Category Archives: Media Criticism

Who Is More Anti-Science?

Republicans, or Democrats?

My biggest problem with Democrats is that they’re anti-economics, with devastating results over the past decades.

[Update a few minutes later]

Skeptical about skepticism.

[Update a while later]

Speaking of Republicans being anti-science, I don’t agree with Herman Cain that being gay is “a choice.” Being straight was never a “choice” for me.

Shut Up!

she explained:

Well the DOJ woman was just yelling at me. The guy from the White House on Friday night literally screamed at me and cussed at me. [Laura: Who was the person? Who was the person at Justice screaming?] Eric Schultz. Oh, the person screaming was [DOJ spokeswoman] Tracy Schmaler, she was yelling not screaming. And the person who screamed at me was Eric Schultz at the White House.”

…And I’m certainly not the one to make the case for DOJ and White House about what I’m doing wrong. They will tell you that I’m the only reporter–as they told me–that is not reasonable. They say the Washington Post is reasonable, the LA Times is reasonable, the New York Times is reasonable, I’m the only one who thinks this is a story, and they think I’m unfair and biased by pursuing it.

How unreasonable, to actually report the news.

[Update a while later]

None too soon: House Judiciary Commmittee is (finally) requesting a special counsel to investigate the Attorney General. This time, it’s both the crime and the cover up. And it’s likely to lead to the White House.

Amanda Knox

My one and only post on this subject will just point to the one by John Hinderaker, in case any of my readers care.

[Update early afternoon]

OK, one more — Amanda Knox as femme fatale:

One lady I know offered the view that the femme fatale was a totally self-generated male creation. “The self-destructive acts are not orchestrated by women of some preternatural cunning. Most femme fatales do nothing. All the work is done by the men themselves. Femme fatales are only ordinary women who’ve accidentally found the right combination of buttons to push to make men do what they want. It is the fantasy of men that does the rest.” Her explanation made me uneasy because I had heard the same argument offered, in a political context, to explain the 2008 presidential elections. But in that view, we will never know any more about Amanda Knox than we will ever know about Barack Obama. Maybe neither actually exists as we think they do, except in our imaginations.

Well, the evidence against Obama continues to accumulate.

More Guns

Less crime:

there were 14% fewer murders in Chicago compared to the first six months of last year – back when owning handguns was illegal. It was the largest drop in Chicago’s murder rate since the handgun ban went into effect in 1982.

Note also how this occurred during a time of extreme economic distress. So two “liberal” shibboleths — that guns and poverty cause crime — have been hammered here.

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South Florida officials are worried that they might actually be punished for blatantly violating the law.

Good. Fine them and remove the criminals from office. Make some examples.

More Shocking News

Eric Holder, part of the most transparent administration in history, seems to have lied to Congress:

New documents obtained by CBS News show Attorney General Eric Holder was sent briefings on the controversial Fast and Furious guns operation as far back as July of 2010. That directly contradicts his statement to Congress.

On May 3, 2011, Holder told a Judiciary Committee hearing, “I’m not sure of the exact date, but I probably heard about Fast and Furious for the first time over the last few weeks.”

Or maybe he just has a lousy memory. Yeah, that’s the ticket.

I wonder when the other networks will start to follow CBS’s lead?

Oh, and again, I’m not really shocked.

Shocking Photos

Barack Obama appeared and marched with the New Black Panthers a year before he was elected president. Actually, I’m not shocked at all.

[Mid-afternoon update]

More from Hans von Spakovsky:

If another presidential candidate had shared a podium, marched with, and received an endorsement from the KKK, it would justifiably be front page news and we would be seriously questioning the judgment of that candidate. If that candidate got elected and his administration then dismissed a lawsuit it had already won against the KKK, it would have led to serious consequences and serious questions being asked from the mainstream media. So why, when the color of the racists is reversed, is such behavior ignored?

That’s a rhetorical question, I think.

The Wolverines Are Overrated

I agree with their coach. Number 12 is way too high, and it’s way too early to judge. They won’t really be tested until they go to East Lansing in a couple weeks. And they don’t have to play Wisconsin this year, unless it’s for the Big Tweleven championship. If they play and win that game, they’ll definitely deserve to be in the top ten. But I’m confident that even if they don’t win out, we won’t see the kind of late-season collapse that we did in the past couple years.