Yes, I know The Daily Show is a comedy. My cable guide specifically says, “A humorous slant on recent news stories.” The point Joe makes here however is that across the board, there is a liberal slant that isn’t based on kickbacks from the DNC, but (to quote his guest New York Times journalist John Harwood),
I don’t think they are hacks for the Democratic Party. People write about what’s funny to them. And the stuff that’s funny to them is, is the stuff that comes out of what they see that they want to make fun of from Republicans.
The point Harwood mistakenly makes is that yes, people in the media (from Harwood to Stewart) only see Republican “stuff” as worth covering.
Joe’s point of course is that we should all look at both sides-not just the “Republican stuff” or the “Democrat stuff.” Americans need to open their eyes, and see which side is selling the worst used cars.
Posted by: Wordsmith @ 7:59 pm in American Exceptionalism, Anti-Americanism, Celebrity Idiots, Culture, Entertainment, Hearts & Minds, Islam, Middle East, Military, Religion, The Iraqi War, True Heroes, War On Terror
In 2007 through to present, we’ve seen about 8 anti-war movies:
The Jacket (2006)
Home of the Brave (2006)
In the Valley of Elah
Redacted
Rendition
Grace is Gone
Stop-Loss
What did I miss….?
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“Harrison Ford and Cate Blanchett (are) second-rate actors, serving as the running dogs of the CIA. We need to deprive these people of the right of entering the country,”
-Andrei Gindos, member of the Russian Communist Party.
My favorite scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark:
At first, I wasn’t particularly motivated to go see the new Indiana Jones movie. Read the rest of this entry »
The fictional movie Recount is coming out soon and the San Francisco Chronicle, of all papers, skewered it as a piece of bias filmmaking made for one political party….but hey, its still entertaining:
Though everybody knows that Republican George W. Bush won the presidency in 2000 by defeating Democrat Al Gore in a hotly contested election, “Recount” manages to keep the suspense taut throughout.
As for the second issue, well, “Recount” barely tries to contain its bias. This is a movie that asserts - convincingly - that the election was stolen from the Democrats, and it only fleetingly portrays the Republicans as a group merely trying to keep what it won rightly.
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Glory goes to the Democrats in this film and Klain in particular, while a late brush of compassion is meant to illuminate Wilkinson’s portrayal of Baker. Read the rest of this entry »
What is it with Germans and Polar Bear cubs?
Welcome Wilbaer!
First there was Knut ( cute Knut polar bear photos here) at the Berlin Zoo.
A few weeks ago Flocke made her debut in Nuremberg (slideshow of Flocke photos here).
Now, it’s Wilbaer, a boy who unlike his other famous rivals was not abandoned by his mother. A happy Corinna and baby Wilbaer pose together in the photo at the right.
The Whilhelma Zoo has started its own web page for Wilbaer if you speak German and want to know more, or just look at the the photos.
How long will it be before zoos in other countries get into the act or is this strictly a German thing?
One more photo….
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As for the question of whether the surge is working, I can only state what I witnessed: U.N. staff and those of non-governmental organizations seem to feel they have the right set of circumstances to attempt to
scale up their programs. And when I asked the troops if they wanted to go home as soon as possible, they said that they miss home but feel invested in Iraq. They have lost many friends and want to be a part of the humanitarian progress they now feel is possible.
She may be liberal (I still have a thing for her tho, just can’t help it) but at least she can admit when things are going better, unlike three quarters of our Democrat leaders.
The latest German Ice Bear cub craze!
Meet “Flocke” (pronounced Flock-uh) meaning Snowflake, the polar bear cub rescued from her mother who kept dropping her (video here).
It’s said that photos of cute baby animals can relieve stress. And after the past few weeks of politicking, don’t we need some relief?
Flocke has her own web site, though it’s uncertain if she will start blogging any time soon.
Just received a review copy of the new comic book Matamoros, illustrated by John Cox of Cox & Forkum fame 
and written by Darius Lamonca and Sleet.
Now I am no comic book aficionado. Its been some years since I’ve even picked one up but I have been tempted to pick up a few of those graphic novels, in the end those non-fiction books in my Amazon wishlist get the nod instead.
With that said here is my review on it in three words, it’s got potential.
Here is the description from their site:
Chuck Sobietti was a seventeen-year veteran of the U.S. military. He’d seen it all - Gulf War I, Somalia, Bosnia, Afghanistan - but nothing in his experience could prepare him for one fateful day in Iraq and its aftermath. Part political thriller and part war story, “Matamoros” follows one of America’s heroes in the “Long War” - an ordinary guy who discovers that only extraordinary situations exist when the enemy is a protean entity which refuses to adhere to the laws of war.
I could tell its been done on a shoestring budget from a indie publishing company (Scott knows all about that) and still the storyline shone through. Read the rest of this entry »
