Bookworm on Dec 13 2012 | Filed under: Media matters
Tweet One of the books that saw me traverse from Left to Right was Myrna Blyth’s Spin Sisters: How the Women of the Media Sell Unhappiness — and Liberalism — to the Women of America, which exposed the profound Leftist tilt of decidedly non-political magazines. Until reading that, I’d never thought about the politics being [...]
Bookworm on Nov 28 2012 | Filed under: Open Threads
Tweet There’s nothing I enjoy more than seeing someone slice and dice Paul Krugman’s latest idiocies. Randall Hoven does a magnificent job. The only sad thing about it is that he’s preaching to the choir. The ones who really should read his article — namely, the ones who think Krugman is actually smart and honest [...]
Bookworm on Nov 20 2012 | Filed under: Israel, Media matters, Palestinians
Tweet The first casualty of war is truth . . . and truth is never more at risk than in a war against an Islamo-Leftist enemy. Since the Israeli offensive began, social media and major news and television sites have been overrun with faked images purporting to show Israeli soldiers caught in the act of [...]
Bookworm on Mar 27 2012 | Filed under: Climate change, Media matters
Tweet The Science Channel’s Alien Encounters is a two-part pseudo-documentary that interweaves footage of real scientists and novelists talking about possible alien encounters, with faux footage of the world dealing with an actual alien encounter. Alien Encounters has gotten decent press from the usual suspects. I disagree. As a science show, it’s not impressive. The [...]
Bookworm on Feb 03 2012 | Filed under: Abortion
Tweet Given the current kerfuffle about Planned Parenthood, it seemed worthwhile to remind people that Planned Parenthood isn’t just about abortions. It’s also about advancing an agenda antithetical, not only to Christians, whom it attacks very directly, but to any parents who worry about their children’s safety and morality. Also, as you watch this circa [...]
Danny Lemieux on May 27 2011 | Filed under: Energy, Semantics, Uncategorized
Tweet One lesson of advertising is that, no matter whether true or false, to make a message stick, one must repeat, repeat, repeat. This is how false messages become enshrined into the ideological orthodoxy of the Left and ripple out to the collective consciousness of the masses. Now, there are many ways to deliberately distort [...]
Bookworm on Jun 07 2010 | Filed under: Israel, Media matters
Tweet Charles Johnson is masterful when it comes to exposing media fraud, whether it was Rathergate in 2004, or Reutersgate in 2006 (when Reuters messed with photos of the Israeli/Hezbollah War). Proving that he wasn’t just lucky back then, but in fact has a genuine knack, Charles has done it again, this time exposing Reutersgate [...]
Bookworm on Jun 01 2010 | Filed under: Israel, San Francisco
Tweet Word got out that ANSWER, a Communist front group, is planning a protest at the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco today (June 1), so Stand With Us in San Francisco is trying to gather for a counter-protest. So, the email you see below is from a group friendly to Israel, giving information about ANSWER’s [...]
Bookworm on Mar 26 2010 | Filed under: Leftist morality
Tweet Okay, I’m not really saying that those on the Left are quivering, whining cowards. They are, however, working hard to present themselves in that light — or, rather, in the light of helpless victims — in the hope that they can convince ordinary Americans that conservatives, libertarians, Tea Partiers, etc., are unhinged neo-nazis who [...]
Bookworm on Jan 21 2010 | Filed under: Children, Education, Immigration
Tweet My daughter’s Spanish class has spent the last couple of days watching a movie. I know many people who learned English by watching American television, so I don’t have a problem with using movies as a teaching device. I do, however, have a big problem with the movie chosen — La Misma la Luna [...]
Bookworm on Sep 24 2009 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Children, Education
Tweet The conservative internet is appropriately riled by a video of New Jersey public school children singing a song to the Obama: Lyrics ======== Mmm, mmm, mm! Barack Hussein Obama He said that all must lend a hand [?] To make this country strong again Mmm, mmm, mm! Barack Hussein Obama He said we must [...]
Bookworm on Jul 01 2009 | Filed under: Barack Obama
Tweet One of the hallmarks of a modern totalitarian government is stagecraft. Leni Riefenstahl made a whole movie dedicated to glorifying a totalitarian government’s meticulously staged extravaganza. As a child in the 1960s and 1970s, I vividly remember footage of marches in the Soviet Union, with soldiers in perfect goosestep order. China and North Korea [...]
Bookworm on May 16 2009 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Tweet The always interesting, sometimes controversial Ymarsakar, who blogs at Sake White, has contributed another post for your consideration. In it, he tackles using psychology to disarm us, or to help us understand and combat our enemies. Since Y didn’t provide a little intro, and because it’s a long post, I’m going to take a [...]
Bookworm on Feb 11 2009 | Filed under: Education
Tweet We often complain here about the futility of arguing with someone who gets information and opinion only from the liberal media. Thomas Sowell attacks the same problem from the perspective of a parent trying to get through to a child whose entire education has been spent in the liberal school system. Rather than trying [...]
Bookworm on Jan 25 2009 | Filed under: Hamas, Israel, Media matters
Tweet Here’s a sickening AP story blaming Israel for the “trauma” inflicted on Gazan children. The story’s only acknowledgment that Hamas itself placed the children in the line of fire is the following paragraph, one that is carefully crafted to make it seem as if it was Israel’s fault that the poor Hamas fighters had [...]
Bookworm on Sep 22 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Sarah Palin
Tweet Dr. Rusty Shackleford has been investigating the myriad smears that sprang into life instantly the moment Palin arrived on the political scene. The smears appeared to be the result of grass roots efforts from concerned citizens. Shackleford’s research shows that the opposite is true — that a PR firm has been orchestrating this effort [...]
Bookworm on Sep 10 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Tweet 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 [...]
Bookworm on Jun 13 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Communism, Media matters
Tweet I highly (really highly) recommend that you read Paul Kengor’s piece in today’s American Thinker, Return of the Dupes and the Anti-Anti-Communists. In it, he describes a struggle I remember well from the 1970s (when I became politically aware during the end of the Vietnam era) through the 1990s (during which time I was [...]
Bookworm on May 31 2008 | Filed under: Arabs, Israel, Palestinians
Tweet One of the things that has infuriated me for years in the roiling battle between Israel and her neighbors is Israel’s utter ineptitude at courting the media. For decades, after ever single “event,” the Palestinians offered dozens of sympathetic people up for interviews with the MSM, while the Israelis offered terse, uninformative commentaries from [...]
Bookworm on Apr 23 2008 | Filed under: Israel, Palestinians
Tweet One of the common tropes on the Left is that the insanely land-hungry Jews have crowded the Gazans onto an impossibly small strip of land as part of their plan to commit genocide against the Palestinian people. As with so many of the attacks against Israel, this is false, and Soccer Dad explains why.
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