Oh…my…gosh. I can’t believe what I just witnessed on CNN Dr. Sanjay Gupta (CNN’s medical correspondent) did a mini-piece on a recent study showing that only 11% of “backpack-related injuries” actually affect the back itself. The majority are actually head…
While watching the CNN Headline News feed here at work, I was struck by how they’re starting to get some thing right, and yet are so far off base in many other ways. A CNN reporter was giving a rundown…
Did you hear the newest joke going around Baghdad these days? It goes something like this: Knock, knock. Who’s there? JDAM. JDAM w… BOOOM!
My wife noted this morning that there’s something wrong when CNN and Al Jazeera correspondents have been kicked out of Iraq and Newsday journalists have been thrown into prison, yet NPR remains in Baghdad. Today’s disgraceful report on the suicide/homicide…
Today’s Bleat by James Lileks just about made me spit my coffee out, particularly this line: [H]ow do you know a Ba’athist is lying? His mustache is moving. And we curse it! Also laughable was Across the street is a…
I don’t mean to rip this directly from The Corner, but it’s too good not to repost here in its entirety: THE MINISTER OF INFORMATION [Jonah Goldberg] I don’t want to risk any US soldiers lives for a photo-op, but…
I’m listening in on an al Jazeera interview (being rebroadcast on CNN) with Iraq’s information minister. He just referred to the Coalition forces currently knocking at his doorstep as “racists, Nazis and fascists”. Wow. I’m laughing. Are you?
I just caught an interview that Bill Maher conducted with Michael Moore. The sheer audacity of the man left me speechless. He said (and I paraphrase): there were only a few initial boo-ers at his Oscar speech. According to Moore,…
As per my weekday routine, I had my radio tuned to the “Curtis and Kuby Show” this morning (Ron Kuby’s on vacation; Mark Simone is filling in more-than-adequately). In the 9:30 timeframe, Eartha Kitt(!) decided to give the NYC morning…
As my wife and I flipped between the Oscars and BBC America last night, I was struck by just how inconsequential the entire Hollywood community has rendered itself and how desperately they want to disbelieve this fact. In the two…
