A Memeorandum thread, August 14, 2010, 7:40 p.m.:-------------------------------------------- Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube ...
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What is it about the start of August? In the past couple of days we have seen several pieces by people who create misleading caricatures of conservatives and then use those misleading caricatures to attack a broad swath of those opposed to the Obama agenda.This...
Lowest bar ever set for hero-dom (is that a word?).Jonathan Strong, writing about the Heroes of the Journolist: The Daily Caller has highlighted some of Journolist’s worst moments — such as when liberal members of the media plotted to kill important stories about the presidential...
Ezra Klein, proprietor of the Journolist, the day after Election Day, 2008: There was hardly a specter lurking in the American subconscious that [Barack Hussein Obama] did not call forth. And that was his great strength. He robbed fear of its ability to work through...
On February 18, 2010, I wrote a post titled Progressive Bloggers In The Wizard of Oz, about a trip by several "progressive" bloggers to meet at The White House with Jared Bernstein, Chief Economist to Vice President Joe Biden.The post carried a photo of serious-looking...
Now that the left-wing blogosphere and Democratic media operatives Media Matters and Think Progress have found the Religion of Context when it comes to Shirley Sherrod ...
Matthew Yglesias, who blogs at Think Progress, July 21, The Shame of the Daily Caller:The Caller appears to have access to a very large proportion of JournoList emails and they can’t come up with anything that withstands cursory scrutiny.The Daily Caller, July 22:Blogger Matt Yglesias...
Am I the only one to see the multiple levels of irony in this?Ezra Klein, current employee of The Washington Post: "I actually expect this to be my final public comment on the subject."Nate Silver, future employee of The New York Times: "p.s. This is...
Nate Silver, soon to be blogging at The New York Times, is not waiting for The Daily Caller to expose more e-mails from the Journolist, in which Silver participated.So Silver is taking preemptive action to explain his involvement (emphasis mine):I made on the order of...
Ezra Klein, who organized the Journolist and now blogs at The Washington Post, declares that the expose by The Daily Caller has descended from tragedy into farce.The proof? Klein feels that The Daily Caller is not disclosing enough of the e-mails, which Klein feels would...
I'll admit it, I was wrong about The Daily Caller when I called it a failure several months ago.In the past months The Daily Caller has done a good job on a variety of issues, particularly exposing the Journolist, a group of liberal mainstream media...
Once again, someone is using the username "Legal Insurrection" to post comments elsewhere, this time at FoxNation. For the record, that person is not me, and is not authorized to use the name "Legal Insurrection."The last time, it was as HuffPo, and I convinced...
to allow trolls, that is the question. For example, the Regular Troll: This guy is openly 180-degrees opposed to the purpose and/or ideological orientation of the blog. Whatever you're for, he's against, and vice-versa. If you're doing a free-market blog about tax policy, he's yelling...
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TaxProf blog has posted the latest law professor blog rankings, and I'm heartened to see that I have moved up to No. 7 in visitors and No. 8 in page views (on a trailing 12 month basis).But traffic statistics are just one measurement, and can be...
Didn't make the Top 25 Conservatives on Twitter. Or the 100 Conservatives Most Hated By The Left. Or even the People Minnesota Liberals Hate Most.But thanks to Dan Collins, I have a special place reserved on the Island of Misfit Bloggers.Also known as, A Place...
Wow, just received a "preview" of Wikio's new Law ranking category, and guess who is No. 2?.nobrtable br { display: none }1SCOTUSblog2Legal Insurrection3TaxProf Blog4The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times5Above the Law6Concurring Opinions7PrawfsBlawg8Sentencing Law and Policy9Of Arms and the Law10Truth on the Market11Technology & Marketing...
