• Menu
  • Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Before Header

  • About Us
  • Lexicon
  • Contact Us
  • Our Store
  • ↑
  • ↓
  • ←
  • →

Balloon Juice

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty. ~Thomas Jefferson

“Alexa, change the president.”

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

“In this country American means white. everybody else has to hyphenate.”

This chaos was totally avoidable.

T R E 4 5 O N

We can’t confuse what’s necessary to win elections with the policies that we want to implement when we do.

Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

That meeting sounds like a shotgun wedding between a shitshow and a clusterfuck.

Dear elected officials: Trump is temporary, dishonor is forever.

Since we are repeating ourselves, let me just say fuck that.

There are more Russians standing up to Putin than Republicans.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

Celebrate the fucking wins.

Donald Trump found guilty as fuck – May 30, 2024!

“A king is only a king if we bow down.” – Rev. William Barber

Dear Washington Post, you are the darkness now.

Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.

So fucking stupid, and still doing a tremendous amount of damage.

Hey hey, RFK, how many kids did you kill today?

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

Giving in to doom is how we fail to fight for ourselves & one another.

Mobile Menu

  • 4 Directions VA 2025 Raffle
  • 2025 Activism
  • Donate with Venmo, Zelle & PayPal
  • Site Feedback
  • War in Ukraine
  • Submit Photos to On the Road
  • Politics
  • On The Road
  • Open Threads
  • Topics
  • Authors
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Lexicon
  • Our Store
  • Politics
  • Open Threads
  • 2025 Activism
  • Garden Chats
  • On The Road
  • Targeted Fundraising!
You are here: Home / Politics / Media / Not Even Close

Not Even Close

by John Cole|  September 17, 200310:33 am| 4 Comments

This post is in: Media

FacebookTweetEmail

John Hawkins surveyed Right Wing Bloggers tyo find out who their favorite editorialist/opinion writers were, and the results can be found here.

For the record, my top three were:

1.) Mark Steyn
2.) David Warren
3.) Christopher Hitchens

FacebookTweetEmail
Previous Post: « Wednesday Bullets
Next Post: Recall Lunacy »

Reader Interactions

4Comments

  1. 1.

    James Joyner

    September 17, 2003 at 2:07 pm

    The funny thing is Steyn is virtually unknown to non-blogging Americans. Indeed, I’d never heard of him 8 months ago.

  2. 2.

    Gary Farber

    September 19, 2003 at 1:11 pm

    Christopher Hitchens is “right-wing”? Interesting. I wasn’t aware that being a socialist was “right-wing.” When did this change happen, exactly?

    If support for prosecuting Henry Kissinger as a war criminal is now “right-wing,” who are those folks who disagree?

    I’m a tad puzzled here.

    It’s almost as if you’re saying that people can’t be as sensible as Hitchens, and, you know, left-wing.

    But that couldn’t be it. It must be that socialism is now right-wing.

    I guess.

  3. 3.

    John Cole

    September 19, 2003 at 3:35 pm

    Gary- I listed my favorite opinion writers, regardless of their political affiliation. Unless I misunderstood the survey- it was the BLOGGERS making the selection who were all right-wing.

  4. 4.

    Gary Farber

    September 20, 2003 at 2:18 am

    Put that down to my reading too hastily; my apologies for getting that wrong.

Comments are closed.

Primary Sidebar

On The Road - Paul in Jacksonville - Sunrise, Sunset Redux 6
Photo by Paul in Jacksonville (3/9/26)

Election Resources

Voter Registration Info – Find a State
Check Voter Registration by Address
Election Calendar by State

Recent Comments

  • Suzanne on The Politics of AI (Mar 10, 2026 @ 3:10pm)
  • MattF on The Politics of AI (Mar 10, 2026 @ 3:09pm)
  • Old Man Shadow on The Politics of AI (Mar 10, 2026 @ 3:07pm)
  • E. on The Politics of AI (Mar 10, 2026 @ 3:06pm)
  • Old Dan and Little Ann on The Politics of AI (Mar 10, 2026 @ 3:04pm)

Balloon Juice Posts

View by Topic
View by Author
View by Month & Year
View by Past Author

Featuring

Medium Cool
Artists in Our Midst
Authors in Our Midst
On Artificial Intelligence (7-part series)

🎈Keep Balloon Juice Ad Free

Become a Balloon Juice Patreon
Donate with Venmo, Zelle or PayPal

Calling All Jackals

Site Feedback
Nominate a Rotating Tag
Submit Photos to On the Road
Balloon Juice Anniversary (All Links)
Balloon Juice Anniversary (All Posts)

Fix Nyms with Apostrophes

Outsmarting Apple iOS 26

Balloon Juice Mailing List Signup

Order Calendar A
Order Calendar B

Social Media

Balloon Juice
WaterGirl
TaMara
John Cole
DougJ (aka NYT Pitchbot)
Betty Cracker
Tom Levenson
David Anderson
Major Major Major Major
DougJ NYT Pitchbot
mistermix
Rose Judson (podcast)

Site Footer

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

  • Facebook
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Comment Policy
  • Our Authors
  • Blogroll
  • Our Artists
  • Privacy Policy

Privacy Manager

Copyright © 2026 Dev Balloon Juice · All Rights Reserved · Powered by BizBudding Inc

Share this ArticleLike this article? Email it to a friend!

Email sent!