The Other McCain

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

Muslims: Don’t Hurt Their Feelings!

For example, it hurts their feelings when an Australian court says they can’t have sex with 8-year-olds. And it especially hurts their feelings when you suspect them of involvement with terrorism: Right-wing websites quickly pointed the finger at “jihadis,” and Pamela Geller, publisher of the website Atlas Shrugs and executive director of Stop Islamization of […]

Obligatory ‘Chris Matthews Says Something Stupid’ Video Post

Richard McEnroe at Three Beers Later called attention to this yesterday: David Corn says “the Republicans have depicted themselves as hostage-takers who are ready to blow things up and the public doesn’t like this” — which is both untrue and stupid. Pat Buchanan then attempted to defend Republicans and the Tea Party movement. This evidently […]

See? B.S.!

Ed Morrissey does an excellent evisceration of a blatantly deceptive CBS News poll: Have Democrats leaped to an eleven-point registration advantage in the last five weeks?  In early June, a CBS News poll showed a D/R/I sample of 30/30/40, which undersampled both parties slightly in favor of independents, even weighting it to slightly favor Republicans. […]

Does the Los Angeles Times Understand the Meaning of the Word ‘Discredited’? UPDATE: Hahn Admits Placing Call on Behalf of Rapist Gangster ‘P.J. Steve’

In a story about Thursday’s debate in California’s 36th District congressional special election, Los Angeles Times reporter Jean Merl twice uses the word “discredited” in reference to KTTV’s reporting on Democrat Janice Hahn’s gang-intervention program: The exchange came as national women’s groups accused the Huey campaign of trying to discourage women from voting in the […]

Casey Anthony: More Important Than Mitt Romney, Michelle Bachmann, Et Al.

The O.J. Simpson of baby-killers: A Smart Politics study of Lexis-Nexis transcripts from CNN, FOX, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, and NPR found more news reports mentioned the Casey Anthony trial at least one time than any of the 10+ major and minor Republican presidential candidates since opening statements were delivered on May 24th. The Anthony murder […]

E.J. Dionne Is Smarter Than You

E.J. Dionne can read the Declaration of Independence, whereas you are too stupid to do so for yourself — but don’t worry: E.J. will tell you what it really means, in his newspaper column. Although you are too stupid to understand the Declaration of Independence (which is why E.J. thinks you need him to tell […]

Daily Beast Writer Claims Obama Is a Victim of Washington’s ‘Pundit Class’

Whenever someone I never heard of before makes a preposterous claim, my first question is, “Who is this person?” Michelle Goldberg is a senior contributing writer for The Daily Beast/Newsweek. She is the author of The New York Times bestseller Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism and The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power and […]

Mika Brzezinski: ‘Hey, You Know What MSNBC Needs? More Obama Fans!’

OK, she didn’t exactly say that: “We’re getting hit a lot lately for not bringing on people who speak on behalf of the White House and really stick up for the President.” Joe Scarborough points out that they checked and — “Oh, my God” — their guests on Morning Joe are 10-to-1 Democrats, but they just […]

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