Vox Verax (Free subscription) | yesterday
ClimateGate supposedly reveals a scientific world gone corrupt, but really shows a political world gone mad. BY ANNIE LOWREY Foreign Policy DECEMBER 4, 2009 Here is how the story now known as ClimateGate broke: On Nov. 17, an unknown person somehow gained access to a huge cache of emails and data files from the University of East Anglia's climate research unit (CRU) and put them on the Internet. The...
Gawker (Free subscription) | yesterday
Did Matt Drudge just revere-jujitsu a Rupert Murdoch rumor into the news? Australian website Crikey reported that Murdoch split with his wife Wendi Deng. No one, anywhere, picked it up, because...
Gawker (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Hey look, Matt Drudge is bringing much-needed attention to the outrageous case of Jeremy Engelking, a white man who was arrested for trespassing on his own property. Arresting white people on their...
Salon.com (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
People try to make some very, very silly things into issues in politics. Like the timing of President Obama's speech about Afghanistan on Tuesday night, which happened to coincide with -- and thus pre-empt -- showings of "A Charlie Brown Christmas Special." In a saner world, this would have been a total non-story. (Among the numerous reasons that this is a total non-storye: Assuming there...
Rising Hegemon (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Oh, Matt Drudge, what would be ever do without your repellent wankery? As noted at the Great Orange Satan , the egg-man publishes a picture falsely claiming the opposite of what the AP reported that a cadet reading while waiting for Obama to speak into one reading WHILE he was speaking. Not only a false charge, but one which would cause the young cadet a pain-in-the-ass inquiry. Thanks asshole. But...
Rants From The Rookery (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Leaked emails expose the fact that scientists were complaining about bad scientific processes and how much work they had to do and stuff: Climate change is real and man-made. Period, end of story. But recently, some emails have leaked that conclusively prove that climate scientists... are really pissed off that a well-funded industry exists that subverts and denies their work. A "hacker"...
Rising Hegemon (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
David Broder may be off this week (literally rather than figuratively) but that doesn't mean the Village doesn't have more than enough suitable replacements. I give you former WaPo retread and Politico hack John F. Harris , desperate for some of Chuck Todd's goateed affections. See John F. Harris suck McCain's teat . See John F. Harris laugh about outing a CIA operative. See John F. Harris say "Matt...
Politics Index (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
Who's to blame for Climategate? - Telegraph ... very real fears that hardline Republicans – together with powerful Right-wing media organisations – will use the scandal to scupper President Obama's proposed legislation to cap carbon emissions. In Australia, the world's worst carbon dioxide polluter per capita,...Rupert Murdoch's Fox News has described the emails as a "game-changer"...
BigCityLib Strikes Back (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
In attempt to fan the dying flames of the ClimateGate pseudo-controversy, Matt Drudge himself stepped in last night to provide a few helpful links. Note the fourth one down: Except that the "Climate Science Coalition" is not a government organization, and the site in question is Tim Lambert's Deltoid. Drudge has simply been fooled by the coalition's official sounding name. As Tim puts it:...
Don Surber (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
On Oct 11, the Times of London reported — and I duly posted — on Dubai going broke. I was promptly was told I am all wet. The bourses (exchanges) were at an 11-month high. Um, yes, someone ran up the price to make a killing before the fall. Tonight, the Times of London reported (and Matt Drudge [...]
Black Political Thought (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
You know it's a slow news day when all Matt Drudge of The Drudge Report can come up with is President Obama leaving the White House clutching a copy of GQ Magazine, with his picture on the cover. So, I am guessing Drudge is inferring that Obama is being egotistical? What gives? Surely Matt Drudge and his team can come up with something more important than this.
Half Sigma (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
There are, currently, several Climategate links at the top of the Drudge Report. One of the links is to the Washington Times editorial: The content of these e-mails raises extremely serious questions that could end the academic careers of many...
The Travis Monitor (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
The Central Texas Republican Assembly November 22, 2009 For Immediate Release Contact Tim Bradberry 512-507-2823 dadofping@sbcglobal.net (Travis County, Texas) – Saturday night, the United States Senate voted 60-39 to keep its ill-conceived and largely unpopular health care bill alive in the face of growing opposition by voters around the country, especially voters in states like Arkansas who...
Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
This is a peripheral Matt Drudge-like posting and I'm sorry, but as soon as I heard the term "dino-chickens" I was hooked. In my entire life I've never heard this term, and I'm speaking as a guy who once wrote a Roger Corman- or George Pal-type script called Killer Chickens. The size of ostriches, out for blood, looking to settle a score with humans...screaming overall-clad victims being...
Soup Cans (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Over a year later and Sarah Palin is still trying to spin her disasterous interview with Katie Couric. The former Alaskan governor will unveil a new book to the world which should provide the blogosphere plenty of fodder over the next few weeks. In her new book, Palin calls the CBS anchoress "badgering" describes her as someone who suffers from "low self-esteem” mainly because...
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