The Invisible Burka

While the men log on to PJM for brandy and cigars to discuss the leftist enemies of freedom the wimmin need some lighter fare. Don't want their "beautiful minds" bothered with the GWOT or this silly silly FISA flap. No, they can debate chunky leather vs platform moccasins and leave the serious thinking to Charles and Glen and Roger and the other brave Keyboard Warriors.

Marginalized?

For groups that are 'more and more marginalized' they're sure making a lot of noise and killing a lot of people. Iraq has entered a horrific new phase of civil war. Not that the President will admit it.

"Those who want to stop the progress of freedom are becoming more and more marginalized." -Bush 1/04/06

Click on this link above and marvel at the sheer stupidity/audacity of the President's quote.

THE 'blogosphere' speaks unto Chuck

Not happy with the Pajamas Media dolts happily assuming that they speak for the entire 'blogosphere'. It seems Chuckles has jumped in on the act as well. Check this out.

The blogosphere is mulling the implications of Ariel Sharon’s debilitating stroke tonight. Standouts:

....and goes on to list three sites. One of which is an update. Chuck, are you seriously trying to tell us that

a) you can say that the entire 'blogosphere' is 'mulling' over the implications.

and

b) that out of the millions of blogs you obviously have become spokesman for, only three have anything interesting to say?

C'mon Chuck, that's poor even for your standards of 'reporting'.

Dishonest Johnson

Proving once again what a total hack he is, Charles Johnson slams the President of Iran but gives the President of the 700 Club a total pass. To their credit, the minions don't.

.....and along comes good 'ol Pat!

The Palestinians are celebrating the ill health of Ariel Sharon and some may say they have reason (they did call him the 'Butcher of Beirut' after all), but what reason or excuse is there for Pat Robertson to claim that Prime Minister Sharon is suffering because of 'God's wrath'?

Change of tune...

Charles Johnson can't get over the fact that those barbarian Palestinians are celebrating the news of Ariel Sharon's bad health. Now far be it from us to say they are right to do so (though he was found personally responsible for a war crime against Palestinians, which might explain their feelings towards him), the comments of Charles and his minions should be compared with their own reaction to the deaths of Rachel Corrie (1, 2), 200 Madrilenos, a journalist, a Brazilian electrician, Sheikh Yassin, Yassir Arafat...not to forget the regular 'death watch polls' in which Charles invites his readers to vote on who is going to pop their clogs next.

Lovely people. Let's give them a weblog...

Gaza Syndrome

I’ve known political activists like Kate Burton all my life, and although she has my deep sympathy for the ordeal she suffered in Gaza so too do her terrorist captors.
With a campaigner in the Burton mould, it is no good thinking you can shut her up by pointing to flaws in her argument – or pointing a gun at her head.
When the kidnappers abducted her and her parents, she bellowed, “I came here to work with the Palestinians people, and now I feel I have been stabbed in the back.”
When the kidnappers said she should thank them for treating her well, she exploded, “I can’t believe you are doing this! Do you want me to get down on my knees and say thank you, thank you, thank you?’
After hearing much more in this vein the kidnappers gave up and freed the family
Since the Seventies, we have known about the “Stockholm Syndrome” where hostages are so terrified by their kidnappers they go over to their side. Now we have the “Gaza Syndrome” where the kidnappers are so terrified by their hostages they let them go. [Nick Cohen]

Top Stories at Clown Media

Proving once again that OSM/Pajamas Media is nothing more than paymaster for an "Astroblogging" black op, behold this front page. Two fluff filler pieces. Not even trying. The real busy-work at OSM/Pajamas Media is the check-writing department as money is shoveled out to 70 lucky bloggers and two conniving opportunists, Johnson and Simon.

Question of the day: is this wingnut blogger welfare funded by taxpayer money?

It's like DreamWorks SKG but without the money, power, vision, and talent.

TBogg's sarcastic take on Pajamas Media is stuff of legend.

Let's all laugh at Chuckles the clown

Shooting The Messenger takes a shot at Charles Johnson and get's a direct hit. It seems Charles has had his first By-Line on Pajamas Media........and didn't write a thing. His 'story' was simply a link to LGF that links to a Mere Rhetoric post. Also included in Charles' post is a link to the LGF comments section, if they had any advertisers they'd be shitting themselves.

As Fits puts so eloquently....

A link to the same link and we get to hear what the LGF lizardoids are saying
about the matter? Now, I know Charles doesn't do the writing thang, but linking
to his commentors that often DO have something interesting to say...is ripping
THEM off, isn't it? Sure, I know that what you leave on a blog becomes the
property of the blog unless you suggest otherwise, but a link to 53
comments...THIS is the contribution Charles gets to make? His readers take?

[...]

Am I missing something? Is this the only way Chuckie gets
to see HIS name on something? That's sad. And lame.

Someone gave them millions of dollars to link. To reader comments. Having their very own comment section would what...be too expensive?

A reader writes: 'Giving respectability to lunatics'

"See this post at John Leo's US News blog, which references "The consistently interesting blog Little Green Footballs." Leo is the guy who wrote a glowing column about Michelle Malkin's defense of internment and racial profiling." [CB]

The blame game

New World Man adds his opinion to the rush to point fingers about the West Virginia mining tragedy, and writes what any sensible, level headed person was thinking. Unlike the idiots who rushed to blame George W. Bush or the 'dreaded' MSM.

Blaming The Media for contributing to the tragedy of the Sago mine seems as asinine to me as blaming President Bush. But let me deal with the latter first. What kind of vacuum heart do you have to be to wake up in the morning, find out 12 miners are dead, and rush to your blog to rant about how the blood is on the President's hands?

But this Big Media takes a facer business is stupid. The Media didn't tell those families most of the miners had survived, The Media heard it from the same people the families did. Why, "if bloggers had made these kinds of mistakes, Big-Media folks would be pointing them out as evidence that the blogosphere can't be trusted." Well, they did, when Wonkette was publishing exit poll data and all those now-Pajamas Media blogs were breathlessly telling us the guy who blew himself up outside the Oklahoma football game was a jihadist.

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Are you that interested in people paying attention to you that you can't fathom not being among the first to blame somebody for something?

Who are 'THE' blogs?

Is it just us who's tiring of the pretentious claptrap masquerading as reporting over at Pajamas Media claiming to speak for all blogs?

"Should politicians read THE blogs? "(Who are 'the' blogs?)

"THE blogs assess the man"(Only listing four blogs with articles on Ehud Olmert)

The events as seen through THE blogs. (The West Virginia mining tragedy, 17 blogs listed, mostly right wingers shifting blame from the mining company to the dreaded 'MSM')

Spot the difference

What Bush says and what's actually happening here

The Propaganda War

The British government has had to made an embarrassing u-turn on the accusation that Iran was behind a spate of bombings against UK troops. Is it any surprise that this turned out to be false?

MPs and soldiers' families have demanded an explanation from the Government after a U-turn over claims that Iran was complicit in the killing of British soldiers in southern Iraq.

Britain has dropped the charge of Iranian involvement after senior officials had repeatedly accused the Tehran regime of supplying sophisticated explosive devices to insurgents. Government officials now acknowledge that there is no evidence, or even reliable intelligence, connecting the Iranian government to the infra-red triggered bombs which have killed 10 British soldiers in the past eight months.

The twist comes three months after British officials first made strong assertions, widely reported in the media, of an Iranian hand in killing British soldiers. The highly publicised allegations emerged as America was locked in tense confrontation with Iran over its nuclear policy. It led to a major row and the US Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, warned Tehran of the consequences of continuing interference in Iraq.

The allegations had also been confirmed by Tony Blair at a joint press conference in Downing Street with Iraq's President Jalal Talabani. Mr Blair told reporters: "There is no justification for Iran or any other country interfering in Iraq."

The apparent U-turn last night prompted the mother of a young soldier killed in Iraq to accuse the Government of making political capital out of her son's death. Pte Phillip Hewett, 21, died alongside 2nd Lt Richard Shearer and Pte Leon Spicer when their patrol was hit by an improvised explosive device at al-Amarah, north of Basra, last July.

Pte Hewett's mother, Sue Smith, 44, said: "They don't like Iran and they are using this for sympathy towards their attitudes, claiming that they were involved in the murder of our sons. I had the impression from the moment they made that statement that it was purely bully-boy tactics against Iran. It makes me really angry. They should be dealing with the people who killed our sons and not using it as a weapon. The way I look at it, it was just an excuse for another invasion. They have a foothold in the Middle East and they want to go further."

Michael Moore, the defence spokesman for the Liberal Democrats, said: "Clumsy diplomacy can only make the situation in Iraq worse that it already is. There should be an early statement on Iran's involvement in the insurgency so that Parliament can assess what the real situation is and how the Government is responding to it."

A former Labour defence minister, Peter Kilfoyle, accused the Blair government of following President George Bush's obsession with Iran. "Is this intelligence or is it propaganda?" he asked. "This is what happened in Iraq. I have a deep, abiding mistrust of what is put out by the Government and a deep, abiding mistrust of what is put out by the intelligence services. This is part of an almost unconscious urge to support whatever the American policy of the moment might be."

The truth will out

Lt. General Ricardo Sanchez may be in a little trouble with the White House for letting slip here.

"The country’s on the verge of a civil war."

He said with regards the ongoing bloodbath in Iraq. The Bush administration need not worry too much though. There are plenty of sources of 'good' propaga.....sorry news around there.

Pajamas down with their homiez

"I is Roger L's main man, Chazzie J is just disrespectin". Says new PJM frontman Ali G.

Is Pajamas Media trying to reach out to the young, urban Eminem generation with a headline like the one below? Or is there a European Intelligence Special Economic Zone?? It all sounds very Ali G to me.

Iran trying to build nuclear missile, European intel sez

Plus, if you look at the blog links you'll see their Barcelona correspondent has mispelled James Wolcott's favourite female bloggers site. Atlas Schrugs, indeed.

A tragedy, and so many questions

Terrible news from West Virginia. Eleven of the twelve miners trapped in a mine have been declared dead. Rather than repeat baseless blog accusations about the old media and their reporting (like Pajamas Media have done). We here at LGF Watch would rather see an investigation into how officials managed to tell the families of the miners that they were alive. The families were the ones that then broke the news to the press only to be given the devastating news later by the mines officials. The BBC has a comprehensive report, links and timeline here. Our deepest sympathies go to the families concerned.

Families of 11 US miners found dead have expressed anger and disbelief at communications failings which led them to believe their loved ones were alive.
Relatives had been celebrating the "miracle" rescue of the men when it emerged only one of the 12 West Virginia miners had in fact survived.

A witness said one relative lunged for the mine official who broke the news and had to be wrestled to the ground.

The critically ill survivor, Randall McCloy Junior, 26, is in hospital.

Another scoop for Pajamas Media? Or another rehash from Reuters?

It seems Chuckles is a little pissed that the New York Times have broken yet another story about Bush Media and the planting of propaganda in Iraq. He goes into extreme detail (well, extreme detail for him) by writing a whole sentence of snark questioning the importance of the story compared to other news (well, he tries bless his little cotton socks). So as a guide to what breaking a story doesn't look like we'll compare the NYT's effort to our favourite Lame Stream Media output.

Jack Abramoff pleads guilty (source Reuters)
Google PC's (source LA Times)
Nepali ceasefire (source Nepali blogger & Reuters)
Governor Blanco (source The Advocate, Baton Rouge)
Yahoo TV (source San Francisco Chronicle)

Yawn. That's what's happening in the world people. Of course the New York Times has slightly more comprehensive look at what's been happening around the world.

You'd think before ridiculing someone else's exclusive content you'd be sure that your 'MSM slaying' new project was producing some itself wouldn't you?

PS For a company that was paying bloggers and had a budget of about $7 million dollars you'd think they could manage more than two stories yesterday wouldn't you?

The Pajamas Top Ten

I laughed out loud and wished I'd written it. Shooting The Messenger has a great top ten of predictions for Pajamas Media.