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 [...]
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Here’s one more gem from James Taranto’s Best of the Web Today:
See if you can guess the topic of the New York Times op-ed piece whose first paragraph is this:
Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper historical roots in the American experience. Since the founding of our country, citizens from Ben Franklin to David Letterman have made fun of their elected officials. Milton Berle famously joked: “You can lead a man to Congress, but you can’t make him think.” These days, though, the institutional inertia gripping Congress is no laughing matter.
Wrong! The subject is why Evan Bayh is leaving the Senate. The author is Sen. Evan Bayh. We figured out the subject from the headline, which reads, “Why I’m Leaving the Senate.”
And it’s a good thing the Times used that headline, because without it we’d have read the whole 1,600-word op-ed and had no idea what it was about. Bayh doesn’t say a single word about why he’s leaving the Senate!
Still, the op-ed makes the answer clear: Bayh is leaving the Senate because the place is full of blowhards. His departure won’t solve that problem completely, but it will reduce the number of blowhards by one.