Today's evidence to support the headline is Michael Browing of the Palm Beach Post who writes this in a book review. Instead, for every Osama bin Laden and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi we can show a Bill O'Reilly, an Ann Coulter, a Rush Limbaugh, a Glenn Beck and a Sean Hannity. Idiocy parades unashamed in the […]
And be downright shocked by how out of touch they are. I watched today's "Meet the Press" and was amazed at the holier-than-thou attitude demonstrated by everyone on the panel with the exception of Bill Bennett. If I were a J-school student watching that, then the most encouraging thing about a career in journalism -- […]
It seems that the New York Times, which divulged a classified program aimed at tracking terrorist financing a couple weeks ago, has decided that their initial "public's right to know" defense was inadequate and is falling back on their "everybody knew" defense. Patterico has helpful details here and here. I'd also like to note that […]
Yep, that's what this whole New York Times disclosure of the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program is all about -- the stupidity of the American people. Today's San Diego Union-Tribune editorial page boldly steps forward and defends the the Times' disclosure of the program because -- well, apparently because journalists have to stick together. The Times […]
Bill Keller, editor of the bird cage liner once known as The New York Times, is an idiot. The Times has posted Keller's form letter to people who have complained about last week's disclosure of the terrorist finance tracking program. Some of the incoming mail quotes the angry words of conservative bloggers and TV or […]
Austin Bay has a follow-up on the New York Times treachery describing the Times and its sources as the "Axis of Abuse." I agree with much of Bay's analysis, but this part shows just a fundamental misunderstanding of how the news business works. Bush Derangement Syndrome doesn’t explain the Wall St Journal– just “me too” […]
One of the editors at the Union-Tribune once mentioned that his daughter worked as an "activist." He paid to send her to UC Berkeley, so it shouldn't come as a big surprise. I would've made some crack about him spending all that money to give the kid a college education only to have it wasted […]
Friday's disclosure by several newspapers, led by The New York Times, but including both The Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times, of a classified program that has been highly successful in capturing terrorists worldwide isn't dying down in the blogosphere. Los Angeles Times subscribers Patrick Frey and Mark Danzinger have canceled their subscriptions […]
The New York Times letters to the editor commonly seems to be representative not only of the paper's editorial view, but also of its blue-state home base. Therefore, it really says something when the Times publishes six letters on its criminal outing of a legal anti-terrorist surveillance program and four of them take the paper […]
Both Republican and Democrat administrations in the decades before Sept. 11, 2001, have been criticized for viewing Islamic terrorism -- from the Iranian hostage-taking to the Marine barracks bombing in Lebanon to the USS Cole attack -- as a law enforcement issue. When government officials talked about "bringing people to justice," they meant trying them […]