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 [...]
“White House” or “Animal House”?
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James Taranto had this hilarious commentary today (under the title, “American Nero”) in his Best of the Web Today column:
President Obama has been coming in for a lot of Jimmy Carter comparisons recently, but Fox News’s John Gibson, writing in the New York Post, points out one way in which the 44th president’s style is worlds apart from the 39th’s:
Last week’s jobs report tanked the stock market; the president took weeks to assert control of the oil spill that threatens doom on the Gulf Coast–but at the White House the Gatsby-like parties roll on as if happy days were here again.
Just yesterday, President Obama held another fun-filled White House event, a picnic for Congress members, complete with hot dogs, cold beverages and a fire pit.
All told, during the last seven weeks of spewing oil and rampant unemployment, he has frolicked and danced through three major White House music parties.
Gibson allows that “the president looks elegant and cool in his tuxedo, dancing to Jay-Z or the aging ‘cute Beatle,’ ” by which he does not mean Ringo Starr. And we have to say that if forced to choose, we’d take glib Obama in his dinner jacket over dour Carter in his sweater.
Still, there’s got to be a happy medium here between Jimmy Carter and Nero.