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I hope I retire before I end up like Bob Woodward who — regardless of his credentials and bona fides— comes off as hopelessly forking dim AND has the gall to smear patronizing self-promotion on top. What a deck. What the President told Woodward was dramatically different — and more dire — than...

Only Whitlock threads from now on.

Tucker Carlson is a jar of mayonnaise.

Nah. He's too busy brokering in conspiracy theories about technocratic overlords catering to the virulent left in front of Congress. Listening to him is absolutely wild. The guy complains about the public kickback that he generates, which quite honestly his only viable business plan at this...

That's a great example of how the dude actually used to contribute some critical thinking on national news stories. Now? It's just basically him calling any athlete's political perspective immature and misguided. I remember him writing a column -- I think it was on FOX Sports -- in which he...

I'm not going to belittle the significance of his career. He was a major Metro sports columnist who meant something. He's written and appeared on television for both ESPN and FOX Sports. And anyone who say he's never done anything worthwhile are either lying or ignorant. People paid attention to...

His media critiques and insults are about the only way that Jason Whitlock can generate any sort of heat any more. What's the last Whitlock opinion on anything actually sports-related you can remember? I can't think of one. And his critiques of the politics of athletes don't resonate anymore...

And for anyone interested, here's a L.A. gadfly site that has a bit of an obsession with the Chuckster.

Here's something you won't read on Poynter, Romanesko or anywhere else. The words of noted media critic Jay-Z: "fork Chuck Phillips and Bill O'Reilly, They trya' kill hip-hop we all gon' rally." I recall the book "LAbyrinth" being quite critical of the Times' coverage of the murder of Biggie...

Two things are being overlooked in the inquisition over what exactly Marco Materazzi said to provoke Zidane's battering-ram assault. 1. That it was actually the tittie twister that preceded the insult that was perhaps the real inciting factor. Seriously. A vicious titty twister from a...