The Other McCain

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

Their Propaganda, and Ours

Michael Moynihan has a splendid piece at the Daily Beast: In the bad old days of the Cold War, those Americans sympathetic to Moscow could purchase clumsy Kremlin propaganda at various radical bookstores, stocked with glossy magazines and turgid tracts about collective farms and Stakhanovite iron output. . . . But the spread of capitalist […]

NBC’s Maria Shriver Raves About How Abortion Barbie ‘Became a Star’

Erick Erickson dubbed Texas Democrat state Sen. Wendy Davis “Abortion Barbie” last year when she filibustered a bill to reduce the legal window for abortion from 24 to 20 weeks of pregnancy. Stop and think about that for a minute: 24 weeks is nearly six months. Even if you are an advocate of “a woman’s […]

Macho @EdShow Gets Called Out on Twitter by @AnnCoulter: ‘Lying Pussy’

MSNBC’s Ed Schultz: “Republicans, they’re afraid of me. They don’t want to talk to me.”   So, how’s that working out for you, Ed? Invite me on your show, you lying pussy. RT @Matthops82 "Republicans are afraid of me. They don't want to talk to me." – @edshow — Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) January 15, 2014 […]

The @Maddow Method: MSNBC’s Televised Left-Wing Blog Show

Let’s check the transcript, shall we? . . . this Koch brothers-affiliated group . . . . . . these Koch brothers-affiliated state groups . . . . . . the Koch brothers-connected Florida group . . . That’s the Koch brothers group . . . The same Koch brothers group . . . . […]

Because @Deanofcomedy Isn’t Funny

A guy named Dean Obeidallah uses the Twitter handle @Deanofcomedy and was part of the MSNBC panel whose discussion of a Mitt Romney family photo led host Melissa Harris-Perry to apologize. Obeidallah evidently feels he got shortchanged, and that he didn’t get enough credit for his own “jokes” during that panel, because he’s written an […]

Unpopular Personality @MHarrisPerry on Obscure MSNBC Network Apologizes

The sequence of headlines tells the story: Melissa Harris-Perry Panel Mocks Black Romney Grandchild As Token — The Right Scoop Outrage as MSNBC panelists make Mitt Romney’s adopted black grandchild the punchline of a joke — Daily Mail Sarah Palin: MSNBC ‘despicable’ — Politico MSNBC host apologizes after panel makes fun of Romney photo with […]

If He’s Lost Lawrence O’Donnell …

. . . Edward Snowden’s status as progressive hero is over: MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell skewered Edward Snowden’s Christmas address on Thursday, saying the National Security Agency leaker’s claims are “wildly overblown.” “Every time he speaks, every time, he will say things that are absurdly, wildly overblown,” O’Donnell said. “He says that the government is, […]

Three Gay Men Laugh About Oral Sex With Anderson Cooper’s Mother

The weirdest thing is that Anderson Cooper himself introduced the topic in a discussion with Dan Savage and Andrew Sullivan: “My mom once wrote a romance memoir about men she had dated — and I use that term loosely — and she described one guy she was currently dating — my mom was 85 at […]

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