For his first few years at The New York Times, columnist Paul Krugman was my punching bag. His dishonest, hack columns were perfect material for easy rabbit punches that had a devastating effect. My takedowns of his dishonest columns received widespread notice in a variety of national publications and in conservative Washington circles. Then the Times […]
I follow National Journal columnist and former AP White House correspondent Ron Fournier on Twitter. Mainly for the entertainment value of a mainstream journalist attempting to keep up the façade that he's an unbiased purveyor of truth holding all sides accountable. This morning, Tom Anderson responded to one of Fournier's tweets noting the political sideshow that […]
CBS News' Major Garrett had a question for President Obama at this morning's news conference. It's his last question of the Obama pressidency. For one brief moment, President Obama knew what it was like to be treated like a Republican politician...and he didn't like it. *Update* And the palace guard strikes back! Science-denier Bill Maher […]
The fact-check itself is interesting only in that it is an example of a Politifraud admission against interest. What I want to draw attention to is the Editor's note as evidence that Politifraud is Mostly Useless. Really? I'm trying to understand exactly how ignorant of the world you have to be not to know that […]
Over the weekend, the Associated Press once again demonstrated that 99 percent of journalists (visual and otherwise) give the other 1 percent a bad name. Photographer Charlie Neibergall and, one would presume a photo editor, sent a series of photos like this one over the AP wire. This from the same AP that regularly transmitted […]
A mentally deranged young man (who will receive no notoriety by having his name mentioned here) went into Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church Wednesday night and shot an killed 9 people. This prompted the usual calls from the usual callers for more "common sense" gun regulations. I do not know how much longer we can […]
The New York Times has one of the most talked-about stories on the Web this morning revealing that GOP presidential candidate Marco Rubio and his wife have had 17 traffic tickets over the years. The presidential candidate, it is revealed in the 3rd paragraph, has had 4 tickets since 1997. His wife, in a serious blow […]
The New York Times' house Republican David Brooks, a man of such strength of belief that he is swayed only by pants creases, made an interesting observation on last Friday's PBS Newshour program. And I have my disagreements, say, with President Obama, but President Obama has run an amazingly scandal-free administration, not only he himself, but […]
ABC News' chief anchor George Stephanopolous is not a journalist. He's a Democratic operative—never forget that. The Free Beacon reports that the former communications director for President Bill Clinton donated $50,000 to the Clinton foundation from 2013 to 2014. This comes just a few weeks after Stephanopolous aggressively grilled "Clinton Cash" author Peter Schweizer on […]
Associated Press reporter Matt Lee questions Obama State Department flack about why they have "no intention" of examining whether the secret donations to the Clinton Foundation during Hillary Clinton's tenure affected government policy. Unsurprisingly, this is also what a cover-up looks like.