Category Archives: Blogosphere

The news behind those news photos

Posted on November 3, 2011 | Comments Off on The news behind those news photos

Some of my better friends in the news biz were photojournalists (as they like to be called) and some of them were scrupulous about how they obtained their pictures, doing their best not to influence the news images they captured even as they operated with the pack.

But a few were far more cynical, to the extent of posing their “news” subjects and otherwise creating their photos through the manipulation of available objects, such as broken dolls carefully arranged for a disaster-aftermath picture.

None of the ones I knew carried throw-down dolls or torn teddy bears for the purpose but I’ve heard of such. This young photojournalist in Israel hasn’t discovered that yet, but if he keeps on digging into his colleagues’ unseemly alliance with faux Palestinian “rioters,” he well may.

Via Simply Jews.

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The Flea Party

Posted on November 2, 2011 | Comments Off on The Flea Party

Yeah, they look like a large number (it’s the camera angle, no doubt) and the Democrat media certainly is enjoying pretending they are meaningful. But in a nation of three hundred million people, the OWS are a tiny, tiny pittance of disruption.

On the other hand what other Left Wing media stunt would draw support from such a cast of reprehensible lunatics: Obamalot, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, David Duke, the Communist Party, Hugo Chavez, Michael Moore, Hezbollah, CAIR, Fidel Castro, Ayatollah Khamenei, and the American Nazi Party?

It is to laugh. What a bunch of looners.

But, then, we’re not being raped by the masked scum of the Flea Party.

Via Zombietime.

UPDATE:  ACORN, recipient of lots of Obama “stimulus,” is scurrying to cover its OWS-organizing tracks.

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Rushing to judgement

Posted on November 1, 2011 | Comments Off on Rushing to judgement

Even most of the Democrat news media, which is most of it, including the biggies in New York, D.C. and Los Angeles, pride themselves on not running the big scoop until all of the facts are in hand. And many of them won’t ever run a story that relies on anonymous sources.

So, as Pro Publica points out, Politico’s hatchet job on Herman Cain broke new ground even for a Democrat news outlet making its usual attack on a Republican candidate for president. The hatchet job in question was as full of holes as a rural Texas stop sign peppered with birdshot buckshot. Not that the political assassins of Politico are likely to be embarrassed, you understand.

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The game of failure

Posted on October 30, 2011 | Comments Off on The game of failure

Scott at The Fat Guy has the best take on the Rangers’ loss of the Series:

“Yeah, don’t want to much talk about it. Can’t even read the write-ups yet. That’s just the way baseball go. It’s a game designed to break your heart. Congratulations to the Cardinals, a storied franchise and one I respect. I still hate you and your manager, but that’ll go away in a week or two.”

Might take me much longer than that, but it’ll come, no doubt about it.

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Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran

Posted on October 27, 2011 | Comments Off on Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran

Messy? You bet. Otherwise, however, we have as Lee Smith wrote last week in Tablet, become Iran’s ally in its drive to create a nuclear weapon. And Obamalot’s recent decision to withdraw our troops from Iraq, only adds to the problem.

“It was misguided to turn American soldiers into potential hostages to Iranian terror. It’s a hundred times MORE misguided now to pull our forces out of Iraq: we need the capacity to deter Iran from swinging its weight in Iraq and turning it into a Persian satrapy. (The Baghdad government might not like this, but if we really want to, we have ways to persuade regimes like this to cooperate.)”

After all, if we can cooperate in Daffy Gadaffi’s execution… And if Obamalot must remain gutless on Iran, at least they can pull our forces out of Europe. They’ve been there, and very expensively, since 1945.

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Derek Holland: World Series Hero

Posted on October 25, 2011 | Comments Off on Derek Holland: World Series Hero

Holland’s eight-and-a-third inning shutout Sunday night elevated him to comparison with baseball greats such as Koufax, Johnson, Glavine, Spahn, and Ford in World Series play going back to 1919.

Amazing for a kid who’s just 25 years old and everytime he starts I get the persistent feeling he’ll blow it. And he might, again some time.

But he sure was the difference in their 4-0 victory Sunday. And it will stand out even against their 4-2 win Monday, their third win in five games. Just one more win and the Rangers will have it all.

Whatever happens, though, “Dutch Oven” Holland will always be one of their major heroes—and a Texas legend.

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Rangers plowed under at home

Posted on October 23, 2011 | Comments Off on Rangers plowed under at home

That Rangers loss tonight by 16-7 was mind blowing. Shades of San Francisco in 2010. Oh my. Leaving me with a few heretical thoughts:

Like everybody else, I like Josh Hamilton. But how about sitting him? His injury obviously is keeping him from running and probably from hitting as well. Just lucky he can field. So far, anyhow.

How about intentionally walking Pujols henceforth? How many home runs do you want him to hit? Especially with runners on base? Walk him, please.

Can we stop with the errors (Ian, Elvis?), and get some power hitting back?

How about kicking that 1B ref out of the park for his obvious bad call? It started a Card rally that never stopped. They kicked out the stupid kid who threw the ball into the outfield, which was correct. Now the ref, if you please.

Not that Wash, or the commenters at BBTIA, would agree with No. 1, but what the hey, it’s time to drop the sentiment and get real.

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