Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Arthur Brisbane has written a rumination about his two years’ as the New York Times’ public editor. It is an interesting piece, as notes the way in which (a) the New York Times has slimmed its one massive corporate holdings so that they consist only of core news corporations and
Continue readingTom Groseclose explains: Hat tip: Seraphic Secret
Continue readingHave we reached a tipping point when the White House press laughs at Jay Carney when he asserts that Obama’s assertion of “executive privilege” is a principled move? Hat tip: Earl
Continue readingWhen my friends make mistakes, I’m usually amused and rather pleased, not because I revel in their suffering, but because it shows our shared humanity. When bad things happen to my friends, I feel genuine distress and wish devoutly for their situation to improve. The opposite is true, of course,
Continue readingChris Matthews managed to do an entire interview of Elizabeth Warren without once mentioning the scandals now dogging her. Instead, he offers, “as a journalist,” to help her. See the video and read more about Matthews’ water-carrying at American Power. I’ll add only that, while liberals like to sneer that
Continue readingI got a $5 Amazon gift card, so I overcame my usual skinflint habits and purchased Edward Klein’s The Amateur. It is a very easy read (I’m more than halfway through after only an hour and a half), and a scary one too. The book’s title could just as easily
Continue readingI caught exactly one minute of Rush today, during which he mentioned a commentator who had said that the only reason that critics called Obama a “socialist” was because the “L” word had lost its power to scare people. Rush disagreed, saying something along the lines of “words have meaning,”
Continue readingI’m impressed, both that these Politico writers wrote about the bias and that Politico published their article: Republicans cry “bias” so often it feels like a campaign theme. It is, largely because it fires up conservatives and diminishes the punch of legitimate investigative or narrative journalism. But it also is
Continue readingChris Hayes got himself a great spanking because of his inability to acknowledge military heroism: CHRIS HAYES: Thinking today and observing Memorial Day, that’ll be happening tomorrow. Just talked with Lt. Col. Steve Burke [sic, actually Beck], who was a casualty officer with the Marines and had to tell people
Continue readingEd Driscoll has the best wrap-up I’ve seen of the bombshell report that Barack Obama either told his literary agent that he was born in Kenya or, when she made a mistake to that effect, was happy to let that mistake sit around, uncorrected, until 2007. Ed’s point, like mine,
Continue readingI can’t find a permalink, so you might have to hurry to catch this one. Over at National Review, in the “Slideshow” section (home page, middle column, about half-way down), the editors have collected a series of media images showing Obama with a halo. I found it a fascinating visual
Continue readingYesterday, I got to be snarky about Time Magazine’s aggressive breast feeding cover (and if “aggressive breast feeding” isn’t a post-modern liberal oxymoron, I don’t know what is). Today, I get to poke fun at Newsweek, for it’s “Obama : The First Gay President” cover: Newsweak isn’t actually claiming that
Continue readingIf you haven’t yet seen Time Magazine’s most recent cover, welcome back to earth from your extended journey to some other galaxy, far, far away. To bring you up to speed, here’s a copy of the famous (or infamous) cover for you to enjoy: The Mom pictured on the cover
Continue readingLet’s put aside the laughable fact that the MSM has had to go back to 1965, when Romney was a teenager, to find something bad about him (or, more specifically, something bad about him and a putatively gay person). This ridiculous attack has naturally generated attacks against Obama and Biden,
Continue readingI finally got around to listening to some of the President’s shtick at the White House Correspondents dinner. His delivery wasn’t bad, in that he could easily have competed with the second or third string comic at one of the old Borscht Belt hotels. He wouldn’t have made the big
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