Since I am snowed in for all intents, I might as well blog some interesting links.

The big story is the major source used by the AP and other news sources has been shown to be a phoney.  What make this particularly troubling is this particular source, Jamil Hussein is the primae source in the story of an alleged massacre, the burning alive of six Sunnis.  This takes on particular importance when you find out that NBC based their decision to officially declare Iraq a civil war on this story.

Stop the ACLU notes that:

It’s not just NBC. Since the Adnan Hajj/Reutersgate/fauxtography scandal during the Israeli/Hezbollah war led to grave questions about the current state of Western journalism, it has become increasingly obvious that there is something basically wrong with the way the major media companies are covering events in the Middle East.

Indeed. Hot Air provides some interesting twists.

But Sister Toldjah provides the million dollar question: 

Does the MSM feel any responsiblity towards its readers for accurate reporting anymore?

Answer?  Apparently not.

Also at STA, the American Legion has taken the same position I have and called for an apology from Rep Rangel over his trash talking the military.

American Pundit however makes the case why he likely will not. He rarely makes nice.

Also via Sister Toldjah, this no brainer about John Kerry:

Democratic Sen. John Kerry, mulling a second bid for the U.S. presidency, finished dead last in a poll released on Monday on the likability of 20 top American political figures.

I have a hard time not finding the jokes in it.  Former NYC Mayor Rudolph Giuliani was first.

In a blow to an out of control blabbermouth Media, the SCOTUS smacks down the NY Times.  Via MM:

The United States Supreme Court refused today to stop a federal prosecutor from reviewing the telephone records of two reporters for The New York Times. The records, the paper said, include information about many of the reporters’ confidential sources.

Wah!  When confidential sources violate national security, too bad.

In local news it snowed.  A lot.  Everywhere.  My kids are euphoric that they may have no school tomorrow.  I despair of making it up the hill to go to work unless they do serious deicing overnight.

Ken Schram the curmudgeon of talk radio was decidedly ungrumpy in his latest commentary about panhandlers.  Sometimes I can’t pin him down.  If he is at the KIRO Christmas party on Friday I may ask him about that. 

Yes, LSU has tickets. 

And the debate about the 6 Muslim Immans forced from the plane last week rages on with witnesses insisting they were not just praying.

I still suspect this was a staged stunt.

And finally in a study sure to invoke much er…debate, a female psychiatrist claims that women talk three times as much as men

I’m not saying a word.

Here are today’s funnies, courtesy of Charlie Rangel.

Crossposted to NW Bloggers