Category Archives: Wonky Media

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

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 […]

White House To NBC: Show Us The Proof!

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 […]

LA Times: Negotiating Isn’t Appeasement

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 […]

WSJ Says Kick Burma Out Of The U.N.

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 […]

When Is A Political Attack Ad OK?

When it is back the Obamessiah, of course. Obama Strikes Back With Negative Advertisement That’s right. He “Strikes Back,” which, to me, seems to be a tacit approval of what Barack NMN Obama has done. As the campaigning for the Indiana and North Carolina primaries comes to a close, the Democratic presidential candidates are letting […]

8 Stages Alert: This Time Blaming Hillary, Though

On the 8 Stages list, a #4 is “Blame Conservatives for bringing the truth to light. How dare they do dat!!!!” Who thought that the “conservative” in question would be Hillary? Since January, the Clintons have pummeled Barack Obama with racially tinged comments and questions about his character. Hillary Clinton has questioned why he didn’t […]

McCain Clarifies Iraq Oil Remarks For Those Who Are Idiots

And by idiots, I think you know who I am referring to. During a John McCain townhall on Friday, he made the following remark “My friends, I will have an energy policy that we will be talking about, which will eliminate our dependence on oil from the Middle East that will prevent us from having […]

Name The Party Affiliation Game!

Let’s play…….never mind, too easy Rep. Vito J. Fossella (R-N.Y.) was arrested overnight in Alexandria and charged with driving while intoxicated, court records showed today Over at MyDD Being arrested for a DUI isn’t necessarily a political death-knell for an incumbent — but neither is it terribly good news,.. What about when someone is indicted […]

Grey Lady Upset Over Candidates Negative Campaigns

Because that’s their @$#%^* job! The Pennsylvania campaign, which produced yet another inconclusive result on Tuesday, was even meaner, more vacuous, more desperate, and more filled with pandering than the mean, vacuous, desperate, pander-filled contests that preceded it. Voters are getting tired of it; it is demeaning the political process; and it does not work. […]

Follow Up On BBC Global Warming Article

On Friday, I posted an article featuring excerpts from a BBC story. Now, I was just over at ICECAP, and caught an interesting story, via Newsbusters, about the BBC changing the story. The original 3rd paragraph read so: This would mean global temperatures have not risen since 1998, prompting some to question climate change theory. […]

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