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 Oct 30 2009 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Last Sunday, a private San Francisco museum unveiled a new painting, billed as the world’s largest portrait mural. The mural contains the following edifying images, all homages to the wacky City I once called home:
The colorful mural by acclaimed artist Guy Colwell features Speaker Nancy Pelosi lancing a Republican elephant; a Terminator-dressed Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger [...]
Bookworm on Jul 16 2009 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Israel, Media matters
Most of the world’s media members, if asked, would undoubtedly identify themselves as sophisticates, who are too cynical and world-weary to take anything at face value. Their mental self-image almost certainly falls somewhere between wise-cracking Cary Grant (His Girl Friday) and idealistic Woodward and Bernstein. They care deeply, but they’ve seen it all. To which [...]
Bookworm on Jun 30 2009 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Israel, Palestinians
Israel stopped a contingent of Hamas supporters who tried to run a blockade bringing money and supplies into Gaza. Cynthia McKinney figures prominently in their number:
The Israeli navy intercepted a ship carrying foreign peace activists – including a San Rafael woman – trying to break a blockade of Gaza on Tuesday and forced it to [...]
Bookworm on Jan 12 2009 | Filed under: Hamas, Israel, Leftist morality, Media matters
Peters has said everything I’d like to say.
Bookworm on Sep 12 2008 | Filed under: Democrats, Feminism, Leftist morality
One of the things that’s been playing through my head lately is the distance between the liberal worldview and actual reality. The media arguments directed at Palin, especially those that deal with women’s issues, really highlighted that divide for me.
Let’s begin with the way in which liberals distinguish themselves from conservativeds, something David Smithee examines [...]
Bookworm on Sep 10 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Prior to Palin’s appearance on the national political scene, conservatives had long griped about the fact that the media’s narrative was slanted against them, but it was often difficult to point to something obvious that demonstrated this fact. The media slipped up occasionally in big ways, such as Rathergate, but usually the bias was expressed [...]
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