Anti-Communist Yeltsin Dead; Liberal Media Favored Communist 'Reformer
Undoubtedly, Boris Yeltsin’s finest moment was the courageous defiance he showed in the face of an old guard communist coup in August 1991. Yeltsin was the focal point of those who rallied to defeat the coup, triggering the chain of events that led to dissolution of the Soviet Union just a few months later. Yet the establishment media in this country tended to sniff at Yeltsin as an unpolished…
Pentagon Official Refutes 'Time' Claim of 'Broken-Down Army
A senior Pentagon official has refuted "Time" magazine's depiction of a "broken" Army. Accusing "Time" of using incendiary language and of hyping the facts, Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Military Personnel Policy Bill Carr made his remarks in the course of his appearance yesterday on the TV show this NewsBuster hosts, and in subsequent written comments. Sec. Carr was responding to…
Time's Joe Klein Applauds Obama Boycott of Fox News/Black Caucus Debat
Calling the Fox News debate a "sordid event," Time magazine's Joe Klein offered Barack Obama the journalistic version of the cinematic slow clap with an April 9 post to Time's "Swampland" blog:First, congratulations to Barack Obama for dropping out of the
Congressional Black Caucus Institute-Fox News debate. With John Edwards
already out, that means this sordid event is over...Back in 2004, I…
Time Magazine’s Joe Klein Declares President Bush ‘Unfit to Lead
In an article that could have been written by Michael Moore, Katrina vanden Heuvel, or any number of “diarists” at the uber-left wing website Daily Kos, Time magazine’s Joe Klein on Thursday declared President George W. Bush “clearly unfit to lead.”Happy Easter to you too, Joe.In a hit piece entitled “An Administration’s Epic Collapse,” Klein attacked the most powerful man in the world early and…
Did Wonkette Not Get Ana Marie Cox's Memo Re: Tony Snow
(h/t Snarking Dawg)From Ana Marie Cox's post to the "Swampland" blog at Time magazine:Let
me say that I did some self-cringing last week, when I choose to
describe Tony as the "most fun" press secretary of the administration.
I was looking for something non-controversial, non-partisan and true to
say about the guy. "Fun" seemed like something he'd appreciate -- he is
fun. The biggest change in…
