The Times hit piece on Kavanaugh that I discussed yesterday is still in the news, partly because the Times issued an addendum/correction to say that oh yeah, we forgot to mention it, but the supposed victim is reported to have … Continue reading →
You gotta say this about the NY Times: they keep trying. If one lie [*see NOTE below] doesn’t work, they come up with another similar lie and hope that the second lie makes the first lie seem more true. Or … Continue reading →
Here’s a tweet posted today by The New York Times that has since been taken down, probably because they got too much criticism for it: Eighteen years have passed since airplanes took aim and brought down the World Trade Center. … Continue reading →
Snopes may be starting to regret its decision to fact-check the satire site Babylon Bee. The Bee’s response has been to mock Snopes relentlessly. And Snopes provides such a big fat target to mock.
Continue reading →It may seem almost funny to those on the right who’ve been complaining for years (pre-Trump, anyway) about how the right never fights back—but people on the left often say the same thing about the left: that is, that the … Continue reading →
Here’s an interesting Twitter thread: Thread: On Media Narratives 1. Once upon a time, the legacy media controlled the daily news narrative. There were three principal broadcast TV networks which took their nightly news cues from the NYT and, secondarily, … Continue reading →
…is the fact that the Democrats were the party of slavery as well as the party of Jim Crow and segregation, and the Republicans were the anti-slavery party. If slavery is so very central to the entire story of America, … Continue reading →
By now you may have read something about the NY Times’ 1619 Project to rewrite American history as the story of racism. Not just racism as a part of American history—racism as the story, the root of the story, the … Continue reading →
The left has been anti-Israel for a long, long time. And “anti-Israel” is often a cover for anti-Semitism, and a rather poor one at that. The main clues that indicate anti-Semitism rather than mere criticism of Israel are (1) if … Continue reading →
….and is pretty darn pleased with what it sees, for the most part. Just needing a little tweaking to get the narrative right. The link above is to a Slate article about a session Times executive editor Dean Baquet had … Continue reading →
The shooter was a Trump supporter! No, the shooter was a socialist! So many shooters, so much opportunity for politicians and pundit alike: In the case of El Paso, the murderer’s writings are anti-immigrant, but also apparently socialist in some … Continue reading →
…by the Babylon Bee. You can’t make this stuff up, but the folks at Snopes apparently can: …Snopes doesn’t seem to understand how humor works or why it’s even a thing in the first place. Their “fact-check” article begins with … Continue reading →