Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I liked the way Jennifer Rubin tied together the “sort of a God” MSM meme and the White House’s undignified but effective advertisements for . . . I mean, attacks against Fox: After all, it [the attack mode] directly contradicts the stereotype of conservatives and the glorified image of Obama.
Continue readingI happen to know, because I gave notice here at this blog and because I’m in touch with the organizers, that large numbers of conservatives and independents were planning on protesting Barack Obama’s appearance in San Francisco. I also know, again because I noted it here, that Obama was afraid
Continue readingIn this world of instant messages, communications, and news coverage, where nothing held back from the viewer and where the phrase “The public has the right to know” is seen as some sort of sacred trust, we have profaned our selves and our society to the god of success. When
Continue readingI like Kristin Chenoweth and I suffer from migraines, so this story caught my eye. And then the bad grammar in the second paragraph made my eyes roll: Meghan Prophet says Chenoweth felt a migraine coming on after winning an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a comedy series and
Continue readingAt Big Government today, Evan Coyne Maloney, another of the young conservative guns who uses modern media techniques to bring down Democratic dinosaurs, asks how it is that the media completely missed the ACORN scandal. Maloney thinks that political correctness created the blinders media figures wore. To the extent that
Continue readingOmri Ceren, who blogs at Mere Rhetoric, is a member of the Watcher of Weasels Council. He is as good a blogger as one can get, and someone with a real gift for ferreting out the truth behind the story. So it was no surprise that Omri, using what he
Continue readingMichelle Malkin has a great take-down of a NYT week end magazine article about Valerie Jarrett, pointing out all of the things the Times conveniently omitted from the its glowing review of this important behind-the-scenes player in the Obama White House. I actually saw the same story on-line last week
Continue readingMost of the world’s media members, if asked, would undoubtedly identify themselves as sophisticates, who are too cynical and world-weary to take anything at face value. Their mental self-image almost certainly falls somewhere between wise-cracking Cary Grant (His Girl Friday) and idealistic Woodward and Bernstein. They care deeply, but they’ve
Continue readingLast week, I recommended that you read Carl Cannon’s Sarah “Barracuda” Palin and the Piranhas of the Press. Cannon, who holds no brief for Palin, nevertheless thinks that the press’s behavior once she was on the national scene demonstrates that the American media is in freefall. Cannon begins by pointing
Continue readingI will admit that we’ve all committed social faux pas. We forget names, stare blankly as friends wave to us, give inappropriate gifts, and a thousand other thoughtless things that we later come to regret. None of us, however, are president of the United States. He gets less slack then
Continue readingMovie review one: The movie is a viscerally exciting, adrenaline-soaked tour de force of suspense and surprise, full of explosions and hectic scenes of combat, but it blows a hole in the condescending assumption that such effects are just empty spectacle or mindless noise. [snip] Ms. Bigelow, practicing a kind
Continue readingJonah Goldberg expresses beautifully everything that’s wrong with the media’s coverage about Michael Jackson’s death: Generally speaking, I’m a believer in the rule that we should not speak ill of the dead. Or at least we should wait a decent interval before doing so (if we never spoke ill of
Continue readingI have to admit to having tepid interest, at best, in the affairs of Gov. Mark Sanford. He was never more than a blip on my radar, and now he’s simply morphed into a sordid blip. To the extent I have anything to say on the subject, I think Terresa
Continue reading[I posted this on Monday, but am moving it up to the top because today’s the day] I just got an email. If there’s a protest in San Francisco, you can bet your bottom dollar that, with a little research, you can find a protest in your neighborhood too. ******************
Continue readingAmericans were promised that Obama had a perfect temperate: cool, calm and collected at all times. And certainly, in every interview, he was cool, calm and collected. Could that be because every interview was a fawning love-fest? It’s easy to control your temper and keep your head when everything’s going
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