Outside the Beltway

The craziest damn thing you’ve ever heard of or a secret message to the crazies?

Hoisted by their own petard.

The network’s longtime weekend anchor couldn’t take it anymore.

Whether dupes or active participants, the damage is real (and points us back to 2016).

We’re likely to see more instances like the Capitol Riot and the Kyle Rittenhouse shootings.

A media critic argues we pay outsized attention to the goings-on at Fox, MSNBC, and CNN.

Two NeverTrump Republicans have had enough.

A contrast in styles.

An amusing incident highlights how far we’ve fallen.

Sound decisions require sound reporting.

The right questions are: 1) why do some some on the right like him, and 2) should this concern us all?

Hungary is part of a broader global trend, but the real issue isn’t Hungary, it is the Americans who praise Hungary.

Some recent news items that add to concern about American democracy.

An emotional day set the tone for the investigation.

Another R/D cleavage?

It’s not getting any better, folks.

Thinking about party evolution and behavior going into 2022.

Stories, links, and brief observations from the week that never grew into posts.

A pandemic and the rise of Zoom meetings unleashed an academic theory into the wild.

A special session looms. (And how this is not like the filibuster in the US Senate).

Covid appears here to stay, so the goal is management.

Rudy may not be a very good lawyer…

Foolish lies are for foolish liars.

Losing viewers to fringe networks, the Fair and Balanced team is joining them.

The President of the United States is an existential threat to the Republic.

We won’t have Sidney Powell to kick around any more.

Last night amplifies a long pattern.

The ongoing pathetic attempt to create a scandal around Hunter Biden.

The iconoclastic journalist is out at the publication he founded.

As Election Day draws closer, the President is doubling down on stoking racial resentment.

I’ve been thinking it wrong for years.

Preying on the fears of old white people is good business.

Critics of the modeling and of the data analysis are being too simplistic.

On Tucker last night, Patrick made an odd appeal (to be kind).

Much like the President they obsequiously defend, Republicans have become useful idiots in Russia’s war on Western liberal democracy.

We won’t have Sean Spicer to ikick around anymore.

Jeff Sessions entered the race for the GOP nomination for Senate in Alabama by heaping obsequious and pathetic praise on a man who had spent two years insulting him publicly and privately

Jeff Sessions is running to win back his old Senate seat, putting into play the possibility of a clash with President Trump.

The longtime anchor is leaving the network, ostensibly at his request.

Fox News Channel in general, and Fox And Friends in particular, have become nothing but a propaganda network for the White House and the President.

Well that didn’t take long.

Former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer has hit the bottom of the barrel.

Even when it comes from his favorite propaganda network, Donald Trump doesn’t like bad news.

Sean Spicer will appear on the upcoming season of Dancing With The Stars

Trump and Iran.

A new poll shows the former Vice-President leading Senator Elizabeth Warren in her home state.

David Brooks joins the long line of commenters predicting the GOP’s demise.

Wherein I explore the notion that ignorance is bliss.

So far at least, appearing on Fox News Channel does not appear to be hurting the candidates who’ve done it with Democratic voters.