March 4, 2010
Partisan hack

The Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto highlights some totally predictable partisan hackery by Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne. What Did the Founders Say Today? "If the Republicans pushing against the filibuster love majority rule so much, they should propose getting rid of the Senate altogether. But doing so would mean acknowledging what's really going on […]

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March 2, 2010
Any idiot can be a TV journalist

As Rick Sanchez demonstrates. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c The Uninformant www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Reform

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February 23, 2010
The right to be paid for what you create

A couple of disparate, but related items: First, there’s this article in the New York Observer about the New York Times and the Huffington Post’s moves to expand their stable of people producing content without remuneration. Elsewhere in uncompensated journalism, The Huffington Post launched its college vertical today, complete with a call for free labor. […]

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February 23, 2010
This used to get people fired

MSNBC regular Donny Deutsch referred to Republican Senate candidate Marco Rubio of Florida as a “coconut.” For those of you unfamiliar with the term, its rough analog is referring to an black person as an “Oreo.” You can bet that absolutely nothing will happen to Deutsch because he’s a liberal.

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February 16, 2010
Beware of journalists doing math

Without further comment: In the House of Representatives, 13 lawmakers (eight Democrats, seven Republicans) have decided not to run again.

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February 14, 2010
My letter to the editor

Well, it’s been 11 days since I’ve submitted it to the local newspaper and it hasn’t appeared in print, so I’m going to assume that it will never appear. It’s funny that for 15 years of my life I couldn’t get a letter printed in the local paper because I worked for the paper, now […]

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February 11, 2010
What media bias looks like

Over at The Weekly Standard, Matthew Continetti demonstrates that the Old Gray Lady is in bed with the Obama administration. Let's play a game. Let's say you conducted a poll with a fellow news organization. The poll found that the president's approval rating had fallen to 46 percent. The poll found that 56 percent of […]

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February 9, 2010
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism

We heard that refrain a lot during the eight years George W. Bush was president. Leftists marching in parades were patriotic when they carried banners stating: “We support the troops when they shoot their officers.” Code Pink and their cohorts were patriots when they blocked the entrance of the Marine Corps recruiting office in Berkeley, […]

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February 7, 2010
Politifraud

Pulitzer Prize-winning “fact-check” Web site Politifact.com has done it again. When last we criticized one of their findings, Politifact.com rated this statement by Rep. Mike Pence “half-true”: "To use money from the TARP fund in the manner that is being discussed by the White House and congressional Democrats would be a violation of the law." […]

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January 19, 2010
More media mistakes

So, you’ve got a huge political contest in your backyard that’s garnered interest from across the United States and if you can get through to your Web site, this is what you see: I’m not sure what that blank box in the top middle is supposed to have in it – if anything, but there […]

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