Rush Limbaugh likes to joke that he is “documented to be almost always right, 98.8 percent of the time.” And whenever his political predictions prove accurate, listeners know what to expect: his baritone voice lowers even further as he intones, “You see, folks? DON’T… doubt me…”
Now: let’s travel back in time to January of this [...]
When I first joined NewsReal, my beat was the George Soros Steno Pool otherwise known as Media Matters. My editor told me, however, that he’d understand if I had to bail after a while. After all, the hateful, biased, mendacious atmosphere at that self-proclaimed “media watchdog” is highly toxic.
I toughed it out for a surprisingly [...]
You may recall our revelation that Alexander Zaitchik’s anti-Glenn Beck book, Common Nonsense, shamelessly misrepresents Beck’s views about the Tuskegee Experiment, painting Beck as an ignorant racist.
Zaitchik is still at it. Here’s his latest bit at the New York Observer:
In the four years since he moved to the area, there are two known instances of [...]
Legend has it (and it’s wrong, by the way) that when “the most trusted man in America” denounced the Vietnam War on national television one night in 1968, President Johnson muttered, “If I’ve lost [Walter] Cronkite, I’ve lost the country.”
Since mainstream journalists are heavily invested in their self-image as brave “speaking-truth-to-power” types, it is no [...]
I’m so old, I remember when hostile “unauthorized biographers” at least pretended they’d made every effort to contact the subject of their “investigations.”
“No, Mr. X didn’t return my numerous calls or answer my letters. What can I say? Maybe he has something to hide, who knows…?”
In fact, Gay Talese created a whole new literary sub-genre [...]
I’ve praised Donna Laframboise here before, due to her tireless and thankless factchecking of the infamous Nobel-winning report on “global warming.
Today, she provides some much needed perspective on the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico:
She writes, in part:
Green activists like to declare that we’re addicted to oil. I think we’re addicted to drama. (…)
Regarding [...]
Notice how quickly the meme formed?
I expected our outright enemies (and our wobbly allies) to grasp hold of the “Gaza flotilla” story like a life preserver, and they didn’t disappoint. The only thing missing was Dennis the Peasant chirping, “Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help, help! I’m being repressed!”
Alas, we also [...]
My husband Arnie blogs as BlazingCatFur, and frequently videotapes anti-Israeli demonstrations here in Toronto.
This morning, he taped a demonstration against Benyamin Netanyahu’s visit to the city. The demo was co-sponsored by taxpayer funded Palestine House.
While filming a public demonstration on a public sidewalk, my husband was approached by Ali Mallah — the Vice President of [...]
Remember back in January, when the Anti-Defamation League accused Rush Limbaugh of anti-Semitism?
Reading the new book Rush Limbaugh: An Army of One, I learned that this isn’t the first time such a stupid charge has been made against the pro-Israel host, and based on even flimsier “evidence.” Let’s travel back in time to 1988:
The following [...]
Aayan Hirsi Ali brings out the worst in stupid leftoid male public television interviewers.
Who will ever forget her disasterous (for him) interview with notorious Canadian dingbat Avi Lewis, who became such an international laughingstock after this broadcast that he had to decamp the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for… Al Jazeera. (My fellow Canadians reading this are [...]
