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: Media Bias
They’re not interested in the truth
The AP dutifully releases another report of “violence” between Israelis and Palestinians. The headline says that both sides suffered injuries. Israeli, Palestinian hurt amid rise in violence The lead concentrates on the effect, then cause, which is how the media … Continue reading
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Update on the Jerusalem bombing
A woman has died from her injuries, and the AP still can’t bring itself to blame Palestinians in the headline. And we also have the “cycle of violence” theme redux. Note the language. “A bomb struck” the bus stop. It … Continue reading
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Palestinian terrorists bomb Israel, AP can’t figure out whodunit
Palestinian terrorists managed to get a bomb through the Israeli defenses and blew up a telephone booth at a crowded bus station in the heart of Jerusalem today, wounding 25, but so far, no deaths. Terror in capital: At least … Continue reading
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There’s dead, and then there’s killed by Israel
Let’s take a look at two different tales of dead civilians. The first is the AP narrative of what happened last Saturday, when terrorists stabbed three children and their parents to death. The details are grisly; they include stabbing a … Continue reading
The AP: Hamas propagandists
The AP spins, spins, spins for Hamas. Imagine that the Mexican drug lords sent fifty mortar shells into Texas. Imagine the worldwide headlines, and the angles of the articles. Now turn your attention to yesterday, when Palestinian terrorists sent a … Continue reading
Saturday podcast open thread
I talked about Helen Thomas on this week’s Shire Network News, which should be out tomorrow. You can read the Playboy interview here. (And yes, it is one gigantic cognitive dissonance to read the words “Helen Thomas” and “Playboy interview” … Continue reading
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Always the subtle anti-Israel bias
Israel intercepted a ship carrying advanced Iranian arms to Syria. Here’s the lead of the latest story. Note the words in bold. Israeli officials are displaying thousands of bullets, mortar shells and anti-ship missiles they say were seized from a … Continue reading
The aftermath of a massacre
“They murder, we build” is what Netanyahu is telling the world as Israel moves to build more homes in settlement blocs that will remain part of Israel under any peace deal. The fact that these blocs will be Israel? Doesn’t … Continue reading
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Tuesday briefs
What do you mean, you don’t trust the Palestinians? Netanyahu says the IDF needs to stay in the Jordan Valley. Of course this will get spun as if the Israelis are enacting yet another “land grab” (the AP’s favorite phrase … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-Semitism, Gaza, Israel, Israel Derangement Syndrome, Media Bias, palestinian politics, United Nations
Tagged Anti-Semitism, Israel, United Nations
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In which I teach the AP how to write an unbiased article on Israel
Once—just once—I’d like to see an article on Israel that contains no bias whatsoever. This one was pretty darned good. Look at this, it’s part of the lead, and it actually presents the story fairly. It points out that it … Continue reading
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Tuesday, briefly
Of course we are: Israel and the U.S. are behind the latest protests in Iran. Just ask the Iranian regime. Oh, and the Iranians are calling for the execution of the opposition leaders. Now that’s democracy! Woot! I am breathlessly … Continue reading
The media pass along lies of Turkey’s inquiry as truth
When the Israeli Turkel Committee’s report came out exonerating the IDF in the Mavi Marmara incident, the AP included a breakdown of who served on the committee. Reuters mentioned the video footage that showed “activists” attacking Israeli soldiers in an … Continue reading
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Tagged Gaza Flotilla, Israel, Mavi Marmara, Turkey
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The Palestinian PR machine
A few days ago, IDF soldiers helped a Palestinian woman give birth, and saved her baby’s life as well. The mainstream media ignored it. Yesterday, an Israeli woman went into labor and had her baby in a Palestinian hospital. The … Continue reading
Tuesday newsday
Leave the narrative alone! Evil, baby-killing IDF soldiers… deliver and save a Palestinian baby. But wait: The Palestinian woman is happy and grateful Shirin is grateful for the care she was given and says she would like to meet the … Continue reading
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