Neocon Whitewash/Conservative Spin

For decades conservative warhorse Reed Irvine churned out his newsletter, Accuracy in Media, giving a reality check to the American prestige press like the New York and LA Times ...

Social Conservative Porn

One must be a person without discernible intelligence or conservative inclination to be allowed to write for the New York Times as a "€œconservative"€ columnist. Otherwise ...

Don”€™t Know Much About Capitalism

After eight years of watching conservatives blow trillions of dollars and comport themselves like anti-intellectual, jingoistic blockheads, I found myself ashamed to admit that ...

Is Sean Hannity Now Cool? (No)

In praising the tea parties one week, and then defending the Bush administration’s policies on torture and criticizing Obama’s diplomacy efforts the next week, talk ...

A Storm in a Tea Cup

The most disgusting aspect of the nationwide “tea party” protests that took place on Tax Day last week was the media coverage. Wrote The News Tribune‘s Dana ...

Extending Our Firepower

A major problem for those on our side of the fence is the unwillingness of the liberal and neocon media to admit us into the public discussion. This has meant that independent ...

Front-Porch Socialism

I"€™m always glad to see the proliferation of websites and blogs of the "€œAlternative Right"€ (broadly defined), and I was thus delighted to learn of the launching of ...

Carol Thatcher

BBC Priggery

On 3rd February, it was announced that Margaret Thatcher's daughter Carol would no longer be used to present reports on BBC television's weekday magazine programme, "€œThe One ...

Culture Snores

The webzine Culture11 officially closed up shop last week, ending a four month run as the web's alternative conservative destination.  Late last summer, I first heard ...

The Teen-Sex Race Scandal!

If you want to boost TV ratings, nothing does the trick like teen sex. Just think of poor Chris Hansen, who spent years building a respectable career as a TV newsman but since ...

In the Age of Obama

Metaphor of the month: Jack Shafer, in Slate, writes: "€œNobody in TV news stir-fries his ideas and serves them to the audience faster than MSNBC’s Chris Matthews. ...

The Hoax Down Under

Say what you like against us Australians, there is one activity where we excel, and that is, in producing artistic hoaxers. The nonexistent modernist poetic genius "€œErn ...

Sully’s Smearing”€”But Is Anyone Listening?

In his new incarnation as a born-again peacenik, Andrew Sullivan—pictured here, scratching his ass on national television—is eager to play the same role he assumed ...

The End of Frum?

David Frum has been purged off into the sunset at NR... He’s leaving his NRO blogging gig at the end of the year and plans to start up a new website called ...

Democrats and Double Standards

Perhaps the only institution in America whose approval rating is beneath that of Congress is the media.   Both have won their reputations the hard way. They earned ...

The Conservative Write

As the story goes, Pauline Kael "€œcouldn"€™t believe Nixon won in "€™72,"€ as everyone she knew voted for McGovern. The quotation is probably spurious, but that makes it ...


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