[Hat tip: Scott Johnson at Powerline.] From Danielle Pletka: The question of Joe Biden’s age, recently vaulted onto front pages by the devastating Hur report on the President’s retention of classified material, has become a political football. Montages of Biden’s … Continue reading →
Hate sells. Sneering, condescending hate sells. And of course, all conservatives are to be hated. So this sort of thing was inevitable (“Casey DeSantis is the Walmart Melania Trump”), and it’s getting a ton of clicks and attention. It reads … Continue reading →
I tend to think there are too many special things about this special election to come to many general conclusions. The first special thing is Palin herself: my sense is that she’s no longer all that popular in Alaska, somewhat … Continue reading →
…is ongoing, and recently one of the Times’ editors made a funny (emphasis mine): James Bennet, the former New York Times editorial page editor, said Wednesday that an error he wrote into a 2017 editorial about Sarah Palin stung particularly … Continue reading →
Sarah Palin is suing the NY Times for defamation: This is the issue: At the center of the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee’s federal suit is a 2017 editorial that incorrectly linked Palin to the 2011 mass shooting in Arizona … Continue reading →
Sarah Palin’s defamation suit against the NY Times has been thrown out of court: This is a case where the NY Times Editorial author James Bennet claimed to be so ignorant, so uninterested in doing any research, and so oblivious … Continue reading →
Sarah Palin has sued the NY Times for defamation based on an editorial in the paper shortly after the Scalise shooting. In it, the Times had made this false claim: In 2011, when Jared Lee Loughner opened fire in a … Continue reading →
…for defamation: Former Governor of Alaska and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is suing the New York Times for defamation over a recent editorial tying one of her political action committee ads to a 2011 mass shooting that severely wounded … Continue reading →
Yesterday I was being a bit cute when I wrote an entire post that went like this: “‘Palin endorses Trump’….well, naturally.” Today I’m going to say a bit more about it, but only a bit more. It doesn’t interest me … Continue reading →
Long-time readers here know I’ve never joined the Palin-bashing. I’ve always thought she was pretty smart, and that most of the negative hype about her was exaggeration and/or outright lying, based not only on political animus but also on class … Continue reading →
Will Hillary Clinton’s impending grandmotherhood become a campaign issue, as in “softening” her, and adding “a compassion thing”? I must admit that the mere notion puzzles me. I assume that Andrew Ross Sorkin, the NY Times financial columnist who suggested … Continue reading →
…here’s the question of the day: what do you think of Sarah Palin’s new eyeglasses? When I first saw them, I was shocked that I was shocked to see that her eyeglass frames were new. It’s odd how a person’s … Continue reading →