A day after most other newspaper editorial pages had weighed in on the brutal execution of Nick Berg, the New York Times has its say -- and they still don't get it. But this manipulative attempt to establish a moral equivalence between the gruesome execution of Mr. Berg and the torture of Iraqi prisoners is […]
The Boston Globe's Ellen Goodman, got caught in a lie and instead of a correction, we get a valiant effort at covering one's rear. In her April 25 column on the pro-abortion march on Washington, Goodman made the following statement. AT TIMES, I've had a fantasy about my generation as the last brigade parading for […]
The Boston Globe, owned by the New York Times Co., were handed a story with photos yesterday that should have rang alarm bells for any skeptical journalist who is aware of what is going on in the world. A Boston city councilor presented the Globe with photos alleged to show U.S. soldiers raping Iraqi women. […]
I know it's a day after Mother's Day and all. But I'm watching CNN and some talking head is describing how torture at places like Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq start out with seemingly minor things and escalate. Psychologist Philip Zimbardo described one of the tortures: ...had them clean toilet bowls out with their bare […]
I'm watching NBC's "Meet the Press" and about five minutes in I think I've watched all I can of it. One of the panelists there to talk about the abuses in the Abu Ghraib prison in former Democrat presidential hopeful and retired Gen. Wesley Clark. If there's any question whether or not Clark is a […]
Al Franken isn't going to starve, but the little people may. In yet another sign of trouble for Air America Radio, the liberal talk network entering its fifth chaotic week on the air, co-founder and chairman Evan Cohen resigned Thursday, as did vice-chairman and investor Rex Sorensen. The company also failed to make its scheduled […]
As I was driving home Thursday evening, I had the opportunity to listen to liberal Alan Colmes' radio show and he was talking about Republicans questioning John "Flipper" Kerry's patriotism. Exhibit A was a quote by Kerry's bank account wife, Theresa Heinz Kerry, to an interviewer where she complained about the mean Republicans degrading her […]
One of my colleagues at the Union-Tribune told me he was recently asked by someone if I had a blog. He responded that I did. He was then asked: "Is he (that would be me) conservative?" My colleague's response: "He makes Hannity look like Hillary." Not quite accurate, but I did bust out laughing.
Jayson Blair was the former New York Times reporter who augmented his reporting by using his imaginary friends as sources. He was fired, as were the Times' two top editors. Why do I bring this up now? What's the news hook? Well, I've just been informed that it's my fault that Blair got away with […]