We’re all for keeping government small where appropriate, which is, ideally, most places.
But we’re not all for the blatant pattern of subjective misrepresentation that goes on, virtually unchecked, all over the Internet — including by sites that are routinely, well, cited.
In this Post, a Biggovernment.com writer starts blatantly spinning in the second sentence (emphasis added):
…basis [...]
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Worth Repeating — Palin’s Expertise
Posted: 28th January 2010 by admin in Climate Change, Constitution, Knowledge, Media, Media Slant, Political BSTags: Alito, Anchorage Daily News, Carl Cameron, fair and balanced, Fox, ideological, Justice Alito, law, misleading, rhetoric, Sarah Palin, Supreme Court, Wilson
Some lines worth considering:
Talking head and blogger Sarah Palin spoke out on Fox News saying that Alito’s “Wilson moment” was OK, and that Justice Alito was just “calling him out.” She based her careful judgment on her longstanding and intimate knowledge of Supreme Court protocol. Oh, wait.
In other deep layer of Palin analysis, she went [...]
It’s Now Six Minutes to Midnight.
Posted: 17th January 2010 by admin in Climate Change, Environment, Global Information, Knowledge, Media Slant, National Security, Science, UncategorizedTags: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Climate Change, death valley, deserts, doomsday clock, feedback loops, hot, ideology, nuclear proliferation, rhetoric limit climate change, tipping points
Six minutes to midnight refers to the time on the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ “doomsday clock.”
If six minutes to midnight sounds bad, consider that until just recently, it was five minutes to midnight.
The scientist give two reasons for this. One seems reasonable, the other does not.
The first has to do with efforts to reduce [...]
A Michael Moore Dilemma
Posted: 3rd October 2009 by admin in Famous People, Knowledge, Media, Media Slant, Political BS, Political Communication, Political StrategyTags: " "Democrats, "Far Right, AOL, Left, Media, Media Slant, Michael Moore
This is a Michael Moore Dilemma, and it is one that is created by the far right, and somewhat lopsidedly, played into by the media.
Full Disclosure: We are not fans of Michael Moore. Some on the left may likely get angry with that statement, and dismiss what we are trying to do (somewhat comically, since there [...]
The Enormity of the ACORN Scandal, in Perspective
Posted: 26th September 2009 by admin in Congress, Government, Media, Media Slant, Political Communication, PoliticsTags: " Obama, "Far Right, ACORN, Alan Grayson, Big Government, Bills of Attainder, CEO, Chief Counsel, Congress, Constituion, Defense Contractors, Defense Industry Fraud, Dick Cheney, Federal Reserve, glenn greenwald, Government Fraud, Halliburton, Iraq, Matt Taibbi, Military Contractors, Pimp, Prostitute, Rolling Stone, Scandal, Taxpayer Funding, Taxpayers, Tea Partiers
The far right has been constantly complaining about how the “media” has not covered the latest Acorn scandal enough. That is, the fact that the already scandal plagued poverty assistance organization had some random employees caught on film giving rather nefarious business advice to 2 undercover operatives, posing as pimp and prostitute. (The most damning [...]