Category Archives: Wonky Media

That AP Pay For Play? It’s A Howie Dean/George Bush Conspiracy

June 18, 2008 – 9:40 am

By now, most know about the AP’s new project to charge bloggers and other linkers $12.50 to $100 for excerpts, based on number of words. Now, everyone thinks that the AP is shooting itself in the foot. I disagree. Why? Because, in fact, this whole kerfuffle is actually a conspiracy between Dubya and Howie “Scream” […]

By William Teach Also posted in Weblogs 3 Comments

NY Times: Hey, Let’s Ditch That Free Speech Crap!

June 11, 2008 – 8:33 pm

No, seriously (via Little Green Footballs) Unlike Others, U.S. Defends Freedom to Offend in Speech In the United States, that debate has been settled. Under the First Amendment, newspapers and magazines can say what they like about minority groups and religions — even false, provocative or hateful things — without legal consequence. Well, unless they […]

By William Teach 3 Comments

Sen. Leiberman Responds To The NY Times

May 29, 2008 – 3:44 pm

I mentioned back on Sunday that the NY Times editorial board loves Islamist video’s, as they blasted Joe Leiberman for asking Youtube to ban jihadi video’s. Now, Joe has responded (via The Jawa Report) In “Joe Lieberman, Would-Be Censor” (editorial, May 25), you proclaim it “ludicrous” to “claim that the Internet promotes terrorism.” But the […]

By William Teach Also posted in War On Terrorism 2 Comments

NY Times Editorial Board Loves Islamist Videos

May 25, 2008 – 2:06 pm

Apparently, they do not find Islamic terrorist videos to be hate speech. You know, video’s that call for the destruction of, well, basically anything not to their liking. With violence. They are essentially telling us what they want to, and will, do. But, hey, they apparently have a constitutionalright to do this, as opposed to […]

By William Teach Also posted in War On Terrorism 4 Comments

NY Times: The Invisible War

May 23, 2008 – 9:30 am

Only in the La La Liberal Land of The New York Times editorial pages The Invisible War by Timothy Egan Landing in Seattle after a long flight from Texas, I was about to join the exit scrum when the pilot informed us there were five soldiers on board, ending a three-day odyssey home from Iraq. […]

By William Teach Also posted in War On Terrorism 1 Comment

cBS Uses Humor To Tell Us How Old McCain Is

May 23, 2008 – 8:33 am

Or, as they termed it Critics Try To Make McCain’s Age An Issue CBSNews.com Reports: Senator Using Humor To Deflect Charges He Is Too Old For Presidency John McCain is 71 years old. You would be hard pressed to argue that that’s an insignificant number – it’s only a few years less than the average […]

By William Teach Also posted in John McCain 3 Comments

3 Years Later, cBS Gets To The Heart Of New Orleans Levee’s

May 22, 2008 – 8:18 am

Remember back when one of cBS’s star witnesses to the tragedy that was Hurricane Katrina was complaining that the levee’s were bombed, and cBS ignored that? ‘Memba how they joined in on the “President Bush’s FEMA was bad,” but never mentioned Chocolate City Nagin’s and Governor Blanco’s failure to do their jobs? Oh, hell, they […]

By William Teach Also posted in Current Affairs 1 Comment

White House To NBC: Show Us The Proof!

May 21, 2008 – 8:34 am

NBC will probably just send out Keith Olberamann to tell Duyba to shut up or call our troops terrorists The White House is calling on NBC News to declare whether the network still believes Iraq is mired in a “civil war,” escalating a fight that began when NBC aired an interview with President Bush that […]

By William Teach Also posted in GWB 3 Comments

LA Times: Negotiating Isn’t Appeasement

May 18, 2008 – 11:44 am

The LA Times is going all out in spinning away Barack NMN Obama’s idea to have himself directly talk with leaders of countries that hate us In a speech to the Israeli parliament Thursday, President Bush took a swipe at Barack Obama for his willingness to negotiate with evil regimes. “Some seem to believe that […]

By William Teach Also posted in Barry Obama 6 Comments

WSJ Says Kick Burma Out Of The U.N.

May 10, 2008 – 4:58 pm

Granted, I do not read the Wall Street Journal a ton. Just too many news sources out there. But, I cannot remember the WSJ, or any other news source, calling for the United Nations to kick out member states like Cuba, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and other massive human rights violaters. But, Burma? Theys gots […]

By William Teach Also posted in UN 1 Comment
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