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Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 23, 2013 16 Comments
Chuck Todd went a little overboard when he asked a series of questions at the Obama-Netanyahu press conference. Worse yet, the questions were not softballs for Obama to hit out of the park: He even caught flak from the big guy (no, not Chris Christie): The mockery of Todd's performance gave rise to the #ChuckToddQuestions hashtag on Twitter, where numerous Obama supporters suggested Todd was motivated by Obama being black:

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 21, 2013 20 Comments

There was a First Tweet. And it was good. just setting up my twttr— Jack Dorsey (@jack) March 21, 2006 He was interviewed for 60 Minutes recently, which you can view here. This video is more concise: If you are not on Twitter, you need to be. ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 27, 2013 57 Comments

Via Business Insider: Bob Woodward said this evening on CNN that a "very senior person" at the White House warned him that he would "regret doing this," the same day he has continued to attack President Barack Obama over the looming forced cuts known as the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 28, 2013 20 Comments

Related to this, via Mediaite: In a soon-to-be-released interview with The New Republic, President Obama reportedly laments the negative influence Fox News and Rush Limbaugh can have on the congressional debate over various pieces of legislation. The president told TNR editor Frank Foer and owner Chris Hughes...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 19, 2013 7 Comments

That's how many Twitter followers we have as of this writing for Legal Insurrection and College Insurrection, respectively. If you are not on Twitter, you need to be.  It's easy, you can use the same fake name you use here. Then you can follow @LegInsurrection and @CollegeInsurrec. While...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 03, 2012 6 Comments

From Gabriella Hoffman, the daughter of Soviet immigrants, two gems. If they could laugh in the face of Soviet Russia ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 24, 2012 15 Comments

Roger Cohen was among the worst of the delusional dreamers about the nature of the Islamist uprising in Egypt. I frequently have quoted this prediction by Cohen on February 3, 2011: Already we hear the predictable warnings from Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu: This could be Iran...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 24, 2012 38 Comments

Just applying a little election year anti-Republican logic to the Black Friday union protests against Wal-Mart, which mostly were a fizzle. Via Lachlan Markay's Storify entry. It's hard keeping up with all the emerging social media tools; Storify is just another thing which, while probably useful, makes...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 15, 2012 14 Comments

In addition to taking a look at our Blog Friends in Israel, I've created this Twitter widget of news sources for the latest. I have not embedded the #PillarOfDefense hashtag because hastags can get hijacked by hostile Twitter users. The other problem is unreliable reports, so I've...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 14, 2012 29 Comments

With Israel on the cusp of a major conflict in Gaza and maybe beyond, pay a visit to and say a prayer for our blog friends in Israel, who are updating the events: Israel Matzav -- also known as Carl in Jerusalem. Anne's Opinions -- also known as...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 02, 2012 32 Comments

Per October report by BLS: Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 171,000 in October, and the unemployment rate was essentially unchanged at 7.9 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment rose in professional and business services, health care, and retail trade. Both the unemployment...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 19, 2012 41 Comments

Not a serious candidate anymore. A caricature making jokes. Even clowns win elections, so fight through the finish line. (Video h/t Hot Air) You know what this calls for? Mockery: Twitter hashtag wars: #Romnesia vs #Obamnesia ==> is.gd/HzOpiZ via @twitchyteam— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) October 19, 2012 #obamnesia Forgetting...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 16, 2012 72 Comments
Obama was much more animated, and I'm sure liberals on Twitter and elsewhere were happy much as during the Biden-Ryan debate. But I don't think it helped Obama much. I'll be interested to see the focus groups and polling. Obama got in some one liners, but Romney completely nailed it on Obama's record of broken promises. A 2 minute primer on the failure of the Obama administration. His line "you know better" may be the line of the night. Obama did better on Libya than expected, mostly because Obama backed up by Crowley incorrectly said he called it terrorism the day after. But Romney nailed it on the issue of Obama going to fundraisers the next day. All in all it was not the game changer Obama needed. Obama showed up, but not on the central issue of the election, Obama's record and why we whould expect anything better in four more years. Update: My column at USA Today, Obama needed debate blowout but didn't get it.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 11, 2012 78 Comments
Assessment -- Not sure how to rate this. I wonder how Biden's constant laughing, smirks, and bombastic language ("bunch of malarkey") played with the viewers. Biden also talked over Ryan constantly, and the moderator often cut short Ryan's answers. Ryan also didn't get a chance to respond to many of Biden's over the top comments. Biden was so over the top, the liberals will be cheering, but based on how some liberals I follow on Twitter (below) reacted, he may have gone too far.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 06, 2012 7 Comments

Facebook has threatened to permanently block Twitchy from posting. The Twitchy Facebook page is here and has over 40,000 followers. Apparently someone or some group of people complained that a photo featured in a Twitchy story violated Facebook's "community standards." The photo was used in a story...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 21, 2012 21 Comments

There is no question that Scott Brown won the debate last night. It wasn't a knock out.  As Howie Carr correctly notes, a man can't get away with hitting a woman too hard in a debate: When he was pummeling her on the asbestos litigation, and her...

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