Jay Kersting's Blog

By now a lot of you have seen the cover of the New Yorker magazine.

Well, if not, here is a story with a copy of the cover. 

I think Senator Obama's outrage is genuine and justified.  I think Senator McCain stepping up and expressing his outrage is probably genuine and justified as well.

The concept was to illustrate several of the distortions that have circulated around Senator Obama for several months, if not years.

Sure, it was satire.  But it was done in a pretty poor way.

Is Al Franken, master of poorly executed satire, now working for The New Yorker?

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Today, I am going to St. Louis to conduct an interview with an author who will be there for a book reading.  I have decided that the interview will be 16 minutes and 22 seconds long, and I have yet to meet the man.

You are probably thinking that I am making a prejudgement of the subject of the interview without having met him. And, you would be right.

I am not coming up with a great parallel, but this is sort of how I view Barack Obama's newest statements regarding the situation in Iraq and Afghanistan BEFORE he goes there.

If he had gone there and made the EXACT same statements, well then I think I would see some sincerity behind the statements.  

Simply put, his op-ed yesterday and his speech today are hollow and without merit.

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Scroll back up the page and you will see something that I have added to the blog.  Politifact.com's widget showing five of the political claims that they have researched will now appear on this page throughout the rest of the 2008 election season.

I highly recommend that readers of this blog take a look at the claims and the validity of them.  And read further on these issues.

Notice how much spin and distortion is coming from both parties and both candidates.

(SAFARI users, I noticed that the widget was not loading in the Safari browser.  No explanation for this, sorry.) 

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Um, care to rephrase that?

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Many folks did not understand my outrage over the coverage of the death of Tony Snow.  Some thought that my outrage was directed at all liberals.  That is not the case, go back and read my comments and if I am not clear, e-mail me for further explanation.

I do think that most liberals are misguided because they clearly have a simplistic view of the world and want to help everyone, worthy or not.  They'd rather give a man a fish, than teach a man to fish.

Let me be clear, these vile and hate filled liberals who said the horrible things about the late Mr. Snow are the targets of my ire.  They are sick and disgusting people.  

Most liberals are good people.  Misguided and often underinformed, but usually good people. 

Guess what?  I am not a liberal and I think I am a good person.  There MIGHT be a few others who do too.  Do you care to argue that?   

And that is the biggest problem that I have with liberals.  They think that they are better than conservatives.  They are not.  Their political ideology does not make them a better person.  PERIOD.  

That is what offends me most about liberals.  I have even seen members of my own family labels others in the family in ways that imply that one of us is better than others based on their ideology.

That really hurt the first time I saw/heard it.

By now, I am used to it.  But it still hurts. 

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I do not often listen to Bill O'Reilly's Radio Factor, even though we carry it here on NewsTalk 1240 KLIK.  Yesterday, I made an exception because I knew that he would be sharing my view of the media treatment of the death of Tony Snow. 

I went to his website to see the copy of the Associated Press obituary that outraged me when I saw it Saturday afternoon.  Here is a link to it and O'Reilly has boldfaced the sections that were particularly offensive. 

I sent an e-mail to the head of the AP, Tom Curley.  I sent it with a read receipt request.  I got confirmation this morning that he deleted it without reading it.

I am not surprised. 

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Yeah, I am in a bit of a mood today.  Thanks for bearing with me.  Please add your comments as you see fit.

Oh, and have a great Tuesday!!