Alex Pareene
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In Journalism About Race, A Tinge Of Denial
The only appeal the conservative movement has left is white panic. Why is that story still so hard to tell? → Read More
The Washington Post Was Fine Having Writers On The Saudi Payroll When They Were Only Killing Non-WaPo Writers
Two of the paper’s regular opinion writers were connected to lobbying firms with contracts with the Saudis. → Read More
Southerners Tore Down Silent Sam. Now Northerners Need to Tear Down Confederate Flags.
White race hustlers made the North forget a history it should be proud of. → Read More
Sunlight Foundation crashes the 2016 GOP Convention (with images, tweets) · sunfoundation ·
Sunlighters Libby Watson and Josh Stewart are crashing the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland! They'll be tweeting, snapping photos and bringing you the latest news — with a focus on big money, corporate influence and more. Updates will come often, so stay tuned! → Read More
The Gawker Endorsement: None of Them
For the first time in the modern primary era, the New York presidential primary election, happening today, is actually important in the races for both the Republican and Democratic nominations. For the conscientious citizen, this is lousy news. You can no longer engage in the beloved New York tradition of just writing in Howard Stern, confident that your vote wouldn’t have mattered anyway. → Read More
Ronald Reagan cared more about UFOs than AIDS
He often dreamed of the world coming together to battle spacemen, but never gave much thought to an actual killer → Read More
Donald Trump Was Set Up
The word came in from our best-sourced Fox News Kremlinologists: Fox News had settled for Donald Trump. Roger Ailes had given up on the hapless Marco Rubio. Megyn Kelly was sounding conciliatory, granting that Trump appeared more and more presidential. Rupert Murdoch himself tweeted that the party would be “mad not to unify” around nominee Donald Trump. It worked: Donald Trump arrived,… → Read More
How We Fooled Donald Trump Into Retweeting Benito Mussolini
Is Donald Trump a fascist? Experts, historians, and pundits have debated the question for months. One thing has been certain for a while now: He tweets like one. That’s why, last year, Gawker’s Ashley Feinberg created a Twitter bot that would post quotes from the writings and speeches of the Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, but with all of them attributed to businessman and Republican… → Read More
Who’s Going to Keep Paying For This Crap?
Jim VandeHei, co-founder of The Politico, will leave the Washington-based news operation after the 2016 election. He will take with him Mike Allen, The Politico’s reporter-mascot, who says today that the two plan to start “a new venture that will change the world one more time.” → Read More
Ben Carson's New Year's Rockin' Campaign Shake-up
The campaign manager and communications director for the Ben Carson campaign have resigned, after Carson sort of promised to fire them, and then didn’t, earlier this month. → Read More
In Cabal of Powerful Elites, Newspaper Sees Valid Alternative to Traditional Democratic Institutions
“Think of it as The Establishment 2.0,” says the New York Times, of a group called the “Working Team of the Itasca Project,” a group of “14 men and women who oversee some of the biggest companies, philanthropies and other institutions in Minneapolis, St. Paul and the surrounding area,” and who meet weekly “to quietly shape the region’s economic agenda.” Or think of it another way, if you want.… → Read More
Twenty Years of Quentin Tarantino Characters Saying "Nigger" in Twenty Minutes
Earlier this week, Rich Juzwiak published a deeply-researched history of director Quentin Tarantino’s love affair with the word “nigger,” a word he has always used liberally in his screenplays. Juzwiak unearthed and examined twenty years worth of Tarantino’s varied and contradictory defenses of his use of the word. He also produced this video, a supercut of every instance of a character in a… → Read More
How Not to Beat Ted Cruz
·The GOP establishment will probably learn to love Ted Cruz, a man every Republican in Washington currently hates, when and if they determine that they have no other options. (Marco Rubio isn’t just stagnant, but actually falling in recent national polls.) But they’ll fight him until they are absolutely sure they’re stuck with him. The opposition research has been coming at a furious pace. And… → Read More
Marco Rubio Is Losing
Is Senator Marco Rubio running for president? Is that a stupid question? After all, there he was on stage last week in Las Vegas, speaking more than any candidate besides Cruz (he beat Trump!). He was, according to FiveThirtyEight, the most-attacked Republican candidate, too, which usually indicates frontrunner status. Except Marco Rubio isn’t a frontrunner in any poll, in any primary state; his… → Read More
Donald Trump's Putin Admiration Is Completely Within the Political Mainstream
Donald Trump’s most important purely political skill (that is, one not directly related to his abilities as an entertainer and performer) is his ability to intuit what the great angry mass of movement conservatives wish their gutless leaders would say, and then say it. Other Republicans dogwhistle. Trump dispenses with coded language and simply says: We should deport all the illegals. We should… → Read More
You Might Think Ethnic Cleansing Is Bad, But–
Quick question. Which is worse for “democracy” and “discourse”: A prominent public figure, with a large following composed mainly of increasingly enraged (and generally well-armed) members of America’s dominant but shrinking ethnic majority, spending months issuing vocal and repeated calls for the elimination of certain religious and ethnic outgroups from the body politic; or the act of… → Read More
15. Wolf Blitzer
CNN's lead anchor is watching closely and thinking rarely → Read More
Hillary Clinton Again Invokes 9/11 to Explain Her Wall Street Fundraising
At a Democratic presidential debate in Iowa last month, Hillary Clinton was challenged to account for the fact that a large proportion of her campaign fundraising haul has come from the financial sector. She responded with a non sequitur about 9/11. Asked to elaborate, she seemed to argue that her popularity in the finance sector is primarily a result of personal relationships developed in the… → Read More
Former Professional Propagandist for White Supremacist and Torture Regime Decries Nazi Comparisons in Politics
Marc Thiessen would like everyone in politics to please stop comparing their opponents to Nazis. Or rather, he would like everyone to stop evoking comparisons to Nazis, as the two politicians he calls out in his latest Washington Post column never actually said “Nazi” or “Hitler.” It’s not a very surprising or notable argument, really, especially from Marc Thiessen, whose continued participation… → Read More
Slack Is Down
Slack, a group chat and instant messaging program popular in tech and digital media workplaces, was down for a while this afternoon. Then it was back up for a little bit, but now it is down again. We will update this post when and if Slack commits to one state of being. → Read More