Archive → April 20th, 2008
The only one talking sense
In the wake of Jimmy Carter’s Hug A Terrorist tour of the Middle East, the only one talking sense from the perspective of Israel is former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The popular conservative is speaking like Jeremiah in the streets of Jerusalem about the impending dangers of a nuclear Iran. Yet the news media ignores the problem as much as it can, and the US government mostly just stands by and watches Iran’s nuke build-up.
“This is not merely a local problem, this is a global problem. If Iran acquires nuclear weapons everything we have been talking about will pale in comparison,” Netanyahu said on Wednesday in a Newsmax.com story. “Their goals are unlimited. Whatever successes they have had so far, they don’t intend to stop. The militant Shiites in Iran are openly boasting that they are racing to develop nuclear weapons with the explicit announced goal of wiping Israel off the face of the map, and of reestablishing the caliphate, of course under militant Iranian rule.”
Rumors are already swirling that the US is planning a strike on Iran, though that seems a bit unlikely given the election year factor. Sure makes a person wonder what’s more important to worry about, a nuclear Iran or your kid whining about wanting new pool floats. Pretty elementary for most folks, eh?
CBS shows support for Couric … she’s doomed
Top CBS brass recently held a “pep rally” in support of their albatross of an anchor, Katie Couric. The communist in cotton, also known as Pravda’s sweetheart of the West, Couric’s helped CBS Evening News become a boat anchor instead of being its anchor, and word is that CBS will dump Couric shortly after the 2008 elections.
Heck, Couric’s numbers are lower than Bob Schiffer’s, and he was about 120. The big question is, once they dump Couric, where do they turn next. If CBS were serious about turning it’s news program, I’d suggest they turn to NBC a second time, and hire themselves another morning host.
But not a Today personality; I’m talking Sunday, not weekday. There’s just simply no one better qualified to become a network news anchor than Meet the Press’ Tim Russert. The man may be a former Democrat political operative – and outside of Fox News, what network news guy or gal isn’t? – but Russert has demonstrated an admirable knack for asking tough questions of both Demorats and Republicans. Hiring Russert would give CBS a fighting chance against Brian Williams and Charles Gibson.
There may be a few journalists who have more credibility than Russertt, but they’re all old as the earth and spent their time on Caribbean cruises, not digging up stories anymore.
The legend of El Dorado
First there was Ruby Ridge, then there was Waco. Now there’s El Dorado, Texas as the latest site of excessive government force being used against private citizens.
Now, I’m not Mormon or fundamentalist Mormon, and I’m certainly not in favor of polygamy. (One wife is enough, thanks!) But El Dorado is sure to soon join the ranks of Ruby Ridge and Waco, as well as what the Janet Reno-led ATF did in Miami to Elian Gonzoles all those years ago. The same overuse of force is evident.
It’s a classic tale of an overbearing government using children as a sheild and excuse to attack people of an odd faith and impose their will on them. All the cameras and fiber cable in the world won’t change the images of an excessive force raid El Dorado’s “FLDS compound.
The black helicopter conspiracy theorists will be all over this one for decades to come.
The CNN crackup
As though the humiliation of being beaten so thoroughly by Fox News in the ratings every night isn’t bad enough, CNN is going through a major crackup. At this very moment, two separate stories are breaking that indicate the earth-moving going on at CNN Center in Atlanta.
First comes this tidbit from Yahoo news, about a CNN reporter being arrested on a drug bust: “Richard Quest, 46, was arrested around 3:40 a.m. on a count of possession of a controlled substance — a misdemeanor that usually refers to a personal use amount of a drug. He was also charged with loitering; the park officially closes at 1 a.m.”
Well, at least he wasn’t writing fiction and publishing it in the New York Tmies as though it were Gospel, like a certain New York Times reporter did a few years ago. What the world wouldn’t give to see what else was on Jayson Blair’s USB flash drive.
As though that weren’t enough, CNN’s Jack Cafferty has many in China and some Chinese Americans calling for his head on a silver platter after making derogatory remarks against China recently. Never mind the basis in truth of many of his comments; Cafferty’s problem is that he’s become a newsmaker rather than a news reporter. That’s not CNN’s style, which is, if you’re going to say anything derogatory about anyone, just make sure it’s a Republican and no one else.
Anyone who had any doubts that CNN is a losing news organization can now at least rest in the fact that many of them are losers. OK, enough blogging… time to tune into Hannity’s America and Bill O’Reilly.
Antisemite Carter on “hug a terrorist” tour
Instead of promoting Viagra for doing commercials for natural acne treatments, former President and antisemite Jimmy Carter is spending a week or so in the Middle East, visiting with as many mortal enemies of Israel as he can manage to fit into his schedule, despite the fact that he hasn’t been president in over 27 years.
While his meetings with Hamas are being covered by the liberal media as though they mean something, the truth is that the US opposes Carter’s trip and have made clear that he does not represent official US policy. Of course, anyone who thinks Carter is doing this purely to frustrate President Bush doesn’t have a very long memory; Carter has been a pain in the keister to sitting presidents ever since Reagan took office, and even flouted the Clinton Administration – a fellow Democrat – to promote his own agenda.
The older he gets, the more embarrassing James Earl Carter becomes; his recent spate of antisemitic writings and actions only further besmirch the post-presidential career of a man who, although liberal, at least used to have my respect. Now, that is simply no longer the case.
