Writing in the Washington Post, Ilan Grapel begins his story this way: “Five months in an Egyptian jail gives a person a lot of time to think. When you are not pacing or trying to catch an hour of afternoon sun through the barred window, there are thoughts of home, family, the freedoms Westerners take…
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The Obama Murders—Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
Thanks be to God that we have a liberal Democrat in the White House! Now gays are allowed to serve freely in the military without shame! Without shame, that is, if they don’t mind being complicit in the Obama Administration’s “Mystery Murder” campaign in Pakistan, which has resulted in the deaths of, well, Janbaz Zadran,…
Newt and the Neo-Cons, updated
Last week I noted that noted Likudist Jennifer Rubin has been industriously pissing on Newt Gingrich and every other Republican presidential candidate not addressed as “Mitt” and suggested that this was all a plot on Jennie’s part. Well, welcome Charles to the party, as in Krauthammer. Charles is a lot more subtle than Jennie. Instead…
The Debt Crisis—Oy the Hypocrisy
Was there ever a crisis so tedious and unnecessary as the current debt crisis—a monument to the hypocrisy of the American people, who want the world, but don’t want to have to pay for it? I’ve written before of the “tear it down, tear it all down” fervor of the Tea Party crew, but what…
Jive at Five? Nu-uh. Jive around the clock!
Just to update a few stories: Last week I wrote about serial liar John Brennan, U.S. deputy national security advisor, whose fabulous account of the Navy SEALs raid on Osama’s compound proved to be not only fabulous but fabricated. President Obama and others hastened to add “context,” which, as Slate scribe William Saletan ably explains…
Well, at least he didn’t choke on a terrarium!
Over at Slate, heartless Jack Shafer is at it again, pounding the New York Times for running fake “trend” stories on the non-existent rise in teen chokings and the non-existent increase in the number of terrariums, both non-existent trends attributed to the mother of all non-existent trends, Youtube. Not content with trashing the Gray Lady,…
Terrorist threat approaches zero
Well, that’s one conclusion that could be drawn from the recent events involving Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. After all, the number of would-be terrorists who have been apprehended attempting to smuggle explosives on a plane approaches zero; the number of would-be terrorists who have succeeded in smuggling explosives on a plane also approaches zero; and the…
Katy Weymouth gets her arms and legs caught in a wringer
Poor Katy Weymouth! She just can’t wreck the Post fast enough, can she? I previously pissed on Katy’s parade here, here, and here, when she attempted to turn her home into a house of journalistic prostitution. Now she’s at it again, telling a reporter that his inspiring tale of a woman who had both arms…
The Atlantic—not so innocent
In one of my by-now almost numberless rants against Washington Post publisher Katharine Weymouth ( probably this one), I claimed that cozy, off-the-record dinners hosted by Atlantic publisher David Bradley had no price tag attached. Well, I was totally wrong. As this story in TPM Muckraker, and this one in Slate, demonstrate, Bradley has been…
Pimp my mansion—the continuing saga of Katy Weymouth
Is Wash Post publisher Katy Weymouth that much worse than the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, and the Atlantic Monthly, not to mention the New Yorker? All Katy wanted to do was rent out her fancy mansion, her paper, and herself to corporate lobbyists anxious to meet government movers and shakers. In a fascinating follow-up…