Posted by Deuce Geary on February 4th, 2009
The St. Petersburg Times has started a page at its PolitiFact site for tracking President Obama’s progress (or lack thereof) on campaign promises. The Obameter’s ambitious mission:
PolitiFact has compiled about 500 promises that Barack Obama made during the campaign and is tracking their progress on our Obameter. We rate their status as No Action, In [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on February 2nd, 2009
Remember how we conservatives were so upset when Democrats labeled increased spending as “cuts” merely because the increase in a budget was not as big as expected or asked for? Huh? Remember that?
Looks like our side may have been guilty of the same thing regarding the defense budget.
Big difference, though. Whereas the shameless Left will [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on February 1st, 2009
OK, so folks may not exactly be clamoring for the honor of “Honorary Skepticrat,” but it just popped into my head when I caught a few minutes of Tammy Bruce’s radio show Saturday afternoon. What did she do to earn it?
She said that the Republican National Committee had come “out of a coma” and improved [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on January 22nd, 2009
What’s a million or so people between friends? Quite a bit, actually.
The estimates of the number of people who witnessed President Barack Obama’s inauguration on Tuesday range from a high of 1.8 million to a low of 800,000.
Arizona State University Journalism professor Stephen Doig is responsible for the lower figure.
“My job as a journalist is [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on January 3rd, 2009
Our lefty friends keep telling us that the only biased media outlet is Fox News. Everyone else stands for truth, justice, and the American way
So how do you explain a Washington Post columnist who, after eight years of savaging President Bush, wonders out loud if he should be as skeptical of a President Obama?
Honestly, they [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on December 30th, 2008
I really don’t like the religious left, for the same reason I don’t like the Left generally. Missing the obvious, twisting history and religion, dishonest (or honest but stupid) criticism are their hallmarks. But at least I have a faith in common with them . . . which makes their alliance with secular lefties all [...]
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 16th, 2008
Good grief. After bringing it up on TV last night, Hannity kept pressing Bob Beckel on the radio today to admit that now that we know Barack Obama is going to use his full name – Barack Hussein Obama – when he is sworn in on Inaguration Day, we should all be free to use [...]
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 [...]
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