Guy Smith | January 20, 2012
Newt Gingrich, during last nights GOP debate, expressed surprise that “CNN would take trash like that and use it to open a presidential debate.” In other words, the Carrollton Chameleon is shocked that the mainstream media hinges their ratings on salacious salvos and tawdry tripe.
Newt is the only person who is surprised. Everyone else expects [...]
Guy Smith | January 12, 2012
Andrew Rosenthal has dragged the New York Times’ reputation to a new low.
I didn’t think it was possible.
Andy pens an inappropriately titled column called The Loyal Opposition. Anyone familiar with the now irrelevant Forth Estate sees the irony of naming a newspaper column The Loyal Opposition, and the side-splitting frivolity for it being under the [...]
Guy Smith | August 14, 2011
Authors find it difficult to autograph Kindles.
With e-book sales hovering around 20% of all books retailed, and with the price of Kindles, Nooks and other slabs rapidly falling, the days of printed books are numbered. On a recent coast to coast flight, while hiking from the stern head back to my seat, I scanned who [...]
Guy Smith | May 26, 2011
Will Rogers once accurately quipped “All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that’s an alibi for my ignorance.”
Will was nearly on target about a major failing of our modern political melee, one where world views were once provided by three network news offices and whatever substituted for your local paper. [...]
Guy Smith | May 15, 2011
A number of inconvenient truths, along with leaked emails and computer source code, rendered Al Gore’s fatalistic forecasts fragile. Barack Obama’s continuing adoration of Keynesian economic theory has earned him the distrust of everyone waiting in an unemployment line. We all flinched at the thought of Larry Craig’s public bathroom tap dancing and nobody believed [...]
