As promised, here are last week’s Council winners. The top post was from Soccer Dad, who pointed out a week ago what Netanyahu was slamming the table about yesterday:
The media likes to boast that they are the “first rough draft of history.” Part of that claim is that they are disinterested parties just reporting the facts as they are. Rafael Broch of Just Journalism had an excellent op-ed in Ha’aretz demonstrating the falseness of that claim… And so every Israeli self-defense is subject to a filter, which suggests that each such action might well be a violation worthy of condemnation if not punishment. Consider the other side of the coin. On Friday Israel released twenty female security prisoners in exhange for a video of captured soldier, Gilad Schalit. Schalit has been held for three years and not allowed any visits by the Red Cross. How did the Associated Press orient its story? On the plight of the prisoners!
Also on the subject of media mendacity, the runner up non-Council post was from Jammie Wearing Fool on CBS’s attempt to discredit conservative blogs. CBS’s demonstrably and embarrassingly failed attempt to discredit conservative blogs. We’ve now reached a point where the media rushes to defend Obama against “spurious” charges without actually checking whether those charges are spurious. You have to click on the links guys.
Back to Council posts, the runner up post was from Joshuapundit on the sham negotiations in Geneva:
We’re not going to discuss ‘sanctions’, or anything like that with Iran, but we’d like to talk to them one on one about whatever’s on their mind if that works out. But of course, we’re not insisting or anything like that. We’d really, really like the Iranians to let the IAEA take a peek at their hidden nuclear facility near Qom, (as if the IAEA is going to be able to find its behind with both hands)but we don’t insist on it. And we’re certainly not going to try to get Iran to comply even by mentioning the prospect of sanctions against them, let alone force. And nothing harsh like any deadlines. Whenever things are all tidied up and it’s convenient, El Baradi and the boys will drop by – if that’s OK.
On a largely unrelated note, has anyone noticed the Kafkaesque turn domestic law enforcement has taken? The top non-Council post is about the age of opaque law enforcement we’ve apparently entered. Closer to home, the FTC is defending their new anti-blogger regulations specifically by promising they’ll only selectively enforce them. I have yet to go to law school – and while we’re on that topic, if you’d be so kind – but I’m pretty sure it’s not supposed to work that way.
References and previously after the jump…
References:
* Watchers Council Nominations – Journalism In An Age Of Obama, Embracing Iran But Fact Checking SNL [MR]
* This Week’s Winners! A Pregnant Government Criminalizes It’s Own People [Watcher of Weasels]
* Why did israel jail the pregnant woman? [Soccer Dad]
* Netanyahu slams Goldstone in Knesset [JPost]
* CBS News Tries To Discredit Conservative Blogs, Fails Miserably [JWF]
* Our ‘Negotiations’ With Iran [Joshuapundit]
* Criminalizing everyone [Wash Times]
* The FTC’s Mad Power Grab [Slate]
Previously:
* Watchers Council Results – Actual Literal Wealth Destruction Is Very Nuanced
* Watchers Council Results – Gratuitous Insults Are Especially Obnoxious Coming From Mindless Cultists
* Watchers Council Results – Dem’s ObamaCare Strategy: If You Can’t Beat Them, Bait And Switch Them. Failing That, Bully Your Own Hometown Newspaper.
