Howard Kurtz on mortgage loans
ST reader Leslie forwarded me this piece written by Howard Kurtz on the “sob stories” we hear about people who’ve bought a home they can’t afford thanks to a dicey loan, and how the media portrays them as victims:
Proof positive: The NYT editorial board lives in caves
I kept in mind while reading this editorial masquerading as a straight news piece that it was published in the NYT, but even at that, I was absolutely stunned to read their revisionist history tactics on the Vietnam war while at the same time bashing Bush over the head for his speech yesterday to the VFW on how we had to learn the lessons from Vietnam and not leave Iraq like we did ‘nam, or it would be just as disastrous. This part was especially breathtaking:
Media bias alert: Blatant bias seen in media’s reporting an “Iraq/Vietnam” comparison by the President
Numerous blogs caught a major goof by ABC News in a headline posted there about a speech the President gave today on the Iraq war before a VFW convention, in which he claimed that we can’t leave Iraq, because it would be disastrous, just like it was when we left Vietnam. Flopping Aces has the screencap.
It’s “Bush hates children” day in the media, leftosphere
The top item at Memeorandum is a story that made the front page of the NYT today. The headline reads:
Dem Congressman charged with assault and battery at Dulles
But you wouldn’t have known it was California Dem Congressman Bob Filner in some of the early reporting on the story, which Mark Finkelstein discusses here.
Pajamas Media: How TNR got “suckered” by Scott Thomas Beauchamp
Pajamas Media’s Richard Miniter writes an in-depth report that takes a look at how The New Republic, in their words, got ‘suckered’ by Scott Thomas – their ‘military blogger’ – aka Scott Thomas Beauchamp. The teaser (emphasis added):