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First Wonkette deleted comments, then they deleted Stuef’s byline. Now this: UPDATE: I regret this post and using the word “retarded” in a reference to Sarah Palin’s child. It’s not nice, and is not necessary, but I take responsibility for

Gary Eaton and Shelli Eaton, the talented songwriters behind Retracto’s theme song, have penned a fabulous tune based around a phrase I use to describe the incessant water-carrying done by the left: administration fellation. They’re a fantastic band, an amalgam

From Legal Insurrection: First of all, Sarah Palin doesn’t “parade” her kids around any more than any other politician. Hey Ken, have you seen all those photos of the Obama kids with their parents on vacation and elsewhere? I’ve addressed

This is why we take screenshots. BEFORE: AFTER: This is somehow better than an apology? They’re apparently deleting the offensive comments as well while pretending such comments never existed. PREVIOUSLY: Wonkette Removes Writer’s Name From Trig Hit Piece Mediaite to

Is this supposed to make it all better? Posted by Dave Weigel at Slate: UPDATE: Wonkette editor Ken Layne looped me in on an e-mail to AdWeek, in which he wrote that Steuf has been admonished. I have four kids

While we disagree with Mediaite from time to time in this space, there is one thing on which we do agree and that is children used as political targets: you shouldn’t. Tommy Christopher takes on Wonkette Editor Ken Layne: If

As a result of this morning’s post condemning an outrageous post from Wonkette in which blogger Jack Stueff mocks Trig Palin over his Down Syndrome and suggests that Todd Palin slept with his daughter, outrage spread across Twitter and now

The other night, a funny thing happened on the way to an idea… With an absurd attack against Sarah Palin, the MSM proved a point I was going to make about the potent power of Twitter better than I ever

You hear this mantra everywhere in the activist old media, “The Republican candidates for president are flawed,” “Republicans are not happy with their candidates.” George Stephanopoulos goes to the “Smart Screen” on Good Morning America with the latest poll/editorial that

The Wonkette brand of Myspace satire strikes again. Calling him the “greatest prop in history,” Wonkette proceeds to make fun of the little boy on his birthday because that’s what good writers who know about politics do. They consider this

One of the main institutions that make up the Left’s Ideological Iron Curtain is the Center for American Progress (CAP). The group, run by John Podesta and funded by wealthy Leftists including George Soros, runs a website called ThinkProgress. It

Last weekend, His Presidency Barack Obama was captured making potentially offensive comments to a group of big money donors who had paid large sums of money for special access to His Presidency. We observed that CBS only released “selectively edited”

If you tuned in to Rush Limbaugh yesterday, you probably caught El Rushbo talking about Andrew’s new book. Rush reminds us that Andrew, yes, Andrew Breitbart, “was a big lefty until he heard me.” Me, meaning…Rush Limbaugh. [youtube VC4G5G5KLzs] By