Category Archives: Wonky Media

Grey Lady Tries Humor: McCain’s Low Road

July 30, 2008 – 10:26 am

This editorial is either a humor piece, or the Times has failed Politics 101. The fact that the Times is in the bag for Obama is a given Well, that certainly didn’t take long. On July 3, news reports said Senator John McCain, worried that he might lose the election before it truly started, opened […]

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Vietraq Returns!

July 26, 2008 – 7:45 am

The Associated Press gives it the old college kindergarten try: Iraq War’s Price Tag Nears Vietnam’s The total cost of the Iraq war is approaching the Vietnam War’s expense, a congressional report estimates, while spending for military operations after 9/11 has exceeded it. The new report by the Congressional Research Service estimates the U.S. has […]

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Proof The Credentialed Media In The Tank For Obama

July 24, 2008 – 10:16 am

As proven by the Credentialed Media. IBD – Putting Money Where Mouths Are: Media Donations Favor Dems 100-1 The New York Times’ refusal to publish John McCain’s rebuttal to Barack Obama’s Iraq op-ed may be the most glaring example of liberal media bias this journalist has ever seen. But true proof of widespread media bias […]

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Vanity Fair Spoofs The New Yorker, Misses Point

July 22, 2008 – 8:09 pm

Sa-wing, batter batter batter, sa-wing! We here at Vanity Fair maintain a kind of affectionate rivalry with our downstairs neighbors at The New Yorker. We play softball every year, compete for some of the same stories, and share an elevator bank. (You can tell the ones who are headed to the 20th floor by their […]

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Obama’s 3 Ring Iraq Trip

July 17, 2008 – 8:15 am

Early morning thought: will those on the Port side accuse Obama of going to Iraq for a photo op? IHT – Media stars will accompany Obama overseas Senator John McCain’s trip to Iraq last spring was a low-key affair: With his ordinary retinue of reporters following him abroad, the NBC News anchor Brian Williams reported […]

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AP Photog Stands By As Taliban Murders 2 Women

July 14, 2008 – 5:48 pm

Apparently, they could not afford the AP’s rates. Via Rusty Shackleford, apparently these two women were murdered while an AP string watch, and, took video. (The caption of the picture) Two unidentified Afghan Women chat with each other a few minutes before they were executed by Taliban in Ghazni province, Afghanistan, on late Saturday, July […]

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Grey Lady Tries The “Just Wondering” About McCain’s Birth Again

July 11, 2008 – 4:18 pm

Yeah, I am a bit late to the party been kinda iBusy. Way back on the February 8, 2008, I caught some Lefties whining about McCain’s birth, and whether that made him inneligible to become President. I said it would become the next lefty meme. Then the NY Times tried it on for size. They […]

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Will Media Matters Take The MSM To Task For Fauxtography?

July 10, 2008 – 8:21 am

You remember when Media (being Left) Matters pitched a hissy fit over a Fox News dumbass photoshopping incident, right? I wonder if they will be just as upset about the AFP photoshopping at least one picture of the Iranian missile launches, creating an extra missile? Little Green Footballs catches it, and Suitably Flip animates it. […]

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NY Times Creates Mayhem With Fox News

July 8, 2008 – 8:07 am

It may be juvenile, but, hey, it is the lexicon of the Interwebz, but ROTFLOL! The NY Times tries a hatchet piece of Fox News, showing exactly how the derangement on the Left is in full force as the piece starts out Like most working journalists, whenever I type seven letters — Fox News — […]

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NYT: Successes Against Suicide Bombers Creates Them

July 5, 2008 – 7:52 am

One of my little morning habits is, after getting up, brushing the teeth, putting on the coffee, I go outside, have a smoke, and check my Crackberry, then the news on my Blackjack. Imagine my surprise when the top story from the NY Times mobile went as such Despair Drives Suicide Attacks by Iraqi Women […]

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