“Dave Weigel” on The Daily Caller

“I still can’t believe it happened,” my student said to me. “He got away with it just because people thought he was cool.” (more)

Daniel Snyder, the despised owner of the Washington Redskins, has decided to take more control over the use of his team’s name. He recently told the Washington Post to stop using the team’s name in anything other than a fair-use way. That way, Snyder can create his own TV shows, magazines, and radio broadcasts using the Redskins’ name. So the Post now calls its “Redskins Insider” blog “Football Insider.” After all, the name “Redskins” attracts eyeballs, and why shouldn’t Snyder cash in? (more)

The fallout from the video conservative filmmaker James O’Keefe released Tuesday morning has been devastating for NPR. However, Juan Williams, a former NPR analyst who was fired unjustly even according to NPR President Vivian Schiller, finally had his turn to sound off about the video, which apparently showed an NPR senior executive, Ron Schiller, making some disparaging remarks about the Tea Party, the Jewish people and Williams himself. (more)

It’s always fun to watch wingnuts become so blindly zealous in their argument that they start attacking their own side like some twisted political game of pin the tail on the donkey. This week, it’s the lunatic left fringe getting its panties all in a bunch over my recent speculation that Wall Street short-sellers are funding the Center for American Progress’s advertising blitz in order to drive down the stock of publicly traded for-profit colleges. These are the same short-sellers recently exposed by the Wall Street Journal for working closely with senior Obama administration officials to impose new government regulations that would hurt for-profit colleges and reap the short-sellers millions of dollars. (more)

Several media figures jumped at the tragic shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, Arizona Democrat, as a way to further whatever political agenda they have. (more)

Just last week, the Transportation Security Administration had an 80 percent approval rating. Then, after a few days of media scrutiny, its numbers began to crash. As The Daily Caller noted yesterday, the number of Americans who approve of the TSA dropped 16 points in a single week, and is still plummeting. (more)

The Journolist scandal, wherein a group of “journalists” were caught conspiring to influence the media in a way that would help liberal politicians and liberal causes, has almost run its course. But there is one crucial and obvious question that should be explored. And after exploring it, I want to provide a chance at some healing. (more)

Blogosphere, please join me in celebrating the birth of Cabalist, the wittily-named successor to Ezra Klein’s infamous Journolist, the listserv of liberal bloggers, pundits and academics that inadvertently brought down (very temporarily) the ex-Washington Post blogger Dave Weigel, and which is now the subject of an endless and embarrassing (for certain former Journolist participants) investigation by The Daily Caller, which has discovered e-mail chains suggesting that certain Journolist members were secretly devising partisan campaigns to advance Democratic Party interests. (more)

I don’t really get a chance to watch TV in Unalaska, and the one thing I miss is Megyn Kelly of Fox News. The last week or so of her work — her one woman crusade against the New Black Panther Party — has been truly riveting television. Kelly widens her eyes in a way that bespeaks both horror and anger at the subject she’s reporting on. “Shocking new video,” she’ll say, introducing a clip of the Panthers acting like idiots and yelling about “crackers” at a Philadelphia street festival. “We have a DOJ whistleblower alleging there is a discriminatory policy at the DOJ voting rights section,” she’ll say, “and no one seems to give a darn.” It’s the “darn” that ties this together — she’s not just a journalist, she’s a concerned citizen who has to bring you this story before it’s. Too. Late. (more)

It’s summertime, when a cable television host’s thoughts turn to himself. Yes, this was an unusually self-absorbed week for Keith Olbermann,  which is a bit like saying this was an unusually slimy week for John Edwards – it’s *really* saying something. (more)

Forget the G-20, the BP oil spill, the World Cup, forget even S.E. Cupp. (more)

In the first (and still best) “Austin Powers” film, a United Nations representative makes a faux pas and calls the film’s villain “Mr. Evil.” (more)

TheDC’s Jonathan Strong wrote a piece today detailing numerous e-mails sent by Dave Weigel, a reporter who  — until he resigned this afternoon — covered the conservative beat for the Washington Post. Strong’s article raises several troubling questions about Weigel himself, his superiors and colleagues at the Washington Post, and the hundreds of so-called objective journalists who are members of the Journolist e-mail group and have been privy to this information for months. (more)

The anonymous author of “Confessions of a Tea Party Consultant,” published last week by Playboy, told The Daily Caller in an exclusive interview that it is “surreal” watching reporters try to uncover his identity. (more)

The once-cautious Washington Post has begun to invest heavily in the liberal blogosphere, transforming its online presence – through a combination of accident and design – into a competitor of the Huffington Post and TalkingPointsMemo as much as the New York Times. (more)

The once-cautious Washington Post has begun to invest heavily in the liberal blogosphere, transforming its online presence – a combination of accident and design – into a competitor of the Huffington Post and TalkingPointsMemo as much as the New York Times. (more)

Almost every night on “Countdown,” Keith Olbermann names three “Worst Persons in the World.” He also wrote a 2006 book with same title. (The fact that the cover bears a huge photo of its author always cracks me up.) One night in February, he grandiosely announced that he was discontinuing the “Worst Person” segment in favor of a “Hall of Shame” — and, surprise, he has a “Hall of Shame” book coming out in October — but soon enough he returned to naming Worst Persons. This week provided a good opportunity to look at the Worst Person segment in depth. It’s as mysterious and maddening as the man himself. (more)

There’s a great profile of Kentuckian Rand Paul, son of Ron, up at Reason. W. James Antle, III of the American Spectator encapsulates what many Paul watchers have already known about his shortcomings with establishment Republicans (Rand’s opposition to the Iraq War, his belief that government should stay out of not just peoples’ wallets and bedrooms, but also their medicine cabinets), while also crafting a rather astonishing picture of the loose coalition of opinions leaders behind Paul: (more)

While Michael Wolff thinks we’re all wasting our time even discussing SCOTUS (“The news about the Supreme Court, which nobody has reported, is that it doesn’t really merit all that much attention anymore. So don’t feel guilty if the confirmation battle for the new justice bores you to death.”), this quote from former Sen. Rick Santorum exchange with WaPo’s Dave Weigel is still fascinating: (more)

He’s back — and for real this time! After disappearing for all but a single day in March, Keith Olbermann triumphantly returned to the anchor chair at “Countdown” this week. And what a week it was. (more)