I understand that I am not a conservative, so my brain is wired a little differently. But I consider myself a reasonably intelligent person with the ability to understand different points of view, even if I don’t necessarily agree with them. Still, I have to admit that many of Michelle Malkin’s outrages simply stump me. Take this, for instance: This … Read More
JeffJim GannonGuckert Stupid Journalism Question Du Jour
Every day on his website, our favorite bald gay winger prostitute and fake reporter posts a question that he would have asked if he were still allowed to pollute the White House press pool. Today’s question: March 16, 2005 "Does the White House want greater powers to more thoroughly investigate any and all journalists that ask to attend press briefings?" … Read More
Kaye Grogan Outdoes Herself
Kaye Grogan (pictured here) is just plain sassy and scary. A regular columnist for Alan Keye’s Renew America website, her opinion pieces are routinely and savagely lampooned at World O’Crap and Sadly, No. Although, to be frank, her opinion pieces hardly need any satirization — they are unintentionally hysterical to begin with. Take this recent column of Grogan’s on the … Read More
JeffJim Journalism du Jour
Hey, maybe I will make this a daily thing. From today’s fake news reporter website: While I am on hiatus from the White House briefing room, I’m going to post the question I would have asked had I been there. It will be interesting to see if anyone else asks it. March 14, 2005 "On Sunday, the New York Times … Read More
Why Jeff Gannon Is A Moron
What JeffJim GannonGuckert would have asked the President, if he could have gotten a day pass to the last White House press briefing: Today’s Briefing Question While I am on hiatus from the White House briefing room, I’m going to post the question I would have asked had I been there. It will be interesting to see if anyone else … Read More
“We Report, You Decide”, My Ass
Not that this is "news", but . . . On Fox News, No Shortage of Opinion, Study Finds By Howard Kurtz Washington Post Staff WriterMonday, March 14, 2005; Page C01 In covering the Iraq war last year, 73 percent of the stories on Fox News included the opinions of the anchors and journalists reporting them, a new study says. By … Read More
Winger Blogs Get It Wrong
Typical right-winger blog analysis: The brutal murder of a family of Coptic Christians in Jersey City, New Jersey may have been carried out by Muslim fanatics in retaliation for the expression of "anti-Muslim" views on the internet…. As we’ve said many times before, these fanatics cannot be reasoned with or deterred. They can only be hunted down and killed, and … Read More
On Clicking The Link
Kevin Drum does gives a beautiful example of how the rightwing blogosphere likes to be, uh, less than truthful in their reporting. Oh, they have links to back up what they say . . . except for the fact that . . . . well, I’ll let Kevin Drum explain: Here is why you should always click the link. Today, … Read More
Hypocrisy of the Right – Part II
Eason Jordon believed that U.S. soldiers were targetting journalists. Ann "It’s Time for the New McCarthyism" Coulter wants U.S. soldiers to target journalists. Eason Jordon’s statement is made in a closed-door symposium with relatively few listeners. He retracts it almost immediately. Ann Coulter’s statement was made on national television to untold millions of listeners. She never retracts it. Eason Jordon … Read More
No Empirical Reality
Paid-off pundits to fake newsmen — where does it end? Frank Rich says it goes deeper: When the Bush administration isn’t using taxpayers’ money to buy its own fake news, it does everything it can to shut out and pillory real reporters who might tell Americans what is happening in what is, at least in theory, their own government. Paul … Read More
All Together Now . . . “WHAT Liberal Media?!?”
Joe Conason raises a good, and retrospectively obvious, point in this column: If the mainstream media is "liberal" and loves stories about sex, then why isn’t it jumping all over the Gannon-as-male-prostitute story? Imagine the media explosion if a male escort had been discovered operating as a correspondent in the Clinton White House. Imagine that he was paid by an … Read More
The MSM That the Right Wing is Hyperventilating Over
Courtesy of The Left Coaster comes these words from Chicago Trib’s Jim Warren: The three journalists discussed troubling pressures that affect the ability of news organizations to report the truth. A major one is that with consolidation of news organizations into conglomerates like Time Warner, news outlets have numerous conflicts between their business interests and their reporting. While NBC reports … Read More
A Guy With A Conscience
The guy who started the ball rolling on Eason Jordon is apparently having second thoughts: Mr. Abovitz, who started it all, said he hoped bloggers could develop loftier goals than destroying people’s careers. "If you’re going to do this open-source journalism, it should have a higher purpose," he said. "At times it did seem like an angry mob, and an … Read More
Jeff Gannon: Available for $1,200/weekend and $200/hour?
"Well, several years ago, before I came to Washington, I had registered various domain names for a private client. I was doing Web site development. Those sites were never hosted. There’s — nothing ever went up on them. And the client went on to do something else." – Jeff Gannon to Wolf Blitzer, CNN, 2/10/05 AmericaBlog calls bullshit. The details … Read More