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 […]
Arianna Huffington Offers Exciting New Opportunities for You to Blog for Free!
She should call it TheUnmitigatedGall.com: Today we launch a great new chapter for Patch.com, AOL’s national network of hyperlocal sites currently covering community life in over 800 towns across America. . . . Patch will provide an unprecedented infrastructure for citizen engagement in time for the 2012 presidential election, with a focus on community and […]
Progressive Economics Fail At The Huffington Post
by Smitty Over at SOL/PuffHo, they just don’t get the new Progressive Economics. Jobs are what matter. Product? Not so much. Thus, if the State of Illinois pays for signs with spelling errors, that isn’t a bug, that’s a feature! Workers and materials suppliers will be kept busy moving the location of the typo all […]
Huffy Arianna And The Circling Sharks
by Smitty Morrissey and the dextrosphere are all enjoying a good chuckle at the expense of the Huffington Post lawsuit. Jonathan Tasini: We’re going to make it clear that, until you do justice here, your life is going to be a living hell. Justice? Really? How does Tasini’s notion of justice relate to things like […]
This Reminds Me of Stalingrad
Earlier this afternoon, I remarked on Twitter how wonderful the Battle of Stalingrad was. Nazis killing Commies and Commies killing Nazis — killing each other by the thousands, day after day, week after week, for months on end. It was a win-win, and the only sad thing is that the battle ended before every last […]
Fisking Für Gesundheit Und Geld
by Smitty “Fisking for good health and money” The SOL/Puffington Host RSS feed is a source of endless wonder. Let us experience the flow of kool-aid that is the writing of Preeti Vissa, Community Reinvestment Director, The Greenlining Institute. Let us enjoy her current outing, Poverty Is a Pre-Existing Condition: Why the Affordable Care Act […]
New Motherf–ing Tone 2.0
Because liberals hold a patent on Civility™ they are the sole arbiters of who is or is not in violation: Andrew Brietbart’s ad hominem attack on Van Jones in The Daily Caller — right down to calling him a “commie punk” and “a cop killer-supporting, racist, demagogic freak” — violates the tenets of debate and […]
‘Gutfeld Claims He Was Offered His Fox Show Because of His Writing on HuffPost’
Jehuda the Rhetorican called my attention to that claim made, in a letter to the president of the Newspaper Guild, by the senior vice president of public relations for Huffington Post, Mario Ruiz: We couldn’t agree more with your goal of ensuring journalists are paid for their work. It’s why HuffPost has 143 editors, writers, […]
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