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Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 11, 2012 80 Comments
If you only read Media Matters and Think Progress, you’d think Rush Limbaugh was on the verge of losing his radio empire because 50 or more advertisers “dropped” him. While Limbaugh has lost some important advertisers, it appears that many of the advertisers dropping him...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 12, 2012 28 Comments
Working on posts about Santorum’s 2004 endorsement of and campaigning with Arlen Specter (and the false meme that we would not have Alito and Roberts if not for Santorum helping re-elect Specter), and another name to add to Operation Counterweight. But for now you’ll have...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 07, 2012 23 Comments
This could not wait for Saturday Night, because it is just way too bizarre an attempt to turn nothing into a charge of racism. Short background:  Pete Hoekstra, running for Senate from Michigan against Debbie Stabenow, ran a commercial in Michigan during the Super Bowl...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 22, 2011 18 Comments
Clinical observation: But Politico’s traffic losses appear to be part of a year-long trend on the  political left. Media Matters For America’s website, for instance, lost 56.83  percent of its unique visitors between November 2010 and November 2011. In the  same 12-month period, Talking Points...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 12, 2011 14 Comments
Here are some things going on: Correlation or Causation? Supreme Court to take Arizona immigration law case, Kagan recuses herself.  Some of See my prior post.  Court previously upheld in part unrelated Arizona E-verify law. Why Romney is wrong and Gingrich is right on capital gains...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 19, 2011 20 Comments
Crain’s New York has an article detailing how Occupy Wall Street and union protesters are taking the fight to the personal lives of executives who oppose them by disrupting their ability to go to restaurants and other day-to-day activities. As the Occupy Wall Street movement...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 27, 2011 28 Comments
Sarah Palin justifiably is outraged at the latest Joe McGinniss outrage. In addition to knowing that McGinniss and Random House published lies about her, Palin now has evidence not usually available to libel plaintiffs, in the form of an e-mail obtained by Andrew Breitbart in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 15, 2011 20 Comments
Yesterday The National Enquirer and the blog equivalents (Wonkette, Gawker, TBogg) ran two hot button headlines about Sarah Palin based on a preview of a book written by creepy stalker Joe McGinniss.  You know the allegations, so it’s not worth repeating (see Robert Stacy McCain’s...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 03, 2011 15 Comments
Andrew Sullivan says “my bad,” but it’s worse than my bad (h/t Tom Maguire): Piper Palin As Bodyguard Is it too outrageous to ask why this little girl is not in school, rather than acting as a media bouncer for her mother on a publicity/campaign...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 27, 2011 8 Comments
Specifically, tell me about Paul Ryan as a presidential candidate, now that there are murmurings that he may jump in. Why not?  Republicans are going to have to defend the Ryan plan, who better to do it than Ryan.  Someone who conveys a seriousness about policy without...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 20, 2011 25 Comments
Ken Layne, the owner and lead editor of Wonkette, is in damage control mode over the article by recent college grad Jack Stuef ripping into and mocking Trig Palin. Dave Weigel (h/t Instapundit) received this e-mail from Layne: I have four kids myself and I wouldn’t want...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 20, 2011 19 Comments
On July 28, 2009, I posted about the obsession at Wonkette, a widely read liberal website, with attacking Trig Palin, Wonkette Goes After Trig Palin Again.  The author of the Wonkette article which was the focus of the 2009 post was Ken Layne, the co-owner of Wonkette after...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 26, 2011 10 Comments
I really hate to do this, but I am going to link to Gawker. Because this headline is just too good to pass up: Dennis Kucinich Sues Congressional Cafeteria Over Olive Pit But to ease my conscience, I used the Google cache link.  You also can...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 29, 2010 7 Comments
Here are Legal Insurrection’s Official predictions for 2011: Obama will give an unscripted speech announcing he is resigning to take a year-long road trip to play golf in each of the 57 states. Joe Biden, the second in line to the presidency, will become President upon Obama’s resignation,...
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