Daily Archives: September 22nd, 2006 «

 

Former WaPo senior political reporter: MSM is “overwhelmingly to the left”

Posted by: ST on September 22, 2006 at 9:41 pm » 15 Comments

Guess they feel they can be honest about it once they are out of the biz. Dave Pierre at Newsbusters provides more info on this candid admission from Thomas Edsall, the reporter in question, who made the admission in an interview with Hugh Hewitt. Audio here. Other instances of admissions of liberal media bias: Former [...]

 

Media continues its obsession with ‘milestone’ deaths in the Iraq war

Posted by: ST on September 22, 2006 at 8:15 pm » 6 Comments

This piece takes the cake! Headline: War price on U.S. lives equal to 9/11

 

Legacy time: Bubba’s fired up over claims his admin didn’t do enough to catch OBL

Posted by: ST on September 22, 2006 at 7:36 pm » 14 Comments

Allah’s got the video. What’s interesting about that video clip is that he actually admits at the end that he failed. Well hell, Bill: we’ve been trying to get you to admit that for years now (especially after you admitted to having at least one opportunity to snag OBL). Thanks for finally coming around to [...]

 

TGIF – Friday open thread

Posted by: ST on September 22, 2006 at 1:05 pm » 30 Comments

‘ello Update: Here’s a little misc. rambling: – I feel like I’m coming down with something. Have had a frog in my throat most of the week, have coughed and sneezed some as well – it’s been worse this evening than any other point during the week. I think my immune system is down. This [...]

 

Pro-Saddam rally of 500 in Iraq makes news, but pro-Israel rally of 35,000 at UN does not

Posted by: ST on September 22, 2006 at 10:08 am » 3 Comments

Here’s the Associated Press story on the small pro-Saddam rally held in Iraq today. On the other hand, betcha didn’t hear anything in the MSM about the pro-Israel rally held outside of the UN earlier this week. Blogs, however, were on top of it, thank goodness.

 

NYT claim: “voter suppression” is part of Republican “strategy” for winning elections

Posted by: ST on September 22, 2006 at 9:10 am » 10 Comments

Once again, they are carrying water for the Democratic party. They’ve certainly got their scare tactics down pat, don’t they? Hat tip: GT Thursday PM Update I: ST reader Karl calls it right: NY Times opposes election integrity Fri AM Update I: Gateway Pundit has a couple of excellent and very detailed posts about Democratic [...]

 

Rep. Patrick Kennedy likens alcohol, drug addictions to asthma, urges Congress to approve “mental health parity” legislation

Posted by: ST on September 22, 2006 at 9:07 am » 8 Comments

Oh dear. I think I shall reserve comment on this one. Take it away, my astute commenters Prior: Was it prescription drugs or was he drinking? Rep. Patrick Kennedy to enter rehab for prescription drug addiction

 

SF Chronicle reporters jailed

Posted by: ST on September 22, 2006 at 8:57 am » 6 Comments

Here’s the story: Two San Francisco Chronicle reporters were sentenced to a maximum 18 months in prison Thursday, pending an appeal, for refusing to testify about who leaked them secret grand jury testimony from Barry Bonds and other elite athletes. Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada published a series of articles and a book based partly [...]

 

Chavez’ endorsement of Hegemony or Survival makes it the top seller at Amazon.com

Posted by: ST on September 22, 2006 at 8:47 am » 1 Comment

America haters unite! Update I: BTW, on a related note, the Kos Kidz were none too pleased with Rangel’s and Pelosi’s tough talk yesterday towards Chavez. LGF has a few links about that for your perusal. Update II: Shocker of the day (not really): The NYT has a puff piece posted on Noam Chomsky. Headline: [...]