Jonathan Chait…
…gives us all a lesson in sophistry.
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More on the press and that photo of Kim Phuc
Yesterday’s PJ article and its comments yielded a couple of further thoughts. One was this comment at PJ, which I think succinctly sums up some of the problems in inherent in the presentation of war photos or indeed any other … Continue reading →
Day of blogger silence
Today is a National Day of Blogger Silence (a sort of oxymoron?). The purpose is explained in this post by Ace, and Michelle Malkin has much more to say here, including contact information (Malkin is nothing if not thorough): Free … Continue reading →
Forty years later: Kim Phuc, the girl in the photo
It’s been forty years since this photo shocked Americans: Do you know the story behind the photo? I tell it in this article at PJ. Some of what you read may surprise you. [NOTE: I’ve written about the photo before, … Continue reading →
More on the left’s reaction to the Walker victory: never surrender!
Walter Russell Mead reflects on the same topic I talked about yesterday, when I discussed a piece by John Nichols in The Nation and spoke of the left’s reaction to its drubbing in Wisconsin. Mead zeros in on one in … Continue reading →
Recalling the recall
Last night I was listening to some talking heads nattering on about the results of the Wisconsin recall. What it means for Obama, what it means for public sector unions, what it means for Democrats, what it means for Romney. … Continue reading →
Obama the Kenyan, Warren the Cherokee
Now there’s a bit of a furor about a blurb from Obama’s literary agent in 1991 that listed him as Kenyan-born, as well as a 2004 AP article from the days of his Senate race against Jack Ryan that does … Continue reading →
Cover wars
In the matter of the dueling shock-value Newsweek and Time magazine covers, Ed Driscoll explains it all for you. And there’s something so disturbing about the Time cover that I’m not putting the image on the blog. It’s certainly not … Continue reading →
The WaPo goes macaca over Romney the homophobic bully
The WaPo has trouble getting its Romney-the-wicked-and-abusive-gay-bashing-haircutter story straight. A source it quoted in the WaPo story as having “long been bothered by the…incident” said in an ABC interview the next day that he was not present when it happened … Continue reading →
Obama, Romney, the gay electorate, and the press
Obama’s declaration about gay marriage is getting an unbelievable amount of press. It’s as though it actually means something, other than that for some reason Obama has decided to abandon his pretense of being against gay marriage. It’s being framed … Continue reading →
Lugar and the press
Richard Mourdock primaried and yesterday ousted six-term Republican senator Dick Lugar in Indiana, and the MSM is very upset. As Michael Brendan Dougherty of Business Insider succinctly points out: The only time the press weeps at the loss of a … Continue reading →
The “dangerous” new Obama book
That’s the headline of this Politico piece: “The dangerous new Obama book,” referring to David Maraniss’s new biography of Obama, which I discussed here yesterday. Dangerous? Pul-eeze. The entire Politico article is laughable: The product of [Maraniss’s] big dig, “Barack … Continue reading →