Losing trust
In the end, will anything much be done about all these suspiciously lost IRS emails and the larger IRS scandal? Will the buck stop somewhere, and if so where? And how? It certainly won’t be easy to get at the … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Press
You can’t expect the IRS to keep good records, can you?
More and more IRS emails gone missing: six more employees’ email records, to be exact. Even before this new “accident” was announced, Sharyl Attkisson had a great comment on the loss of Lerner’s emails: There is a responsibility on the … Continue reading →
Those five Taliban? Why, they’re just pussycats…
…according to the LA Times. They’re really moderates, you see. And they’re old, very very old (43-47). All that shouting and cheering you hear from the Taliban in Afghanistan at their release? They’re just happy to see that the old … Continue reading →
They were for Bergdahl before they were against him: those terrible GOP flip-floppers
Expect to read a lot more articles like this one in your friendly neighborhood MSM, entitled “The Bergdahl boomerang: GOP lawmakers who long urged a rescue now sour on the idea.” The article isn’t quite as lopsided as the headline … Continue reading →
A Pentagon source says…
…that Obama passed on the idea of a rescue operation for Bergdahl because he wanted to free the Taliban Five and close Guantanamo. A rescue would have made that a lot more difficult. It seemed pretty clear from the start … Continue reading →
The Bergdahl scandal and public opinion
There’s a growing sense that, at least for now, the Bergdahl prisoner exchange and its fallout has the left spooked. Maybe Obama will weasel out of this mess, too, either by way of the same tricks that have extricated him … Continue reading →
And one more thing about Jay Carney…
Actually, if might be more than one more thing. In the comments thread of the post about his departure yesterday, commenter “Lizzy” wrote of the press secretary position: Yes, it’s an awful job, but imagine how much harder it would … Continue reading →
Another one bites the dust
Jay Carney steps down as Obama’s press secretary. I can’t believe he lasted as long as he did. What an awful, awful job. His successor is named Josh Earnest, which sounds like a joke name but is not.
Continue reading →Feet of clay and naked emperors
Even the WaPo seems to have noticed that Obama has been attacking a host of strawmen. And the WaPo is not alone; the NY Times suggested something similar when it wrote, as part of its editorial about Obama’s West Point … Continue reading →
CNN stands firm against covering Benghazi, and against feeling shame
Neo-neocon, writing on the morning of Monday, May 19, 2014: …[Trey Gowdy’s questions for the press show] how negligent and/or collusive with [the Obama] administration the press has been in covering (or rather, covering up) the Benghazi incident. If it … Continue reading →
Why the Jill Abramson story interests me
I know a lot of you aren’t interested in it. After all, who cares what’s going on at that leftist Pravda the Times, except for the fact that the story vaguely embarrasses the paper and exposes its hypocrisy and disorganization? … Continue reading →
More on the Abramson story: what’s this “public mistreatment” bit?
To me, the most curious phrase in the newest Sulzberger statement about Jill Abramson is this one [italics mine]: During [Abramson’s] tenure, I heard repeatedly from her newsroom colleagues, women and men, about a series of issues, including arbitrary decision-making, … Continue reading →