Lying in Ponds

Wednesday 27 September 2006

Non-Partisanship Makes Some People Very Angry

Ken Waight @ 12:38 am

One of our favorite bloggers, Brendan Nyhan (formerly of Spinsanity), experienced the full fury of one partisan wing of the blogosphere recently when he dared to offer some principled criticism in the wrong direction. Mr. Nyhan also made a couple of sloppy errors which gave his critics ammunition, but the ferocity of the abuse that resulted was wildly out of proportion to his mistakes. He later noted a couple of interesting aspects of the dust-up.

Tuesday 26 September 2006

Steyn Reiterates Election Pick

Ken Waight @ 10:55 pm

Mark Steyn originally predicted the outcome of the 2006 elections last year and he repeated it in June. In last week’s column he repeated it a third time:

The foaming leftie routine seems to be a tough sell to a general audience. I see that, a mere three weeks after I guest-hosted for Rush, the widely acclaimed and even more widely unlistened-to Air America is going belly up. Coincidence? You be the judge. But I doubt the “liberal” radio network would be kaput if anti-Bush fever were about to sweep the Democrats to power this November. I think I said a few months back that the Dems would be waking up to their usual biennial Wednesday morning after the Tuesday night before, and I’ll stick with that.

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