Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
The Times did finally run a story about the Reuters/Adnan Hajj photograph scandal. Instead of telling it as a story about media manipulation involving the major news story of the day, however, it buried it in the Technology section. It’s not a bad story, it’s simply a very careful non-story
Continue readingAs I’m sure you know by now, the story about Hajj’s altered photos is hitting the MSM. The most recent story I read comes from the BBC. I found two things amusing. First, this “are they just being polite?” moment from Reuters: Mr Hajj, a freelance photographer working for Reuters,
Continue readingEarly reports from Drudge are that Lamont (with a third of precincts reporting) is winning and McKinney (with a tenth of precincts reporting) is losing. McKinney’s probable loss is scarcely surprising because she had a viable opponent and was becoming too nutsy to be of any value to her constituents.
Continue readingNPR ran a short segment on the faked Reuters photos, using an interview with a Reuter’s photoeditor. It soft pedals the whole thing, including omitting any mention about Charles Johnson’s Little Green Footballs, which exposed the fraud; and letting stand unchallenged the photographer’s new claim, not that it was a
Continue readingThe Terminator, merely by raising his eyebrows, managed to get the California legislature to back down on a bill that would have required all California textbooks, starting in first grade, to include materials focusing on famous homosexuals — not because of their fame, but because of their homosexuality. Instead, it
Continue readingI got another email: Iranian president Mahmud Ahmadinejad calls President Bush and tells him, “George, I had a wonderful dream last night. I could see America, the whole beautiful country, and on each house I saw a banner.” “What did it say on the banners?” Bush asks. Mahmud replies, “ALLAH
Continue readingYou remember the popular mean girl at high school, don’t you? Lots of people wanted to be in her ambit, but no one really liked her. I was irresistibly reminded of that iconic American high school figure when I read this article about Hillary polling in New Hampire (hat tip:
Continue readingAfter Time Magazine did an on line puff piece extolling the virtues of burkhas, Michelle Malkin came back with a video attacking that piece. To be honest, I don’t think it’s a very effective comeback to the “burkhas are good” implications in the Time piece, consisting mostly of silly rock
Continue readingAs I know because I spent the majority of my life on the Democratic side of the political divide, the conservatives still can’t shake the reputation as haters that they picked up during the 1950s, thanks to the John Birchers. Interestingly, the conservatives also got tangled in the reputation of
Continue readingChristopher Chantrill, writing at the American Thinker, has a quick rundown about capitalism’s civilizing influence in the world. I don’t want to steal his thunder (because it builds well) by quoting any here, so I just suggest you go over there and check it out.
Continue readingAlthough we didn’t ask for it, TiVo decided to record Airport, the 1970 airport disaster movie that started a whole genre of movies about burning buildings and sinking ships, and goodness knows what. I’d never seen it before, although I’ve seen seen Airplane several times. As you know, Airplane, which
Continue readingFrom Debka: DEBKAfile’s military sources disclose: Hizballah’s rocket offensive against Israel is orchestrated from a rear command located in the Syrian town of Anjar August 7, 2006, 12:41 PM (GMT+02:00) While Israeli officials keep on insisting that Syria must be kept out of the conflict, the fact is that the
Continue readingBall bearings. Ball bearings aimed at civilians are disproportionate force: The charred, dismembered bodies, and blood splattered against a stone wall, turned the stomachs of hardened emergency service workers. “Even in this war I have not seen a sight like this,” said Eli Peretz, an ambulance driver. “The wounded people
Continue readingI’ve been getting a fair amount of hostile comments regarding an earlier post in which I discussed an AP story that accused half the American population for being delusional because it belived that Iraq did have WMDs. I’ve updated that post to support my belief that Iraq had WMDs at
Continue readingIt always amazes me when AP still pretends it’s a news outlet, rather than an anti-American propaganda machine. How’s this for an article: Do you believe in Iraqi “WMD”? Did Saddam Hussein’s government have weapons of mass destruction in 2003? Half of America apparently still thinks so, a new poll
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