Mobile Register editor Michael Marshall has banned New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd from the pages of his newspaper over the Times' refusal to acknowledge the "Dowdified" quote from President Bush: An opinion column by Maureen Dowd of The New York Times, published in the May 15 Mobile Register, should have quoted President Bush as […]
Check out his latest: "BBC World News -- now with all content guaranteed sexed down." Good evening. Reports that the former Italian leader Benito Mussolini is "dead" and "hanging" "upside down" at a petrol station were received with scepticism in Rome today. Our "reporter" - whoops, scrub the inverted commas round "reporter", the scare-quotes key […]
The San Diego Union-Tribune's liberal columnist, James Goldsborough, had a piece in Thursday's paper on the controversy surrounding the BBC, Tony Blair and the allegation that the British politicos "sexed up" the intelligence on Iraq. Earlier this month, the apparent source for the BBC piece, David Kelly committed suicide. Who does Goldsborough blame this on? […]
The New York Times has announced that David Brooks, a real live conservative, will join its ranks as an op-ed columnist beginning in early September. New executive editor Bill Keller's regime looks to be making an effort to making the Times appear more balanced.
Following in the footsteps of his colleague Maureen Dowd, Paul Krugman, in today's New York Times column corrects an error he made one week ago in his column. As I noted at the time, Krugman opened his column with the statement:"More than half of the U.S. Army's combat strength is now bogged down in Iraq..." […]
The New York Times had a front page story earlier this week on a change at the White House. No longer can you simply send a message to: [email protected] -- now you've got to go through as many as 9 different screens to send your message through. Pain in the butt? Yeah. Evidence that the […]
Okay, so I finally get a mention in The Washington Post's media column written by Howard Kurtz (scroll down about 4/5 of the way) with regard to my New York Times is one-sided comment. But while Kurtz quotes Tapped's entire post, he makes no mention of my rebuttal. Kurtz also lets stand Tapped's claim that […]
As was noted by James Taranto on yesterday's "Best of the Web," Willam Sjostrom has some information about Kristof's Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity. VIPS does not seem to have a website, but its email is [email protected], and their open letter appears to have been published at CounterPunch (run by Alexander Cockburn, the Nation columnist), […]
There was this trucker who stopped at a diner somewhere in the Midwest. As he walked in the diner, some of the other truckers and a few locals sniffed the air and looked at him oddly. After he sat down and ordered, a couple of men came up to him and asked: "Are you a […]
Clifford D. May over at National Review Online offers some background on one person that the New York Times and other national media outlets are touting as a nonpartisan, career foreign diplomat whose criticisms against the Bush administration should be taken seriously. Joseph C. Wilson, in a Times op-ed last week alleged that: "I have […]