Category Archives: Wonky Media

NY Times Finds A Way To Find Haditha Marines Guilty

October 6, 2007 – 1:44 pm

Leave to the Times to create a way to say that the Haditha Marines got off on technicalities when *hint hint* they must have really been guilty. Last year, when accounts of the killing of 24 Iraqis in Haditha by a group of marines came to light, it seemed that the Iraq war had produced […]

By William Teach Also posted in War On Terrorism 3 Comments

WTW: Fact Checking Fred At The Wash. Post

September 19, 2007 – 3:30 pm

  Afternoon, y’all. Jebediah Murphy here, bringin’ you the truth. Thought I would let Teach get some milage out of Talk Like a Pirate Day. Now, it seems as if them thar critters at the Washington Post are starting a new feature called "The Fact Checker," by Michael Dobbs. In it’s short time at the WP, […]

By Jebediah Murphy Also posted in White Trash Wednesday 2 Comments

NY Times Attacks America Yet Again

September 10, 2007 – 1:24 pm

This time, we, along with some other first world countries, are killing the poor around the world The World Health Organization estimates that 4.8 million people a year with moderate to severe cancer pain receive no appropriate treatment. Nor do another 1.4 million with late-stage AIDS. For other causes of lingering pain — burns, car […]

By William Teach 3 Comments

TTLF: CNN Now Loves Huckabee

September 6, 2007 – 8:07 am

As of the time this is posted, CNN, the "world leader in news," mentions the GOP debate on the front page only in terms of "Ticker: GOP candidate on Iraq: "We broke it." That would be it. Nothing else. Gee, no bias there. And the story leads only to that confrontation between Paul and Huckabee, […]

By William Teach Also posted in GOP, Linkfest 23 Comments

Cosmic Karma-Reporter Takes Spill

September 4, 2007 – 1:16 pm

Talk about the stars being aligned (from the Daily Mail) If he didn’t believe in karma before, Piers Morgan must surely do now. The ex-newspaper editor, now a columnist for The Mail on Sunday’s Live magazine, took great delight in making fun of President Bush for falling off a Segway – the two-wheeled, motorised, gyroscopically […]

By William Teach Also posted in GWB 2 Comments

The Prozac Diaries: Eugene Robinson Joins The Cast

August 14, 2007 – 1:37 pm

OK, everyone is entitled to their opinion, but, one would expect some responsibility from the Major Media, wouldn’t you? (yeah, I know, I’m dreamin’) Eugene Robinson, over at the Washington Post, swims in derangement syndromes Buh-bye, Karl Rove. On your way out of the White House, don’t let the screen door hit you where the […]

By William Teach Also posted in Liberal World, Prozac Diaries 2 Comments

Scant Details In Rice Mideast Trip (?)

July 29, 2007 – 5:48 pm

This is rich WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A goal of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s Middle East trip this week is to win Arab support for a proposed conference on Israeli-Palestinian peace moves, but details for that meeting are scant. Scant. I notice that al-Reuters, along with the AP and the rest of the media outlets […]

By William Teach 1 Comment

NY Times: Supreme Court Is Only Good When Going Left

July 27, 2007 – 12:23 pm

Liberal World Thought from Jean Edward Smith WHEN a majority of Supreme Court justices adopt a manifestly ideological agenda, it plunges the court into the vortex of American politics. If the Roberts court has entered voluntarily what Justice Felix Frankfurter once called the “political thicket,” it may require a political solution to set it straight. […]

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U.S. Threatens Military Action In Pakistan

July 21, 2007 – 7:11 am

Or does it? ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — An ambush of a military convoy that killed 17 troops near the Afghan border Wednesday pushed the death toll in a series of attacks to at least 101 Pakistanis in the past five days — and brought President Pervez Musharraf, according to a local newspaper headline, to a "Moment […]

By William Teach Also posted in War On Terrorism 1 Comment

Media Bias? What Media Bias Part “What, Again?”

July 19, 2007 – 7:41 pm

Headline: Ex-Cheney aid gets 10 years in prison in spy case NEWARK, New Jersey (Reuters) – A former White House official who took top secret documents from U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney’s office and gave them to opposition figures in the Philippines was sentenced on Wednesday to 10 years in prison. Philippine-born Leandro Aragoncillo, a […]

By William Teach 2 Comments
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