LA Times questions McCain’s ability to serve as prez based on ‘nam injuries
File this under “you know it’s a slow news day when”:
Hillary’s PA victory: The day after
With 99% reporting, I think it’s safe to call last night’s primary in PA as an official double digit victory for Hillary Clinton, which the punditocracy was saying she needed to be able to credibly make a case for staying in the race. If you were like me and watched the returns come in for most of the night, for a while it looked like it was going to be around 8 points, but as the night went on, it increased to 10 and has stayed there.
NYT launches another questionable attack on McCain, while McGovern criticizes McCain’s war service
The NYT is up to it again, with yet another hit piece that lacks crucial evidence that would, of course, essentially relegate the story to a mere blip on the radar screen (via Memeo):
Media bias odds and ends
—– Andrew Bolt, writing in Australia’s Herald Sun, wrote earlier this week (h/t: ST reader Sev) about a scandal involving its rival publication The Age and how “235 Age journalists confirmed that their coverage of last month’s Earth Hour had been, in effect, propaganda.” Make sure to read the whole thing, and this too for even more. So much for engaging in fair reporting and letting viewers/readers make up their own minds.
Using Iwo Jima to “combat” global warming
Jeff Poor of Media Research’s Media and Business Institute reports that some Iwo Jima veterans are none too pleased with Time Magazine’s altering of the iconic Iwo Jima flag-raising image to promote ‘global warming awareness’:
Rush mentioned this blog on air?!?
I received a friendly email from new ST reader and fellow North Carolinian Debra B. this evening telling me about her blog, and in the email she said that she heard Rush mention my site recently! What I want to know is, where was the huge traffic spike I hear usually follows a Rush mention? I have gotten a lot of extra Google hits this week, more so than normal, but not in mindblowing numbers. Maybe people were Googling to find the blog? Did anyone else hear it?