Clark is blogging a panel on how the media cover space, to which it looks like Instapundit was a last-minute addition (he’s not listed in the program).
[Evening update]
Clark has a new post up on the spaceport panel.
Category Archives: Media Criticism
Lebanon Has Been Lost
Why is there no news about this? Sorry, but I think that it’s more important than both the primaries and Ted Kennedy’s brain tumor. I really don’t understand it, particularly since it seems like a great opportunity to blame George Bush, and actually (much more rarely) be right.
Hezbollah’s Apologists
It’s been a rough week (and year) for them. I expect Obama to want no-conditions negotiations with them any minute.
Hezbollah’s Apologists
It’s been a rough week (and year) for them. I expect Obama to want no-conditions negotiations with them any minute.
Hezbollah’s Apologists
It’s been a rough week (and year) for them. I expect Obama to want no-conditions negotiations with them any minute.
Dhimmification
Sam Harris has a long piece at (of all places) the Huffington Post on the unwillingness of western civilization to stand up for its own values against radical Islam. And as others have noted (and he notes himself), this is particularly ironic:
In a thrillingly ironic turn of events, a shorter version of the very essay you are now reading was originally commissioned by the opinion page of Washington Post and then rejected because it was deemed too critical of Islam. Please note, this essay was destined for the opinion page of the paper, which had solicited my response to the controversy over Wilders’ film. The irony of its rejection seemed entirely lost on the Post, which responded to my subsequent expression of amazement by offering to pay me a “kill fee.” I declined.
The Tuskegee Libel
I had never heard that the Tuskegee experiment involved deliberately infecting people with syphilis. I always thought that the sin was leaving it untreated in men who already had it, so that the progression of the disease could be studied (a sin that was mitigated by the fact that at least at the beginning of the study, there was no known effective treatment, anyway).
But apparently, in the wake of Jeremiah Wright’s lunacy, several news people have bought into the nonsense that the researchers infected healthy men. I guess that there’s no libel that is too difficult for some people to believe, and even embrace, as long as it is directed against the US.
Anyway, Jonah has more (including the fact that it was a “progressive” project).
Someone should publicly, and loudly, confront Wright on this latest lie. There is a huge leap from studying men already infected, and deliberately inventing a disease and then infecting a race of people for the purpose of genocide, which is what he accuses the country of doing, with Tuskegee as a supposed existence proof.
But don’t hold your breath.
[Update a few minutes later]
Jonah has more at The Corner.
A Man Of No Influence?
Well, apparently David Petraeus didn’t influence anyone at Time Magazine. I suspect that he influenced a lot of people in Iraq. I bet that he’ll influence voters who elect John McCain this fall, too. In fact, to think that he’s without influence requires a willing suspension of disbelief.
Civil Discourse
I probably shouldn’t give him benefit of the link (it will probably up his traffic by an order of magnitude or two), but apparently we’re nothing but “poo-flinging monkeys” here, because he doesn’t like to lose arguments.
The News That’s Not Fit To Print
The New York Times maintains its perfect record.