Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
The media adored it when Ronald Reagan or Dan Quayle, or George Bush (actually both George Bushes) made gaffes. Whether they misspelled a word, got confused about a fact, or mispronounced something (or used a regional pronunciation, these gaffes were news. The old media, the TV and newspapers, trumpeted the
Continue readingYou’ve heard of Muhammad Al-Durah: this is the boy whom Israeli soldiers purportedly killed in a gun battle. The image of this alleged death was caught on video, broadcast on French TV, and sparked the Second Intifatah, with its thousands of lives lost. The only problem is that the video
Continue readingTom Friedman, man of the New York Times, writes to assure American Jews that Obama is no threat whatsoever to Israel’s security. His column is a nasty little piece of work, not for what it says, but for what it doesn’t say. It opens with a series of scare quotations
Continue reading…we’ll lay off of her. Only in Obama land can you put your wife front and center when it is convenient for you, and then, with a straight face, tell people that they cannot talk about her: Democrat Barack Obama has a message for Tennessee’s Republican Party: “Lay off my
Continue readingAt NewsBusters and Webloggin, you can read about the way in which Google News used a Photoshopped picture of a naked George Bush and Tony Blair, both wrapped in an American flag, to illustrate its squiblet about the California Supreme Court’s gay marriage decision. The same rather startling alliance of
Continue readingDanny Lemieux sent me a link to what must be one of the clearest statements ever written about the media fetish regarding Democratic candidates generally, and Obama specifically. The author is Gerard Baker, writing in the London Times. After describing media love affairs with presidential candidates from Kennedy on up,
Continue readingI don’t doubt that something unsavory will pop up about Matthis Chiroux, the media’s latest conscientious objector poster boy, simply because something unsavory always seems to be lurking around these keys (not that the MSM lets its readers know). So that’s not what interests me. What caught me was the
Continue readingWhat’s becoming increasingly scary about reporting — or maybe it was always a problem and, without the internet, we just didn’t know it — is the media’s abysmal ignorance. Here is yet another example of the pathetic idiocy of those who relay news to the world.
Continue readingI’ve mentioned before Media Mythbusters, a wiki that is the result of conservative bloggers coming together to police the media and highlight those moments when it abandons truth to pursue more subjective goals. Media Mythbusters also has a blog. That blog has now started running regular round-ups of some of
Continue readingThe New York Times periodically pops up with articles in which its perplexed employees report that the incarceration rate in the US is up but, for reasons they cannot fathom, crime is down. Life is so difficult if you’re absolutely certain that “A” and “B” can’t possibly be related or,
Continue readingAt some point in the next few days, I will probably have an article published at Pajamas Media. I’m not counting my chickens yet, but it’s a reasonably sure thing, and I’ll let you know when/if it happens. But my upcoming article isn’t really what I want to talk about
Continue readingAt Paragraph Farmer, Patrick has taken apart a liberal newspaper’s endorsement for Barack Obama, exposing just a few of the logical fallacies and factual errors it contains. Patrick’s post actually makes for very scary reading, because this is not just one little editorial board but is, instead, thinking representative of
Continue readingI already knew that UC Berkeley was going to host a “scholarly” conference aimed at reconstructing Islamophobia. The promotional material, complete with the names of radical Islamist speakers, made it pretty clear that the conference’s focus would be on whitewashing Islam, as opposed to addressing a canker in one of
Continue readingYou all know Aesop’s class tale of the race between the tortoise and the hare: At the starting gate, the hare picks up so much speed that it soon vanishes completely, while the tortoise plods on behind. Within sight of the finish line, however, when the hare looks backwards and
Continue readingThe Mohammad al-Dura film that France2 TV showed sparked the second, bloody Intifatah, since the video appeared to show a 12 year old boy being killed by Israeli gun fire. In the years since then, analysts have demonstrated that, given where the Israelis were positioned, it would have been virtually
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