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Category Archives: Media Criticism
Biden’s Human-Rights Blunder
Kirsten Powers says that it’s even worse than it seems:
This was an appalling statement coming from an American leader. What’s next? Will he say he isn’t “second-guessing” and “fully understands” that women are stoned for adultery in Iran?
I wish I couldn’t imagine him doing exactly that.
When various Republican presidential candidates blasted Biden for the statement, NPR’s blog ran a story titled “Biden’s Comment on China’s One-Child Policy Spurs Anti-Abortion Ire.” This really misses the point. The media predictably frame this issue as “pro-choice vs. pro-life” when in fact it is a major human-rights issue. In particular, it’s a women’s-rights issue, which makes the silence from feminists and liberals about Biden’s comment particularly disturbing.
The left, and particularly the feminist left, view everything through the crazy prism of absolute abortion rights.
The Catastrophic Hidden Costs Of The Obama Reign
The top five.
…becomes racist:
Obama’s Midwest tour last week prompted more criticism and ridicule than support on Twitter, according to this week’s Hill Hexagon. …
An analysis of Twitter traffic by Crimson Hexagon over the days of the tour showed that 72 percent of the opinions expressed were negative, while 22 percent were neutral and only 6 percent were favorable.
Among the negative comments, 21 percent were generally negative toward Obama, 17 percent called it a campaign stunt, 15 percent complained about taxpayers picking up the tab, 12 percent offered derisive names for the tour — similar to GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s “Magical Misery Tour” — and 6 percent complained that he was not in Washington working.
I mean, what other explanation could there be?
Jumping The Broken Windows Shark
OK, so according to Paul Krugman, Alderaan should be the richest planet in the galaxy:
People on twitter might be joking, but in all seriousness, we would see a bigger boost in spending and hence economic growth if the earthquake had done more damage.
Well, if he means that if Washington had been destroyed, as I (jokingly) suggested (and some anticipated) earlier, he might have a point, but I doubt that’s what he means. I really think he’s serious.
[Wednesday morning update]
Krugman is claiming that he didn’t write it, and it was a case of identity theft.
[Update a few minutes later]
The identity thief ‘fesses up.
Time To Start The Blame Game
OK, anyone want to start a pool on how long it takes someone to blame it on fracking?
Oscar Wilde, Call Your Office
“Somewhere in the White House attic is a picture of Barack Obama getting smarter.”
The Palestinian State
…there is none. And as Michael Ledeen reminds us, events in Libya, Syria, Gaza, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan are not unrelated — they are all battles in a much larger war, the one that replaced the Cold War in pitting totalitarians against the liberal West.
The “Fairness” Doctrine
Good riddance. We should celebrate such a rare event — a less obtrusive government, and a victory for the First Amendment.
What Are You Compensating For?
I’m compensating for the fact that criminals don’t obey gun laws, myself. Not to mention that some of them might be jealous of the size of my…you know.