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December 26, 2005
Merry Christmas to all!
I'm spending the holidays with family and friends, so postings will be sporadic. Thank you to all who visit my site and best wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
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December 22, 2005
Bush finally lashes out at reporters!
From the transcript:
"you’ve been behaving like an overgrown schoolboy in this room for many, many months and years. You are an embarrassment to your colleagues and to your profession. Please stop misbehaving and please let’s move on to a serious journalist."
While President Bush would have cause to say this to any number of White House reporters, especially NBC'S showboating David Gregory and ABC's condescending Terry Moran (who has now moved on to do the post-mortem on Nightline), these words came from UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to a reporter from the London Times who asked him about the desperately underreported Oil-for-Food scandal.
The Old Media's reaction to Annan’s outburst: "Oh that Kofi! We've never seen him so angry - he must have been provoked." Not a scintilla of the bleating from journalism elites that you would hear if Bush had done it.
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December 21, 2005
Dems wail about ANWR tactic, but did same to protect Clinton
Senate Democrats took to the floor today to complain that Republicans were breaking the rules by inserting approval for gas and oil drilling in ANWR in a defense appropriations bill. They helped hold up the bill for three months until John McCain's anti-torture language was put in. The measure also includes non-defense items such as Katrina relief and aid to families in the Northeast to help pay their home heating bills this winter.
But Democrats did the same thing very recently when they slipped language into an appropriations bill that would suppress the full release of the Barrett Report, specifically a part that relates to the Clinton administration's use of government agencies to harass and intimidate political enemies. Their hypocrisy on this issue is stunning, but you won't hear anything about it from the Old Media.
Tony Snow has the details, the most important point:
"They [Democrats] got what they wanted recently, when the House and Senate met to iron out differences in yet another appropriations bill. Democrats inserted language that would prevent public release of the 120 pages of the report listing the Clinton transgressions."
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Bring on the Impeachment!
Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer delighted and thrilled the rabid anti-Bush base of her party today when she released a copy of a letter she sent to “legal scholars” asking if they believed the President might have broken the law when he authorized the monitoring of international communications with persons inside the United States with suspected ties to al Qaeda. She repeated the assertion of former Nixon White House counsel John Dean who suggested that the President might have committed an impeachable offense. In 2004, Dean wrote a book titled, “Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush.”
Rep. John Lewis chimed in that proceedings to remove George Bush from office should be considered. But with Republicans in control of both houses of Congress, such an event is unlikely. Impeachment talk will probably dominate the Old Media “news” shows and taxpayer-funded NPR, all aimed at Democratic fundraising for the 2006 elections. Unable to reach consensus on a positive agenda or a position on Iraq, Democrats will hope to ride the “I-train” to victory in the midterms.
I’m hoping Democrats will move forward with their demands for articles of impeachment. For several years, the activists on the Left that have agitated for Bush’s ouster for any number of alleged “high crimes and misdemeanors.” It appears that the inmates are now in charge of the asylum. It probably won’t be long before Rep. John Conyers; “King Moonbat” among Congressional Democrats will stage another “hearing” in a basement room of the Capitol. Earlier tribunals featured “testimony” from Joe Wilson and Cindy Sheehan. Today, Conyers released a compilation of the liberals’ conspiracy theories billed as a “rebuke of the Bush administration” by an activist group.
The liberal talking heads will try to put the template of Watergate over the NSA squabble, but comparisons to Bill Clinton’s trial before the Senate are inevitable. Let’s check the scorecard and see how this stacks up:
Bush
President Bush will be required to defend actions to which he freely admits, taken to protect Americans from a terrorist attack, in the belief that he had the constitutional authority in his role of Commander-in-Chief.
Clinton
President Clinton lied to a Grand Jury to cover up a sordid extramarital sexual affair he had with a White House intern in order to obstruct justice in a sexual harassment lawsuit filed against him by Paula Jones.
I certainly don’t mind Bill and Hillary Clinton’s legacy of corruption for political gain being brought up again. It will mesh nicely with the information in the Barrett Report, currently held captive by Senate Democrats that is said to show how Clinton used the IRS to intimidate and punish political enemies and the women who accused him of inappropriate sexual behavior.
It would be worthwhile to re-examine the Clinton administration’s dismal efforts against terrorism along with its abuse of power without the distraction of a plump paramour. The Old Media would have to fight a battle on two fronts, protecting and defending the Clintons while simultaneously coordinating attacks on Bush with the Democrats.
Impeachment hearings would probably expose even more of our intelligence capabilities to our enemies, as leaks to The New York Times and Washington Post would become a raging torrent. Both publications have been a vital source of intelligence for al Qaeda in addition to rendering public relations services. Neither would have any remorse for taking down the leader of the global war on terror and handing Islamofascists the victory they could not otherwise achieve.
The proceedings will be more revealing about the accusers and their accomplices than the accused. I say, “Bring it on!” After all, the impeachment thing worked so well for the Republicans, didn’t it?
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December 19, 2005
Depravity that knows no shame
The "creative community" has outdone itself this time with a musical that offers a "heart-wrenching" story about incestuous gay pedophilia.
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And then there's this...
Unbelievable! Through His Webcam, a Boy Joins a Sordid Online World
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December 17, 2005
Nancy boy's defenders protesteth too much
My post about Ron Reagan, Jr. has left more than a few liberals with their panties in a bunch. It's good for Ronnie that he's a liberal himself or he'd probably find himself the target of a good old-fashioned outing by his fellow travelers. MESSAGE: Stay on the plantation and we won't hurt you. Go over the fence and we'll hunt you down like a dog.
I remember when there was an all out effort to get the First Son-cum- ballet dancer married off so he wouldn't be an embarrassment to his father.
Look how far he's come as a television journalist. Let's go to the tape and see Christopher Hitchens eat Ronnie's lunch for him on his own show.
Now we know why "Connected Coast to Coast" got disconnected.
Poor Monica Crowley. Let's hope that crapfest didn't end her career.
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December 16, 2005
NYT's ploy to scuttle PATRIOT Act
There is absolutely no coincidence that the New York Times published a story today that it admits holding for nearly a year about the President Bush authorizing the National Security Administration to conduct wiretaps without warrants. The story comes on the very day that Senate Democrats plan to filibuster renewal of the PATRIOT Act.
Let's see how many times the NYT article is cited during the debate.
Matt Drudge reports that the revelation is also timed to coincide with the publication of a book by NYT reporter James Risen that drops the same "bombshell."
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House Dems screech about Iraq resolution
House Republicans have offered a resolution expressing support for the mission in Iraq as outlined by President Bush. Democrats are apoplectic: "Those mean Republicans are demanding that we tell the American people what we really think of the war and our troops!"
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Democrats "cut and run" from position on Iraq
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi told the Washington Post that its 2006 issue agenda will NOT include a position on the Iraq war. Iraq will be a major issue in 2006 and Democrats have already announced their intention to duck it.
Democrats are even cowardly about publicly stating how cowardly they are. The base can't be happy...
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Nancy's nancy boy nixed
Ron Reagan, Jr., the embarassment that bears the name of one of the greatest American presidents is out of a job after his daytime talk show was mercifully cancelled last week. MSNBC put Reagan in the host's chair as the result of his election year masquerade as a "journalist" (btw, Twinkle-toes, what's YOUR journalism background?) proved to be a "stick in the eye" to those who revere his father.
Who will be next to have a show on the worst cable news network, Cindy Sheehan? Sooner or later, it will be her turn.
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Gay divorcee
The first "couple" to be "wed" in a civil union ceremony in Vermont five years ago is now Splitsville. This might be an object lesson of "be careful what you wish for" because if you want gay marriage, you have to take gay divorce, gay alimony...
Someone said of gay marriage: "Why shouldn't they be as miserable as the rest of us?"
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The case to defund PBS
Bill Moyers, who was rewarded for being a dirty trickster for LBJ by being able to live off federal tax dollars for 35 years at PBS demonstrates the impartial and unbiased "journalism" he practiced during his career during a recent speech. He is a prime example of why federal funding for PBS and NPR should be terminated.
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Not everyone likes "Brokeback Mountain"
Here's one review of the new movie about gay cowboys that will upset the intolerant Left.
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December 15, 2005
Democrats lose another election
Iraqi voters turned out in record numbers today, despite threats of deadly violence to elect a permanent government for the first time in its history. The third successful election held in the country liberated by the U. S.-led coalition will deal a severe blow to two groups totally invested in American defeat in Iraq: Terrorists and Democrats.
Terrorists were unable to shake the will of President Bush to leave Iraq in the face of deadly attacks on soldiers and civilians. Likewise, Democrats failed to force the pullout of American troops before the historic event, despite having convinced Vietnam War veteran Rep. John Murtha to throw away any credibility he had on national defense issues by advocating a "cut and run" strategy of immediate withdrawal. The political ploy, along with the comments of DNC chairman Howard Dean, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and former presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry, firmly place the Democratic Party on the wrong side of history once again.
Sadly, today's election won't stop Chris Matthews, Joe Biden and Matt Lauer from continuing to root for civil war.
In answer to a comment made by the asinine Cindy Sheehan and her Code Pink and MoveOn.org enablers, this is the "noble cause":
Try honoring Casey's sacrifice instead of using it for shameful political antics.
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December 14, 2005
How Democrats support the troops
A New York State Supreme Court judge has disqualified the absentee ballot of an American serviceman that would have changed the outcome of an election for a city supervisor. The Democratic candidate was declared the winner by a SINGLE VOTE following the ruling.
Democrats want every vote counted when it comes from an illegal alien, a vagrant, a felon or someone who is dead, but will disenfranchise a member of the military.
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Will Iraq opposition hurt Democrats?
At least one liberal has figured out that Democrats are in a quagmire when it comes to Iraq. Matthew Yglecias writes in the American Prospect that, "Democrats need to devise a unified political strategy on Iraq before Republicans box them in." Sorry, Matt - it's already too late.
Even before the Republican National Committee launched its "White Flag" ads that pegged Howard Dean, Nancy Pelosi and John Kerry as "retreat and defeat" Democrats, the party was suffering a significant lack of credibility on military, defense and security issues. Three years ago, only the far-Left wing of the Democratic Party opposed the war in Iraq, but the radical base has successfully demanded that the leadership begin to spout the same defeatist rhetoric. No matter what the polls say about their attitude toward the war in Iraq, Americans believe Democrats to be weak.
This is a dilemma for the Democratic Party since only a defeat of U. S. forces in Iraq could result in a positive political outcome for it. Each day Democrats pretend to support the troops while they do everything they can to undermine their morale and the support of the American people.
The template that the Democrats use is the Vietnam War. But the situation in Iraq has gone beyond the point where Democrats in Congress were able to ensure an American defeat there by voting to cut off the funds necessary to continue to wage war. On Thursday, Iraqis head to the polls in the third election of 2005. It will be three more democratic elections than the people of Vietnam have been able to participate in since the United States left in 1975.
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December 13, 2005
Friedman spouts elitism at NPC
Tom Friedman, a Pulitzer Prize winning columnist for the New York Times appears to be a well-informed fellow about the Middle East, but suffers from the same self-delusion that afflicts his colleagues at the Old Grey Lady. On Monday night he appeared at the National Press Club in a one-on-one interview by Marvin Kalb.
In response to questions about media bias, he strongly defended the Old Media and took a few gratuitous swings at Fox News. He listed news organizations that he believed to report without bias, specifically excluding Fox News, while including CBS and CNN as well as his own newpaper.
He later made a comparison between al-Jazeera and Fox News suggesting that both were "fair and balanced" from a particular political point of view.
One interesting tidbit for the journalism purists: Friedman confessed that he had no journalism training whatsoever except for a single 10th grade class. He was hired as a reporter after submitting an editorial piece to the Des Moines Register.
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Attacking the messenger
Deborah Howell, ombudsman for the Washington Post reflected the concern of her colleagues that the "White House Briefing", written by liberal columnist Dan Froomkin might be mistaken for news reporting.
Predictably, liberal journalism elites and activists have begun a counterattack on Howell begining predictably with Greg Mitchell of Editor & Publisher. Print vs. Online Battle at 'Wash Post' with Froomkin in Middle
While Howell correctly identified Froomkin as a Bush-hating liberal, she came to the wrong conclusion about the problem at the Washington Post. More of its reporting needs to be labelled as opinion, beginning with the entire front page.
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Clinton's boy named ABC's Chief DC Correspondent
Former Clinton press secretary George Stephanopolos gets a new title. It's reassuring to know that there are no political operatives at any of the networks.
In a related story, CBS will move its news operation to DNC headquarters. It will be located near the "document production" office on the second floor.
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Brian Williams interview with Bush
I'm starting to like NBC's Brian Williams. In his interview with President Bush he points out the most recent articles about him in Newsweek and Time. One magazine says that Bush is isolated and the other suggests that the President is talking to a lot of people in order to get fresh ideas for his second term. Both are wrong, of course, but Williams does point out the disparity in the premise of the stories.
Bush is great in this exchange:
Williams: You don't read the news weeklies?
President Bush: I really don't. I'm interested in the news. I'm not all that interested in the opinions.
Ouch! That must mean he's not interested in NBC, CBS, CNN, NYT, WashPo, etc.
Williams followed up with a great question:
Williams: So where are they getting this?
President Bush: You better ask the writers.
What the President wanted to say is:
"I dunno, I think they just make this sh*t up!"
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December 12, 2005
Eugene McCarthy: The Original “Cut and Run” Democrat
The death of former Sen. Eugene McCarthy on Saturday of has given the Old Media another opportunity to resurrect more Vietnam War images. They paint him as a man of conscience who broke with the leadership of the Democratic Party to oppose American involvement in Southeast Asia in 1968. The comparisons with the war in Iraq will be inevitable.
The original “cut and run” Democrat will be memorialized in Washington, DC at an event that will probably be more of an antiwar rally, in the same style at the Paul Wellstone memorial in 2002. It will be interesting to see which Vietnam War – era relics attend. Walter Cronkite, Daniel Berrigan and Jane Fonda should be expected along with the new class of antiwar activists that include the weepy Cindy Sheehan. MoveOn.org might even run a video tribute.
I welcome such an event, as it will underscore what the McCarthy legacy is. The “peace candidate” who ran for president in 1968 put the Democratic Party on path of weakness from which it has never returned. He was a member of the “blame America” crowd until the end. Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, McCarthy said that the United States should have paid more attention to the “plight” of the Palestinians.
Sen. Edward Kennedy led off the politicized tributes to McCarthy in a statement saying, "I admired Gene enormously for his courage in challenging a war America never should have fought…His life speaks volumes to us today, as we face a similar critical time for our country."
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Are Iraqi insurgents planting stories in US media?
This piece from Robert Reid of the Associated Press sounds like it was written by a Saddam loyalist.
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December 09, 2005
Another NY Daily News "fantasy"
New York Daily News gossip columnist Llyod Grove, not to be outdone by his colleague, Tom "DeFraud" DeFrank is breathlessly reporting that White House officials confessed to a Hollywood director that the war in Iraq had gone from "bad to worse." Grove says that writer-director Stephen Gaghan, whose "war for oil and empire" film "Syriana" has just been released, got this information at an "off the record" luncheon with unnamed White House officials.
Let me get this right: Anonymous sources inside the White House gave information damaging to the Bush administration - freely given to a liberal Hollywood director! It defies logic but the Bush-bashers at the NY Daily News just lap it up without question.
Ken Bazinet, the White House correspondent for the newspaper, who I personally know to be a decent fellow must be humiliated by his employer's politically driven dishonesty diguised as impartial journalism.
Calling Jayson Blair...
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December 08, 2005
The delusional Helen Thomas
When this woman is revered by the Left as the symbol of all that is good, fair and impartial in American journalism, it speaks volumes about both the Left and American journalism.
Catch her comments in the Falls Church News-Press from a speech she gave to the Democratic Business Council of Northern Virginia.
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Questionable sources in NY Daily News
Tom DeFrank of the New York Daily News has the most amazing sources at the White House who tell him the most amazing things. The problem is that all of it comes from unnamed sources. The liberal New York tabloid wants its readers to believe that it has close contact with some very chatty White House insiders. It doesn't.
Today's fantasy is about Rumsfeld's rumored departure from the Pentagon. While it may be possible that Rummy is looking for a good time to leave after a very long hard slog, DeFrank asserts a source told him that, "Bush has told friends that Rumsfeld is a political liability."
This is absolutely false. President Bush doesn't believe that and he certainly wouldn't say it if he did. The story was full of quotes, but not a single one of them named except for an official spokesperson.
DeFrank's "reporting" is the mostly wishful thinking about a White House in trouble as portrayed in a November 27 article. On November 8, it reported that the once close relationship between the President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney had soured. More quotes from unnamede sources, but no evidence. In fact, the coordinated efforts between the two to push back against the "retreat and defeat" Democrats and their Old Media amplifiers (like the New York Daily News) suggests exactly the opposite.
This guy might be the next Jayson Blair.
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Libs protest conservative free speech
Liberals who claim to be defenders of free speech, have instead decided they are the arbiters of who is allowed to speak. A particularly ugly incident involving Ann Coulter took place at the University of Connecticut. It reinforces that liberal believe free speech is only for those who agree with them. Note the biased reporting by the Associated Press.
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December 07, 2005
Do Democrats think Miami air marshals lied?
This is a rundown of what happened at the Miami Airport on Wednesday:
A man aboard an American Airlines flight from Colombia:
1. Claimed he had a bomb.
2. Made threatening statements and exhibited erratic behavior.
3. Refused to comply with numerous and repeated demands to stop.
Authorities determined that:
1. The man posed a mortal threat to those around him.
2. The man refused to comply with their demands to disarm.
As a result, the man was shot and killed. This lessened and perhaps ended the threat against those on the plane. Future threats from others may have also been discouraged.
As it turned out, the man didn’t have a bomb, but those whose job it is to know believed that he could have. They judged that the man’s statements and actions posed too great a threat to take a chance – especially in a post-9/11 world. The air marshals launched a pre-emptive strike against a threat based on the best information available.
Howard Dean, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi have not yet issued statements.
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WH reporters get what they deserve
One reason Vice President Dick Cheney is so admired by some is that he is willing to say what's on his mind every now and then. This time, the White House press corps took a hit. Following his speech at Ft. Drum on Monday, Cheney threw reporters out in order to spend some time with the troops.
From the pool report filed by Washington Times Bill Sammon:
"Mr. Cheney explained he was there to have a dialogue with the troops. He promised that within about a minute he would 'kick the press out so nobody's intimidated by the presence of the cameras.' After making good on his promise, the vice president cracked: 'It always makes my day.' The soldiers laughed heartily as the reporters slunk away."
Reporters slinking away amidst the dersive laughter of American soldiers...priceless.
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Observations
Zawahiri tape spouts DNC talking points
If you just read the transcript, you would think Howard Dean spoke the words from the latest al-Qaeda video release.
"Bush lied"
"Americans losing in Iraq"
"al Qaeda getting stronger"
Same rhetoric.
News readers gush over Saddam tactics
The talking heads at MSNBC are reporting the petulence exhibited by deposed dictator Saddam Hussein at his trial in tones that suggest admiration. It sounds the same as when they used to talk about how effectively Bill Clitnon was able to spin them.
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Babs babbles about a free press
Barbra Streisand cancelled her subscription to the Los Angeles Times in retaliation for the newspaper's firing of lefty opinion writer Robert Scheer. The LA Times mercifully printed only a third of her missive, but the diva posted the original version on her website so that everyone can be in awe of her stunning intellect.
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December 06, 2005
More CIA treason abetted by ABC
The Old Media continues its complicity in undermining the war on terror. One or more leakers at the CIA have further damaged this country's ability to extract information from terrorists who would kill MILLIONS of Americans if given the chance.
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Dem chair says "Ameri-can't" win in Iraq
Even though Congressional Democrats are dithering about which "cut and run" timetable to get behind, Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean has declared that the United States has lost the war in Iraq. In a San Antonio, TX radio interview the former Democratic presidential candidate said that the, "idea that we're going to win the war in Iraq is an idea which is just plain wrong."
Democrats have again confirmed what many Americans learned in the 1960s, that they cannot be trusted on matters of national security, homeland defense and warfare. What is even worse than their cowardice is that there seems to be no sacrifice of principles, honor or lives of American soldiers too great for their political gain.
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December 05, 2005
Media outrage over planted Iraq stories hollow
Predictably, the Old Media cried, “Foul!” over reports that the Pentagon might have been paying for positive press coverage in Iraq. It claims that planting stories in Iraqi newspapers that showed only one side of events in the war undermines a most basic institution of the democracy that Americans are spending blood and treasure to establish. There is no doubt that a free, independent press is essential to a stable political environment in the post-Saddam era. However, it is hypocritical of the American media to throw stones at the Pentagon when its own house is made of glass.
A wave of talking heads and editorials denounced the Pentagon’s program to influence public opinion in Iraq with news stories that focused only on the aspects that supported the article’s premise. But that criticism is at best disingenuous considering the conduct of the Old Media, especially as it relates to the war in Iraq. Its own biased coverage accounts for Americans’ increasingly negative attitude toward the war, to say nothing of its thinly disguised liberal leanings and political agenda.
An editorial in the Boston Globe called the Pentagon operation “an ethical breach stunning in its callous disregard for the truth,” and accused the Bush administration of “trashing the principles of a free press.” The fact that the information contained in the articles was true and not available from other news outlets in the region seems to matter little to the publication that was a cheerleader for Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry in 2004.
The Globe cherry-picks two items from the liberal media elite’s litany of Bush administration “attacks” on the media in support of its case; payments to conservative commentator Armstrong Williams to promote the “No Child Left Behind Act” on his radio and television shows and my admission to the White House press corps. These two incidents are supposed to represent examples of spin and deceit coming from an administration that disdains “open journalistic inquiry.”
But the Globe gets is completely backwards. It is because the White House rightfully distrusts the Old Media that it feels compelled to take steps to circumvent it. In the case of NCLB, the administration reached out to a credible voice to talk positively about a program of importance to the minority community. Except for Williams, most media coverage of the education accountability initiative was a recitation of negative talking points from the Democratic National Committee and the teachers unions.
With regard to my participation at White House press briefings, the Globe couldn’t be more wrong. It mistakes my questions asked from a conservative perspective as being pro-Bush softballs. It is understandable that it might have no idea what the queries from a conservative reporter sounds like, since it is so rare in the ultra-liberal Old Media universe. Ironically, it was the Globe who was so interested in writing a balanced story about me that it regurgitated a press release from the George Soros funded Media Matters and contacted me only to ask what college I attended.
It is laughable for the Old Media to be so concerned about the integrity of the press in Iraq when its own credibility is in shambles. This same crowd continues to heap praise on Dan Rather, as if he had never been involved in one of the most egregious media scandal of all time. It still accepts as truth every word that crosses Joe Wilson’s lips despite the fact that he has been proven to be a liar. Newspapers rail against corporate scandals but gloss over their own criminal acts of defrauding advertisers with inflated circulation figures.
In all fairness, the Old Media should be considered to have the ability to recognize a propaganda operation in Iraq, since CNN admitted to running one for Saddam Hussein’s regime. In 2003, Eason Jordan confessed that his network covered up for the atrocities of the Iraqi dictator in exchange for keeping its Baghdad bureau open.
A free press is important for democracy to thrive in Iraq, but it shouldn’t be modeled after the American Old Media. Iraqis deserve better.
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December 02, 2005
Bolton doing the job at U. N.; NYT wails
When the New York Times criticizes someone, it is likely that they are hitting their mark. Today's target is America's Ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton. The Old Grey Lady opposed his nomination, supported Democrat's efforts to derail his confirmation and continues to rail against his every move.
But Bolton got to New York just in time to stop a disastrous agreement that was little more than a power grab by the international body that threatened U. S. sovereignty. Now he is using "dollar diplomacy" to insist on needed reforms, that is, withholding the millions of American taxpayer dollars from the bureaucrats until they agree to change their ways.
This is precisely why he was sent, and liberal caterwauling is evidence that he is succeeding.
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Dems looking for best time to "cut and run"
The question has never been "if" the Party of Surrender would "cut and run" from the war in Iraq, the unknown was always "when." It is still unknown, especially to the Democratic leadership. The Democrats are so befuddled they can't even agree on when to stage their declaration of collective cowardice. Six months ago, John "Reporting for duty" Kerry was for sending more troops into Iraq, now he wants to bring many home before Christmas.
The Old Media is push-polling opposition to the war and trumpeting Jack Murtha's call for retreat as a "tipping point" while the Democrats try to decide the date it will wave the white flag to the Islamofacists in earnest.
What Democrats and the Old Media don't understand is how pi**ed off the troops are about misleading reporting of the war and the aid, comfort and encouragement they provide to the enemy. There will be hell to pay.
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Couric to anchor CBS News?
This is a brilliant move by new CBS News President Sean McManus to put the perky diva in the chair once occupied by Walter Cronkite. Couric's unsuitability and undiguised bias might actually make viewers forget the events that led to the disgraceful end of Dan Rather's career.
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December 01, 2005
Journo whines Bush events not open to protesters
Dan Froomkin, a liberal columnist for the Washington Post who writes about the White House has discoved what he calls President Bush's "Safety Zone" and notes that it appears to be shrinking.
He claims that the President is not willing to speak before audiences of ordinary citizens, instead only appearing before troops or Republicans who have paid to see him. His implication is that the President is increasingly unpopular and can't face the public.
What Froomkin is bemoaning, however is that antiwar activists are prevented from disrupting events and providing a moment that can appear in the next MoveOn.org ad. It's been the Old Media's political operatives that have had to produce the partisan questions intended to embarass Bush and provide fodder for the Democrats. During a prime time East Room press conference last year, no less than six reporters asked Bush if he was willing to admit mistakes in regard to Iraq, 9/11 or anything.
The talking points about Wednesday's speech at the Naval Academy went out before the President left for Annapolis. Democrats and their Old Media amplifiers were blathering about "captive audiences" and "backdrops." The most laughable instance of hypocrisy on the issue of using the military as a backdrop was Sen. John "Reporting for duty" Kerry. Has it been forgotten that he sailed into Boston Harbor with his "Band of Brothers" and dragged them all over the campaign trail until they got torpedoed by some real war heroes?
There was an amusing incident in Denver this week when anti-Bush protesters surrounded the media bus en route to a fundraiser for Rep. Marilyn Musgrave. A beleagued reporter for CNN called in from the bus to describe what was happening. Her tone seemed to say, "Don't they know we're the media - we're on their side!
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