[TheMole]

The LA Weekly is a giveaway "alternative" tabloid that usually leans left, but this guy's media analysis is excellent. The only thing I have any reservations about is that he knocks John F. Burns for his phone-ins to Charlie Rose. While Charlie is indeed a PBS airhead, Burns is a terrific reporter in spite of the fact that he works for the New York Times.

[JennysCool]

Yeah, this is a good one, Mole. Thanks for the post.

[John Lenin]

Believe me the L.A. Weekly does NOT get it. It is one of most anti-america, anti-Bush rags in the area. This is temporary insanity on their part.

[daviddennis]

Wow! With this and Marc Cooper going after the anti-war crowd last week, I wonder if I'm reading the same LA Weekly I know and .. um ... don't really love :-).

Mark Steyn said it better, and a week ago, but it's nice to see people get a clue who I really expected to stay far, far away from one.

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[PoisedWoman]

John Burns’ nightly telephone chat from Baghdad on Charlie Rose. ...sends such a sense of foreboding down the line it’s enough to make you want to blow your brains out before you go to bed. ...the “worst-case scenario” seems to be the only game in town

I caught it last night and actually did feel so rotten I had to pull the covers over my head. Charlie Rose will go to any length to blast Bush. His interview with Friedman got out of hand when Friedman enthusiastically expressed the opinion that we had to go into Iraq now. Rose slammed the table and yelled that Bush's plan basically sucked, and Friedman caught the hint and "of course" blasted Bush too.

Many liberal journalists are forced to agree that the war is working out fine now, but they still get in their digs at the president.

[mrsmith]

"General Wesley Clark looks on, secretly wishing he could court-martial the guy and knock some sense into the entire lily-livered news corps. "

Little "Sidekick" Wesley- Aaron's thumbsucking puppet? LOL!

A hard-core lefty wrote this.

[expatpat]

Perhaps it will inspire the Arabs to do something about their own governments for a change, and to stop whining about everyone else’s. Come to think of it, maybe the Europeans could take the hint, too.

Perfect exit line -- I love it!

[PhilipFreneau]

I agree that Burns is a terrific reporter. Let's say, he is very un-New York Time-ly.

[sweetliberty]

Very entertaining.