What We Had Here Was Not a Failure to Communicate
The day before the election, the New York Review of Books posted a rant about right-wing radio and TV hosts by Yale professor David Bromwich. Regarding Rush Limbaugh, Bromwich mixed faux analysis...
View ArticleIs ABC Becoming MSNBC?
This Week is a sort of media car wreck. It is invariably a display of terrible journalism — so much so that you can’t help but stop and gawk. On Sunday, Christiane Amanpour badgered Senator-elect Rand...
View ArticleWEB EXCLUSIVE: Soros Is No Good Guy, but Beck’s Holocaust Remarks Are Dead Wrong
There has been a lot of criticism of George Soros on COMMENTARY’s blog. The financier has bankrolled a great many left-wing groups and candidates. He wrongly views the United States, his adopted...
View ArticleShould Obama Take Soros’s Threat Seriously?
The billionaire funder of everything left-wing may be the puppet-master source of all evil to Glenn Beck and his fans, but the White House may be thinking of George Soros as more of a pain in the rear...
View ArticleOn Roger Ailes’s Apology
Fox News chairman Roger Ailes has apologized to the Anti-Defamation League for comments he made comparing NPR executives to “Nazis.” The ADL accepted the mea culpa pretty quickly (too quickly, some...
View ArticleMorning Commentary
You can’t make this up: Charles Rangel is now being investigated for improperly using PAC money to fund his legal defense during his recent ethics violation case. Cables show that cash is still flowing...
View Article“No Labels” Is Also a Label
My friend COMMENTARY contributor David Frum (who has a piece in our upcoming January issue) is a writer both tough and fearless in his judgments. It’s one of the many reasons he’s always worth reading,...
View ArticleAfternoon Commentary
A member of the Iranian Qods force, an elite branch of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard corps, was found to be moonlighting as a Taliban commander. As Stephen Hayes points out at the Weekly Standard,...
View ArticleWhy the Arizona Massacre Is Fodder for Liberal Attacks
Even before most of the country had even learned the facts of the Arizona massacre on Saturday, the headline on the homepage of the New York Times website proclaimed that “In Attack’s Wake, Political...
View ArticleBoehner’s Tears Seen as Sign of Strength
Members of the political left — who regard themselves as crusaders for gender equality — have an interesting habit of mocking conservatives like John Boehner and Glenn Beck for getting misty-eyed in...
View ArticleWhat Now for Keith Olbermann?
Since Keith Olbermann’s abrupt departure from MSNBC on Friday, there’s been a lot of speculation about where the liberal commentator will go next. Though it seems clear that Olbermann had been anxious...
View ArticleSoros-Funded Jewish Group Calls for Fox to Sanction Glenn Beck
In the Wall Street Journal this morning, an organization called Jewish Funds for Justice sent an open letter to Rupert Murdoch asking him to sanction Fox News host Glenn Beck for using “Holocaust and...
View ArticleThe Difference Between COMMENTARY and the Jewish Funds for Justice Rabbis
Earlier today, Alana wrote about the ad in today’s Wall Street Journal taken out by the left-wing group Jewish Funds for Justice in which the organization called for the News Corporation to “sanction”...
View ArticleJewish Groups Denounce Anti–Glenn Beck Letter
Last week, Jewish Funds for Justice published an open letter in the Wall Street Journal calling on Fox News to sanction Glenn Beck for his “use of Holocaust and Nazi images.” But now the JTA is...
View ArticlePalin Skips Out on CPAC Again
Sarah Palin is the latest in a string of prominent conservatives who have decided not to attend this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, which takes place in Washington D.C. next week....
View ArticleHolocaust Scholar Quoted in Anti-Glenn Beck Letter Criticizes the Campaign
A Holocaust scholar quoted in the Jewish Funds for Justice’s anti–Glenn Beck letter has criticized the group’s campaign as one-sided and political. Deborah Lipstadt, the Dorot Professor of Modern...
View ArticleGore Turned Down Glenn Beck for Qatar
The Wall Street Journal reports that Glenn Beck–who approached Current TV about a sale last year–was too right-wing for the network to even consider his offer. But an authoritarian-Islamist government...
View ArticleAlex Jones is a Gun Rights Straw Man
After conspiracy-mongering radio host Alex Jones started a petition to have Piers Morgan deported because of his support for gun control, the CNN personality invited Jones on to debate the issue. Jones...
View ArticleBeck Crosses the Line Again
The dynamic in contemporary American political warfare tends to treat any offenses by those figures that we consider to be on “our side” on many of the great issues of the day as insignificant while...
View ArticleDid Beck Cross the Line? Yes.
Fans of Glenn Beck are complaining about what I wrote yesterday about his speech at the National Rifle Association convention, where he used a giant image of Michael Bloomberg photoshopped into what...
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