Category Archives: Media Criticism

Matter

…and anti-matter:

There’s like 15 Denver Occupy people in the hallway screaming, surround by 30 bloggers mocking them & taking pics/video. #blogcon #blogcon11

I think they can take care of themselves. You don’t mess with conservative bloggers. You can follow the action here.

[Updated tweets a couple minutes later]

@Beregond: #BlogCon11 members have surrounded #OccupyDenver folks & are chanting “We want the dog!” (They elected a dog as thier leader.)

After a round of chanting “Breitbart!”, #blogcon11 is singing “Na Na Hey Hey Goodbye” to #OccupyDenver while waiting for police to arrive.

Several #occupyDenver protestors being arrested and escorted out of #blogcon11 now. Thank you Denver PD.

Dear God, somebody PLEASE tell me there’s video rolling of #OccupyDenver trying to crash #BlogCon11 @EdMorrissey

Dear #blogcon11 I hope you all have had your TB vaccinations.

#OccupyDenver just made their appearance. The smell got noticeably worse in a hurry. #BlogCon11

First videos of #OccupyDenver invading #BlogCon11 up in minutes.

@pinkelephantpun [Tabitha Hale, organizer] says hotel will ask #BlogCon11 to leave if there’s another lobby confrontation with #OccupyDenver people. #PANIC [Jeez, it’s not their fault.]

We and the rest of the #blogcon11 crowd just fought off #occupydenver like they were gnats. Well done all!

@diggrbiii I think basically #blogcon11 people are being asked to stay in conf room & not go out & confront #OccupyDenver if they come back.

I HAD ONE BY THE ANKLE, AND I KINDA FEEL LIKE I NEED TO SHOWER NOW. #BlogCon11

[Update a few minutes later]

Aaaaannnnnddd…here’s the first video.

[Update]

“Who would have thought a movement with a clenched fist logo could turn violent? #OccupyDenver #BlogCon11”

“Overall, it looks like the occupy people at #blogcon11 were less annoying than the Paulbots at CPAC.”

“Everyone filming each other at #BlogCon11 is surreal ”

“Per @pinkelephantpun, #BlogCon11 folks advised to wear our nametags so hotel can tell us from occupiers (“go by the smell!” someone yelled)”

[Update a while later]

Here’s another account with more video.

[Update a few minutes later]

This
is the 99%?

[Update a few minutes later]

Police are the army of the rich!”

They’ll have to fumigate the back seats of the patrol cars.

[Update a few minutes later]

Here’s a roundup from Hot Air.

The Penn State Cover-Ups

It wasn’t just child molestation:

Although State Senator Piccola had written to Penn State President Spanier asking him to ensure that “the university must deploy its fullest resources to conduct an investigation of this case”, the Inquiry Committee decided that the investigation committee should not investigate three of the four charges “synthesized” by the inquiry committee and, as a result, despite the request of Piccola and others, no investigation was ever carried out Penn State on any of the key issues e.g the “trick… to hide the decline”, Mann’s role in the email deletion enterprise organised by Phil Jones or the failure to report adverse data which the House Energy and Commerce Committee had asked about (but not investigated by the NAS panel, whose terms of reference were sabotaged by Ralph Cicerone, President of NAS).

This latest malfeasance in Not-So-Happy Valley makes the whitewash of Michael Mann look even less credible.

Every Day

…is a good day to remember those who fought (and the many who gave their lives) so that we could remain free. Sadly, too many today want to squander what they gave us at such great sacrifice.

[Update a while later]

More Veterans Day thoughts from Bill Whittle.

Poppies

From my V-Day post four years ago:

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw

The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918)
Canadian Army

Note that the number of WW I vets has dwindled down to a tiny few (my paternal grandfather was one, who died in the early sixties). Barring some miracle medical breakthroughs, in another decade they will all lie (at least metaphorically) in Flanders fields. Honor today the few who are still with us, and their compatriots who no longer are. And thank, silently or otherwise, those in harm’s way today overseas.

[Note: this is a repost from four years ago. You can now count the number of remaining on a single hand, and in fact, the last one might be gone now.]

[Afternoon update]

A nice photo gallery of those who have served.