For the first few years of George W. Bush’s presidency, Mark Tapscott was a journalist without a newsroom, shouting from the sidelines about his industry’s swift decline. Tapscott ran the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Media and Public Policy, and trained reporters in the use of technology for research and crunching More…
On July 7, 2007, Marcus Epstein had too much to drink and stumbled onto Georgetown’s scenic, shop-lined M Street, walking in no particular direction. At 7:15 p.m., he bumped into a black woman, called her a “nigger,” and struck her in the head with an open hand. An off-duty Secret More…
Commentary’s Abe Greenwald doesn’t see anything wrong with forcing a detainee into a “confinement box” for an hour and allowing him to believe that he’ll be stung to death by the unspecified thing that he can’t see but that’s crawling on him. He must have read “1984″ as More…
Here’s my first stab at what I hope will be an ongoing and ever-improving feature: a sample of stories from conservative media that the Right has been talking about, or blogging about, or even ignoring to its peril.
1.) Karl Rove, “President Bush Tried to Rein In Fan and More…
Chip Saltsman has put the “magic negro” story behind him. The news that the ex-Mike Huckabee campaign manager and candidate for chairman of the Republican National Committee had sent RNC members a CD of parody songs that included “Barack the Magic Negro” lit up the political press during the slow More…
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