JOURNALISM: CNN Forgets to Mention Op-Ed Writer Is a Million Dollar Bundler For Hillary.

THIS IS CNN: “U.S. stocks poised for gains despite new China fall,” a CNN headline that’s the winner of Orrin Judd’s “Fox Butterfield Award of the Week.”

 Preconception much?  What Vox Thinks Tech Nerds Don't Understand About Politics

 Another Day, Another Bogus New York Times Attack on Clarence Thomas

ANDREW KLAVAN ON THE FIRST RULE OF AMERICAN MSM NEWS COVERAGE: “Whenever the prejudices and illusions of left-wingers are confirmed by an individual incident, the incident is treated as representative; when those prejudices and illusions are contradicted, the incident is considered an aberration — and treating it as representative is deemed hateful.”

Because, as Jim Treacher sagely observed last year on Twitter, “Modern journalism is all about deciding which facts the public shouldn’t know because they might reflect badly on Democrats.”

NATIONAL REVIEW COLUMNIST APPROVES GWEN IFILL’S “TAKE THAT BIBI” ADMISSION. At the Corner, Jay Nordlinger writes:

I’ve said it a million times: The anchorman of CBS News should attend Democratic fundraisers (as happened). The Supreme Court reporter of the New York Times, a.k.a. the paper of record, should march in abortion-rights rallies (as happened). And PBS news figures should be open partisans.

Yesterday, when Senator Barbara Mikulski declared for the Iran deal, meaning that this deal could not be blocked by the Senate, Gwen Ifill spiked the football. “Take that, Bibi,” she tweeted. Aha! Good one, Gwen!

The PBS ombudsman has written about this matter disapprovingly. I’m not sure I disapprove. What I disapprove of is pretending — the pretending that these news organizations are neutral and dispassionate, instead of on the left.

Nomsayin? Know what I’m saying? It seems so . . . elementary. Let your true colors fly, and we’ll have a good ol’ democratic debate.

Exactly. There’s no such thing as “objectivity,” and news consumers should know about the worldview of journalists and/or Democratic operatives with bylines such Ifill, in order to make informed choices. (Particularly in the case of PBS and NPR, as we’re legally required to partially foot the bill for these networks.) The MSM’s cry of “objectivity” dates back to the 1920s through the end of the 1970s, when limits in technology created a mass American media consisting of just three national radio networks, the forerunners to the three national commercial TV networks, a handful of wire services, and for most large cities, only a couple of newspapers. That media world hasn’t existed for decades.

I thought self-styled “Progressives” didn’t want to live in the 1950s anymore — why rely on an Eisenhower-era trope to dodge responsibility for your statements?

 WASHINGTON POST COMPARES COUNTY CLERK KIM DAVIS TO GEORGE WALLACE: To be fair, they’re both Democrats, but in a rare double feature edition of “Name that Party,” you wouldn’t know that from reading the Post’s article.

DOES NPR NOT READ NPR WHEN IT COMES TO GUN VIOLENCE?

Assuming that that second number NPR quotes is accurate: the ‘psychic toll of gun violence’ apparently is worst among people who can’t understand why gun homicide rates keep going down, ‘despite’ the fact that the Left can’t get gun control laws passed. This is not a new problem for the gun control crowd: they’ve been waiting to see gun violence rates rise ever since the ‘assault weapons’ ban expired. Waiting and waiting and waiting.

Hey, that narrative won’t shape itself.

TWO GRAY LADIES IN ONE! “For Labor Day Drivers, Lowest Gasoline Prices in 11 Years,” the New York Times reports today.

Reminder: The New York Times, the Washington Post, NBC, and the Obama administration all consider this to be bad news.

 FALSE AND DEFAMATORY: Daily Kos Founder Claims Contributor at Daily Kos Is a ‘Breitbart Writer Arrested for Terrorism.’ “He linked to an article that made no mention of Breitbart. But it did list the publications that this terrorist troll, Joshua Goldberg, wrote for, including… the Daily Kos. . . . Moulitsas then, bizarrely, went on to claim that ‘trying to incite terrorism’ was ‘a conservative thing.’”

 Sorry so long.  Lets close with this:  HOLY CTHULHU: Alex stops you from publishing inconsiderate content: Weirdly, and apparently is this bullsh*t piece of Marxist leftist trash really meant to be taken seriously? IS a perfectly politically correct sentence.  As you can imagine, it sets my mind at rest.

The Top Ten Films of 1935

My list is a tad different. 

 Hillary’s email firm was run from a loft apartment with its servers in the BATHROOM, raising new questions over security of sensitive messages she held.

#COVERUP: Clinton aides’ BlackBerrys likely destroyed.

 DON’T BLAME ME, BLAME THE WHOLE DAMN SYSTEM: Hillary’s latest defense: What is classified information, anyway? Its moving pretty fast.  This was from about two weeks ago.  Trying to catch up!

OOPS: Former Top Hillary Aide Accidentally Tells The Truth About Libya War:

It takes a tough person, and a tough nation, to accept the reality of limited power. It is so much easier to pound our chests and declare that the United States bestrides the world like a colossus and should be able to dictate any outcome it wants. That is no longer true, if it ever were. We found that out the hard way by launching a war in Iraq that we could not win. By prolonging a war in Afghanistan in ways that often made the domestic political situation worse rather than better. By toppling a government in Libya without any idea of what might come next.

Hillary 2016: Because Poor Judgment Is Still Judgment.

PROOF IN THE PUDDING: Hillary’s Air Gap Problem. The very fact that TOP SECRET information made it to Hillary’s email shows a crime was committed.

 DRIP, DRIP: Email timeline suggests second server may exist.

DOES HILLARY CLINTON THINK BILL CLINTON’S PRESIDENCY WAS A DISASTER? That’s a quite a needle she’s going to have to thread — appealing to moderate voters by running on the happy fun time memories of the 1990s, while denouncing all of her husband’s relatively centrist policies that helped make them happen, in order to placate her hard left base.

Katrina Washed Away New Orleans’s Black Middle Class

Test Scores Don’t Tell Us Everything About New Orleans School Reform

 Why The Plan To Shrink New Orleans Failed

 KATRINA FLASHBACK: When Kathleen Blanco Froze.

HERE’S LOU DOLINAR ON The media’s criminally bad reporting on Katrina. And here’s more from Prof. W. Joseph Campbell.

 ANOTHER PLACE WHERE THE MEDIA AND THE POLITICIANS FAILED: Mike Grunwald On The Army Corps Of Engineers And Katrina. “When Katrina hit, the Army Corps originally claimed it had overtopped and overwhelmed its levees. That’s why FEMA became the villain. But my engineer pals in New Orleans showed me the Corps was lying. You could see the debris line on the levees! 1800 people died because the Corps flood protection failed. They were victims of bad engineering & bad priorities.”

SHAME ABOUT NY CITY SCHOOLS: How civic innovation helped New Orleans roar back.

HISTORY: Brendan Loy’s Katrina timeline from 10 years ago.

Hey, he got it right with Sandy, too.

Plus, Katrina On The Hudson: The horror stories of New Jersey’s Sandy relief program.

JOSHUA SHARF: President Obama has lost the argument on Iran. “When your best argument for an agreement is that the deal’s opponents are ‘making common cause’ with your negotiating partners, it’s safe to say you’ve lost the debate.”

ISIS USES CHEMICAL WEAPONS AGAINST KURDS: And note this: “Late last year, ISIS reportedly seized an Iraqi chemical weapons factory with about 2,500 rockets, containing the deadly nerve agent Sarin.”

Chemical weapons in Iraq? All the experts told me that was umpossible!

 WHO LOST IRAQ? BARACK OBAMA LOST IRAQ. “At one point Barack Obama and Joe Biden basked in the success of the surge that was authorized by George W. Bush and carried out by Gen. David Petraeus. They proclaimed Iraq one of the Obama administration’s greatest accomplishments, taking credit for a military and diplomatic effort that had nothing to do with them. And then that ideologically-obsessed dummy, Barack Obama, threw it all away.”

SHOT: Democrats face a once-in-a-career decision on Iran.

CHASER: I’M WARNING DEMOCRATS HERE AND NOW: Putting Obama Over Country Is Treason.

WIPING ISRAEL OFF THE MAP: “If Israelis aren’t paranoid, they should be. Every time they turn around, someone is trying to wipe their country off the map. Literally.”

Of course, Mr. Obama’s would-be deal with Iran is designed to simply take that punitive worldview to its ultimate end game.

RELATED: “Obama lawyers intervene to protect PLO funds in terrorism cases: In an unusual legal move, the Obama administration has taken the legal side of the Palestinian Authority and Palestine Liberation Organization in a federal court case that American terrorism victims’ families had already won.”

Unexpectedly. 

FUNNY HOW THE BLUEST CITIES HAVE THE WORST RACISM-AND-VIOLENCE PROBLEMS: Discrediting the Blue Model One Crisis at a Time.

FIGHTING THE FUTURE: With the new NLRB ruling, progressives have taken up William F. Buckley’s stance—”athwart history, yelling ‘Stop!’” It won’t work.
 

IS IT 1968 AGAIN? CRIME RISING “UNEXPECTEDLY:” How bad is it? So bad that as Steve Hayward writes at Power Line, even the New York Times has noticed – and of course, the Times passage that Steve quotes listing the cities of Baltimore, New Orleans, Washington DC and St. Louis is a classic “Name that Party” moment.

NAME THAT PARTY, SPECIAL 80th ANNIVERSARY EDITION: Boarded buildings and bullet-ridden walls: Pictures show the dark underbelly of one of America’s most dangerous cities.

Missing from the text of the London Daily Mail’s chilling Detroit-on-the-Delaware photo expose on the no-go zone in my old stomping grounds of South Jersey? “Frederick Von Nieda was Camden’s last Republican Mayor — he served until 1936.”

Started listening to an NPR pocast on pop culture recently.  The other ay they were iscussing how important it is to have a broa range of interest in film, music, lit, etc.  They made fun of a woman who claimed to like ALL kins of music. from Billy Joel to Billy Idol.  They tyhen went on to recommend a broad range of liberal literature.  Lots of multi-culti.  No pro-American.  No right wing.  Laughable at first.  Then just sad.

Which brings me to todays links:

 SELF-IMAGE: Liberals Can’t Admit To Thinking Like Conservatives.

 and its always good to listen to A Kling

Just finished Summer of the Gods .... VERY good telling of the actual Scopes trial.  Gets a little off track tpward the end when it wanders in to an analysis of McCarthyism without recognizing that McCarthy was right.

Also working on the Meditations of Marcus Aurelious ... the Analects of Confucious .....Rosseau on the Social Contract...... some Mises an Rothbard ....and an interesting law review article on the origin of falsly yelling fire in a crowded theater meme. 

WASHINGTON EXAMINER: DONALD TRUMP IS JUST LIKE PRESIDENT OBAMA WHERE IT COUNTS.

Really? Do tell.

YOU HATE IT FROM BARACK OBAMA. BUT YOU LOVE IT FROM DONALD TRUMP, Rick Wilson writes at IJ Review:

You hated how Obama rode the wave of constant attention from the mainstream media into office, and how they played along with his game, draining the life out of every other candidate by describing him as an inevitable juggernaut, an unstoppable political force, and a game-changer who was tapping into something deep and powerful in American political life.

But you love it from Trump.

You hated how Obama’s naive ignorance of the real and brutal world of international affairs was papered over by his hollow promises to make the world respect the United States again.

But you love it from Trump.

You hated Obama’s casual disdain for people who weren’t from a major city where, you know, all the rich, smart, educated, liberal people like him live.

But you love it from Trump.