“The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names” – Old Chinese proverb. The elite media have always been out of touch with American values, and their reporting has often been at odds with reality. (See “Offensive, Tet.”) However, their coverage of the last week’s massive pro-illegal immigration rallies bordered (no pun intended) on the Orwellian, virtually requiring one to … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2006
Decoding Immigration Doublespeak
April 14, 2006 By Ben Johnson
Filed Under: Affirmative Action/Race, FrontPage Magazine, Immigration, Labor Unions, Media bias, SEIU Tagged With: Alfonso Zepeda-Capistran, amnesty, Associated Press (AP), Barabara Miner, Cardinal Roger Mahony, CBS, Civil Rights, CNN, Fabian Rodríguez, Fox News, illegal immigration, illegal immigration rallies, Jim Sensenbrenner, Los Angeles Times, Maria Newman, Megyn Kelly, Megyn Kendall, Minutemen, New York Times, Peter Lanteri, Rachel L. Swarns, SEIU, Sonny Perdue, Ted Kennedy, The Washington Post, UNITE HERE
The Capitol Police Slap Back
April 5, 2006 By Ben Johnson
THE FAR-LEFT HAS BEEN GIVING THE CAPITOL POLICE A BEATING, literally and figuratively. This week, the good guys finally stood up for themselves – and the law. The “confrontation” between Rep. Cynthia McKinney, D-GA, and a Capitol policeman grew out of the police force’s kid gloves treatment of another left-wing protester. Although the media focused on her inappropriate attire, police … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Affirmative Action/Race, Anti-Semitism, Conspiracy theories, Democrats, Feminism, FrontPage Magazine, Radical Left Tagged With: "The Situation Room", 2006 State of the Union, 9/11 Truthers, Al Gore, Alwaleed bin Talal, Barry Goldwater, Ben Johnson, Bill Clinton, Capitol police, Cindy Sheehan, Cynthia McKinney, Danny Glover, Dennis Hastert, Dick Cheney, FrontPage Magazine, FrontPageMag.com, Harry Belafonte., Institutional Racism, Isaac Hayes, James Myart, Lawrence Summers, Louis Farrakhan, Nancy Pelosi, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), National Organization for Women (NOW), News, Politics, racial profiling, Racism, Romano Prodi, Ronnie Earle, Sergeant-at-Arms, Steny Hoyer, The Final Call (NOI newspaper), Tom DeLay, William H. Pickle, Wolf Blitzer