Los Angeles Times
MSM Highlight GOP 'Defections', Ignore Dems Voting Against Their Own
July 13th, 2007 1:55 AM
We are seeing all over the MSM the reports highlighting the Republicans in the House and Senate who are turning away from the Party line and voting against -- or at least seeming to vote against -- the President's Iraq war policies. The MSM is presenting this revolt as a momentous thing, unprecedented and presenting it as a loss for the President's ideas. Yet, even as a small number of…
Did Live Earth’s Flop Reduce Media Interest in Global Warming
July 12th, 2007 2:59 PM
A funny thing happened a few days after Al Gore’s concerts to draw attention to global warming concluded: a significant study out of England stating that changes in the sun’s output are not responsible for climate change went almost thoroughly ignored by America’s media.A report by the BBC on Tuesday, which demonstrably challenged one of the key arguments made by anthropogenic global warming…
L.A.Times: Democrats Need to be MORE Emotional Campaigners
July 11th, 2007 7:37 AM
This one is a hoot. The L.A.Times has posted a piece in their politics section about the supposed revelations of Drew Westen, a psychologist who is advising Democrats that they are too logical and rely on "facts" too much in their campaigns. Westen is warning Democrats that they need to be more "emotional" in their appeals to the voters because, according to his "research", Democrat and…
Facts, Reasoning Out The Window In Dumb LA Times Editorial
July 7th, 2007 9:49 PM
An editorial in Friday's Los Angeles Times (7/6/07) is one of the dumbest in quite a while - and that's saying a lot. Writing on the recently disclosed affair of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, a Democrat, the Times ridiculously opines that "it seems that Democrats' sexual shenanigans do more damage to their political careers than Republicans' do." The Times cheekily writes that the "…
AP/LAT Don't Mention Thompson Abortion Lobbying Claims Are Made by Hil
July 7th, 2007 2:14 AM
The AP, taking their cue from the new because-she-said-so story offered by the L.A.Times, has run with a short clip on a story that claims Fred Thompson was working as a lobbyist for an abortion agency in 1991, giving the hearsay evidence against him but not offering the meat of his against the claim. The result is that the AP offers more "evidence" against Thompson than it does for him making it…