NYT’s Love Letter to Hugo Chavez and Oil Socialism – Or Is It
November 4th, 2007 11:02 PM
New York Times Magazine published a rather fascinating article Sunday about the rise of nationalized oil throughout the world. Predictably, it initially came off as a love letter to Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and his new brand of oil socialism. Yet, if you dig deeper - unfortunately offshore deeper in a very lengthy piece - author Tina Rosenberg ended up rather dissatisfied with "petrocracy," and,…
NYT Blames Pakistani State of Emergency on Bush
November 4th, 2007 10:33 AM
One of the truly great ironies emanating from secular media members is the power they increasingly bestow upon George W. Bush to the point of making him Godlike. After all, in the past couple of years, the press have depicted this President as being responsible for hurricanes, tornados, wildfires, droughts, floods, global warming, and peace - or lack thereof - anywhere on the face of the planet…
New York Times Minimizes Bomb's Role in Ending WWII
November 2nd, 2007 12:43 AM
The New York Times minimizes the role of the atomic bomb - and thus the heroism of Gen. Paul Tibbets - in his obituary today.Brig. Gen. Paul W. Tibbets Jr., the commander and pilot of the Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortress that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in the final days of World War II, died yesterday at his home in Columbus, Ohio. He was 92....The crews who flew the atomic strikes…
NYT Stunner: Is Environmentalism The Politics of Fear
October 31st, 2007 4:53 PM
How often have you heard folks in the media, and climate alarmists such as Nobel Laureate Al Gore, state unequivocally that the global warming debate is over? Too many to count, yes?On the flipside, did you ever think you'd see a major media report suggesting the environmental movement, including global warming alarmism, was "premised on a 'politics of fear'?" Well, on Wednesday, Sewell…
New York Times Thinks the Term ‘Illegal Immigrant’ is Racist
October 28th, 2007 12:55 PM
Is the New York Times lobbying to eliminate the term "illegal immigrant" because, in its view, this designation is both politically incorrect and racist? Such appears to be the case judging from an editorial written by Lawrence Downes and published Sunday. Downes began (emphasis added throughout, h/t Hot Air):
Dowd's Santayana Overdose
October 28th, 2007 10:29 AM
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it -- George Satayana.Well and good. But becoming a prisoner of the past presents dangers, too. Stay tuned for an example of how reliance on a corollary of Satayana's rule went horribly wrong for the U.S.Maureen Dowd's column of this morning "W.M.D. in Iran? Q.E.D." is the latest example of what passes for MSM wisdom on Iran. The…
