Bookworm on Oct 03 2008 | Filed under: Media matters
I don’t know whether this Churchill story is true. I first read it about 30 years ago in a book printed about 50 years ago. It doesn’t sound like the man, but it’s a good story anyway for my purposes.
Churchill was asked to give a speech to a trade organization. He asked his secretary to [...]
Bookworm on Oct 03 2008 | Filed under: Media matters
Charles Johnson, at LGF, is getting hacked off. As we could have predicted (and I’m sure he did too), the media is completely ignoring that, on multiple occasions, Biden lied through his teeth. Johnson took the five biggest lies — and the ones that are proven to be lies by actual video, no [...]
Bookworm on Sep 04 2008 | Filed under: Media matters, Republicans, Sarah Palin
I periodically check out Yahoo’s most popular news to see what AP articles are getting the most play according to the Yahoo picks (which, except for including Ann Coulter, skew liberal). It’s fascinating to see the AP headlines, each of which is snarky, dismissive or critical of Palin in some way, even the “positive” ones:
Palin [...]
Bookworm on Jul 21 2008 | Filed under: John McCain, Media matters, Presidential elections
The Times may have refused to publish McCain’s Iraq editorial (afraid, no doubt, that publishing it would cast a shadow on Obama’s purported wisdom), but I have no such fear. Here’s, courtesy of the Drudge Report, is the op-ed McCain wrote — and it’s an op-ed that any reasonable, non-partisan newspaper would have freely printed:
In [...]
Bookworm on Apr 16 2008 | Filed under: Bush Derangement Syndrome, Education
Yesterday, Drudge had a headline that said something along the lines of: “98% of historians judge Bush’s presidency a failure.” I didn’t bother to check out the article. It didn’t matter to me whether someone polled 10 historians or 1000. I still knew with pretty good certainty a few underlying facts: if they’re historians for [...]
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