ABC News has suspended John Green, the executive producer of the weekend Good Mornin America. His leaked emails included his comment that he wanted to puke when Bush spoke.
Worse, you would think would be the latest email that was leaked where he advised that Maeline Albright should not be booked on the show because "Albright has Jew shame."
They insist, however, that the program is fair and balanced.
CREDIT to Drudge for printing the first emails.
Friday, March 31, 2006
Delusions of Infallibility
How is this for insight?
He actually thinks journalists are professional, educated, and skilled. Talk about self delusion.
To its proponents, citizen journalism represents a democratization of media, a shattering of the power of the unelected elite, a blow against the empire of Big Brother. Citizen journalism does not merely challenge the notion of professionalism in journalism but completely circumvents it. It is journalism according to the ethos of indie rock 'n roll: Do It Yourself.You degrade yourselves. Daily.
For precisely such reasons, I despair over the movement�s current cachet. However wrapped in idealism, citizen journalism forms part of a larger attempt to degrade, even to disenfranchise journalism as practiced by trained professionals.
He actually thinks journalists are professional, educated, and skilled. Talk about self delusion.
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Briefly
FRANCE
More symptoms of the decline of France. The French language is not the language of choice in the EU.
ISRAEL
Election results show Liduk with a major loss. Reportedly, they only won a total of 12 seats.
More symptoms of the decline of France. The French language is not the language of choice in the EU.
ISRAEL
Election results show Liduk with a major loss. Reportedly, they only won a total of 12 seats.
Jim McDermott, ethically challenged
The U.S. Court of Appeals upheld a lower court that ruled Jim McDermott (D-Wash) violated law when he turned over illegal taped telephone calls to the media.
In one of those wonderful ironies the MSM ignores, McDermott was the ranking Democrat on the ethics panel when he leaked that tape.
It's amazing how much Democrats are for privacy except (A) when they illegally tape GOP telephone conversations, or (B)give 500 FBI files to a Clinton bartender to peruse or, when (C) a Democrat researcher illegally obtained a credit report on a Republican candidate.
God help anyone who depends upon them for privacy or decency.
In one of those wonderful ironies the MSM ignores, McDermott was the ranking Democrat on the ethics panel when he leaked that tape.
It's amazing how much Democrats are for privacy except (A) when they illegally tape GOP telephone conversations, or (B)give 500 FBI files to a Clinton bartender to peruse or, when (C) a Democrat researcher illegally obtained a credit report on a Republican candidate.
God help anyone who depends upon them for privacy or decency.
Sunday, March 26, 2006
Los Angeles Times rewriting history
The Los Angeles Times revising history.
If you live or work in Los Angeles then you know the logistics of gathering that many people had to take an extraordinary effort. At a guess - it was a union play that involved a good many buses. Few people live downtown, the mass transit is ineffective, there are no major shopping areas, little weekend foot traffic, few reasons to be there on a weekend. It's the same reason why Los Angeles doesn't have parades downtown. Who would come? Which makes any gathering suspect. I know from experience.
I was downtown several years ago for jury duty and went the Saturday before to check out parking. I came upon a Jesse Jackson rally for some issue or another. Avoiding the street, I turned two blocks in another direction and there they were -- some 20 or 30 buses lined up on each side of the street, bumper to bumper, out of camera range. You can imagine how much that cost someone.
So, too, with the rally in Los Angeles. This was no spontaneous outpouring. The question is, who paid for it? Who bought all those new American and Mexican flags? My guess is that the service industries and the janitorial industry unions were, no doubt, looking to make a massive statement. Too bad it will backfire spectacularly and with good reason.
Most illegals who are not unionized will be horrified by the display fearing rightfully that it will direct more inspection their way. Most legals who carefully abide by the law are unhappy with unlimited illegal immigration for the effect it has on lowering their wages.
But the real reason for the rally is the union fear that some sort of guest worker program that actually enforces immigration laws will wreck their tidy economy of taking $40 or $50 a week from people who serve as janitors and manual labor in Los Angeles. Losing that revenue flow has got to be a terrifying prospect for the unions. If only 200,000 of the crowd were illegal and known to be by the unions, the loss would represent $8 to $10 million a week.
Of course, if the Los Angeles Times employed investigative journalists and not just Stepford hacks, they could have interviewed the crowd and found out how they came to be there. They could have found out how they traveled to the rally. They could have investigated recent sales of American and Mexican flags. But the Los Angeles Times isn't in the news business. Our MSM is in the collaboration business.
If you live or work in Los Angeles then you know the logistics of gathering that many people had to take an extraordinary effort. At a guess - it was a union play that involved a good many buses. Few people live downtown, the mass transit is ineffective, there are no major shopping areas, little weekend foot traffic, few reasons to be there on a weekend. It's the same reason why Los Angeles doesn't have parades downtown. Who would come? Which makes any gathering suspect. I know from experience.
I was downtown several years ago for jury duty and went the Saturday before to check out parking. I came upon a Jesse Jackson rally for some issue or another. Avoiding the street, I turned two blocks in another direction and there they were -- some 20 or 30 buses lined up on each side of the street, bumper to bumper, out of camera range. You can imagine how much that cost someone.
So, too, with the rally in Los Angeles. This was no spontaneous outpouring. The question is, who paid for it? Who bought all those new American and Mexican flags? My guess is that the service industries and the janitorial industry unions were, no doubt, looking to make a massive statement. Too bad it will backfire spectacularly and with good reason.
Most illegals who are not unionized will be horrified by the display fearing rightfully that it will direct more inspection their way. Most legals who carefully abide by the law are unhappy with unlimited illegal immigration for the effect it has on lowering their wages.
But the real reason for the rally is the union fear that some sort of guest worker program that actually enforces immigration laws will wreck their tidy economy of taking $40 or $50 a week from people who serve as janitors and manual labor in Los Angeles. Losing that revenue flow has got to be a terrifying prospect for the unions. If only 200,000 of the crowd were illegal and known to be by the unions, the loss would represent $8 to $10 million a week.
Of course, if the Los Angeles Times employed investigative journalists and not just Stepford hacks, they could have interviewed the crowd and found out how they came to be there. They could have found out how they traveled to the rally. They could have investigated recent sales of American and Mexican flags. But the Los Angeles Times isn't in the news business. Our MSM is in the collaboration business.
Thursday, March 23, 2006
Mum's the word
Another story the MSM studiously ignores.
Former Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell might have evaded punishment for corruption, but like Al Capone, the Feds got him on tax evasion. How the jurors could find him innocent of corruption but guilty of taking $160,000 in cash, contributions, home improvements, and junkets is anyone's guess. Maybe they thought "corruption" was too strong a word.
As for the MSM, it's probably because he a do-no-evil Democrat.
Former Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell might have evaded punishment for corruption, but like Al Capone, the Feds got him on tax evasion. How the jurors could find him innocent of corruption but guilty of taking $160,000 in cash, contributions, home improvements, and junkets is anyone's guess. Maybe they thought "corruption" was too strong a word.
As for the MSM, it's probably because he a do-no-evil Democrat.
Murder by any other name
Why it's important to call terrorists what they are.
In Kirkuk a doctor at the emergency room pretended to treat injured men. Instead he gave lethal injections to 43 of them so they would bleed to death The leftwing Independent calls him an "insurgent doctor".
Is there anyone of any decency that would call him anything but a murderer? Except the morally-challenged Independent>?
In Kirkuk a doctor at the emergency room pretended to treat injured men. Instead he gave lethal injections to 43 of them so they would bleed to death The leftwing Independent calls him an "insurgent doctor".
Is there anyone of any decency that would call him anything but a murderer? Except the morally-challenged Independent>?
EU - pronounced EWWWWWW
The EU, or parts of it anyway -- Germany, Poland, France, Spain, Great Britain and Italy -- are starting to reconsider multiculturalism, the unfettered joys of a fragmented society.
They are now considering a European "Test for Foreigners" - an integration contract to apprise newcomers of their rights and obligations. Oh, and they also want to do something about terrorism and illegal immigration.
And THAT is the problem with Europe. There is no real European unity on any problem, nor any consensus or willingness to fix anything. The conference is a photo op where the problems are discussed and half heartedly debated and some future conference is announced, usually by France, and then France will set out to undermine national policies of neighboring countries, and the disintegration of their societies continues unabated.
To anyone else, the idea of following France anywhere would be suicidal at best. Bloomberg : French unemployment is 9.6% (and - from CNN - around 50% for the some groups, 22% for the young). Annual growth is limited to 2 percent. Unemployment is dropping, they are quick to point out. Except, of the 110,000 new jobs created in the first half of the year, 85,000 will get government subsidies or be in the non-profit sector. Subsidized jobs and a 35-hour workweek and stop-gab measures that placate noone and punish business are the French solutions. Buying off the public with guaranteed jobs for life may no longer be possible. France is at war with capitalism, students, their labor unions, and unassimilated immigrants.
Like GM and Ford, France has made political accommodations with unions for decades. Power in exchange for union cooperation and collaboration in making use of union funds. Like GM and Ford, France is no longer capable of even pretending to be viable.
Not so very unlike the Democrat party.
They are now considering a European "Test for Foreigners" - an integration contract to apprise newcomers of their rights and obligations. Oh, and they also want to do something about terrorism and illegal immigration.
And THAT is the problem with Europe. There is no real European unity on any problem, nor any consensus or willingness to fix anything. The conference is a photo op where the problems are discussed and half heartedly debated and some future conference is announced, usually by France, and then France will set out to undermine national policies of neighboring countries, and the disintegration of their societies continues unabated.
To anyone else, the idea of following France anywhere would be suicidal at best. Bloomberg : French unemployment is 9.6% (and - from CNN - around 50% for the some groups, 22% for the young). Annual growth is limited to 2 percent. Unemployment is dropping, they are quick to point out. Except, of the 110,000 new jobs created in the first half of the year, 85,000 will get government subsidies or be in the non-profit sector. Subsidized jobs and a 35-hour workweek and stop-gab measures that placate noone and punish business are the French solutions. Buying off the public with guaranteed jobs for life may no longer be possible. France is at war with capitalism, students, their labor unions, and unassimilated immigrants.
Like GM and Ford, France has made political accommodations with unions for decades. Power in exchange for union cooperation and collaboration in making use of union funds. Like GM and Ford, France is no longer capable of even pretending to be viable.
Not so very unlike the Democrat party.
State-sponsored Piracy
That's how Apple describes the new French law passed by the lower house that would force Apple to make its downloads work on all digital music players and not just on the iPod.
Of course, state-sponsored piracy isn't new in France. In anticipation of the UN scheme to provide low costripoff generic drugs to the Third World, France is building a pharmaceutical firm in Brazil for the express purpose of producing drugs in violation of copyright laws. Brazil is a major player in flouting drug copyright laws.
Of course, state-sponsored piracy isn't new in France. In anticipation of the UN scheme to provide low cost
Our Canadian Friends
Canadian built detonator for terrorist plot, trial told
Canadian-born son of Pakistani immigrants, Mohammed Momin Khawaja, designed the detonator for a terrorist plot in the U.K.
Watchdog cleared tritium shipment to Iran
The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission approved a shipment last year (under the Liberals) of dual-use tritium to Iran. The approved amount was about 10% of the quantity necessary for making a nuclear weapon. The shipment was in the form of 70,000 glow-in-the-dark lights.
Canadian-born son of Pakistani immigrants, Mohammed Momin Khawaja, designed the detonator for a terrorist plot in the U.K.
Watchdog cleared tritium shipment to Iran
The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission approved a shipment last year (under the Liberals) of dual-use tritium to Iran. The approved amount was about 10% of the quantity necessary for making a nuclear weapon. The shipment was in the form of 70,000 glow-in-the-dark lights.
Bad slip or bad story?
Another blogger ragging on the New York Times?
For the second time in less than a week, The New York Times today admitted to a serious error in a story. On Saturday it said it had misidentified a man featured in the iconic 'hooded inmate' photograph from Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Today it discloses that a woman it profiled on March 8 is not, in fact, a victim of Hurricane Katrina--and was arrested for fraud and grand larceny yesterday.It's from Editor & Publisher, the Lefty leaning industry rag. They call it "another bad slip."
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Fall from Grace
The Episcopal Church in California has just announced their candidates for a new bishop. Of the 7 candidates announced, three have same-sex partners. Of the three same-sex, one is a lesbian.
The first gay Episcopal Bishop, Gene Robinson, recently underwent alcohol rehabilitation. No wonder people are staying away from formerly-mainstream churches.
The first gay Episcopal Bishop, Gene Robinson, recently underwent alcohol rehabilitation. No wonder people are staying away from formerly-mainstream churches.
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