Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
You remember Ilario Pantano, don’t you? Well, maybe not. It’s been a long time now since the media savaged his reputation, selling him to Americans as a cold-blooded killer, a story that ran endlessly on newspaper front pages and in TV headlines. Interestingly, the media was pretty quiet when the
Continue readingI came of age in the post-Vietnam era. Let me amend that: I came of age in San Francisco in the post-Vietnam era. Although Fleet Week, which started in the City about 20+ years ago has done a lot to turn things around, San Francisco has not been a military
Continue readingA lot of people have had a good laugh over the fact that Time Magazine, romanticizing the OWS crowd and the Muslim Brotherhood, named “The Protester” as its person of the year. A friend of mine, however, has noted something that a lot of people passed over, which is one
Continue reading“Facts are stubborn things.” — John Adams. “Ideologues are even more stubborn than facts.” — Bookworm A few nights ago, Mr. Bookworm watched the movie Shattered Glass with the children. It’s a fairly good retelling of the way in which Stephen Glass, a young feature writer at The New Republic,
Continue readingAs I was up early, I listened to KSFO’s Brian Sussman show. A man called in, identified himself as someone who works at the Port of Oakland, and described with some amusement the eight or so luxury buses that pulled up, disgorging a bunch of people in their 30s and
Continue readingI didn’t bother to read the entirety of an endless article about a bad thing happening in Mexico. No, I’m not talking about drug cartels or about Mexican citizens being slaughtered by guns sent over courtesy of a Democrat Department of Justice attempting to prove that guns hurt people. I’m
Continue readingThat post caption is a complete lie. I can issue as many reminders to myself as I like, but when the spirit doesn’t move me, you could look through my house with a magnifying glass and you still wouldn’t find any profundity. Heck, today I’m not even sure if I
Continue readingWhy, oh, why, oh, why do we believe anything the media says about conservatives? I wrote yesterday that Gingrich is a principled conservative with an unprincipled private life (thinking mostly about his abandoning his cancer-stricken wife), while Romney is an unprincipled conservative with a principled private life. Not only does
Continue readingI’ve got sex on my mind today. It’s not because I’ve suddenly morphed into a 13 year old boy. It’s because there are a lot of headlines today about sex, which also made me think about missing sex headlines and false sex headlines. First, of course, the Herman Cain sex
Continue readingObama is playing it safe, with no downside risk, with his decision to bar the Bay Area’s media from attending his appearance here. Sure, they’re going to whine now, but when 2012 rolls around, they’re going to fall into place and support him to their last drop of ink. Meanwhile,
Continue readingWe know two pivotal facts about Operation Fast & Furious, aka the Gunwalker scandal: The U.S. Justice Department arranged for thousands of American weapons to cross our Southern border, knowingly placed them in Mexican criminal hands, and sat back and watched while hundreds of Mexicans and some Americans (including border
Continue readingSadie wrote to tell me that, in the 8-9 years she’s been with Yahoo, she’s never received any email directly from Yahoo other than an email failure notification. Today was different: Was this Yahoo marketing Yahoo, to those who already use it; or Yahoo marketing Obama, to those who are
Continue readingI’m growing very fond of Jill Tucker, a “journalist” at the San Francisco Chronicle who gives me lots of meat for my blogging. A couple of weeks ago, I looked at her incurious (some might say lazy) reporting about the decision the Oakland Children’s Museum’s made to cancel a controversial
Continue readingI do love the way my liberal Facebook friends make me aware of things I wouldn’t otherwise notice. One of those things is a Matt Miller op-ed in the Washington Post, which imagines the perfect speech a dream independent candidate would give. As Miller describes it: This is one columnist’s
Continue readingMe, at Pajamas Media: I challenge you to find a news report with more layers, all of them misleading, than an ostensibly unbiased San Francisco Chronicle “news” article about a canceled art exhibition at the Museum of Children’s Art in Oakland, California. The story’s core is uncomplicated: The museum agreed with
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