Daily Archives: February 8th, 2006 «

 

Factchecking Antonia Zerbisias

Posted by: ST on February 8, 2006 at 4:31 pm » 14 Comments

Yesterday, I blogged about Canadian columnist Antonia Zerbisias’ hate-filled diatribe against those (namely, the right) who dared to reprint the Mohammed cartoons. In her column, Zerbisias’ wrote the following in an apparent effort to prove some sort of point about fanatical Islamists supposedly being tolerant when someone spoke out against Islam: As for violence, I [...]

 

NYT publishes virgin Mary “art” – but not ‘offensive’ Mohammed cartoons

Posted by: ST on February 8, 2006 at 12:54 pm » 21 Comments

The NYT has published a photo of the virgin Mary “art” (you know, the “art” that depicts Mary with blotches of elephant dung all over it) in it’s arts section today, effectively signalling that their willingness to not offend Muslims does not extend to not offending Christians. The headline on the piece? A Startling New [...]

 

Dem party leaders feel as though they are in weak position

Posted by: ST on February 8, 2006 at 11:48 am » 29 Comments

The NYTimes is reporting today that some leading Democrats are feeling like they are in a weaker position now than they’d hoped to be, because they haven’t been able to capitalize in any significant way on the various ‘scandals’ that have plagued the Bush administration this past year: WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 — Democrats are heading [...]

 

Media bias on display at WashPost in Coretta Scott King funeral reporting

Posted by: ST on February 8, 2006 at 11:00 am » 12 Comments

Tim Graham at Newsbusters reports: The Washington Post downplayed the Wellstone-funeral elements of yesterday’s funeral for Coretta Scott King. The front-page article by Darryl Fears had a bland celebratory headline, and as the article jumped off the front page, Fears claimed "The six-hour service, held in a lavish black church in the wealthy, majority-black Atlanta suburb [...]

 

Will Al Gore run for prez in 2008?

Posted by: ST on February 8, 2006 at 9:24 am » 18 Comments

I’ve speculated a few times (see here, here, and here) on the possibility of Al Gore running for president again in 2008. He’s claimed he won’t, but nevertheless the belief is out there that he will. Mark Noonan over at at GOP Bloggers has a good post up on why he thinks Al will go [...]