Ever since Romney picked Paul Ryan as his VP, there’s been an awful lot of even-stranger-than-usual stuff coming from the mouths/pens/computers of Democrats. One of the oddest is a column by Maureen Dowd, which basically says that Ryan shouldn’t look … Continue reading →
I am getting really, really, really sick of this sort of excuse/explanation: “The problem [of plagiarism] is as old as journalism,” says Stephen Ward, director of the Center for Media Ethics at the University of Wisconsin. “It’s a systemic issue, … Continue reading →
A positive article—at least, sort of halfway positive—about something Mitt Romney once did, appearing in the NY Times. [NOTE: By the way, you can talk about today’s bad-news polls in this thread, if you like. It’s possible to criticize the … Continue reading →
…with Romney. Of course; we expected that. But the nature of the coverage of Romney’s trip abroad—with the press acting, in the words of Powerline’s John Hinderaker, as though Romney had “committed one blunder after another” when in fact the … Continue reading →
…race to the bottom.
Continue reading →We’ll give you context, on the Romney quote about Britain being a “tiny little island that makes stuff nobody wants.” But, as Althouse rightly points out in her contextualizing post: But you know the rule in journalism: Taking things out … Continue reading →
Sometimes I think this election will boil down to the answer to the above question. Do they or don’t they? If they do, the relentless spin of the left will not matter. And the efforts of the Obama forces to … Continue reading →
When I first read about the massacre in a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, my thoughts went to the victims of the horror, and my initial impression (before the shooter had been identified) was that the perp would turn out … Continue reading →
[NOTE: I’ve been referring lately to Obama’s history of nasty and underhanded campaigning, but I thought it would be a good idea to recycle a portion of a post I wrote in October of 2008 that explains the phenomenon in … Continue reading →
I was busy all day and evening yesterday, and so I didn’t have time to write about the brouhaha over the Boston Globe’s rehash of its 2002 charge (answered effectively by Romney at that time, but in the Globe’s estimation … Continue reading →
It’s reported that Romney was booed a couple of times during his NAACP speech (full video here, which I have not yet watched), although he was also cheered at times. Which brings us a more general question I’ve long wondered … Continue reading →
Drew M. at Ace’s points out a few things about the press coverage of Romney’s NAACP speech. At this point the anti-Romney slant of the coverage fails to surprise me in the least, but that doesn’t make it any less … Continue reading →