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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Exclusive footage gives rare insight into life in al Qaeda insurgency
Saturday, June 12th, 2010Rush 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…).
‘Populism of the Privileged’
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010The insults against the Tea Party get stupider and stupider. James Taranto at the Wall Street Journal explains here.
Jake Tapper’s Latest Experiment: Fact Checking ‘This Week’
Friday, April 9th, 2010Good for Jake Tapper! He is one of the few liberal reporters I respect, and the fact that he will fact-check guests, I think, will make for better television and more honest interviews.
