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Megan McArdle

PERTH, AUSTRALIA — Last August, I wrote an eXiled piece about an Australian protest group called the “Convoy of No Confidence,” calling it out – correctly – as a Koch-ite Astroturf scam, and shaming Rupert Murdoch’s national broadsheet, The Australian, for its misleading coverage of the event. My article got a wider audience when the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) put up a shorter, politer version of my eXiled article on their opinion site, The Drum. (more…)

May 17th, 2012 | Comments (25)

Announcement: eXiled to Launch Media Transparency Project — Contributions and Leaks Invited

We were going to wait ’til the snow melted, but a recent spate of corrupt hack-shill attacks on Team eXiled has prompted us to decide to make an immediate launch of a new project: a no-holds barred campaign to identify…

January 3rd, 2012 | Comments (61)

Failing Up With Joshua Foust: Meet The “Evil Genius” Massacre-Denier Who Shills For War Profiteers

Last week, some troll named Joshua Foust attacked my article about the massacre in Kazakhstan on December 16. I really had no idea who Foust was until I started getting emails from readers telling me “some guy with a goatee…

December 31st, 2011 | Comments (133)

The Koch-Whore Archipelago: How The Billionaire Kochs Screwed My Scoop While Screwing America

It’s been sort of strange watching America’s sudden, belated discovery of the billionaire Koch brothers, and the shock realization about just how much they’ve been manipulating and managing–and ruining–our country and our lives. It’s been a long time coming. As…

March 25th, 2011 | Comments (24)

Dylan Ratigan Makes It Official: Mark Ames & Yasha Levine Broke The Koch Brothers’ Takeover Of America

The biggest story of the past year—the takeover of America by the billionaire Koch brothers—was first reported by eXiled Online editors Mark Ames and Yasha Levine over two years ago, in a controversial article for Playboy. Dylan Ratigan sets the…

March 24th, 2011 | Comments (13)

Megan McArdle Queefs On Charles Darwin! Psychology Today Mocks McArdle-The-Evolutionary-Biologist, Calling Her “The red-faced, humorless, easily-offended type”…McArdle Became Science World Laughingstock After Her Attack On Book Comparing Humans To Bonobo Chimps: “Do you know how I know that we are not like bonobos? Because we’re not like bonobos”…Bonobo Chimp Issued Statement: “Megan McArdle Definitely Did Not Evolve From Us…She Evolved From Thick Vegetation, Or Perhaps Fungi, But Definitely Not Anything With A Central Nervous System…” [HT: David]

September 5th, 2010 | Comments (1)

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Megan McArdle Queefs On Archimedes: Blames Calculator For “Truncating” Her Retarded Misunderestimate Of Bush Tax Cuts For Rich…McArdle, Atlantic Monthly’s Business Blogger And Reputed M.B.A., Failed To Push Calculator Buttons Properly, Thereby Underreporting By 90 Percent How Much We Americans Would Gain By Repealing Bush Tax Cuts…Even So, McArdle Concludes: “My Point Still Stands”…A Friendly Word Of Advice To Messrs. Koch And The Rest Of The Free-Market Billionaires: Guys, Seriously, It’s Time To Ditch Your Lackey McArdle And Trade Up For A Competent Shill Who At Least Knows How To Push Calculator Buttons…Like, Say, A Chimpanzee… [HT: Hajime]

July 21st, 2010 | Comments (1)

Is Rand Paul Just Another Neocon Republicrat Masquerading As A Libertarian Rebel?

This article first appeared in Antiwar.com “When it is said that nothing, including a nuclear strike, is off the table on Iran, are those who say it not also threatening genocide?” – Rep. Ron Paul, May 22, 2007 “I don’t think…

May 25th, 2010 | Comments (49)

Washington Post Links FreedomWorks, Tea Party, Koch Family, Only 5 Months After Ames & Levine

News Flash! Five months after Yasha Levine and I broke the story linking the rightwing billionaire-PR nexus between FreedomWorks, the Koch family, CNBC, Eric Odom and the Tea Party movement, the Washington Post finally caught up with us. In an article…

August 16th, 2009 | Comments (11)

Mad Midget 2: Matthew Vadum Yaps With A Vengeance

Matthew Vadum, the rightwing butterball savaged in The Daily Show last year for race-baiting, doesn’t like me very much. But he ain’t the type who keeps it to himself. Nuh-uh. America’s favorite little waffendwarf read my last post about him,…

August 13th, 2009 | Comments (25)

Moonies And Midgets Defend Megan McArdle: Read Their Angry [sic] Letters

You never know what bizarre creatures you’ll stir to action when you go after a corrupt beast like Megan McArdle. But what I saw after my expose on McArdle in yesterday’s Alternet was like sending a bathyscaph down to the…

August 7th, 2009 | Comments (23)

Megan McArdle’s Hypocrisy Exposed: Portrait Of A Libertarian As A Taxpayer-Subsidized Brat

Just when you think you’ve seen so much hypocrisy that nothing can shock you, along comes Megan McArdle. McArdle, who blogs for the Atlantic Monthly, presents herself as a principled libertarian, fiercely denouncing any attempt to provide any sort of government-funded…

August 6th, 2009 | Comments (38)

Ezra Klein Asks Mark Ames: “Dude, Where’s My Queen’s English?”

My article on Megan McArdle’s taxpayer-subsidized childhood, published in today’s Alternet, is kicking up an entertaining shitstorm. It’s Jiffy Pop time here in Harlem, I tell ya! I learned a lot of things so far, but by far the most…

August 6th, 2009 | Comments (17)

Thanks to the slam dunk investigative piece by your humble correspondents, Rick Santelli was forced to cancel his appearance on the Daily Show last night, leading to this massively-blogged segment ripping Santelli and CNBC a gigantic bleeding asshole. If words…

March 5th, 2009 | Comments (16)

“Slick Rick” Santelli Is A Bailout Queen

If you’re wondering why disgraced pseudo-rebel Rick Santelli and his pals at CNBC kept strangely quiet about the hundreds of billions in bailouts right up until a couple weeks ago, when the government finally extended its bailout program beyond the…

March 3rd, 2009 | Comments (21)

CNBC Bitch-Slaps Santelli Into Line, FreedomWorks Admits It Organized “Grassroots” Tea Parties, Jon Stewart Cancels Santelli & Megan McArdle Queefs On Our Founding Fathers

Our article last Friday exposing the familiar old rightwing corporate machine behind the fake “tea party” protests, and Rick Santelli’s highly questionable role as the one-man MC for the protests’ launch event, wound up crashing the tea party’s mojo, and…

March 2nd, 2009 | Comments (46)

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