The Other McCain

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

Media Psy-Ops in NY-26

In my very first post about the NY-26 special election (May 10), I warned: NY-26 is a winnable district, and a GOP defeat would be interpreted by the media (however falsely) as a repudiation of the conservative agenda. And on May 17, I warned that a Democrat victory “will be headlined as evidence that the […]

Oh, My: Hearing Turns Ugly

Harvard Law professor Elizabeth Warren, a special advisor to President Obama, got raked over the coals yesterday by Rep. Patrick McHenry and other Republicans: A House committee hearing on Tuesday about the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau disintegrated into heated accusations of lying, with the panel’s chairman accusing Elizabeth Warren of giving misleading testimony at […]

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Love-Child Scandal Leak Came From Maria Shriver

Hell hath no fury, et cetera: The Arnold Schwarzenegger baby drama story was leaked to the media by Maria Shriver’s own people … and they did it because Maria was so angry at Arnold, she wanted to do it herself. . . . We’re told when Maria found out that Arnold was the father of […]

LIVE AT FIVE – 05.25.11

TOP NEWS Violent Storms Kill Seven In Oklahoma, Kansas Five dead in Oklahoma City, suburbs from rush-hour tornado; two killed by falling tree in rural Kansas as more storms rip Midwest just days after destruction in Joplin Netanyahu Cheered During Speech To Congress Frequently interrupted by standing O’s, Israeli PM lays out his vision for […]

NY-26 ELECTION NIGHT HQ
UPDATE: Democrat Hochul Wins

12:30 a.m. ET: The predicted spin from the New York Times: Democrats scored an upset in one of New York’s most conservative Congressional districts on Tuesday, dealing a blow to the national Republican Party in a race that largely turned on the party’s plan to overhaul Medicare. 11:45 p.m. ET: Erick Erickson at Red State: […]

Giuliani 2012? Crazy.

You gotta be kidding me. Rudy Giuliani raised and spent tens of millions of dollars, sucked up vast volumes of media oxygen and won exactly one delegate during his 2008 Republican presidential primary campaign. That Rudy would be considering a run in 2012 is absurd, and anyone who takes this seriously is daft. You know […]

NY-26 Election Day: Are Crazy Jack’s Supporters Breaking Toward Democrat?

Jazz Shaw points out in the Hot Air Green Room that, contrary to some expectations, the erosion of fake “Tea Party” candidate Jack Davis’s support has not translated to poll gains for Republican Jane Corwin. This adds doubt to Politico‘s prediction that a low vote for Crazy Jack would necessarily portend a Corwin victory in today’s New York congressional […]

News From the HuffPo ‘Veal Pen’

In 2009, lefty blogger Jane Hamsher used the phrase “veal pen” to describe the way liberals had surrendered their autonomy to the Obama administration. Lefty blogger Matt Osborne invoked the phrase while describing his decision to delete his archived articles at Huffington Post: I see the point many of the 9,000 or so unpaid contributors […]

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