Sort of. You'll recall earlier this week I criticized The New York Times reporting on the back-and-forth between the McCain and Obama camps over the latter's desire to have talks with Iran without preconditions. Today, we got a half-hearted and incomplete correction. An article on Saturday about Senator John McCain’s criticism of Senator Barack Obama’s […]
President George W. Bush has gotten hammered for years by many in the media for his religious beliefs. While Bush is positively secular in comparison to many presidents pre-Truman -- take a look at some of FDR's speeches, not to mention Abraham Lincoln's -- that hasn't stopped many on the left from vilifying him. "Christianist" […]
A couple of months back Sen. John McCain was touring the Middle East. At an impromptu press briefing, McCain misspoke and mixed up Sunni and Shia. The media talking heads on the various cable talk shows leapt on the mistake and the media template of "John McCain is old and senile" took air. Don't expect […]
This sort of thing gets Republicans in trouble all the time -- yet never is heard a discouraging word when the Democrats do the same thing. “Tomorrow, we shall achieve the victory, that the kingdom of God may come on earth as it is in heaven, and all those who love the Lord and will […]
DNC Chairman "Howlin' " Howie Dean went on Fox News Sunday yesterday and revealed himself to be a dishonest jackass. First there was his defense of two advertisements the DNC is running that grossly distort what Sen. John McCain has said to the point that they portray him as saying the exact opposite of what […]
We now have the real answer to why Barack Obama doesn't like to wear a flag pin on his lapel. He's afraid his old buddy, Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers will step on it.
Columnist Anna Quindlen has the following insightful analysis of Supreme Court decisions and their effects (via Ramesh Ponnuru @ The Corner) But, more important, history tells us that the decisions that made people angriest at the time are often the ones that seem most obviously just. Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark desegregation case, […]
The 2008 presidential election looked like the best of all possible worlds for the Democrats. Bush is hugely unpopular. The economy appears on a downward slide. U.S. troops are still in Iraq. The only additional thing they could've asked for was for the GOP to nominate Dick Cheney. And then Barack Obama happened. Obama was […]
I must confess that I was only marginally awake when Sen. Barack Obama held his press conference Monday afternoon (EDT) to announce that he had finally seen the light and discovered that his pastor was kinda wacky. Obama said he was "shocked'' by [the Rev. Jeremiah] Wright's statements during a speech at the National Press […]
The media assault started Friday with a softball appearance on PBS' "Bill Moyers Journal." How softball? BILL MOYERS: When I hear the word "black liberation theology" being the interpretation of scripture from the oppressed, I think well, that's the Jewish story-- REVEREND WRIGHT: Exactly, exactly. From Genesis to Revelation. These are people who wrote the […]