The Wall Street Journal's James Taranto has uncovered these hypocrisies on the part of New York Times columnist Paul Krugman before, but today's is especially amusing. The tune never changes. Krugman will deny the obvious in an effort to forward the ball for his team. I fully expect in the coming days to hear my House […]
Politics ain't beanball. Despite repeated claims that America is more divided politically now than ever (often forgetting the unpleasantness from 1861-65 during which many feelings were hurt), modern-day politics aren't really appreciably nastier than they have been for the past two centuries. (I heartily recommend Edward J. Larson's "A Magnificent Catastrophe" on the election of […]
To say I'm disgusted by the media's so-called "fact-checkers" would be an understatement. Though they purport to hold themselves to some higher-standard for truthfulness than their "unbiased" colleagues, the truth is that they're just peddling the same crap product in a slightly different package. Over the past week, a couple of "fact checks" from Politifraud have […]
If the mainstream media was just incompetent and not biased and incompetent, then the American people would be better off.
I really shouldn't be surprised when the media lazily lies to promote President Obama's and the Democratic Party's agenda. Driving into work this morning I caught the on-the-hour report by Associated Press Radio News' Rita Foley. Foley characterized the last continuing resolution passed by the GOP House as "gutting Obamacare." For the record, that "gutting" […]
They say familiarity breeds contempt and my 15 years in newspapers certainly did that for me. Today's example that got my Irish up was this editorial in the Fresno Bee arguing for Gov. Jerry Brown to sign a raft of draconian gun laws. The passage that was particularly despicable was this one: California led the nation […]
The Columbia Journalism Review's tagline is "The future of media is here." If it is, then journalism is in worse shape than it appears—and that takes some doing. In the days following Kirsten Power's "Come to Jesus" column calling out the mainstream media for its failure I pointed out to a shocked Mollie Hemingway of GetReligion.org […]
This morning's "Morning Jolt" e-newsletter written by National Review's Jim Geraghty has some discussion of the Obama administration scandal du jour that the IRS targeted conservative groups with "Tea Party" and "Patriot" in their names for extra harrassment scrutiny when filing for tax-exempt status. We don't yet know who exactly knew what and when. There's no evidence […]
Earlier today, three whistleblowers testified before a House committee investigating security decisions made prior to the Benghazi attack, the attack itself, the Obama administration's response to the attack and charges of a cover-up. If you were counting on the Big 3 broadcast networks and the establishment press to tell you what this was all about, […]
I thought that my contempt for the so-called elite media couldn’t get any greater, but reading/listening to David Freddoso’s new book, “Spin Masters” has managed to do it. If you were awake during the 2012 presidential election and reading any conservative blogs, listening to talk radio or watching Fox News, quite a bit of this […]