If it has any credibility left, it shouldn’t after this.
Category Archives: Media Criticism
Why Goldstone?
John Podhoretz explains. The anti-Israel left is shameless.
Chomsky Versus Hitchens
It’s not a pretty sight. Sort of like Bambi versus Godzilla.
The End Times Approach
Glenn Greenwald says that the Democrats owe George Bush and Dick Cheney an apology. And heads explode across the blogosphere.
Iran, And Syria
Michael Ledeen says that it’s time for Khameini, Ahmadinejad and Assad to go. But don’t expect Washington to do anything to make it happen.
Channelling Alan Grayson
The Secretary of Health and Human Services says that Republicans want you to die quickly, just like that fun-loving former Congressman from Orlando. Of course, it’s hard to know why she would object to that, given that (as Ed Driscoll notes) other administration members seem to be all in favor of people dying quickly.
Our Robot Overlords
This is frighteningly funny.
The Great Irish Hunger
Lessons learned. Hint: it wasn’t a failure of the free market.
Hollywood Versus Reality
Two new biographies dethrone “liberal” icons. I think that most people have known for a while what a thug Malcolm X was, but it’s definitely past time to demystify Gandhi.
How Far Is Egypt…
…from starving?
This isn’t going to end well. Revolutions in countries with large masses of illiterates rarely do, and the naive coverage of the situation, with hopeful talk of an “Arab spring,” has been appalling.
[Early afternoon update]
Things are falling apart in Egypt pretty rapidly. As Michael Totten says, the good guys are vastly outnumbered. And this administration has no plan.