Weigel resigns
I haven’t covered this story so far, but for those who have been following it, the news is that Weigel has resigned from his WaPo post. Ace offers a great deal of background. Here’s more. There’s an awful lot of … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Press
Maybe if McChrystal had read General William Tecumsah Sherman…
…on the subject of the press, he’d have just said “no” when reporter Hastings came to call: I hate newspapermen…I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. Not to mention this: If I had my choice I would … Continue reading →
Reflections on the Rolling Stone McChrystal article
Well, I’ve read the article that may be the undoing of General McChrystal’s military career, and perhaps even the Afghan war itself [I wrote that sentence before I saw the breaking news that McChrystal is gone and Petraeus has been … Continue reading →
The rabbi who interviewed Helen Thomas…
…explains what led up to it, and what it’s like living in a post-“oooh” world.
Continue reading →Obama, knave or fool, latest edition
Mort Zuckerman, former Obama supporter, answers the question and says “fool.” I beg to differ (I believe the answer is that he is both). But it’s still interesting to see Zuckerman come this far in his condemnation. He doesn’t quite … Continue reading →
Olbermann leaves Kos
Keith Olbermann, criticized at Kos for his rare putdown of Obama the other night, takes his ball and goes home. What’s the big surprise—did he fail to study his French Revolutionary history?
Continue reading →Watch the rats leave the sinking ship: Olbermann, et al, on the President’s oil spill speech
Please watch this video response to the president’s oil spill speech. I believe that commenter “chemman” at Hot Air has summed it up best: I think a rogue worm-hole momentarily transported us to an alternate reality. Visit msnbc.com for breaking … Continue reading →
Pigs fly, and the Times chides Obama on the oil spill
Yesterday I noticed what passes for a hard-hitting editorial in the NY Times. Despite the usual boilerplate Obama excuses (“…he took office under an extraordinary burden of problems created by President George W. Bush’s ineptness and blind ideology. He has … Continue reading →
The press and Obama: where’s that lovin’ feeling?
Please go to PJ for this piece of mine about the end of the press’s love affair with Obama. Did I say “the end?” To paraphrase (and invert) the famous Churchill quote: Now this is not the end. It is … Continue reading →
Apparently, the MSM coverup of Climategate has worked
Jon A. Krosnick is a professor of communication, political science and psychology at Stanford University. As such, he no doubt knows how to spin a story, and he has done a bit of that in an op-ed he wrote that … Continue reading →
Reuters makes excuses…
…that no one will believe, continuing its long slide downwards from news organization to propagandist for the left.
Continue reading →Helen Thomas retires
It appears we won’t have Helen Thomas to kick around any more, as the veteran White House correspondent has retired, effective immediately. And not a moment too soon. Thomas is turning 90 in August, so we can’t exactly call it … Continue reading →