According to an Agence France-Presse report of a United Nations officials’ meeting with Zimbabwe’s president Robert Mugabe in April (concerning how undemocratic the country’s last election was), Mugabe allegedly exploded when scolded by a U.S. representative: “Well,” said Mugabe, “I don’t think George Bush won the U.S. election, but I accept (it).”
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An investigation into what caused the accident will apparently focus on allegedly inaccurate maps. It sound’s like their have already identified the cause, and now want to make it official. Look for the mining company to blame human error and the humans to blame the company.
Over at Curmudgeonly & Skeptical, Rodger Schultz made a snarky […]
Today, MSNBC is conducting a poll: “SHOULD TAXPAYERS REIMBURSE THE CLINTONS FOR THEIR WHITEWATER LEGAL FEES?” Well, since the law requires they be paid (as were Ronald Reagan and George Bush Sr. when they were not indicted for their role in Iran-Contra), I would have to vote “yes.” At 9:30 a.m., 22 percent of 308 […]
The events of September 11 happened nine unremarkable months into the presidency of George W. Bush. After the attacks, Bush was praised for his leadership. It seemed unpatriotic to criticize him. His “approval ratings” were as high as his father’s had been in the aftermath of the Gulf War.
10 months later, the war drags on […]
“You are $#@&%!* REQUIRED to vote for me! My father and my uncle got shot in the HEAD dammit! You owe it to their martyred memory to vote for every Kennedy who runs for office! Why are we even debating this! Kennedy’s always win! It’s the $#@&%!* LAW!”
Heh.
It’s not quite that bad. The Democratic Party […]
Sajak has a good take on Hollywood political correctness.
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Stossell is the only out-of-the-closet libertarian in journalism. As such, he is the target of all sorts of attacks. He is sure to get it from both sides when he takes on the entrenched war-on-drugs crowd in his latest report, an hour-long which will air at 10 p.m. Eastern/9 p.m. Central on Tuesday, July 30, […]
I have been doing the journalism thing for 20 years now. There are ways to spin a story to make the the subject look good or bad. A good journalist avoids using loaded phrases, and doesn’t place accurate — yet unrelated — statements of fact together to suggest there is a connection. Yet that is […]
A Michigan newspaper editor had returned to her job after her husband agreed to remove a campaign sign from his their yard. He is running for the office of Bay County commissioner. She had been placed on unpaid leave because the sign was a violation of the newspaper’s ethical code. She (and he) refused to […]
The Rev. Al Sharpton, who is planning to run for president of the United States, is on videotape making a drug deal in 1983. And, it isn’t on the front page of every freeking newspaper in America. Coloring the News indeed. If this was even a minor white presidential candidate, this would be all over […]
The National Press Club is defending itself against black and hispanic journalism organizations for giving an award to an author whose book claims newsrooms over emphasis on diversity is hurting the newsgathering process. In “Coloring the News,” William McGowan says that well-intentioned attempts by the newspapers and other to accommodate minorities and their views tend […]
I thought I had a story to tell when I almost bought a house with an open grave in the basement. The price was very low, which I assumed meant it just needed some work. That was certainly true, but the realtor told me it the scene of a notorious murder in Peoria. A couple […]
I have no idea where Rodger Schultz and other right-wing nutjobs get the idea Ann Coulter came out on top during her recent appearance on Phil Donahue’s show on MSNBC. I just read the transcript (thanks for the link, Rodger!) and Coulter came out sounding defensive and weak.
Seconds into the interview, she started whining about […]
Is there anything more pathetic than a GOPer chortling over the idea that Al Gore ss going to run for president in 2004? Hey, if I did nothing all day but hang around other lard-assed Rotarians and fellow conservative funtionaries, like the National Review’s Jonah Goldberg, I would be hard-pressed to believe Gore could win […]
George Bush will dump Dick Chaney. The GOP will not nominate him to run for vice president. Chaney — whose own role in Halliburton is probably less problematic than George W’s role in the rancid Harken deal — will be given the boot, perhaps before he can completely serve his term. Health problems will probably […]
