pretext could find an insult to the profit in a yoga […]

Alex Brant-Zawadzki (@Beezling) Gets Blunt Words About Wild Goose Chases

Did I ever mention that I’m a professional journalist who’s been at this business since 1986? I think I did. And probably I’ve also mentioned a time or two that I started out at $4.50 an hour for a 6,000-circulation weekly in Austell, Georgia, working my way up from there by ceaseless toil. It ain’t […]

VIDEO @PaulRyanVP: ‘Four Years Into a Presidency and It’s Incomplete?’

Interviewed Sunday on KKTV in Colorado, President Obama was asked to grade his presidency and gave himself an “incomplete.” Maybe he’s grading himself on the curve, but Paul Ryan isn’t impressed with Professor Obama’s academic rigor: CBS News: Republican vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan said in regard to the comment, “Four years into a […]

‘Exponential Damage’

“You’ve got an obligation to your children and grandchildren to make sure Barack Obama goes back to Chicago … because we can’t stand four more years of this. Eight years of Obama is not twice as bad as four. There is an exponential damage that is done to our country if he gets four more […]

Layoffs Hit Village Voice, ‘Tonight’ Show

It is reported that the Village Voice has laid off three staff writers and reduced a senior editor to part-time status. And there are also reports of about 20 layoffs at NBC’s Tonight show: Leno is paid approximately $30 million. He last reupped his contract in 2010 after reclaiming the Tonight Show from Conan O’Brien. […]

Dishonorable Disclosures: “The Politicians Just Don’t Get It”

by Smitty About the only criticism I can offer of this video is that the production is kinda flashy. In other words, it’s spot-on, and I’m scraping about to try to find anything at all to say other than: ‘Yep’. This video is a must-see for everyone. #OccupyResoluteDesk, Uncle Choo-Choo, and the rest of the […]

All Right, Everybody Quit Making Fun Of Matthew Yglesias

by Smitty via (JWF) Yglesias cannot be held to account for mistaking the Paul Ryan for the Congressman who engaged in insider trading after the 2008 housing meltdown: Public Servant Drool Bucket To the best of my knowledge, ‘Gentleman’ Jim Moran has offered no explanation, much less an apology, for the allegations of day trading […]

Sometimes You’re Chesley Sullenberger, Sometimes You’re Brandon Sparrow

by Smitty via (Dan Riehl) Chesley, you’ll recall did something heroic and walked away from it. Brandon Sparrow, not so much: A heroic pilot at the helm of a doomed plane full of skydivers made sure all of his passengers had jumped to safety before deftly crashing the aircraft in a backyard — where no […]

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