Tag: NC Spin

NC Spin spins out, crashes

Posted on December 1, 2020December 1, 2020 by Brant Clifton

NC Spin, the weekly talk show about North Carolina politics, is about to turn out the lights and shut down the cameras for good: […] The Raleigh

John Locke Foundation to Jones Street: Spend, baby, spend.

Posted on August 24, 2019 by Brant Clifton

It seems like just yesterday that The John Locke Foundation — the alleged conservative HQ of North Carolina – was smacking around Jones Street for spending like drunken

NC SPIN cut by UNC-TV (Grandpa Tom sees black helicopters, hidden hand of Harry Smith)

Posted on July 27, 2019July 27, 2019 by Brant Clifton

Tom Campbell needs to wake up and smell the coffee. He has been the face of a product that few people have wanted, and has been living on borrowed

#ncpol: NC State, NC Spin keeping it “All In The Family”?

Posted on October 8, 2018January 3, 2019 by Brant Clifton

(Editor’s Note: By popular demand, we are re-posting this item from October. Enjoy.) I was feeling a wee bit bored this weekend, so I decided to stream the latest episode

Sit & Spin @ the NCGOP convention!

Posted on May 4, 2016 by Brant Clifton

It’s on too early in the morning. It’s on obscure channels. It’s barely watchable on YouTube. Yet, delegates to the NCGOP convention will be subjected to a LIVE mock edition

Oh, to be as, um, wise as John Hood ..

Posted on April 24, 2016April 25, 2016 by Brant Clifton

North Carolina’s very own ‘Alex P. Keaton’ — and living, breathing caricature of conservatism — John Hood never ceases to amaze. He’s about my age, can snootily quote 14th century

NC Spin(ning) away from reality on ethics, refugees

Posted on November 23, 2015 by Brant Clifton

For those of you who don’t know — NC Spin is a little show broadcast each week, aired in the wee hours of the morning on obscure stations, and hosted

#CHANGETHATNAME : Movement to give Locke’s Hood more ‘sensitive’ name catches fire

Posted on July 27, 2015 by Brant Clifton

We’ve received an awful lot of comments — online and offline — regarding the comments by John Hood this weekend on NC Spin. (Granted, a lot of people were interested

NCSPIN: Blinkin’ & Bitchin’. (Now THAT is quality television!)

Posted on June 23, 2014June 23, 2014 by Brant Clifton

I gave up on NC Spin several months back. For those of you not familiar with this program, it is WRAL commisar Jim Goodmon’s attempted knockoff of the McLaughlin Group.

NC SPIN props up our mummified state schools superintendent

Posted on October 15, 2012October 15, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Today’s episode of NC Spin needs to appear on DPI superintendent June Atkinson’s campaign report as an in-kind contribution. The show that bills itself as “Balanced Debate