Al Sharpton is a gifted public speaker. He is also a race-baiter and a hatemonger. I was talking with a colleague earlier this evening when it seemed like the volume on every TV set in the newsroom was turned up to the max. They weren't, but when Sharpton speaks he's not exactly a shrinking violet. […]
I'm watching some of CNN's coverage of the Democrat Convention and they highlighted the fact that the Democrats had lined up retired generals who support John Kerry -- including Wesley Clark. I counted a grand total of nine. In the AP style guide, you don't even use numerals until you get to 10, so it […]
And rightly so. The Wall Street Journal's James Taranto is at the Democrat Convention in Boston, but he's got a glimpse of what you're not seeing on TV -- the protesters. I was impressed by how Taranto addressed this situation: The Agony of the Feet The next day, the pantomime Gongsters are gone from Copley […]
The big "get" last night at the Democrat Convention was propagandist Michael Moore's appearance on "The O'Reilly Factor." For the past several months, O'Reilly has at times been woefully unprepared for some of his interviews. Just a week or two ago O'Reilly was railing against some judge's ruling in a case, but instead of quoting […]