It’s all the fault of those “fossil-industry front groups,” of course.
Category Archives: Media Criticism
Liberalism And The Democrats
Can they be saved from the Left?
If Obama is defeated in November 2012 and the Republicans take Congress in a landslide, would that be enough to shatter the far left’s cultural-educational hegemony and liberate the Democratic Party from its grip? Can a real opposition movement arise?
Or would the left be able to hold on, using hatred and demonization to maintain control?
They’re pretty well dug in. The good news is that the places they’re dug in — mainstream media and the academy, are about to collapse and become disintermediated by the Internet.
How Could Newsweek…?
…be so dumb? Res ipsa loquiter.
Of course, they’ve been descending in intelligence for decades. This is just the end game.
[Update a few minutes later]
Newsweek: Please stop reading me. I need some me time.
Colbert
What a waste of time on This Week. Is it just me, or is he profoundly unfunny (as well as being a constitutional ignoramus, as George Will pointed out)? I didn’t even crack a smile. It was like that idiotically embarrassing Congressional testimony. At least John Stewart is funny.
Romney Or Romney?
Are those really the only choices? I don’t know what the odds of a brokered convention are, but I’d sure like to see one.
Class Warfare Rhetoric
The toxin is spreading. And it’s largely the fault of the Democrats, though Gingrich and Perry haven’t covered themselves in glory, either.
The 5000 Climaquiddick Emails
Reading all of them:
So far, it’s been fascinating to get a look at the climate hoax from the inside. The data fudging, the demonization of doubters, the knee-jerk rejection of alternate hypotheses, the quest for funding, the travel to exotic locations, the pal review, the left-wing politics, the fear of debate, the swagger in the early days, then the panic as the skeptics closed in–it’s all there.
It’s a dirty job, but somebody’s got to do it.
Media Double Standards
#OWS moron p00ps on a cop car: Class-war hero! Marine pees on a terrorist: War criminal!
Paula Deen
You’ll be as shocked as I was to learn that she has Type 2 diabetes:
There’s no doubt that fans would be upset to learn that Deen had been keeping such a major disease, and a major consequence of heavy eating, from their knowledge. It would certainly cast an alarming pall over the reckless abandon with which she endorses delicacies like turducken. And it would lend support to rival Anthony Bourdain’s much-ballyhooed critique of Deen’s culinary style.
It’s worth noting, though, that in the past nine months, Deen has diversified her activities away from her old monomaniacal focus on fatty foods.
Nutritional ignorance. You don’t get diabetes from fatty foods, or the Inuit, who traditionally lived on whale blubber and seal fat, would all be diabetic. Well, actually they are now, but they never were until they started eating flour and sugar, which is the problem with Paula Deen’s cooking as well.