Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Jun 16 2008 | Filed under: Heroes of the Past, Media Watch
One of the things I’ve always admired about Harry Truman is the fact that he was able to separate principles from personal preferences. He was a racist who integrated the American military and an antisemite who was among the first to recognize the State of Israel.
I keep thinking of Truman when I see the [...]
Terry Trippany on Jun 03 2008 | Filed under: Election 2008, Feature Article, Media Watch
The New York Times Quietly Backtracks on Obama Defense
The New York Times calls it a correction. I call it an admission that they intentionally tried to rewrite history over Barack Obama’s stated willingness “to meet separately, without precondition” with the leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba and North Korea.
The original Times story was in response [...]
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on May 20 2008 | Filed under: Election 2008, Media Watch
Tom Friedman, man of the New York Times, writes to assure American Jews that Obama is no threat whatsoever to Israel’s security. His column is a nasty little piece of work, not for what it says, but for what it doesn’t say. It opens with a series of scare quotations purported from Barack Obama, all [...]
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Apr 28 2008 | Filed under: Feature Article, Islam, Israel, Jimmy Carter, Palestine
The New York Times again gave a forum to Jimmy Carter. This time Carter defends his immoral, illegal decision to consort with terrorists, something that would be objectionable if the ordinary private citizen were to do it, but that rises to outrageous levels of indecency when a former President does the same thing.
Carter’s most recent [...]
