Posted by Deuce Geary on December 30th, 2008
God bless Victor Davis Hanson for so frequently and eloquently telling it like it is. In this case, he compares press treatment of Sarah Palin and Caroline Kennedy at NRO’s Media Blog:
But, no, the real embarrassment proves to be the media itself that apparently can’t see this weird unfolding self-incriminating morality tale: It is not [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on December 23rd, 2008
Ragnar Danneskjold, Typical Bitter Gun-Clinger at Jawa Report has done a bit of nifty research regarding a couple or recent stories and the eagerness of the press to Name . . . that . . . Party! His post is entitled:
Name that Party: Scandal-ridden Ohio A.G.’s Party Affiliation Irrelevant; Party Affiliation of Mother of Mother [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on December 23rd, 2008
I don’t read it, but this comment from Nice Deb intrigued me:
You know where I go now for more conservative news? Freakin’ Pravda, that’s where. I’m not kidding. I’m putting them on my blogroll….
Now, I’m gonna have to check it out . . .
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Posted by Deuce Geary on December 22nd, 2008
Last month, I wrote that President Bush’s foremost failure of leadership was failing to respond to attacks and to go over the heads of the media to make his own case to the American people. Today, Gabriel Malor at Ace’s covers the White House’s new-found enthusiasm for defending itself, in this case against a NYT [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on December 17th, 2008
By now, you all know that Time Magazine has shocked the world by naming Barack Obama its 2008 Person of the Year. Yawn.
The real news here is who the magazine overlooked. (And I’m not talking about Tina Fey, who horrifyingly ranked fourth in a reader poll.) I’m talking about someone who didn’t even make the [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on December 12th, 2008
Newsbusters says try this on for size:
How about Sean Hannity as editor of the New York Times op-ed page? Maybe O’Reilly and Cavuto in place of Dowd and Krugman as Times columnists? It might not be as far-fetched as it sounds. At least, not if Michael Wolff is right. The Vanity [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on December 3rd, 2008
The son of former California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez was arrested today on suspicion of murder. The elder Nunez’s party affiliation apparently does not appear in any state archives. That could be the only reason that it wasn’t reported by ABC Radio News when I heard it this afternoon, nor by the LA Times, [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on November 30th, 2008
Ron Radosh at Pajamas Media has a piece asking if Bush-bashing will ever end, and commenter Gina succinctly described one aspect of the bashing and its consequences:
Most of what happened to Bush had to do with the constant villifying [sic], bashing and ridiculing done to this president by the press and twisted views of pundits [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on November 27th, 2008
That appears to be the advice of Kevin D. Willamson at NRO’s Media Blog:
Every time I hear a Republican candidate or office-holder talking about media bias in the fall, I assume that the election is over and the Republican has lost. It’s not that the complaints don’t have merit—do they ever—it’s just that the media-bias [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on November 27th, 2008
So, was Obama the campaigner a liar, or simply naive? I’m having a hard time thinking of a third possibility for Obama’s backtracking on closing Quantanamo (and his supporters’ sudden appreciation for the nuances of security versus liberty), which Michelle Malkin covers in her column this week.
Funny, when President Bush and his homeland security [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on November 23rd, 2008
I just saw a story in ABC News on TV (can’t find video of same on the web yet) claiming that hate crimes and Ku Klux Klan recruitment have “surged” since Barack Obama was elected. The teaser before the break really caught my ear, so I listened very carefully to the story, eager to [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on November 13th, 2008
“You’re all crazy,” they said, when we accused the media f being in the tank for Obama. They insisted that they did not report on allegations of close ties between Obama and Jeremiah Wright [in this instance, but take your pick] because the ties were simply too distant or tenuous.
What utter crap. CNS reports:
“One [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on November 5th, 2008
Over at Ace’s and at his own site, Slublog recommended Steven den Beste’s commentary on the coming Obama presidency, which den Beste titles, “It’s not the end of the world.” Sure hope not. But there’s plenty of bad news in it, and I didn’t think anybody could be more pessimistic than me.
Here’s one overview, which [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on October 26th, 2008
The way he’s handled it appears to have been a net negative for him.
His mistake, which has angered me for weeks, was simply to point out that Ayers and Obama guided the same foundation, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. He left it to the American people to put 2 and 2 together — that if Ayers [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on October 22nd, 2008
According to at least one idiot editorial writer in Kansas City, McCain-Palin have engaged in racist campaigning by referring to Obama’s policies as “socialist.” Because, don’t you know, J Edgar Hoover used the word “socialist” to refer to black civil rights leaders.
More proof that the media needs vetting. Now, there’s a website devoted to just [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on October 2nd, 2008
Andrew Sullivan, the “conservative” whom I think would support every other aspect of the Taliban’s governance as long as it allowed gay marriage (but then who wears the veil?), inadvertently points out one of the huge problems with the Mainstream Media by posing this question in a Washington Post compilation of questions for the vice-presidential [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on September 27th, 2008
That’s what moderator Jim Lehrer asked Senators McCain and Obama around 6:40 p.m. Pacific time tonight. I was listening in the car and will have to confirm it by looking at a transcript when it becomes available. But for now, I gotta go with what I heard . . .
Is that how Lehrer [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on June 7th, 2008
Today is the 64th anniversary of the Allied invasion of occupied Europe, the most famous “D-Day” of them all. The heroism of these men remains inspiring. The evil they fought was horrifying. It is a day worth remembering.
Unless, of course, you’re Google, which lived up to its usual assholiness by ignoring D-Day in [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on May 8th, 2008
Image by sweejak via FlickrThat’s right, I’m going to stick up for Hillary. You’re not imagining things.
I am sooooo tired of everyone telling her to get out of the race. They (political pundits and news commentators) have been doing it for months. She’s still in it. Good for her.
Believe it or [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on April 27th, 2008
Image via WikipediaMichael Hirsch at Newsweek says that the nation has become “Southernized,” and that this is a bad thing — the title of his piece posits, “Maybe it’s Time for the North to Secede.” I don’t differ with Hirsch much on the fact that Southern mores have more pronounced influence now. [...]
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