Mainstream Media
Will Ricci filled the gap on his Facebook page, but it didn’t occur to me, yesterday, to try to get pictures of all of the speakers at the Gaspee Tea Party, as I focused instead on the people in the crowd and the message that they’re sending via their hand-made signs. (MikeinRI has photos up,…
Justin, how about the Daily Show with Jon Stewart instead of SNL? NewsBusters’ Noel Sheppard concludes his post highlighting a segment of Comedy Central’s not-exactly-right-wing mock news show thusly. I guess it’s time for NBC and others in the media to understand that when your gushing and fawning for Obama is fodder for comedians, you…
Wow: EVAN THOMAS [editor of Newsweek]: Well, we were the good guys in 1984, it felt that way. It hasn’t felt that way in recent years. So Obama’s had, really, a different task We’re seen too often as the bad guys. And he, he has a very different job from … Reagan was all about…
Fully expecting scurrilous attacks that deliberately miss my point, I was going to put this one aside, but it nagged at me at periods throughout the day, as I constructed a client’s two-flight deck stairs, so here it is: Am I alone in finding there to be something discomfiting about the Providence Journal‘s making this…
What caught my eye about the Miss USA story that Marc mentioned earlier was this line from an unattributed Providence Journal “staff” report: Prejean created controversy when, during the live pageant broadcast, she gave her philosophy of marriage. Not “confronted.” Not even “caused.” “Created.” Out of the thin air of a perfectly benign question, Miss…
Although Arlene Violet subsequently whacked him with a great question about using stimulus money to suppress changes to teachers’ healthcare benefits, I’m very disappointed that the Newsmakers gang let Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse ramble on with this partisan mumbo-jumbo for three minutes: I think it’s sort of an ironic moment on this subject, and particularly to…
Mark Steyn’s take. (Heaven knows we need a free press and nosy reporters. But that’s not license to be as stunningly misinformed as this woman.) Well, for a start, let’s say she’s missing the point. The guy was right. Taxes are a liberty issue. When she stands there and she says oh, but you’re going…
In the seven years or so since Fox News came on the scene in a real big way, the back and forth about which station is conservative and which is liberal has become redundant, and it’s rare that examples are interesting, but an email from Our Country Deserves Better PAC highlights a telling scene. Here…
This is a topic that I intend to consider from a couple of angles for some posts tomorrow, but it’s worth making the general suggestion that attempts by various folks to define yesterday’s tea party in Providence as something that it wasn’t, or in a light that doesn’t really apply, suggests that they just don’t…
Ed Fitzpatrick has emailed to correct my impression that he would prefer the Supreme Court to make a narrow ruling that bans Hillary: the Movie: “I am totally against banning this film.” I had read the “narrow ruling” sentence as suggesting one that would ensnare this movie without enabling the broad control that the cited…
