Bookworm on Mar 15 2010 | Filed under: Media matters
Last week, I did a post about the news stories that followed in the wake of the conservative Groupa-Palooza gathering the heart of liberal Marin County. I focused especially on one San Francisco Chronicle reporter who was shocked by a shirt one of the attendees was wearing:
Regarding that last, let me add a few words [...]
Bookworm on Mar 08 2010 | Filed under: Media matters
On Saturday, the Novato chapter of Organizing For America (Obama’s activist group) sent an urgent email to its list members, warning them of the horrors of a conservative gathering in Mill Valley on Sunday:
Subject: Fwd: Rally Mill Valey [sic] Tomorrow
Hi, everyone. You may have read about this in the Marin IJ. The Tea Baggers organizer [...]
Bookworm on Mar 05 2010 | Filed under: Media matters
As you might have guessed, despite his self-identification as a Democrat, his Bush-loathing and his Truther beliefs, the MSM is characterizing the Pentagon shooter as a “right-wing extremist.” Allahpundit asks almost the right question:
Is it possible to be a “left-wing extremist” anymore or do nuts who embrace some lefty ideas before launching an attack [...]
Bookworm on Feb 28 2010 | Filed under: Media matters
Some months ago, I read and enjoyed Michael Sragow’s fine Victor Fleming: An American Movie Master. It’s clear from the book that, as a director, Fleming was the last of a dying breed — a gentleman in Hollywood and, of course, a truly great director, responsible for such classics as Red Dust, Gone With [...]
Bookworm on Feb 26 2010 | Filed under: Europe, Israel, Media matters
Finally, Israel lashes back . . . at the misrepresentations in the European media.
Anyone who speaks Hebrew, French or Spanish, will have a huge advantage over me when it comes to appreciating the videos at that site.
To learn more about the ad campaign if you don’t speak those languages, here’s a little [...]
Bookworm on Feb 24 2010 | Filed under: Media matters
Joseph Stack, the man who flew a plane into the IRS building in Austin, Texas, left a long, a very long, pre-suicide/pre-murder screed identifying those issues that drove him to commit his act. The most obvious thing about the screed is that it is the work of someone with cognitive dysfunction, most likely some form [...]
Bookworm on Jan 12 2010 | Filed under: Media matters
Despite the fact that my tax dollars fund it, I pretty much ignore NPR, even when it pulls stupid stunts such as running an extremely crude little video cartoon that lambastes the Tea Party movement by promising to teach “How to Speak Teabag.“ Speaking “teabag,” of course, involves mouthing things that are either inane, or [...]
Bookworm on Dec 17 2009 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Capitalism, Climate change, Communism, Media matters
Since the beginning, climate change skeptics have said that the hysteria of the man-made global warming movement, aside from being based on manifestly shoddy and often dishonest science, was in fact a Leftist political gambit. The Communists, having failed to win the world over with a Cold War had regrouped and were seeking to win [...]
Bookworm on Dec 10 2009 | Filed under: Media matters
One of the things I like about the Drudge Report is the way that Matt Drudge, almost as if he’s writing free form poetry, assembles little essays by aggregating headlines. He’s a master at this. Despite the fact that the headlines are out there for anyone else to assemble, no one has the artistry to [...]
Bookworm on Dec 08 2009 | Filed under: Media matters
At first, when I watched White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, I thought he was a buffoon. I then began to think that his gibberish was a rather clever approach to hiding unpalatable news.
I’ve now realized that Gibbs is, above all, the perfect symbol of the Nanny State: he believes that he and his fellow [...]
Bookworm on Dec 07 2009 | Filed under: ACORN, Education, Government, Media matters
For reasons that make no sense to me, I don’t go to Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government site as often as I should. Wait, I take that back. I know precisely why I don’t go: it’s an incredible repository of closely researched and factually supported articles detailing the way in which the Obami conduct themselves. What [...]
Bookworm on Dec 04 2009 | Filed under: Anti-war, Hollywood, Media matters, Military
There’s yet another movie coming out about the way in which the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq destroy lives and turn young men into pathetic losers:
There is a grim timeliness to the release of “Brothers,” Jim Sheridan’s movie about the effects of war on the family of a Marine serving in Afghanistan. Whatever the other [...]
Bookworm on Dec 02 2009 | Filed under: Media matters
I want to be a journalist. I mean, heck, who would want a job where you don’t have to think and you don’t have to research — all you have to do is emote. That’s what emotive New York Times “journalist” Nick Kristof did when he wrote a sob story about a young man with [...]
Bookworm on Nov 22 2009 | Filed under: Climate change, Media matters
From The Weekly Standard:
With the release of hundreds of emails by scientists advocates of global warming showing obvious and entirely inappropriate collusion by the authors — including attempts to suppress dissent, to punish journals that publish peer-reviewed studies casting doubt on global warming, and to manipulate data to bolster their own arguments — even the [...]
Bookworm on Nov 21 2009 | Filed under: Media matters
It would be a must-see video if only for the Rick Astley (don’t ask), but I strongly urge you to see it for the actual content. Klavan just nails it here.
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Bookworm on Nov 21 2009 | Filed under: Climate change, Media matters
I just had to laugh. The New York Times report on the hacked climate change documents starts off pretty honestly:
Hundreds of private e-mail messages and documents hacked from a computer server at a British university are causing a stir among global warming skeptics, who say they show that climate scientists conspired to overstate the case [...]
Bookworm on Nov 20 2009 | Filed under: Media matters
I have to open this post by saying that I have never seen Glenn Beck, not even for a second. I don’t like the emotional school of journalism and, in any event, I prefer to read, not watch, my news. I do appreciate Glenn Beck, however, for two things: his ability and willingness to break [...]
Bookworm on Nov 19 2009 | Filed under: Media matters
This, from James Taranto, at Best of the Web:
Accountability Journalism
An Associated Press dispatch, written by Erica Werner and Richard Alonso-Zaldivar, compares the House and Senate ObamaCare bills. We’d like to compare this dispatch to the AP’s dispatch earlier this week “fact checking” Sarah Palin’s new book. Here goes:
Number of AP reporters assigned to story:
• [...]
Bookworm on Nov 17 2009 | Filed under: Barack Obama, China, Media matters
Liberals assured us back in 2008 that, after the horrible Cowboy Bush years, we needed someone charming to bring rogue governments back into the American fold. So far, these same rogue governments have been resistant to Obama’s charm, whether in Russia or the Palestinian territories* or Iran, just to to name a few instances of [...]
Bookworm on Nov 12 2009 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Media matters
Look on the lower left right side of the screen capture to see a very interesting the poll from the Marin Independent Journal, the local Marin newspaper:
The poll, of course, can be totally slanted because of a couple of emails to conservatives living in Marin. What makes the poll more interesting than the scientifically suspect [...]
Bookworm on Nov 12 2009 | Filed under: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Media matters, Military
Obama has known for more than 12 months that he was going to become CIC, with responsibility for Afghanistan. This means 12 months of presidential advisers able to give this neophyte help in figuring out the best strategy for the war that he declared, during the campaign, was the essential, central battlefield in the war [...]
Bookworm on Nov 10 2009 | Filed under: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Media matters
I saw a headline at Drudge, to the effect that there is a photo of Afghan “insurgents” with U.S. ammo. The story, although I’m sure it’s interesting, interested me less than that word “insurgent.” We’ve all talked about the fact that “insurgent” a word that allows a politically correct, liberal media to avoid such words [...]
Bookworm on Nov 09 2009 | Filed under: Islam, Jihad, Media matters, Muslim violence
I don’t think the media has ever before been so blatant in its desire to divorce an evil act from its ideological origins, but this isn’t the first time we’ve seen that game played out. More than two years ago, a short lived comedy show on Fox used the occasion of an abortive bombing in [...]
Bookworm on Nov 09 2009 | Filed under: Islam, Jihad, Media matters, Muslim violence
My liberal friend is a headline reader. That’s why we had a ridiculous conversation in which he wondered about the Fort Hood shooter’s motives. To the reader who scans, headlines that say “motives a mystery” trump even those articles that add, under the headline, little facts such as Muslim death cries (”Allahu Akbar!”), radical mosques, [...]
Bookworm on Nov 07 2009 | Filed under: Media matters
We live in different universes:
Liberal: They still don’t know why he shot all those soldiers.
Me: Of course they do.
Liberal: What are you talking about?
Me: Come on. They know it has to do with his . . . .
Liberal (interrupting): Are you saying that he’s a sleeper cell?
Me: No. I’m saying that he’s a one man jihadist. [...]
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