Archive for the Politics Category
Posted on October 28, 2009 by Mary Grabar
Very pertinent these days, considering what’s going with Fox News and efforts from the White House to control journalism. Read the review here
Jonathan Yardley – Behind the Iron Curtain – washingtonpost.com
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Posted on October 28, 2009 by Mary Grabar
NPR analyst compares Obama to Nixon, issues full apology . . . Avoids gulag.
Perhaps, Bukharin…er, the NPR analyst was told that if he did not confess his refusal would be taken as “proof” that he was a “fascist hireling.”
How was this confession by government-supported radio reporter Ken Rudin extorted? Students, read Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler [...]
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Posted on October 22, 2009 by Mary Grabar
SOCIALISM! As I was teaching “The Speech” last night it struck me that in 1964 Ronald Reagan was not afraid of using the S word. Yet, “conservative” (by Daily Kos standards) columnist Kathleen Parker, in a column likening Glenn Beck’s program to a “sideshow,” cited a count of the number of times Glenn Beck used [...]
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Posted on October 22, 2009 by Mary Grabar
What does Arne Duncan mean? Would it be a revolution away from the revolution, instituted by the likes of Bill Ayers? That would be a good thing. But the speech will be made at Columbia Teachers College, Ayers’ alma mater, and the epicenter for training teachers in bringing about the (communist) revolution, as I’ve written [...]
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Posted on October 20, 2009 by Mary Grabar
I will not let you go out to play when your room is so dirty, I will not tolerate you talking back to me, young man, …. oops, no, it’s not Daddy, but our Commander-in-Chief and his most-repeated phrase according to a study by the Associated Press. In one of our great institutions of higher [...]
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Posted on October 17, 2009 by Mary Grabar
Even at the University of Chicago, a place known for serious study as far back as the 1990s, long after the Ivys had succumbed to the intellectual vacuity of political correctness.
Chicago Tribune story via Pamela Geller.
History reminder: The universities of Germany were hothouses of Anti-Semitism in the 1930s.
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Posted on October 17, 2009 by Mary Grabar
Cliff Kincaid of Accuracy in Media has managed to get hip-hop professor commie Marc Lamont Hill off Fox News. I winced every time I heard O’Reilly call Hill “professor” or “doctor.” You can read about “Professor” Hill’s background and “scholarship” at the AIM website www.aim.org.
An update and more analysis http://usasurvival.org/listmanager/asinews101809.html
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Posted on October 17, 2009 by Mary Grabar
More moral equivalency by CNN in reporting on the Glenn Beck segment that exposed White House Communications Director Anita Dunn’s commencement speech for St. Andrews Episcopal School at the National Cathedral; there she praised Mao Tse-Tung and Mother Theresa as her “heroes.” The CNN article uses Media Matters as a source to say that Republicans [...]
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