The Other McCain

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

WEIGEL RESIGNS

This is not good news for conservatives, no matter how much you hate Dave Weigel. UPDATE: In an e-mail to several bloggers last night, I observed: [O]nce the WaPo axed Ben Domenech, it was more than four years before they again tried a “conservative” blog. As someone who is BCC’d said to me on the […]

Dave Weigel Violates Rule One

UPDATE 6/25: WEIGEL RESIGNS. PREVIOUSLY: Rule One of Modern Journalism is, Don’t piss off Matt Drudge: “This would be a vastly better world to live in if Matt Drudge decided to handle his emotional problems more responsibly, and set himself on fire.” — David Weigel, e-mail to “Journolist” Sigh. He also trashed Byron York and […]

Killgore Trout Beclowns Himself

Dave Weigel of the Washington Post contacted me seeking a denial of an assertion by one of Charles Johnson’s LGF henchmorons that I was the anonymous “Tea Party consultant” who wrote the Playboy article: “I’m almost certain it’s him. He’s making up a lot of the details and probably exaggerating his influence . . .” Fool. […]

Sandy Goodman Thinks The BP Squeeze Was Not ‘Fascism-Fascism’

by Smitty Sandy Goodman at the Puffington Host generates a truly useful idiocy in attacking another useful idiot, David Brooks, for his PBS NewsHour appearance Friday night. At issue is whether the Joe Barton apology can be seen as standing up for the rule of law. Goodman: Those laws, Brooks reminded us, protect the unpopular […]

Apology to a Princetonian

In punk-smacking young Isia Jasiewicz the other day, I evidently touched the pride of one of Jasiewicz’s fellow Princeton alumni. Ben has expressed his embarassment on his own blog, and in a comment at my post: It’s pretty clear that the kid meant just to sneer at Beck — problem for her is that she […]

Newsweek Intern Attempts to Describe Hayek’s Road to Serfdom: Massive FAIL

Thanks to Kathy Shaidle for calling attention to this sophomoric effort by Princeton senior Isia Jasiewicz: On June 8, Beck devoted an entire episode of his talk show on Fox News to The Road to Serfdom, a work of political theory written in the immediate aftermath of World War II by Friedrich von Hayek, an Austrian émigré […]

Another Job I Won’t Get

Not that I would ever consent to work for the company that employs Andrew Sullivan, of course: Atlantic Media, a national news publisher in Washington, D.C., is beginning a search for two dozen reporters to join its editorial ranks. Our current effort includes recruiting exceptional reporting talent already well-proven in covering the nation’s capital. As background, Atlantic […]

Douchebag Coalition Wants FCC to Regulate ‘Hate Speech’ in New Media

We await the federal bureaucracy’s ruling on whether “douchebag” constitutes hate speech: Over thirty organizations want the Federal Communications Commission to open up a probe on “hate speech” and “misinformation” in media. “Hate has developed as a profit-model for syndicated radio and cable television programs masquerading as ‘news’,” they wrote to the FCC . . . […]

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