Category Archives: Wonky Media

Surrender Monkey Friday: There Is No Lefty Voter Fraud

The Surrender Monkey has a thrilling up his leg today. He loves that a blogger who has whined about election fraud and similar issues for years is now doing his damndest to label all the ACORN issues as no big deal and defend all the registration issues by ACORN. And he is doing it in […]

National Journal: McCain Affair Story Journalistic Malpractice

You remember the New York Times “just wondering if McCain had an affair” story from February, right? It got picked up by all the other news sources immediately after. Let’s refresh In one of the most sensational stories of the presidential campaign, The New York Timespublished a 3,000-word, front-page article in February suggesting that a […]

“Kill Him” Was, You Know, Made Up. Updated With Debate Transcript

Hmmm, so the liberal meme about someone yelling “kill him” at a Palin rally? Apparently, a complete load: Secret Service says “Kill him” allegation unfounded The agent in charge of the Secret Service field office in Scranton said allegations that someone yelled “kill him” when presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s name was mentioned during Tuesday’s Sarah […]

Holy Cow!!!!! Cell Towers For The McCain Ranch!!!!

My God, what has the world come to!!!!!!! Exclusive: Verizon and AT&T Provided Cell Towers for McCain Ranch Early in 2007, just as her husband launched his presidential bid, Cindy McCaindecided to resolve an old problem — the lack of cellular telephone coverage on her remote 15-acre ranch near Sedona, nestled deep in a tree-lined […]

Grey Lady Still Pushing Race Meme, With PDS

And is nice enough to position the people in Flyover state West Virginia as complete racists. Perhaps they should turn to the senior Senator from West Virginia for his opinion (NY Times) Senator Barack Obama lost the Ohio Democratic primary by 10 percentage points and the West Virginia primary by a whopping 40 points last […]

Illegal Alien Today: Enforcement Baaaaaaaad!

As is typical, the media is slyly pushing the “why are we hassling these poor immigrants?” meme, starting with the Washington Post: Frederick’s Uneasy Crackdown – Enforcement Policy For Illegal Immigration Raises Ethics Questions (no, really, that is the headline) In the six months since the Frederick County Sheriff’s Office began working closely with federal immigration […]

Oh No! The Evil Obama Monkey Raised Its Head!

It’s just so terrible! As the crowd cheered at a Sarah Palin rally this morning in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, a man in the audience grinned as he held up a stuffed monkey doll with a Barack Obama bumper sticker wrapped across its forehead. The incident came at a time when McCain and Palin’s events have increasingly […]

Yawn. Palin’s Record On Fictional Constitutional Prohibition

I’m not even going to bother to excerpt this silliness: Palin’s Record On Church-State Separation. Go be amused by the PDS.

Hey Mo! Dowd Ventures Into La La Land

If I wrote this, or, say, if someone like Michelle Malkin, John Hawkins, Jonah Goldberg, or Charles Krauthammer did, would you wonder if we had completely lost our minds? Manes Julii Caesaris paucis diebus aderant — “O, most bloody sight!” — cum Ioannes McCainus, mavericus et veteranus captivusque Belli Francoindosinini, et Sara Palina, barracuda borealis, qui sneerare […]

Western Journalists Redeploy From Iraq

Wouldn’t want them reporting the good news now, would we? The number of foreign journalists in Baghdad is declining sharply, a media withdrawal that reflects Iraq’s growing stability and the financial strains faced by some news organizations. Stable? Who the hell authorized that word in the first paragraph on the front page of the Washington […]

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