Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I just had to laugh. The New York Times report on the hacked climate change documents starts off pretty honestly: Hundreds of private e-mail messages and documents hacked from a computer server at a British university are causing a stir among global warming skeptics, who say they show that climate
Continue readingThis, from James Taranto, at Best of the Web: Accountability Journalism An Associated Press dispatch, written by Erica Werner and Richard Alonso-Zaldivar, compares the House and Senate ObamaCare bills. We’d like to compare this dispatch to the AP’s dispatch earlier this week “fact checking” Sarah Palin’s new book. Here goes:
Continue readingLiberals assured us back in 2008 that, after the horrible Cowboy Bush years, we needed someone charming to bring rogue governments back into the American fold. So far, these same rogue governments have been resistant to Obama’s charm, whether in Russia or the Palestinian territories* or Iran, just to to
Continue readingObama has known for more than 12 months that he was going to become CIC, with responsibility for Afghanistan. This means 12 months of presidential advisers able to give this neophyte help in figuring out the best strategy for the war that he declared, during the campaign, was the essential,
Continue readingI saw a headline at Drudge, to the effect that there is a photo of Afghan “insurgents” with U.S. ammo. The story, although I’m sure it’s interesting, interested me less than that word “insurgent.” We’ve all talked about the fact that “insurgent” a word that allows a politically correct, liberal
Continue readingI don’t think the media has ever before been so blatant in its desire to divorce an evil act from its ideological origins, but this isn’t the first time we’ve seen that game played out. More than two years ago, a short lived comedy show on Fox used the occasion
Continue readingMy liberal friend is a headline reader. That’s why we had a ridiculous conversation in which he wondered about the Fort Hood shooter’s motives. To the reader who scans, headlines that say “motives a mystery” trump even those articles that add, under the headline, little facts such as Muslim death
Continue readingWe live in different universes: Liberal: They still don’t know why he shot all those soldiers. Me: Of course they do. Liberal: What are you talking about? Me: Come on. They know it has to do with his . . . . Liberal (interrupting): Are you saying that he’s a
Continue readingI’m rather enjoying Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, who is proving himself to be an idiot without any savant attached. When questioned about the tea party protests, Gibbs logically focused on the handful of signs that liked the current administration to a Nazi regime (logical because he is trying to discredit
Continue readingLast week, I commented on Thomas Frank’s weird defense of Obama’s attack on the media. Basically, Frank’s whole defense was that Nixon was worse. I don’t know about you, but to say “my guy isn’t as bad as the guy I, a liberal, consider the worst, most paranoid president ever,”
Continue readingAs far as I can tell, Frank’s primary defense of Obama’s attack on Fox News is that Obama isn’t as bad as Nixon’s attacks on the press were. Given the low esteem in which liberals hold Nixon, I think we can safely call that damning with faint praise. (Or, perhaps,
Continue readingIt’s no wonder CNN felt compelled to take the SNL “Obama does nothing” skit seriously. Wolf Blitzer, who deconstructed all the “lies” in the comedy sketch, inadvertently created a little comedy sketch of his own, when he made an utterly pathetic showing on Jeopardy: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcWs-MFOQWQ[/youtube] There are no defenses adequate
Continue readingGateway Pundit explains just how badly the blog “Jumping in Pools” can burn you. It’s all of a piece with the fake Chamber of Commerce press conference. Once Leftists and puckish anarchists make truth impossible to find, people will give up on looking.
Continue readingTwenty-four hours after the fact, the AP finally figured out that, maybe, just maybe, it’s worth reporting that the White House tried to freeze out a news organization that challenges it, and was stopped only because other news organizations realized that, if they let this one pass, they would forever
Continue readingCharles Krauthammer identifies the enormous damage the Obami risk doing as they attack and try to destroy national entities associated with conservatives (the Chamber of Commerce, talk radio, Fox news): There’s nothing illegal about such search-and-destroy tactics. Nor unconstitutional. But our politics are defined not just by limits of legality
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