Greg Sargent’s Imaginary Conflict
By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary) | August 24th at 10:23 PM |
The Washington Post’s in-house left-wing activist, Greg Sargent, thinks he can convince you that he has a “gotcha” moment with Rick Perry’s recent book “Fed Up!: Our Fight to Save America from Washington”: Rick Perry’s campaign is now distancing him from another controversial claim in his book: That we should repeal the 16th Amendment and replace it with a “Fair Tax,” a radical idea that’s | Read More »
Washington Post: 95% Believe Spending Cuts Are The Best Way To Cut The Deficit
By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary) | March 15th at 01:06 PM |
Greg Sargent, the Washington Post’s in-house left-wing activist, has a hilarious post up analyzing the latest WaPo poll. (The post was originally entitled, “The pubic agrees with Dems, but they don’t know it,” although eventually someone caught on and fixed the typo.) Everybody has typos; what’s more enduringly amusing is Sargent’s effort at spin:
WaPo’s Greg Sargent Casually Slanders Tea Party Movement
By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary) | February 9th at 02:34 PM |
As anyone who has spent any time reading them knows, left-wing bloggers and activists tend to live in a world of their own, in which the most outrageous sorts of allegations against conservatives and Republicans are not required to be supported by any evidence. This is especially true when it comes to accusing conservatives and Republicans of bigotry and other improper motivations; left-wingers feel free | Read More »
Pretending The Union Money Doesn’t Exist
By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary) | October 22nd at 05:30 PM |
Desperate Democrats have been hyperventilating for the past month over money being spent by corporate and other groups, notably the Chamber of Commerce and Americans for Prosperity, to run campaign commercials. To conservatives, running commercials to attempt to persuade voters in advance of an election is known as “free speech,” and turnabout is fair play after corporate money went heavily for Obama in 2008, but | Read More »
Washington Post’s Left-Wing Activist Confused As To Why Dick Cheney Is Newsworthy
By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary) | December 1st at 01:48 PM |
I follow a handful of writers on the Left to keep tabs on their latest pathologies (and, on rare occasions, to get out in front of stories when they actually have a point), and I must say that few of them provide such a persistent source of entertainment as Greg Sargent, formerly a paid left-wing activist employed by the Soros-funded Talking Points Memo family of | Read More »