Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I almost decided not to blog about this, because it’s getting attention everywhere, and then I thought, well, just in case you haven’t been everywhere first: Thanks to Charles Johnson’s tireless efforts, another false document has been exposed — this time a doctored Reutered photograph purporting to show Israeli missile
Continue readingAs you know, I’ve written before about the underlying conservative truths in the most popular pop culture products of recent times: Harry Potter, the Ring Trilogy and Narnia. While listening today to Mark Steyn’s brilliant interview with Hugh Hewitt last Thursday, August 3, I was reminded again of how true
Continue readingHezbollah claimed some more Arab lives, this time killing three Bedouin women from one family: Residents of Arab al-Aramshe find it difficult to comprehend disaster in which mother, her two daughters were killed as Katyusha rocket hit their house yard. One of daughter recently got engaged. ‘We can’t believe we
Continue readingI’m still wondering when the NY Times will admit in its masthead that it’s the official newspaper of the Democratic party. Anyway, today’s partisan attack is a scathing denunciation of Donald Rumsfeld. It wouldn’t be notable in any way — just another day in the NY Times’ party warfare —
Continue readingA few days ago, I did a long post about the media’s distorted coverage of damage in San Francisco following the Loma Prieta earthquake. Briefly, I pointed out that, with no political end in sight, but merely to satisfy the maw of a visual medium, the media made it look
Continue readingIt seems that our credulous press, always the first to believe any bad story about Israel, was once again hoodwinked by the Hezbollah propaganda machine. While it’s true (and tragic) that children died in Qana, it’s becoming equally clear that (a) not as many died as were first claimed (and
Continue readingA child’s death is always a tragedy, but this SF Chron report about Qana sounds like a Hezbollah PR office press release: The tiny, lifeless bodies were laid out in a row on a black straw sheet in the concrete courtyard of the Tyre Government Hospital. Twenty-one of them, all
Continue readingDrudge linked this morning to an article in Australia’s Herald Sun that displays a series of damning photographs showing Hezbollah terrorists, and their weapons of course, comfortably ensconced in a dense residential neighborhood. The terrorists are dressed in comfy casuals, so that they can easily blend into the crowd. Hezbollah
Continue readingThe press is all over Israel’s missile strike that killed children. Fortunately, LGF is all over the fact that Israel, unlike any aggressor in the history of the world, warned civilians days in advance that the strike was coming and begged them to leave. The reason Israel was striking that
Continue readingI love NY Times bashing, in part because I think it’s a dreadfully misguided paper that has way too much reach, and in part because it’s a cheap and easy target, and I don’t always have the time or energy to make subtle arguments against more challenging targets. What I
Continue readingI distrust the media. This is entirely separate from believing the media to be biased, and it is also separate from believing that the media intentionally sets out to deceive. My distrust goes to the nature of our visual news medium and, I realized in conversation tonight with my family,
Continue readingIf you need any further evidence that the MSM is not thinking about events in the Middle East, you need go no further then a little NPR news squiblet I heard this morning which, in less than 30 seconds, had 4 shopworn, thoughtless cliches. I can’t find the transcript (it
Continue readingEven the propaganda organs can only be taken so far before the reporters realize they’re being played for total fools. How else to explain the fact that the BBC has acknowledged that some of the bodies in Lebanon belong to terrorists, not “innocent” civilians: The British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC) has
Continue readingOn Sunday, San Francisco saw a fairly large rally supporting Israel. It wasn’t large for a City of SF’s size, but it was large for a City as Left as SF is. To her credit, Dianne Feinstein attended and spoke at the rally. The San Francisco Chronicle’s reporting on the
Continue readingMr. Bookworm rented a movie called Tigerland the other day, about men being trained to go off to the Vietnam War. I found it unwatchable, in large part because every other word was a filthy obscenity. There was almost no substance to the dialogue, just foul language. Thinking back, this
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