I know. It’s like shooting fish in a barrel, but this one I found particularly amusing. The “fair and balanced” network was attacking Democratic Chair Howard Dean yesterday. Dean, as you may know, made a comment to the effect that the Republican Party is overwhelming dominated by white Christians. Well, Brit Hume at Fox News was going to have none … Read More
More Much-Needed Perspective on the Ground Zero Memorial
Yup, the WTC memorial site and plaza is sure to be crawling with leftist propaganda: The hysterics of Malkin and others have focused entirely on who the International Freedom Center has turned to for advice. Here’s an idea: how about looking at who the International Freedom Center has actually endorsed. Turns out the IFC has been one of the great … Read More
One Has To Wonder…
…why the enraged right is so, er, enraged about the construction of an International Freedom Center (or “IFC") at the site of the former World Trade Center. As stated in this fact sheet (PDF format), the mission of the IFC is to “strengthen our resolve to preserve freedom, and inspire an end to hatred, ignorance, and intolerance”. Now please tell … Read More
Wisdom From The Right, To The Right
Prominent right-wing blogger John Cole speaks the truth and gives sage advice: [Members of the media] may be offensive, in cases biased, and in cases all out jackasses (Linda Foley, Ted Rall, Eason Jordan, and others come immediately to mind), but, as a whole, they are not anti-military, and certainly not treasonous. If the media suffers from some Vietnam syndrome, … Read More
The New Postmodernism (or A Short and Hypocritical History of Media-Bashing)
E.J. Dionne has a must-read about conservative media-bashing, using the Newsweek-Koran outrage as a launching-off point. The key graf (for me) is this: Conservative academics have long attacked “postmodernist” philosophies for questioning whether “truth” exists at all and claiming that what we take as “truths” are merely “narratives” woven around some ideological predisposition. Today’s conservative activists have become the new … Read More
“Fair and Balanced” Lie Admitted
Imagine if Dan Rather said this: "Even we at CBS manage to get some right wingers on the air occasionally, and often let them finish their sentences before we club them to death and feed the scraps to George Soros." If Rather had said that, you would never here the end of it from the wingnut blogsphere. But, of course, … Read More
Rupert Murdoch Endangers Soldiers
From the New York Times The United States military expressed anger and dismay today over the unauthorized release of photographs of a jailed Saddam Hussein in his underwear and performing menial activity. … “These photos were taken in clear violation of Department of Defense directives and possibly Geneva Convention guidelines for the humane treatment of detained individuals,” the military statement, … Read More
Sssshhhhhhhhhhhh!
Instapundit. Powerline. Blogs for Bush. NRO’s The Corner. GOPBloggers. Andrew Sullivan. Lashawn Barber. Michelle Malkin. Redstate.org. As of this posting, not one of these blogs has a single word on Rick Santorum calling the entire Democratic party Nazis. That’s how they work, folks. This is how they do it. I guess we need someone like Newsweek or Eason Jordan to … Read More
Bill Moyers Explains It All
More like this please. Unfortunately, Bill Moyer’s speech on the failure of journalism and the independence of public television is far too long to reproduce here, even for an extended post. I therefore encourage everyone to read it all. Choice excerpts are below the fold. On “radical right-wingers”: Who are they? I mean the people obsessed with control, using the … Read More
Newsweek/Qur’an
There is a lot of stupidity and hyperbole surrounding this story about a story. It’s been tough to pick out the most outrageously over-reactive response. But the White House tipped the scales of stupidity: The White House said on Monday an inaccurate Newsweek report based on an anonymous source had damaged the U.S. image overseas by claiming U.S. interrogators desecrated … Read More
Cold Black Hearts
Yesterday I posted about the sad death of Marla Ruzicka, the California humanitarian who went to Afghanistan and Iraq to help innocent victims (often, orphaned children) of those wars. She was killed in a car bomb explosion in Bagdhad Saturday while en route to visit a young girl orphaned in the Iraqi War. It seems that the right wing blogosphere … Read More
Hannity Coaches Interviewees
Can you imagine how the right-wing blogosphere would react if this was Dan Rather (instead to Sean Hannity)? From the New York Daily News: Fox News host: Repeat after me If the conservative guests on Fox News’ "Hannity and Colmes" sound especially on-message, that’s because they’re being coached by the best: Sean Hannity himself. On the March 31 installment of … Read More
Here’s Pie In Your Eye
It seems that some liberals have taken up the rather time honored tradition of throwing food at conservative speakers. Now, I don’t advocate this — it seems pretty silly, and I’m not sure what point it makes. But the victims of these silly collegiate pranks act so fatally wounded, like a cream pie is the ballistic equivalent of an actual … Read More
Robert Novak: Seedy-looking Leering Liar
LIE: Novak, on CNN’s Crossfire yesterday (to co-host Paul Begula): NOVAK: The real problem with the universities, Paul, is that they don’t invite conservatives. They have only left-wing speakers on campuses like Berkeley and Harvard. They don’t let people like me tell them what the truth is about America. REALITY: Here are some of the "only left-wing" speakers who have … Read More
End of the PowerLine
Ezra Klein says it so perfectly that I quote him in full: With the Schiavo memos proven to be from a Republican source and Powerline not apologizing for their truthless innuendo and slander, it’s time to break out the popcorn and see if Big Trunk and Hindrocket can clear the shark. Odds are on massive carnage, but they might just … Read More