Amazingly enough, a long and almost entirely positive piece about Sarah Palin has appeared in the NY Times Magazine. A few sample facts learned from it, some of which I’d already suspected: She’s got the energy of a dynamo and … Continue reading →
…lost Margery Eagan, who’s voted for him for the last 30 years. No more. Oh, and even though Frank won re-election handily, he still lost—his chairmanship of the Financial Services committee. Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy. And John Kerry … Continue reading →
Shorter NY Times: it’s the tactics, stupid. Yes, the Republicans just had a better organization and attack machine, “careful plotting,” and a “torrent of corporate money from outside interests.” Ha! Somehow they managed to overcome mere “miscalculations” of Obama and … Continue reading →
Thomas Lifson at American Thinker reflects on Juan Williams and the ideological journey he might be beginning as a result of his NPR firing. A great deal of this is familiar to me; political change, especially from left to right, … Continue reading →
I see it in Williams eyes when I happen to catch him on Fox these days: he’s spitting mad. Personally outraged, and most of all surprised. I don’t know whether the NPR firing will lead to any political change for … Continue reading →
When I wrote this post I perceived the philosophical connections between Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and Daniel Ellsberg of Pentagon Papers renown. But little did I know that their ties are even more concrete than I thought. For instance, Assange … Continue reading →
…that Juan Williams is mad (as in “angry”). He’s also right (as in “correct”).
Continue reading →James Rainey at the LA Times points out the obvious: that the policy NPR cited as its reason for firing Williams—that one that says correspondents in its employ can’t give opinions—is violated regularly and with impunity by others in the … Continue reading →
His response is excellent, just another indication of his basic upfront reasonableness. But that’s not acceptable at NPR any more; PC thought has trumped and eradicated it: Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com [ADDENDUM: Williams has more to say about … Continue reading →
NPR, that public radio station that we all help fund, has fired longtime senior news analyst Juan Williams for making the following comments on Fox’s “The O’Reilly Factor:” “I mean, look, Bill, I’m not a bigot. You know the kind … Continue reading →
At this point the Christine O’Donnell First Amendment story isn’t so much about candidate O’Donnell any more. It’s about the press and its agenda for her—because it turns out she was widely misquoted. I wrote, in
Continue reading →If you go to memeorandum right now, you’ll see that their lead story is a bunch of articles on Christine O’Donnell’s alleged ignorant/stupid/shocking faux pas in her debate with Coons, where she allegedly had no idea that the Constitution establishes … Continue reading →