Shot in the Dark

Category: Big Alt-Media

  • Where Have You Gone, Learned Foot…

    …the nation turns its lonely, topical limerick and haiku writing eyes to you. And Ryan Rhodes. But since Foot is retired and Ryan is MIA, we’ll have to fill in ourselves. There once was a fellow named Toobin(Don’t confuse him with Jennifer Rubin). His career met its doom, when he dropped trou on ZoomNow there’s…

  • Blue Fragility: Open Letter To Jonathan Chait

    To: Johnathan “Chaitful” ChaitFrom: Mitch Berg – Red State Sleeper AgentRe: This Little “Eliminationist Hatred” Problem You Have Mr. Chait We go way back, of course – and not in a good way. You have a bit of a history of being a horrible excuse for a human being. But you are a gift that…

  • There Are Millions Of Reasons…

    … why I will never donate a single penny to Minnesota Public radio, even though I listen to them (primarily news and classical music) constantly. Two of them, for starters, are: Keri Miller WNYC’s “On The Media”. But a few more million of them are right here; as Minnesota Public radio lays off much of…

  • Democracy Dies In Conspiracy

    Conservatives, especially conservatives who are “out” critics of the mainstream media, get routinely accused of “hating” journalism. The late Nick Coleman was particularly, er, “acerbic” in his criticism of those who had the gall to criticize the news/industrial complex, claiming in one bout of hysteria that bloggers “wanted to kill the Strib”. While we correctly…

  • Young Jerks

    If there’s a figure anywhere in the liberal media that makes the likes of the late Ed Schultz, or Chris Matthews, or most of the host of “the view””, seem intelligent, rational and human, it’s Cenk Uygur, impresario of the “Young Turks” – sort of a “MinnesotaReformer” for loud, entitled people. They are, naturally, progressive…

  • Hang Onto Your Plumbing

    So let’s see if we follow the progression, here. Years ago, Big Left, via Big Media, started telling us that: Greenhouse gases were going to kill us Using energy causes greenhouse gas Compact fluorescent lights use less energy. And as quick as 1-2-3, compact fluorescents became the law of the land (just in time for…

  • Breeding A Nation Of Ninnies

    This tweet from Time – kids, ask your parents… …explains a lot about how Greta Thunberg became their “Person of the Year”. Among many other things. The Babylon Bee may actually be giving the big media too much credit.

  • Unreliable Sources

    I used to ask Twin Cities media figures why they kept taking the likes of Heather Martens and the “Reverend” Nancy Nord Bence seriously, treating them as legitimate sources on the news, when the leading intellectual lights of Minnesota’s gun control movement burned them so consistently on actual fact. On a national level, the same…

  • Victims

    This is the Associated Press, over the weekend: In a sense, they have a point: I’ve been gleefully urging Democrats to push impeachment without rest almost since Trump was elected, seeing it as at best a goldmine for Trump, and at worst a gateway to a candidate I’d have actually supported on my own in…

  • And To Think Conservatives Believe Big Media Writes Stories About Conservative / Republican People And Events Long Beforehand, Because They’re All Writing To A Narrative

    Jessica Kwong, progressive stenographer at former magazine “Newsweek”, on Donald Trump’s thanksgiving: “it was written before knowing about the president’s surprise visit to Afghanistan-an honest mistake” In other words, pre-written. The Big Media aren’t “the enemy of the people”. They’re worse; after assuming the mantle of “guardian of democracy” (which, we are told, without their…

  • Reliable Risible Sources

    Anyone remember Dave Mindeman? About ten years ago or so, he ran a blog – “MNPAct” – which was a website for putative organization Dave putatively ran. Now, let me be clear: Dave was one of a small handful of “progressive” Metro-area bloggers from blogging’s heyday in the ’00s that didn’t and, to the best…

  • The Decline And Fall Of Max Boot

    They say the most arrogant and obnoxious residents of New York City are the ones born in Buffalo. Likewise, the most annoying, provincial, arrogant hangers-on to any ideology are the ones that came to it with the  most personal sturm und drang. There’ a former conservative blogger who, along with some other personal changes, flipped their…

  • Deutsch, Delusion, And Berg’s Seventh Law

    MSNBC’s Donny Deutsch says Democrats should spare no effort to “put Trump in jail”. Zzzzzzzzzz. That’s not “dog bites man”. That’s not even “dog licks dog”. The iinteresting thing here is Deutsch’s…er, permissive and selective self-image. Emphasis added: Deutsch … implored Democrats to use “fear” to campaign against Trump to paint a picture of a…

  • The Brown Scare

    A little over 100 years ago, the President of the United States – who was the former president of Princeton, an Ivy League university, not some pettifogging Son of the Confederacy – re-segregated the Federal government, opened the statutory floodgates for Jim Crow, and showed Birth of a Nation in the White House. Eighty years…

  • MyLyssa Has Questions. Mitch Has Answers.

    SCENE: Mitch BERG is walking down Grand Avenue, looking for Grand Avenue Distillery Supplies. As he looks in the storefront, MyLyssa SILBERMAN, Reporter for National Public Radio’s Saint Paul bureau, covering the “Fake News” and “Diversity” beats, gets out of a cab. SILBERMAN: Merg! BERG: (Nonplussed) Er, hi, MyLyssa. What’s up? SILBERMAN: I’m curious. You…

  • Touched By The Concern

    Big Leftymedia is concerned that former ISIS fighters who defected from France to the Caliphate aren’t getting due process: [Human Rights Watch spokesman Belkis] WILLE:  The trials of ISIS suspects in Iraq are fundamentally unfair. We say this based on sitting through many of these trials over the last two years. And what we see…

  • Cultural Nausea

    I want to make a video, fisking John Oliver’s moronic piece claiming Australia’s gun laws “debunk” the “American gun ownership myth”. Spoiler: the only parts that are wrong are the parts where Oliver is moving his lips. The problem is, watching John Oliver gives me a very unpleasant physical reaction. Watching him literally makes me…

  • Conservative Is The New Open-Minded Liberal

    Not-especially-seemly confession; I’ve never been to a strip club. But there are a few photos circulating from thirty years ago that, I suspect, a few lefty social media gerbils would flog their nether bits into frenzies of microturgidity if they could find ’em; I’m talking with a couple of strippers in a bar. We’re all…

  • Buzzkill

    Buzzfeed circles the drain.  Kyle Smith watches it spinning: Founded in 2006, BuzzFeed is, as of this year, a teenager, and as is true of many teens it has an unrealistic view of its own likely future. BuzzFeed dreams of landing the Disney prince of profitability by dolling itself up in two ways. One is to cut costs. Unload most of the…

  • Not To Indulge In Schadenfreud…

    …over the recent layoffs in the hipster millennial junk news industry… …but in this case, it’s Iowahawk doing the Schadenfreud. Another @iowahawkblog work of art pic.twitter.com/BDhiXxUKRo — SixStringTweets (@SixStringTweets) January 25, 2019 I can’t tell if sound more like a Nebraska outtake or a Jay Farrar demo.

  • Bonfire Of The Inanities

    Caitlin Flanagan at that noted conservative tool The Atlantic notes that h Big Media botched everthing that could be botched about the Covington flap – and gave us the pullquote of the week: The full video reveals that these kids had wandered into a Tom Wolfe novel and had no idea how to get out of it. But read…

  • Buzzfeed Is To “News”…

    …what Ashley Simpson was to “live performance”.

  • That Moment When…

    ….you see it in black and white:  Big Left’s “elites” really, really don’t understand the Constitution, federalism, checks and balances…representative republican government. I don't think people are ready for the crisis that will follow if Democrats win the House popular vote but not the majority. After Kavanaugh, Trump, Garland, Citizens United, Bush v. Gore, etc,…

  • I Couldn’t Help But Laugh…

    … at the subject line of this email: Well, no. MoveOn.org was made for moments like 20 years ago, when an aging lothario was facing impeachment, and Democrats with deep pockets wanted to defend his administration and power from his own arrogant excess. Glad we could settle that.

  • Open Letter To The Entire US Senate GOP Caucus

    To:  Entire US Senate GOP Caucus From:  Mitch Berg, Cranky Peasant Re:  A Big Lie Senators, Confirm Brett Kavanaugh.  Now. The allegations against him are of a piece with nearly every leftist narrative today – utter crap.  It’s transparent BS.  Like most lefty memes – “gun violence”, the “War on Women”, the $15 minimum wage…