Stories You Should Know: What You Missed Over The Weekend

February 1, 2010 / 9:41 am
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Supposedly the news cycle ebbs over the weekend. Not this weekend. And there wasn't even football.

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Sexy Sarah Palin: Leftist Sexists At It Yet Again--UPDATED, UPDATED AGAIN

November 16, 2009 / 1:58 pm
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How ribald can you be? Newsweek will show you:

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Roman Polanski Deserves To Do The Time For The Crime. Now.

September 30, 2009 / 11:16 am
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Does artistic genius and contribution negate horrendous evil? No. This is how I've reasoned through the murky territory of great artists with personal failings: While they may be troubled and condemned personally, their art can stand on its own.

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New York Times Decides They Better Cover All The News--Even The P.U. Stinky Kind UPDATED

September 28, 2009 / 11:03 am
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Glynnis MacNicol of Mediate notes the New York Time's editor Bill Keller sudden fascination with all the news that's fit to print--not just the part of the news that helps Democrats feel good about themselves. Well, this will be a real education:

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Surprise! New York Time's Kidnapped Journalist A Moron Who Cost A Soldier And Friend Their Lives--UPDATED

September 10, 2009 / 10:32 am
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The paper of record will probably not report the flaming ignorance of their own reporter, Stephen Farrell, but the British press is less inclined to cover for him. Remember the NYT reporter who got abducted and subsequently rescued? Remember how good the NYT was with keeping that secret, you know a secret that mattered when lives were at stake?

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Levi Johnson Living The American Dream: Sleeping His Way To Fame

September 2, 2009 / 10:49 am
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As a way into liberal prominence goes, nothing quite beats screwing literally, or metaphorically, a conservative to achieve fame. Levi Johnson has done both. He is, literally, a fame whore.

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White House Pentagon Profiling Reporters

August 27, 2009 / 9:24 am
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Uh oh:

Contrary to the insistence of Pentagon officials this week that they are not rating the work of reporters covering U.S. forces in Afghanistan, Stars and Stripes has obtained documents that prove that reporters’ coverage is being graded as “positive,” “neutral” or “negative.”

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Inglourious Bastards Basterds--UPDATED

August 26, 2009 / 3:23 pm
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Inglourious Bastards might be Quentin Tarantino's best movie so far. As expected, it's full of gruesome violence, gratuitous splattering blood, and revenge fantasies. For the subject, it's all to the good: Nazis die.

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Podcast 33: Media Bias & Malpractice With Dan Gainor

August 25, 2009 / 10:19 am
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Dan Gainor of the Media Research Center, Townhall, and Newsbusters joined me to discuss the media's bias--both covert and overt--and how it shapes public opinion. It does work. The media does shape opinion, even though most news organizations have moved to a British model of journalism. The difference is that a Brit journalist will admit his bias, whereas an American journalist likes to view himself as objective. His delusion makes him more dangerous.

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Elites, Pseudo-Intellectualism, & Language

August 18, 2009 / 11:23 am
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Wow, Washington, D.C. is filled with preening, sanctimonious a-holes. Drunk on their own intellectualism and stunned into self-reflective absorption, the only thing that matters to this collective Narcissus is vainglory. This assessment includes conservatives and Republicans, by the way.

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