The Other McCain

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

You Stay Classy, MSNBC!

Many days, I Watch MSNBC So You Don’t Have To™, but it’s not safe for children and the kids are out of school this week, so I wasn’t watching Monday when the World’s Worst Network featured this: MICHAEL ERIC DYSON: Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity and the rest of those folks ought to be ashamed […]

MSNBC OMFG: @ChrisLHayes and Guest @RichardKimNYC Talk About Butt Sex

If you wonder why Chris Hayes’ ratings are so low — he gets fewer viewers (622,000) at 8 p.m. ET than either Chris Matthews at 7 p.m. (798,000) or Rachel Maddow at 9 p.m. (712,000) — this one-minute video clip from Thursday may explain a lot: HAYES: I was a little surprised, given how vile the comments […]

If @PiersMorgan Hates America So Much, Why Won’t He Just Leave the Country?

Phil Robertson and @piersmorgan: One of them is a disgusting offensive person on cable TV, and the other one is from Louisiana. #tcot — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) December 20, 2013 Piers Morgan is allegedly heterosexual, so it’s not a hate crime to disagree with CNN’s unpopular 9 p.m. host, whose third-place show got only […]

Obama: Less Popular Than Syphilis

“Obama: Anatomy of a World Leader,” by Alex Gray (detail) OK, maybe the headline is exaggerating a bit, but Obama’s poll numbers have definitely cratered in the past ten weeks. These two headlines were an interesting contrast of how the polls get spun: Obama’s Current Approval Rating Is The Ugliest Since Nixon — Business Insider […]

Ed Schultz Goes Way Off-Message

The Angriest Man on TV™ gets paid big bucks for his act as a left-wing populist who hates Republicans like God hates sin. Alas, when it comes to the lowly wage slaves who haul the freight at his network, Ed Schultz sounds like more like Ebenezer Scrooge: Ed Schultz decided to take a break from […]

After Nine Long Years, Media Matters Declares Victory in ‘War on Fox News’

Before addressing the report today at Huffington Post, let me ask: How many readers are students of military science? One of the things you learn about when studying basic tactics is that battlefields sometimes have “channelizing” terrain features that restrict troop movements, so that the direction of attack (or line of retreat) is predictable: Restricted […]

Grabbing the Other End of the Rope

Rush Limbaugh occasionally says, “I don’t need ‘balance.’ I am balance.” That is to say, when all the major institutions of politics, media and culture are dominated by liberalism, the conservative who aims to critique and counterbalance the regnant ethos need not concern himself too much with presenting The Other Side of the Story. As […]

Martin Bashir Resigns from MSNBC, Disappointing Dozens of Viewers

Of course, if MSNBC fired every one of their hosts who said something stupid, they've be left broadcasting a test pattern. — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) December 4, 2013 When you think about all the evil things the liberal media have said about Sarah Palin over the years, you know it took a special kind […]

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