The story follows the usual MSN formula. Action results in victims. feel sorry for the victims. Story is not too balanced it has little reference to the fact that Gaza is controlled by Hamas a wholly owned subsidiary of that Iran. And the agenda of Hamas is to destroy Israel.
Glenn Greenwald: Boy Sock puppet and liar best known for writing favorable comments on his own blog using pseudonyms. Now he is being called to task because he does not have a large enough pair to go to Iraq to see what is going on. Does not get his facts straight and now he thinks that someone writing him to correct the record is politicizing the military. SOCKPUPPET did not publish the full text of the email What he left off contradicts his conspiracy theory. see http://dreadpundit.blogspot.com/2007/10/full-text-of-email-reveals-greenwald.html
This is not your Grandfather's BBC. No source for estimates of crowd side, Who is Lislie Kielsen, and what does she not know? This is a clueless reporter who is writing for his echo chamber. There really is nothing newworthy in this story,
Nice entertaining read. Very PC in content. The conventional wisdom is always correct. This article makes no allowance for the fact that statements that we consider wacko could be true. The degree of ignorance about the human mind and intelligence in science is high. We have no idea why or how intelligence and self awareness evolved. It may be that there is some geographic and environmental conditions that would select for one type of intelligence over another type of intelligence and this may or may not be made manifest in our testing. The problem with this article is that it si cute and amusing and patronizing without addressing any of the assumptions of the author.
Who cares? in 14 months the Bush Presidency ends. Who cares if Laura Bush thinks the democrats are also practice demagoguery? The question is "Is ddemocrat demagoguery working sufficiently to persuade voters?.
This is a well written Blog. It provides links to all sources so the reader can check the veracity and spin the author is providing.
The article could use a little more fleshing out on the economic problems in Venezuela that are creating the incentives to become a Narco-traficante state.
How many moons are there on this author's planet? Some where in the world of liberal writers world, hard data are not to be used, facts are to be ignored and truth is what we fell. How or why this Blog which is not one of the 5 most influential Blogs per CMU study is being sourced and Instapundit, Watcherofweasles, or donsurber are not tells me all I need to know about who hangs out at this site. It was a good idea but it is being killed by the "truther and the loons"
This story ignores the theological issues totally. How a story about religious schisms can ignore the theological arguments is beyond me. The NYTs wrote this as if we were talking about some country club and not believers views of the word and teaching of their God.
First sentence slants the article badly in favor of the Democrats. Democrats campaigned on eliminating earmarks and once in power promptly sought to weaken any earmark reform. (Check Congressman Murtha's behavior this and any session) Who are the watchdog groups that praise the Democrat performance? The slant is to make the practice of the Congress appear less repugnant than they really are.
This is a non-story. We have been over this ground so many times that unless the story say on such and such a date war begins there is nothing new in this. So what is the agenda behind this non-story? Is it to tell the Iranians that the US can destroy the country? Is it to tell European government's that War will come regardless of how feckless and weak they are? Is it to re-assure the realists in the US that Iran will not be allowed nuclear weapons? The writer has some hidden agenda.
An example of reporting the smoke without knowing anything about fire. No examination of the assumptions the led to the push for muni-wifi, no understanding of the political issues associated with muni-wifi etc. Business reporters should have some economics background. Muni-wifi was hyped because the reporters had no clue regarding the economics, Now they report the demise. No MuniWifi is not dead, but the rent seekers in the cities will have to find another pigeon to pluck
Story is designed to protect the guilty and convict the innocent. The slant seems to be that the soldiers are just to be pawns, with no minds of their own. What do the Congress Critters think the military things of them and their positions?
This starts to address the problem of how to fix Africa. Article would benefit from a more thorough analysis of the problems in the food distribution system in Africa, the Kelptocracies that Govern Africa.
A well written story about the catastrophe unfolding in Zimbabwe. The story suffers from the use of anonymous sources. It assumes the reader knows something about the history of Zimbabwe under Robert Mugabe.
Frank Rich is a polemicist. If he writes it you can rest assured it slants no; leans no; tilts no, is left wing propaganda. This story is no different
The article's weakness is it is addicted to anonymous sources. What is the agenda of the sources: the Generals in Her Majesty's army, and the sources reporting the CIA is withdrawing intelligence assets. Inquiring minds want to know.
Story has a subtle bias against business. It does not highlight editors of Wikipedia entries coming from the DNC, the RNC, Earthfirst, HRC and others who have an interest in the accuracy of Wikipedia. The story could benefit from a discussion of the limitations of the commons as it applies to data archives and information sources.
The Guardian worries that Her Majesty's subjects communications may be subject to US interception. They always were. Lots of noise, full of sound and fury but in the end, nothing.
Populism and ignorance combine to write an article totally bereft of value. The analysis of the current credit crisis in this article and its effect on the world economy is totally lacking. It is all the evil bankers manipulating the worlds markets. I am surprised that Ralph Nader did not ascribe the problem to the "evil Jews" instead he just hints at it with reference to Goldman Sachs.
"Round up the usual suspects!" Dog bites man, sun rises in the east, politicians leverage government actions for political benefit. Lots of noise but nothing illegal. Move alone children
The artice's headline is misleading. This is one case, and one case does is not a model to follow. The article also downplays the seriousness of the actions of Mr. Abdullah Al-Muhajir (born Jose Padilla) by selective presentation of the evidence against Mr. Abduallah Al-Muhajir. Lots of sympathy is evident for in the article for the Terrorist, such statements as "interrogation ... caused him lasting psychiatric problems... (the loser had sever problems before he was interrogated, or does the NYTs content that terrorist is rational?) Then the article makes a leap, without attribution that this case enables selective detention of enemy combatants.
A mealy-mouthed editorial weakly supporting the nomination of Judge Southwick to the Fifth Circuit court of Appeals. The editorial concludes the judge is an acceptable nominee. However in typical WP fashion the editorial argues that it would have been better to nominate a someone with enhanced melanin content in the skin, somehow concluding the melanin content is synonymous with sound legal reasoning.
Another Gotch moment for the AFP. First the photograph of the bullets that supposedly hit an elderly woman's house in Iraq (unfired ammunition) and now outright plagiarism and attempted intellectual property theft. The ethical character of the newspaper business has not changed since Ben Franklin started printing.
This is a poorly sourced, boring editorial. The author suffers from BDS and spends no time looking for sources or finding facts to support his position. He makes sweeping statements with no support. Many trees died in vain. This editorial will cheer up the Choir but convince no others.
Is the agenda of the NYTs to give anti-antisemitism legitimacy under the cover of foreign policy disagreement? It appears to be. Citing ex President Carter's screed as evidence that disagreement with US foreign Policy with respect to Israel is not Anti-semitic is disingenuous. Mr. Carter is an Anti-Semite. These authors are anti-semitic. They make claims that Jews have dual loyalties, are uncommonly influential in US foreign policy and have a uniform agenda. To quote George Shultz, these scholars "should be ashamed to promulage it." Anti-antisemitic acts are the most common "Hate crimes" perpetrated in the United States and anti-antisemitism is again becoming acceptable, especially in the progressive left. This story just ... More »
Who is forensic psychiatrist Dr. Angela Hegarty, inquiring minds want to know? Her Columbia University affiliation does not provide her with instant credibility. The use of Quotes taken from sources with clear agendas and incentive to lie make this story just pure propaganda.
This story could use a little statistical analysis to put the suicide rate into perspective. As written we have the raw data which does not look good, but is this number just random variation or is it a trend?
Factual but Reuters anti-israel bias shows when it emphasizes that the aid is not conditioned on diplomatic concessions.
Propaganda from the Nevil Chamberlain wing of the Democrat party. Not worth the carbon credits required to print the newspaper.
The editorial starts with a false premise, "the mission of the media is to inform" No the mission of the media is to sell advertising. What they publish to attract the adverser is up to them. This editorial is a plea by the enlightened class for special treatment. The wheels are coming off the newspaper industry's business model and rather than fix it, the author wants the taxpayers to fund this broken model. (Think First Amendment problems) Economists call this rent seeking. The author rails against subsidies for agriculture, textiles and other rent seekers yet he thinks his mission, educate and enlighten as he choses to do it is worthy of such subsidy. He illustrates his "demand" for subsidies by citing the success of the ... More »
The Washington Post must be addicted to un-named sources. Most of the analysis in this piece comes from un-named sources so we never know if the analyst is the reporters cousin or from a reputable think tank. Given the importance of responding to Iranian support of Thugs and Terrorists the Washington Post should be more forthcoming
The AP corrected this story and appended a reference to the correction on the bottom of the story. The writing style is AP, which makes it full of information and a bit of a difficult read.
From across the pond comes a pity little piece on what is wrong with the American Conservative movement. Nothing new but well written and if you live on the eastern shore of the pond after reading you may even think you know what is happening in the US.
As journalism, this is another use of unnamed sources and officials in deep background. I have no way to confirm if this report be true, if it be made from whole cloth, or if it be driven by someone with an agenda, who has duped a reporter to carry his water. When the subject is something as important as advocating war or tax increases etc, the sources should be cited and not hidden. As it relates telling the story of Iranian and Chinese assistance to the Thugs and terrorists in Iraq, the story is weak. Little of the supply side evidence is cited. Little is said about Iran seeking to eliminate Israel or Iranian support for terrorists world wide. I have an issue with "moving of the goal posts". As far as I am concerned, ... More »
The story never asks, why the taxpayer should be supporting these non-profit organizations. What makes glass so important, why not the National Cowboy museum (i am sure they probably ask for a earmark too.) If they cannot survive based on the perceive value of their product. Let them die.
Revisionist history of WWII. Now dropping the atomic bombs on Japan is in these loonies' view an act of terrorism. I am going to assume that the authors are unable to recall the horrors of the Japanese war, the Rape of Nanking, the comfort women, the Bataan death march etc. I also believe these authors have no idea of the cost in Japanese and American lives that was expected if the US had to invade the Japanese Homeland to bring the war to a conclusion. No these people live in a fantasy world in which the perfect is alway to be preferred over the achievable.
A relatively unimportant story from the "mistake by the lake". The more interesting part of the story to me is how the bias of the reporter enters the story: soft spoke, (always a positive attribute), "cast as an outlaw" (misdemeanor only) etc. The secord question is why is this story running? What is the agenda of the editor in selecting this story to run? Why this and why not news on Mugabe's latest human rights abuses, or perhaps the killing of a newpaper editor by a group of Black Muslim thugs in Oakland?
