According to Drudge, David Brooks is going to be writing for the NY Times. Should be a good addition.
Archives for 2003
A Face Only A Mother Could Love
Also via TalkLeft, this editorial talking about the prejudicial value of mugshots:
Mug shots are more than just embarrassing photos. They are potentially prejudicial pieces of evidence.
When I was a prosecutor, I often tried to figure out a way
Jack Kemp
Via TalkLeft, we see that Jack Kemp is thinking about running for Governor in California.
Right about now, there are probably some frantic phone calls from California to the DNC: “Heya Terry- can you go into the archives and then fax me the Kemp smears? BTW- What are Lehane and Blumenthal up to for the next few weeks?”
Cognitive Dissonance
One of my biggest beefs with the rhetoric from the left lately has been their insistence that Bush declared the war was over, even though he said nothing of the sort. That way they can make cheap partisan shots and say things like “3 more soldiers were killed today even though Bush declared the war was over>” and other crap of the sort.
Now, we kill Hussein’s sons in a firefight, and the left is claiming it was a crime, an assasination, and that we should have just arrested them.
How so? I thought we were still at war.. Which is it, guys? Please clear this up for me…
America or Bust!
Twelve Cuban migrants attempt to cross the Florida Straights Wednesday, July 16, 2003 in a boat fashioned out of a 1951 Chevy pickup truck driving it within 40 miles of the United States before they were found by the U.S. Coast Guard and returned to Cuba. (AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard, Gregory Wald)
I absolutely detest our Cuba policy. These men should be in Florida right now.
Reuters Caught in the Act
A local reporter explains what happened to her when she got involved with Reuters:
Reuters did use one quote from the story I wrote last week in the final paragraphs of one of their earliest Lynch stories, which was sent out for publication early Tuesday morning.
By Tuesday afternoon, the quote was reduced to one sentence. Still, my byline appeared.
By Tuesday night, the quote was gone and Reuters was siphoning information from television reports. The beginning of the story was toned down. The part about “media fiction” was removed. But even then, my byline remained.
I understand that news wire services often edit, add, remove or write new leads for stories. What amazed me was that a story could have my byline on it when I contributed only a few sentences at the end — and in later versions I didn’t contribute anything at all.
The stories contained apparently fresh material attributed to sources I did not interview.
Maybe that’s the way that wire service works.
I would like to make it abundantly clear that somebody at Reuters wrote the story, not me.
Go read the whole story.
(via Hanks)
Who Will Be The First
Who will be the first fool to point out that by showing the pictures of Uday and Qusay, the United States has violated the Geneva Convention?
Any bets?