I used to not subscribe to the New Yorker because I couldn’t stand its snotty, Upper West Side Jacobinism. Now I don’t subscribe because of its snotty, Upper West Side neo-fascism. At least, that seems to be the case, thanks to NY staff writer Jeffrey Toobin’s new “theory” that journalism is a crime. Toobin, who…
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The Grahams: Lest we forget
As the Graham family “stewardship” of the Washington Post fades into the sunset, it’s worth recalling a few things—more than a few, actually, before Jeff Bezos, aka the $25 billion man, takes over . The Post first made its modern reputation as an ass-kicking defender of the public’s right to know by publishing the “Pentagon…
Katy to Jill: I don’t need no lousy, stinkin’ mouth to mouth!
No, she doesn’t, not when the Graham family is sitting on the $250 million Jeff Bezos has ponied up to buy the venerable Washington Post. How long Katy will remain as publisher of the Post is undetermined—my guess is, not very long. She got the job exclusively on family ties and her tenure has been…
Broads in the news: NYT’s Jill Abramson offers mouth to mouth to WP’s Katy Weymouth
As everyone in Washington, DC knows, the Washington Post is in free fall to the crapper, thanks to, well, thanks to a lot of things, but the gleaming, glistening cherry on top of this sundae o’ disaster is the stunning ethical incompetence of publisher Katy Weymouth and editorial page director Fred Hewitt, whose multitudinous shortcomings…
The gang that shoots straight, and often
A week after an FBI agent shot and killed Ibragim Todashev, the story of what happened is coming out, sort of, although what we’ve been “given” consists entirely of anonymous leaks. This follows the shooting by Boston police of alleged Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev—unarmed, like Todashev—and the shooting and killing of his brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev,…
Benghazi Badinage
The guy who gets it right: Ron Paul, denouncing Republicans for denouncing Obama for the wrong reasons. Republicans denounce Obama for not being aggressive enough, when, as Paul points out, our problems arise from the fact that Obama was too aggressive, waging an unnecessary, unconstitutional war in Libya, a war in which the Republican Party entirely acquiesced….
Mea Culpa, I guess
In the past I’ve cast a semi-skeptical eye on Republican howls re Benghazi. I’ve never felt the Obama Administration has come clean on the matter, but I’ve also thought that the Republicans’ particular obsession, most notably Susan Rice’s talk show testimony on the matter, was thoroughly partisan and devoid of substance. Well, thanks to some…
Behind the Candelabra, or Underneath it?
Behind the Candelabra is the widely hyped (how could it not be?) bio-pic starring Michael Douglas as Liberace and Matt Damon as Lee’s live-in lover, Scott Thorson. It will have to go some to match the one-two punch of Liberace and Liberace: Behind the Music, two made-for-TV movies about Lee that aired in successive weeks…
Rendering unto Caesar
Reason’s Matt Welch points me to three particularly pertinent paragraphs in a recent Washington Post story by Craig Whitlock bearing the head “Renditions continue under Obama, despite due-process concerns,” which perhaps should be headed “Renditions continue under Obama, because due process is not a concern.” The story is largely devoted to the continuing practice of…
Capitalism still has flaws, it seems
Well, a lot of them, reports a stunned Felix Salmon, going over the “Final Notice” issued by the United Kingdom’s Financial Services Authority for the Swiss mega-bank that goes by the highly inside moniker of “UBS AG.” Besides sounding like some sort of computer plug, UBS was a veritable cesspool of white-collar crime, according to…