May 28, 2005

Air America Host Proudly Announces She Has No Idea What She’s Talking About

Sayet Right notes that the hosts of Air America seem proud to announce that they really are ignorant of the facts:

Then, after a break for the news, Janeane Garofalo began her program with a vicious diatribe against Tom DeLay. She went on and on attacking him and calling him names—never once, of course, offering any facts or evidence to back up her hate.

And then we found out why. She didn’t know who Tom DeLay is much less what he might or might not have done.

I’m going to have to paraphrase here because I was driving in my car and not taking notes but the great voice of Liberalism said something to the effect of “and, of course you all know who Tom DeLay is, right? He’s like, the majority leader or, like the whip or something in the House or the Senate or something…I don’t know…”

Sayet Right begins the post by noting:

I was listening to Air America yesterday for about as long as I could stand it. It was coming up on the end of the hour when the “nay” to cloture vote was announced. The leftists in the studio (who had apparently gathered for the news) were cheering the event (understandably) when someone “discovered” that Republican Bill Frist had cast a nay vote along with the Democrats.

For the next several minutes (until the commercial and then news break) the people on Air America began to viciously attack Frist as a hypocrite who had sold out his party for political gain. The hosts went on and on (and on and on) about how this proves that Republicans are scum.

Of course the reason Frist voted no had nothing to do with a change of position or his “selling out his party” and everything to do with parliamentary rules. Once again the Dems were on the attack (and viciously so) against a member of the United States government without having a clue what they were talking about.

Instead of praising Frist for voting in their favor, the Air America Dems attack Frist even when they think he is helping them. Surely this approaches a definition of madness.

Pajamas Media: Suggested Goals

Roger L. Simon is inviting comments on Pajamas Media Question #2 – ‘How can we be an online Joe Friday?’

I’ve just posted the following to that thread:

I think MSM has gotten in trouble partly by setting goals using words that don’t refer to anything that actually exists. Specifically, they try to be “objective.” There is no such thing as “objective.” There is such a thing as being 100% faithful to the truth, in other words seeking to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

Being “objective” is what causes MSM to be unable to call terrorists, killers, and beheaders by their true names, and instead to call them radicals and insurgents. MSM believes that calling such people by their true names would be taking sides (which it would) and therefore would not be “objective.” There is no such thing as “objective”, but there is such a thing as helping a murderer by refusing to call him a murderer.

I agree with the consensus that the goal should not be to be “fair and balanced.” “Fair and balanced” appears to be another way of saying “objective.”

With regard to “honest and transparent”, I would suggest “100% faithful to the truth and documenting all facts with links” as being more specific language.

A related question is, what is our goal? Over the decades the goal of MSM has become merely to attack the government. MSM attacks the government regardless of the facts and regardless of what is good for this country. MSM therefore does a great deal of harm.

I would suggest that our specific goal should be “to help the American people, and Democratic people all over the world, lead successful lives; and to help people in non-Democratic countries find the way to Democracy and Capitalism, which have been the greatest engines for the health, well-being, and success of people yet discovered in human history.”

Setting specific goals will be a powerful means of achieving the success of Pajamas Media.

(Note—I’m currently providing Market Research consulting to Pajamas Media.)

The Iraqi Stock Market: Up 12 Times Since the Fall of Hussein

12 TIMES:

This is one place in Iraq where go-getters are abundant and no one is waiting for a handout. Unlike much of the rest of Iraq, the men—and a considerable number of women—who ply their trade here live by a bootstraps philosophy, eagerly profiting from an equities market where daily trading volume has grown twelvefold since Saddam Hussein’s fall.

The success of capitalism in Iraq will drive Islamofascism out and destabilize dictators, oppressors, and Islamofascists throughout the Mid East, as others see what freedom is like and long to emulate the good fortune of the Iraqi people.

(via Iraq the Model. )