Rest in Peace, Mr. President

Our sympathies to the Ford family.

Merry Christmas

Our sincere thanks to President Bush and the US military for making this a peaceful and prosperous Christmas!

Blog Criticism from the WSJ

I can understand the Dan Rathers of the MSM criticizing blogs. Their poor work is on display daily at Ushanka.us and other wonderful blogs.

But criticism from the assistant editor, Joseph Rago, of the Wall Street Journal? That is the only paper left that Karl reads, yet it is only a fraction of the news sources that Karl turns to. The others? The blogs listed to the left.

The blogs are not as significant as their self-endeared curators would like to think. Journalism requires journalists, who are at least fitfully confronting the digital age. The bloggers, for their part, produce minimal reportage. Instead, they ride along with the MSM like remora fish on the bellies of sharks, picking at the scraps.

So why do the MSM sharks all swim upside down along the surface? Maybe us bloggers should find a more evolved species to ride with, like a corporate HR representative, security guard, or an IT-Help Desk operator?

You can see this article, "The Blog Mob: Written by Fools to be Read by Imbeciles", posted at Opinion Journal, where one of the Karl's favorite blogs is posted - James Taranto's "Best of the Web Today".

Your Fool and Imbecile - Karl

Karl's Reading (Last Weekend)

Karl enjoyed some great articles this past weekend.

Finally, an objective and succinct summary of the Iraq Study Group, by the ever dependable Charles Krauthammer, "What did the Iraq Study Group Tell Us?"

Mike Adams shares his opinion of Karl's alma mater, Pepperdine University: "Colleges to Attend, Part 1"

And in the spirit of the latest MSM/Commie craze, Peggy Noonan provides a concise summary in the Wall Street Journal: "The Man from Nowhere: What does Barak Obama Believe In?"

Enjoy!

Truther 'Truthed'

Found at LGF and Hot Air. (Potty-Mouth Warning)

LGF Feels Karl's Pain

Suzanne Malveaux from CNN has an opinion about US Presidents that drink Kool-Aid. Karl bets she won't say the same about the Russian President for one of the following reasons: 1) He is a fellow Commie, or 2) She is a coward.

Karl's Weekend Reading

So why is Karl so intriqued by the recent murders of three Russian journalists? Maybe because they are true professionals with investigative skills who are driven by freedom's ring? A bit different than US reporters, all striving to get the best Obama puff-piece into print 18 months before anyone cares...

The top reading suggestion for this weekend is the Wall Street Journal's frontpage story about journalism in Russia: "As Journalists Die, A Russian Paper Faces Grim Future".

Updated 12.10: Author Guy Chazan. Russian paper: (topic of article) Novaya Gazeta.

Charles Krauthammer: "If Putin Did It"

Oliver North's "State of War II"

Wall Street Journal Editorial: "Realism and Iran"

Michelle Malkin Feels Karl's Pain

Michelle has a great video summary of the Associated Press fake cop story.

Jawa Feels Karl's Pain

Great video by The Jawa Report about MSM's fake pictures:

LGF Feels Karl's Pain

Charles at LGF discusses a new book on MSM bias: Jim A. Kuypers, Bush’s War: Media Bias and Justifications for War in a Terrorist Age.