Correcting an LA Times Headline in Its Ramadi Follow-up Story
Headline:
Marines deny airstrikes used against insurgents in Ramadi
The corrected headline should be:
No Airstrikes Occurred at Ramadi, and We Don't Have the Integrity to Acknowledge Our Original Error in Reporting Them
Patterico has noticed ("L.A. Times (Almost) Admits Ramadi Airstrike Didn’t Happen") and promises much more later. Also, Hot Air has weighed in.
Here's a reminder of original…
State Dept. Acknowledges Arafat's Orchestration of 1973 Murders; Old M
WorldNetDaily reported yesterday on the discovery of a State Department document released earlier this year (Here it is, converted to an HTML doc by yours truly for easy reference). State acknowledges, apparently for the first time, something that Scott at Powerline (here and here) demonstrated definitively more than three years ago from other available evidence.The admission is that State has…
So Which Is It, AP? (On Iran and Nukes
On December 24, in a unbylined report on the reaction of Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (you know, Time' Magazine's "Champion of the dispossessed") to United Nations sanctions, The Associated Press told us:Ahmadinejad: U.N. Will Regret Move..... On Saturday, the Security Council voted unanimously to impose sanctions on Iran for refusing to suspend uranium enrichment, increasing international…
Fox News Panel Discusses Media Coverage of Iraq War Versus World War I
An absolutely extraordinary discussion occurred on Thursday’s “Special Report” concerning the role of the media in wartime, and what the change in press coverage in the past sixty years has meant for the nation. Tastefully setting the table, host Brit Hume showed a clip of Clear Glass Productions' satirical film depicting how today’s liberal media would have covered World War II had this current…
Matthews Knocks W for Not Being In Touch 'With Critics, Like Matt Damo
It goes without saying that if you're the Commander-in-Chief, among the first people whose criticism you'd want to take into account would be . . . Hollywood movie stars. At least, that would seem to be Chris Matthews's opinion.Have a look at this video clip from this afternoon's Hardball.The specific object of Chris's ire was the president's suggestion at his press conference today that…
The View's Hasselbeck To Hillary Clinton: Would Troop Withdrawal 'Crea
New York Senator Hillary Clinton appeared on Wednesday’s The View to discuss politics and the re-release of her book, It Takes a Village. While there was some cheerleading for the 2008 Democratic presidential frontrunner by co-hosts Joy Behar and Rosie O’Donnell, for the most part, there seemed to be a great deal of restraint on all sides during Clinton’s two segments. Asked about a potential run…
