There are a few Democrats in Vicki Smith’s coverage at the Associated Press, aka the Adminsitration’s Press, of the fraud investigation of former Mine Safety and Health Administration Director J. Davitt McAteer. As is AP’s derelict custom in cases wher... »
In covering GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s appearance at the annual National Rifle Association convention in St. Louis yesterday, Associated Press aka Adminstration’s Press reporter Charles Babington pretended to know nothing about President ... »
Yesterday, Time’s Joe Klein may have produced the single dumbest analysis post ever. Absurd as it is, it’s still important, because it probably betrays Barack Obama’s election strategy, with which the press will gleefully cooperate. The strategy is: Ma... »
Jury selection in the trial of two-time Democratic Party presidential candidate and John Kerry’s Democratic Party running mate in the 2004 election John Edwards began on Thursday. In the related five-paragraph Associated Press story, Michael Biesecker ... »
On March 1, 2011, 14 year-old Makayla Norman of Dayton died of neglect at the hands of adults (her mother and three others) who were responsible for her care and safety. Makayla weighed 28 pounds when she died, and was found “covered in bedsores, livin... »
Did you know that the economy was on a “hiring binge” until February? Gosh, neither did I until the headline to Paul Wiseman’s report at the Associated Press yesterday afternoon informed of that. I also didn’t know that economies took breaks, but that’... »
From what I can tell, no one in the establishment press yesterday attempted to quantify the total employment impact of yesterday’s announcement by Best Buy that it will reduce its headquarters headcount by 400 and close 50 stores. One thing is certain:... »
Here’s some good advice from Rush Limbaugh’s opening monologue today: “If I were you, I would regard every AP story, particularly this year, as nothing more than a propaganda piece for the reelection of Barack Obama.” What occasioned Rush’s rant is a r... »
If Scott Walker somehow loses his recall election in Wisconsin, will that be national news? Of course it will. Well, if the Walker recall really is a national story, why isn’t it news that 29 judges who are supposed to be impartial in their rulings and... »
And Kevin DeWine has lost Ohio’s urban county party chairmen — all seven of them. I received the following attached to an email tonight: Dear Chairman DeWine: As the Chairmen of seven of the largest county Republican Party organizations in the State of... »
When the press wants to smear a conservative outfit, it embarks on a mission to find and highlight someone, no matter how peripheral their involvement or unreflective of that group’s beliefs, to portray as somehow typical of their mindset. But when som... »
On February 28, as reported at the Politico, Obama administration Energy Secretary Steven Chu told a House panel the following in response to a question he interrupted about his interest in having an “overall goal” of lowering gas prices: “No, the over... »
From a Weekly Standard email authored by Jonathan Last: The Virginia result might even be more eye-popping than Ohio. Romney was heads-up against Ron Paul in a purple, mid-Atlantic state. And he couldn’t even get to 60 percent of the vote. That Paul wa... »
In public accounting, there’s a concept known as “independence,” which has two aspects: independence in fact and independence in appearance. If you are auditing a company, you may in fact be the most independent person in the world, willing to follow t... »
From the Associated Press two days ago, with a little local Peoria flavor added (bolds are mine): Seven Americans on trial on charges their pro-democracy groups fomented unrest flew out of Egypt on Thursday after the U.S. posted nearly $5 million in ba... »
