There's been a brouhaha in some of the right-wing media criticism sites over a move to describe Iraq today as being in the throes of a civil war. (See here, here and here.) Personally, despite the disconcerting level of violence that is going on in the Sunni-triangle area of Iraq, I don't think that it's […]
Now that the Democrats hold the House, comments like this one from Rep. Nancy Pelosi are going to get more scrutiny. From Fox News' "Special Report with Brit Hume": Major Garrett (voiceover): Asked if it was more important to win or leave Iraq, presumptive Speaker Nancy Pelosi told Fox this: Nancy Pelosi: The point is […]
Remember back when Iraq wasn't a threat? Remember when the United States invaded Iraq despite the fact that Saddam Hussein truthfully said he had no weapons of mass destruction and no plans to build any? Well, today's New York Times has an article on that government Web site that invited armchair Arabists to translate (because […]
I don't know why I even bother scanning his Internet screeds, but the editor of Editor & Publisher is so blinded by liberal bias that it causes his brain not to work. Mitchell has taken up the cause of the politically motivated researchers at Johns Hopkins University who have come up with a number of […]
I'm sure you're tired of it -- I know I am -- but former federal prosecutor Victoria Toensing had an excellent piece on "the Plame kerfuffle" in Friday's Wall Street Journal. Toensing takes ambassador Joseph Wilson, journalist David Corn, leaker Richard Armitage and prosecutor Peter Fitzgerald to the woodshed over the giant nothing which was […]
The headline was made famous by Adam Savage of the Discovery Channel's "Mythbusters" show after he was informed that one of his predictions for the outcome of an experiment was woefully inaccurate. The editors of the New York Times seem to have taken Savage's attitude to heart when it comes to the former ambassador Joseph […]
It's been nearly a week since The Nation's David Corn and Newsweek's Michael Isikoff revealed that the original leaker of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity was Richard Armitage -- and that said leak was not part of an effort by the White House at payback for her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, blowing the whistle […]
Christopher Hitchens has a great article in Slate on the fallout from the Valerie Plame leak investigation. As most of us have long suspected, the man who told Novak about Valerie Plame was Richard Armitage, Colin Powell's deputy at the State Department and, with his boss, an assiduous underminer of the president's war policy. (His […]
President Harry S Truman, a Democrat who was strong on national security, was famous for saying of his GOP opponents "I don't give them Hell. I just tell the truth about them and they think it's Hell." Well, today's New York Times editorial page bemoans the fact that the GOP has been attacking Democrats over […]
About every other week "media writer" Neal Gabler (how come I've never seen anything he writes on the Web?) complains on "Fox News Watch" that any media reporting on Iraq that isn't negative somehow paints a "false" picture of what Gabler knows is going on there. A lot of what has been missing in the […]