National Review's Byron York has what is probably the most complete and concise account of the Media Matters-created pseudoscandal involving radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh and his disdain for phony soldiers. The next day, September 28, Limbaugh used his program to explain the “phony soldiers” remark at some length. As part of that explanation, […]
The Salt Lake Tribune had an interesting story about their rival editor's talk at a conservative policy meeting in that city over the weekend. Deseret Morning News editor Joe Cannon was one of the speakers at the GOP Council for National Policy meeting and agreed not to talk about what was said there. According to […]
Unindicted co-conspirators the Council on American Islamic Relations issued a demand that GOP presidential candidate Sen. John McCain appoint a Muslim adviser to his campaign and, if elected, to his White House staff. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today called on presidential candidate Sen. John McCain to appoint a Muslim campaign advisor and a […]
I'm not sure which category to put New York Times editorial page editor Andrew Rosenthal in. It is true that we don't have many conservative columnists on the Op-Ed page. Actually, right now, we have David Brooks, who gets to be the dunking target for a lot of readers because he's a Republican and a […]
This might've been entertaining to see. Point Break LIVE!, the absurdist stage adaptation of the 1992 Keanu Reeves/Patrick Swayze extreme-sports blockbuster, tells the story of former college football star Johnny Utah (Reeves in the film), as he pursues the surfing, bankrobbing, skydiving, bare-hand-fighting, adrenaline junkie cum Zen Master, Bodhi Sattva. The Brechtian blockbuster, which garnered […]
MSNBC's David Shuster is a jerk. In an apparent effort to win kudos from Media Matters for America, Shuster earlier this week went after Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) over her support for the Iraq war. So far, so fair -- though not exactly a sterling example of unbiased journalism. Shuster decided that he'd throw in […]
President Clinton's former hatchet-man, Sidney Blumenthal, comes out swinging in defense of Dan Rather and his laughable lawsuit in this article over at Salon.com. You don't need to read past the third paragraph of the story to see the return of "fake but accurate." In making his case, Rather will certainly establish beyond reasonable doubt […]
Today's San Diego Union-Tribune has an article on the shrinking Arctic ice and its potential to cause drought in Southern California. A few thoughts: First, Southern California is a desert. I've lived in San Diego County for most of my life and there have been drought conditions more often than not. This time we apparently […]
You can't always blame the education system for the poor state of civics education -- sometimes you get to blame judges. In a story in Sunday's Union-Tribune about a program to educate teachers on how t teach about the justice system to their students, Superior Court Judge Richard G. Cline had the following take on […]
I mentioned last week that former anchor Dan Rather had filed suit against CBS. I continue to look forward to the discovery process. For those who are interested, National Review's Jonah Goldberg has a drop-dead funny bit of schadenfraude that you should read. In 2004, at the height of the Dan Rather Memogate story, I […]