Jeff Jarvis’ exercise in peace-making with the Times seems to be bearing fruit. Is this a testament to Jeff’s mediating skill or to Keller’s realizing it’s not smart to pick fights with people who buy pixels by the trainload? Some of the former, clearly, but more of the latter would be my guess.
Jeff Jarvis’ exercise in peace-making with the Times seems to be bearing fruit. Is this a testament to Jeff’s mediating skill or to Keller’s realizing it’s not smart to pick fights with people who buy pixels by the trainload?
Some of the former, clearly, but more of the latter would be my guess.
Tim Blair has an exclusive on this brilliant plan: Democrat congressman Maurice Hinchey, speaking on CNN, persists with the idea that Karl Rove devised the fake Rathergate memos: It doesn’t take an awful lot of imagination if you’re thinking about who it is that might have produced these false documents to try to mislead people … Continue reading “Rove’s brilliant plan”
Tim Blair has an exclusive on this brilliant plan:
Democrat congressman Maurice Hinchey, speaking on CNN, persists with the idea that Karl Rove devised the fake Rathergate memos:
It doesn’t take an awful lot of imagination if you’re thinking about who it is that might have produced these false documents to try to mislead people in this very cynical way. It would take someone very brilliant, very cynical, very Machiavellian, and it doesn’t take a lot of imagination to come up with the name of Karl Rove as a possibility of having done that.
Is Karl Rove truly that brilliant? Using contemporaneous reports and several eye-witness sources, this site is able to reconstruct the events of last August at Evil Rove Headquarters, located many miles beneath the earth’s surface:
Click and read, bearing in mind that some people, allegedly brilliant people I might add, won’t see any humor in it.
Harry Reid wouldn’t fudge the numbers, would he? Well, maybe he would, just a little.
Harry Reid wouldn’t fudge the numbers, would he? Well, maybe he would, just a little.
If you want your children to be impaired, feed them a strict vegetarian diet.
If you want your children to be impaired, feed them a strict vegetarian diet.
After the Eason Jordan purge, LA Times bureaucrat David Shaw fears bloggers are after his scalp: …bloggers appear to have achieved almost mythical power these days. Bloggers can be useful. They did a good job, for example, in bringing the Rather/CBS screw-up to public attention. But some bloggers are just self-important ranters who seem to … Continue reading “Fear and Loathing in Los Angeles”
After the Eason Jordan purge, LA Times bureaucrat David Shaw fears bloggers are after his scalp:
…bloggers appear to have achieved almost mythical power these days.
Bloggers can be useful. They did a good job, for example, in bringing the Rather/CBS screw-up to public attention. But some bloggers are just self-important ranters who seem to wake up every morning convinced that the entire Free World awaits their opinions on any subject that’s popped into their heads since their last fevered post.
Unfortunately, when these bloggers rise up in arms, grown men weep — and news executives cave in. That’s much more alarming than anything Jordan said.
Yes, it’s alarming that the MSM can’t get away with its traditional shenanigans any more, but I’m sure they’ll invent some new ones. Currently, it seems they’re having a hard time getting the script right about bloggers — a couple of months ago, we were a few nuts in pajamas, and now we’re still overheated ranters, but nevertheless a threat to the free press. That’s a pretty major promotion, isn’t it?
Groups that battled each other during the civil war (see a rundown of Syrian ethnic factions for lowdown on Shia, Sunni, Druze, Maronite, and Orthodox Christians) are now united against the Syrian occupiers in Lebanon: After meeting on Friday in a Beirut hotel, they urged the Lebanese people to back a peaceful “independence uprising” – … Continue reading “Freedom on the march in Lebanon”
Groups that battled each other during the civil war (see a rundown of Syrian ethnic factions for lowdown on Shia, Sunni, Druze, Maronite, and Orthodox Christians) are now united against the Syrian occupiers in Lebanon:
After meeting on Friday in a Beirut hotel, they urged the Lebanese people to back a peaceful “independence uprising” – using the word intifada in Arabic, the first time they had used the term.
They also called for parliament to suspend all debate unrelated to the assassination until the truth about who killed former prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri emerged.
“This isn’t just the opposition,” Druze leader Walid Jumblatt earlier told reporters. “All the Lebanese are with al-Hariri, a free Lebanon and [a] Syrian withdrawal.”
If this continues, we could see the restoration of democracy in Lebanon without an invasion. The neo-cons are right, freedom is contagious. Next thing we know it will come to Iran, and then the sky’s the limit.
Meanwhile, the American left obsesses over gay prostitutes.
Lebanon link via Instapundit, who’s in the hospital with his woman, poor dear.
The controversy our leftist colleagues have been trying to stir up over Brit Hume’s use of some remarks made by FDR on social security is pretty pathetic. The charge, in case you live under a rock and don’t get exposed to this sort of nonsense, is that Hume distorted FDR’s letter to Congress on social … Continue reading “Al Franken is a lying liar”
The controversy our leftist colleagues have been trying to stir up over Brit Hume’s use of some remarks made by FDR on social security is pretty pathetic. The charge, in case you live under a rock and don’t get exposed to this sort of nonsense, is that Hume distorted FDR’s letter to Congress on social security by selective quotation. Unfortunately (and quite predictably), those making the charge actually distorted Hume’s remarks by selective quotation.
Here’s the part of Hume’s story that you won’t see on Media Matters, Oliver Willis, Al Franken, Paul Krugman, or any of the other hate sites, courtesy of Villainous Company. Hume began the story by putting FDR’s quote into this this context:
Senate Democrats gathered at the Franklin Roosevelt Memorial today to invoke the image of FDR in calling on President Bush to remove private accounts from his Social Security proposal. But it turns out that FDR himself planned to include private investment accounts in the Social Security program when he proposed it.
The scurrilous ones in question have claimed that Hume said FDR planned to replace social security with private investment. Here’s David Brock’s spin on Media Matters:
In an attempt to promote President Bush’s plan to partially privatize Social Security, nationally syndicated radio host and former Reagan administration official William J. Bennett and FOX News managing editor and anchor Brit Hume falsely claimed that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt advocated replacing Social Security with private accounts.
and here’s Al Franken’s bit on his blog:
Hume?s claim is that FDR wanted to replace Social Security with private accounts. Hume is lying.
Brock and Franken are clearly lying, substituting Hume’s accurate quote on supplementing mandatory social security taxes with voluntary contributions to a personal annuity with a fabrication about the wholesale replacement of social security as we know it.
The lying seems to me especially damning given that Franken and Brock stake close to 100% of their claim to relevance on their alleged respect for facts and contempt for lying on the other side.
I’m not saying Franken should resign from Air America, because I think his style of deception is uniquely suited for it, just that nobody should take him seriously because he’s, well, a big fat lying liar. And David Brock’s a serial slanderer who works for the highest bidder, a man without principle, and he may as well work for Soros (as he does now) as for Scaife (as he used to do.)
Wonderful company they have on the left these days.
UPDATE: There is an argument to be made that Hume misstated the intent of the FDR letter by muddling private accounts with voluntary annuities drawn from a common fund, and we could well argue whether that’s significant. But Franken and Brock didn’t make that argument, preferring to simply twist Hume’s statement from its clear meaning about a supplementary system to a replacement of the mandatory system. So even if you believe that Hume “lied” by comparing two similar but not identical plans, Franken and Brock’s lies are more egregious by an order of magnitude because they equated two dissimilar things.
And it’s not at all bad.
This one is 195,000 years old, according to somebody who dated him. No wonder social security?s in trouble.
This one is 195,000 years old, according to somebody who dated him.
No wonder social security?s in trouble.
Here in Washington we’ve got somebody sitting in the governor’s office who may very well not have won the election. Her alleged margin of victory was 129 votes, and there were several eyebrow-raising events in the course of the election and the subsequent counts and recounts. For one thing, a batch of 400+ provisional ballots … Continue reading “Crooked elections”
Here in Washington we’ve got somebody sitting in the governor’s office who may very well not have won the election. Her alleged margin of victory was 129 votes, and there were several eyebrow-raising events in the course of the election and the subsequent counts and recounts.
For one thing, a batch of 400+ provisional ballots was counted before verification of eligibility, in a county that went for the alleged victor. There’s a discrepancy of 1800+ between the number of voters who signed-in at the polls and the number of ballots cast. There were at least 8 batches of ballots found after the initial count was finished on, most of which weren’t properly secured. A number of dead people are known to have voted, as well as a number of felons.
Consequently, this contest cries out for a close examination and a proper hearing of the evidence. It may very well be — I think it’s likely — that the election results should be set aside and a re-vote held with adult supervision.
But this is a scary prospect to a small but vocal minority of Washingtonians terrified with the knowledge that their fellow citizens chose a Republican governor, so they’re stonewalling like mad and doing all they can to whip up partisan resentment over the hearing due the people who voted for the alleged loser.
Part of this obfuscation comes from practitioners of dodgy math, and part from practitioners of dodgy law. Here are a couple of clues for my colleagues:
1. In statistics, two sources of uncertainty don’t cancel each other out, they add.
2. Statute isn’t the sum of law, it’s the beginning. Precedent, case law, and common law are the rest. When a statute says “but not limited to” it means it, and “illegal” is not a term of art.
Oddly, the people who are screaming the loudest that there’s nothing to see in this election by way of fraud are the same ones who complained non-stop from 2000 to the present about the presidential race in Florida in 2000. I think we all know what that means.
Sound Politics has unearthed a mountain of circumstantial evidence to the effect that votes were manufactured in Seattle. We need to find out if there is more than the appearance of fraud. Neither side should be afraid of the truth, unless they have something to hide.
