“Baghdad” Tony Messenger finally finds an ally in his lonely quest to discourage anonymity on the Internet. And guess where this ally of “Baghdad” writes his newspaper column? You guessed it, for the same publication that Messenger is the editorial page editor. Columnist Brian Lewis and “Baghdad” Tony make a monumental leap by equating writing […]

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“Baghdad” Tony Messenger – besides his laughingly inept analysis of the new media and his own industry in general – demonstrated yesterday his crack reporting skills and why he’s saddled at a third rate newspaper: “Oops. One comes across a John Hancock and assumes it is THE John Hancock. Well, not THAT John Hancock, but […]

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“Baghdad” Tony amazes us to no end. First, he says the demise of the newspaper business is overstated, and now he says: “Newspapers have been doing a form of blogging forever. It’s called The Associated Press.” Messenger is demonstrating he’s about as clueless as his buddy from St. Louis – who simply cuts and pastes […]

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“Baghdad” Tony Messenger – you know the guy who believes the demise of the newspaper business is overstated – offered a thinly veiled defense (inspired no doubt by our post this morning) which criticizes Missouri Pulse and Fired up Missouri’s almost obsession with single issue, partisan topics. Hancock’s constant carping at Jay Nixon and Fired […]

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The Missouri Political News Service would like to thank the Jurassic decision makers over at the Kansas City Star for discontinuing theirfree K.C. Buzz blog last week. Not only are you one less blog for us to compete with to a broader audience, but you also demonstrate like “Baghdad” Tony Messenger, that you really have […]

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Remember “Baghdad Bob” during the second Gulf War? Who can forget those priceless scenes of Baghdad Bob, confidently assuring the world that the Iraqi Army was defeating the American enemy, while also assuring us that Saddam was still in power. While on a split screen, you see our Army and Marines taking city after city […]

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This is why I miss John Stone. The creator of the Curbstone Critic blog (may he rest in peace), had such a singularly obsessive focus with how bad Vincent David Jericho’s radio show is that he would listen to it every day, and then send out clips whenever VDJ said something particularly stupid. It was […]

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