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A few weeks ago I mentioned the case of two seventh-grade boys who were charged with 10 sex crimes for slapping girls on the butt -- including five which, if they were convicted, would require them to register as sex offenders. After tons of outrage, five felony sex abuse charges were first reduced to misdemeanors […]

The New York Observer called CBS "newsman" Bill Plante to ask him about his comment after the announcement of the departure of Karl Rove (which I lambasted earlier, with video): "If he’s so smart, how come you lost Congress?" Plante's explanation: Reached by phone at his home in Washington D.C. on Monday night, Mr. Plante […]

I took Democrat senator and presidential aspiriant Barack Obama to task yesterday for running his mouth without first checking with his brain. If you will recall, Obama said: We've got to get the job done there and that requires us to have enough troops so that we're not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which […]

The sad thing is, I could probably write a roundup of idiocy by journalists far and wide just about every day -- certainly every week. First, CBS News' White House correspondent channels his inner jerk: You have to listen carefully, but Plante's question can be made out: "If he's so smart, how come you lost […]

Don Imus, a jerk, is getting sued by one of the Rutgers University women's basketball players because he ruined her good name. If you can name any Rutgers University women's basketball player -- past or present -- then your daughter plays on the team. This is silliness.

Barack Obama is not ready for primetime. Answering a question on how he would refocus U.S. troops out of Iraq to better fight terrorism, he said, "We've to get the job done there and that requires us to have enough troops so that we're not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous […]

I don't know about the management they've got at MSNBC, but why do I have a feeling that Chris Matthews should be getting a lecture from human resources? It's like "Anchorman" only real.

The New York Times editorial writers should resign en masse. They're an embarrassment to the entire principle of honest analysis and clear thinking. Just over a month ago, the Times published a lengthy and morally bankrupt editorial urging the United States to pull all of its troops out of Iraq while acknowledging that such a […]

Presidential adviser Karl Rove announced this morning that he will resign effective Aug. 31. It took little time for Democrats to dip back into their Nixon-era store of rhetoric. Sen. Patrick Leahy, the committee's chairman, issued a statement following Rove's announcement saying Rove has "acted as if he was above the law." Leahy added, "There […]

There were a couple of interesting posts on the subject of journalism this past week. The first one was a guest post by William Katz, a former New York Times Magazine editor and longtime talent coordinator for the "Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson. The whole thing is worth reading, but I wanted to highlight this […]