Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
The American people and the media are both souring on Barack Obama, but there’s a very different tone to the changed attitudes. American people were promised, and voted for, a post-racial, post-partisan black man who was politically moderate and sufficiently brilliant to handle an executive job (tho’ he’d never had
Continue readingThe latest story making the rounds of the adulatory media is that Kennedy attend every military funeral in Massachusetts. At Blackfive, we learn that this came as a big surprise to military families in Massachusetts. Matt is therefore asking if you have any information about Kennedy attending — or not
Continue readingABC, aware that, when facts being stubborn things the only thing you can do when you don’t like them is run and hide, has refused to air this ad: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdgeSw3QqYk&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Please post it on your blog and email it to your friends to counter ABC’s partisan cowardice.
Continue readingThe media has long been news because of its seemingly intractible hostility to conservatives and their ideas. The new news is the fact that the media is getting disillusioned. When the media is itself a story, there’s a good wiki to visit to find information: Media Mythbusters (with which I
Continue readingTruly, I never thought I’d see the day, but the San Francisco Chronicle has three common sense articles today that discuss lies, Lefties and San Franciscans turning against their former loves. The first article is one by a Chron Staff Writer speaking in very derogatory terms about the outrageous City
Continue readingThe New York Times had an interesting editorial today, one that managed to speak slightingly of Obama’s handling of the health care issue, even as it regurgitated the false assumptions underlying the plan and the administration’s attacks on just about everybody. I thought that I’d amuse myself by fisking the
Continue readingSomething is wrong with Jake Tapper. He’s a reporter for ABC and he doesn’t seem to have a bias one way or another. I think the man needs a career change. This kind of objectivity shouldn’t be tolerated in one with his access to the halls of power. Tapper’s latest
Continue readingThe San Francisco Chronicle, although the major newspaper in the San Francisco Bay Area, is basically fish wrap. Today’s front page story about the protests at town hall meetings, in just the first few paragraphs, reports as true proven lies: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent her chamber home for the
Continue readingMichelle Malkin has a great take-down of a NYT week end magazine article about Valerie Jarrett, pointing out all of the things the Times conveniently omitted from the its glowing review of this important behind-the-scenes player in the Obama White House. I actually saw the same story on-line last week
Continue readingI grew up watching Walter Cronkite. He was a fixture on the TV in my household and, in our little world, had a great deal of credibility. Had he died 20 years ago, I would have mourned him sincerely as the passing of a childhood icon. I know better now,
Continue readingMost of the world’s media members, if asked, would undoubtedly identify themselves as sophisticates, who are too cynical and world-weary to take anything at face value. Their mental self-image almost certainly falls somewhere between wise-cracking Cary Grant (His Girl Friday) and idealistic Woodward and Bernstein. They care deeply, but they’ve
Continue readingLast week, I recommended that you read Carl Cannon’s Sarah “Barracuda” Palin and the Piranhas of the Press. Cannon, who holds no brief for Palin, nevertheless thinks that the press’s behavior once she was on the national scene demonstrates that the American media is in freefall. Cannon begins by pointing
Continue readingI will admit that we’ve all committed social faux pas. We forget names, stare blankly as friends wave to us, give inappropriate gifts, and a thousand other thoughtless things that we later come to regret. None of us, however, are president of the United States. He gets less slack then
Continue readingMovie review one: The movie is a viscerally exciting, adrenaline-soaked tour de force of suspense and surprise, full of explosions and hectic scenes of combat, but it blows a hole in the condescending assumption that such effects are just empty spectacle or mindless noise. [snip] Ms. Bigelow, practicing a kind
Continue readingJonah Goldberg expresses beautifully everything that’s wrong with the media’s coverage about Michael Jackson’s death: Generally speaking, I’m a believer in the rule that we should not speak ill of the dead. Or at least we should wait a decent interval before doing so (if we never spoke ill of
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