Stephen K. Mack.
Oct 24, 2026
Have Daily Beast readers finally tired of Michael Weiss’ war mongering? Some thoughts by Myra Breckenridge
Posted on May 1, 2017 by stephenkmacksd
Has the Daily Beast returned to the once successful formula, once practiced by editor Tina Brown, of recycled Hollywood gossip? Tales of on-set and off-set melodrama of the long dead ‘Stars’ of another Age? The reader quails at the thought … Continue reading →
Michael Weiss New Cold Warrior, episode XXXI, The End of Summer & Russian Revanchism, some thoughts by Political Reporter
Posted on September 2, 2015 by stephenkmacksd
The methodology: Sources One report has even alleged, Several sources consulted for this story said, A former U.S. military officer told The Daily Beast, Some of them are verifiable, One active U.S. intelligence official told The Daily Beast, Much discussed in U.S. defense circles … Continue reading →
Michael Weiss on the death of Robert Conquest, a comment by Political Observer
Posted on August 6, 2015 by stephenkmacksd
Mr. Weiss turns that ever useful Straussian device of packing an essay full to the brim with the argumentatively useful and the tangential, in equal measure, or even what might be politically useful information, to the business of obfuscation rather … Continue reading →
Michael Weiss and Nancy A. Youssef attack the Iran Agreement via ‘The Syrian Butcher’: Episode CCC of The American Political Melodrama
Posted on July 16, 2015 by stephenkmacksd
Mr. Weiss and his co-author Ms. Youssef have produced an impressive piece of propaganda, using Assad as their starting point, except that they eventually become immersed in quoting from their dubious political allies: Mark Dubowitz, the executive director of the … Continue reading →
Michael Weiss on the unstoppable Putin?
Posted on June 5, 2015 by stephenkmacksd
‘A senior Western diplomat told The Daily Beast’, ‘one European leader replied’,’Video footage, purportedly shot in Petrovsky today’,’Boasts by separatists’: We’re in familiar Daily Beast territory pioneered by the once troika of Lake/Rogen/Kirchick! The anonymous sources, until we arrive at … Continue reading →
From the Journalistic Shit-Hole of The Daily Beast: Episode MMXVII @michaeldweiss finds Putin guilty of the brutal murder of Sergei Magnitsky. A comment by Victor Serge
Posted on March 23, 2017 by stephenkmacksd
Mr. Weiss doesn’t so much as build an accusation of the guilt of Putin, based on empirical evidence, because he does not have access to such, but this is just another instance of Putin, and his gangster allies in Russian … Continue reading →
@michaeldweiss: Full time New Cold Warrior, and aspiring le Carré discovers the skulduggery of The GRU. A comment by American Writer
Posted on January 1, 2017 by stephenkmacksd
Mr. Weiss offers this to his avid readers, to welcome in the New Year: The headline is further elucidated and/or framed by this sentence fragment from his second paragraph: ‘Ever since, in the long dark history of Soviet and Russian … Continue reading →
At The Daily Beast: political grifter @michaeldweiss, and his minions, report on imagined Russian skulduggery via Reuters. Political Reporter comments
Posted on October 21, 2016 by stephenkmacksd
U.S. officials have warned that Russia may try to undermine the upcoming U.S. presidential election by spreading faked evidence of voter fraud, Reuters reported Thursday. Speaking on condition of anonymity, several intelligence officials said hackers may post photographs online purporting … Continue reading →
Stephen K. Mack.
