Left-Wing Bloggers Say The Durndest Things!

By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  October 22nd at 02:15 PM  | 

Somebody should ask Robert Gibbs if he agrees with the assessment of a leading left-wing blogger that President Obama hasn’t been “even half-competent in the White House.” See, every now and then, I engage in back-and-forth on Twitter with some of the left-wing bloggers. Sometimes it’s pointless, but sometimes it’s revealing, and this is one of those examples. I and a few others were tweaking | Read More »

Rave Reviews For American Taliban

By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  September 3rd at 01:47 PM  | 

So the reviews have begun to come in for Markos Moulitsas’ book “American Taliban,” which argues that American conservatives are just like the Taliban, and they’re…well, let me start with Jamelle Bouie’s review at the left-wing The American Prospect: Given the subject matter and his own influence, Moulitsas is sure to find a large audience for American Taliban. This wouldn’t be a problem if the | Read More »

“Welcome to our world”

By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  October 16th at 06:18 PM  | 

News flash: Markos thinks the world began in 2002. Really, the brave dissenter from the Right, the Reasonable Conservative, etc., is the most ancient of media tropes. (Has Markos never heard of Kevin Phillips, who’s been dining out on the “Republican dissenter” label despite doing nothing but ‘dissent’ from everything Republican for four decades?) Indeed, the most famous specialist at this game is a guy | Read More »