Requiem for an industry

A book you all might want to own. From the day Barack Obama announced his candidacy to the moment he took the oath of office, the mainstream media fawned over him like love-struck school girls. Even worse, this time they went beyond media bias to media activism, says CBS veteran and #1 bestselling author Bernard [...]

The nation’s orator

Here we go with the inaugural address, spotlighting passages that are overwritten: Forty-four Americans have now taken the presidential oath. The words have been spoken during rising tides of prosperity and the still waters of peace. Come on.  This is schoolboy stuff.  So is this: Yet, every so often the oath is taken amidst gathering [...]

Something there is that doesn’t like an inauguration

For a thoughtful assessment, this commentary got off to a fatuous start? I think so. Obama’s inauguration was just the kind of event that might inspire genuine poetry: it was that rare moment when the public intersected with the private for good instead of evil. It’s about the dumbbell poem read at the grand event [...]