Rebecca Aguilar: Racial Outrage? 

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

Ace notes something that I had observed yesterday, but didn’t have the time to comment on, given the events:

BizzyBlog corrects a bit and notes that the NYT (accidentally!) put a brief AP blurb about the story on page A22,

Michelle, this morning, makes note of something we’ve noted here previously;

Innocent black Americans are being harassed, driven out of their neighborhoods, and targeted for murder.

Why isn’t it on the front page of every national newspaper? Why isn’t CNN

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 :

By way of Memorandum, I see a New York Times article from Richard Perez-Pena:

Paul E. Steiger, who was the top editor of The Wall Street Journal for 16 years, and a pair of wealthy Californians are assembling a

Earlier this morning I made mention of the spin of the Washington Post.  Now we come to the New York Times and for that we shouldn’t have to go further than Donald Luskin:

  Deborah Solomon’s weekly short interviews in the

From the WaPo, this morning:

The U.S. military believes it has dealt devastating and perhaps irreversible blows to al-Qaeda in Iraq in recent months, leading some generals to advocate a declaration of victory over the group, which the Bush administration

The Democrats and their supporters really don’t know which way to run anymore.  What they’ve been trying lately, has been working, so they’re going to try and break out the classics.  Witness Frank Rich over at the Democrat party house

Over at the Captain’s Quarters Ed makes a discovery:

The Washington Post’s editorial board noticed something over the last few weeks that many of us have pointed out all along. They l discover that General David Petraeus told the truth

Yes, I saw the mess resulting from the comments of retired General Richard Sanchez.  One of the places I noticed it was at the Captain’s Quarters:

It seems that half of the message retired General Richard Sanchez intended to deliver

Oh, speaking of bias in the press, as we did in the Rather piece, below, observe what the New York Times (Also mentioned in the Rather piece) did to an interview with Michelle Malkin.

Go RTWT. it’s a

Boortz, yesterday:

Howard Kurtz has a new book out. He has been investigating the “Rather-Gate” for two years, and insists that Dan Rather did have a final say in running the forged documents. (Although Rather’s testimony begs to differ.)

But

 “Nobody asked your opinion, Christopher.”

Fred Thompson to Chris Matthews, via Erick, Red State.

Red meat for conservatives, and just think much fun it will be if Keith Olbermann were to moderate.

Pinch Sulzberger, d.b.a. the New York Times, seems intent on destroying, to what extent he can, Justice Clarence Thomas’ name and reputation.

First we have this babbling piece of idiocy from Maureen Dowd that is essentially all projection.

Second

Yesterday I wrote about the heroic county clerks standing up to Governor Eliot Spitzer to protect New York State.    Now a Spainish language paper in New York has questioned the patriotism of these clerks.   El Dario has called these brave