https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2017/06/27/news-organizations-including-one-unintentionally-misinformed-public-guns We need to be more critical thinkers. If it swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, and waddles like a duck, why don’t more of us push back when the news writes it up as a donkey? ======== Steve Doud, a subscriber from Plano, emailed me to say he’d read something in the June 21 Dallas Morning News that couldn’t... Read more
Archive for the ‘Liberal Press’ Category
Trump-Russia Story Starts Making Sense – WSJ
June 2 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Liberal Press, Party Politics, Russia, TrumpPut a sticky-note on this one. ============== WSJ – By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. May 26, 2017 8:06 p.m. ET The Trump -Russia business is finally coming into clearer, more rational focus. Former Obama CIA chief John Brennan, in testimony this week, offered no evidence of Trump campaign cooperation with Russian intelligence. Instead he spoke of CIA fears that Russia would try to recruit/blackmail/trick... Read more
A Philosopher Gets Pilloried
May 12 | Posted by mrossol | 1st Amendment, Liberal Press, Losing Freedom, Politically correct, The LeftAnother example of the left’s ‘war on free speech’. Don’t argue the issue, rather attack the messenger. ====== By Jillian Kay Melchior [ as reported in WSJ 5/9/2017] Usually, when junior professors publish scholarly articles, they are lucky to elicit more than a yawn. But last week the philosophical musings of Rebecca Tuvel, an associate professor at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tenn., provoked... Read more
Behold the Master Conspirator
April 20 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Liberal Press, The LeftOnce again, as Mr. Jenkins explains, the silence is deafening. ====== WSJ 4/19/2017 Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. It was the bombshell that bombed. The Washington Post reported last week that a Trump campaign adviser, in the middle of last year’s election campaign, had indeed been singled out by the FBI for surveillance as a potential Russian agent. Unfortunately for the conspiracy theorists, it... Read more
So Much for Donald Mussolini
March 30 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Liberal Press, TrumpIs it possible the popular media could be wrong more then the weatherman is? ====== WSJ 3/8/2017 Well, that was fast, if predictable. We’re referring to the conventional wisdom that has moved without a moment of self-reflection from declaring Donald Trump to be a dangerous fascist to a hopeless incompetent. Not too long ago our leading media lights were using Mussolini and Hitler analogies... Read more
A ‘Pentagon Papers’ on Russia?
March 30 | Posted by mrossol | Liberal Press, Russia, The LeftAlong with the Imprimis article on Putin, this piece is also insightful. ==== WSJ – 4/25/2017 By Holman W Jenkins The American media needs to get a grip. News in essence is about how today differs from yesterday, a corollary of which is that yesterday was different from today. Reporters commit the fallacy of anachronism out the wazoo with their treatment of a report... Read more
