Posts Tagged ‘Media Watch’
Friday, January 30th, 2015
Already the end of January? How did that happen?
Some links:
Mitt Romney is not running for President in 2016. Good. Now the media can stop sucking all the oxygen out of the race running will-he-or-won’t-he stories.
In a way-too-early poll, Scott Walker is within three points of Hillary.
And speaking of Scott Walker: “In America, it is one of the few places left in the world where it doesn’t matter what class you were born in to. It doesn’t matter what your parents do for a living. In America the opportunity is equal for each and every one of us but in America the ultimate outcome is up to each and every one of us individually.” Liberal critic: “That’s racist!”
Swedish reporter assaulted while wearing a kippah to test attitudes toward Jews.
Mark Steyn: “Extending special privilege to Islam corrodes free speech.”
America has no strategy in the Middle East. Or much of anywhere else…
Actual New York Times headline: “Bomb Blast at Shiite Muslim Mosque in Pakistan Kills 56.” As opposed to all those Shiite Christian Mosques?
Union leader found guilty of “extortion, racketeering and conspiracy.”
“It’s not enough to punish men for things they haven’t done. Women must be kept away from men, for their own good, because of the crimes those men haven’t committed.”
Jonathan Chait is shocked, SHOCKED to discover liberals opposing free speech.
“I fought for women to be anything, but also for women to choose to be a stay-at-home mom.”
Russian bonds cut to junk grade.
Apple posts the largest quarterly profit in the history of the world.
Governor Abbott declares February 2 Chris Kyle Day.
Andrew Sullivan to stop blogging, an event almost as tragic as the cancellation of Cop Rock.
Related Iowahawk tweet:
Sports Illustrated lays off all its photographers. Maybe they should change the name to just Sports. Personally I stopped reading the online version when Peter King decided his column would be a fine place to pimp for gun control…
There was a rally in Austin for school choice:
I LOLed:
Tags:Andrew Sullivan, Austin, Chris Kyle, Foreign Policy, Greg Abbott, Hillary Clinton, Jews, Jihad, Jonathan Chait, LinkSwarm, Media Watch, Mitt Romney, New York Times, Republicans, Scott Walker, Texas
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Friday, January 23rd, 2015
This week haw been incredibly busy, so enjoy a briefer-than-usual LinkSwarm:
Eric S. Raymond on how Social Justice Warriors use Kafkatrapping, which presumes you are guilty until you are proven guilty or admit your guilt.
Instapundit on why Jews are leaving France. “Because they don’t feel welcome, and because they don’t feel safe.”
More about Europe’s jihadist “no go” zones.
New York Assembly speaker and longtime Democratic Party power-broker Sheldon Silver arrested for taking over $4 million in bribes.
“America’s lifestyle expectations are far too high and need to be adjusted so we have less things and a smaller, better existence” says billionaire who flew his family to Davos on his private plane.
I have nothing significant to say on the death of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. Abdullah’s “reforms” were so small as to not be worth talking about, the Saudis are not our friends, they continue to export violent, backward Wahhabism, and they are occasionally useful but untrustworthy allies in a region where sometimes they are among the least horrible of possible alternatives.
“Hillary Clinton Is George Costanza. Every decision she’s ever made in her entire life has been wrong.” (Hat tip: Instapundit.)
Marco Rubio is in. (Hat tip: Jim Geraghty’s Morning Jolt.)
Boy does the liberal media hate American Sniper.
Related: Chris Kyle Derangement Syndrome.
Like father, like son.
Guess what happened at a concert against violence? Go ahead. Guess.
Dilbert via Twitter:
Tags:Crime, Democrats, Dilbert, feminism, Foreign Policy, France, Glenn Reynolds, Hillary Clinton, Instapundit, Jews, Jihad, LinkSwarm, Marion Barry, Marion Christopher Barry, Media Watch, Military, Republicans, Sheldon Silver, Social Justice Warriors, victimhood, Wahhabism
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Wednesday, January 14th, 2015
Will the Charlie Hebdo killings be a turning point in how Europe deals with Jihadism? Color me skeptical, as Europe’s elites seem to have an infinite capacity to keep hitting the snooze button, and left-wing political parties need Muslim votes too badly to speaking honestly about jihad. But for now the furor over Charlie Hebdo killings refuses to die down:
Who do you think some Muslims blamed for the Charlie Hebdo attack? Go ahead, guess.
Obama’s Harriet Miers.
A rundown of which media outlets are and aren’t brave enough to publish the Charlie Hebdo Mohammed cartoons.
Obama didn’t attend the Paris rally because he didn’t want to be there. “If George Clooney can draw Hollywood applause for saying ‘we will not walk in fear’ of terrorists, he must realize that standing up to them means more than ‘Je Suis Charlie’ lapel pins. It means militarily defeating them on a global scale. That concept is kryptonite to President Obama, which is why he will never attend a rally that could remotely lead to that conclusion.”
Indeed, the Obama Administration admits it will push media outlets to supress anti-jihad articles. (Hat tip: JihadWatch.)
Rotterdam’s Moroccan-born Mayor on Muslims who do not appreciate western freedoms: “Fuck off.”
The American Freedom Defense Initiative will protest the Charlie Hebdo killings outside an “Islamophobia” conference in Garland, Texas on Saturday.
The supercut of media outlets slamming Obama for not attending the Paris march:
Tags:Charlie Hebdo, France, Jihad, Media Watch, Obama, Paris, Rotterdam, terrorism, video
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Tuesday, January 13th, 2015
Today’s blogroll addition is Will Shetterly’s Social Justice Warriors: Do Not Engage blog (or SJWar for short).
Will is fellow science fiction writer, and not only is he a leftist, he’s an actual socialist. But he’s done a fine job documenting and opposing the ant-free-speech agenda of the SJW set, especially in the realm of science fiction.
I kept meaning to add SJWar to the blogroll for a while, but every time I was about to, Will would go “That’s it, I quit, blog’s over!” only to start it up again a few days later to document the latest SJW offense logic or the principles of a free society. Here’s a bon mot on the Charlie Hebdo killings today: “Saying the speech of someone who was murdered went too far is like saying the clothes of a rape victim were too provocative.”
I’ve created a new Victimhood Identity Politics category to list SJWar under, and have moved The Other McCain (which has featured R. S. McCain’s masterful dissections of core feminist texts and dogmas for quite a while) there as well.
Tags:Blogroll, Charlie Hebdo, Democrats, Media Watch, Site Administration, Social Justice Warriors, victimhood, Will Shetterly
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Saturday, January 10th, 2015
So the Charlie Hebdo killers are dead, but the manhunt for a female accomplice implicated in the deaths of four people during the siege of a Kosher food store in Paris continues. Here are various reactions and pieces on the Charlie Hebdo attack:
Good news! Despite the many deaths, Charlie Hebdo is putting together their next issue. “It must come out next Wednesday, with 1 million copies to be printed, about 20 times their usual circulation.”
A journalist explains that a crowdfunding campaign, spontaneously created on the Internet by strangers, has already collected 98,000 euros in less than 24 hours. Charlie’s survivors are inundated with subscription requests that they can’t handle at the moment. Charlie Hebdo’s lawyer, Richard Malka, speaks. “There’s money arriving from everywhere. Assistance, space, personnel to deal with requests …” “We have received support from lots of media sources,” echoes Christophe Thévenet, another lawyer for the newspaper. “There are donations, already 250,000 euros from the Press and Pluralism Association, the million euros pledged by Fleur Pellerin [the French Minister of Culture and Communication]. … You are going to have finances like never before at Charlie!”
“One of the spontaneous social-media reactions to the Charlie Hebdo massacre today was the Twitter hashtag #JeSuisCharlie (“I am Charlie”). It’s an admirable sentiment, resonant with the classic post-9/11 Le Monde cover ‘Nous sommes tous Americains.’ It’s also totally inaccurate.”
So no, we’re all not Charlie—few of us are that good, and none of us are that brave. If more of us were brave, and refused to yield to the bomber’s veto, and maybe reacted to these eternally recurring moments not by, say, deleting all your previously published Muhammad images, as the Associated Press is reportedly doing today, but rather by routinely posting newsworthy images in service both to readers and the commitment to a diverse and diffuse marketplace of speech, then just maybe Charlie Hebdo wouldn’t have stuck out so much like a sore thumb. It’s harder, and ultimately less rewarding to the fanatical mind, to hit a thousand small targets than one large one.
Mark Steyn elaborates on the theme in “#JeSuisCharlie – But You’re Not.”
The French establishment is co-opting these brave men’s deaths for their own purposes, and for the most part the world’s media are helping them get away with it. I spent much of Thursday on TV and radio, and my irritation with the dismal #JeSuisCharlie campaign increased as the day wore on. The self-flattering evasiveness of all those cartoonists around the world offering lame variations of “the pen is mightier than the sword” was especially feeble.
Steyn also offers this sad, telling point:
I can’t claim to have known Georges Wolinski, the 80-year-old cartoonist among the dead on Wednesday, but I met him briefly, a few years ago. Via Laura Rosen Cohen, I learn of the strange, circular journey of his life and death. His father was a Polish Jew who fled to Tunisia to lead a life free of pogroms. Georges was born there in 1934. Two years later, his dad was murdered, and the family moved again, this time to France.
And on Wednesday, like his father, the son was killed.
Wolinski père fled Jew-hate in Europe to be murdered in the Muslim world.
Wolinski fils fled Jew-hate in the Muslim world to be murdered in Europe, by Muslims.
Anyone who really wants to say “I Am Charlie” should participate in Everybody Draw Mohammed Day.
Richard Littlejohn expounds on how Social Justice Warriors and Victimhood Identity Politics help enable radical Islam:
however. When it comes to appeasing militant Islam, my own trade is equally culpable.
So is the entire apparatus of the State. We pussy-foot around anything which may cause offence to Muslims, partly out of good manners but primarily because we are worried about the potential backlash.
The reason most of the media in the Western world steered clear of republishing the Danish cartoons of Mohammed wasn’t because they were not newsworthy but because of fears that men in balaclavas with machine-guns might march into the front office and start firing at random.
Snip.
Islam is just one of the New Establishment’s favoured client groups. Exciting ‘hate crime’ laws have been invented to grant them special privileges and punish their critics.
So mad mullahs in Midlands madrassas can call for homosexuals to be stoned to death. But a Christian preacher who objects to gay marriage can expect to be arrested and given a criminal record.
We have also created a ‘victim’ culture, which allows minority groups to justify any kind of bad behaviour on the grounds that they are being oppressed.
You didn’t have to look far yesterday to find allegedly ‘respected’ voices prepared to blame the staff of Charlie Hebdo for bringing the wrath of the Islamists down on themselves. They shouldn’t have been so ‘provocative’.
“The journalists at Charlie Hebdo are now rightly being celebrated as martyrs on behalf of freedom of expression, but let’s face it: If they had tried to publish their satirical newspaper on any American university campus over the last two decades it wouldn’t have lasted 30 seconds. Student and faculty groups would have accused them of hate speech. The administration would have cut financing and shut them down.”
A couple of years old, but quite relevant:
(Hat tip: The Jawa Report.)
Some tweets:
Tags:Charlie Hebdo, Draw Mohammed Day, Foreign Policy, France, Islam, Jihad, Mark Steyn, Media Watch, Paris, Richard Littlejohn, Twitter, video
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Friday, January 9th, 2015
Bill Maher once again states the obvious to those unwilling to listen, harkening back to the days when liberals believed in free speech rather than labeling it “hate crimes.”
A few quotes:
“In 10 Muslim countries, you can get the death penalty just for being gay. They chop heads off in the square in Mecca. Mecca is their Vatican City. If they were chopping the heads off of Catholic gay people, wouldn’t there be a bigger outcry among liberals?”
“There are certain people in the world who want waivers on free speech.”
“Hundreds of millions of [Muslims] applaud an attack like this.”
The second half of the interview is Maher on the Bill Cosby accusations. But at least watch the first six minutes.
(Hat tip: JihadWatch.)
Tags:Bill Maher, Charlie Hebdo, Democrats, Free Speech, Jihad, Media Watch, video
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Thursday, January 8th, 2015
In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo shootings, the MSM has trotted out the usual talking points that such extremists views and actions are “not about Islam” and represent “only a tiny percentage” of all Muslims.
There’s just one tiny problem with this theory: It isn’t true.
Polls show that something like 20% of Muslim populations worldwide agree with terrorists, and far more agree with their aims as far as the imposition of Sharia law. Other findings from Pew (which is rarely accused of a right-wing bias):
Muslim support for stoning as a punishment for adultery is more than 20% in all countries surveyed.
Support for the death penalty for apostasy ranges from 4% of Muslims in Kazakhstan to 86% in Egypt.
Fully 99% of Afghan Muslims want Sharia law, which makes it hard to regard our long-term intervention there as anything but a failure.
In the UK, in another poll from 2006, 20% of surveyed Muslims supported the 2005 7/7 suicide attacks, and 40% supported the imposition of Sharia law.
So: Not a “small minority.” And, as Brigitte Gabriel notes in the video below, so what if “most” Muslims are peaceful? The “mostly peaceful” citizens of Germany, Japan, China and the Soviet Union didn’t prevent those who controlled their governments from murdering millions:
One of the first steps toward dealing with the problem of radical Islam is to stop repeating comforting lies about it.
Tags:Charlie Hebdo, Islam, Jihad, Media Watch, polls, terrorism, video
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Wednesday, January 7th, 2015
Again.
Masked gunmen opened fire in the offices of a French satirical newspaper on Wednesday in Paris, the police said, with initial reports saying that as many as 12 people had been killed and 10 wounded.
And here’s the reason the New York Times buries ten paragraphs deep:
The newspaper, Charlie Hebdo, has been attacked in the past for satirizing Islam and the Prophet Muhammad. Its offices were firebombed in 2011 after publishing a cartoon of the prophet on its cover promising “100 lashes if you don’t die laughing!”
Obviously it’s time to bring back Everyone Draw Mohammed Day. So mark your calendars for May 20th.
Tags:cartoons, Charlie Hebdo, Draw Mohammed Day, France, Jihad, Media Watch, Paris, terrorism
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Wednesday, December 24th, 2014
Enough news coming from the Social Justice Warrior set to merit a separate post:
The top ten feminist fiascoes of 2014. Includes the Rolling Stone UVA rape hoax, Wendy Davis and Rotherham. And Amanda Marcotte earned her own entry…
More light on the shoddy fact-checking of that discredited Rolling Stone UVA rape piece: “[Elisabeth] Garber-Paul’s work history includes the abortion activist group RH Reality Check and an internship at the progressive magazine The Nation.”
“UMich Feminists Harass Conservative Muslim Who Wrote Political Correctness Satire.” I would say it’s a veritable buffet of intersectionality, but we all know that the “conservative” part automatically strips away any victimhood status…
Will diversity destroy the left? “The Left is divided—although far from evenly—between those who believe that “identity” is the engine of history and those who believe that class struggle serves the same function.”
Social Justice Warriors decide that heavy metal would be their next target for imposing political correctness. Result? #MetalGate.
More: “Metalheads do not want to be told what to think by a self-appointed cabal determining what is ‘true’ based on their ideological agenda. It does not matter which agenda that is, only that it swallows up truth and metal equally and uses them as means toward its real goal, which is power and control.”
North Carolina public uses vocabulary test to promote how swell Islam is.
Tags:#MetalGate, Amanda Marcotte, Democrats, feminism, Heavy Metal, Islam, Media Watch, rape, Rotherham, Social Justice Warriors, University of Michigan, UVA, victimhood
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Friday, December 19th, 2014
I trust everyone reading this has already heard about Sony Picture’s spinelessness in cancelling their release of The Interview, and Paramount’s even more-spineless refusal to allow theaters to show Team America: World Police in its place. This would be good reason to avoid paying for any Sony or Paramount products any time in the near future. And Cuba is a topic for another time. So here’s a quick look at the rest of what’s been happening the week before Christmas:
Obama’s taunting political opponents over how impossible it will be to overturn his illegal alien amnesty actually increases the chances it will be overturned.
Vermont can’t afford to pay for its socialist health care system.
Voters “prefer dysfunction to the alternative scenario of Democrats running both the White House and Congress.”
Democrats accept bribes to oppose Voter ID laws. (Hat tip: Instapundit.)
It may be too late for investor’s to move money out of Russia in the wake of the ruble’s collapse, mainly because they already have.
Here are eight campus rape hoaxes that bear remarkable similarities to the Rolling Stone UVA rape hoax.
Was the entire hoax fabricated because one of “Jackie”‘s friends rebuffed her romantic overtures?
And the entire sad affair seems to have moved into farce now that it appears “Jackie” actually copied a Dawson’s Creek script for some of her catfishing.
The “campus rape epidemic” is “a male demonizing Gothic fantasy nurtured by several decades of hardline feminist theory”:
Meanwhile, in the real rape culture, the Islamic State hands out brochures on how jihadists are allowed to rape prepubescent girls.
The ex-wife of the Sydney gunman sought refugee in the U.S. right before she was murdered. “He was abusing her, having her wear the hijab, did not want her to talk with anybody.”
“Executive director out at Texas Democratic Party.” Really? After such a swell job? (Hat tip: Push Junction.)
Amongst the Wikipedia editors.
I am not exaggerating when I say it is the closest thing to Kafka’s The Trial I have ever witnessed, with editors and administrators giving conflicting and confusing advice, complaints getting “boomeranged” onto complainants who then face disciplinary action for complaining, and very little consistency in the standards applied. In my short time there, I repeatedly observed editors lawyering an issue with acronyms, only to turn around and declare “Ignore all rules!” when faced with the same rules used against them.
Pro-gun control Austin City Council candidate defeated.
Wonder why so many UT insiders went after Wallace Hall when it was obvious Hall was right? Maybe it’s because they’re involved in the scandal up to their eyeballs. (Hat tip: Push Junction.)
Science fiction writer Jerry Pournelle has suffered a strike. Best wishes for a speedy recovery.
Tags:Austin, bribes, Democrats, feminism, Guns, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Jerry Pournelle, LinkSwarm, Media Watch, rape, Rolling Stone, Russia, Texas Democratic Party, UVA, Voter ID, Wallace Hall, Wikipedia
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