Category Archives: Wonky Media

Washington Post Clueless On Iraq Timeline

Paging Dr. Cluebat. Paging Dr. Cluebat. Bush Reversal on Iraq Deadline Gives Obama Breathing Room By agreeing to a fixed deadline for the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq, President Bush contradicted years of promises that he would never agree to anything but a “conditions-based” plan for phasing out the American military role there. But […]

LA Times: Barry Hits The Wall Of Reality

And the media love affair with The Messiah continues its downfall: Barack Obama is looking more like a realist Reporting from Washington — Now that the confetti has fallen, the nascent administration of Barack Obama has come face to face with one of its biggest challenges: living up to the exceptionally high expectations his thrilling […]

NY Times: Thank Gaia The Imperial Presidency Is Ending, So Barry Can Start An..Imperial Presidency?

In a long, long, LONG rambling story entitled “After The Imperial Presidency,” (Lord Almighty, the story is long and rambling) the Grey Lady is just tinkled pinko that His Royal Highness George Bush is soon to be out the door. Um, perhaps they should have been paying a bit more attention before writing they godawfully […]

Hooray! Grey Lady Does Front Page Exposing Another Secret Operation

Simple wonderful. The Times has a story ripe with anonymous sources who discussed a secret operation allowing strikes against Al Qaeda in countries around the world without permission by those countries, and includes all sorts of “no comments” by people who are named. Secret Order Lets U.S. Raid Al Qaeda in Many Countries The United […]

CNN On Obama’s Coal Statement? Eh. Months Old

This headline from CNN certainly has to be a contender for the funniest of the week: Palin knocks Obama over months-old coal comments. Coming from an arm of the liberal media who has delved into Bush’s TANG service and drunk driving incidents, decades old, as well as McCain’s cancer from years ago, whether he co-operated with […]

Times Online Smacks Dem “Timing” Experts With Obama’s Book

The Times Of London has a message for all the (typical) calls from Democrats/Liberals/Surrender Monkeys who question the timing of their story on Barack H. Obama’s (remember, using the “H” is racist) Aunti Zeituni The trail that led to “Aunt Zeituni”, the relative of Barack Obama who was traced by The Times last week, started […]

I’m Glad Joe Klein Could Do Research On Rashid Khalidi

I’d ask “what is with the MSM,” but, we all know the answer: in da tank Herewe have the McCain campaign’s execrable Michael Goldfarb slinging around accusations of anti-semitism–a favorite pastime, as we’ve seen this year, among Jewish neoconservatives. I’ve never met Rashid Khalidi, but he is (a) Palestinian and therefore (b) a semite, so […]

Islamists Don’t Like The United Nations, Too

If you read through the main article from the AP about the latest suicide bombings in Somalia, words such as Islam, Muslim, and even terrorism are missing Suicide bombers struck targets across northern Somalia on Wednesday, including a U.N. compound, officials said. There were deaths and dozens of injuries, but an exact casualty figures were […]

You Rubes Just Don’t Get Climate Change!

Yet another example of the a Credentialed Media elitist telling us how just fucking stupid we all are for not buying the line that Mankind is causing climate change and how bad it is: The Public’s Dangerous Misunderstanding of Climate Change As I report on climate change, I come across a lot of scary facts, […]

Just Call Obama Mr. Unity

One would think that with a title like Obama Avoids Partisan Rhetoric, Focuses on Unity, the Washington Post would have a flowery “gee, ain’t he just swell!” article to follow the headline up. The flowery part is there, but, it subtlety makes the point that Barack H. Obama is not Mr. Unity On Barack Obama‘s […]

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