First, take a look at this story, which appeared today in Foreign Policy: This week marked the international coming-out party for a new media organization that could upend the sacred cows of traditional journalism. Wikileaks, an Internet-savvy investigative journalism outfit,
You know those awful Tea Partiers — racist, stump-toothed,Republican-voting rednecked hillbillies who drive around in gas-guzzling recreational vehicles and answer the call of Sarah Palin’s Facebook page whenever it orders them to attack gays, Democrats and blacks, unless they’re too
Here’s the latest bleat from the not-quite dead-yet MSM, complaining that anonymous commentary is somehow… what? Unfair? Hurtful? Makes you want to run home to mama and cry? Meet Chicago Sun-Times columnist Neil Steinberg: Leonard Pitts Jr. wrote a column
Just in time for Holy Week, the New York Times has escalated its war with Pope Benedict XVI over the “pedophile priests” scandal in a series of harsh attacks, both in the pages of the newspaper and in its editorial
Courtesy of the Los Angeles Times‘s “Top of the Ticket” blog — one of the best, fairest and most readable MSM blogs in the country — comes this lesson in, shall we say, contrast. First this photo, released by the
Over at National Review Online, the brilliant and tenacious Jim Geraghty has long held that every statement by Barack Hussein Obama comes with an expiration date. Every one of them. [youtube Kb5NV4KtTC8 nolink] Now, he’s assembled his complete collection of
To close out our day’s discussion of race and racism and the “N-word” — be sure not to deprive yourself of Frank Rich’s latest crazed rant on the subject, ludicrous even by his appallingly low standards of argument and those
The caption contest is now open, so have at it:
First, the obligatory media chorus of “ugliness” at Saturday’s anti-Health Care Bill rally at the Capitol, then the unsubstantiated claims of racist speech. So far, so Saul Alinksy. Now the escalation continues. From Politico: Steny Hoyer: Members are at risk
This hilarious moment of defiant bravado from the Undead brought to you by taxpayer-funded National Public Radio and the Black Knight: ACORN CEO Reflects On The Group’s Hard Times ALLISON KEYES, host: I’m Allison Keyes and this is TELL ME
In the wake of last night’s passage of “Health-Care Reform” — WASHINGTON –The House of Representatives Sunday passed by a 219 to 212 vote the biggest overhaul of the nation’s health care system in more than four decades, sweeping changes
So… what did you think? Or “deem?” Or…? [youtube 5CtaAHn0XwE&feature nolink] As the Poet said: Of Man’s Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of
Pretty darn ignorant, to judge by this story by Ron Grossman in the Chicago Tribune: I took a quick survey in the newsroom the other day, something between a Rorschach test and a pop quiz, asking younger colleagues to identify
Would you pay to read the MSM? Not if you’re like most people, according to this AP report of a Pew Research study: Getting people to pay for news online at this point would be “like trying to force butterflies
Holland today is probably the worst country in Europe, a sinkhole of social pathologies that would make Berkeley blush. And yet, at every step, the decisions the Dutch took to liberalize their formerly straitlaced Calvinist society seemed to make sense
Failed former New York Times editor and “self-hating Southerner” Howell Raines — whose dubious journalistic legacy includes the Jayson Blair, Rick Bragg, and the Martha Burk fiascoes — has lurched out of the fly-fishing shadows with this bizarre op-ed piece,
Credit where credit is due: Wired Magazine’s Noah Shachtman and Conde Nast have a scoop on their hands. In the course of researching his new and largely fair piece on Andrew Breitbart and the “Big” websites, during which he was
The Left is obsessed with finding “racists” under every bed but their own. No need to go into the long history of institutional racism on the part of the Democrat Party and its stalwarts, no need to remind people that
Is this the new face of the Republican Party? A contender in 2012? Or the male version of Sarah Palin? [youtube nzUqVzlmHzk nolink] In a 24/7, horse-race handicapping, ADD, MSM culture, it’s never too soon to start speculating, is it?
David Broder is known as the “Dean of the Washington press corps,” but it can more accurately be said that he’s the “David Gergen of the Washington press corps:” the apostle of conventional wisdom/custodian of institutional memory/protector of Democrat Party
Ever feel that you’re trapped inside a lunatic asylum, where all the normal rules of logic and discourse have been turned on their heads, and screaming nutbags roam the halls, hurling imprecations at imaginary enemies? A place where up is
New York State, one of the most corrupt political entities on the planet, has long been a graveyard for aspiring African American politicians. As Mayor of the City of New York, David Dinkins — the first and so far last
For intellectual laziness, lackluster writing and sheer historical dishonesty, it’s hard to beat Frank Rich of the New York Times. Week after week, and at tiresome length, Rich dishes out his regurgitated pensées regarding his pet hobby-horses, including the evil
The Obama Administration’s definition of “bipartisanship” is: “do it our way or else,” which is why — as the sham of the “healthcare summit” plays itself out on national televion — John Kass’s explanation of the Chicago Way is such
Look! It’s you-know-who — the Former Sportscaster and most famous graduate of Cornell Cow College — making a fool of himself again as his unwatched and unwatchable show, Countdown, stumbles clumsily yet vaingloriously toward its inevitable destination, the cancellation slaughterhouse.
