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Blogs and Others Are Running Circles Around Old Media in Venezuela Cov
Hugo Chavez is simultaneously acting as Bull Connor (fire hoses/water cannons) and Gustav Husak (deploying tanks against his own people), yet what little Old Media coverage there is seems to want to avoid those elements of the story.
At 11:00 a.m. Sunday, Gateway Pundit blogged on Venezuela's virtual dictator sending in tanks to intimidate opponents demonstrating against a government-planned…
Memorial Day Tribute
Do any of your relatives have war stories from past U.S. conflicts? Is anyone you know currently serving overseas? Share these with us in our Memorial Day tribute.
A Palestinian Home Video American Media Will Never Air
There’s no way to properly prepare the reader for what follows, and droll remarks about stowing potables and such would be highly inappropriate.Critical Update at end of post!The following almost unbelievable video was posted at YouTube in April. As Charles Johnson described it at Little Green Footballs:It’s a home movie from hell, featuring a group of young girls dressed as suicide bombers and…
DKos’ Moulitsas Crashes Into the Gate as Democrats Vote to Fund Iraq
Has Thursday’s capitulation by Congressional Democrats over funding the war in Iraq made Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas replace his youthful idealism with old-fashioned pragmatism?Such appears to be the case in Kos’ post published at his website Friday dealing with this interesting turn of events before the Memorial Day weekend.As his piece entitled “Moving Forward” began, one got the sense…
Rosie O’Donnell Warmed Up ‘View’ Audience With 9-11 Conspiracy T
Honestly, this item makes one wonder what the producers of ABC’s “The View” – including host Barbara Walters – must have been thinking with regard to keeping the program a source of entertainment versus a platform for political advocacy.On Friday, a video was posted at YouTube (h/t Allah at Hot Air) of Rosie O’Donnell talking to “The View” audience before a show began. In it, O’Donnell conveyed…
The Left Eats Its Own: N.Y. Times Scorns Sexism, Racism of Sixties Art
There are articles about the hippy-dippy 1960s that seem designed to show how the left can eat its own. In Friday’s Weekend Arts section of the New York Times, the top of the page was dominated by an art review by Holland Cotter titled "Through Rose-Colored Granny Glasses." In between his personal notes on the "weird-sweet burn" of tear gas and displaying a knowing nod toward the effects of…
Old Media Roadmap: Stories on the Environment Can Reveal Truth about t
Readers rarely get the truth about the US economy's performance from Old Media business reporters without having to sift through a litany of "yeah, buts" and "what ifs" designed to water down anything that might make the Bush economy appear successful. But if you look hard enough, you sometimes stumble across stories in other areas that indicate how things really are.
Stories on the environment…