And I can’t say I blame him one iota. I previously wrote about the unwarranted slurs the article’s author, Isaac Chotiner, dished out to Hanson at the piece’s outset in an effort to discredit him. Here’s Hanson’s twitter feed about … Continue reading →
Victor Davis Hanson has given a fascinating interview to Isaac Chotiner of The New Yorker. The interview is well worth reading if only for the thesis that Hanson, a classics professor, offers about Trump: Do you feel that in some … Continue reading →
Here’s the text of the complaint. Paul Mirengoff has a pretty good analysis of this particular suit’s prospects: It’s worth noting, however, that much of the alleged defamation by the Post consists of quotations from Nathan Phillips, the jerk who … Continue reading →
I’m not sure that Lara Logan (she of the Superman-ish name) was ever in the fold in the first place. But if she ever was, she’s certainly left it now: Logan herself got into trouble with CBS several years ago … Continue reading →
The story of the attack on Jussie Smollett was a suspicious one from the start. I say that for two reasons. The first is that so many of these recent reports of racially motivated attacks, physical or symbolic, have turned … Continue reading →
Truth is the first casualty in the war the press is waging against the right (and against Trump, and against MAGA hats, and against white males, and against Republicans…). So here’s a video put out by Nicholas Sandmann’s defamation lawyer … Continue reading →
…a different standard for allegations against Democrats. From Justin Fairfax: “Does anybody think it’s any coincidence that on the eve of potentially my being elevated that that’s when this uncorroborated smear comes out?” he asked. “Does anybody believe that’s a … Continue reading →
When you read the transcript of this interview CNN did with Nathan Phillips, it’s good to remember that it occurred last Saturday, when Phillips was enjoying his fifteen-minutes-plus of fame and the longer video hadn’t come to public attention yet. … Continue reading →
I think of the Covington story and the Buzzfeed Cohen/Trump story as connected, even though their subject matters differ tremendously. The common meta-subject-matter of both, the lessons to learn from both, go like this: (1) There is no limit to … Continue reading →
I just found this correction in which the WaPo admits that Nathan Phillips is not a Vietnam veteran. Fancy that. It’s something the right half of the blogosphere suspected almost immediately. I had made a comment or two about it, … Continue reading →
Nicholas Frankovich wrote a scathing piece in National Review on the Covington teenagers entitled “The Covington Students Might as Well Have Just Spit on the Cross.” I mentioned it in an earlier post, noting that I’d read his article when … Continue reading →
One of the most chilling aspects of the hatred fanned by the duplicitous reporting on the videotaped incident regarding the Covington students and the 60-something Native American has been the venomous rage directed against the face of one of the … Continue reading →