Media
The wayback machine
Today Real Clear Politics’ Morning Edition very slyly ran an Airpower article from 1972 titled The Press and the TET Offensive: a flawed institution under stress. The Tet offensive of 1968 must surely be regarded as one of history’s chameleon campaigns. When the North Vietnamese and Vietcong troops assaulted targets throughout the Republic of Vietnam […]
Getting ahead of the PTSD thing
Dirty Mick sends us a link to the story of Jason Edward Prostrollo, 25, a veteran who was shot by police in a stand-off in Scottsdale, Arizona early Saturday. The incident unraveled just after 4 a.m. when a 35-year-old woman called police reporting that her boyfriend was in a fight with another man who had […]
Who wrote this smoldering turd?
Usually at Associated Press, they put their names on their articles, but this smelly turd is unsigned, and whoever regurgitated this bullshit is obviously embarrassed by it. The Navy SEAL operation that freed two Western hostages in Somalia is representative of the Obama administration’s pledge to build a smaller, more agile military force that can […]
Naw, this ain’t class warfare at all
The Washington Post this morning decides that for some reason they’d take some shots at Mitt Romney’s income taxes by publishing a chart from Citizens for Tax Justice who they say “is liberal-leaning but nonpartisan”. Yeah, I could almost imagine the Post calling an organization like the Cato Institute or the Heritage Fountation “right-leaning, but […]
Ombudsman urges Post to “scrutinize” Obama
The Washington Post’s ombudsman,Patrick B. Pexton, writes a column this weekend advising the newspaper to “Scrutinize President Obama’s record” after he read the reportage that preceded the 2008 election; I think there was way too little coverage of his record in the Illinois Senate and U.S. Senate, for example, with one or two notably good […]
Time and Ron Capps make me grab the BP meds
Jeff sends us a link to this in Time magazine in the discussion of the CNN article we talked about the other day; Yeah, it pissed me off at first, too. Author Ron Capps, supposedly a veteran, raised my blood pressure even higher with his first line; NEWS FLASH: The new threat to American security […]
PolitiFact busted, again
Politifact, the nominally non-partisan “fact checker” which takes a statement by a politician, surveys a group of “experts” of their own choosing and then coughs up a “truth-o-meter” score, has landed in hot water, again. Previously it was when the liberal media establishment got all asshurt over Politifact calling the claim that Republicans were trying […]
CNN and their tabloid curiosity
ROS sends us a link to NewBusters who reports on John King’s first question to Newt Gingrich about his wife’s dishing on her marriage; You all know that I’m no Gingrich fan, but it does grate on me that the debate is becoming more about the candidates’ personal and professional than the issues. I oppose […]
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