Archive for 2020

DON SURBER: With Brexit looming, NYT credibility hardest hit. “Maybe the copy desk hates her. Maybe the copy desk is run by racists and misogynists. Maybe the copy desk wanted to get back at her for cutting an office donut in half and abandoning one half. Whatever the reason, ‘women may be hit hardest’ is a dog whistle for ‘this column is stupid.’ And they labeled it.”

#JOURNALISM:

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Journalists are often awful people, and nearly always spineless conformists.

HAPPY 90TH BIRTHDAY TO BUZZ ALDRIN. I haven’t seen Buzz in ten years since we had dinner at the ISDC in Dallas, but he looks amazing in this picture.

“BETTER THAN NOTHING” ISN’T THE GREATEST OF ENDORSEMENTS, BUT OKAY: Partially effective flu vaccine better than nothing, experts say. “Notably, vaccine effectiveness has declined in each of the past four flu seasons for which data are available: from 48 percent in 2015-16 to 40 percent in 2016-17, 38 percent effective in 2017-18 and 29 percent effective in 2018-19. Preliminary data on the effectiveness of this year’s shot will be available in February, the CDC said.”

SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT:

I love the dig at Northam’s Klan costume.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Laurence Fox shuns ‘woke’ women under 35. “This is the problem if you are priming women to believe they are victims and that this is a tyrannical patriarchy. It’s not like they’ve got a solution for that. They just want a matriarchy. Exactly the same, just the women in charge. And it’s just like, no, sorry.”

NO.

CAN THEY DO THAT? New York Times Endorses Both Warren and Klobuchar for Democratic Nomination

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Riposte: The Babylon Bee Editorial Board Endorses That Lady Who Screamed At The Sky During Trump’s Inauguration For The Democratic Primary. “We feel that this hopelessly triggered androgynous human yelling at the sky in an act of protest against some perceived persecution is the perfect encapsulation of the modern Democratic Party, and thus, she would be the ideal candidate to take on President Trump in 2020.” Is it just me, or is the Bee’s savagery level increasing?

Also: In Apprentice-Style Special, New York Times Endorses Trump for President: The not-so-dirty not-so-secret is the Times and the rest of opposition media not only love Donald Trump — they need him.

IN NEW MEXICO, PEOPLE STILL DON’T REALIZE THAT THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER IS A FRAUD: I’d be pleased if they would read this little history.

Alas, I wish it were easier to get the facts out to everyone.