Former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens died in a plane crash Monday afternoon. I was never a big fan of Stevens, his penchant for pork represented the worst of the Republican Party. Stevens also held the distinction of being the only senator I ever pissed off in my previous life as a reporter. An article I […]
Today’s San Diego Union-Tribune took a look at one of the local “stimulus” projects targeted by senators Tom Coburn and John McCain at a press conference last week. The “project” is actually a study on alcohol abuse and drunk driving that received $497,117 from the nearly $1 trillion stimulus bill. So, what we’re talking about […]
Shirley Sherrod, who was reflexively fired by the USDA a week or so back has announced she intends to sue Andrew Breitbart. No lawyer with half a brain – or working on a contingency basis – will take the case. Why? Well, a week later Chris Matthews figures it out. The Newsbusters transcript: CHRIS MATTHEWS: […]
A couple of things jumped out at me recently as I've been reading some of how the purportedly mainstream media is covering the Journo-List and Tea Party "Racism" issues. First, the Journo-List, from Politico's Roger Simon: Recently, however, the conservative website The Daily Caller, run by Tucker Carlson, got hold of many Journolist e-mails and […]
Heard anything about Cindy Sheehan lately? Wonder why? The last person to have “absolute moral authority” (AMA) granted to her by the mainstream media, Sheehan is no longer a useful tool now that the target of her ire would be a Democratic president. Sunday, on CNN’s “Reliable Sources,” Salon.com (does anyone actually read that site?) […]
Britain’s Guardian newspaper held a debate a couple weeks back over the Climategate scandal. The panel featured Steve McIntyre, proprietor of ClimateAudit.org and debunker of the infamous hockey stick graph. You can find a brief summary of the debate here. The audio of the entire debate is here at the Guardian site and certainly worth […]
I must confess that I haven’t spent enough time writing about the Journo-list and the downfall of Washington Post “conservative” blogger Dave Weigel and today’s Daily Caller article on an effort by members of the Journo-list in 2008 to brand conservatives interested in the controversy over President Obama’s former pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright as racists. […]
As I outlined in the post below, President Obama has every right to sack Gen. Stanley McChrystal. If that happens, what will be interesting to watch over the next several days and months is how McChrystal is treated by the media. Take the case of Gen. Eric Shinseki who was made a cause célèbre after […]
When I was graciously offered the opportunity to no longer work for the San Diego Union-Tribune nearly a year ago, one of the conditions of receiving a meager severance package (designed in such a way to minimize the company’s tax liability while subsequently maximizing my own – an excellent move for the Platinum Equity owners) […]
Scroll down and watch the video if you’ve been relying on the mainstream media to tell you about Rep. Bob “Who are YOU?” Etheridge’s little self-control problem. In the wake of the video of an unhinged old man attacking a couple young, well-dressed young men for asking a Democrat if he supported the Obama agenda, […]