I decided to run the whole show solo this week, which means that Episode 40 is freewheeling and just a little bit ranty. I do think I got the balance between bloviation and entertainment balanced well enough, though. The chatroom folks seemed to like how it came off. I think we’ve come up with a [...]
I wonder if Chris Christie wouldn’t mind serving as Governor of Maryland, too. I mean, just listen to him take a horribly-biased question and yank it right the heck out of the park. Dave Weigel, the guy the Washington Post sent forth to tell their readers all about those strange and vicious creatures known as [...]
I have oft opined that left-wing media bias is much less the “Oooooo! I hates me some conservatives” variety and much more the kind of bias where journalists live in a left-wing echo chamber where they can count the number of real conservative friends and associates they have on the fingers of half of one [...]
There is a lot of misinformation flying around the internet and the television airwaves about Arizona’s new immigration-enforcement law. Here are some of the things I’ve heard, or have been told, in the past two days. AZ police officers can approach anyone they want and demand “papers” from them. AZ police officers now have a [...]
I’ve never had a real problem with anything Marc Ambinder has written at The Atlantic until this truly odd piece called “Have Conservatives Gone Mad?”. Ambinder’s point is that conservatives have thrown away any pretense of being reasonable people whose arguments are based in empiricism. His anchor paragraph, however, stopped me cold. Mainstream conservative voices [...]
Somehow I don’t think we’ll be seeing two weeks’ worth of MSM hand-wringing over the violence displayed by the oh-so-tolerant left in these marches. It’s funny to me that after working itself into a panic attack over the Tea Party marches where there were no acts of violence, the MSM will turn an entirely sympathetic [...]
I may have to start a category under “Media Bias” just for the various media companies owned by General Electric, which, by some happy coincidence, managed to pay no US taxes this past year despite receiving a $140 billion gift from the administration. That may be coincidence, but two incidents this week from GE-paid reporters [...]
I’m convinced that CNN is being actively sabotaged by a mole on its Board of Directors. How else can I explain why Rick Sanchez still has his own show even though thin-skinned, partisan, condescending ignorance is driving away viewers so fast that if you listen patiently toward Atlanta, you can hear their little sonic booms? If CNN was [...]
What it is we expect from our major media outlets? Integrity? Consistency? Professionalism? Ethics? Yeah, don’t hold your breath, folks. We’re talking about the industry in which utter fictions can run around for weeks as facts without retraction even though the only sources for the story were the aggrieved parties themselves.
Sarah Palin came to Nevada and Stacy McCain was there to document the angry mobs full of angry spitting racists whom she led in various anti-gay chants against Manly-Man Barney Frank. To read some of the commentary, you’d think the authors were sailing down a gloomy river in search of an ivory trader named Kurtz [...]
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