I know, I know, I should leave the NY Times alone to its dwindling readership and coffers. I should take the pledge to never type in its sorry URL again. But I’m weak. Every now and then some link catches … Continue reading →
Arianna Huffington is worried about a vast right-wing conspiracy—in the MSM. I kid you not. Huffington believes that during the seven years of the Bush Administration the “mainstream media…has completely internalized how the right frames all political debate. The right-wing … Continue reading →
…it’s the public—and the facts—that are the great losers. Tony Blankley has it right. The reporting on Basra was an excellent example of the decline of news coverage: practically no correspondents and no expertise, but no dearth of firm opinions … Continue reading →
This NY TImes article by Frank Rich compares the recent fighting in Basra to an Iraqi “mini-Tet.” He thinks it’s a shame that today’s press—unlike the MSM’s behavior right after the real Tet offensive—hasn’t really played up what he sees … Continue reading →
Hey, even if Karl Rove says it, it can still be true. What’s Rove saying? That Obama is an arrogant liar. You might ask what’s so strange about a politician lying? Don’t they all? (And I’m sure some would say, … Continue reading →
Presidential races require strategy. As they’ve become longer and more complex, they’ve taken on qualities somewhere between a marathon, a boxing match, and an advertising campaign. Special advisers can help the candidates, much like trainers, coaches, and promoters. But still, … Continue reading →
It isn’t often you get to watch a lie become entrenched truth. Or maybe it is often, if you pay enough attention. Once it’s repeated enough, and by the right people, it becomes the revealed truth, and there’s almost no … Continue reading →
Just when I was thinking of taking a vow to refrain from bashing the NY Times so often (not because it’s improved—au contraire!—but because it’s getting a bit tedious to have to keep on pointing out its myriad flaws) the … Continue reading →
I don’t know about you, but when I read this piece in the Times Online about Imad Mughniyeh’s (their spelling) assassination, I couldn’t help but feel it had just a smidgen of sympathy in it. Sympathy, that is, for the … Continue reading →
The Iraqi Parliament has passed some new and potentially significant laws. This particular event should have been the lead article on the front page of every newspaper. It should have been the big subject of all the talk shows. It … Continue reading →
Some people have said that if the Iraq War had been instituted by a Democratic administration, the Democrats would have remained behind it despite the setbacks encountered. If history is any guide, that’s a false assumption. Once again, the history … Continue reading →
I’m still reading Lewis Sorley’s A Better War, about the second half of our involvement in Vietnam. It’s slow going, for many reasons. One of them is that it’s painful to read it and think what might have been. Not … Continue reading →