The Other McCain

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

Shepard Smith, Live From Tokyo

“. . . blackouts across this nation . . . epic earthquake . . . monster tsunami . . . nightmare scene from Hell . . . . a quickly growing humanitarian crisis . . . an economy teetering on the brink of collapse . . .” Fuck you, Shep. Fuck you and fuck your […]

Will Fox Dump Glenn Beck?

That’s what David Carr of the New York Times suggests: Beck’s contract is up in December and maybe he and the Fox folks don’t see eye-to-eye. Howard Portnoy at Hot Air Green Room is dubious about this theory, citing Scott Baker at the Beck-sponsored Blaze blog. I don’t watch Beck’s show enough to offer any […]

Jeff G. Schools Shep Smith

“Let me clue you in here, you vapid hair-do . . .” Just in case you’re wondering when Jeff went sour on Shep, let’s go back to September 2005, when Shep’s melodramatic flair was viciously satirized here, here and here. Shep brings to his coverage the kind of detached stoicism one usually finds on the front row of a […]

Everybody at CPAC Likes to Have Their Photos Taken With Celebrities …

. . . which is why some obscure dudes from a cable-TV show insisted on having their photos taken with Susannah Fleetwood and Sarah Rumpf: Video of the obscure cable-TV dudes at CPAC: Remember that most people tuned into cable TV at 3 a.m. are watching ads for the George Foreman grill or “natural male […]

Glenn Beck Wants You to Threaten Violence Against Harmless Academics

That’s what liberals have been claiming. The Nation published several nasty e-mails professor Frances Fox Piven received because she has become “the target of a relentless campaign to demonize her.” This accusation got repeated in a New York Times story with a scary headline: Spotlight From Glenn Beck Brings a CUNY Professor Threats And that leads […]

The MSM’s Peculiar Silence on Zeitgeist (Guess Which Network the Progressive Award-Winning New Age 9/11 ‘Truther’ Film Suggests Is ‘Manipulating’ News)

“The last thing the men behind the curtain want is a conscious, informed public . . .” — Zeitgeist (2007) “If conservativism is defined as standing athwart history yelling ‘Stop!’ Zeitgeist is looking the other way yelling ‘Go!’ Have you seen any major media reports on Zeitgeist? Why is that?” — John Saxton, “Three Exculpatory […]

Memo to Bill Sammon: There’s Somebody at Fox News Who Is Out to Get You

You may have figured that out with the earlier leak of your health-care memo, and now with the leak of your climate-change memo, you know that first leak wasn’t an anomaly. If you need some advice on how to deal with this kind of stuff, just give me a holler. I think I know exactly […]

Media Bias or Media Accuracy?

When I was an assistant national editor at The Washington Times, one of my pet peeves was when reporters in our Capitol Hill bureau would write about the budget with the idea that they were writing about the government’s money, rather than the taxpayer’s money. This would typically come up when, discussing proposals to reduce tax […]

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