Entertainment Weekly Wonders: Why Are TV Conservatives so Liberal
February 28th, 2007 3:00 PM
Why is it that conservative characters on prime time television, what few of them there are, almost always end up "evolving" into fuzzy liberals? "Entertainment Weekly" columnist Mark Harris asked that very question in the current issue of the media magazine [Emphasis added]:
SFran Chronicle Scolding Asian Racist, Misses Key Ingredient
February 27th, 2007 9:04 AM
An Asian Writer Copping Jesse Jackson's Race-baiting Game Attacked By San Francisco Chronicle For 'Why I Hate Blacks' Article
There is a saying that is often bandied about by whites feigning what might be ridiculed as an American Black person's defeatist demeanor. It is used when whites want to make fun of the kind of attitude that assumes everyone in power is somehow out to get you. It goes…
Look Ma, Lefties Hate Me
February 22nd, 2007 7:11 PM
Ace makes a good point about the common practice of media folk thinking that receiving hate mail from leftist nutjobs is the equivalent about receiving a fairness complaint from a regular conservative or libertarian:Liberal media outfits do loves them their unhinged-leftist
hate-mail. Because they use it again and again as proof positive that
they must be reporting straight down the middle to…
A Real Outing of CIA Operatives Fighting Terrorists: 'Where's the Outr
February 21st, 2007 5:16 PM
So asked James Taranto in his Wednesday “Best of the Web Today” column for OpinionJournal.com. Taranto highlighted a Sunday Los Angeles Times story, “Pilots traced to CIA renditions: The Times identifies three fliers facing kidnapping charges in Germany related to a 2003 counter-terrorism mission,” which though it did not list their real names, identified the aliases and enough information about…
AP: US Troops Are Poor, Few Options and KIAs from rural Areas 'Disprop
February 20th, 2007 9:29 AM
Talk about creating a false dichotomy geared to discrediting a policy! The AP has generated a doosie in theirs titled "Rural America bears scars from Iraq war" and subtitled "Nearly half of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq came from a small town".
Their main thrust is that small towns are somehow seeing their sons fall on the field of battle in "unfair" numbers.
Across the nation, small towns are…
Blogging the Libby Trial
February 20th, 2007 7:43 AM
Today is probably going to be the last day of the Lewis "Scooter" Libby trial. I'm going to be in the courtroom blogging the trial for Dean's World. For my coverage and everyone else's see the Media Bloggers Association's Scooter Libby Trial web site. For an idea of what to expect, see Tom Maguire's post here.Consider this today's open thread.
LATimes: Obama Not 'Black Enough
February 19th, 2007 7:59 AM
(As heard on the Rush Limbaugh Show, Feb 20th, 2007)
A very interesting piece by Louis Chude-Sokei is featured in the L.A.Times today, titled Redefining 'Black' and centered upon the question of Barack Obama's relative "blackness".
Some of you may have noticed that Barack is not getting the automatic support from African American leaders that many assumed he would get since throwing his hat…
