Hitting the nail on the head

“…gripped by an unprecedented degree of irrationality, prejudice and hysteria over the issues of Iraq, the terrorist jihad and Israel… ”

Via Powerline, this link to an article (actually a talk at a conference) by Melanie Phillips, “The Reporting of Iraq and Israel: An Abuse of Media Power”.

An excerpt:

“A friend went into Blackwells university bookshop in Oxford and asked the counter clerk: ‘Do you have a copy of Alan Dershowitz’s The Case for Israel?’ ‘There is no case for Israel’, the counter clerk replied.”

Read ye all of it.

Predictions for 2005

No, not mine. Frank J’s.

A sample:

* Dan Rather does an expose on how Jesus never did raise Lazarus from the dead based on memos allegedly typed at the beginning of the first millenium A.D. It recevies little scrutiny from his audience at the nursing home.

More at the link.