The Other McCain

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

Shorter Juan Williams: I’m Sorry My Underpaid Assistant Plagiarized That Column With My Byline I Didn’t Write

Who am I to judge, huh? Hasn’t it been my lifelong ambition to get paid big bucks without actually doing any work? But the rock star dream didn’t happen, so I was forced to resort to journalism, which requires me to sit in front of a laptop computer and at least pretend that this is […]

‘MalaysiaGate’ Day Four: Conspicuous Silence and Convenient Memory Lapses

June 2008: Jerome Armstrong posted to Photostream this photo of him and Josh Treviño meeting with Zaid Ibrahim in Malaysia (click image to enlarge) Questions about the “MalaysiaGate” controversy — in which American bloggers were paid as part of a foreign government’s public-relations campaign — continued to be asked Monday, the fourth day since Rosie Gray of […]

However, She Is Not a Witch

Headline, New York Daily News: Former Miss Delaware Teen USA lost tiara over porn role that paid just $1,500: producers

‘Professional Escort’ Tells Daily Caller Menendez Was One of Her Clients

It is, necessarily, a one-source story: A professional escort who travels the East Coast seeing clients in cities from Miami to Boston has identified a photo of Senator Bob Menendez as a man who paid her for sex. The woman, in her late 30s, told The Daily Caller prior to seeing Menendez’s photo that she had […]

It’s Internet Crazy Day: Special Ironic Menendez ‘Healthy Youth’ Edition

Historians will perhaps remember Feb. 22, 2013, as the Day the Internet Finally Went Completely Bugfucking Nuts. — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) February 22, 2013 OK, I spent most of this morning exchanging e-mails with various suffering victims of the Butt-Hurt Epidemic that is laying waste to the online world today. If anybody has personal […]

Pete Domenici, Republican Sex Machine

Damn. Is this the Republican Party or an episode of the Maury Povich show? washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-pol… — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) February 21, 2013 You know how, whenever there’s a Democrat scandal, liberal blogs try to pretend like they don’t notice it? I hate that, and so I’m not going to pretend not to notice that […]

Boyle on Menendez: ‘Miller Cut His Teeth in Democratic Scandal Management’

The shameful partisan effort of the major media to discourage attention to the Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) scandal gets a brutal beatdown from the man who originally broke the story last fall: The New York Times on Saturday published a story with a headline claiming “Inquiry of Democratic Senator Started With a Partisan Push,” referring […]

Washington Post Reports Menendez Corruption, Downplays Jailbait Hookers

Even when they can’t find a way to avoid covering a Democrat Party scandal, they strive valiantly to retain their precious moral superiority. Front-page headine in the Washington Post: Sen. Menendez contacted top officials in friend’s Medicare dispute However, as Jeffrey Meyer points out at Newsbusters, the 43-paragraph front-page story ignores the sexual allegations against […]

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