Given how grotesquely liberal and crappy the BBC News was when I lived overseas, I wasn’t feeling too keen on giving France24 the time of day. Let’s face it; thanks to toads like Jacques Chirac, a lot of my fellow Americans, expatriates included, considered the French to be, as that lovely sorbiquet goes… ‘Cheese-eating surrender monkeys‘. With the exception of Parisians, who are hopelessly rude, I wish to not only NOT bag on our Gallic friends, but give them kudos for some decent reporting. France24 hosted a round-table of sorts on video shot in North Africa of jihadis training, frolicking like Bambi and Thumper in the woods, et cetera. On the panel was Walid Phares, one of the sanest voices in terms of analyzing terrorism. The last time Europe had news TV worth watching was when Tim Sebastian was hosting HARDTalk. This channel may turn out to be worth watching.
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Saturday, June 12th, 2010Article Roundup for June 11, 2010
Friday, June 11th, 2010Much to catch up on!
Iran and the ‘Freedom Recession’ – Fouad Ajami of the Wall Street Journal comments on the wretched response of the current president to the plight of Iranian dissidents being crushed by the mullahs.
The Cuckoo’s Nest – David Harsanyi of the Denver Post mocks the bitching and moaning of leftists who find normal people like Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman to be out-of-step kooks.
Brown: Goebbels crack ‘jogging talk’ – Maggie Haberman of The Politico writes on Jerry “California Über Alles” Brown’s nasty crack against Meg Whitman. No one talks to that lunatic because he is a gaffe machine that would make Vice-President Biden look as eloquent as William F. Buckley.
For Your Weekend Reading – If John Derbyshire is recommending books for your perusal, you may want to take him up on it. As a fine author on the subject of mathematics, he has impeccable taste in reading material. He will post his list at the Wall Street Journal, and I will place the link here when it’s up.
IPN announces Ninth Annual Bastiat Prize Competition – From the website: “For the ninth year, International Policy Network (IPN) is accepting submissions for its annual Bastiat Prize for Journalism. The Prize is open to writers anywhere in the world whose published articles eloquently and wittily explain, promote and defend the principles and institutions of the free society. Submissions must be received on or before 30 June 2010.”
Politically Correct Warfare – Arnold Ahlert of Jewish World Review wonders why the West has lost its spine when it comes to warfare.
Lee Harvey Oswald and the Liberal Crack-Up – An interesting essay by James Pierson of Commentary Magazine on where liberalism became unhinged.
New Silicon Graffiti Video: 1969—The Death of Modernism – Ed Driscoll offers more in regards to the liberal crackup.
Liberal Fascism: The Font – Another by Ed Driscoll. I love typography, and am probably among a handful of conservatives who enjoy avant-garde art movements. There’s something to the Helvetica font being utterly fascistic, though.
Conservatives for Kagan – Is Stuart Taylor at The Atlantic Magazine serious?! I didn’t know June 11 was a second April Fool’s Day.
A Special Relationship in Jeopardy – Eric Edelman comments on the sad state of affairs the Anglo-American relationship is in.
Rush Limbaugh: I know I’ll be destroyed eventually
Thursday, May 27th, 2010I find it rather hard to believe that someone as so powerful and ubiquitous to political discussion such as Rush Limbaugh would consider himself a target for destruction. For the past 20 years, he has swatted the gnats who attack him with ease and amusement. If he was ever marked for destruction, it probably would have been under the Clinton presidency. Still, there is a segment of American society who drool at the prospect of Limbaugh being taken out. Such is the price for success in political pugilism.
The Long and Foggy War
Friday, May 14th, 2010Liberals continue to prove what a clueless lot they are. It is as if the concept that a supporter of Al Qaeda would want to actually kill Americans indiscriminately is too mind-bogglingly unbelievable for these people to grasp. Cliff May at TownHall.com writes on The Long and Foggy War, an apt title for the left’s political blindness.
Another liberal publication fails
Sunday, May 9th, 2010Robert Moon reports on the fall of yet another liberal rag, Newsweek. They’re up for sale as they’ve performed poorly over the years, namely because they have a huge credibility problem. Hugh Hewitt has half-joked about pooling investors to buy the rag, but as far as I’m concerned, the brand name is ruined.
Here’s a sendoff to you, Newsweek. Don’t let the door hit you where the Good Lord split you.
Defending Glenn Beck
Sunday, May 2nd, 2010David Solway of Pajamas Media pecks out a fair apologia for TV host Glenn Beck. Though I don’t agree with everything Beck says, his detractors look like lunatics when they barrage him with insults, and lose any credibility they may have had if they would have stuck to a fair argument against the man.
Hugh Hewitt on Donny Deutsch, Keith Olbermann and MSNBC
Saturday, April 24th, 2010Score one for Hugh Hewitt, though it comes at a cost. While I loathe the idiocy that comes from the mouths of people like Keith Olbermann and Ed Schultz, it seems not only harsh but stupid for them to fire Donny Deutsch for not running to the defense of simpletons, even though he tried to save their faces in a ham-handed fashion.
There is no sane person who can compare new media’s far more engaging radio (and TV, to a point, if you count Fox News) and MSNBC as being equal on the credibility scale. If you do, you obviously don’t or listen much (which, sometimes might not be such a bad thing to do, come to think of it…).
Rhodes View of Why People Listen to Rush: ‘He’s on Every Radio Station – They Have No Choice’
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010Funny how a drunk and a no-talent hack can bitch about the evils of Rush Limbaugh performing mind-control over us hapless barbarians on the conservative end of the political spectrum. Are these hags serious? Perhaps if liberals put out a product worth hearing, people would go to them. Thankfully, their hatred of the common business model relegates them to the obscurity they deserve.
At Last, Misson Accomplished In Iraq
Saturday, March 20th, 2010Not a peep from the lame-streamers. Surprised? I thought not.
The Obama/Baier Interview
Saturday, March 20th, 2010It boggles the mind that leftist hacks would be so foolish as to attempt to paint Brett Baier, the Fox News journalist who recently interviewed President Obama, as a badgering idiot in the same way someone like Chris Matthews or Keith Olbermann would be portrayed by the left. What interview were these people watching? What most people saw was a fumbling, inexperienced, inept poser of a leader being unable to explain with any force why a citizen would want to support his health care plan. Obama needs to realize that he works for the American people and isn’t a dictator. If this health care monstrosity passes, expect a lot of discontent to boil over. More to the point, however, is Baier’s performance. He handled himself with poise, asked pointed questions that obviously got under the POTUS’s skin, and was relentless. Fox has done well in raising his profile. Peggy Noonan at WSJ and Archy Cary for Big Government comment further on the Obama/Baier encounter. It’s painfully obvious why this administration fears and loathes Fox News so much.
