Doug Dechert is a force of nature. His personality is as loud and bombastic as his blazers. After spending a decade writing for the famed Page Six gossip column of the New York Post, along with other publications such as the Daily Mail, the Star, and the National Enquirer, his personality and devil-may-care attitude are […]
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The Incidental Agent: How Former Gossip Columnist Doug Dechert Became a Can’t-Miss Literary Agent
LA Times Columnist Says Mocking Anti-Vaxxers Deaths is “Necessary”
The Los Angeles Times published an article by columnist Michael Hiltzik which says mocking the deaths of anti-vaxxers is “necessary”. Yes, really. As Chris Menahan notes, the URL of the original article suggests the first headline was even worse and that it was subsequently changed by an editor. The first incarnation was called ‘Why Shouldn’t […]
USA Today Columnist Calls Allowing Noncitizens to Vote ‘Smart Policy’ ‘Rooted’ in ‘American Tradition, Ideals’
Allowing noncitizens to vote is “legally sound,” a “smart policy,” “good for democracy,” and even “rooted in both American tradition and ideals,” according to a USA Today columnist who claimed the inability of “potential citizens” to vote is “not fair,” while blasting Republicans — who have “no legal or moral standing to whine about protecting […]
Washington Post Columnist Calls on CNN to Correct Its Dossier Reporting — After WaPo Corrects Its Own
A Washington Post columnist criticized CNN for not correcting its reporting that the dossier put together by Fusion GPS and ex-British spy Christopher Steele — which claimed the Trump campaign was colluding with Russia — was “corroborated.” The paper’s media critic, Erik Wemple, wrote Friday that CNN hosts and reporters had long-claimed the Steele dossier had […]
Washington Post Columnist: ‘Rand Paul Was Right and Fauci Was Wrong’
A columnist for the Washington Post admitted on Tuesday that Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) was correct in Tuesday’s heated back and forth between the senator and Dr. Anthony Fauci over the White House chief medical adviser’s denial of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology. “Hey guys,@RandPaul was […]
Guardian columnist says he was fired because of ‘joke’ about U.S. aid to Israel
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Guardian columnist fired after controversial tweet about Israel
The Guardian columnist Nathan J. Robinson was fired after criticizing US policy on Israel, or spreading antisemitic fake news on Twitter – it depends on who you ask. The tweet originally published by Robinson in late December last year read: “Did you know that the US Congress is not actually permitted to authorize any new […]
‘Guardian’ columnist says he got canned as antisemitic for one tweet satirizing U.S. aid to Israel
This story is going around like wildfire today; Nathan J. Robinson, a former columnist for the American edition of the ‘Guardian,’ says he was “fired” without ceremony after he published a tweet in December mocking the amount of US aid to Israel and the top editor said it smacked of antisemitism. Robinson writes in the […]
Chicago Tribune Columnist: ‘Breathe, America. Donald Trump’s Knee Is Off Your Neck’
Dahleen Glanton, a columnist for the Chicago Tribune, published an article Monday in which she likened President Donald Trump to the Minneapolis, Minnesota, police officer who knelt on George Floyd’s neck in an infamous fatal encounter. Though Minneapolis is a Democrat-run city, and Trump immediately condemned Floyd’s death, Glanton portrayed Trump as a symbol of American […]
‘NYT’ columnist says killing Palestinian civilians is… good for Palestinians
“This is because, subconsciously or not, they don’t see Palestinians as human beings in quite the same way that Israeli Jews are human” And it is fine and manly for Jewish Israeli “heroes” to use knives/machetes against their enemies but if Palestinians use knives they are “bloodthirsty murderous terrorists” which is only to be expected […]
‘NYT’ columnist says struggle for equal rights in one state is upon us
Max Fisher, a columnist for the paper, concluded realistically that Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital has in all likelihood ended the peace process. And that means that Israel must decide whether it wants to be a democracy The above is not a quote from Fischer but from Weiss –compounding the gross deception practiced […]
Canadian columnist is latest to say, Israel is ‘an apartheid state’
Yesterday Neil Macdonald, a columnist and longtime DC and Middle East correspondent for Canadian Broadcasting, wrote that it’s time to call a duck a duck: “Israel already is an apartheid state.” Macdonald’s evidence is hardly obscure. It includes Netanyahu’s declaration that Israel is never leaving the West Bank, the boom in settlement construction, Israeli […]
Canadian columnist is latest to say, Israel is ‘an apartheid state’
Yesterday Neil Macdonald, a columnist and longtime DC and Middle East correspondent for Canadian Broadcasting, wrote that it’s time to call a duck a duck: “Israel already is an apartheid state.” Macdonald’s evidence is hardly obscure. It includes Netanyahu’s declaration that Israel is never leaving the West Bank, the boom in settlement construction, Israeli officials […]
‘Conservative’ New York Times Columnist Calls For Repealing The Second Amendment
Renegade Editor’s Note: Jews are not only over-represented in our media, banking, politics, academia, and corporate world, they also lead the effort to disarm Americans. So when I read this piece about Bret Stephens, I decided to look up his background on Wikipedia: His parents were both secular Jews. Imagine my shock. Esther and Richard Joel, […]
NYT Columnist: Deport Americans, Not Illegal Immigrants
NYT Columnist: Deport Americans, Not Illegal Immigrants Daily Caller June 19, 2017 New York Times columnist Bret Stephens, who calls himself a conservative, argued it would be better to deport lazy Americans than illegal immigrants in a tongue-in-cheek op-ed published in Saturdays paper. The United States has too many people who dont work hard, dont […]
British Columnist Targeted by Police for Telling Men of the West to Demand Action Against Terrorism
What I’d love to hear from you, and love to hear articulated, are some of the very angry voices, that think I am wrong. That believe I am wrong for saying the things I’ve said. That think I’m wrong for saying “Yes, our country is a little cowed, our country is a little sad.” Not […]
Mindless intolerance of climate change alarmists on full display as NYT columnist is blasted for suggesting people listen to BOTH sides of the argument
(Natural News) After months of being bullied by Trump supporters, Bret Stephens, a newly hired columnist for the New York Times’s opinion pages, has come under fire from the “nasty left” for casting doubt on aspects of climate change in his debut op-ed column. He wrote about how absurd it is to blindly support climate […]
NYT Columnist being attacked by the Left after writing about the ridiculousness of "blindly" supporting climate change narratives
(Natural News) The “nasty left” has a new target: Bret Stephens. The former Wall Street Journal writer recently authored a piece about climate change for The New York Times — and the paper’s liberal readers were not too happy about it. Stephens made the mistake of presenting a rational, unbiased opinion about climate change — but to […]
Political commentator and columnist Mark Shields dies at 85
CHEVY CHASE, Md. — Political commentator and columnist Mark Shields, who shared his insight into American politics and wit on “PBS NewsHour” for decades, died Saturday. He was 85. Shields died at his Chevy Chase, Maryland, home, from kidney failure, “PBS NewsHour” spokesman Nick Massella said. Shields was a regular on the show starting in […]