Category Archives: MSM

NYT: The Troubling Appeal of Education at For-Profit Schools

The NYT has a piece on “The Troubling Appeal of Education at For-Profit Schools”. Some two million Americans are enrolled in for-profit colleges, up from 400,000 in 2000. Those students, most of them working adults getting short-term certificates, are disproportionately … Continue reading

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Politico: Kremlin Media Turns Against Hitler

“Kremlin-backed media turns on Trump” screams the Politico headline. News outlets funded by Putin’s government rooted for Trump’s election but now relish the chaotic first weeks of his administration. Don’t you just hate it when you do all that work … Continue reading

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NYT: How the Internet Threatens Democracy

Brace yourself for the Next Big Liberal Meme, a logical extension of their ‘Trump Voters are Racist’, ‘Trump is a fascist’, and ‘Russians Hacked the Election’ memes. “How the Internet Threatens Democracy” is the title of Thomas Edsall’s latest column, featuring … Continue reading

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Farage Joins Fox News Channel

First, #NeverTrumper Mad Dog Kelly…fully expecting to run the agenda at FNC… leaves the network. Then Tucker Carlson takes over her time slot, and dominates. Then #NeverTrumper George Will gets dropped as an FNC contributor. Now, I just learn that … Continue reading

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NYT: How the Trolls Stole Washington

Amanda Hess (ahem) writes on “How the Trolls Stole Washington”: Over the course of Donald Trump’s staggering political rise, observers tried to make sense of him by borrowing a metaphor from the internet: Trump, they said, was a troll. He … Continue reading

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Brooks Breaks His Previous High Pretension Score

Leave it to David Brooks to provide straw man caricatures of Counter-Enlightenment political philosophy. In his recent column “The Enlightenment Project”, Brooks lays out some whoppers. After jerking himself off with idealized visions of Enlightenment philosophical systems such as those … Continue reading

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FNC Drops George Will

From The Hill: Fox News has declined to renew contributor contracts for longtime political commentator George Will, Republican strategist Ed Rollins and actress Stacey Dash, according to a network spokesperson. Will, 75, is a Pulitzer-winning conservative columnist who was with … Continue reading

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NYT: What Does Steve Bannon Want?

The Left’s obsession with Steve Bannon continues. And being a regular contributor to the cuckservative Weekly Standard is now a gateway to getting an op-ed in the NYT.  From “What Does Steve Bannon Want?” by Christopher Caldwell: Mr. Bannon, 63, … Continue reading

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The Atlantic on Tucker Carlson

The Atlantic has a short profile of Tucker Carlson (“The Bow-Tied Bard of Populism”), written by McKay Coppins (which name is more pretentious? McKay is a man, by the way): [T]hroughout the 2016 election cycle Carlson routinely deployed his anonymous … Continue reading

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JYT: 2/23/17

From today’s NYT: The first paragraph of the story about the play reads: Steven Levenson’s passionate and provoking “If I Forget” is a family play, a political play and a kitchen-sink play. That kitchen definitely isn’t kosher, even though the … Continue reading

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