Category Archives: Media
Best Picture to Kill an Ambassador
In a weird turn on Oscar night, Michelle Obama, flanked by U.S. military, announced Argo as the Best Picture winner. Some thought it was a little bizarre. I thought it was a little brazen. Argo is about the rescue of American embassy personnel from Islamist fanatics in Iran in 1979. Her husband, the president, was about not rescuing American embassy personnel from Islamist fanatics in Libya in 2012 – and then blaming it on a movie.
Al Jazeera
Click the Trojan Horse to find out how Arab oil sheiks bought instant access to the American mainstream – thanks to Al Gore. Andrew Wilson has the story in American Spectator.
Title Nine for Olympic Wrestling
If the Olympic movement is away from naked wrestlers to nearly naked volleyball players, who am I to complain?
Still, wrestling is the original olympic sport. What will be the IOC’s next move – drop the marathon for stock car racing?
The International Olympic Committee is the only body dictatorial enough to unite America and Iran against it. It deserves a seat on the UN Human Rights Council.
State of the Union
“There is something entirely appropriate about holding the State of the Union address on the same day as Mardi Gras.
One is a display of wretched excess, when giddy and rowdy participants give in to reckless and irresponsible behavior.
The other is a street festival in New Orleans.”
Snow Job
It’s snowing on the mainstream media. In “potentially historic” proportions. Ever since The Weather Channel started naming snowstorms I knew we were in trouble.
