…by the fact that the guy who took over TNR, Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, told Peretz he planned to do one thing with the magazine and has actually done another. Surprised, Martin? Why? I can’t read the full Peretz article … Continue reading →
We’ve been saying for quite some time that one thing that’s needed is to start an alternative media source on the right. Fox is not enough. But there’s an inherent problem with that, and it’s not just the fact that … Continue reading →
…it’s reported that President Obama’s State of the Union speech will be “aggressive” rather than offering “an olive branch” to Congress. Why, I’ll be gobsmacked! Quelle surprise! Who wouldda thunk it? Finally, finally, he’s taking the gloves off. Politico writer … Continue reading →
Found yesterday in the comments section of the Wall Street Journal: “Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.” – Joseph Goebbels Goebbels, of course, was a genius. An evil genius, but a genius … Continue reading →
Long-time readers may remember that in the fall of 2006 I went to France and wrote a great deal about the libel trial involving Philippe Karsenty, France2, Charles Enderlin, and the Muhammed al Durah video. The archives are here, if … Continue reading →
Goebbels would be proud. And no, I’m not calling our liberal/left press Nazis. But they have become brazen and shameless in their lies, particularly of the edited video/photo/audio variety. As John Nolte points out (hat tip: Ed Driscoll), this is … Continue reading →
Earlier today I praised Fox’s Kirsten Powers for her hard-hitting comments about Kroft’s fawning Obama/Clinton interview on “60 Minutes.” But I want to point out something even more important that she’s said today. Remember that Powers is a liberal, which … Continue reading →
Here it is again, the press’s big slobbering love affair with Obama. The phenomenon has been discussed right into the ground, here and elsewhere, and analyzed almost to death (“Obama is not just the white liberals’ perfect dream of a … Continue reading →
This recent comment by “Snackeater” (fine moniker, by the way) brought up an interesting angle on Obama and his supporters: I’ve always thought that subconsciously, Liberals are racists. Not that they hate people of other races ”“ quite the contrary … Continue reading →
Ace nails it, completely and totally, here. The press is the key to the whole shebang. So I’ve got a question for you all: by which mechanism does this happen to the MSM? It’s a serious question, not a sarcastic … Continue reading →
Here’s an interesting question from a commenter at Ace’s: We have always had a partisan press its just that it use to have two sides. I don’t really know what happened to the conservative side of the press, I suspect … Continue reading →
The more I think about Hillary Clinton’s question yesterday—“what difference does it make?”—the more important it becomes; a sort of leitmotif, not only for this administration, but for our times in general. For the moment, let’s not talk about Benghazi … Continue reading →