Toledo Blade Cites McCarthy 'And His House Committee on Un-American Ac
April 26th, 2009 1:12 PM
Appearing today on the Toledo Blade's Web site is the article "Candide: Toledo Opera production offers the liveliest aspects of opera, musical theater, and operetta." Author Sally Vallongo writes:In the 1950s, as then-Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R., Wis.) and his House Committee on Un-American Activities investigated liberal and progressive artists in search of Communist-oriented dissidents, Hellman…
Chavez’s Penn, Or How Santa Monica High Should Hang Its Penn in Sham
April 26th, 2009 9:22 AM
Someone needs to sue Santa Monica High School for education malpractice on behalf of the ill-educated Sean Penn. I mean, the man is nearly illiterate and he certainly has no grasp on history, philosophy, or statecraft. But his wacko left-wing inanities aside, it is his illiteracy that seems the most lamentable. Oh, it isn't Rosie O'Donnell illiterate. Hers is a special class of insensibility all…
In Arizona, Another Un-Name That Party Exercise by AP, With a Twist
April 26th, 2009 9:06 AM
The Associated Press's Stylebook (as of 2008, per this Houston Chronicle blog entry) has the following to say about political party identification in stories:Party Affiliation - Let relevance be the guide in determining whether to include a political figure's party affiliation in a story. Party affiliation is pointless in some stories, such as an account of a governor accepting a button from a…
Pittsburgh P-G Editor Writes of Meeting With Senator Arlen Specter
April 25th, 2009 11:05 AM
One thing you can say about Pittsburgh Post-Gazette columnist and associate editor Dan Simpson (pictured at right) is that he is creative.In his April 22 column, Simpson created a meeting with a certain Senator Arlen Specter in 1974.Here's the relevant verbiage from Simpson's column ("Switch Sides, Sen. Specter"), the primary purpose of which is to lobby for the Keystone State Senator to become a…
AP Barf Alert: Obama Has No 'Rookie Jitters,' Is 'Extraordinarily at E
April 25th, 2009 4:16 AM
I am not a doctor, but I play one on the Internet. So, take the following as a prescription for what ails you. Now, if for some unexplainable reason you have been feeling queasy since November of last year, if you have felt like you want to throw up but just can't seem to get that bile to overflow, well I have a little something here that will surely cause that gag reflex to result in a healthy…
About Dick Cheney: How the Old Media Creates a False Attack
April 25th, 2009 2:12 AM
The newest false meme invented by the Old Media is this claim that ex-presidents and ex-vice presidents have some sort of "tradition of silence" where it concerns commenting on those that take residence in the White House after they leave. The reason the Old Media is pushing this false claim is because Dick Cheney has been commenting on Obama's security mistakes and the Old Media wants to scold…
Politico: 'For Obama, Hipness Is What It Is
April 24th, 2009 9:49 PM
Politico today reveals what those in the fawning mainstream media have known all along: "For Obama, hipness is what it is." It begins:During his first 100 days as president of the United States, Barack Obama revealed how different he is from all the white men who preceded him in the Oval Office, and the differences run deeper — in substance and style — than the color of his skin.Barack Hussein…
KC Star Writer Decries 'The (Mis)Labeling of Kathleen Sebelius
April 24th, 2009 4:54 PM
Kansas City Star editorial page columnist Barb Shelly is miffed. In today's "The (mis)labeling of Kathleen Sebelius," she explains why:In other words, this image that's being projected of Sebelius as some radical defender of the abortion industry is very much overstated. She's a pragmatic executive and it's ludicrous that her confirmation process has become so politicized.Sebelius is, of course…
Chris Dodd Thanks CBS For Biased Coverage
April 24th, 2009 12:59 PM
On Friday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Maggie Rodriguez asked Democratic Senator Chris Dodd about efforts by Congress to pass legislation that would punish credit card companies for charging higher fees and interest rates: "Senator, yesterday President Obama says that he wants legislation to stop credit card abuses. This is something that you have been pushing for, for years. And I don't have to…
MSM Ignore Obama DOJ Urging Court to Drop Iran Hostage Lawsuit That Im
April 24th, 2009 11:47 AM
While President Obama was extoling the virtues of wind power in an Earth Day speech, his Justice Department lawyers were attempting to scuttle a lawsuit filed in federal court against Iran by former U.S. embassy hostages. The lawsuit alleges that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was one of the hostage-takers who interrogated the captives. Two days after the story broke on the Associated…
Obama's Oil Tale Wrong on Timing; Today's Government Would Have Stoppe
April 23rd, 2009 11:45 PM
In addition to his abuse of the word "exploration" and his false claim that he has "often said" that he supports additional drilling for oil and natural gas within the U.S. and off its shores, President 'Prompter Barack Obama misstated the timing of his tale of a pioneering oil man by a "only" a century (picture at right is from "The Story of Oil in Pennsylvania").Beyond that, his fond recounting…
Word Abuse: Media Ignores Obama's False 'As I've Often Said' Reference
April 23rd, 2009 4:37 PM
Straight from UPI's transcript of Barack Obama's Earth Day remarks in Newton, Iowa yesterday -- in the midst of flights that reportedly expended 9,000 gallons of jet fuel -- here is the President's take on this country's oil dependency (bold is mine):Twenty percent of what we spend on imports is the price of our oil imports. ..... It's the cost we've known ever since the gas shortages of the…
