Huh? Norah Claims McCain's Iraq War Support 'Stalled' Candidacy -- Bu
April 25th, 2007 8:24 AM
Q. How can embrace of a given policy "stall" a candidate's campaign if it helps him with the voters?A. If the policy in question is the Bush administration's Iraq war plan, and the MSM finds it difficult to admit that support for it can be an electoral plus.As NewsBuster Geoffrey Dickens and I have noted here and here, NBC reporters, notably including Andrea Mitchell and David Gregory, have…
Burns of NYT: Insurgents Know U.S. Politics Moving in Direction Favora
April 24th, 2007 8:05 AM
Does it give the Dem leaders of Congress pause to realize that the enemies of the United States in Iraq, the people killing our troops, are banking on their political success? Reid and Pelosi might be tempted to dismiss this as the raving of a right-wing blogger. They shouldn't. It is in fact the considered view of someone they surely see as a respected, nay, an authoritative source: no less…
Pelosi and Sadr -- Same Struggle: The Unintentional Candor of the NY T
April 18th, 2007 7:18 AM
If Arnold Schwarzenegger, nominal Republican, wants to be allowed to run for president, why shouldn't Moktada al-Sadr be considered for a spot on the Dem ticket? After all, his views on U.S. withdrawal from Iraq put him firmly in the mainstream of the party of Pelosi The thought occurred to me while reading Moktada al-Sadr’s Gambit, an editorial in this morning's NY Times regarding the…
Pat Schroeder on Imus Incident: People Thought Meanness Was Masculine
April 14th, 2007 8:44 AM
Has the Imus-inspired national conversation on race and sex jumped the shark? I'm starting to suspect so after hearing Pat Schroeder this morning. Her most notable contribution to the collective dialogue was to suggest that there's something inherently masculine about verbal meanness.The former Democratic congresswoman from Colorado was a member of a panel moderated by NBC's Lester Holt on this…
PBS Drops Documentary Against Radical Islam for 'Political Reasons
April 11th, 2007 3:00 AM
An American tax-funded documentary, titled Islam vs. Islamists, a film on how moderate Muslims feel about the corruption of their religion by Wahhabi extremists and their experiences in facing those extremists, was axed by PBS for the very reason that it puts some Muslims in a bad light, says the film's producer in Tuesday's edition of the Arizona Republic. Rampant PCism is the charge, and it is…