Shot in the Dark

Category: Big Alt-Media

  • The Record

    Caron Monahan – the ex-girlfriend of anti-somatic DFL congressman Keith Ellison, who is running for state auditor this fall – reports that the big social media platforms appear to be engaging in shenanigans. Since the big social media platform is our plan I’d like to make sure the actual record gets out: Pass it along.

  • With Any Luck

    Last year saw Gawker Media spin into oblivion. With a little luck, we’ll be seeing the same from Vice before too long. As I wait for the bonfire, I’ll refer you to this memorable parody of Vice… …from the parody series “Documentary Now” – which as been one of Netflix’s better offerings in the past couple…

  • What Would Be Better Than “Buzzfeed’s” “Journalistic Reputation” Being Hung Like A Piñata And Beaten With Rebars?

    Nothing Didn’t say it would be a good joke.  But then, either are Buzzfeed’s “journalistic ethics”. 

  • Not To Be Too Cynical, But…

    …since this article – about an obscure Congressional candidate who admits (or claims) to be a pedophile and a white supremacist – mentions no party affiliation, we’ll assume he’s a Democrat?

  • Berg’s Seventh Law In The Headlines

    Berg’s Seventh Law: “When a Liberal issues a group defamation or assault on conservatives’ ethics, character, humanity or respect for liberty or the truth, they are at best projecting, and at worst drawing attention away from their own misdeeds.” Remember during the campaign, when Donald “The Donald” Trump’s history of sexist japes, braggadocio and womanizing went…

  • Whenever I Need A Little Pick-Me-Up…

    With the departure of Fast Eddie Schultz from the (American) national media, Cenk Uygur has taken sole possession of the role of dumbest person in American public life. And every once in a while, when I need a little pick-me-up, I re-roll this clip of his election-night journey from entitled, Urban-Progressive-Privilege-sodden, illiterate profane smugness to…

  • Tarred

    The good news?  You’ve got people on the left defending free speech on campus, and defending it well, as Charles C. Cooke notes in the National Review about a piece in New York Magazine by Jesse Singal:. But there’s still a bit of fact-checking to do, as Cooke notes – in this case, quoting Singal: “The…

  • Stage IV Pauline Kael Syndrome

    Katha Pollitt is sort of a gender affirmative action project; Big Leftymedia has Jonathan Chait, so the need a female version (pardon the redundancy). She never disappoints, which is another way of saying if you have any hope that our coastal elite can be salvaged, she disappoints intensely. In this case, Pollitt “writes” about the…

  • Sadly Disappointed

    When I read the headline on this piece (“We Should Ban Cars From Big Cities. Seriously.”), the first thing that crossed my mind was “Oh, this could be a fiendishly brilliant parody of gun-grabber “arguments”. Then I saw the masthead; BuzzFeed.  Which means nothing clever, fiendish or otherwise. A gun lobbyist would typically step in right about…

  • Dawn Of The Doakes: Fact-Checking MinnPost; Like Cleaning Up Puerto Rico With A DustBuster

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: A friend of your blog mentioned a MinnPost article, in a column captioned Big Words.  Since it’s the MinnPost, you have to wade through the stage-setting lies to search for a possible grain of wisdom. Lie #1.  Trump did not refer to Kaepernick as a son-of-a-bitch, Trump explicitly referred…

  • A Lot Of Money In That Non-Profit Social Justice Racket

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The Southern Poverty Law Center, which is being sued for slandering conservatives,  has moved $69 million overseas. Nice work, if you can get it. The SPLC is the Big Left’s Goebbels.

  • Word Choice

    Rolling Stone, reeling from a decade of decay of the print publication biz and its own growing irrelevance, is on the market; Jann Wenner is looking for a buyer. The NYTimes notes (emphasis added by me): But the headwinds buffeting the publishing industry, and some costly strategic missteps, have steadily taken a financial toll on…

  • Trapped In A World They Never Made

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The Star Tribune newspaper (using the term very generously) with their stable of leftist propagandists, is so far out of the reality loop that I am becoming convinced they are not merely pretending to believe this swill, they actually believe it.  I know this is a long and ludicrous…

  • Does Harvard Give Refunds?

    Rachel Maddow – not the most overrated “public intellectual” in the leftymedia, but pretty dang close – threw out some hilarioiusly historicalliy-ignorant red meat organic gruel for her audience of ill-informed wannabe intellects. Over the past year I’ve been reading a lot about what it was like when Hitler first became chancellor. I am gravitating toward moments…

  • The Problem With Liberal Media Talking About “Fake News”

    The left-leaning mainstream media – which has in the life of this blog: embraced (and still embraces) a “fake” but “accurate” story about George Bush’s Air Guard service that sported faked documents and references to officers who had retired from the service by the time they signed the purported document Actively colluded with the Hillary…

  • This Changes EVERYTHING!

    Celebrities – among the left’s most vital constituencies – are now asking for 37 electors to vote against Trump. Don’t want to watch the whole video?  OK – the “highlight” is probably Martin Sheen, who preaches: Sheen pledges that anyone who votes his or her way will go “down in the books as an American…

  • Stardom

    Speaking for myself, I’m not going to participate in the left’s jabbering about “the Alt-Right” – which is to this cycle what “Vast Rightwing Conspiracy” was to 1996, and “War on Women” was to 2012; a mass smear attempting to tie the entire American “right” to the most noxious people who can possibly be linked…

  • Garbage Out

    There’s a meme going about – a corruption of “Godwin’s Law”, I think – that says “the first person to refer to Hitler loses”.   We’ve been through Godwin’s Law and its various permutations in the past. But it did bring something to mind. When I get into rhubarbs with liberals, it’s pretty much an…

  • Raising The Level Of Discourse

    Thank goodness the left is all about that.

  • Gloriously Justifiable Homicide

    Gawker is dead. You could read their sniveling, responsibility-denying self-post-mortem… …or you could let Sean Davis do it for you: Gawker is dead; let us dance on its rank, festering grave. I only hope that sometime in my life I get the chance to pelt Nick Denton with taunts and garbage.

  • If I Were A Betting Man…

    …and I’m not, but if I were, I’d put down good money that we’re going to see a big John Oliver bit on what a funny name Trey Gowdy is. And it’ll go viral.  Oh, yes, it will.  At all costs. It – the Oliver bit, I mean – will be all over the news.…

  • Come Back, Aaron Rupar: All Is Forgiven

    To:  The City Pages From:  Mitch Berg, Uppity Peasant Re:  You Suck Dear “City Pages”, While you’ve always been a freebie hipster lifestyle ‘zine, you used to have some great writing.  Thirty years ago, you were the home of Lileks and Jim DeRogatis. Twenty years ago, led by Steve Perry,  you had some great journalism…

  • Shots Fired

    Rep. Kim Norton is going to come for your guns this session. It may not work, but it’s the next measure in what Big Left hopes to make into a steady drumbeat that eventually wears the great, underinformed middle down on the issue. But the facts are out there. Location, Location, Location:   If you…

  • Hugo First

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: As a youth, I looked for Science Fiction books with Hugo Winner on the cover because that was a sign of quality science fiction writing. For the last 30 years, Hugo winners have been more about political correctness than starships and laser beams, a future of despair, not hope.…

  • Sustainability

    Minnesota Public Radio announced what amounts to a fairly sweeping set of layoffs in the newsroom yesterday: The identities of the laid off staff members have not been confirmed, but a series of tweets by MPR Newscut blogger Bob Collins Thursday night suggest that they are: Newscaster Beth Kidd; higher ed reporter Alex Friedrich; politics…