the opinionist

Interestingly, but perhaps not unexpectedly, China has announced plans to launch an English-language-speaking (bound to upset the French) 24 hour news channel (a ‘Chinese CNN’) to fluff-up their righteous Communist-spewing, human-rights-abusing, environment-destroying, currency-manipulating, African-dictator-supporting image beyond their locked-down totalitarian nation state.
Here’s to fair and balanced! But at least it expands our choice of international [...]

Posted on February 19th, 2009 under Al-Jazeera, Ann Coulter, BBC, Britain, CNN, China, Communism, Fox News, France, Human Rights Watch, Jingoism, Tibet, fiction!?, interviews, opinions, the Great Firewall. Comments: None

You know the war in Iraq is so far beyond recovery and success when the Bush Administration’s cable news mouthpiece, Fox News, shuns any mention of said war in favor of:

- Paris Hilton
- immigration reform so out of whack with reality as to emphasize the absurdity of Bush’s “Conversative” values and the far-left’s betrayal [...]

Posted on June 13th, 2007 under Ann Coulter, Anna Nicole Smith, Bush, CNN, Fox News, Iraq, Larry Birkhead, MSNBC, PEJ. Comments: None

First let me quickly state that I am indeed a recovering European – a newly naturalized U.S. citizen – and I’ve come to a wholly different conclusion about Americans and their view of the world and of themselves.
The United States of America is an unwanted protagonist in a world that finds itself stewing, quite contently, [...]

Posted on March 4th, 2007 under Americans, British, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC. Comments: 2

When the usual pack of political pundits on the wee handful of network news channels throw long looks of utter despair at Hillary’s less-than-hasty desire to ‘officially’ enter the 2008 presidential race … you have to throw the Senator from New York a begrudging wink and a nod, as much as that would kill me! [...]

Posted on January 19th, 2007 under 2008, Barack Obama, Fox News, Hillary Clinton, Madrassa. Comments: 1