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Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 23, 2010 4 Comments

Ethan Bronner of The New York Times has a classic piece on the opening of a luxury mall in Gaza.How does one balance the endless propaganda that Gaza is a concentration camp and that Israelis are committing genocide, with the reality that Gaza exceeds most...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 22, 2010 8 Comments

I haven't posted about Count Frankula in a while.  Frank Rich's latest column, How Fox Betrayed Petraeus, is stuffed full of Rich's usual "people who don't agree with me are crazy and dangerous" filling.Frank's point apparently is that opposition to the Cordoba mosque and Islamic...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 18, 2010 2 Comments

The New York Times has a pretty fair article by Adam Nagourney about Sharron Angle, after a pretty fair interview.Sure, I could nitpick some of the characterizations in the article, but it really was pretty fair. None of the John Ralston Geraldo-like grandstanding, or usual...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 14, 2010 5 Comments

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain: I would like to think we have hit rock bottom when The New York Times launches a major research project and runs a feature article decrying the underrepresentation...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 08, 2010 9 Comments

The image of Obama as King (via Instapundit) has been inspired by Michelle Obama's over-the-top journey to the coast of Spain, the latest in a line of seemingly imperial indifferences to optics in these difficult economic times.The Daily News compared it to the royal court...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 28, 2010 3 Comments

Chuck Todd, of NBC, whose nomme de guerre is "Chuckie T.," has lost sleep over the Journolist, as quoted by Roger Simon at Politico in a column, Journolist veers out of bounds:“Journolist was pretty offensive. Those of us who are mainstream journalists got mixed in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 22, 2010 20 Comments

Now that the left-wing blogosphere and Democratic media operatives Media Matters and Think Progress have found the Religion of Context when it comes to Shirley Sherrod ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 21, 2010 14 Comments

Nate Silver, soon to be blogging at The New York Times, is not waiting for The Daily Caller to expose more e-mails from the Journolist, in which Silver participated.So Silver is taking preemptive action to explain his involvement (emphasis mine):I made on the order of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 11, 2010 3 Comments

Nicholas Kristoff has found the answer to traditional Palestinian suicide bombers, hijackers, and hostage takers: A non-violent movement led by Palestinian women. But for now, Kristoff finds it's still a dream, because it depends on what the meaning of "non-violence" is. Describing one protest, seeking...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 05, 2010 15 Comments

Paul Krugman reserved July 4 for what must be a deliberate deception, Punishing the Jobless, on the issue of extending unemployment benefits, which recently failed to pass the Senate.Krugman blames Republicans, whom he terms "heartless":By the heartless, I mean Republicans who have made the cynical...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 02, 2010 5 Comments

Harry Reid is refusing to debate Sharron Angle until sometime in the fall, claiming her cannot find the time for several months.How interesting that Reid is ducking debates, since he should relish the opportunity to challenge "S. Extreme Angle."Reid's sudden inability to fit a debate...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 22, 2010 24 Comments

General Eric K. Shinseki was a hero to Democrats and the mainstream media because he publicly criticized the Bush administration on Iraq:In a contentious exchange over the costs of war with Iraq, the Pentagon's second-ranking official today disparaged a top Army general's assessment of the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 20, 2010 2 Comments

"I’ve never visited a democracy where more people whom I interviewed asked me not to quote them by name for fear of retribution ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 05, 2010 3 Comments

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...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 03, 2010 10 Comments

So says Chris Bowers of OpenLeft, on the occasion of the hiring of Nate Silver by The New York Times (what possibly could go wrong?):Only five years ago, the progressive political blogosphere was still predominately a gathering place for amateur (that is, unpaid or barely...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 30, 2010 16 Comments

The Gail Collins, in an otherwise humorous column Alabama Goes Viral, plays a sleight of hand when quoting the now famous television advertisement by Dale Peterson, running for Alabama Agricultural Commissioner.Here is Collins' description (emphasis mine):This is the start of Peterson’s campaign ad. He rides...

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