Have I Been too Hard on Ed Morrissey?

More than once at this site, I’ve taken considerable issue with blog entries written by Ed Morrissey at Michelle Malkin’s Hot Air. Prior to joining Hot Air in March, Morrissey ran his own highly popular and well-respected conservative blog, Captain’s Quarters. Back in February when he announced that he would move his full-time [...]

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The Odinga Lie and Cold Fury’s Pathetic Standards for Truth

I’ve noted previously that I count Cold Fury among my sources for right-biased information. Mike Hendrix typically keeps his opinions separate from what he calls facts and asks honest questions. In my experience (if you can get past the barrage of insults and profanity) the site can sometimes be useful, particularly posts authored [...]

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Mike Hendrix’ Head Has Finally Exploded

I can admit to the slightly masochistic guilty pleasure of reading Cold Fury. For anyone unfamiliar, it’s often well researched and thoughtful, despite their open and usually profane hostility toward the left which is excessive enough to make Cold Fury a borderline hate-site. They’re of a different brand from, say, Ann Coulter’s columns. [...]

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“Sadly, No!” Slaps “Captain Special Ed Morrissey” on his Defense of Palin’s Earmarks

Money quote:
Special Ed has decided to go for the gusto with this argument: “Palin didn’t request any earmarks.”
Now you probably imagine that Ed is going to prove this vastly amusing premise by examining the fonts and kerning in appropriations legislation and claiming that they reveal that the Alaska earmarks actually came from the Governor [...]

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Peggy Noonan on Governor Palin

“The most qualified [woman]? No. I think they went for this, excuse me, political bullshit about narratives and the [inaudible] picture. Every time Republicans do that, because that’s not where they live and it’s not what they’re good at, they blow it.”

Noonan prefaced her weekly column today with [...]

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The Obama Campaign Should Hire Hilzoy

Word of the exceptional work being done over at Obsidian Wings has been getting around.
But Hilzoy’s talents deserve even greater exposure than simply ranking among the top 50 politics blogs.
Here’s a devastating piece dismantling the latest twisted half-truths churned out by the “Straight Talk Express.” Why doesn’t Obama’s campaign counter McCain’s slander and distortions [...]

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Defining Obama

Fill in the blank:
Obama is the new ________.
Sullivan: “We clearly have a pundit glut.”

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