Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
We all learned in school about the Triangle factory fire in New York back in 1911. The fire started and too many women died in significant part because of horrible working conditions the factory owners were able to impose on economically trapped women. The fire was a PR disaster for
Continue readingAndrea Mitchell calls in an interview. Rumsfeld understands that it’s a savage attack and, with great civility, responds accordingly. Watch the video and enjoy DrewM’s comment: I love the way he refuses to accept the premise of a number of her questions. It’s a skill I wish more political figures
Continue readingIf you read only one thing today, read this Caroline Glick article about the media’s Middle East coverage.
Continue readingThe MSM, which went on a fruitless hunt for violent rhetoric from the Tea Party, is hiding from the public the fact that it finally found that violent rhetoric. The MSM’s problem, of course, is that the rhetoric and imagery have nothing to do with the Tea Party, and everything
Continue reading[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TJ7OGl4CGw[/youtube] Hat tip: Instapundit UPDATE: Welcome, Het Vrije Volk readers. Andrew Klavan’s video is wonderful, but I’d also like to invite you to browse around my blog and see the other posts, some of which you might find interesting.
Continue readingThe MSM, Gosnell and Planned Parenthood all come together in a single post at The Anchoress’ place. Do read it. The MSM has many obsessions — that is, stories it covers relentlessly and obviously — but the moral collapse that so often circles around abortion is not one of those
Continue readingA young man did a terrible, terrible thing: he shook a baby to death. Justice worked, and he got 20 years in prison. Sadly, the fact that a young man shows poor impulse control and shakes a baby to death is a common story. Usually, headlines read, “Man gets 20
Continue readingThis is the headline stuff at today’s New York Times: Real news, right? And this screen shot, taken at the same time as the above screen shot, is what the readers are sending each other: One gets a sense that these “intellectuals” (for that is how NYTs readers see themselves)
Continue readingThe MSM never made any secret of the fact that it loathed Ronald Reagan. Back in the 1980s, as an unthinking liberal, I too loathed Reagan. The MSM’s unrelenting hostility to Reagan allowed me to feel that my views about the man were correct and that I was indeed an
Continue readingPaul Kengor writes a eulogy for The New Republic — or, at least, for Martin Peretz’s thoughtful, well-argued publication. In fact, its glory years were few. I subscribed to it for many years, and started having trouble taking it seriously when Andrew Sullivan started his tenure as editor. He hadn’t
Continue readingThe virtue of the media’s post-Tucson shooting attacks was that they were so blatant. It was easy to challenge them because they bore no relationship to objective reality. What’s harder to deal with are the attacks that fly below the radar. You know the attacks really exist but, sometimes, if
Continue readingAlmost thirty years ago, just after college, I got a summer job in a hospital administrative office, filling in for a gal who was on maternity leave. One of the guys in charge of that office looked, to my fevered young eyes, just like Tom Selleck. He wasn’t very nice,
Continue readingSome saw Iowahawk is a comedic genius. Some (myself included) would agree: Hat tip: Soccer Dad
Continue readingIvory Tower used to be a compliment. Now, just as ivory has degraded in social standing (the whole death of elephants thing), so too has the Ivory Tower’s star fallen (the whole death of logic, common sense, morality and actual education thing). This morning, I posted about UC Berkeley’s buffoonish
Continue readingThe media does hysteria well. It’s about the only thing it does well. It hysterically accused Palin and Beck and Limbaugh and the Tea Partiers of being complicit in mass murder despite a few readily known and very salient facts: (1) the absence of a single quotation that can be
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