Zanimive povezave 09/12/2008

  • Why do the McCain people think they can get away with this stuff? Well, they’re probably counting on the common practice in the news media of being “balanced” at all costs. You know how it goes: If a politician says that black is white, the news report doesn’t say that he’s wrong, it reports that “some Democrats say” that he’s wrong. Or a grotesque lie from one side is paired with a trivial misstatement from the other, conveying the impression that both sides are equally dirty.

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  • She’s been called an ‘intellectual lap-dancer’, ‘the Edmund Hillary of social-climbing’ and ‘the most upwardly mobile Greek since Icarus’.

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  • The successful start-up of the Large Hadron Collider represents not just a huge victory for particle physics but also a victory for Europe.

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  • GIBSON: Do you agree with the Bush doctrine?
    PALIN: In what respect, Charlie?
    GIBSON: The Bush — well, what do you — what do you interpret it to be?
    PALIN: His world view.
    GIBSON: No, the Bush doctrine, enunciated September 2002, before the Iraq war.

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