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 [...]
Politico Enumerates Obama’s Achilles Heels—Seven of Them
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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 Way
- He’s a pushover
- He sees America as another pleasant country on the U.N. roll call, somewhere between Albania and Zimbabwe
- President Pelosi
- He’s in love with the man in the mirror
This is really a great list, since it accurately describes seven of his most vulnerable characteristics. The elaboration of that list on Politico is a great read. Check it out!