Pat Buchanan and His Enablers The real scandal here is not that Pat Buchanan wrote a book replete with racist, anti-Semitic drivel. The scandal is that a major cable news channel—indeed, the go-to source of news and information for progressives—ever hired him in the first place.
A Lapdog in Wolffe's Clothing Renegade: The Making of a President By Richard Wolffe; Crown; 368 pages; $26.00 Last month, Politico’s Ben Smith served up a juicy story about the controversy surrounding Renegade, former Newsweek correspondent Richard Wolffe’s book about the Obama campaign. There seemed to be no shortage of staffers at the magazine willing to speak ill of their former colleague, whom they accused...
Parliament's Peanut Gallery The Wit and Wisdom of Britain’s Sketch Writers Whenever Simon Hoggart writes about Michael Fabricant, he always makes note of the Honorable Gentleman from Lichfield’s hair. “How many My Little Ponies, we asked, had died to make such a creation?” reads one of Hoggart’s countless dispatches. That 2003 piece, in fact, was devoted entirely to...