Stupidly Biased Headlines
At Comcast's homepage, the headline reads, "Companies get OK to harm polar bears. When you go to the actual story though, they soften the bias a bit. The headline reads, "
Companies get OK to annoy polar bears". Then there is this provocative opening,
Less than a month after declaring polar bears a threatened species because of global warming, the Bush administration is giving oil companies permission to annoy and potentially harm them in the pursuit of oil and natural gas.
The Fish and Wildlife Service issued regulations this week providing legal protection to seven oil companies planning to search for oil and gas in the Chukchi Sea off the northwestern coast of Alaska if "small numbers" of polar bears or Pacific walruses are incidentally harmed by their activities over the next five years.
Environmentalists said the new regulations give oil companies a blank check to harass the polar bear.
If you are not an acolyte of Al Gore and you are intelligent enough to keep reading, you get to,
However, the Fish and Wildlife Service said oil and gas exploration will have a negligible effect on the bears' population.
"The oil and gas industry in operating under the kind of rules they have operated under for 15 years has not been a threat to the species," H. Dale Hall, the Fish and Wildlife Service's director, told The Associated Press on Friday. "It was the ice melting and the habitat going away that was a threat to the species over everything else."
and
"Polar bears are already protected under the Marine Mammal Protection Act, which has more stringent protections for polar bears than the Endangered Species Act does,"
and
There is no evidence of a polar bear being killed by oil and gas activities in Alaska since 1993, according to the Fish and Wildlife Service. Since 1960, when the hunt for oil and gas began in Alaska, only two fatalities of polar bears have been linked to oil and gas activities in the state, the service said.
Inbetween, there are some typically stupid statements by environmentalists who don't want us to have any oil or gasoline ever again.
The other stupidly biased headline was in today's
Detroit Free Press. It read, "Broad scale of U.S. injustice revealed." It actually comes from the reliably anti-American, anti-Israel, McClatchy Newspapers. According to the article, somehow the United States military picked up the wrong guys on the battlefields of Afghanistan and foolishly imprisoned them in Guatanamo Bay. They're all innocent. They're all
victims of circumstance. No mention is made of the "innocent" detainees, who after being released from Gitmo have been
recaptured on the battlefields of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
At least 10 detainees released from the Guantanamo Bay prison after U.S. officials concluded they posed little threat have been recaptured or killed fighting U.S. or coalition forces in Pakistan and Afghanistan, according to Pentagon officials.
One of the repatriated prisoners is still at large after taking leadership of a militant faction in Pakistan and aligning himself with al Qaeda, Pakistani officials said. In telephone calls to Pakistani reporters, he has bragged that he tricked his U.S. interrogators into believing he was someone else.
Another returned captive is an Afghan teenager who had spent two years at a special compound for young detainees at the military prison in Cuba, where he learned English, played sports and watched videos, informed sources said. U.S. officials believed they had persuaded him to abandon his life with the Taliban, but recently the young man, now 18, was recaptured with other Taliban fighters near Kandahar, Afghanistan, according to the sources, who asked for anonymity because they were discussing sensitive military information.
The MSM is getting lamer by the day. Not only are they actively working against the interests of Western civilization, they barely even try to hide it.
Labels: Comcast, Detroit Free Press, Guantanamo Bay, media bias, MSM
Would Senator Durbin Face These Soldiers?
Now he wouldn't. According to
The Washington Times Soldiers from Massachusetts and Hawaii who work at the U.S. military detention facility at U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, gave visiting home-state senators a piece of their mind last week.
Sens. Edward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts Democrat, and Daniel K. Akaka, Hawaii Democrat, met with several soldiers during a visit led by Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. John W. Warner, Virginia Republican.
Pentagon officials said soldiers criticized the harsh comments made recently by Senate Democrats.
Sen. Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, the Senate's No. 2 Democrat, last month invoked widespread military outrage when he compared Guantanamo to the prison labor systems used by communist tyrant Josef Stalin, Cambodia's Pol Pot and Adolf Hitler.
"They got stiff reactions from those home-state soldiers," one official told us. "The troops down there expressed their disdain for that kind of commentary, especially comparisons to the gulag."
A spokesman for Mr. Kennedy had no comment. A spokeswoman for Mr. Akaka confirmed that the senator met with soldiers from Hawaii but did not recall receiving any complaints during the meeting.
Both senators made no mention of the incident in press statements after the visit. Mr. Kennedy, in his statement, said that he is "impressed with the courtesies and professionalism of the men and women in our armed forces."
Mr. Kennedy has been a leading advocate for closing the prison facility. Mr. Akaka in April voted for an amendment that would have cut funds for the prison.
Maybe the senators aren't at their most craven in not reporting the soldiers' comments, but they should think about their slanderous, defeatist, anti-military outbursts and speeches.
Labels: Guantanamo Bay, Washington Times
Editing for Meaning at the Detroit Free Press
If you read this
Associated Press story headlined,
Papers Show Inmates Defy Guantanamo Troops, you're left with the impression that life isn't easy for the guards at Guantanamo. Even though, as Charles Johnson at
Little Green Footballs points out, AP refers to prisoners "defying" guards, when, upon reading the article, we see they are abusing guards.The guards, on the other hand, get punished for defending themselves.
The Detroit Free Press goes one step further in their
partial reprint of the story, which they headline,
Documents outline violent Guantanamo encounters. They edit out most of the attacks reported in the original report making it seem like guards were as much as fault as the vicious, homocidal "detainees".
One has to wonder how much further this article will be edited as it moves from source to source, until somebody twists the violence at Guantanamo into being the fault of the guards. One can well imagine a report totally faulting Guantanamo guards falling into the hands some dope of a senator who might then refer to our troops at Guantanamo as Nazis or communists on the senate floor, and - Oops! Never mind.
Labels: Guantanamo Bay, MSM
For 5 months 'I stayed in the box'
Senator Durbin and his apologists should read
this op-ed from the Washington Times by James H. Warner. If that's too hard, they should have it read to them. This piece was written especially for Sen. Durbin.
As a Marine Corps officer, I spent five years and five months in a prisoner of war camp in North Vietnam. I believe this gives me a benchmark against which to measure the treatment which Sen. Richard Durbin, Illinois Democrat, complained of at the Camp of Detention for Islamo-fascists at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The senator's argument is silly. If he believes what he has said his judgment is so poor that his countrymen, assuming, of course, that he considers us his countrymen, have no reason not to dismiss him as a witless boob. On the other hand, if he does not believe what he said, the other members of the Senate may wish to consider censure.
Consider nutrition. I have severe peripheral neuropathy in both legs as a residual of beriberi. I am fortunate. Some of my comrades suffer partial blindness or ischemic heart disease as a result of beriberi, a degenerate disease of peripheral nerves caused by a lack of thiamin, vitamin B-1. It is easily treated but is extremely painful.
Read the whole thing.
Moral equivalence being what it is these days on the left, torture commited by communists against Americans might not count. What about it, Senator Durbin?
Labels: Guantanamo Bay, James H. Warner, torture, Vietnam, Washington Times
Real Torture
Any idiot with the nerve or stupidity to claim what's going on at Guantanamo Bay is torture, really needs to take a look at
these photos posted at
The Jawa Report. Some were taken at Abu Ghraib when it was under the old management group of real sadists, you know, Saddam and his team of psychopaths. Others are from other scenes of desecrations of living human beings in Saddam's Iraq. They're pretty grisly.
Don't look if you're squeamish. Do look if you're Ted Kennedy, Dick Durbin, Jon Stewart, Michael Moore, a lover of The Daily Kos, a member of the Democratic Underground, or any other leftist lunatic who truly believes that the accidental mishandling of a Koran, or the playing of Christina Aguilera music to an unwilling listener constitutes inhumane treatment, and that non-uniformed enemy combatants are entitled to lawyers.
Read the whole post. I was directed there by
BaldilocksLabels: Abu Ghraib, Baldilocks, Guantanamo Bay, Jawa Report, torture
Daniel Schorr
This morning, on NPR, news analyst Daniel Schorr couldn't figure out who to believe in the Guantanamo Bay mishandled Koran controversey. Is the Pentagon telling the truth? Or the Jihadis captured in Afghanistan? Dan admitted, he may never know.
Personally I think he's much too excited to think about anything other than the revealing of Deep Throat. This gave him another opportunity to remind us that he was on Nixon's enemy list. Like many journalists of his pedigree, this was their golden age. Nothing will ever compare to bringing down a sitting president.
He didn't retell the anecdote about Nixon "offering him a job", a story that proves Nixon had a better sense of humor than Mr. Schorr, but I'm sure he has repeated it at other opportunities. In honor of Dandy Daniel Schorr, I humbly offer this poem:
'Twas Nixon that joked with Dan Schorr,
Though Nixon did Dan Schorr abhor,
Retelling old stories,
Of enemy list glories,
Dan Schorr has become quite a bore.
On the other hand, Ben Stein offers a contrary opinion on Deep Throat
here. You should read it. It's short.
Labels: Ben Stein, Danlel Schorr, Guantanamo Bay, Koran, NPR
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