Chris Matthews – Village Idiot

I was gonna write a post about this but somebody beat me to it: The Misplaced Loyalties and Dubious Code of Chris Matthews When the average television viewer sees someone on a public-affairs show making arguments about a political controversy, they presume that the speaker believes whatever he or she is saying. That is the [...]

Godwin’s Law

Ann Romney wrote an Op/Ed for Mother’s Day. Here’s the last part: Crown of glory Cherish your mothers. The ones who wiped your tears, who were at every ball game or ballet recital. The ones who believed in you, even when nobody else did, even when maybe you didn’t believe in yourself. Women wear many [...]

Because shut-up is why!

MSNBO: HALL: So there you have it Tim. And the point is, he’s doing local television—that’s a local reporter asking something that is important to the people of that particular state. His response, you know, people are raising an eyebrow about. CARNEY: Okay, well, I’ll talk about the marijuana in one second. But what you’re [...]

This is your brain on Koolaid

Piers Morgan In Disbelief Over Filmmaker’s Inability To Find Fault In Barack Obama: ‘Oh, Come Off It’ On his show Thursday, CNN’s Piers Morgan entered into a rather heated discussion with filmmaker Davis Guggenheim — the man behind the new very pro-Barack Obama documentary The Road We’ve Traveled — on the apparent lack of balance [...]

Truth vigilantes?

Arthur S. Brisbane, Public Editor of The New York Times: Should The Times Be a Truth Vigilante? I’m looking for reader input on whether and when New York Times news reporters should challenge “facts” that are asserted by newsmakers they write about. One example mentioned recently by a reader: As cited in an Adam Liptak [...]

Fuck-you, Tweety!

Chris Matthews can talk all he wants about Newt Gingrich. I don’t dispute that every word he says in the clip above is accurate. But I haven’t forgotten Tweety’s obsession with The Clenis. When Newt and the GOP were trying to bring down the Big Dawg, Tweety and the rest of the jackals at MSNBC [...]

You vet your life

Imagine if every disgruntled ex-lover, ex-spouse, ex-friend and/or ex-employee in your life had the chance to dish dirt on you – to expose your deepest, darkest secrets. Affairs, flings, drug use, shoplifting, drunk driving, cheating on tests – every closet has a few skeletons. How many skeletons do you have? I’m talking about stuff you [...]

Flavor of the Month

I despise Newton Gingrinch, but I despise this kind of crap too: Gingrich’s grim ground game For all the talk about Newt Gingrich and his grand, big ideas — most of which are neither big nor grand — a vision doesn’t get voters to the polls; a campaign ground game does. There’s a reasonable debate [...]

All the news that’s printed to fit

I’ve seen the above graphic is several places now, and even though I don’t know where it originated I’ll give credit to our friend Joseph Cannon. The point of the graphic is that us Americans are woefully uninformed (or misinformed) about world affairs. I won’t dispute that conclusion. My question is whether this is something [...]

It takes a balloon head to know one

Matthews Yells At Tea Party Leader: Why Is ‘Balloon-Head’ Bachmann Speaking For You Chris Matthews was nearly apoplectic in his questioning of Tea Party Express co-founder Sal Russo on the topic of Congresswoman Michele Bachmann and her controversial re-imagining of history where the founding fathers found a way to end slavery in their lifetime. Repeatedly [...]