Thursday, February 15, 2007

Democrats Admit to Undermining National Security


Anti-war website MoveCongress.org finally admits in public what many have been saying for years: the Democrats are purposefully undermining U.S. national security for craven partisan advantage (hat tip: Gateway Pundit):

Chairman Murtha will describe his strategy for not only limiting the deployment of troops to Iraq but undermining other aspects of the president's foreign and national security policy.

Chairman Murtha discusses these steps in a videotaped conversation with former Congressman Tom Andrews (D-ME), the National Director of the Win Without War coalition, sponsor of MoveCongress.org.

Emphasis mine.

Oh, and as of late last night, MoveCongress.org has purged their site, realizing that the original disclosure provided too much insight into their future strategy.

I have a feeling what Abe Lincoln would have said about the concept of winning a war 'without war.'

It's called surrender - and defeat.

Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Channel 5 One Minute Action News



This is Biff Ripley and welcome to Channel 5's One Minute Action News... all the news you need in a minute or less.


Dear Bank of America, now that you encourage illegal aliens to open credit-card accounts, we've got a wager going here at the station. What's the next BofA marketing gimmick? Hezbollah-branded credit-cards or a line of credit for the Mullahs to build nukes?


Al Franken's running for the Senate. Watch out Neil Kinnock, Joe Biden's got a new b**ch!


A giant luminescent squid was photographed by a Japanese research team at a depth of over 750 feet. Can you say glow-in-the-dark sushi? Garnish with a little wasabi, turn out the lights, and -- oh, baby -- it's a rubbery taste explosion in your mouth!


What could possibly go wrong with slamming methadone while pregnant? I guess we now know the answer to that longstanding scientific question.


Finally, nothing spoils your morning like a JDAM slamming into the roof of your outhouse during the morning "read". This may explain reports that radical Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr fled to Iran.


This has been Biff Ripley with One Minute Action News... when you don't have a second to spare.

Line o' the Day Causes Murtha and Reid to Shiver


AJ Strata retrieves an Abe Lincoln quote that is as relevant today as it was during the great struggle (hat tip: Larwyn):

Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hanged. — President Abraham Lincoln

Fun thought experiment: were he president today, imagine what Abe would do to the current crop of Democrats. Hint: it would involve a judge, a blindfold, and a gallows.

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

The Continued Slander of 'the Democrat Party'



Democratic presidential candidate Barrack Hussein Obama apologized yesterday for describing the lives of 3,000 U.S. troops killed in Iraq as "wasted." He called the remark "a slip of the tongue."


In November, Democrat John Kerry apologized for implying that U.S. troops were uneducated. He called his statement, "a poorly stated joke."


In June of 2005, Democrat Dick Durbin apologized on the Senate floor for likening U.S. troops to "Nazis, Soviets in their gulags or some mad regime — Pol Pot or others — that had no concern for human beings..." He called the comparisons unintentional, stating "I never ever intended any disrespect for them."


Also in 2005, Democrat Ted Kennedy called the U.S. military torturers. Reading from a prepared text, Kennedy said, "...we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management - US management." Kennedy did not apologize.

* * *

I don't know about you, but I'm detecting a subtle theme among certain Democrat -- er, Democratic -- leaders.


It's interesting to contrast these outrageous remarks with the faux press buzz around President Bush's description of "the Democrat Party." ABC and CBS, among others, covered the synctactic gap. CBS termed it, "an offensive political gaffe."

* * *

Offensive? If there's one thing you can say about the mainstream press -- and Democrats -- it's that they're consistent.

Consistently offensive.


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Recursive Thought for the Day™


What if you trademarked the trademark symbol? Talk about your royalties!

Monday, February 12, 2007

Line o' the Day


Don Surber:

They have a name for advanced civilizations that refuse to defend themselves; they become “ancient civilizations.”

Sunday, February 11, 2007

Line o' the Day


Heard on King of the Hill:


"Ewww. Who's gonna lick a stamp with Bill Clinton on it?"

Saturday, February 10, 2007

The Clinton Legacy


I'd originally missed this Macsmind post from December, but its worth a reprise. Thinking about the wonderful Clintonian legacy that Hillary intends to resume?

- The only president ever impeached on grounds of personal malfeasance
- Most number of convictions and guilty pleas by friends and associates*
- Most number of cabinet officials to come under criminal investigation
- Most number of witnesses to flee country or refuse to testify
- Most number of witnesses to die suddenly
- First president sued for sexual harassment.
- First president accused of rape.
- First first lady to come under criminal investigation
- Largest criminal plea agreement in an illegal campaign contribution case
- First president to establish a legal defense fund.
- First president to be held in contempt of court
- Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions
- Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions from abroad
- First president disbarred from the US Supreme Court and a state court

Impressive!

Even the New York Times' search function has an agenda


So I'm searching for some stuff on the Times site today when I noticed the "contextual" ads on the right side of the page.


What are related ads indeed?

Pathetic how even the Times search function has an agenda.

The Church and the Media: a Thought Experiment



Would it be tolerable for the Church to forcibly prevent non-Christians from entering Bethlehem?


Would it be acceptable for the Orthodox Church to advocate the overthrow of secular governments and the submission of all people to the Church's laws?


Would it be supportable for the Church's respected spokespeople to refuse to denounce brutal acts of terror against civilians -- and the organizations that commit those acts?


Would it be acceptable for many in the Church to advocate the murder of those that left Christianity for other religions?


Would it be reasonable for powerful associates of the Church to fund and support homicide bombers?


And is it somehow reasonable that this sort of thing has completely escaped the notice of the mainstream media -- for decades?

Thursday, February 08, 2007

Latest Scores from the New York Times


Herein we present the latest scores courtesy of the New York Times' website search engine*.
*Scores are number of occurrences of each phrase on the Times' site

iraq "civil war" - 2,152
"al qaeda in iraq" - 78

"right wing" - 2,033
"left wing" - 1,117

conservative politician - 3,979
liberal politician - 3,169

right-wing zealot - 41
left-wing zealot - 9

"air america" - 171
"eib network" - 1

"al franken" - 401
"glenn beck" - 8

conservative talk radio - 27,062
liberal talk radio - 1,162

"right wing" media - 343
"left wing" media - 211

"9/11 cover-up" - 2
"sandy berger" "cover-up" - 0

Imagining a Triangulator-in-Chief: Hillary Rodham Clinton



Imagine that Sheik Abdul Rahman, the spiritual leader of those convicted of blowing up the World Trade Center in 1993, declared war on the United States and the Clinton administration ignored it completely. And, in fact, couldn't even take the time to visit the site that nearly turned into a tomb for thousands.


Imagine that war on the U.S. was declared by Osama Bin Laden in the nineties - and no one in the administration took it seriously.


Imagine the Cole, the Khobar Towers, the embassy attacks, Zarqawi at the Olympic Hospital under the protection of Uday Hussein, the Boeing 707 at Baghdad's Salman Pak used to train an unknown number of hijackers...


Imagine a deadly litany of failures on the part of an administration -- too busy reading public opinion polls and covering up various scandals -- to do anything about the rise of extremist terror.


Imagine you are at work bright and early on a sunny Tuesday in a high-rise building soaring above Manhattan. Around 9am, you hear a shocking *thud* sound that rattles your desk. And the power goes out.


As you stare past the picture of your wife and children sitting on your desk, thick, black smoke is rising in the sky, unfurling past your window.


Now imagine the very administration that blithely ignored years of warning signals returning to power.


As a country at war with the United States for three decades secures scores of nuclear weapons while funding global terror organizations and hosting Holocaust-denial conferences.


Imagine Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Manhattan vaporized in a single day. Imagine an era of true terror.


Imagine the ramifications of electing another triangulator-in-chief as President in the midst of this, the nuclear age of global terrorism.


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Wednesday, February 07, 2007

Extending the 'fairness doctrine' to its logical conclusion


Ah, those wascaly Democwats! Apparently unsatisifed with controlling ABC, CBS, CNN, PMSNBC, NBC, PBS, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and most of the remaining mainstream media, some on the left are demanding a return to the days of the 'Fairness Doctrine'.

Laughably misnamed, the doctrine existed prior to 1987 and effectively suppressed political editorial commentary on radio stations. Once challenged, it quickly disintegrated on various First Amendment grounds. Crushing the doctrine resulted in the rich landscape of popular talk radio dominated by personalities like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Glenn Beck, and the like. In other words, radio discovered the conservative American voice.

You'd have thought television news moguls would have raised an eyebrow and noticed this phenomenon. But you'd have been wrong. Only Rupert Murdoch (Fox News) solved the daunting equation, along with what is 2 + 2?.

Hoping to return to the days of a single, unvarnished mediacratic news message, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), along with Representatives Maurice Hinchey (D-umb), Louise Slaughter (D-umber), and Dennis Kucinich (D-umbest), have led the charge for new legislation that would reinstate the "Fairness Doctrine."

So let's extend the doctrine to its logical conclusion:

1) Political talk radio would be required to represent all voices: Liberal, Conservative, Libertarian, Communists, Classic Marxists, Authoritarians, etc.
2) Religious shows would be forced to offer equal time to all religions: with Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and all other religions and sects represented.
3) Sports radio would be forced to offer equal time to all sports: programming time for baseball, football, and basketball would be reduced while curling, lacrosse, and pro tiddlywinks would warrant drive-time slots.

Once again, the take-away is simple. Liberals don't trust Capitalism, the most efficient value creation system yet invented by man. One would've thought that the brutal, murderous failures of the Soviet Union, North Korea, Cuba, etc. would have suitably demonstrated -- even for a "progressive" -- that Socialism is an irreparably warped system. Instead, they want to suppress free speech through regulation.

I'd call the scheme hare-brained, but that would be an unforgivable insult to all hares.

Hillary Quote o' the Day


Heard on Fox News:


"If I were Obama, I'd keep my head on a swivel"

Monday, February 05, 2007

A Stellar Track Record of Accuracy



In a Sept. 2, 2003 speech in South Carolina, John Kerry claimed the U.S. is suffering "the greatest job loss since the Great Depression."


Throughout the 2004 presidential campaign, Kerry asserted that President Bush has "the worst economic record since the Hoover administration."


Throughout the election cycle, leading Democrats employed the term "jobless recovery" to describe the economy.


Not yet sufficiently humiliated, the Democratic theme of economic disaster continues apace.


Even today, in 2007 and despite overwhelming evidence, Speaker Nancy Pelosi echoes these bizarre assertions: "The Bush economy is moving in the wrong direction... Gas prices have doubled topping $3.00 a gallon, with the price of oil topping a record in July... Median family income has dropped every year of the Bush Administration, and Americans’ paychecks have been flat or declined in more than half of the 65 months of the Bush Administration..."


Furthermore, Pelosi has continued to wage war against American energy independence, stating: "Republicans voted to protect more than $5 billion in oil industry giveaways," thereby implying that domestic energy companies would suffer mightily under increased taxes, fines, and regulations. That's American energy companies that Pelosi intends to penalize, not foreign ones.

* * *


Interestingly, Friday's news brought a revision to the 2006 employment numbers. An upward revision, that is, to 2.2 million jobs created.


Chief Economist Michael Darda released a stunning appraisal of the situation last week:

...Our indicators suggest that the outlook for the labor market is stronger than anytime since the late 1960s, when the unemployment rate dropped below 4 percent on a sustained basis. Weakness in profits and high real interest rates undermined the tight labor market of 1999–2000, whereas profits are much stronger today while real rates are much lower... In fact, the profit and productivity backdrop is stronger now than it was during the first 20 quarters of the 1961–1969 expansion. ... We thus expect unemployment to drop below 4 percent during 2007...



A recent Virginia newspaper op-ed recapped the situation succinctly:

...In 2007, unemployment is low and productivity is high, the stock market is doing well and real wages are growing. Economist Michael Darda points out that real wages over the first five years of the Bush expansion are actually growing more rapidly than over the first five year boom than spanned the tenure two presidents - the first George Bush and Bill Clinton.

Critics claim there is a huge wage inequality in the land, but they fail to detail why Bill Gates is a danger to the Republic.

Local, state and federal tax revenues are increasing. Inflation is stable. National Review columnist Lawrence Kudlow notes that family wealth stands at a record of more than $54 trillion. Even removing Mr. Gates from that equation leaves 53 trillion, 950 billion for everyone else in the nation...



And what about the Democrats' ill-conceived campaign against the American energy industry? Just days ago, Ben Stein read the riot act to Pelosi and her posse of petroleum-hating unrealists:

...If we lost all oil and gas products tomorrow, ...the world would simply collapse. There would be an immense depression beyond anything we saw in the 1930s -- the economy would go back to a primitive state. There would simply not be a functioning society. It would be as if there had been nuclear war, minus the casualties from blast and radiation.

In a word, we cannot as a modern society or even a modestly industrial society live without oil and gas. That is, we do not supply a luxury or a narcotic. We supply a basic necessity of life, as basic as almost any commodity there is.

Years ago, under the Clinton administration, we were given incentives to drill for oil and gas in very deep water in federally owned areas. Today, some say we were erroneously given more incentives than was originally intended. Specifically, such critics say that these incentives should have stopped if oil reached a certain price on world markets... We do not know if this was a mistake or not. We do know that it's the law...

Finally, the oil business is a big business. For some of us, lately it has been a good business after many lean years. But we are not princes of heredity and blood. Anyone who wants to can go to work at an oil company. We have serious labor shortages and we welcome you.

More important, anyone who wants can buy stock in us can be an oil company owner. This business is open to anyone. If you think we make obscene profits, buy our stock. You'll soon find that our profits are not only not obscene, but far from certain or predictable...

Can I get an 'indeed'?

Put simply, the Democrats' record for accuracy is just a tad worse than Pinnochio explaining his losing streak at the track to a loanshark.

In fact, I'd rank the Democrats' economic stewardship abilities up there with their handling of Islamofascists and Communists.


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Sunday, February 04, 2007

Sunday's Collection of Outstanding Posts


Chock-full of intellectual goodness (hat tip: Larwyn)...

1) Confederate Yankee's Global Warming: The Un-Science of Fear:

...Approximately 99.72% of the "greenhouse effect" is due to natural causes -- mostly water vapor and traces of other gases, which we can do nothing at all about. Eliminating human activity altogether would have little impact on climate change.

The simple fact of the matter is that global warming began 18,000 years ago as we started leaving the Pleistocene Ice Age. We are currently on the tail end of a 20,000-year interglacial period, and do you know what that means? ...

2) Michael Yon's The Hands of God:

He was dressed as a woman as he walked down the alley toward the mosque full of worshippers. It was Friday, just before Ashura, and the air was chilled.

The bomb strapped to his body was studded with ball-bearings so that he could kill more villagers as they gathered for prayer. The detonation would eviscerate and dismember those closest, shattering bones into fragments, but the ball-bearings would ensure lethality beyond the percussive edge of the blast wave, ripping through the flesh of people who might not have been knocked down by the explosion.

There were no soldiers in his path to stop him; no police to alert to the man in women’s clothes. There were only villagers. The man dressed as a woman was to be the agent of their deaths...

3) Citizen Warrior's The Case of the Purloined NSC Documents:

Mrs. Hudson had only just cleared away the remains of a fast-food luncheon she had brought us from 'round the corner, when my esteemed colleague startled me with a question. "Watson, pray can you tell this humble student of the misdeeds of men, what so perplexes you in the incident of Mr. Sandy Berger?"

Having observed the great Sherlock Holmes for several lifetimes now, I am no stranger to his powers. But I can scarcely describe my amazement at having my thoughts read as clearly as if they were tattooed upon my forehead! I stammered out "But Holmes, how on Earth could you possibly know that bit of nastiness was indeed the subject of my private thoughts?!"

...I had indeed been ruminating on the actions of the now-disgraced (if insufficiently so) former National Security Advisor. So I was relieved to share with Holmes the exact question that puzzled me. "Yes, indeed you have, but can you now tell me how on Earth could that rascal Berger practically beat this rap altogether? Had he not at a minimum demonstrably lied to Federal investigators, the heinous crime for which the hapless Ms. Stewart did time, and for which the long-suffering Mr. Libby may yet? ...

4) Times Online's Iranian nuclear scientist ‘assassinated by Mossad’:

A PRIZE-WINNING Iranian nuclear scientist has died in mysterious circumstances, according to Radio Farda, which is funded by the US State Department and broadcasts to Iran.

An intelligence source suggested that Ardeshire Hassanpour, 44, a nuclear physicist, had been assassinated by Mossad, the Israeli security service.

...Rheva Bhalla of Stratfor, the US intelligence company, claimed on Friday that Hassanpour had been targeted by Mossad and that there was “very strong intelligence” to suggest that he had been assassinated by the Israelis, who have repeatedly threatened to prevent Iran acquiring the bomb...

5) Washington Times' China's Dire Prediction:

...Vertiginous double-digit yearly growth for the fourth consecutive year has put China on track to leapfrog Germany as the world's third-largest economy. Its foreign currency reserves are accumulating at the rate of $30 million per hour and recently topped the $1 trillion mark -- about 70 percent of that in U.S. paper. It is outspending Japan on technology R&D. China is preening with self-confidence.

As Ford posts a record $12.7 billion loss, China's "Chery" (which started with machines and engine technology purchased from Ford Europe for $25 million), in alliance with China's "Visionary Vehicles," is getting ready to invade the U.S. market with five different models in 2008, all designed by Pininfarina (known for Ferrari and Lamborghini designs). The Las Vegas Sands Casino, with 800 gaming tables, is now the world's largest -- not in Nevada but in Macau, China.

To offset America's enormous strategic military superiority, the Chinese military concluded in the 1990s that information warfare -- or cyberwarfare -- could give China an "asymmetric" advantage over the United States. In 1998, the PLA newspaper Jiefangjun Bao said priority should be given "to learning how to launch an electronic attack on an enemy... to ensure electromagnetic control in an area and at a time favorable to us..."

Saturday, February 03, 2007

The Cheerleaders



Hugh Hewitt has the gory details of the media's campaign of information warfare against the U.S. military. William Arkin, who some in the military have termed "a rectal parasite on a sewer rat’s flea," doesn't even have the guts to appear on Hewitt's program.

It figures.

Grim Milestone: New York Times uses the term 'Bushies' for the 130th time since the 2000 Election


I've detected a subtle pattern in the New York Times' use of language when describing the current administration.

Since the 2000 election, there have been 130 op-eds, news stories, reviews, and letters -- including so-called "Art" and "Book" reviews -- that have mentioned the term "Bushies." And, as you can see from the list, it has nothing to do with Iraq and so-called "lies" about WMDs. Long before even 9/11, the Times was banging the "Bushies" gong.

Even if such phrases were mildly humorous, the hilarity would have died down after, say, the first thirty or so times they used it. But it's not the least bit humorous. It's not serious. It's not respectful. And its rampant overuse is endemic of a fundamental disrespect the Times holds for America's institutions; including the U.S. military and the Executive Branch of government (so long as Republicans hold power).

For readability's sake, I've had to condense the following list somewhat. On many occasions, the term was used multiple times in a single article. In fact, just to hammer her point home, Dowd used the term three times in a single article on five different occasions (Friedman had three such trifectas; while David Brooks only had one... slacker).

1. 01/29/2007: PAUL KRUGMAN "...even after the Bushies are gone, bad energy ..."
2. 11/11/2006: MAUREEN DOWD "...compared with the Bushies, or even Hillary Clinton ..."
3. 11/05/2006: Michael Kinsley "...and immediately the Bushies launched into precisely the..."
4. 09/17/2006: William Safire "...accounts blitzed the Bushies with the fearsome word ' ..."
5. 09/16/2006: MAUREEN DOWD "...is how the Bushies dismiss those who don't grasp ..."
6. 08/31/2006: DAVID BROOKS "...truth-seekers that the Bushies were so vicious they would ..."
7. 05/15/2006: BOB HERBERT "...on. The Bushies will tell you that it ..."
8. 04/26/2006: Alex Witchel "...fall of the Bushies or Hillary -- forever Hillary ..."
9. 04/12/2006: MAUREEN DOWD "...overcrowded with hallucinatory Bushies. W. defended his ..."
10. 04/08/2006: MAUREEN DOWD "...Coincidence? The Bushies once more showed incompetence by ..."
11. 03/22/2006: MAUREEN DOWD "...? When the Bushies harp on training Iraqi security ..."
12. 03/15/2006: MAUREEN DOWD "...soaring against the Bushies' power-mad stumbles. They ... ..."
13. 03/08/2006: MAUREEN DOWD "...that the bellicose Bushies do share a presentation aesthetic ..."
14. 02/12/2006: JOSEF JOFFE "...view of the Bushies, as well as of ..."
15. 02/11/2006: MAUREEN DOWD "...kids. The Bushies can continue to claim that ..."
16. 02/08/2006: MAUREEN DOWD "...how far the Bushies' sulfurous scaremongering on terror ..."
17. 02/01/2006: MAUREEN DOWD "...pigheaded. The Bushies are more obsessed with snooping ..."
18. 01/25/2006: MAUREEN DOWD "...way, the Bushies are reducing their abuse of ..."
19. 01/21/2006: MAUREEN DOWD "...None of the Bushies' actions in defiance of ..."
20. 01/18/2006: MAUREEN DOWD "...all allowed the Bushies to use 9/11 as a ..."
21. 12/04/2005: DAVID BROOKS "...deteriorate, the Bushies exuded what Packer calls a ..."
22. 12/03/2005: MAUREEN DOWD "...clear. The Bushies don't believe in it. ..."
23. 10/08/2005: MAUREEN DOWD ".... While the Bushies have been trying to reassure ..."
24. 09/18/2005: DAVID BROOKS "...plan. The Bushies are still trying to figure ..."
25. 08/10/2005: MAUREEN DOWD "...operative, the Bushies could out him. But ..."
26. 04/30/2005: MAUREEN DOWD "...to tell the Bushies what they wanted to hear ..."
27. 03/17/2005: MAUREEN DOWD "...news. The Bushies created their own reality to ..."
28. 02/17/2005: MAUREEN DOWD "...' With the Bushies, if you're their friend ..."
29. 02/10/2005: MAUREEN DOWD "...Post that the Bushies ensured that Condi's appearance ..."
30. 01/29/2005: DAVID BROOKS "...The Bushies' New Groove ..."
31. 01/20/2005: MAUREEN DOWD "...only equation the Bushies know is this one: ..."
32. 12/23/2004: MAUREEN DOWD "...dystopia. The Bushies are betting a lot on ..."
33. 12/12/2004: MAUREEN DOWD "...straining. The Bushies were fixated on Iraq, ..."
34. 12/12/2004: MICHAEL CROWLEY "...in which the Bushies masterfully harnessed their ..."
35. 11/30/2004: Letter "...I'm glad the Bushies won. They're such poor ..."
36. 11/11/2004: MAUREEN DOWD "...team. The Bushies can stop mentioning Osama's ..."
37. 11/07/2004: MAUREEN DOWD "...reality, the Bushies cocoon in a scary, ..."
38. 10/31/2004: MAUREEN DOWD "...vibe. The Bushies' campaign pitch follows their ..."
39. 09/23/2004: MAUREEN DOWD "...tense. The Bushies' perverse private calculation about ..."
40. 09/19/2004: MAUREEN DOWD "...how far the Bushies will go to squelch any ..."
41. 09/16/2004: MAUREEN DOWD "...Democrats fear the Bushies are capable of any level ..."
42. 09/09/2004: MAUREEN DOWD "...flimflammed by the Bushies. But at the convention ..."
43. 09/06/2004: WILLIAM SAFIRE "...Finally, bouncing Bushies are properly concerned ..."
44. 09/05/2004: FRANK RICH "...Swifties and the Bushies would be obvious even if ..."
45. 09/02/2004: MAUREEN DOWD "...fears that the Bushies are bullies alternate with high- ..."
46. 08/29/2004: Jacob Weisberg "...responsible than the Bushies themselves for misleading ..."
47. 08/15/2004: Calvin Trillin "...so said the Bushies, We had to act ..."
48. 07/08/2004: MAUREEN DOWD "..., as some Bushies refer to him, finally ..."
49. 06/27/2004: MAUREEN DOWD "...the once sweat-free Bushies were acting jangly. First ..."
50. 06/10/2004: MAUREEN DOWD "...hype, some Bushies revved up the theme that ..."
51. 05/20/2004: MAUREEN DOWD "...Open and sharing Bushies. Now there's a ..."
52. 04/04/2004: MAUREEN DOWD "...resolve. The Bushies are busy putting a retroactive ..."
53. 03/27/2004: DAVID BROOKS "...! Everything the Bushies say is incorrect. And ..."
54. 03/25/2004: MAUREEN DOWD "...has panicked the Bushies, who are running as ..."
55. 03/23/2004: ELISABETH BUMILLER and JUDITH MILLER; "..., and the Bushies were not ..."
56. 12/20/2003: DAVID BROOKS "...debate. The Bushies haven't done it yet, ..."
57. 12/17/2003: WILLIAM SAFIRE "...sauce for the Bushies. An ordinarily astute S.A.O. ..."
58. 11/02/2003: Arts - Letter "...media toward the Bushies, as exposed by Mr. ..."
59. 09/25/2003: THOMAS FRIEDMAN "...terrorism, the Bushies behave like Viking warriors. ..."
60. 09/09/2003: DAVID BROOKS ".... The leading Bushies almost never admit serious mistakes ..."
61. 09/03/2003: MAUREEN DOWD "...feet? * Bushies thought freeing Iraq from Saddam ..."
62. 07/30/2003: MAUREEN DOWD "...'s clear the Bushies played up the terror angle ..."
63. 07/02/2003: MAUREEN DOWD "..., will the Bushies make Willie & ..."
64. 06/29/2003: Maureen Dowd "...reign of the Bushies. She wows some people ..."
65. 06/22/2003: MAUREEN DOWD "...the year the Bushies spent trash-talking about whupping him ..."
66. 06/18/2003: MAUREEN DOWD "...fancy. The Bushies dismissed the Clintons as ' ..."
67. 06/08/2003: MAUREEN DOWD "..., as the Bushies call John Edwards, merely ..."
68. 05/28/2003: MAUREEN DOWD "...Iran. The Bushies are playing up Al Qaeda ..."
69. 05/25/2003: MAUREEN DOWD ".... And the Bushies were not above playing on ..."
70. 05/11/2003: MAUREEN DOWD "...-- when the Bushies exploited 9/11 to hype the ..."
71. 04/23/2003: MAUREEN DOWD "....) The Bushies pretend that we don't want ..."
72. 03/16/2003: MAUREEN DOWD "...Sure, the Bushies might be feeling a bit ..."
73. 03/05/2003: MAUREEN DOWD "...style, the Bushies have grown tetchy about the ..."
74. 03/02/2003: MAUREEN DOWD "...war, the Bushies are now obscuring the Pentagon ..."
75. 02/16/2003: THOMAS FRIEDMAN "...(like some Bushies) still have a lot ..."
76. 02/14/2003: PAUL KRUGMAN "...appeasement to the Bushies, as you surely knew ..."
77. 02/12/2003: MAUREEN DOWD "...Qaeda, the Bushies have been hellbent on making ..."
78. 02/02/2003: MAUREEN DOWD "...All week the Bushies did Cirque du Soleil contortions ..."
79. 01/08/2003: MAUREEN DOWD "...delegates. The Bushies are giving tax breaks to ..."
80. 12/08/2002: MAUREEN DOWD ".... If the Bushies want their fiscal policy, ..."
81. 12/04/2002: MAUREEN DOWD "...by the warlike Bushies. Some are skittering left ..."
82. 11/27/2002: MAUREEN DOWD "...and that the Bushies are less zealous about getting ..."
83. 11/05/2002: NICHOLAS KRISTOF "...columns criticize the Bushies, I get torrents of ..."
84. 11/02/2002: BILL KELLER "...up to the Bushies (on executive privilege, ..."
85. 09/22/2002: MAUREEN DOWD "...roaches. The Bushies want to bring back the ..."
86. 09/18/2002: MAUREEN DOWD ".... But the Bushies have gotten a taste of ..."
87. 09/06/2002: NICHOLAS KRISTOF "...sticks pins into Bushies who are unreasonably..."
88. 09/04/2002: MAUREEN DOWD "...it. The Bushies figured if they went after ..."
89. 09/01/2002: THOMAS FRIEDMAN "...worrying about the Bushies is that they seem much ..."
90. 08/26/2002: WILLIAM SAFIRE "...and yesterday's Bushies of the need to overthrow ..."
91. 08/25/2002: MAUREEN DOWD "...It was the Bushies themselves who churned up trouble ..."
92. 08/18/2002: MAUREEN DOWD "...9/11. Bellicose Bushies have yet to offer a ..."
93. 08/16/2002: NICHOLAS KRISTOF "...example, the Bushies tied up negotiations for this ..."
94. 06/25/2002: NICHOLAS KRISTOF "...(like the Bushies) block $34 million ..."
95. 06/12/2002: MAUREEN DOWD "...thankful that the Bushies were finally catching somebody and ..."
96. 05/22/2002: MAUREEN DOWD "...'s why the Bushies are trying to terrify us ..."
97. 05/22/2002: THOMAS FRIEDMAN "...now prompted the Bushies not only to defend themselves ..."
98. 05/19/2002: MAUREEN DOWD "...hijackings. The Bushies were still fixated on their ..."
99. 05/15/2002: MAUREEN DOWD ".... Instead, Bushies are using that dark and ..."
100.04/24/2002: MAUREEN DOWD "... 9/11. Yesterday Bushies were eager to dispel the ..."
101.03/03/2002: MAUREEN DOWD "... one. The Bushies probably need Mr. Daschle's ..."
102.02/24/2002: MAUREEN DOWD "... blockbusters suit the Bushies -- and Karl Rove and ..."
103.01/23/2002: MAUREEN DOWD "... Condi, the Bushies are hailed as conquering heroes ..."
104.11/30/2001: THOMAS FRIEDMAN "... a shield the Bushies insist they must remove the ..."
105.11/25/2001: MAUREEN DOWD "... guard when the Bushies simply ask us to trust ..."
106.09/07/2001: THOMAS FRIEDMAN "... But for the Bushies, context is nothing. ..."
107.08/22/2001: MAUREEN DOWD "... theology. The Bushies gave Russia a deadline yesterday ..."
108.07/29/2001: MAUREEN DOWD "... , with the Bushies beating their chests and growling ..."
109.07/24/2001: THOMAS FRIEDMAN "... clarity to the Bushies' arguments on missile defense ..."
110.07/10/2001: THOMAS FRIEDMAN "... wanted. The Bushies should say to Mr. Arafat ..."
111.06/27/2001: MAUREEN DOWD "... he helped the Bushies and conservatives portray Clarence..."
112.06/15/2001: THOMAS FRIEDMAN "... . Surely the Bushies know that -- don't they ..."
113.06/08/2001: THOMAS FRIEDMAN "... the I.M.F. The Bushies claim that only I.M.F., ..."
114.06/03/2001: MAUREEN DOWD "... . And the Bushies do not exact revenge deftly ..."
115.05/29/2001: THOMAS FRIEDMAN "... was that the Bushies will do whatever they please ..."
116.05/18/2001: THOMAS FRIEDMAN "... First, the Bushies came into office with the ..."
117.05/06/2001: MAUREEN DOWD "... impulsive. The Bushies wanted to be more muscular ..."
118.04/15/2001: MAUREEN DOWD "... . Blissed out Bushies confided to reporters doing ..."
119.04/14/2001: Frank Rich "... business of the Bushies is business, and no ..."
120.04/01/2001: Garry Wills "... ''the Bushies'' is dismissed as ..."
121.03/20/2001: THOMAS FRIEDMAN "... is between the Bushies and America's allies. ..."
122.01/28/2001: David Brooks "... wrong. The Bushies, on the other hand ..."
123.01/22/2001: ERIC SCHMITT "... the place for Bushies to unwind after a long ..."
124.01/07/2001: MAUREEN DOWD "... ''The Bushies act like they're in a ..."
125.01/05/2001: THOMAS FRIEDMAN "... Yes, the Bushies have position papers. They ..."
126.12/24/2000: DAVID SANGER "... Clintonites and the Bushies 05/have nothing to do ..."
127.12/22/2000: THOMAS FRIEDMAN "... general, key Bushies opposed Mexico and would be ..."
128.12/19/2000: THOMAS FRIEDMAN "... changed since the Bushies were last in office eight ..."
129.12/12/2000: THOMAS FRIEDMAN "... lead, the Bushies used every legal maneuver to ..."
130.11/22/2000: MAUREEN DOWD "... If the furious Bushies can't win in state court ..."

Think Democrats are treated with an equal amount of disrespect? The Times referred to "Bubba Clinton" three times since 1992. And the offending authors -- Richard Sandomir, Jerry Gray, and B. Drumond Ayres Jr. -- are hardly well-known. The Times used the term "Clintonistas" rarely as well: only nine times since 1992, including a letter complaining about the term's use by those nasty, brutish Republicans.

So, here's my resolution. Should -- heaven forbid -- a Democrat somehow get elected President in 2008, I promise to treat that person with more respect than the Times has treated President George W. Bush. It won't be hard; they've set the bar very, very low.


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Thursday, February 01, 2007

New York Times: a Dreadful Parody of a Real Newspaper


Why do I feel so happy? The New York Times is writing off $814.4 million of the value of its New England newspapers. This catastrophic meltdown was presaged by a disastrous drop in quality. Need evidence? Try a search over at the Times site for the phrase "disastrous war." That's one of the Times' pathetic and oft-used catch-phrases that demonstrates a distinct lack of quality and creativity.


The Times' mission of derailing the war effort relies upon a monotonic drumbeat of defeat. Reusing the same anti-American phrases for months and years on end has turned out to be a wonderful predictor of the paper's business results. In a word: awful. Here's a breakdown of the recent use of the phrase "disastrous war." Today's editorial -- suitably eviscerated by Jules Crittenden -- even uses the phrase twice. Dammit, that's quality!

Bullying Iran
... himself into another disastrous war, and if Congress is ...
... But his disastrous war in Iraq has done so ...
February 1, 2007 - (NYT) - Opinion - Editorial

Democrats And The Deficit
... country into a disastrous war. And you can even ...
December 22, 2006 - By PAUL KRUGMAN (NYT) - Opinion - Op-Ed

Deeper Into the Maelstrom of Iraq
... euphemisms of this disastrous war can no longer be ignored ...
November 25, 2006 - (NYT) - Opinion - Letter

Where Plan A Left Ahmad Chalabi
... States into this disastrous war...
November 19, 2006 - (NYT) - Opinion - Letter

Dissecting the General's Take on Iraq
... miserably in this disastrous war. It's time to ...
November 17, 2006 - (NYT) - Opinion - Letter

The Perils of Inaction
... last summer's disastrous war in Lebanon. Perhaps this ...
November 10, 2006 - (NYT) - Opinion - Editorial - 396 words

THEATER REVIEW; Despair Echoes From the Arms of Defeat
... countrymen into a disastrous war on foreign soil in ' ...
September 18, 2006 - By CHARLES ISHERWOOD (NYT)

Aiding Our Enemies
... Bush administration's disastrous war in Iraq, and that ...View free preview
August 14, 2006 - By BOB HERBERT (NYT) - Opinion - Op-Ed

Lieberman vs. Lamont: The Fallout
... end to the disastrous war in Iraq. Of course ...View free preview
August 10, 2006 - (NYT) - Opinion - Letter

Liberals, Lieberman and the War
... proponent of this disastrous war, which he advocated from ...View free preview
July 11, 2006 - (NYT) - Opinion - Letter

The President's Day in Baghdad
... administration about this disastrous war. It's like this ...
June 15, 2006 - (NYT) - Opinion - Letter

Faculty's Chilly Welcome For Ex-Pentagon Official
... fury at a disastrous war, an illustration of the ...
May 25, 2006 - By JASON DePARLE (NYT) - U.S. - News

The Memo About the Road to War
... us into this disastrous war? Some questions remain: ...
March 29, 2006 - (NYT) - Opinion - Letter

Nuclear Madness
... to launch his disastrous war in Iraq, agreed to ...
March 6, 2006 - By BOB HERBERT (NYT) - Opinion - Op-Ed

A Mother and a Nation Seek Answers
... president for this disastrous war. Perhaps the only thing ...
August 10, 2005 - (NYT) - Opinion - Letter

Supporters of the War
... critique of the disastrous war in Iraq. He observes ...
May 16, 2005 - (NYT) - Opinion - Letter

Stranger Than Fiction
... this clownish, disastrous war, he might have gotten ...View free preview
May 9, 2005 - By Bob Herbert (NYT) - Opinion - Op-Ed

Energy Alternatives
... debt and a disastrous war in a quest to commandeer ...
March 27, 2005 - (NYT) - Opinion - Letter

Blair Confronts Political Burdens of Iraq
... Sir Winston's disastrous war policies as blindly as the ...
June 20, 2004 - By PATRICK E. TYLER (NYT) - World - News

Bishops and Politicians
... voted for this disastrous war in Iraq. MARY LOUISE ...
April 28, 2004 - (NYT) - Opinion - Letter

The Times has also referred to the "Mission Accomplished" banner -- which was unfurled by sailors to mark the completion of their tour of duty in theater -- a mere 153 times.

Dowd, Rich, Herbert, Krugman... all reuse the same phrases and memes in a circular, incestuous, and inherently uninteresting quilt. It's little wonder the Times' stock price is sinking faster than Michael Moore in a kayak. You'll get more variety reading Hydraulic Fluids Weekly.


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Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Turner Broadcasting's Next Big Gaffe



I know CNN has some bizarre reporting habits, but this is getting ridiculous.