Over at Politico, Dylan Byers has been reporting, in voluminous detail, on the war of words between lefty pub Mother Jones and Fox talking head Bill O’Reilly, regarding whether Bill’s frequent past claims to have been in a “war zone” during the Falklands War constitutes a reasonable mot juste, since Bill was in fact in Buenos Aires at the time….
Whiter than the foam that drips from Kevin D. Williamson’s lips
Kevie D has an absolutely epic rant over at the National Review, a rant that starts with Rudy Giuliani’s howler that Obama doesn’t love America but goes beyond it to argue, with hilarious vehemence, that our two-term president doesn’t even like America before somersaulting to the astonishing conclusion that no one should love America because,…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here. “You’ll be riding shotgun.” “You have a choice of Wilber or Orville.” “I’m afraid we won’t be able to take you all the way to Chicago today, Mr. Prescott. But we can take you 120 feet closer than you are now, guaranteed.” “Beverage service will be limited. And, frankly, so will everything…
David Carr and the Great American Media Machine
The death of New York Times media critic David Carr has been greeted with a universal outpouring of affection and grief for a man who “was sometimes blunt, almost always searingly honest,” in the words of Times executive editor Dean Baquet. I guess I don’t entirely agree. None of the articles I read about Carr mentioned the fact that…
The case against the case against the case against the Crusades
Ross Douthat, whom I’ve more or less left alone for some time, has a considered pushback against President Obama’s recent prayer breakfast talk during which he alleged that Christians could, at times, be as bad as Muslims, citing the Crusades and the Inquisition as examples. Douthat wisely leaves the Inquisition alone1 but is not completely…
No tears for Brian Williams
Did you hear about former NBC nightly news host Brian Williams? Well, if you haven’t, he’s out, and all the complaints about an outrageous and hypocritical media firestorm can’t conceal the fact that the petard on which poor Brian self-hoisted and self-destructed was a cream-puff nightly news item about a non-event starring Brian himself! Did…
Ukraine Cease-Fire Announced; John McCain Cries
Sure it’s tentative—after the negotiations concluded, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she had a “glimmer of hope” that everything would work out as intended—but the announcement of both a cease-fire and a plan for making that cease-fire permanent must still be a heart-breaker for John McCain and his legions. The Great American War Machine was all dressed up for…
John Brennan, liar? No, John Brennan, super liar.
Read, if you can, Conor Friedersdorf’s tale of endless hypocrisy and deceit from CIA head John Brennan and his assorted minions and ganifs at the agency. Yes, your tax dollars at work.
Obama Administration randomly shoots itself in the foot, three times
If a rabidly anti-Semitic terrorist attacks a kosher deli, knowing it’s a kosher deli, and starts killing the people inside because he hopes they’re Jews, well, those are random acts of terrorism, according to President Obama, along with Jen Psaki of the State Department, and Josh Earnest of the White House, all of whom apparently want us to believe…
Jonah Goldberg, down with the Inquisition, still going to Hell
President Obama, remarking at a recent prayer breakfast that Western Civilization, and Christianity in particular, has had some flaws, has once more unleashed the floodgates of right-wing outrage upon himself. Among the most ardent defenders of most things Christian is Jonah Goldberg, who explains, and explains away, “the Inquisition” by noting that an inquisition is really just an…