Category: A Voice From the Outer World
Right-Wing Hate Not Confirmed, But MSM Lunch-Eating in Full Force!
You might remember the story of Bill Sparkman, the part-time census worker the evil and vicious right-wing killed in rural Kentucky. Okay, we didn’t all kill him. We just created a…wait, how did the left-wing blogosphere put it? Ah, yes. We “hatemongers” “created an impression that Census employees are terrifying” and our “unhinged hostility to [...]
Information Wants to Ask the New York Times Whether to Be Free or Not
Wait, I thought the media were supposed to want to uncover the hidden mechanations of government. Whatever happened to speaking truth to power and “information wants to be free” and all that stuff? I guess maybe information better start asking permission from the New York Times first. And as a nice sequel of sorts to [...]
Well, Well…Guess Who’s Having Some Internal Strife, Too?
Ah, so the Republican party isn’t the only one torn by “civil war”, going through a “crackup”, experincing a “schism” , heading for a “split”, or committing “fratricide”. The Democrats are having their own problems with stunning electoral loses, recalcitrant moderates, a grassroots uprising against the party establishment, calls for donation boycotts, arguments about ideology [...]
The Dour Nuns of Newsweek Try to Solve the Palin Problem
Ed Driscoll catches Newsweek engaging in some Rule 5 action to move a few more copies off the newsstands. He notes that the magazine’s circulation is swirling the bowl and hasn’t gotten any better since it’s become The Barack Obama Butt-Smooching Weekly. Keep in mind, as you read Newsweek’s headline that Maria wasn’t actually a [...]
It’s the New Math (Hope and Change Version)
Total numbers of AP reporters assigned to comb Sarah Palin’s book for mistakes = 11. Total number of Soros-bots assigned to comb Rush Limbaugh’s shows for “mistakes” = 3. Total number of completely, entirely, scrupulously fair reporters assigned to comb Barack Obama’s two books for mistakes, to investigate confessions of serious drug use, or to [...]
If You Can’t Beat Them, Stick Them in Their Own Literary Ghetto
What is it about progressives that the very notion of competition should turn their bowels to water? It’s as if the phrase “the marketplace of ideas” is the intellectual equivalent of a rotten fish stuffed with limburger and wrapped in the pelt of a road-killed skunk. In a Nov. 9 entry on The Huffington Post [...]
What’s All This “Re-” About, Politico?
I thought this was an amusing headline and lede from The Politico. GOP tries to recapture town hall anger Republicans are looking to resurrect the angry town halls of August in the last few weeks of November. That’s very nice and all that, but you can’t recapture something you never had. What Ranu Maju has [...]
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