Category Archives: Wonky Media

NY Times: Ferguson Shooting Is Part Of Bigger Racial Problem In Democrat Voting Urban Areas

Of course, they don’t actually mention that a good majority of urban areas around the country tend to vote Democrat, but they do attempt to turn the incident in Ferguson into a bigger issue. Here’s the Editorial Board, but, first, let me make it clear that I am in no way defending either the unnamed […]

Sharyl Attkinson: Things Would Be Much Different If Watergate Happened Today

How so? (Mediaite) On This Week Not with George Stephanopoulos, former CBS investigative reporter Sharyl Attkinson said that journalists today were more hindered, and politicians more emboldened, than they were in the days of Woodward and Bernstein. “I think that we’ve gone backwards since that time when we really felt empowered as journalists,” Attkinson said. […]

Poll: Americans Support Israel Actions 42% To 38%

What does this mean? That 38% are Israel haters (Politico) A slim plurality of Americans believe Israel’s actions against Hamas are justified, a new poll says. According to a Gallup poll released Tuesday, 42 percent of Americans say Israel’s actions against Hamas are justified, compared with 38 percent who say they are unjustified. (WT note: […]

Say, Why Does Hamas Store Its Weapons In Civilian Areas?

Good question. The Washington Post finally deigns to notice what most other people already know, in their own unique fashion Why Hamas stores its weapons inside hospitals, mosques and schools To many observers, one of the most troublesome facts of the Gaza Strip conflict — which has killed around 1,340 Palestinians, many of them civilians, […]

Jodi Earnest Talks About Nullification Or Something

The “or something” refers to the crazy headline at The Daily Beast “Exclusive: GOP Senate Candidate Caught Saying States Can Nullify Laws” which is not born out by the article Joni Ernst, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Iowa, appears to believe states can nullify federal laws. In a video obtained by The Daily […]

When It Comes To Marijuana, The NY Times Is Suddenly A States’ Rights Advocate

You may have already seen the NY Times piece by their editorial board calling for the repeal of federal marijuana laws, referring to them as “prohibition”. It took 13 years for the United States to come to its senses and end Prohibition, 13 years in which people kept drinking, otherwise law-abiding citizens became criminals and […]

NY Times Wrings Their Hands Over Whether Israeli Tactics To Protect Civilians Works

Interestingly, we never see these kinds of articles in much of the major world (non-Israeli) media when it is Hamas or some other Islamist group launching attacks which are intentionally intended to target Israeli civilians, using methods such as suicide bombers and rocket attacks Tactics Questioned as Civilian Toll Climbs The blast from the Israeli […]

UN Warns Of Likely El Nino, Media Bloviates

This is one of the reasons we cannot have a legitimate debate on “climate change”: the news media doesn’t understand what climate is. Here are two articles, the first by Jonathan Fowler at AFP The “El Nino” phenomenon, which sparks climate extremes around the globe, is likely to take hold in the Pacific Ocean by […]

NY Times: Bergdahl Desertion Really Fault Of Unit Discipline, Afghanistan War

I’m surprised NY Times writers, Richard A. Oppel Jr. and Eric Schmitt, didn’t just straight out Blame Bush Bergdahl Was in Unit Known for Its Troubles The platoon was, an American military official would assert years later, “raggedy.” On their tiny, remote base, in a restive sector of eastern Afghanistan at an increasingly violent time […]

Elijah Cummings Is The Dems Benghazi Warrior Or Something

It’s actually rare that an article really ticks me off: I expect bad behavior and moonbattery from Progressives. This, though, is disgusting Democrats’ Benghazi warrior He’s the man who helped bring you Sandra Fluke. Rep. Elijah Cummings is the Democrats’ top guy on the new Benghazi select committee, but fighting Republican-driven scandals is old hat […]

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