FIRST MEDIA BIAS …NOW GOVERNMENT CENSORSHIP?
By Alan Nathan © 2008 Washington Times What chance do arguments have to rise and fall on their merits if they're framed by a seemingly party-owned press? And once that party comes to power, won't its lackey journalists constitute a type of state-owned...
PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES – Pivotal Facts Missed
By Alan Nathan © 2008 Washington Times In all three presidential debates, some pivotal facts have been grotesquely obscured. The very law that Democrats cite as the reason for our current financial mess, and the one for which they blame Sen. John McCain,...
VAPID LIBERALISM – Race War if McCain Wins?
By Alan Nathan © 2008 Washington Times Democratic Nominee Senator Barack Obama said in his convention speech that the promise of America is, “the idea that we are responsible for ourselves, but that we also rise or fall as one nation; the fundamental...
THE DEMOCRATS’ ENERGY SOCIALISM – MEDIA BIAS SKEWS THE DEBATE
By Alan Nathan © 2008 Washington Times In the name of protecting the environment from increased gas consumption, Democratic leaders oppose the price-cutting strategy of more off-shore drilling while concurrently arguing that OPEC should do it for us....
Opinion: Distortions in the Name of a Noble Cause
By Alan Nathan © 2008 Washington Times The cost of oil is high because our knowledge of how to combat it is low, and the media has blossomed into the greatest enabler of this collective shortcoming. Yes, behemoths like Exxon/Mobil, Shell, and Texaco are...
FORUM: OBAMA’S CONTRADICTIONS OVER WRIGHT
By Alan Nathan © 2008 Washington Times On Monday April 28th, I was seated directly in front of Rev. Jeremiah Wright at the National Press Club as he recommitted himself to the very bigotry-laced anti-Americanism that his most famous long-time parishioner,...
IRAQ’S CIVIL WAR IS IRRELEVANT
By Alan Nathan © 2007 FrontPageMag The American heart too frequently out maneuvers the American mind, and does so to an extent that makes us all look laughingly stupid as well as predictably vulnerable to enemy tactics; e.g., pulling out of Iraq because of...
MEDIA LIES: A TWO FRONT WAR
By Alan Nathan © 2007 FrontPageMag Plenty know by now that in 2004 the progressive Pew Foundation published an extensive poll exposing the five-to-one ratio of liberals to conservatives in the news-reporting media. Strangely, media outlets must believe...
IDEOLOGY PARADING AS ANALYSIS
By Alan Nathan © 2007 FrontPageMag This warning to the Washington Post is the journalistic equivalent to, “Your fly is open.” In other words, you missed a few things while rushing. No excuse is mitigating enough to forgive the Lilliputian thinking that...