Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
You’ve already heard about the fact that, in order to block any chance of Rush having an ownership interest in an NFL team, liberal talking heads (including Al Sharpton) and the MSM attributed manifestly false quotations to Rush, in order to accuse him of being a grotesque racist. However, before
Continue readingYup. Yahoo felt compelled to help Obama out by fact-checking a Saturday Night Life sketch that noted Obama’s inability to carry through any legislative agenda. First, here’s the SNL sketch: I just have to fisk the Yahoo story, because it’s insanely stupid: This weekend “Saturday Night Live” opened with Fred
Continue readingPaul Krugman is shocked! shocked! (albeit not surprised) that Republicans are exhibiting a certain amount of Schadenfreude when it comes to the rebuff the IOC delivered to Barack Obama: So what did we learn from this moment? For one thing, we learned that the modern conservative movement, which dominates the
Continue readingI’ve been thinking a lot about responses to my post regarding the gal who is running for town council, the one who donated to Obama, and who nevertheless seems to be a fiscal conservative. I asked how she can live with the cognitive dissonance. Several of you pointed out, in
Continue readingWe conservatives have tended to be “go along to get along” people. If the media says someone is crazy, we back off, ’cause we don’t want to scare ordinary Americans. Mark Steyn usefully reminds us that the media isn’t “ordinary Americans” and that media goals are antithetical to conservative success:
Continue readingThe media repeatedly assures us that there is no question — and cannot be any question — about climate change. That particular bit of science is settled, with all the data collected, a position the media holds to strenuously despite significant amounts of data that contradict the claim that humans
Continue readingThe American and world media go into a screaming frenzy whenever American or Israeli troops injure or kill a child. They do this despite the fact that such incidents are rare and, more significantly, they are aberrant: both the American and the Israeli military go out of their way to
Continue readingThanks to Sadie for putting me on to the latest Obama/media stunt, this time the conscious decision to mimic a famous series of en famille JFK pictures in the oval office. I guess when your numbers are tanking, imitating a dead president is one way to try to shore yourself
Continue readingHollywood and the media establishment as a whole are inescapable parts of American and, indeed, world culture. It’s fascinating, therefore, to think about the type of patriotism our American media now espouses and that which it embraced in the past. Depending on how one defines patriotism, whether as love of
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 readingZhombre alerted me to the AP’s problem when it tries to balance its story line (Obama good) with the facts, whatever they happen to be. Here’s the question Zhombre asked: “It there some dissonance between the first and second sentences or it is me? Does the AP lead completely contradict
Continue readingMore amazing than Vincent Fumo’s appalling abuse of office and general corruption is the fact that the AP article identifies his party affiliation the third paragraph! It’s not quite identifying it in the headline, but it’s still pretty darn good for an AP story.
Continue readingHere’s a sickening AP story blaming Israel for the “trauma” inflicted on Gazan children. The story’s only acknowledgment that Hamas itself placed the children in the line of fire is the following paragraph, one that is carefully crafted to make it seem as if it was Israel’s fault that the
Continue readingThis is about the most depressing video I’ve seen in a long time: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm1KOBMg1Y8[/youtube] It’s obvious that the media effectively got its message across — and it’s impressive how unperturbed these voters are by their abysmal ignorance. The last woman, who is also the most charming, openly professes surprise at
Continue readingKnowing as I do that the media is going to puff every tentative step forward by Obama, whether confirmed or not, I’ve simply ignored the news all day. I’m feeling stressed, but want to wait until tomorrow for a definitive answer, rather than to suffer through the roller coaster of
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