Daily Archives: October 7th, 2007 «

 

BBC’s love affair with Che Guevara – and Cuba – continues

Posted by: ST on October 7, 2007 at 11:20 pm » 3 Comments

Mike at The Monkey Tennis Centre has the story on the latest BBC puff piece on Cuba – this time, specifically on the murderous Che Guevara. The occasion? The 40th anniversary of when he was shot and killed. The Calgary Sun’s Ian Robinson writes the piece the BBC should have, but didn’t (h/t: Betsy Newmark): [...]

 

Desperately seeking halo: Obama panders to evangelicals in South Carolina

Posted by: ST on October 7, 2007 at 10:19 pm » 19 Comments

Via CNN: GREENVILLE, South Carolina (CNN) — After speaking to an evangelical church on Sunday in this traditionally conservative South Carolina city, Sen. Barack Obama said that Republicans no longer have a firm grip on religion in political discourse. “I think its important particularly for those of us in the Democratic party to not cede [...]

 

Desperate Democrats deceptively use sick child in radio address to promote SCHIP expansion

Posted by: ST on October 7, 2007 at 8:50 pm » 25 Comments

Just when you think Democrats couldn’t get any more despicable comes the news that the family of the 12 year old boy they used on their radio address last weekend to promote the expansion of SCHIP – while chastizing the President, who vetoed it – are not as “needy” as they were made out to [...]

 

Journalists attempt to justify lack of media attention on low September Iraq casualty numbers

Posted by: ST on October 7, 2007 at 7:11 pm » 3 Comments

Noel Sheppard reports what two prominent journalists had to say in response to Howard Kurtz’s question on his CNN show Reliable Sources about why the media didn’t give much attention to last month’s low casualty numbers from Iraq. Here’s the video: (Via The Jawa Report) Here’s the transcript (scroll). The hypocrisy on why they didn’t [...]

 

Panthers at New Orleans (UPDATE: PANTHERS WIN 16-13)

Posted by: ST on October 7, 2007 at 1:26 pm » 15 Comments

The 2-2 Panthers are battling the 0-3 New Orleans Saints today. The Panthers are playing again today without starting QB Jake Delhomme, who is still hampered by an elbow injury. Currently, Carolina is in the lead 3-0 thanks to a John Kasay field goal. Another game I have my eye on today is the Jets [...]

 

The New York Times and Haditha: A retrospective

Posted by: ST on October 7, 2007 at 12:04 pm » 1 Comment

As the cases against the Haditha Marines continue to fall apart, Gateway Pundit goes back in time to review the New York Times coverage of this story versus what they’re saying about it now. In essence, it would appear that the NYT editorial board is attempting some sort of lame “apology” for their coverage yet [...]