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Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 20, 2013 18 Comments
And still be right. Via Ed Driscoll: In the illustration above, the Newsweek cover on the left was mocked-up by the Photoshop artists at National Review to accompany a 2009 satire by Rob Long titled, “A Conversation from Heaven,” regarding what Bernard Goldberg might call...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 13, 2012 26 Comments
Prof. Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit, writing in The NY Post, suggests that Republican billionaires and money people use some of their dollars to buy up women’s magazines and websites, keep almost everything the same, except get rid of the anti-Republican content: Mitt Romney and the GOP...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 12, 2012 29 Comments
David Frum announced in November 2011 that Mitt Romney or John Huntsmann must be the nominee, or Frum might leave the GOP: Any other nominee would gravely test my commitment to the political party I’ve supported since I entered the United States as a college...

Posted by Joel Engel on September 18, 2012 31 Comments
Yesterday was supposed to be a day of self reflection, and all I could reflect on was this picture and what it symbolizes: An American citizen exercised his First Amendment right to produce a crappy film.  In response, the President of the United States sent...

Posted by Anne Segal on September 17, 2012 45 Comments
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a former Muslim woman who authored a fascinating book, “Infidel,” about her life, has penned an article in this week’s Newsweek entitled “Muslim Rage: How I Survived, How We Can End It.” The article and the cover are infuriating the Left, as...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 01, 2012 48 Comments
The impossibility of changing the liberal bias in the mainstream media is almost a daily topic here. Reader Brian sent this email with some pertinent thoughts on the topic, which I thought I’d pass along: I’ve had your blog in my RSS feed for awhile...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 18, 2012 29 Comments
I’d rather sit in the dark. That’s my sense of today: Secret Service agent scandal gets worse with allegations of cocaine use, and here is a headline which tells us this drama will play out for a while: Escort Recounts Quarrel With Secret Service Agent. Image...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 06, 2012 52 Comments
Fake: Real: Fake fake fake fake, but a real problem, don’t you think?  People still think Sarah Palin said she could see Russia from her backyard. Elsewhere: Happy Birthday, Mr. President. Who Castrated Ann Coulter? Well, he does have a nice healthy smile. Why is...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 16, 2012 17 Comments
The inflammatory Newsweek cover, and the heaping of praise on Obama by Andrew Sullivan, distract from the most important point of Sullivan’s article at The Daily Beast, quoted in the title above. Obama has accomplished a lot for the Left in America.  He wants to accomplish a lot...

Posted by Matthew Knee on July 22, 2011 4 Comments
Mickey Kaus is tearing into Carl Bernstein for his hypocritical comments on the News of the World hacking scandal, noting that Bernstein used the 1970’s equivalent of phone hacking to crack the Watergate scandal, using connections at the phone company to access phone private records,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 25, 2011 9 Comments
Impecable timing and sources, that’s what makes Newsweek a powerhouse in the news business: But all jokes aside, this was a bad day for the MSM.  Oh how they wanted Republicans to nominate someone from Mississippi with a heavy southern accent. Sorry, you’ll have to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 19, 2010 4 Comments
Instead, use the terms: “Nearly Worthless AP” or “Almost Worthless AP” Because AP is not literally Worthless.  Hell, even Newsweek sold for a buck. For consistency of message, here is a succinct summary of President Obama’s position on AP: Obama has said he believes AP has the...
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