A political gaffe turns into a gutsy judgment call.
If Joe Biden Had an ‘R’ Next to His Name…
August 22, 2012 By 19 Comments
Being a Democrat means never having to say you’re stupid.
Chris Matthews May Have Accidentally Said Something Smart
February 12, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Every mother has at least one story of a child that says something embarrassingly truthful; unexpectedly exposing a family secret. After the initial redness fades, it usually falls into the family memory bank; to be later withdrawn at family gatherings.
When a politician does it, it’s called a gaffe. Although the redness doesn’t usually appear until [...]
Martha Coakley: Victim of the Patriarchy?
January 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment
There are facts, and then there are feminist facts. Here’s an example:
Fact: Scott Brown is a white male who drives a pickup truck and won the Massachusetts special election.
Feminist fact: Scott Brown won the Massachusetts special election because he’s a white male who drives a pickup truck.
Can’t you picture the GMC warning labels? Caution: you’re [...]
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Tucker Carlson: A moral arbiter for our age, Rev. Al Sharpton – The Daily Caller
January 12, 2010 By 1 Comment
You can bet that one of the first calls Harry Reid made after his “Negro dialect” comments surfaced was to Al Sharpton. Who knows what sort of deal the two worked out, but Sharpton quickly came to Reid’s aid, dismissing the majority leader’s gaffe as a minor blemish on an otherwise pristine record of support [...]
It’s Not Just the White House That’s the Problem
December 30, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Last night, Eric Bolling, sitting in for Sean Hannity, had Ibrahim Hooper on to comment on the need for profiling likely terrorists at airports in the wake of the Detroit bomber incident.
Bolling could have had a representative from al-Qaeda on to advise Americans on how to protect themselves from al-Qaeda attacks. Bolling neglected to mention [...]
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Media Matters ‘Just Barely’ Accepts Smackdown from its Very Own Readers
December 27, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Eric “The Excitable” Boehlert is one of my “favorite” guys (and they are almost all guys) at Media Matters.
His lousy reading comprehension skills and blindly ideological bent combine with a preternatural enthusiasm, to produce posts that are inevitably poorly reasoned, poorly written, and sometimes just plain wrong.
Eric Boehlert is the Ed Wood of the George [...]
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