I really am shocked. Over the past month or so, I am seeing more and more news stories in the New York Times that state that things are getting much better and even *gulp* that we are winning in Iraq. The editorials are avoiding discussion of the state of Iraq’s security as of late, as […]
Category Archives: Wonky Media
Illegal Immigrant Sob Story Part 3,458
November 17, 2007 - 7:17 am
Epitomizing the phrase “bleeding heart liberal” (New York Times)
Federal immigration agents were searching a house in Ohio last month when they found a young Honduran woman nursing her baby.
The woman, Saída Umanzor, is an illegal immigrant and was taken to jail to await deportation. Her 9-month-old daughter, Brittney Bejarano, who was born in the United […]
NY Times Not Happy Over News From Baghdad
November 9, 2007 - 1:01 am
Over at The Corner
SSSSHHHHHHH … Don’t Tell Anyone: Al Qaeda Has Been Routed in Baghdad [Andy McCarthy]
The Newspaper of Record has the story today … on page A-19.
… And even there, the Times can’t bring itself to say we won. The report is headlined, “Militant Group Is Out of Baghdad, U.S. Says.” They left — […]
Iran Uses Democrat Talking Points To Mark Anniversary
November 4, 2007 - 11:01 am
Cross-posted at Right Wing News.
Check out all these moderate Iranians!
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Thousands of Iranians chanted “Death to America” and vowed not to yield to U.S. pressure over Iran’s nuclear program at a demonstration on Sunday marking the 28th anniversary of the seizure of the American embassy.
Students burned the Stars and Stripes outside the […]
Effort To Save Everglades Faulters, Bush’s Fault
November 2, 2007 - 9:48 pm
Leave it to the NY Times
The rescue of the Florida Everglades, the largest and most expensive environmental restoration project on the planet, is faltering.
Seven years into what was supposed to be a four-decade, $8 billion effort to reverse generations of destruction, federal financing has slowed to a trickle. Projects are already years behind schedule. Thousands […]
TTLF: Bad News, Army Needs More Contractors
November 1, 2007 - 8:23 am
This is not getting much airplay in the MSM
U.S. combat deaths in Iraq for the last month have dropped by more than two-thirds compared with October of last year, while the total death toll has been reduced almost 50 percent since September.
The bulk of deaths are still occurring in Baghdad, which was also true last […]
WTW: Freidman Engages The Future Machine
October 24, 2007 - 7:44 am
Morning, y’all, Jebediah Murphy here with a bit of that old truth thang, which is more then I can say for Thomas Freidman at the old NY Traitor Times. He has a bit of typical liberal leftard seething in an article entitled “Remembering Iraq“
Boy, am I glad we finally got out of Iraq. It was […]
Privacy Lost? Say What?
October 23, 2007 - 11:29 pm
Leave it to the NY Times-which also has an op-ed today calling the President a criminal-to completely miss the point
Two new questions arise, courtesy of the latest advancement in cellphone technology: Do you want your friends, family, or colleagues to know where you are at any given time? And do you want to know where […]
Iraq Good News: MSM Finds The Black Lining
October 23, 2007 - 6:34 pm
Earlier, Captain Ed wrote about many of the major media outlets ignoring a story that is good news from Iraq, namely a dramatic decline in violence in Iraq.
Violence in Iraq has dropped by 70 percent since the end of June, when U.S. forces completed their build-up of 30,000 extra troops to stabilize the war-torn country, […]
NY Times Stands Up (Again) For Radical Muslims
October 22, 2007 - 1:46 pm
Leave it to the Grey Lady to fund a way to create a Constitutional and internationalist issue out of this
The American commitment to free speech is the most robust in the world. But these days that tolerance stops at the border.
Two cases pending in federal court in Manhattan will soon test how far the government can […]