+50Recently, there has been an interesting string of editorials in the Washington Post.
(I’ll limit this to the discussion of unsigned editorials, not op-eds.)
.@ejdionne has it exactly backward. This is not a crisis of democracy, it’s a crisis of authority. washingtonpost.com/opinions/ej-di…
— James Taranto (@jamestaranto) May 20, 2013
On May 17, the editors hoped, ...
Erdogan ♥s Ocalan?
Last week Soner Cagaptay and James Jeffers asked Can Obama Save Turkey From a Syrian Quagmire? in the New York Times:
The Syrian war has also awakened Turkey’s once dormant Marxist militant groups. These groups vehemently oppose any government policies they see as serving American imperialist interests and have already...
Richard Engel’s Speech
Richard Engel spoke earlier this week at the Newseum’s memorial for journalists killed in the line of duty during 2012.
Spoke at newseum today on journalists killed in 2012, and controversy on who to include. c-spanvideo.org/program/312711…
— Richard Engel (@RichardEngel) May 13, 2013
The Newseum’s website carries a brief account of...
1) Syria considerations
Last week former executive editor of the New York Times, Bill Keller wrote Syria is not Iraq. The gist of his argument is that he trusts President Obama but shouldn’t have trusted President Bush. It’s a silly argument. However, as Dexter Filkins reports, Keller’s thinking is mirrored in...
This morning Prof Jacobson observed IRS reaped hatred of Tea Party sown by Democrats and the media.
A Tweeter responded:
@leginsurrection Douthat makes the same point, in a NYer’s version of the argument nytimes.com/2013/05/12/opi…
— Tampa (@S1CT) May 12, 2013
Indeed. Douthat laid out the case of The Taxman vs. the Tea Party in a...
There was a useful fiction about Barack Obama. His cabinet would consist of a “team of rivals.”
After this week’s hearings, I doubt we’ll hear the term again regarding this administration.
So now we know who took the terrorist attack references out. Next shoe: who put the youtube claim in? #benghazi
— Noah Pollak...
1) When is news not really news?
The Newseum – a museum devoted to the news business – recently held an event to honor journalists killed in the line of duty. Included in that honor members of Hamas who were killed by Israel this past November.
Newseum honoring Hamas employees is an insult...
After public editor, Margaret Sullivan’s unconvincing arguments about the New York Times coverage of Benghazi, I was expecting the New York Times and other members of the MSM to be out today with editorials spinning yesterday’s testimony in favor of the administration.
.@sulliview insistence on equating bias complaints with “conspiracy narrative” straw...
1) Guess the source
A) In its efforts to stop amateur rockets from nagging the residents of some of its southern cities, Israel appears to have given new life to the fledging Islamic movement in Palestine.
For two years, the Islamic Resistance Movement (known by its Arabic acronym, Hamas) has been losing support...
Hearings are scheduled today before Darrell Issa’s committee.
I thought that Roger L. Simon was going a bit overboard late last week.
New RLS blog #TCOT Benghazi Impeachment Suddenly Not So Far-Fetched bit.ly/15d5RXW
— Roger Simon (@rogerlsimon) May 4, 2013
Even Simon acknowledged that his writing on the topic could be “overheated.”
New information is coming...
1) Bill Keller’s truism
Former executive editor of the New York Times, Bill Keller states the obvious, “Syria is not Iraq.” In short, Keller argues that he trusts President Obama’s instincts. However since he offered a mea culpa for having once supported the Iraq war, his arguments leave some skeptics unconvinced.
Bill Keller...
1) The Israeli “message”
Why is it that threats against Israel are regularly downplayed by the media?
‘Everywhere an #Iranian embassy exists, they plan terror on #Jews, #Israelis‘ ow.ly/kJZlH
— Israel Hayom English (@IsraelHayomEng) May 6, 2013
Typical of this phenomenon is...
Syria Explodes
Professor Jacobson has previously reported on two Israeli strikes: one against Hezbollah and one against Syria.
What’s going on?
Classic thing about the strike...
In a telling editorial last year, the Washington Post railed against Mr Romney’s Secret Bundlers:
Who are these men and women to whom the campaign is so deeply indebted? Mr. Romney has yet...
1) The innocence of the Obama administration
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on September 14, 2012:
Remarks by #SecClinton at the Transfer of Remains Ceremony to Honor Those Lost in Attacks in Benghazi, #Libya go.usa.gov/rHW4
— Department of State (@StateDept) September 14, 2012
This has been a difficult week for the State Department and for...
