Your Humble, Faithful Blogster Admits to Being Jealous

Justin Katz's Dust in the Light is blogrolled by Michelle Malkin.

I guess it must be the Thinkers, not the Linkers, who get noticed by the Babes Intelligent, Articulate Individuals. :-(

P.S. Michelle doesn't have a sister, does she, Justin?

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Tue. 06/15/04 08:34:59 PM
Categorized as Other.

"The War on Terror Just Got Worse"

I caught Bill O'Reilly's Talking Points Memo last night:

.... Well, it didn't take "The New York Times" long to get back in the swing. The paper took a breather for the Reagan funeral, but today was right back on page one with another Abu Ghraib story. That makes 43 front-page stories on the Iraqi prisoner abuse in the past 47 days. By contrast, the more objective "Chicago Tribune" has run 27 front-page stories.

"The New York Times", of course, is using the prisoner story to hammer the Bush administrationand will continue to do so, but here's the unintended consequence of that. By creating hysteria over Abu Ghraib, the much more important war on terror story has almost vanished from the news pages....

See also "Have Two Liberal Newspapers Declared War on the Bush Administration?"

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Tue. 06/15/04 08:14:56 PM
Categorized as Media.

Kerry Honored by Vietnamese Communists II

Democrats in Self-Destruct Mode CCCXV

A follow-up at WinterSoldier.

See Kerry Honored by Vietnamese Communists.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Tue. 06/15/04 07:46:12 AM
Categorized as Democrats in Self-Destruct Mode & John Kerry.

Polls, Shmolls

A reader asks:

Are you as concerned as I am about Bush's poll numbers? Seems like he should be getting a big bounce from Reagan's funeral and his eulogy, etc. Where are all the people who loved Reagan in our present society?

As you may have noticed, Faithful Reader, the attention I pay to polls is next to none. I think that most polls are tools of partisans of all stripes — and not much more than that. And the idea that polls taken in June have any real connection with what voters are going to do in November's election — the only polling that counts — strikes me as a combination of silly & stupid.

Through the summer of 1988, Dukakis was drubbing Bush in the polls. I hope Dukakis gets some small consolation from that.

Ha.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Tue. 06/15/04 07:32:26 AM
Categorized as Political.