Dershowitz declares war on Media Matters
"I will personally make it an election matter." Media Matters for America took a big hit to its credibility when Tucker Carlson and the Daily Caller ran a multiple-installment exposé of the political...
View ArticleQuotes of the day
Requiem. “Breitbart knew instinctively, as people in Washington and most other places did not, that movies, television programs, and popular music send out deeply political messages every hour of every...
View ArticleBill Ayers: Breitbart was a radical right “bombthrower”
Nuance. Via Guy Benson, look out for the part where the Weatherman turned bombmaker turned fugitive accuses Breitbart of having had “several screws loose or missing.” Before I watched the clip, I...
View ArticleGreat news: New EEOC checkbox category emerges
"Bow-tie'n white boys"? Hey, I tried to anticipate the next expansion in ethnic categorization yesterday with my proposal for recognition of left-handed Finns as a protected minority, but that...
View ArticleOpen thread: Hannity and the Daily Caller on the Obama tape
Talk. It’s the news du jour thanks to Drudge so here’s your thread for reaction. Evidently the DC will post its story at 9 p.m. ET just as Hannity’s show starts to roll. I’ll update this post with the...
View ArticleVideo: Tucker Carlson presses his case on 2007 Obama speech
"A subversion of what journalism's supposed to be." The morning after the big reveal on last night’s Hannity, The Daily Caller’s Tucker Carlson appeared on Fox and Friends to press his case that the...
View Article“Are you a Christian?” Tucker Carlson vs. Kirsten Powers on admitting...
"That's not hawkishness, that is un-American." Via RCP, the fun starts at around 3:00. As far as I know, Powers has always supported open borders as a “solution” to America’s immigration problem. If...
View ArticleLeft: Planet Earth is in jeopardy with Trump’s EPA pick! Also… Hitler!
Climate change activists have been rather disturbed by President-elect Donald Trump’s choice of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt as the new Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency....
View ArticleThe Tucker Carlson interview of Kurt Eichenwald
Tucker Carlson had Newsweek’s Kurt Eichenwald on his show today and, from the very start, the interview seemed to go off the rails. Carlson asked Eichenwald if he considered himself a journalist which...
View Article“You should stick to the thigh-high boots”: Tucker Carlson vs. Teen Vogue writer
On this slow pre-holiday news day, kindly enjoy the celebrated cable-news food fight du jour. This interview was booked, I assume, in the belief that it’d be what I’ll call a “bop-bag segment,” in...
View ArticleTom Cotton: No, Russia isn’t “on our side” against Islamic terrorism
Via the Weekly Standard, tough spot for Cotton here. He’s clearly eyeing a presidential run down the line and just as clearly positioning himself to coopt some of Trump’s nationalist base when he does....
View ArticleTucker Carlson to replace Megyn Kelly at 9 p.m. on Fox News
Harry Enten of FiveThirtyEight made me laugh with this: I'm not sure how Tucker Carlson is getting one of the best cable news spots in TV after Jon Stewart OBLITERATED/CRUSHED him in 2004. — (((Harry...
View ArticleMust see: Tucker Carlson versus the fake “Demand Protest” guy
Trust me when I tell you that you’ve never seen something like this before on cable news and probably never will again. Did people actually believe this was real? I mean, the group’s website promises...
View ArticleFox News’s ratings at 9 p.m. rise after Tucker Carlson replaces Megyn Kelly
No surprise. There must have been some Trumpers who watch Fox News regularly but were skipping Kelly’s show out of pique at her. Now they can tune in at 9 p.m. Among the wider public, some people are...
View ArticleFormer CNN host: Some there were “determined” to elect Hillary
“It’s pretty rich,” former CNN host Piers Morgan tells Fox’s Tucker Carlson about the media’s treatment of Donald Trump, that the American media went after Donald Trump as hard as they did — including...
View ArticleTucker Carlson: I think Elizabeth Warren would have beaten Trump last year
Via the Right Scoop, I don’t know that I’d go that far. But I’m also not sure, as I said yesterday, that Warren will be as useful a hate object to the GOP as it hopes and expects. Tucker’s not sure...
View ArticleBerkeley activist: No, “fascists” don’t have a right to speak in public
A top-notch “bop-bag segment” from last night’s Tucker Carlson show, executed with the guest’s enthusiastic participation to demonstrate just how illiberal far-left liberalism is. The meat of this one...
View ArticleTrump on what happened “last night in Sweden”: I got it from a story on Fox News
A head-scratcher from his speech on Saturday in Florida, eerily similar to the snafu Kellyanne Conway recently created when she mentioned to a “Bowling Green massacre” that never happened. Trump was...
View ArticleTucker’s guest to Trump: ‘Way more people have protested than were at your...
Fireworks abound during Tucker Carlson’s show on Fox News Monday night when he invited Sunsara Taylor, an organizer with Refuse Fascism, to discuss the organization’s manifesto. Refuse doesn’t mince...
View ArticleTucker Carlson to DNC senior advisor: Is your gender whatever you say it is?
Did Zac Petkanas, the Democrat tasked with facing Carlson here, actually prepare for this interview? The segment was a hit on conservative social media last night not so much because Tucker bombarded...
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