Helen Thomas’ comments that Jews in Israel should go back to Poland and Germany perpetuated the falsehood that Israel is a European implant, which fits nicely into the narrative of the Islamist-Leftist anti-Israel coalition.
In fact, as I documented before, there was an exchange of populations at the time of and after...
The biggest problem with the Helen Thomas story is that she kept it under wraps for so long.
Anyone who watched a presidential press conference knew she was hostile to Israel, but the depth of that hostility was not known.
We have created a media culture where inappropriate or politically incorrect thoughts cannot...
The “Freedom Flotilla” to Gaza, organized and financed by Turkey, purports to address the poor health conditions in Gaza.
One critical measure of public health is infant mortality (children who die before reaching 1 year of age), because it reflects a wide range of underlying heath measures, such as sanitation, pediatric medical...
This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain:
Scratch someone who claims U.S. policy is not sufficiently balanced in the Middle East, find what we always knew to be true:
There are many calls for Helen Thomas to be fired. I disagree.
Thomas is a...
Max Blumenthal thought he had landed the big fish, catching the Israel Defense Forces “doctoring” an audio tape in which statements like “shut up go back to Auschwitz” were shouted by participants in the Gaza flotilla:
The IDF’s propaganda is increasingly unbelievable, yet the media is enthusiastically playing along. This audio, which...
With news that blogger Nate Silver has been hired by The NY Times, and with the dream of an independent progressive blogosphere fading as fast as Obama’s approval ratings, I wondered whether The NY Times would hire me to blog for it.
Unlikely. My first post would be something along the lines...
As thanks to the international community for supporting Hamas in
breaking the Israeli military blockade, Hamas has looted and
shut down the offices of international Non-Governmental
Organizations (NGOs) [added: including some affiliated
with the U.N.] which provide services to poor and needy
Palestinians:
Hamas’s security forces on Monday and Tuesday raided the...
Not the good Glenn, the bad Glenn, feat. C.G.
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I have been sounding the warning over Turkey since January 2009. Now that Turkey has instigated a confrontation with Israel, it is important to keep Turkey’s greater game in mind.
Caroline Glick (h/t Instapundit) explains it quite well.
Glick makes another important point, which is that alongside the shooting war is an information...
One of the arguments against the military blockade of Gaza is that Israel does not only prevent military items from entering, it blocks non-military foodstuff and other supplies. This argument, of course, does not argue for a lifting of the blockade, but narrowing the scope of prohibited items found during screening.
If...
Travel plans once again took me away from the world most of the day, but I did catch a glimpse of Dave Weigel’s piece, Sarah Palin’s strange, unprofessional and paranoid grudge, in which he excoriates Sarah Palin for complaining that a reporter writing a book about her rented a house right...
Howard Kurtz of The Washington Post profiles Chuck Todd of NBC
News,
NBC’s Chuck Todd: White House correspondent, anchor, blogger,
twitterer:
“Chuckie T,” as he’s sometimes called, is an unabashed political junkie from Miami who fed his habit during 15 years at the news digest Hotline. He seems most passionate on television...
If you don’t know what “it” is, then go back to sleep.
If you do know what “it” is, I’d be interested in your thoughts.
Because “good journalism” isn’t quite satisfying.
“Guilty conscience”?
“Atoning for sins”?
“Providing cover”?
Update 5-19-2010 – Here is the punch line to
the
editorial in The Times today:
Mr. Blumenthal, who has an...
The bullying by Congressional committees of various unpopular industries has taken on warp speed.
But in a very disturbing new tactic, Congressional Democrats
specifically are targeting a sponsor of conservative media shows,
particularly the Glenn Beck Show, on a
flimsy pretext:
Forget Goldman. New York Rep. Anthony Weiner has been shooting a bit...
The evidence mounts of bungled permitting, delays in response, and understating the impact:
He just can’t wrap his mind around it. So he sinks ever deeper into his belief that we fail to understand.
But in fact, it is
he who fails to understand:
Is “Left” becoming a four-letter word?
You’d think so lately with each day bringing more news of unconscionable conservative tilts in the...
It must be scary to be who they are.
One day, we are totalitarian control freaks who want to post police at every ice cream shop to check for papers.
The next day, we are pseudo-anarchists who want no government at all.
Today, apparently, we are anarchists in their
scary world (emphasis mine):
Now an...
