Monday, December 07, 2009

GOING ROGUE OR GOING ROGAINE: Sarah Palin’s got a sharp wit: “She joked that ‘If the election had turned out differently, I could be the one overseeing the signing of bailout checks, and Vice President Biden could be on the road selling his book, Going Rogaine.'”
NO MEDIA BIAS HERE: The URL speaks for itself:

“latimesblogs.latimes.com/ washington/ 2009/ 11/ not-that-it-matters-politically-because-shes-a-republican-idiot-and-hes-a-democrat-genius but-sarah-palins-poll-numbers-are-c”.
Nope. No bias. Move along now.
2010: OUR TURN

NONE ARE AS BLIND AS THOSE WHO WILL NOT SEE. Ann Althouse takes a 2x4 to the New York Times for its Climategate apologia:


Why isn't the NYT on fire trying to figure everything out and helping us readers see into the controversy? The best we can do is to give our readers a sense of what the prevailing scientific view is... Really? That's the best you can do? Just a "sense" of what "prevails" among scientists? Then the best you can do is to be part of the very problem you ought to be studying: The scientists' efforts to create an impression of consensus.
Ouch!
ANOTHER EDITORIAL from the Associated Press disguised as a news story.
CHRISTMAS AXED FROM CLIMATE SUMMIT: Official says religious event has no place at largest-ever U.N. climate conference.

Er, no religion? They appear to be honoring the First Commandment: "You shall have no other gods before me."

[Update] Bruce Bawer notices.
“THE REAL REASON this gifted communicator [Obama] has become so bad at communicating is that he doesn’t really believe a word that he is saying.”

The Left is just now discovering this?
MORE CARBONATED HOT AIR: “I’ll believe it’s a crisis when the people who tell me it’s a crisis start acting like it’s a crisis.”