David Brooks: The 16-Year Old Boy and The 13-Year Old Girl
October 5th, 2006 1:30 PM
David Brooks' New York Times column of this morning on the Foley matter, "A Tear in Our Fabric," is so important that I'd normally be inclined to simply reproduce it in its entirety and let it speak for itself. But as a subscription-required item, I cannot. I do offer an extended-but-redacted excerpt for our readers' consideration:This is a tale of two predators. The first is a congressman who…
Maureen Likes Her Men Macho
October 4th, 2006 7:35 AM
It's a shame Audie Murphy isn't around. Maureen Dowd might finally have met her soul mate.You've surely noticed the phenomenon. When it comes to candidates, the Democrats love the military. From Mr. 'Reporting for Duty,' to a crop of Iraq and Afghanistan campaign veterans running in recent election cycles, the party of McGovern likes to combat its weak-on-national-security reputation by running…
Foley's Gone, But AP, Reuters Bias Goes On Against His GOP Replacement
October 2nd, 2006 9:24 PM
No, this isn't a joke. Of all the possible photos available of Joe Negron, the Florida state representative who has replaced Mark Foley as the GOP congressional candidate in the 16th CD, the top one here is the one the Associated Press chose to accompany its article: FL GOP picks Foley replacement. Congressmen come and congressmen go. But the Associated Press's liberal bias goes on forever.…
NY Times’ Hysterical Analysis of Recent Events at Fox News
October 2nd, 2006 10:02 AM
I must caution readers that the hypocrisy in the following is so delicious nothing on your desk or couch is safe from sudden hysterical outbursts: the New York Times published an article Monday (hat tip to TVNewser) analyzing a new Democrat strategy to appear on and attack the Fox News Channel. Deliciously, the writer, Lorne Manly, consistently suggested that FNC was a biased, propaganda arm of…
