Despinning the Media - Sheryl Crow TP edition.

The liberal "news" outlet Reuters (famous for their doctored anti-Israeli photos), keeps at it: here. Their initial paragraph reads:

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Calling Sheryl Crow "a high profile proponent of the destruction of innocent lives," the Roman Catholic archbishop of St. Louis resigned as head of a children's medical charity that featured the singer for a benefit concert.

Archbishop Raymond Burke resigned as chairman of the Cardinal Glennon Children's Foundation after its board of governors refused to pull the plug on Crow's Saturday concert in St. Louis.

She is "well-known as an abortion activist" and proponent of stem cell research, he said in a statement on Wednesday, and her appearance is "an affront to the identity and mission of the medical center, dedicated as it is to the service of life and Christ's healing mission."

This can easily be rewritten to de-Reuterize it:

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Calling the Liberal activist Sheryl Crow "a high profile proponent of the destruction of innocent lives," the Roman Catholic archbishop of St. Louis resigned as head of a children's medical charity in protest of hypocritically featuring the activist for a benefit concert.

Archbishop Raymond Burke resigned as chairman of the Cardinal Glennon Children's Foundation after its board of governors insisted on benefiting the career of a noted toilet-paper conservationist who's concert is scheduled this Saturday in St. Louis.

The well-known abortion activist has been embroiled in controversy when she suggested that limiting toilet paper usage to a single sheet per visit would save the environment. Archbishop Burke didn't cite this recent controversy when he characterized her appearance as "an affront to the identity and mission of the medical center, dedicated as it is to the service of life and Christ's healing mission."

All parody aside, just like fake photos, Reuters introduces fake assertions as well.

They state:

She is "well-known as an abortion activist" and proponent of stem cell research, he said in a statement on Wednesday

His message (Viewable here) states:

Ms. Crow is well-known as an abortion activist. She has lent her celebrity status to the promotion of legislation, such as Missouri’s Amendment 2, that creates legal protection for human cloning and the destruction of human beings who are embryos.

and

The Catholic Church consistently teaches that actions that result in the direct killing of the innocent, such as deliberate abortion and destruction of human embryos for research, are grave offenses against the right to life found in the natural law and Divine Revelation. When, for economic gain, a Catholic institution associates itself with such a high profile proponent of the destruction of innocent lives, members of the Church and other people of good will have the right to be confirmed in their commitment to the Gospel of Life.

While I'm not surprised by Reuters doing this latter part, it's their MO after all, it's still disgusting and despicable.

Until They're Home Victorious...

May all the children have happy reunions, like this one...as opposed to the Code Pink/Move On/"Porkbarrel" Pelosi favored-reunion - flag-draped coffins.


Via: VideoSift

Despinning the Media.

Seriously, if I could get paid for despinning, I'd be rich. But, reading the 'Shiites want America out' BS over the weekend and comparing it with actual turnout there's nothing I need to do here. It just further illustrates how the AP, AFP, NYTimes, WashPost, Reuters, and the rest aren't 'news organizations.' They're active allies of Iran, al Qaeda, Sadr, and the rest. And, worse than that, as war profiteers, they actually enrich themselves by getting our soldiers killed.

It's not just sick, it's criminal. I just wish they were being held accountable.

Iran shudders, Britain humiliated??

Hearing a number of Lefty pundits, and even most general opininati try to make this out as a British loss, I'm going to have have to side with Kenneth R. Timmerman and Mickey Kaus. This was a disaster to Iran, all around. Iran looking like it has no control over its forces, to being unable to get their intel operatives freed in Iraq, to undermining their allies the EU and UN.

They can't afford too many more of these, which is a good thing for those of us who like freedom and liberty.

Pirates 3 Trailer

I'm so looking forward to this film.

Enjoy the trailer.

Games don't make people crazy.

Busy day and I've been ranting on the same topic too much lately. So, instead, enjoy this article which reaffirms the common sense notion that people who go off the deep-end because of computer games were probably troubled to start.

All Surrender All The Time

Another example of "Porkbarrel" Pelosi's posse's charge headlong in retreat, desparate to snatch defeat from the mouth of victory. I swear, these people would order the flag lowered on Mt. Suribachi in WW2.

Money quote in the article:

“There was no political intent in doing this,” said a Democratic aide who asked not to be identified. “We were just trying to avoid catch phrases.”

This is, among us 'peasants', known as a 'bald-faced lie'. It's purely political. It's an attempt to divide what truly is a global war into neat, tidy packages so they can sell out our soldiers more than once.

It's pretty obvious that people like this 'Staff Director' Erin Conaton (D-Michael Moore) aren't satisfied with getting our troops killed in just one war zone...they want them dead all over the place. What's really infuriating is this Conaton person claiming to 'avoid catch phrases' and supply the following:

• “the war in Iraq”


• "the war in Afghanistan"


• “operations in the Horn of Africa”


• “ongoing military operations throughout the world”

Nice job avoiding catch phrases Erin...the supply of catch phrases you provided to replace a catch phrase is most appreciated.

Now, channeling a knowledge of history, Erin on Ike's staff would have changed "World War II" into "War against Germany", "War in Italy", "Operations in North Africa", "Ongoing operations in the Pacific", etc.

Finalist, 'Didn't Read the Brouchure'

How the heck did this fella end up like this?

According to court documents, Zabala said he was appalled by the "blood lust" of one officer and broke into tears when shown pictures of dead Iraqis. He said his informal study of Buddhism led him to a belief in the "sanctity of life."

Blood lust? Tears? Sanctity of life?

The military exists for 'precisely' two reasons, to kill people and break things. Nothing else. What did this guy think he would find? Candycanes? Unicorns?

Reading the article, he seems more intent on getting free press from this.

UPDATE: Found a non-registration article on this story. Ye Gods this Zabala is dense.

"This organization trains to kill human life." - Zabala

How, in the world, does someone not know this about the USMC? Perhaps he should have taken a moment to read up on them? And I'm not sure how he can reconcile his fake shock at boot camp with the Marine concept of every Marine being a rifleman. What does Zabala think rifles are for? Holding flowers?

Of course, maybe he could have just asked his family.

Zabala's grandfather served in Vietnam, his parents and uncles were in the Navy, one cousin is in the Air Force and another cousin is the Marines, according to Collier.

This is either the densest lump of humanity to come out of UCSC in some time, or one of the savvier self-promotion people around. Given the poisoned atmosphere, I'm voting for the latter.

Despining Reuters

This article is quite breath-taking. I was going to comment on it earlier, but James Taranto does a much better job.

All I'll add is that, given Reuters' policy to not call their Al Qaeda allies terrorists, Reuters doesn't use the word terrorism until the 7th paragraph. There, they call it "Bush's war on terrorism", intentionally ignoring that Al Qaeda declared war on the West and seeks to exterminate our way of life.

Things like environmentalism, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of religion (that includes you atheists too), women's lib, etc are all at stake.

And Reuters wants to make it sound like this is some optional confrontation of a President. Oh, and yes, they have to throw in the discongruous "Home-grown extremists" two paragraphs above this.

Sheesh Reuters. Pitiful.

"Porkbarrel" Pelosi in Syria.

Another fine example of your pork dollars at work. "Porkbarrel" Pelosi (D-Tehran), having worked so hard to sell out our fighting soldiers, is doing a victory lap with her allies in Damascus.

Meanwhile, while she's getting her marching orders, she's also been busy shutting down the formerly-non-partisan Congressional Research Service so we can't see her corruption.

Just another of her steps in Pelosi-brand anti-Americanism. Remember, when it's Pelosi, it's killing our soldiers.

UPDATE: Take a look at the picture here. That's the face of modern feminism, ladies. And investors, consider going into the headscarf business. Our Speaker of the House is determined to make them required.

Despinning the AFP.

The AFP does its best to spin this story.

The headline reads: "Government must deal with greenhouse gases: US Supreme Court".

Nice spin, if you can get the job.

Now, when a 5-4 decision goes against the media it's always reported as being a 'divided court'.

Headline AFP should use: "Narrowly divided Supreme Court rules against science."

Why is it against science? Because CO2, carbon dioxide, is not a polutant. Never has been, never will be. It's vital to plants, is a natural waste product from animals, and is exhausted from the oceans and volcanos in volumes our industry can't even begin to approach. Junk science, junk ruling, typical media bias.

And, for you consipracy nuts out there, remember, every time you breathe, you're exhaling something the EPA can regulate.

Iran's up to bat, time to strike her out.

This excellent piece by Jules Crittenden is very eloquent in what we must do. Abducting sailors in Iraqi water, violating the 3rd Geneva Convention, and the rest are the last straws. It's time to hold Iran accountable and bring neo-Persia crashing down.

Since they're the primary financer and arms merchant for the anti-Iraq forces we're fighting, bringing down Iran will allow us to leave Iraq sooner. Besides, it's not like Iranian incursions are rare. So, if you're pro-early withdrawal from Iraq, you are, by default, pro-taking-down-Iran.

Bomb the Revolutionary Guard out of existence, destroy the communication systems, and let the Iranian people do the rest for us. They're as sick of these monsters as we are.

Well, not counting "Porkbarrel" Pelosi (D-Tehran), she's quite content to sell out our soldiers and coddle enemies.