John F. Harris writes a great piece for Politico today outlining the seven “stories” that Obama does not want told, i.e., the seven growing “buzzphrases” that he is (or should be) desperate to contain and remove from the public’s rhetoric. He thinks he’s playing with Monopoly money Too much Leonard Nimoy That’s the Chicago... »
Archive for November 30th, 2009
Climate Scandal Keeps Getting Hotter
This whole Climategate scandal is just getting better and better. What started with some leaked emails showing a few scientists in cahoots with one another to thwart opponents (sometimes with physical violence) has now turned into disgraceful revelations of scientists and entire research centers and networks cooking the books to artificially support their ill-supported... »
Global Warming Hypocrites
I love to laugh at those global warming hypocrites. You know the ones I mean: those idiots you read about in the news or see on TV preaching about global warming, only to then head off stage into their waiting private jet. The most famous one is probably Al Gore, who came out with... »
Dirty, Despotic Dubai
When most people think of Dubai, they think of the six-star hotels, the man-made islands, the indoor ski slopes… essentially the life of luxury. Of course, that life of luxury has a price and apparently, based on the recent stories coming from the international news wires, that price is way too high for Dubai... »

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 [...]