I’m not surprised. I spent 15 years in newspaper newsrooms up and down the left coast. I knew they were populated by and large by the American left. The political theory typically ran from the far, far left to the center left, with an occasional “a pox on both your houses” libertarian here and there. […]
Glenn Kessler of The Washington Post pens a doozy has he tries to whitewash Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger’s racist, eugenicist past. I could spend weeks ripping into Kessler’s misdirection, obfuscation and penchant for defining words in the most obtuse fashion, but Mollie Z. Hemingway at GetReligion.org has already done it.
Three separate fact checking organizations took a look at Slow Joe Biden’s demagogic statement I mentioned the other day about violent crime rates and Flint, Mich. According to The Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler, Biden’s claims are “absurd” and earns him 4 pinnochios – the most dishonest rating possible. FactCheck.org referred to Biden’s remarks as a […]
This week's GOP presidential frontrunner, Herman Cain, appeared on "Meet the Press" yesterday. I haven't watched video of the interview, but I have read the transcript. Host David Gregory is supposed to be one of the more intelligent Washington journalists. If he is, than this particular exchange doesn't say much for his intellect: MR. GREGORY: […]
As I read today’s edition of The Washington Post on my Kindle this afternoon while awaiting the start of the Cal Poly vs. UC Riverside men’s soccer game (Cal Poly 5, UCR 0), I came across this article by Steven Pearlstein. The article is full of the beltway conventional wisdom about how wonderful the “Occupy […]
The Miami Herald reported last weekend that Spanish-language network Univision had created a segment on a decades-old drug bust of Republican Senator Marco Rubio’s brother-in-law. In an effort to get Rubio to appear on one of their shows, Univision reportedly offered to soften or spike the story if Rubio would appear. If Rubio appeared on […]
Too much of the mainstream media continues its feeble attempts to prop up President Obama’s class-warfare rhetoric with its ostensible “fact-checking.” Politifraud, which has too often been at the forefront of this effort, weighs in with this beauty, rating Obama’s claim that: "A construction worker who’s making $50 or $60 grand a year shouldn’t be […]
We're about 2/3 of the way through President Obama's first term and who's to blame for this mess? According to former New York Times executive editor Bill Keller, it's George W. Bush's fault. The decline in Obama’s political fortunes, the Great Disappointment, can be attributed to four main factors: the intractable legacy bequeathed by George […]
The title of this post is a quote from Mythbusters’ Adam Savage whose reality frequently isn’t quite to his liking as machines he constructs fail spectacularly in a ball of flame. It’s also indicative of the mindset of some parts of the “reality-based” media. When last we came across Providence Journal columnist and head of […]
As I mentioned in the previous post, I only caught the tail end of the GOP debate earlier this evening. What I did see (but not hear because I was on the phone) was the post-debate commentary on MSNBC. It included: Rachel Maddow, Al Sharpton, Michael Eric Dyson, Eugene Robinson and Lawrence O’Donnell. I don’t […]