I'm watching Fox's media criticism show -- one that should be an hour long, but is only half that -- when pundit Jim Pinkerton makes mention of the Swift Boat Veterans for truth and refers to them as Sen. John Kerry's "fellow officers." Neal Gabler jumps in and claims: "Not fellow officers." Jim, rightly, disputes: […]
Al Qaeda terrorists behead another American in Iraq. A group linked to al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has beheaded an American hostage in Iraq and posted a video of the killing on a Web Site Saturday. "My name is Benjamin Ford. I am from San Francisco, California," said the young man dressed in a […]
The big news at yesterday's Scrabble Championship was one participant's use of a slang term for lesbian: "lez." Though it is a word, it is on Scrabble's naughty list -- not to be used in a tournament aired on ESPN. What I found particularly amusing, however, was another naughty word -- one that apparently wasn't […]
Today's big news was the unveiling of a one-minute ad that's being run in a very small number of broadcast markets. I've got issues with John Kerry's positions on an entire slew of issues. My first instinct when it comes to Kerry's service in Vietnam is that it is largely irrelevant to the 2004 election, […]
The usual Arab-American suspects are complaining about an upcoming concert in Dearborn, Mich. "Someone who is trying to get popular through bigotry, bias and hatred should not be welcome, especially in a city like Dearborn with its rich diversity," Imad Hamad, regional director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, told the Detroit Free Press. So, he's […]
I'm the only really "out" conservative in the newsroom. So, it should really come as no surprise when I get snarky messages over the newsroom's instant-messaging system like this: 'Capt. Gregory Ratzlaff, 36, of Olympia, Wash., died Tuesday in a non-combat incident at a base near Najaf. He was assigned to Marine Medium Helicopter...' (do […]
I'm curious to see how Eric Alterman and his ilk who believe that the media -- especially News Corp.'s Fox News and The New York Post -- are part of a right-wing cabal react to this news. Five executives on Kerry's list joined him in Davenport, Iowa, today at what the campaign called an "economic […]
Today's Washington Post has an article on the journalists' Unity Convention in Washington, D.C. The convention is all about promoting diversity in newsrooms that is only skin deep. (Columnist Michelle Malkin offers her take on the event here.) This paragraph was the one that, once again, really steamed me: During last year's plagiarism scandal involving […]
Since the first Dream Team took the court in 1992, USA Basketball has been the next incarnation of sports dominance -- following the Soviet hockey teams of the '60s and '70s. Well, the latest group of professional All Stars showed what they're made of last night when they got their butts kicked by the Italian […]
I mentioned last week that one of my colleagues at work had dismissed race-baiter and hatemonger Al Sharpton as "harmless." With Sharpton's background as the main promoter of the Tawana Brawley hoax, inciting the Crown Heights riots -- which left one Orthodox Jew dead -- and the massacre at Freddy's Fashion Mart, I found his […]