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So Now All These People Will Apologize To Sarah Palin About Margaret Thatcher, Right?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 14, 2011 29 Comments

A week ago The Guardian reported that Margaret Thatcher was refusing to meet with Sarah Palin, attributing a quote to an “ally” of Thatcher as follows: Lady Thatcher will not be seeing Sarah Palin. That would be belittling for Margaret. Sarah Palin is nuts. The...

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Saturday Night Card Game (A Friend Told Me He Chugged 40s In High School)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 28, 2011 7 Comments

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain: Think Progress  is reeling from being punked by the Navy Seal Anchor Baby hoax.  But Think Progress needs to earn its keep, so it soldiers on. Think Progress continues its the...

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Saturday Night Card Game (Think Progress Punked by Fake Navy SEAL “Anchor Baby” Story)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 07, 2011 5 Comments

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain: Think Progress, via its Wonk Room blog, thought it had the story of the year.  Not just the killing of Osama bin Laden by Navy SEALS. No, it was so...

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The Obsession With Liberals’ Obsession With Sarah Palin

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 28, 2010 76 Comments

Charles Krauthammer has lambasted the mainstream (i.e. liberal) media for its obsession with Sarah Palin. That goes double for liberal entertainers and academics, and triple for the left-blogosphere, which is nuts-in-the-head (that’s a precise medical term in Austrian) when it comes to Palin. But this obsession is...

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If Sarah Palin Had Done This

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 28, 2009 11 Comments

TMZ fell for a hoax regarding a supposed photo of JFK on a boat with lots of naked women. Before the hoax was revealed, Andrew Sullivan authored a post on the subject, which has been pulled completely. Here is what remains on Sullivan’s blog: The...

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The Iraq-Stupak Connection

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 09, 2009 2 Comments

I knew it, I knew it, I knew it. Sure as I was certain that Bush would be blamed for the Balloon Boy hoax, so too I’ve been waiting for someone to make the connection between the Iraq war resolution and the health care vote....

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Psst…Don’t Tell Andrew Sullivan Our Secret

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 01, 2009 16 Comments

Andrew Sullivan is back on his Trig Palin birther hoax theory, that Sarah Palin is the grandmother and Bristol Palin is the mother. Or what Sullivan calls And The Story The MSM Still Won’t Touch. Sullivan has no evidence, just unanswered questions. That’s all it...

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The American Left Outsources The Spanish Inquisition

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 28, 2009 4 Comments

UPDATE 4-16-2009: The Spanish Attorney General has rejected the attempt to open an investigation of the six Americans accused of, well it’s not clear what, but the Spanish Judge at issue wanted to bring them up on charges related to Gitmo. See background below. Further...

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Ezra Klein Smears Ann Althouse

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 21, 2009 24 Comments

Ezra Klein, blogger for the “liberal” American Prospect, got caught by Politico coordinating his stories with other liberal bloggers and journalists. Exposed for being a journalistic fraud, Klein needed an enemy. He found Ann Althouse. Althouse, who has a very popular blog, could be considered...

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It’s Not Left v. Right, But Blogosphere v. Mainstream Media

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 04, 2009 0 Comments

The rise of the blogosphere owes to two developments: (1) the technology of the internet which allows individuals to be heard by a potentially unlimited audience without filtering by traditional news organizations, and (2) the agenda-driven mainstream media, which has driven tens of millions of...

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