Yes, I’m back to critiquing Peggy Noonan’s columns. But please forgive me; there’s a personal reason this time. As vanderleun has pointed out, she seems to have stolen my meme: After the president announced his plan he seemed to slip … Continue reading →
Climategate is endlessly fascinating; I could write and read about it all day if I let myself. It has many of the most suspenseful elements of fiction (Michael Crichton fiction, to be exact), but truth tends to be stranger—and to … Continue reading →
Because I’ve been away from civilization for nearly four days, I haven’t been able to follow the twistings and turnings of Climategate as closely as I otherwise would. But from my quick perusal of the subject today, it strikes me … Continue reading →
Susan Estrich is a Democratic operative who sometimes shows the rare ability to criticize her own, and in the past she’s borne some of the consequences. Last night she spoke out again, this time in an interview with Greta Van … Continue reading →
There are lies, and then there are really stupid lies. The following video would seem to represent the latter on the part of ACORN, for instance. It appears to contradict ACORN’s claim that they had turned the filmmakers away in … Continue reading →
The stalwart Jake Tapper stands nearly alone among network news reporters in clinging to the apparently outworn idea of defending the press’s right to criticize a Democratic president. In this interview he interviews Obama’s Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, voicing some … Continue reading →
…but it’s Obama’s war. He may be Hamlet on Afghanistan, but in the domestic Fox War he’s called up the troops: Dunn, Axelrod, Emanuel. In the WaPo, Ruth Marcus says the war on Fox is dumb, and she goes on … Continue reading →
There was a discussion in the comments section here about whether the current campaign to use fabricated quotes to shout “Racist!!!” at Rush Limbaugh was “orchestrated” or not. I think the word “orchestrated” is a bit strong. It implies a … Continue reading →
Dirty tricks, anyone? [ADDENDUM: Mark Steyn weights in on the matter. But of course CNN is the objective cable news station. Anita, you there?]
Continue reading →Yesterday I wrote about Obama’s escalating war on Fox News. A conversation ensued in the comments section. Some people were puzzled, asking what Obama’s goals might be, and how this could possibly further them. After all, wouldn’t this be likely … Continue reading →
This is disturbing: Appearing on CNN [Sunday] morning, White House Communications Director Anita Dunn said Fox News exists simply to further the agenda of the GOP. “Fox News often operates almost as either the research arm or the communications arm … Continue reading →
…because now the Grey Lady will have to sully its aristocratic little non-liberal non-partisan hands by actually glancing at Fox News now and then, and perhaps even at right wing blogs on occasion. The horror, the horror! And the nameless … Continue reading →