January 8th, 2009
 
Two weeks ago, I reported HERE on some nonsense peddled on Fox News about how “historians pretty much agree” that Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal programs worsened rather than improved economic conditions during the Great Depression.
The truth, of course, is that historians do not pretty much agree on that matter.
Now, Fox News is doubling down on its historical revisionism. Brit Hume is TELLING the booboisie that “everybody agrees…that the New Deal failed.”
January 8th, 2009
 
It probably comes as a surprise to some conservatives to learn that there are legions of liberals who STRONGLY DISLIKE Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
The upshot here is that libs, like conservatives, are not a monolith.
January 8th, 2009
THIS GUY raises some interesting questions regarding media coverage of Blagogate.
January 8th, 2009
 
A CNN poll released yesterday SHOWS that former Presidents Jimmy Carter and the senior George Bush enjoy far higher job-approval ratings today than they did when their respective terms ended.
I don’t want to argue whether these guys deserve high or low ratings for their performances in office. But I’ve got a problem with the whole idea of such a poll. The results, it seems to me, are worthless.
Consider the case of Carter. Anybody who was of voting age when Carter left office in 1981 is now at least 46 years old. Hard-core American history buffs who are younger than that might know a thing or two about Carter’s presidency, but almost everybody else of such tender years was too young in the late 1970s to have been paying much attention to how well Carter was doing his job — or had not yet been born.
And many of those Americans who were adults during Carter’s presidency probably have only dim memories, at best, of the politics of those days. (Jimmy Carter? Oh, yeah. He was some kind of peanut guy, wasn’t he?)
So, I figure these high approval ratings for Carter and the senior  Bush are more reflective of a kind of national affection for elder statesmen than any knowledgeable assessment of their performances in office.
The poll, in short, is a silly waste of effort.
