Category Archives: Wonky Media

Surrender Monkey Friday: What Do We Rename The War On Terrorism?

So days there are those articles that just make Surrendie jump with joy. This is one of them Planet War: A New Name for the ‘Global War on Terror’? Peter_Feaver | Debating the proper label for this conflict is a hardy perennial of national security professionals and arm-chair experts. The arrival of a new President, […]

Just When You Thought The Times’ Op-Ed Pages Couldn’t Get Moonbattier..

Gail Collins tries to out-mo Mo Dowd: Time For Him To Go Thanksgiving is next week, and President Bush could make it a really special holiday by resigning. I could probably stop there and let the Derangement wash over us. Seriously. We have an economy that’s crashing and a vacuum at the top. Bush — who is currently […]

Oh, Good. Hezbollah Steals Boy Scout Uniforms To Train Future Terrorists

I wonder if the ACLU will sue for mixing church and state? Hezbollah Marshals The Young Via Scout Troops On a Bekaa Valley playing field gilded by late-afternoon sun, hundreds of young men wearing Boy Scout-style uniforms and kerchiefs stand rigidly at attention as a military band plays, its marchers bearing aloft the distinctive yellow […]

Washington Post Clueless On Iraq Timeline

Paging Dr. Cluebat. Paging Dr. Cluebat. Bush Reversal on Iraq Deadline Gives Obama Breathing Room By agreeing to a fixed deadline for the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq, President Bush contradicted years of promises that he would never agree to anything but a “conditions-based” plan for phasing out the American military role there. But […]

LA Times: Barry Hits The Wall Of Reality

And the media love affair with The Messiah continues its downfall: Barack Obama is looking more like a realist Reporting from Washington — Now that the confetti has fallen, the nascent administration of Barack Obama has come face to face with one of its biggest challenges: living up to the exceptionally high expectations his thrilling […]

NY Times: Thank Gaia The Imperial Presidency Is Ending, So Barry Can Start An..Imperial Presidency?

In a long, long, LONG rambling story entitled “After The Imperial Presidency,” (Lord Almighty, the story is long and rambling) the Grey Lady is just tinkled pinko that His Royal Highness George Bush is soon to be out the door. Um, perhaps they should have been paying a bit more attention before writing they godawfully […]

Hooray! Grey Lady Does Front Page Exposing Another Secret Operation

Simple wonderful. The Times has a story ripe with anonymous sources who discussed a secret operation allowing strikes against Al Qaeda in countries around the world without permission by those countries, and includes all sorts of “no comments” by people who are named. Secret Order Lets U.S. Raid Al Qaeda in Many Countries The United […]

CNN On Obama’s Coal Statement? Eh. Months Old

This headline from CNN certainly has to be a contender for the funniest of the week: Palin knocks Obama over months-old coal comments. Coming from an arm of the liberal media who has delved into Bush’s TANG service and drunk driving incidents, decades old, as well as McCain’s cancer from years ago, whether he co-operated with […]

Times Online Smacks Dem “Timing” Experts With Obama’s Book

The Times Of London has a message for all the (typical) calls from Democrats/Liberals/Surrender Monkeys who question the timing of their story on Barack H. Obama’s (remember, using the “H” is racist) Aunti Zeituni The trail that led to “Aunt Zeituni”, the relative of Barack Obama who was traced by The Times last week, started […]

I’m Glad Joe Klein Could Do Research On Rashid Khalidi

I’d ask “what is with the MSM,” but, we all know the answer: in da tank Herewe have the McCain campaign’s execrable Michael Goldfarb slinging around accusations of anti-semitism–a favorite pastime, as we’ve seen this year, among Jewish neoconservatives. I’ve never met Rashid Khalidi, but he is (a) Palestinian and therefore (b) a semite, so […]

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