The Exquisite Contrarian

Why would someone watch 14 hours of hurricane coverage?  That’s easy.  We love train wrecks and we gravitate towards anything that will heighten our emotions – particularly fear.  In other words, the ‘emotional hit’ we obviously lack in our routine day to day. It’s just a shame the media panders to our weakest feelings, like [...]

While attending a Tea Party town hall meeting in North Tempe, Arizona Republican Senator Jon Kyl told the audience at a that during a private, one-on-one meeting with President Obama in the Oval Office, Obama and he discussed securing the Mexican Border. Kyle quoted the president as claiming as problematic “If we secure the border, [...]

Did the BP chairman really say this?  Wow, they really don’t get it, do they?

Gretchen Carlson of Fox thinks it’s “disingenuous” when the President references God in a speech when he doesn’t go to church every week. We think it’s disingenuous when Gretchen Carlson decides her Fox and Friends role entitles to play God by judging the actions of others while brainwashing her TV followers. More from Mediaite.

We’re really enjoying the Elena Kagan interview process.  It’s almost like getting interrogated by hundreds of overly confident questioners for a crime you didn’t commit (and frankly for a crime which doesn’t exist.  Each member seems to think they’re going to be the one blowing the doors open to some new revelation that makes Kagan [...]

This is the fundamental difference between how Republicans and Democrats view the world.  Republicans generally go to the people who need the police for money while the Democrats prefer to collect and distribute it way up at the federal level.  Logical?

An Army analyst jailed for allegedly leaking a video of a controversial Iraq air strike also allegedly leaked classified information about a U.S. investigation into cyberattacks on Google that originated in China, the hacker who turned in the analyst told CNET on Saturday. More.

Pakistani military intelligence not only funds and trains Taliban fighters in Afghanistan but is officially represented on the movement’s leadership council, giving it significant influence over operations, a report said. More.

Dang!  Connie Chung was awfully tough on her husband, Maury Povich, at their Newseum symposium the other night. I guess it reaffirms there’s a pretty fine line between love and hate, doesn’t it?

Howard Fineman thinks we’re in another Timothy McVeigh era in the United States, and he provides interesting examples. My guess is those who don’t watch cable news likely don’t agree at all.  Then again, those who do probably think we’re in an even more volatile time. Solution: stop watching this crap on prime time cable [...]