Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Things have changed little since Mark Twain: “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” The Times is trumpeting a poll showing a huge number of Americans support Obama’s health care plan. As Bruce Kesler explains, though, the devil is in the details, and quite the little
Continue readingDrudge announced today that ABC news is going to use its June 24, 2009 broadcast to shill for Obama’s attempt to nationalize health care: On the night of June 24, the media and government become one, when ABC turns its programming over to President Obama and White House officials to
Continue readingWHO excitedly announced a few days ago that swine flu was a pandemic. To my old-fashioned mind, pandemic means a deadly disease running riot around the world, threatening the lives of hundreds of thousands, if not millions. Swine flu is definitely traveling, and it’s out of season, but so far
Continue readingThis is supposed to be a “news” story about the Obama family trip to Paris. It strikes me as coming much closer to a bad bodice ripper, with scary Messianic overtones: People gawked and cameras clicked as the Obamas cut a wide figure through the French capital even while confined
Continue readingGiven that Evan Thomas recently referred to Obama as a God (and he did so with a straight face), you must read the Anchoress’s take on the media’s sick relationship with Obama. You’ve got to admire prose that opens with this paragraph: Evan Thomas, that bellweather of media obsequiousness, who
Continue readingYesterday, at a swim meet, I chanced upon a copy of the San Francisco Chronicle which is, of course, the major regional paper here in the Bay Area. On the front page was a close-up picture of some angry protesters, and this caption: Health care activists lament single-payer snub. Beyond
Continue readingClearly, predator nations smell blood in the water — and that blood is Obama’s manifest inability to cope with predator nations. At least, that’s how I read this, from BNO News at 9:30 ish p.m. PST: N. Korea says it is no longer bound to the armistice which ended the
Continue readingAn ardent Thatcherite in England has gotten approval for a statute of Ronald Reagan to be erected outside the U.S. Embassy in London. Unsurprisingly, given the world in which we live, feelings are mixed — not from the British, but from the current administration: An interior designer from Chelsea who
Continue readingDuring the 1970s, in the era of the Jewish refusniks, this joke emerged from the Soviet Union: Papa was able to get his family out of the Soviet Union, but he ended up staying behind, hoping for an opportunity to follow them. Until then, he promised he’d write. The code
Continue readingJennifer Rubin pithily sums up the insanity of the government’s cheerful report on increasingly higher unemployment numbers: So to be clear: we’re headed for double digit unemployment, the very thing the stimulus bill was supposed to stave off. We didn’t keep unemployment anywhere near 8% as the administration predicted — but
Continue readingBut when Obama says something so ignorantly stupid even my children wouldn’t sink so low, a American media says absolutely nothing at all.
Continue readingPardon me for harping on the Natasha Richardson death, but do newspapers even bother anymore to read what they write? This is from the AP: The statement did not give details on the cause of death for Richardson, who suffered a head injury when she fell on a beginner’s trail
Continue readingThis morning, Mr. Bookworm asked me “Who is Charles Freeman?” Because he reads only the Times, he’d never heard of him before today. I gave a brief summary of Freeman’s views re China, the Middle East and 9/11, as well as the fact that he lives in Saudi and Chinese
Continue readingI don’t know why I didn’t blog about the Charles Freeman story. Certainly it had all the perfect elements for yet another point of concern about the Obama administration: the Director of National Intelligence (!) selects Freeman, the Obama administration disclaims about knowledge of the selection, and Freeman turns out
Continue readingJames Taranto had a great deal of fun last year with Obama’s promise to do away with cynicism, even as he engaged in one of the most cynical campaigns ever. But he was right in one way. Cynicism is dead on the left, especially in the media. Herewith a couple
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