July 1, 2008
CBS’ Steve Hartman Has an Ugly Baby
-By Warner Todd Huston
Last week, with an “Assignment America” report on the CBS Evening News, Steve Hartman perpetrated a perfect example of why the media simply has no credibility on any subject, even humor. Hatrman’s report was not only dishonest, but missed the main point by a fair margin.
To set his report up, Hartman [...]
June 30, 2008
Gov’t To tell You What Kids to Invite to Birthday Parties
-By Warner Todd Huston
OK, now go read that headline again. There is no trick to it. I am saying that government is aggregating unto itself the power to tell you, a parent of an 8-year-old child, which of his school classmates he is allowed to invite to his birthday party. And government has decided that [...]
Boston Globe: Obama Afraid of Muslims Because of New ‘Red Scare’
-By Warner Todd Huston
Derrick Z. Jackson of the Boston Globe has done it again. Now, usually Z is one of those columnists that is sure every white American is a racist and many of his columns are based on that assumption, but it looks like he is branching out from his normal black/white identity politics [...]
June 29, 2008
Chgo Sun-Times Takes Stand Against The Constitution
-By Warner Todd Huston
With more fallout from the Supreme Court’s latest 2nd Amendment ruling, the Chicago Sun-Times has published an op ed wagging a finger at the Supremes saying that the Heller decision will be a “tax on Chicago citizens,” and that it is a tax to be “paid in blood and money.” The [...]
June 28, 2008
WaPo After Free Republic Again, Now Over Barack-is-a-Muslim Email
-By Warner Todd Huston
The Washington Post published a June 28th piece geared to protect Barack Obama from the nagging rumors that he is a secret Muslim, rumors that have been circulating since 2004. The Post’s Matthew Mosk penned an attack on Free Republic, based on an Obama flak who claims she has somehow discovered [...]
June 27, 2008
Tallahassee Dem. Newspaper: Big Brother Should Track Guns With GPS
Tallahassee Dem. Newspaper: Big Brother Should Track Guns With GPS
-By Warner Todd Huston
She thinks she has lit upon a “responsible idea” to regulate guns. The idea Megan Kristen Lewis of the Tallahassee (Fla.) Democrat thinks is “responsible” is to put global positioning tracking devices (GPS) in every gun. That way the government could track down [...]
June 26, 2008
Cartoonist Rall Sees ‘Bad Times’ for Country as ‘Great Times’ for Him
-By Warner Todd Huston
Riddle me this: when is a cartoonist as shallow and one dimensional as his own creations? When his name is Ted Rall. The San Antonio Express-News ran a short story covering a convention being held in Texas that is serving as a gathering place for some of the nation’s increasingly fewer political [...]
June 25, 2008
What for a Blog?
-By Warner Todd Huston
Everyone is talking about the “importance” of blogging and wondering where it will all lead at least where it concerns the influence blogging might have on politics. There was even a warning that bloggers are facing oppression and arrest at an increasing rate in some despotic countries proving that blogging is already [...]
June 24, 2008
Media Fooled: ‘Lost Tribe’ Not so Lost as Previously Reported
-By Warner Todd Huston
Remember last month when the “amazing” photos of the “lost Indian tribe” in the Brazilian jungle were making the rounds? Remember how every single news agency in the world jumped on this “astounding” report? They were a “lost tribe,” they were an “uncontacted” people, they were shooting arrows at the “big bird” [...]
June 23, 2008
Obama’s Propagandistic Iconography: the Making of a Messiah
-By Warner Todd Huston
A photographic essay of Obama propaganda and the Media’s willing assistance with it
In America we have always been a skeptical people. One of our states even has a skeptical motto. Missouri calls itself the “Show Me State” proving that Missourians don’t imagine they’d be apt to have the wool pulled over their [...]
June 22, 2008
American School Books Redefine ‘Jihad’ to Exclude Violence
-By Warner Todd Huston
In yet another example of why the west could be too weak to fight the sort of global terrorism that takes the form of Islamofascism, a textbook monitoring group is charging that American textbooks have been cleansed of mentioning the violence inherent in the Islamic “Jihad.” Now, our children will not [...]
June 21, 2008
What Passes for ‘Journalism,’ Giving Obama a Free Pass
-By Warner Todd Huston
Recently the Rockford (Ill.) Register Star subjected its readers to another fine example of sloppy journalism aimed at exalting the Obama candidacy. It is so bad, so pointless, so filled with empty platitudes and meaninglessness that one might suspect it was written by Barack Obama himself instead of a reputed journalist. But [...]
June 20, 2008
Jailed for Blogging
-By Warner Todd Huston
Bloggers are being arrested more and more as the importance of the Internet is realized by governments across the world, at least so warns the BBC. It seems an alarming report where community activists and democracy advocates are finding themselves being oppressed by government, arrested, and maybe even tortured because of their [...]
June 19, 2008
New Hollywood Film Casts Old West Cowboys as ‘Imperialists’
-By Warner Todd Huston
What’s history for if Hollywood and our other entertainment industries can’t take it and warp it to fit a current, partisan political agenda? In yet another example of Hollyweird’s foolishness, we have a new Robert Downey, Jr. vehicle that casts the American Cowboy as an “imperialist”. Of course, they will dress it [...]
June 18, 2008
A Lefty That Says ‘Bush never lied to us about Iraq’
-By Warner Todd Huston
James Kirchick, assistant editor of The New Republic, has come under my scrutiny for his bias before, of course. I see one of my roles as keeping an eye on the bias in the media and to document and analyze that bias. But while I naturally focus on when the media get [...]
June 17, 2008
Gore-ging on Energy, 1 Year Later Gore’s Home Energy Use Climbs 10%
-By Warner Todd Huston
In February of 2007 a small group named the Tennessee Center for Policy Research published an interesting little story that made Al Gore, the king of global warming alarmism, look a tad foolish. The report that TCPR sent out showed that Al Gore’s own home was an energy hog. The TCPR report [...]
CNN: Obama Poll Advantage Over McCain ‘Enormous’ … in Europe
-By Warner Todd Huston
CNN calls this serious news, apparently, but a recent report about a Pew Research poll of “more than 24,000 people in 24 countries” shows that foreigners favor Barack Obama over John McCain for president. Aside from the general “who cares” of it all, why is it news that people who wish the [...]
June 16, 2008
College Gives Credit for Obama Campaign Volunteers, None for McCain
-By Warner Todd Huston
Is our children learning? It seems they are learning at least one thing; their college supports Barack Obama. Students at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, are being presented with a new opportunity to indulge in what is being called a “gap year.” An idea popular in Europe, the “gap [...]
June 12, 2008
Militant Atheism At U of Virginia
-By Warner Todd Huston
The one thing that always makes me wonder about atheists is how upset they seem to get about nothing. After all, they claim that there is no God and that religion is based on myth and foolishness, don’t they? They claim it is all “nothing,” yet many of them are highly incensed [...]
June 11, 2008
Democrats Try to Make Military Press Conferences Illegal
-By Warner Todd Huston
Congressional Democrats announced early in May that they wanted to make “military propaganda” illegal. To achieve this goal they passed new legislation that strengthened previous legislation that is supposed to ban the Pentagon from indulging in “propaganda” for the military.
This bill is supposed to stop the military from sending “any form of [...]
