— Liberal media apologist Geoff Nunberg tries to weasel out of blogger Edward Boyd’s discovery that he fudged* his numbers, committing three major gaffes in the process (at Geoffrey Nunberg – Media Bias, linked by Instantman) Gaffe Number 1 has Nunberg claiming NOW’s not a left-wing organization: Goldberg’s other number involves one of those specious … Continue reading “Caught with his pants down”
— Megan McArdle wrote a pithy and insightful column on the MS/Netscape deal for Salon: Legal observers, however, were not fooled: the antitrust case might be over, but the door was wide open for civil suits. Sure enough, Netscape soon stepped through with a civil filing claiming treble damages — and I happily anticipated at … Continue reading “Netscape’s folly”
— Here’s your Berkeley Blogfest photographs. Dr. Frank, Ken Layne, and Nick Denton. Here you can see Peter (talking to Ken) and Christina (behind the battling camera.) And here we have Matt Welch and Peter Molnar, the Hungarian Parliamentarian.
— (updated) A couple of days ago, I referred to the “knuckle-dragging Freeper” point of view on the California primary, a reference to Simberg’s statement of solidarity with the Freepers: The folks over at Free Republic are masticating Ken’s column and spitting it out. Many are making the same points that I do (though in … Continue reading “Freeper Gate”
— If there’s one thing Salon’s chief censor and managing editor Scott Rosenberg knows about, it’s soaring debts. But somehow he manages to project Salon’s business practices onto the president of the United States. This is why I call these folks “The Sneering Class”. Salon.com Politics Still, it’s incontrovertible that the government has a lot … Continue reading “Voice of experience”
— Fox News’ celebrity blogger Will Vehrs has discovered one of my favorite columnists: I think Kathleen Parker is one of the best columnists out there who isn’t syndicated to the WP or NYT. She’s got a nice web site and answered a long-ago email I sent her quickly and very graciously. You can also … Continue reading “Discovering Kathleen Parker”
| KEN . LAYNE . DOT . CON | Ho ho … Riordan finally hit back. The Channel 2 news just had a commercial explaining the former LA mayor’s position on abortion — he doesn’t like it, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t support a woman’s right to do whatever — and letting the Home … Continue reading “Riordan strikes back:”
