The Other McCain

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

Right-Winger Provoking ‘Insane’ ‘Racist’ Tea Party Violence … by Chris Rock?

“When Celebrities Attack,” starring Jason Mattera: Ed Morrissey has a point: Even if you think “ambush” interviews are unfair, shouldn’t it be obvious that attacking the camera is a bad idea? Welcome to the Bob Etheridge School of Media Relations!  

‘Take Our Country Back’: Chris Cassone Tells the Story of His Tea Party Anthem

Think back to where you were three years ago, in March 2009. President Obama had just been inaugurated. Nancy Pelosi was Speaker of the House, Harry Reid led a Senate majority of 59 Democrats, and they were in the process of ramming through Congress the $800 billion “stimulus” bill, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. […]

Erstwhile #Anonymous Spokesman Barrett Brown Scores Six-Figure Book Deal, Raided by FBI, Denounces Snitch

Barrett Brown, blabbering vulgar gibberish into his webcam, March 2011 “The fact that Amazon is now providing money to me and Housh — they’re going to help us get our message out.” — Barrett Brown, November 2011 Longtime readers of the blog will recall that in February 2011, I put up a post with this […]

Righteous Indignation Meets The Grand Master

— by Wombat-socho This post is about two very different people who took the same journey at very different times. One of them grew up in poverty, and one in the middle class. One went to a well-known private school with all expenses paid; other other had to scramble to get an appointment to one […]

Obscure Musical Allusion Blog Post Title Sweepstakes: Joy Division, for the Win!

“It’s like being assigned to cover a psychotic breakdown, so that the challenge as a journalist is to report accurately all the paranoid gibberish, the bizarre hallucinations and delusions of grandeur.” — Robert Stacy McCain, Jan. 11, 2012 “But there is no point in haggling any longer with this. The time has come to get […]

You Make The Call: Is This The Most Raaaaacist Vehicle In America?

by Smitty Criticism of the POTUS is raaaaacist. The POTUS and cretinbeing bearing the title Attorney General are of similar racial background. This vehicle appears critical of the one called Attorney General, whose arguments have the weight of something ducked up. Therefore, these vehicles arguments are made of raaaaacist wood, meaning the vehicle is something […]

Celebrating The Crowd At CPAC, ii
General Characteristics of Crowds

by Smitty Le Bon, emphasis original: The sentiments and ideas of all the persons in the gathering take on the same direction, and their conscious personality vanishes. A collective mind is formed, doubtless transitory, but presenting clearly defined characteristics. The gathering has thus become what, in the absence of a better expression, I will call […]

Celebrating The Crowd At CPAC, i

by Smitty Gustav Le Bon’s 1895 book The Crowd heavily informed Ann Coulter’s book Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America. Thanks to Ann for the hat tip. Rather than take her route of showing the specific evil effects of the Democrat party, and then quoting Le Bon, it seems needful to go back […]

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