The Other McCain

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

Question the Timing: Planned Parenthood Bombing Before Wisconsin Primary?

Watching MSNBC can be a weird experience. About 3 a.m., unable to sleep, I was flipping around the channels and happened onto Ed Schultz — who reminds me of every mean drunk I ever knew — going on and on about the alleged Republican “War on Women.” I had the sound muted on the TV […]

Piers Morgan: ‘What a Load of Fatuous Nonsense You Speak, Touré, Don’t You?’

OK, I almost never watch CNN and hadn’t previously had a high opinion of Piers Morgan, but on the other hand, I’d never heard of this Touré character at all, until I saw the Breitbart headline: MSNBC’s Touré Has Epic Race-Baiting Meltdown On CNN So I wondered what the heck this was about. Watch the video: […]

Trayvon Martin Rashomon

The first time I talked to anyone about the Trayvon Martin case, I cautioned against the urge to jump to conclusions based on media accounts. Remember, “Send the Body to Glenn Beck“? That turned out well, didn’t it? Whatever actually happened in the Martin case — and we still don’t know the whole truth of […]

‘Those Festering Stereotypes’

Karen Finney, hatemonger: “[Republican politicians] reinforce and validate old stereotypes that associate the poor and welfare as criminal behavior with African-Americans and people of color, calling us lazy, undeserving recipients of public assistance. In the case of Trayvon, those festering stereotypes had lethal consequences.” Right: Trayvon was killed by a Democrat, who was undoubtedly influenced by […]

@Soledad_OBrien’s Unpopularity Destroys Morning Ratings for CNN

Soledad O’Brien, America’s least-popular cable TV news personality Executives at CNN must be in shock at the catatrophic implosion of their morning lineup, as Starting Point With Soledad O’Brien (7-9 a.m. weekdays) recorded the cable network’s lowest ratings for that time slot in more than a decade. Fewer than 100,000 adults 25-54 tuned in to O’Brien’s […]

Why Was NY Times Reporter Jeff Zeleny Doing Romney Campaign’s Bidding?

Rick Santorum has been using the “uniquely disqualified” line against Mitt Romney in his stump speeches for weeks to describe how RomneyCare makes the Massachusetts governor a poor choice to face Obama in November. So, while people are making a big deal of Santorum yelling “bulls–t” at New York Times reporter Jeff Zeleny for asking […]

Roll Over for Romney?

Kiss my ass! Between his inevitability and his electability, Romney’s advocates would have you believe their man is an unstoppable electoral juggernaut, a lead-pipe cinch to become the next President of the United States, and they’ve managed to sell that proposition with the assistance of journalists who seem suspiciously eager to ignore all evidence to […]

Trayvon Martin Case Discussed by Noted Civil Rights Leader … David Plouffe?

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana When I had lunch Wednesday with Ali Akbar, he was talking about the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, and I had to confess that I didn’t know enough about the case to have an opinion. My main suggestions were (a) we shouldn’t “try the case in the media” by offering opinions based on incomplete […]

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