The last few days leading up to what is widely expected to be a Democrat massacre in the midterm elections tomorrow has highlighted much of the worst in the mainstream media. The New York Times last week published an article decrying the "Bumpkinification of the Midterm Elections" because the GOP looks likely to take over control of […]
Too many million Americans still get their news from the Big 3 major network newscasts, and with the midterm elections just one week away those millions have been ill served by those news organizations. Last week a Media Research Center study of the evening newscasts for ABC, CBS and NBC found a precipitous dropoff in […]
Late last week a funny thing happened. The Denver Post, which had twice endorsed Barack Obama for the presidency came out and urged a vote for GOP candidate Cory Gardner in the Colorado Senate Race. This is the journalistic equivalent of the legal doctrine of an admission against interest. It carries more weight than a National Review or Weekly […]
Cal Poly's College of Liberal Arts and a group called Citizens Congress 2014 led by San Luis Obispo farmer and former actor William Ostrander held a symposium earlier this evening on "Money In Politics: What Could Go Wrong." While I could only stay for about 75 minutes due to my second and third jobs (the […]
Last week someone I follow on Twitter posted a link to this bit of dreck from the young liberal "thinker" Jonathan Chait over at New York magazine. The story is entitled "How Mitch McConnell Hacked American Democracy." I'm guessing that this is a bad thing. The main gist of the piece appears to be that Senate Minority […]
You'd think a fact-checker would catch this from NPR (Your tax dollars at work!): Professor Greene says Senator Joe McCarthy's House Un-American Activities Committee is a perfect example of lustration gone bad. High school civics would have helped you with that one.
House Minority leader Nancy Pelosi went on NBC's "Meet the Press" yesterday and demonstrated an impressive tenacity. She holds fast to her talking points with such tenacity that Lawrence Taylor in his prime couldn't have ripped a football from her grasp. I love how Pelosi (and interviewer David Gregory) seem oblivious to the fact that […]
Honestly, keeping on top of the hacks a "Politifact" could be a full-time job. Maybe the Koch Bros. could hire me at an exorbitant rate to school Politifraud on their own rules. Today's case in point is a purported fact-check of Ann Coulter. For the record, I'm not a fan of Coulter. I haven't read […]
Last week, appearing before the House Oversight Committee, Lois Lerner told the elected officials that she had done nothing wrong. I believe her. Let me rephrase that. I believe that she believes she's done nothing wrong. Because, it turns out, what she was doing from 2010 through sometime in 2012 and possibly continuing even today […]
If you missed much of the testimony of outgoing, acting, IRS Commissioner Steven Miller before a House committee on Friday, then you didn't see one of the most infuriating performances by an ostensibly public servant in recent history. Miller, who will leave his post two weeks early cannot be trusted with a hot dog cart, […]