This popular post was first published here. They don’t make ‘em like Rory Leishman anymore. He’s one of those old fashioned newsmen you only see in black and white movies these days. As a rare non-lefty Canadian journalist, he’s fought all the good fights, particularly against activist judges. Leishman was also battling our censorious, PC-mad [...]
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Kathy Shaidle | October 3, 2010 | Posted in
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When I first started writing for NewsReal Blog, I was assigned the Media Matters beat, mocking and debunking those self-appointed “media watchdogs” of the Left. “But if you get burned out, we’ll understand,” my editor added. “That site is pretty toxic.” “I can handle it,” I chirped in my best “seasoned professional” voice. Oh well. [...]
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Kathy Shaidle | September 30, 2010 | Posted in
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They don’t make ‘em like Rory Leishman anymore. He’s one of those old fashioned newsmen you only see in black and white movies these days. As a rare non-lefty Canadian journalist, he’s fought all the good fights, particularly against activist judges. Leishman was also battling our censorious, PC-mad “Human Rights” Commissions long before the rest [...]
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Kathy Shaidle | September 28, 2010 | Posted in
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Don’t you hate it when ancient, boring newspaper columnists too lazy to think up a decent topic that week decide to write about… the weird mail they get for their newspaper column? I know I do. So anyhow… Today I got this email: Ms. Shaidle: I was curious about your attack on Media Matters involving [...]
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Kathy Shaidle | September 27, 2010 | Posted in
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When I first started writing for NewsReal Blog, I was assigned the Media Matters beat, mocking and debunking those self-appointed “media watchdogs” of the Left. “But if you get burned out, we’ll understand,” my editor added. “That site is pretty toxic.” “I can handle it,” I chirped in my best “seasoned professional” voice. Oh well. [...]
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Kathy Shaidle | September 26, 2010 | Posted in
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By me. Ha! You all know what I’m talking about. Now, I’ve stumbled upon the answer to the “?” part. Bear with me, ok? But it seems to go something like this: A guy writes this actual sentence: “This fatuous infatuation with the Constitution, particularly the 10th Amendment, is clearly the work of witches, wiccans [...]
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Kathy Shaidle | September 25, 2010 | Posted in
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Editor’s Note: This post has been revised since it was first published. Because its author, Kathy Shaidle, is Canadian she is not protected by the same first amendment and libel laws that Americans are. Thus despite the fact that the facts she presented have floated around the American blogosphere for years and were published in [...]
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Kathy Shaidle | September 22, 2010 | Posted in
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Earlier this month, we broke the news that Hollywood is producing a fawning biopic of Rachel Carson, whose 1962 book Silent Spring helped launch the modern environmental movement. Silent Spring focused on the supposed dangers of the pesticide DDT. Those dangers turned out to be highly exaggerated — but in the meantime, millions of Africans [...]
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Kathy Shaidle | September 21, 2010 | Posted in
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Roger Simon has written: …were I a biographer — an occupation for which I have nowhere near the patience or perspicacity — [George] Soros would be my first choice for a subject. He is a paradigmatic figure for our times, a kind of a monster created in the twentieth century, inexorably metastasizing into the twenty-first. [...]
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Kathy Shaidle | September 19, 2010 | Posted in
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At least, that’s my prediction. I give it until the end of the day. I say this because Derek Fenton — the man fired for burning a Koran at the September 11 rally against the “Ground Zero mosque” — worked for something called NJ Transit, which has “union” written all over it. Here’s NJ Transit’s [...]
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Kathy Shaidle | September 15, 2010 | Posted in
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