06.02.10
Another FHer pundit tries to discredit Ali Hirsi, and winds up looking really stupid and bigoted
05.31.10
Completely untethered from anything resembling reality
Not only is one of the noxious fuels empowering the worldwide modern left a newly acceptable Jew-hatred, but, as evidenced by Nicholas Kristof’s NYT review of Ali Hirsi’s new book, so is an apology for Islamic misogyny.
04.04.10
The NYT might as well merge with The Nation
It’s one thing to populate your op-ed pages with the likes of Paul Krugman, Frank Rich, Charles Blow, Bob Herbert and Maureen Dowd, but the utter lack of legitimacy of a major newpaper’s reportage sections is made plain by features on a 17-year-old suicide bomber’s devotion to her jihadist husband and a comparison of 1969 Weathermen and 2010 tea partiers, based on the “extremism” of each.
So far I’ve avoided the current national conversation on violence and allegations of it – which, I guess it needs pointing out, even though it’s obvious, are two different things – that have transpired since passage of FHer-care. I really strive to keep the debate at the level of ideas and principles. In a time of national peril, “Teacher-he-called-me-a-name-first”-type polemics is unproductive to say the least.
Still, this latest move by the NYT gets to the heart of what is at stake here. Those of us who hate FHer-care and who understand that the whole agenda of the FHers is an unprecedented assault on the essence of the United States of America are motivated by an unwavering fealty to freedom and the finest ideas to be distilled over thousands of years of Western civilization. Leftist radicals are motivated by a desire to dismantle that civilization as rapidly as possible.
I’d never seen the Ayn Rand quotes about extremism and consistency that Pam Gellar offers here, but they pretty much provide what’s necessary as a counter to the Grey Lady’s disingenuousness. Make that extreme disingenuousness.
10.23.09
It’s not just the public-approval numbers
The MSM sees in full, stark clarity how the TCM regime views freedom of information and decides its sense of solidarity lies with its own field, journalism, rather than hopey-changey jackboot-ism.
Everybody’s getting the wake-up call.
06.16.09
Ignorance and self-righteousness
That’s what has the sycophantic MSM blinded to the actual significances of the two very different elections in the Muslim world – Lebanon and Iran. Even after the events of the past two days, there are still those who get all wet in the britches over TCM’s Cairo speech.
And here’s a question that needs a wider asking. The great Mark Steyn was the one who first posed it. How come no leader from “the Muslim world” ever gives a major address to the “Christian world?” Oh, don’t the Americas and Europe constitute a Christian world? Kind of points out that the term “Muslim world” has political as well as religious significance, doesn’t it?
10.26.08
Reason No. 5,627 why the thought of electing The Chicago Marxist should chill you to the bone
. . . because MSM outlets like the LA Times will be revived from their flatline status and empowered to dispense the party line and keep a lid on the truth.
Barack Obama, Bernadine Dohrn and Bill Ayers were all at the big dinner for Rashid Khalidi.
We don’t have to wait for election day for things to get grim and sinister.
10.10.07
The Y.A.F. DID NOT put up the posters
. . . but the administration of George Washington University wants them to apologize anyway. For what?
This smear-somebody-and-then-demand-an-apology tactic seems to be catching on. Is there any more foul way to engage in public discourse?
09.23.07
Not an urban myth after all
The NYT did indeed give MoveOn.org a half-off discount for its full-page act of treason.
08.22.07
Hugh and company have me thinkin’
Two thought-provoking posts – one from Dean Barnett and one from Hugh – at Hugh Hewitt’s blog this evening. Respectively, they deal with the lastest blow to The New Republic’s stature as one of America’s premier opinion journals, and the battle between Apple’s itunes and Rhapsody for the older demographic.
These subjects are disparate and shouldn’t be treated in the same post. Plus, I’m beat after a long day. It’s 12:30 now. Prep for the semester’s first blues-history lecture. A Jazz from Bloomingtom board meeting. Shopping for and installing new multimedia software for the new laptop. Some administrative stuff for Mrs. Q’s salon.
Let me say this to get my – and your – thought processes started. With regard to TNR and in particular this Scott Beauchamp debacle and editor Franklin Foer’s handling of it, it’s of a piece with the whole east-coast, journalism-is-a-sacred-calling / the-establishment-must-always-be-regarded-sceptically-except-when-it-is-us mentality that we see in examples such as Newsweek’s recent cover story on the supposed minority of the scientific community that’s sceptical of global-warming claims. Hugely agenda driven. Big-time issues with”powerful corporations.” And so on. As I say, I will properly deal with this in a post dedicated to this matter.
With regard to the HH post about Apple and Viacom vying for the over-40 demographic, let me start with this, and, of course, I’ll get into it in proper depth soon: Maybe I look like some kind of way-off-the-radar-screen blip to industry trend-watchers and even cultural-observation pundits, but I take my music seriously. I don’t mean just as some kind of it’s-all-about-me consumer with little earplugs glued to the sides of my head and tastes that grow more persnickety by the day. No. I take music’s role in the development and heritage of our culture – any culture – so seriously that I think abandoning the field of what downloadable music is going to be made available in cyberspace to a bunch of twits who think American music started with Depeche Mode or Jewel or what the f— ever is dangerous for national security reasons.
As I say, it’s late. I hope it doesn’t take too long to get back to each of these subjects in the detail they deserve.
07.25.07
Recommended reading
Cinnamon Stillwell has two great blog posts this week – one on the 40th anniversary of the Summer of Love and one on a Washington Post / Newsweek – moderated panel discussion on getting along with Islam.
06.01.07
Who are you speaking for, buddy?
Now, here’s an interesting situation. What is going on when, in the kind of hostage situation where we can often realistically believe that the captive is being forced to spout the radical Islamist line, we have the history of this guy. How are we to digest his rantings if they’re a lot like what he was spewing forth under the guise of objective journalism for the BBC?
01.20.07
And what religion did the assailant say the victim didn’t belong to?
Little Green Footballs has the rundown of the major world media outlets that omitted what the shooter said in the murder of the Turkish-Armenian writer
