Posted in Media, Personal Notes on Oct 5th, 2007
There are days when I really just don’t feel like being fair. It’s so much easier to sling sticky mud and spread tarnish over reputations. Pointing out some of the better qualities of your victims is just… well, it’s not nearly as satisfying as watching a beautifully thrown bit of criticism arch into the sky and [...]
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Posted in Media on Oct 3rd, 2007
My piece on Christiane Amanpour, A Terrible Disservice, brought a long-standing principle to mind:
The more intelligent you are,
the less common sense you have
Now, it is true that there have been brilliant people who had a lot of common sense. Einstein was one. R.P. Feynman was another. They both were able to maintain their connection to the average person. [...]
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Posted in Iran, Media on Oct 1st, 2007
I don’t watch TV.
I’m not necessarily against it, but the information content is so low that it just doesn’t make any sense to spend the time. And, the shows that are supposed to be entertaining… well, so many of them aren’t that I don’t bother.
So, I don’t watch TV.
However, I made an exception this past Saturday.
I was [...]
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Posted in Media on Sep 7th, 2007
In the comment section of yesterday’s post, Tedders left three links that either shed more light on the subject of the Al Durah hoax, or offer you a way to correct history.
Nothing that we do will bring back to life those who were killed as a result of the Al Durah Hoax. The homes that [...]
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Posted in Media, Palestinians, Peace, Terrorism on Jul 20th, 2007
The tragedy of the Middle East rolls on, and it has its source in what Arab leaders have done to their own people. They’ve lied to them. They’ve stolen from them. They’ve consigned them to lives of drudgery and grinding poverty. They’ve abused them.
Worse, they’ve destroyed their own children.
On June 29, 2007, Palestinian TV broadcast on [...]
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