The Catmage Chronicles
Andy thought he was going crazy when a talking cat showed up at his front door. He couldn’t have been more wrong.Goldeneyes is a Catmage – a cat with human intelligence and magical abilities. Andy is an eighth grader who is smart, impulsive, and trying to avoid the school bully at all costs. A prophecy threw them together. There’s just one problem: Goldeneyes can’t stand humans.The Catmage world is heading toward war. Goldeneyes and Andy must try to stop the enemy from getting stronger. And they must save a powerful Catmage who’s been kidnapped. For Goldeneyes, it’s personal. That Catmage is her grandmother.Andy and Goldeneyes must try to put aside their differences. If they can’t, the enemy will soon be too powerful to defeat…
Category Archives: AP Media Bias
Dog bites man: AP calls an attack an attack
Quick, get this AP article into your caches before the spin doctors catch up with it. Palestinians Attack Cargo Station GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) – Palestinian militants attacked the Gaza Strip’s main cargo crossing with mortar fire early Tuesday, … Continue reading
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Humpty Dumpty media rules
When is a cease fire not a cease fire? When more than 60 rockets are launched on a daily to near-daily basis, destroying property and wounding civilians. When is a war a “shaky truce”? When only Israelis are targeted. Israel … Continue reading
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The official AP boilerplate: More deaths than 9/11!
Charles first noticed the AP comparing the number of soldiers killed in Iraq with the number of people killed in the 9/11 attacks. Of course, the first thought that comes to mind when you read an idiotic comparison like that … Continue reading
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Compare and contrast: The AP spins for the pals
Let’s take a look at the Ynet and AP versions of the same incident: AP: Assailants fired on the car of a senior Palestinian security official Saturday, wounding him, a bodyguard and a girl in intensifying factional fighting in the … Continue reading
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A closer look at these “crude, homemade” rockets
The AP article actually calls kassams “crude projectiles” in this story, even after identifying the wounds as such: The rocket blew through the living room and exploded in a bedroom where three children were sleeping, relatives said. Two-year-old Samir al-Masri’s … Continue reading
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What truce?
The so-called “cease-fire,” during which palestinians felt themselves perfectly able to launch kassam rockets at Israel (back into the double-digits per day), has taken another “accidental” hit on palestinians in Beit Hanoun. You remember Beit Hanoun. It’s the town where … Continue reading
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The AP notices palestinians are violating the “cease-fire”
The AP finally noticed (after some 30 rockets launched into Israel) that the palestinians are violating the “cease-fire” agreement. Palestinians Fire Rocket Into Israel Palestinian militants fired a rocket into Israel at dawn Thursday, the Israeli military said, a violation … Continue reading
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Anti-Israel media bias, redux
Say, you know that post I wrote this morning? Just a few short hours ago? The one where I said this: You gotta love the Reuters headline, though. “Gunmen Kill Hamas Judge.†Yeah, those mysterious “gunmen.†If it had been … Continue reading
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It’s beginning to look a lot like bias
Say, remember those annual Christmas stories, the ones that basically say that Israeli actions make the baby Jesus cry? They’ve already begun. BETHLEHEM, West Bank Dec 10, 2006 (AP)— Islamic militants may be in charge, but that doesn’t mean there … Continue reading
Posted in AP Media Bias, Holidays, Israel Derangement Syndrome
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Misleading headline of the day
This one sent my blood pressure soaring. These are the headlines of an AP article carried by both Ynet and Ha’aretz: Olmert says open to international force in Gaza PM open to Italian proposal to send international force to Gaza … Continue reading
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Lebanon protests? It’s Israel’s fault.
Really. Check out the last two paragraphs in this AP story. Notice which paragraph is absolutely dead last (the one that nearly always gets cut from a newspaper story.) The battle is a fallout from the summer war between Hezbollah … Continue reading
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What the AP won’t tell you Ahmadinejad said
The Associated Press whitewashes our enemies, and Israel’s enemies, on a regular basis. Case in point: Ahmadinejad’s letter to America. What the AP published: In Wednesday’s letter, he said, “we, like you, are aggrieved by the ever-worsening pain and misery … Continue reading
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The despicable anti-Israel media spin
If I were someone who only read the headlines, boy, would I think those Israelis are the villains in these pieces. Hamas Offers Peace Talks for 6 Months Israel rejects Palestinian peace offer Meshal: Israel is to blame for lack … Continue reading
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The anti-Israel UN bias
The new UN Human Rights Council (known in this blog as the Human Wrongs Council) is holding its third session on Israel since its creation. In June. GENEVA Nov 13, 2006 (AP)— The new U.N. Human Rights Council said it … Continue reading
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What’s wrong with this AP article?
Let’s start with the headline: Syria Hints at Resistance Vs. Israel The AP has just legitimized Syria’s claim, and added yet another story in the plus column about “armed resistance.” The lead passes on, uncritically, the terms provided by the … Continue reading
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