Surreal: WaPo could care less about any Obama BFF offer to pay for Reverend Wright’s silence, but oh my, that Romney is suspect because of a nineteenth century Mormon-militia massacre

Journalistic integrity on display. Headline: Mitt Romney’s Mormon faith tangles with a quirk of history. From the headline, I assumed a direct connection. How silly of me: CARROLLTON, Ark. — On the wildflower-studded slopes of the Ozarks, where memories run long and family ties run thick, a little-known and long-ago chapter of history still simmers. [...]

Ann Romney spent WAY too much money on a shirt (that would have been FABULOUS on Michelle O!)

Because we all know Ann Romney is evil and rich whereas Michelle is FABULOUS at all times (NB: In case you’re wondering, “fabulous” must be read in best parody sing-song attempt to further mock the media hacks who live by such gross double standards.) Or, as Lonely Conservative put it: Media Suddenly Takes Interest in [...]

When the box doesn’t fit

Bend and stretch. Justice is colorblind. Too bad our society no longer is after the multi-culti hogwash that has bread out of us the notion that we are all American, but we are now a check-the-box ethnicity. The folks who went out of their way to brand George Zimmerman as a “white Hispanic” as opposed to [...]

Media bias: liberals can’t handle the whole truth, so how can it be distorted?

Heh. Via memeorandum, the BuzzFeed headline: By Historic Standards, Obama Is In Trouble. The graphic which engenders such hand-wringing: The kicker [emphasis mine]: Modern presidents who got re-elected were all leading in the polls at this point in their presidencies — as were some who lost anyway.Obama is in a statistical tie with Romney in [...]

NBC deceptively edits to help what, start a race war?

This peeves me beyond belief. What happened to reporting? I know it’s a dead art. But editing in this case didn’t provide brevity or clarity, it’s just misleading. Via Instapundit, the scoop from The Hollywood Reporter: In the NBC segment, Zimmerman says: “This guy looks like he’s up to no good. He looks black.” The full [...]

The sky is blue, the NYT publishes more prejudice against Catholics

Except this time, the brushstrokes are broad. In trying to figure out how on earth Rick Santorum has captured the evangelical vote, we receive yet another intolerant gift from the NYT: After more than a century of widespread antipathy between Catholics and evangelical Christians, a Catholic with Italian immigrant roots from the industrial Northeast has [...]

Those Crazy Catholics: NYT draws attention to Santorum’s home parish

Dear God. (No pun intended). The NYT, in an attempt to paint Rick Santorum’s home parish as extreme offers this: Mass is offered in Latin every Sunday at noon — most parishes have Mass only in English — and each Wednesday parishioners take turns praying nonstop for 24 hours before a consecrated communion wafer, a demanding [...]

Proof of an alternative reality

Old Tingles says Social Security is a Ponzi scheme. Dare I say it, Obama will be the next while proclaiming the true essence of its collective glory? From the Daily Caller: Betcha didn’t see this one coming. On MSNBC’s Thursday broadcast of “Hardball,” host Chris Matthews committed the mortal sin — he nearly parroted the [...]

It doesn’t take an expert

Alternate headline: Obama makes like Charlie Sheen to win in ’12! Allahpundit headlined this yesterday: Elections expert who’s called every presidential race since ’84: Obama will win. “Even if I am being conservative,” Allan Lichtman says, “I cannot see how Obama will lose.” Really? The headline at US News & World Report does even more [...]

Clarence Thomas the Frodo Baggins of the right?

So suggests Walter Russell Mead after reading Jeffery Toobin’s profile of Clarence Thomas in the New Yorker. He writes of Thomas: his lonely and obscure struggle has led him to the point from which he may be able to overthrow the entire edifice of the modern progressive state Few things have made me smile as [...]