In a 30-second video clip that must be seen to be believed, Obama swats a fly, much to the adoration and praise of his CNBC hosts. (There’s even the close-up shot of the dead fly on the ground after having been felled by the Might Great One, Obama.) (Hat tip to Mary Katharine Ham... »
Archive for June 17th, 2009
Iran’s Hidden Revolution
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
The New York Times yesterday published a piece in their Op-Ed section by Danielle Pletka and Ali Alfoneh, entitled, “Iran’s Hidden Revolution“. The look at the uprising from a perspective that so far I haven’t seen many others use. Their analysis is that while everyone saw the external aspect of the uprising, namely the... »
Torture Fuels Hamas-PA Conflict
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
Ynetnews.com reports on claims by Hamas that the Palestinian Authority has tortured one of their operatives to death during interrogation in a PA jail. It makes one wonder two things: 1. If Palestinians can even keep from torturing, terrorizing, and killing each other, how does the world expect them to stop doing that to... »

I previously posted about the latest rash of scandalous photos coming out of Afghanistan showing U.S. military atrocities under Obama’s command, and wondering if the media would pick up on it the way they did when it was Bush’s army… Well, here’s a twist I wasn’t expecting: yes, one of the U.S. media, Rolling Stone, [...]
Jeffrey Goldberg, a correspondent for the Atlantic, cast a spotlight on yet another disgustingly overt example of pure bias in the mainstream media, particularly at the anti-Semitic Reuters newswire. He points to a Reuters news item which contains the following despicable sentences: Police said it was a “terrorist attack” — Israel’s term for a Palestinian [...]
In the [sparse] reporting of the Palestinians’ massacre of the Fogel family, several newspapers stand out with their distorted sense of “balance”, i.e., where they feel overwhelmingly uncomfortable describing the barbarity of the Palestinians without at least taking a swipe or two at the Israelis, no matter how patently irrelevant or disgustingly disrespectful it comes [...]