Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I got a $5 Amazon gift card, so I overcame my usual skinflint habits and purchased Edward Klein’s The Amateur. It is a very easy read (I’m more than halfway through after only an hour and a half), and a scary one too. The book’s title could just as easily
Continue readingI caught exactly one minute of Rush today, during which he mentioned a commentator who had said that the only reason that critics called Obama a “socialist” was because the “L” word had lost its power to scare people. Rush disagreed, saying something along the lines of “words have meaning,”
Continue readingI’m impressed, both that these Politico writers wrote about the bias and that Politico published their article: Republicans cry “bias” so often it feels like a campaign theme. It is, largely because it fires up conservatives and diminishes the punch of legitimate investigative or narrative journalism. But it also is
Continue readingThe San Jose Mercury News talked to fifteen teenage student journalists about issues ranging from texting while driving to Trayvon to politics. As journalists-in-training, these students are presumably better informed and more engaged than their peers. That presumption could be wrong. The students’ responses to the Trayvon matter fascinated me
Continue readingEd Driscoll has the best wrap-up I’ve seen of the bombshell report that Barack Obama either told his literary agent that he was born in Kenya or, when she made a mistake to that effect, was happy to let that mistake sit around, uncorrected, until 2007. Ed’s point, like mine,
Continue readingLet’s put aside the laughable fact that the MSM has had to go back to 1965, when Romney was a teenager, to find something bad about him (or, more specifically, something bad about him and a putatively gay person). This ridiculous attack has naturally generated attacks against Obama and Biden,
Continue readingLeave It To Beaver is an iconic television show, complete with archetypal American characters. Week after week, during its Eisenhower/Kennedy heyday, the show presented its American audience with the naifs (Beaver and Wally Cleaver) being enticed into dangerous or embarrassing situations, thanks to the machinations of Eddie Haskell. Eddie was
Continue readingI finally got around to listening to some of the President’s shtick at the White House Correspondents dinner. His delivery wasn’t bad, in that he could easily have competed with the second or third string comic at one of the old Borscht Belt hotels. He wouldn’t have made the big
Continue readingFunnily enough, the MSM isn’t picking up on this story, the one that provides proof (proof that can easily be replicated) that the Obama campaign machine is set up to encourage completely fraudulent campaign donations. The same proof exercise shows that the Republican candidates have set up their donations to
Continue readingOn a regular basis, the New York Times launches an attack against the military. Or more accurately, against the men and women (especially the men) who serve in the military. We get stories about their high drug abuse rates, high crime rates, high insanity rates, and high suicide rates. Usually,
Continue readingWith a few stellar exceptions, the best way to tell a story is in chronological order. This is because, in the real world, cause and effect matter. I suspect that the AP knows this is true, which is why they had their latest report from the Middle East start with
Continue readingEric Allen Bell, a former Daily Kos contributor and an independent filmmaker for Left-leaning outlets, had an epiphany recently: Islam is not a nice religion. Indeed, it’s a very un-nice religion, one that sees the embodiment of human perfection in a child-raping, misogynistic, antisemitic crime lord. When he tried to
Continue readingThe Washington Free Beacon is a new online paper with an interesting premise: unlike MSM papers, which treat liberalism as the norm, and conservativism as a headline grabbing abnormality, this publication gives the big scare headlines to the Left. In other words, it’s not just that it reports the stories,
Continue readingI wrote a post taking Harvard grad Jesse Kornbluth (class of ’68) to task for his carelessly flattering portrayal of “journalist” and blogger Andrew Sullivan. It’s fine to like Sullivan, although I would question a person’s judgment in doing so. What bothered me was that Kornbluth failed to discover that
Continue readingSince the Delaware media outlet that took Christine O’Donnell’s commercial (and, presumably, the payment for that commercial) somehow managed to “forget” to air it — twice — it’s up to “we, the citizen media” to air that ad for her. If you have an outlet (email, a blog, facebook, myspace,
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