[youtube v60oNUoHBYM nolink] Amazing… what has happened to North Carolina? Shame on you, Bob Etheridge. There you are, walking down the street, when two polite young men pop up and shove video cameras in your puss and ask you sweetly
How quickly it all happened: five years ago, and certainly ten, the idea that the daily newspaper would no longer be part of our morning routine would have seemed unthinkable to the majority of Americans. And yet, in retrospect, it
The question is meant only half-facetiously, of course. Under the current rules of engagement between the media and politicians, it is never right to punch a reporter. Treat him or her with contempt, dripping condescension, sarcasm, obfuscation, hostility, Heep-ish like
Or something like that. That headline certainly makes as much sense as this deranged PC-rant from National Progressive Radio by way of the ancient leftist publication The Nation: “Why the Far Right Hates Soccer,” by Dave Zirin. Just when you
What is it about Sarah Palin that drives the left nuts? They hate everything about her, and yet at the same time they can’t stop talking about her. Like a succubus, she haunts their fever dreams, visits them in their
You know, she really wasn’t that bad. Sure, she said something pretty stupid about Israel on video, but taken in the context of her life — taken in the context of the narrative — she was a woman of enormous
Via Jeff Dunetz, Helen Thomas’s last words as a White House Correspondent. Irony meter: off the charts. [youtube nc4OeRu7cfs&feature nolink] Never stop learning. Valedictories welcome.
If you sometimes wonder why Rush Limbaugh has changed his mantra from the “drive-by media” (lazy, disinterested character assassins who can’t be bothered to get blood on their hands) to the “state-controlled media” (slavish lickspittle apparatchiks bucking for career advancement),
Various lefty organizations have petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to start monitoring “hate speech” on radio and on the internet. According to this story, the groups include: Free Press, the Media Access Project, Common Cause, the Prometheus Radio Project, and
In the 19th century, the heyday of vicious political cartoons and biting satire, Thomas Nast stood above all other editorial cartoonists, attacking the corruption, venality and breathtaking dishonesty of New York’s Tammany Hall with unflinching disdain. The “Wigwam” controlled Democrat
George Stephanopoulos’s “interview” with James O’Keefe and Andrew Breitbart on this morning’s Good Morning America summed up everything that is wrong with institutional American journalism. No doubt it is even now speeding its way over to the Newseum for permanent
Andy McCarthy’s vital new book, The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America, was published last week. The author, a former federal prosecutor, discusses the looming threats both foreign and domestic: Q. Why did you write this book?
Israeli commandos boarded ships of a flotilla — dubbed an “aid mission” of pro-Palestinian activists — headed for the blockaded Gaza strip. Fighting broke out and at least 10 people have been reported killed, with the death toll likely to
Credit where credit is due: in this case, this story by Steven Erlanger of the New York Times: PARIS — Across Western Europe, the “lifestyle superpower,” the assumptions and gains of a lifetime are suddenly in doubt. The deficit crisis
No introduction from me necessary. Read the whole thing and weep: But what did the “loss” of Daniel Pearl mean? Well, says the president, it was “one of those moments that captured the world’s imagination.” Really? Evidently it never captured
In the wake of revelations by the New York Times that Connecticut attorney general Richard Blumenthal lied about serving in Vietnam, the Beltway media has already gone into its protective crouch: yesterday’s breathtakingly defiant and disgraceful press conference is being
Via Real Clear Politics comes this excellent bit of analysis: Almost all election analysts now agree that 2010 will not be a good year for Democrats. The latest RCP Averages for the major Senate races show Republicans picking up 7
Connecticut attorney general Dick Blumenthal, running for “Tammany” Chris Dodd’s U.S. Senate seat, wants you to know he’s proud of his service in the United States Marine Corps. Who said he wasn’t? Note also the disgraceful use of veterans as
This piece, in the Times of London, is worth reading for many reasons, but most of all to show how far journalism — we used to call it “reporting” — has strayed from its mid-century ideal. To wit: Nicholas Tomalin
[youtube 07DGeLvDw8I&feature nolink] Q. When the past becomes politically incorrect, what kind of country are we living in? A. A “progressive” one. How do you like it now?
There’s no better proof that, while the Soviet Union may have disappeared, its malevolent ideals still live on, than to observe that neither the word “socialist” nor “Marxist” has fallen into ill-repute, or become an all-purpose insult like “Nazi.” This
Here’s our crack Attorney General, Eric Holder, twisting himself into a pretzel while trying to not utter the dreaded name of Lord Voldemort: [youtube HOQt_mP6Pgg nolink] Over at the Weekly Standard, Stephen Hayes and Thomas Joscelyn have a fine piece
The late William F. Buckley, Jr., once famously observed that he would rather be governed by the first 2,000 names in the Boston phone book than by the entire faculty of Harvard. Buckley was prescient and correct about many things,
As the heyday of the daily newspaper passes into history, expect to see more sites like this one, which is devoted to laid-off staffers from the once-great Baltimore Sun telling their personal stories. As a veteran of a now-defunct daily
Writing in Reason, Jacob Sullum‘s got this one dead right: Last month New York Times legal writer Adam Liptak said two recent Supreme Court cases “suggest that the Roberts Court is prepared to adopt a robustly libertarian view of the
