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Tag Archives: Media
How Fascism Happens
All it really takes to get you to ignore the concentration camps right in front you of your eyes and turn you into a robot, is to say “hey, look at this.” That certainly wasn’t the purpose of this video, … Continue reading
Into the Memory Hole?
Hmm. It seems that media reports filed on November 5th explicitly stating that Obama met with Governor Blagojevich to discuss his Senate replacement, are suddenly disappearing from the web.
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged archival revisionism, Blagojevich, censorship, journalism, Media, media bias, Obama, senate
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A New Age of Female Masturbation
Lesbian feminist Lily Tomlin once joked that the only reason cretinous men walked upright was to free their hands for masturbation. Fair enough, but the posture of the lady might soon lack for any better purpose. According to a new … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, social science
Tagged Britain, British women, cheeseburgers, Constitution, Feminism, gender, lesbian feminist, Lily Tomlin, masturbation, Media, poll, self-restraint, sex, sexualized, social conservative, study, survey, women
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Eating Their Own
Stop the ACLU“Dontcha ya hate it when Old Media outlets beat up on other Old Media outlets?”
When They Came for Kenny…
Photos of Russian kids mounting a street protest against the banning of South Park by the state. This is no small or meaningless act. As daily experience, one of the worst aspects of living under a repressive fascist regime is … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Foreign affairs
Tagged boredom, entertainment, fascism, Kenny, liberalism, Media, opera, photos, pics, propaganda, Putinism, radio, repression, Russia, South Park, State, teenager, television, tv, youth
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Mark Penn on the Press & Palin
Boy, this was an awfully interesting exchange. Democratic strategist Mark Penn, absurdly invited by Brian Goldsmith to argue the press has been soft on Sarah Palin, instead slams the media for counterproductively biased and vindictive coverage:
Posted in Domestic Politics, Election 2008, Media
Tagged bias, Brian Goldsmith, CBS News, Clinton, election, Hillary Clinton, Howard, Howard Wolfson, Mark Penn, Media, msm, Obama, Palin, press, Sarah Palin, Saturday Night Live, vice president
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Jason Linkins is a Crazy Guy
I would agree that the ‘lipstick on a pig’ controversy is a manufactured bit of political silliness, expressly designed to fill a news cycle. But that’s pretty much all it is in my view. Jason Linkins on the other hand … Continue reading
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged controversy, huffington post, Jason Linkins, lipstick, Media, News, pig, Sarah Palin, suicide
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Priority of the Estate
Andrew Cochran reports that some media organizations he’s familiar with have reassigned terrorism specialists to investigate Sarah Palin. Andrew sees this as part of a long-term decline of media interest in the threat of transnational terrorism and US counterterrorism policy, … Continue reading
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged Andrew Cochran, counter-terrorism, Domestic Politics, journalists, Media, msm, Pamela Geller, Satah Palin, specialists, Terrorism, transnational
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Mommy & MSNBC
Tom in Paine has a blistering take on the MSNBC commentariat’s demands for the intervention of Hillary Clinton against Palin, as a kind of childhood psychodrama: “The more you listen to them the more you realize that instead of supporting … Continue reading
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged diapers, Hillary Clinton, Media, MSNBC, Obama, Palin, Pampers, psychodrama, Sarah Palin, Tom in Paine
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Listing Lies
Warner Todd Huston compiles some of the more egregious untruths being promoted in mass media about Sarah Palin.
Palin Media Poll
According to a new Rasmussen poll, 51% of the public believes the media is intentionally trying to injure Sarah Palin. Only 35% feels the coverage of her has been unbiased.
A Republican Atavism
John Podhoretz thinks the Palin speech might be among the most dazzling debuts in American political history. I don’t know about that, but I do know it was the most powerful, important, and effective speech by a vice presidential candidate … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Election 2008, History, Media
Tagged American, Checkers, Democrats, Eisenhower, History, John Podhoretz, Macleans, Media, Nixon, Palin, Pearl Harbor, Richard Nixon, Sarah Palin, speech, Yamamoto
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Black Signs at the Exhibition
The IMF has come through for Georgia in an enormous way, approving a $750 million credit line for the beleaguered republic. Beyond the much needed aid, it’s a powerful political reminder for Russia of the gargantuan economic advantage the West … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Lee's Page, Media
Tagged Atrocity Exhibition, Ballard, Ballardian, competitive advantage, complex interdependence, credit, Domestic Politics, English, Georgia, IMF, industry, JG Ballard, Johanna Neuman, markets, Media, mercantile, military, power, productivity, Russia, sensationalism, SOS Georgia, Wall Street Journal, West
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A Bitter Absolution for Sarah Palin
It would seem the innuendo campaign alleging the illegitimacy of Sarah Palin’s son Trig, inadvertantly uncovered a real family tragedy to media attention. As Jay Tea points out, the circumstances of that situation make it physically impossible for the campaign … Continue reading
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged baby, campaign, family, illegitimacy, Jay Tea, Media, Palin, Sarah Palin, tragedy, Trig Palin, Wizbang
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Welcoming the World to Wasilla
photo: Michael Levesque It seems the international media is crawling all over the tiny town Sarah Palin began her political career in. Being fond of leaders for whom membership in the general public is a recent memory, I think it’s … Continue reading
To the Heart of the Matter
Norm Geras, as he often does, cuts away the extraneous aspects of how and why terrorism exists, as well as how the media distorts out thinking about it, and our response.
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged extremism, Media, MI-5, Norm Geras, Terrorism, The Guardian
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How Blogs Failed the War in Georgia
Columbia Journalism Review asked me to write an essay criticizing blogger coverage of the War in Georgia. As I’m sure you can imagine, I was scathing. While this wasn’t necessarily surprising—after all, these blogs all talk in a big circle, … Continue reading
Frank Rich is a Dolt
Say AnythingHow clueless can these folks get?
The Dinosaur, The Dodo
And now? The end of the mainstream media as we know it. Edwards, 55, now admits that he had an affair with Hunter, now 44,in 2006, but denies that he is the father of the child she had in February. … Continue reading
Sheesh!
I would call this ignorance, but it is worse than that. The Times reporters just believe corporations are such a honey pot they didn’t even stop to think. They just wrote.
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged accounting, business, corporations, honey pot, ignorance, Media, New York Times, Reporters, taxes
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War Crimes Live
Georgian television reporter Tamara Urushadze gets shot by a Russian sniper as she delivered a live report near Gori. Tough girl, she finishes the report without a tear.
Posted in Foreign affairs, Lee's Page, Media
Tagged Georgia, girl, Gori, journalism, live, Media, reporter, Russia, sniper, Tamara Urushadze, television, tough, video, youtube
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Going to Tbilisi?
Russian units are on the move again in Georgian territory, apparently in violation of the truce agreement. One Russian soldier in a large convoy shouted an ominous flirtation to a press photographer outside Gori, hopefully in jest or lust: “Come … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Lee's Page
Tagged Caucasian, Culture, democracy, Domestic Politics, factions, Georgia, Gori, Media, Medvedev, military, monocrats, photographer, political, Putin, Russia, Tbilisi, war
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Glimpse of a Better Outcome for Georgia
When it seemed like escalation was the modal reality, outcomes looked bleak for Georgia. Dynamics change. Thus Georgia’s ceasefire in South Ossetia cannot be a bad thing under the circumstances. By putting up an initial fight, they drew the attention … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Lee's Page
Tagged 1812, BBC, Georgia, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Media, NATO, opinion, peacekeepers, Russia, South Ossetia, Tbilisi, war, war crimes
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Through a Darker Glass
Cernig at Larisa Alexandrovna’s site had me persuaded for two whole paragraphs. Now, having little taste for the fine art of distractions-from-distractions, I tend to roll my eyes at the transparently partisan diversionary tactics one sees all over the web … Continue reading
Posted in Firearms, Lee's Page, Media
Tagged Cheney, conspiracy, Democrats, Georgia, imperialism, John Edwards, Larisa Alexandrovna, Media, oil
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Parlor Pallor
While I’d generally agree that Maureen Dowd’s style is a kind of cut-rate Dorothy Parker, there’s something to her characterization of McCain as socialite dah-ling scorned. It was inevitable that the press would consider any effort by McCain to actually … Continue reading
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged Dorothy Parker, election, Maureen Dowd, McCain, Media, Obama, press, scorned, socialite
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Exposing a Media Fantasy
Jon Stewart hilariously ridicules the notion that McCain’s advertising contains hidden racist and sexist messages.
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged advertising, fantasy, hilarious, Jon Stewart, McCain, Media, racism, RedState, ridicule, sexism, video
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A Paranoid on Paranoia-Last updated 1:06 CST
After 9/11 itself, the anthrax attacks were probably the most consequential event of the Bush presidency. One could make a persuasive case that they were actually more consequential. You could? The 9/11 attacks were obviously traumatic for the country, but … Continue reading
Running Against the New York Times
Perhaps Mr. Riley’s allegation in Newsday that the McCain “Celeb” ad exposed some sort of crypto-racist subterfuge, is more widely shared among Obama’s media advocates than one might have assumed. For the queen of that kingdom evidently shares the sentiment: … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Election 2008, Lee's Page
Tagged advertising, editorial, harold ford, John Riley, Low-Road Express, marketing, McCain, Media, New York Timews, Obama, Race, racism, racist, slogan, subterfuge
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The Origin of Messages
(photo: photosan0) Yesterday I suggested that it was unwise for Obama to have titled and predicated a video on a line from a rather slanted New York Times editorial, given the growing public perception of media bias in his favor. … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Election 2008, Lee's Page
Tagged arena, bias, lovers, Low-Road Express, McCain, Media, Mick Stockinger, microsite, New York Times, Obama, urban
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Select Rants
For those of you who love New York Times bashing, I am in rant mode at Risk and Return. What a bunch of balderdash. Also, if you want a good idea of where housing prices may go, I also have … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Economics, Lance's Page, Media
Tagged Domestic Politics, Economics, housing, Media, New York Times
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“Setbacks”
We see this kind of thing in the press all the time: U.S. and Afghan troops have abandoned a remote outpost in eastern Afghanistan where militants killed nine American soldiers earlier this week, officials said Wednesday. Compounding the military setback, … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Lance's Page, Media, Military Matters, Notes on the war
Tagged Afghanistan, Media, paratroopers, war
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The Media is on the Job
Posted in Domestic Politics, Election 2008, Humor, Lance's Page
Tagged Election 2008, Media, Obama
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I’m Leaving
But not forevs. Tomorrow I hope on a plane and fly to Budapest, Hungary, for a well-deserved break from the grunt and grind of every day. At the tail end of the week, I shall be attending the Global Voices … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Foreign affairs, Josh's Page, Travel
Tagged advocacy, bloggers, blogging, Budapest, Global Voices Online, Josh, Media, summit, Travel
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World of Weigant
Chris Weigant demands an immediate end to the “pervasive” pro-McCain and anti-Obama bias of the media. Yeah. No word yet on when Chris will take up the equally necessary cause of converting the Pope to Catholicism.
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged bias, catholicism, chris, huffington post, McCain, Media, msm, Obama, Pope, weigant
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Breaking: Tim Russert Dies Of Heart Attack
R.I.P. Tim Russert: Tim Russert, NBC News’ Washington bureau chief and the moderator of “Meet the Press,” died Friday after being stricken at the bureau, NBC News said Friday. He was 58. Russert was recording voiceovers for Sunday’s “Meet the … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Election 2008, Media, MichaelW's Page
Tagged Domestic Politics, journalism, Media, MSNBC, Tim Russert
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Is The Evidence In On Minimum Wage?
When the most recent unemployment numbers were released, the media bleated about the highest percentage increase in the jobless rate since 1986. For example, The New York Times lamented: The unemployment rate surged to 5.5 percent in May from 5 … Continue reading
The Initial Command
(photo: Department of Defense) The Obama campaign has categorically rejected John McCain’s proposal for a joint trip to Iraq, calling it a “publicity stunt.” Publicity stunt it most certainly is, but why is it automatically assumed that the publicity would … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Lee's Page
Tagged condescension, Democrats, Domestic Politics, election, immaturity, Iraq, joint trip, Kevlar, McCain, Media, national security, Obama, poll, progress, publicity, tour, war
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Housing Incoherence
The New York Times thinks housing was in a bubble and prices are too high. Their solution? Try to keep housing prices too high.
Fact-Checking 101
It should be clear by now to anyone who frequently reads blogs that the MSM is not terribly accurate in its reporting, nor does it seem to have any intention of getting better at it. Whether you think the media … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Election 2008, Foreign affairs, Media, MichaelW's Page
Tagged CIA, fact-checkers, fraud, Human trafficking, John McCain, Media, State Department, Statistics
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Roads, More Roads, and Still More Roads Indeed!
This is the latest post in a running commentary on a new meme to emerge from the PR folks in Afghanistan: the security benefits of building roads. The argument, advanced by a few American reporters and one David Kilcullen, is … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Media, Military Matters, Notes on the war
Tagged Afghanistan, COIN, gullible, Media, roads
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What Does the Evidence Say… About Us?
Question the timing! That old mantra from the halcyon days of 2002-4, when the Left would be mocked by the Right for wondering about the suspicious timing of terror alerts, is universally applicable to the Presidency. In the case of … Continue reading
SOLD!
Gawker Media has decided to sell Wonkette to managing editor Ken Layne. Missing in the “internal emails” published on both Wonkette and Politico is the key fact that after Layne fired associate editor Megan Carpentier (full Disclosure: she’s a good … Continue reading
Mugging for the Camera
h/t Instapundit I’m not convinced that the two incidents contrasted in this video from Ed Driscoll are similar enough to be compared to each other but he does say something that I said about the Aguilar report at the time. … Continue reading
Fair and Balanced
Many of my liberal friends believe that the line “Fox News; Fair and Balanced” is a joke. I happen to think it’s pretty accurate, but – who knows? Perhaps it is indeed my bias that lends me to that opinion. … Continue reading
Citizen McCain
THE LATEST non-issue hyped by (who else?) the New York Times is that “some” people are questioning whether or not John McCain is eligible to be a sitting President: The question has nagged at the parents of Americans born outside … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Election 2008, Law, Media, MichaelW's Page
Tagged bias, Constitution, false issues, John McCain, Media, natural-born citizen, New York Times, Panama Canal, smear, U.S. President
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An Introduction to a Lie
Michael Kraft takes a look back at candidate Hugo Chavez in 1998, being interviewed by Jorge Ramos for Univision. Jorge asks a series of what turned out to be extraordinarily prescient questions. In sequence Chavez denies he will shut down … Continue reading
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged Hugo Chavez, Jorge Ramos, Media, Michael Kraft, Univision, Venezuela
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Animal Sacrifice and Sacrificial Punditry
Delighted with the American election result for whatever reason, Kurdish villagers in Cavustepe, Turkey have sacrificed 44 sheep to honor Barack Obama. They also smeared the blood of the offering on Obama campaign posters, purportedly for good luck. Now there’s … Continue reading →