Bush Derangement Syndrome at LA Times: G-8’s Kyoto Failures All Bush
June 6th, 2007 3:37 PM
As people who are following the G-8 summit in Germany are well aware, it is highly doubtful that any meaningful accord will be reached at this meeting concerning CO2 emissions. In fact, reports out of Europe and Asia for many weeks leading up to this event have made this eventuality quite clear.Yet, this didn’t prevent the Los Angeles Times’ Ron Brownstein for blaming the lack of such an…
Military BansYouTube, MySpace, MTV and Other High-Trafficked Sites
May 15th, 2007 6:28 PM
Updates at bottom: I want my MTV! Somewhere a soldier or sailor in Iraq or Afghanistan is probably thinking that today. According to the AP, on May 14, the Department of Defense blocked “worldwide” the US troops who use its networks and computers from accessing 12 popular websites that include, YouTube, MTV, MySpace, Blackplanet and Photobucket. The Defense Deparmene which the DoD said“take up a…
Bias Without Borders: AP and Taiwanese Elections
March 7th, 2007 12:10 AM
A reader with a Taiwanese IP address writes us with a tip about bias from the AP regarding a particular candidate in the presidential election on the island nation, Annette Lu:The opening paragraph of this news article uses the phrase "whom China has called 'insane' and the 'scum of the nation'". What does Lu have anything to do with PRC (mainland China) and deserve to be called insane and scum…
Newsweek’s Zakaria Slams Bush’s Attempts to Spread Democracy
January 22nd, 2007 10:34 AM
There’s so much to find offensive about Fareed Zakaria’s article in this week’s Newsweek that it’s tough to know where to begin. Put simply, the piece stated rather strongly that President Bush is responsible for a declining rate of democracy around the world.Of course, one study that Zakaria cited to prove this premise “points out that 2006 was a bad year for liberty, under attack from creeping…
Nuclear Showdown: Fund Forces Matthews Back-Down [Chris-in-Retreat Vid
January 19th, 2007 6:02 PM
Chris Matthews and John Fund had something of a nuclear showdown on this afternoon's Hardball. Matthews' current kick is worrying that President Bush might launch an attack on Iran without congressional authorization. In that context, talk turned to Saddam's nuclear program and that of North Korea.View video here.Said Fund, speaking of the build-up to the Iraq war: "The administration said…
Dowd, On Iraq, Longs For Good Old Days Of Surrender to Communist Dicta
November 25th, 2006 6:01 AM
Maureen Dowd: law-and-order fan? And here I thought liberals like to pose as champions of human rights . . . But consider Dowd's idea of an Iraq solution: find brutal dictators to whom we can surrender and who will impose "law and order." Working model: the US capitulation to the Communist dicators of Hanoi.The title of her subscription-required column of this morning, No One to Lose To, says…
