For some reason, every couple years a media outlet feels compelled to do a lazy puff piece on walking argument against nepotism Adam Bellow. The latest one is definitive because of the sheer density of cliches. It starts with a bunch of bullshit about conservatives being the “party of ideas” that you’d think nobody would […]
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Say hello to PolitiFact! The best part of the Politifact Grand Poohbah’s inadvertently perfect parody of high Broderism is that it contains no defense of his credibility-destroying choice on the
Do Fred Hiatt’s fact-checker and FactChuck.org both endorse the ridiculous Politifact Lie[sic] of the Year? Oh, yes. Why does FactChuck think that claims that Ryan’s plan would end
If you’re going to assert that perfectly accurate Democratic claims about Paul Ryan’s plan to end Medicare are false, why not go all the way and make it your lie of the year? The defenses of this, as Bouie, Benen, Chait, and Yglesias note, are entertainingly absurd. Here, they argue that Democrats “ignored the fact […]
Jennifer Rubin is so hacktacular that Pareene’s extensive catalog doesn’t even have space for a particularly hilarious bit: she’s so in the tank for Mittens that she attacked Newt Gi
One great end of the year tradition is the Salon Hack List. This year’s winner—-Mark Halperin! He must be so honored. Jennifer Rubin won the well-deserved silver and Bernard Henri-Levy the
I find the somewhat silly controversy of MSNBC insinuating that Mitt Romney stole the phrase “Keep America American” from the second Ku Klux Klan interesting for a few reasons. 1. As is not infrequent for MSNBC’s liberal shows, this claim was sensationalist, particularly how it was presented. That said, is it inaccurate? It is unclear […]
Paul’s evisceration of Gene Marks’ Gilded Age-esque article telling poor black kids to be rich and white and blaming them if they are not, led me to this legendary Herblock cartoon from 19
I can see why the Times published this Thatcher hagiography–she is a pundit’s wet dream. This version of Thatcher has everything Beltway pundits love–Strong leadership! Doing things!
In one of the best blog posts of the year, Charles Pierce just destroys Jon Meachem’s analysis of Newt Gingrich. In part, beginning with quoting Meachem: But by the September-October debates, Newt had grown impressive “by standing back and offering a Wise Man’s view of the political shenanigans onstage and in Washington generally. “Gingrich is […]
Tonight, Politico hands Paul Ryan its award for Health Care Policymaker of the Year. Because inside the Beltway, actually crafting useful policy that helps people is meaningless. No doubt it’s o
Apparently, in addition to not being something worth freaking out over, the prevalence of teen “sexting” has been massively overstated. Apparently teens are too busy attending the apocryph