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Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 09, 2011 72 Comments

The shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and the killing of several people by gunman Jared Loughner in Arizona yesterday has revealed two sicknesses.The first and most serious is the sickness living in Loughner's head.  Evidence in the form of farewell videos, internet postings, and the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 25, 2010 34 Comments

If you demand to see Obama's actual birth certificate, you will be called a "Birther."  It doesn't matter if your position is that anyone ascending to a constitutional office should provide the best evidence of constitutional qualification, you're a Birther.  It doesn't matter that you...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 08, 2010 17 Comments

I take offense to MoDo's PDS hyperbole:Sarah’s view of America is primitive. You’re either a pointy-headed graduate of Harvard Law School or you’re eviscerating animals for fun, which she presents as somehow more authentic.I'm the former, but not the latter, yet.  But the two absolutely are...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 30, 2010 8 Comments

The New York Times had an Op-Ed yesterday complaining about anonymous trolls on blogs who post inflammatory messages to get a reaction:Trolling, defined as the act of posting inflammatory, derogatory or provocative messages in public forums, is a problem as old as the Internet itself, although its...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 14, 2010 14 Comments

Frank Rich asks the question "Who Will Stand Up To The Superrich?"Rich never answers the question, he just complains (mostly about Republicans who self-fund campaigns, and Republican corporate interests, etc.)But Rich knows the answer.  And there isn't a Democrat in sight.  The One who might...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 03, 2010 10 Comments

...Update 11-04-2010:  The Gail Collins gets the point:O.K., you poor little Democrats. Stop sobbing. Lift up your little liberal heads and shout. There’s gonna be. ... Umm. Harry Reid! There’s gonna be more Harry Reid! --------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 30, 2010 0 Comments

As my readers know, we have been on a New York Time's cone of silence watch as relates to allegations by an upstate reporter (corroborated at least in part by others) that Congressman Maurice Hinchey assaulted the reporter after the reporter asked tough questions regarding...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 19, 2010 13 Comments

The NY Times continues its cone of silence regarding Democratic Congressman Maurice Hinchey's (D-NY22) assault on a reporter for the Kingston (NY) Daily Freeman who questioned Hinchey's possible conflict of interest in obtaining federal earmarks for a property partially owned by Hinchey.The reporter is standing...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 03, 2010 10 Comments

Ben Jealous, President of the NAACP, has launched a high-profile media and web campaign to demand that people in the Tea Party movement renounce racist "elements" in the movement.  As I have posted before, Mr. Jealous took islolated, and in some cases planted, signs at...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 01, 2010 4 Comments

Is this NY Times profile of Christine O'Donnell not too bad, or am I just so used to complete, all-out hack jobs when it comes to O'Donnell that anything short of an all-out hack job seems okay?An Overnight Political Sensation Re-Emerges Into the Media Glare--------------------------------------------...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 16, 2010 13 Comments

Tweet of the Day.Kirsten Powers gets it.  Once again, the mainstream media and left-wing blogosphere -- including liberal feminists -- are sexualizing a conservative female candidate.  They obsessed over Sarah Palin's breast size, and now they are obsessing over whether Christine O'Donnell masterbates and has had sex.Here is...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 16, 2010 3 Comments

Christine O'Donnell's nomination is HISTORIC because if she wins, she will be the first female Senator from Delaware. Ever.This is big and HISTORIC.  Which should guarantee overwhelmingly favorable mainstream media coverage.  Because we are not allowed to be against HISTORIC candidates, particularly one who will break...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 23, 2010 4 Comments

Ethan Bronner of The New York Times has a classic piece on the opening of a luxury mall in Gaza.How does one balance the endless propaganda that Gaza is a concentration camp and that Israelis are committing genocide, with the reality that Gaza exceeds most...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 22, 2010 8 Comments

I haven't posted about Count Frankula in a while.  Frank Rich's latest column, How Fox Betrayed Petraeus, is stuffed full of Rich's usual "people who don't agree with me are crazy and dangerous" filling.Frank's point apparently is that opposition to the Cordoba mosque and Islamic...

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