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An O’Keefe/Giles Victory Lap

By | 11.20.09 | 11:10 am

There’s little dispute that the ACORN sting conducted by twenty-something conservative videographers James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles was the conservative media triumph of the year. The takedown of Van Jones was a real and unexpected victory, but the ACORN tapes may end up bringing down a major liberal More…

NY-23: The Scozzafava Schism

By | 10.26.09 | 8:45 am

Eric Kleefeld has a great rundown of the Republican players who’ve taken sides in the New York 23rd Congressional District special election between GOP candidate and Dede Scozzafava and Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman. The short version: elected Republicans are backing Scozzafava, while former officeholders and conservative groups are More…

Robert Stacy McCain Responds to Gawker, Defends Palin Collaborator Lynn Vincent

By | 09.30.09 | 2:11 pm

John Cook at Gawker is going after Sarah Palin for collaborating with Lynn Vincent on her forthcoming book “Going Rogue.” As Charles Johnson noted, and as I reported back in May, Vincent has previously collaborated on political book with Robert Stacy McCain, a former Washington Times reporter More…

Co-Author of ‘Donkey Cons’ to Co-Write Palin Memoir

By | 05.22.09 | 8:51 am

World magazine reports that Lynn Vincent, the Catholic publication’s features editor, will co-write Sarah Palin’s memoirs. I’m familiar with Vincent’s work from her collaboration with conservative reporter Robert Stacy McCain on the 2006 muckraking tome “Donkey Cons.” It was an uncomplicated book, its thesis being that if you More…