Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
You remember Matt Sanchez, don’t you? He’s the conservative military writer who suddenly shot to fame when it was revealed that he’d had an earlier career working in gay porn. He’s since turned against the lifestyle (porn), and writes about how it degrades the human spirit. He’s also been writing
Continue readingThe following advertisements are so inflammatory that the major networks are refusing to run them. And, apparently, they are so frightened of the repercussions associated with their refusal to run them that the are stonewalling any efforts at correspondence regarding the ad’s contents. Do the ads demand jihad? Are they
Continue readingIt seems like forever, but it was only three and a half years ago that John Kerry was the Democratic front runner, with the MSM lining up for his anticipated coronation. And then something strange happened: the Vietnam vets started speaking up, challenging the mythology Kerry had created — and
Continue readingThis is a reprint of an original article I wrote for American Thinker: As the family renegade, the one who turned right politically, I often find myself trying to argue against such forceful conclusory statements as “Bush is an idiot” or “the War in Iraq is a disaster.” (In other
Continue readingDuring the last Democratic debate, it looked as if CNN had planted Democratic activists in the audience — people who it identified as undecided voters as if they were political tabula rasas – — to throw softball questions at the candidates. It now looks as if someone at CNN planted
Continue readingI kid you not — the language I put in quotations in this post caption is the precise language the BBC uses to describe those who are engaged in a little bit of urban unrest In France. You know, the kind of innocuous urban rioting that results in more than
Continue readingRotten Tomatoes is an aggregator that assembles movie reviews and then, depending on the number of positive or negative reviews, assigns any given film a “freshness rating. ” The higher the rating, the more favorable the majority of reviews are. For example, as of today (11/25 at 18:06 PST), Enchanted
Continue readingA few months ago, I took umbrage at a BBC news story that reported that Israel killed Palestinian children and only saw fit to mention, in the 5th and 6th paragraphs, that the children were fiddling around rocket launchers when Israel fired its missiles. I felt that the news was
Continue readingDQ often says — and I know he’s correct — that I tend to be too harsh on the media, forgetting that the media’s goal is to sell the most interesting spin pm a story, even if that story doesn’t comport with my view of how the same story should
Continue readingTony Snow recently received a Freedom of Speech Award from the Media Institute. In a graceful, humorous, and non-aggressive speech, he traced the First Amendment risks that arise from a monolithic liberal media. He begins by pointing out that it is a fact that the mainstream American media is overwhelmingly
Continue readingWould it surprise any of you to learn that the media’s coverage of the President horse race accords more coverage, and more favorable coverage, to the Democratic candidates? It didn’t surprise me, but it’s still useful to see it in black and white: Campaign coverage of the 2008 presidential election
Continue readingTNR has finally broken its silence and responded to the fact that Drudge made public documents regarding the Scott Thomas Beauchamp affair. According to TNR, everything Beauchamp said is true, and any recantations resulted from the military’s bullying him, augmented by right wing spin. I don’t have time to comment
Continue readingI have to say that, this week, when I was casting my votes for the Watcher’s Council, I had a really hard time. The caliber of articles that the council members submitted this week — both their own and someone else’s — was incredibly high. I kept going back and
Continue readingThis is just another reminder, as if we needed it, to distrust most press reports. As the reporters showed during Katrina, they are profoundly lazy, and will quickly report rumor as news without bothering to investigate. Most of the time it’s harmless. Sometimes, though, as in reporting about Israel or
Continue readingZabrina, who blogs at Thought You’d Never Ask, used my anatomy of the faux Rush Limbaugh scandal to give us the heads up about Michael Yon’s most recent post, Resistance is Futile. It’s a fabulous post, truly fabulous, and the sole reference to it at my blog does not deserve
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