Iraq And the Left’s Denial of Reality

I note with some interest today that Michael Yon has released another one of his columns from Iraq.

America seems to be under a glass dome which allows few hard facts from the field to filter in unless they are

Mark Steyn today:

Last Thursday, Nancy Pelosi, as is the fashion, used the phrase “the children” like some twitchy verbal tic, a kind of Democrat Tourette’s syndrome: “This is a discussion about America’s children … We could establish ourselves as

Observe with me the mainstream media fighting for its very life, in the form of a blog post at the CBS website by Matt Felling:

I’ve discussed in this space – though in the light and frothy context of inappropriate

Don Surber nails the drive-by media.

Why the Surber kids were told Daddy is a piano player in a whorehouse

Why do people absolutely detest the media? Is it the laziness? Is it the incompetence? Is it the bias?

Boortz, yesterday:

Got an email from Matt today. Probably not his real name. He would have good reason to keep his name off my show … since he got kicked out of school for reading Nealz Nuze.

Matt tells me

Thomas Lifson, American Thinker, makes clear the intent of Dirty Harry Reid’s letter to the CBO of Clear Channel:

The letter is, in fact, an important historical document, representing an attempt to silence the single most prominent private citizen

I honestly don’t understand why I’m spending any amount of time on this story at all, except for the fact that Andrew Sullivan gets himself Bitch-slapped by Mike Goldfarb of the Weekly Standard:

Does Andrew Sullivan read stories before he

Another example of our reading leftie blogs so you don’t have to.

Look what we found this monring, with the help of Memeorandum, at Firedog Lake

Tim Starks of Congressional Quarterly reports that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) plans

There’s an awful lot of smoke going on just now over the reporting of KDFW’s Rebecca Aguilar, as regards a 70 year old guy whose business was broken into twice, and who twice defended himself with his firearms.

The Dallas

It is clear that Nancy Pelosi’s reign as Speaker has been an absolute disaster for the Democratic party and for the entire nation

 Margaret Kimberley.

‘Raticide is just fascinating.   Mrs. Pelosi has not been winning any friends during her tenure 

Interesting article in The American Spectator this morning from Shawn Macomber, speaking of the Randi Rhodes thing, yesterday:

A Democratic Underground member went so far as to divine from the assault the opening salvos of “an ideology war between conservatives

Boortz, yesterday;

A priest in London is being investigated for inciting racial hatred after expressing his Christian views in a parish newsletter. Father John Hayes commented on a case involving a Muslim girl who wanted to wear her full

Our sympathy to Randi Rhodes. May she get well soon.

Our deep felt animus the Bitsblog’s Jerk of the Day, Err America’s Jon Elliot, who manged to enage his gator sized mouth before activating his brain.  Barooosk, Talking Radio :

While looking around the left side of the sphere just now, I found what is perhaps the most blatant double standard I’ve seen all week… I’ll give you a screen cap and the address.

http://thepopulistblog.com/2007/10/16/randi-rhodes-victim-of-mugging/

Drill this one for full

The Left-O-sphere is all a-twitter this morning, with reports that Err America host Randi Rhodes was attacked on Sunday night, near her apartment in New York City.  One of the posts to the effect is up at Talking Radio,