Category Archives: Wonky Media
October 23, 2007 – 6:34 pm
Earlier, Captain Ed wrote about many of the major media outlets ignoring a story that is good news from Iraq, namely a dramatic decline in violence in Iraq. Violence in Iraq has dropped by 70 percent since the end of June, when U.S. forces completed their build-up of 30,000 extra troops to stabilize the war-torn […]
October 22, 2007 – 1:46 pm
Leave it to the Grey Lady to fund a way to create a Constitutional and internationalist issue out of this The American commitment to free speech is the most robust in the world. But these days that tolerance stops at the border. Two cases pending in federal court in Manhattan will soon test how far the […]
October 13, 2007 – 2:17 pm
On one hand, the Times is joining the party of this information, ie, that the lefties are pains in the ass not just to Conservatives, but to their own peeps, a little late. On the other, how bad are the Nutters acting to get the NY Times to notice? The article starts out comparing Barney […]
October 11, 2007 – 9:59 pm
Maybe the NY Times is coming out with a new slogan: All the future news sometimes fit for printing Turkey reacted angrily today to a House committee vote in Washington on Wednesday to condemn the mass killings of Armenians in Turkey in World War I as an act of genocide, calling the decision “unacceptable.†In […]
October 6, 2007 – 11:35 pm
Remember back to last Sunday, when Tom Freidman wrote Times columnists are not allowed to endorse candidates, but there’s no rule against saying who will not get my vote: I will not vote for any candidate running on 9/11. We don’t need another president of 9/11. We need a president for 9/12. I will only […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
