Shot in the Dark

Tag: Brian Lambert

  • A Tale Of Two Shows

    The last couple of weeks have seen big news in the local talkradio community – albeit for very different reasons. This week, former KSTP host and cult object Tom Mischke will start an internet-based talk show, affiliated with formerly-readable boutique freebie ‘zine The City Pages. David Brauer at the MinnPost writes: Of course, Tommy Mischke…

  • From Sacramento, Salt Lake City Is “Way East”

    Steve “Mister Furious” Perry, who spent many years as one of the Twin Cities’ better journalist while the editor of the City Pages, several months as a lone crank at The Daily Mole, and about a year editing a bald-faced propaganda mill at the Minnesoros “Independent”, has not only gigged up, but done it in…

  • If He Were The King, I’d Be The Revolutionary

    Brian Lambert, on what he’d do if he were king. I’ll hold off on jokes about “every liberal’s inner authoritarian” for now: ONE: Restoration of The Fairness Doctrine. When The Fairness Doctrine was abandoned back in the last hours of the Reagan administration it took about a week before 500 dweebs who couldn’t get dates…

  • When Monks Speak, Professors Nod Their Heads And Carry On Their Way

    My quicker take on Brian Lambert’s take on Katherine Kersten’s departure from the Strib:  He’s irredeemably wrong, for reasons that are largely due to personal and vocational myopia. I told you it’d be quick. But that’s not all that satisfying, is it? ———- A couple of points, just as background.  I used to be a reporter. …

  • Aren’t We All?

    Zach at MNPublius is a giddy as a little girl over Katherine Kersten’s exit from the Strib: I’m sad to see Coleman go, but (sorry Nick) if it means Kersten gets the ax, I’d dump him everyday of the week and twice on Tuesday. You hate dissent and disagreement that much? Wow. By the way,…

  • The Two-Way Sluice

    When I cast my first-ever conservative vote – for Ronald Reagan, in 1984 – I didn’t tell anyone. Part of it was that the whole conversion from mushy-left to right was so very recent. Part of it was that I was still feeling my way around an unfamiliar place. And a big part was that…

  • A Funny Thing Happened At Billy’s

    Two things did not happen at the MDE/MNPublius Happy Hour at Billy’s on Grand last night: Nobody started singing Kumbaya. In the presence of each other’s “operatives”, nobody apparently converted to their respective dark sides. Left stayed left, right stayed right, and though the twain met, it did not turn into an Ophrah episode. Nobody…

  • Facts Are For Wingnuts

    I’ve been waiting with bated breath to see how the local Sorosphere would react to the news that their conclusion that the “No New Taxes” crowd all but blew up the 35W River Bridge was wrong. And while Lori Sturdevant is the gold standard for Tic PR flaks in this area (and Nick Coleman is…

  • Just To Be Perfectly Clear On Things

     Paul Schmelzer took understandable, mild umbrage over the “Shootie” award I gave the Minnesota Monitor yesterday.  He might not be entirely wrong.  But we’ll get back to that. Let’s go waaaay back to the spring of ’06. Back before the Minnesota Monitor even started publishing, I got a tip from a source that said the…

  • Fun With Lambert

    Someone emailed me to ask what I thought about Brian Lambert’s take on the latest round of ratings. What the heck; it’s always good entertainment. I’ll ask you to remember one thing that, for some of you (and you know who I’m talking about), might seem counterintuitive; while I am a conservative host (part-time, anyway),…

  • See No Lambert, Hear No Lambert, Say No Lambert

    Brian Lambert – the Major Renault of the Twin Cities media – yaps about the Stribs’ discovery of that thing that most terrifies people like…well, Brian Lambert; the free market. But first, some things that oughtta scare all of us: Former City Pages editor, Steve Perry, has been busy tunneling through some juicy news troves…

  • Bogus Science

    Gary Miller has the best introduction to Bogus Doug’s evisceration of Brian Lambert’s call for media censorship of the global warming debate: Doug Williams demonstrates why he is duty-bound to never again take 6 months off from blogging by offering this extraordinary post on Brian Lambert’s global warming pronouncements. In the span of just a few…

  • Lambert: “Unclean! Unclean!“

    I rag endlessly on the Minnesota Monitor.  But I’ll say this: media correspondent Paul Schmelzer is very, very good at what he does.  Vastly better, as a media-beat reporter, than the “source” of this bit from Friday, Brian Lambert, one of the Twin Cities’ media scene’s great ongoing embarassments.  Lambert, who’s been ekeing out a…

  • Strib: Circling The Drain

    Bad news for columnists at the Strib, according to long-time lefty shill Brian Lambert: Thursday afternoon at the Star Tribune saw the paper’s four metro columnists, Doug Grow, Nick Coleman, Katherine Kersten and Cheryl “CJ” Johnson called in to separate meetings with editors Nancy Barnes and Scott Gillespie and told, in so many words, that…

  • But Not For Ye

    The Elder beats down Brian Lambert: For all the talk of “crushing of dissent,” “questioning of patriotism,” “building a theocracy,” “trashing the Constitution,” and “creating a climate of fear” in George Bush’s Amerika, it’s notable that at the end of the day, the only actual efforts to limit debate and free expression are coming from…