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Whoopi Goldberg: Communism Is 'a Great Concept' That 'Makes Perfect Sense' on Paper

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:45:00 +0000

Scott Whitlock

According to The View's Whoopi Goldberg, communism is a "great concept" that "makes perfect sense" on paper. The comedienne and co-host made the rather astounding comment on Tuesday while discussing the death of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il.

Double Standard: 'Enigmatic' North Korean 'Rulers,' but Right-Wing 'Dictators' Use 'Terror'

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:06:00 +0000

Can we declare a moratorium? December 17, 2011 web headline: "Kim Jong-il, North Korea's Enigmatic Strongman. A July 10, 1994 headline: "Kim Il Sung, Enigmatic 'Great Leader' of North Korea for 5 Decades, Dies at 82."

Clay Waters

Can we declare a moratorium on using the word 'enigmatic' to describe North Korea's totalitarian leadership?

The death of the North Korea dictator Kim Jong-il made the late edition of the Monday New York Times. The obituary by veteran foreign policy reporter David Sanger appeared under the rather neutral online headline 'A Ruler Who Turned North Korea Into a Nuclear State.'

Flashback: Ted Turner Dismissed Threat of Brutal Kim Jong Il: 'Didn't Look' Evil

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 20:42:00 +0000

Scott Whitlock

Will the death of despotic dictator Kim Jong Il lead to less pandering and naive reporting on North Korea? Not if the past is any indicator. On September 19, 2005, CNN founder Ted Turner appeared on his own network to credulously insist that Kim "didn't look" evil. Turner proclaimed, "...He didn't look too much different than most other people." [MP3 audio here.]

Time Life Photographer: Kim Jong Il's Cult Like Bush's 'Very Controlled' White House

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:56:00 +0000

Scott Whitlock

A newly posted Time Life magazine photo montage showcased pictures of North Korea and touted photographer Christopher Morris comparing brutal dictator Kim Jong Il to the "very controlled environment" of George W. Bush's White House.

Bob Woodruff's Hard-Hitting Expose of North Korea: New Dictator Likes Michael Jordan

Mon, 11 Oct 2010 21:16:00 +0000

Scott Whitlock

Granted exclusive access to North Korea, Good Morning America's Bob Woodruff on Monday informed viewers that the incoming leader, Kim Jong Un, is

Let's Pick Another Metaphor, Shall We?

admin — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:21:00 +0000

"[Bruce Cumings] mows down a host of myths about the war in his short new book, which is a distillation of his own scholarship and that of many other historians. But he begins by mowing down David Halberstam." Halberstam died in a car wreck in 2007.

Clay Waters

On Thursday Dwight Garner favorably reviewed a new book of revisionist history, "The Korean War" by left-wing University of Chicago history professor Bruce Cumings, which "puts the reflexive anti-Americanism of North Korea's leaders into sympathetic historical context." Garner is a reliable fan of books from controversial left-wing historians.

Better Off Red?

kristine.lawrence — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:57:11 +0000

Twenty Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall, Recalling the Liberal Media's Blindness to the Evils of Communism

Rich Noyes

Scott Whitlock

Megan McCormack

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The Incredible Disappearing Nobel Prize-Winner

admin — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:43:57 +0000

Dan Kennedy

Where is Al Gore?

I’ve clipped and accumulated about a hundred news articles, decreasing in size and moving further back in the pages week to week, about the first political hostages of the Obama administration, the two reporters who work for Al Gore’s TV network. They were captured, held hostage, fake-tried and sentenced to 12 years in a labor camp in North Korea.

Right-Wing Gen. Pinochet's a Tyrant; Communist Kim Jong-il a "Tyrant"

admin — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:17:00 +0000

Clay Waters

Foreign policy David Sanger wrote Sunday on the intelligence community's tactical reactions to developments in North Korea involving dictator Kim Jong-il, who apparently suffered a stroke in August that's left him incapacitated and his nuclear arsenal under even more scrutiny ("We May Miss Kim Jong-il (and Maybe Musharraf)."

"Conservative Hard-Liners" vs. North Korea

admin — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:15:00 +0000

Helene Cooper slants her story on liberal State Department diplomacy's triumph in North Korea over Dick Cheney's "hard-line" approach.

Clay Waters

In "Bush Rebuffs Hard-Liners To Ease North Korean Curbs," Friday's off-lead story on the supposed triumph of liberal-style State Department "diplomacy" over Dick Cheney's "hard-line conservative" style, reporter Helene Cooper twice echoed the headline's slanted characterization of conservative opponents of engagement with the dictatorship of North Korea.

Still Strangely Soft on North Korea's Dictatorship

admin — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:32:00 +0000

"The new South Korean policy, outlined by the new president, Lee Myung-bak, means at least a temporary reduction in generous South Korean economic aid at a dire time for the North..." No mention of why the warped North Korean state might need economic aid in the first place.

Clay Waters

The paper's strangely soft coverage of North Korea's tyrannical state continued in Thursday's report by Choe Sang-Hun from Seoul, "South Korea Adds Terms For Its Aid To the North," chastisi

Bolton: 'No Doubt' North Korea Would Try To Sell Nuke To Al-Qaida

admin — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:02:31 +0000

Jeff Poor

North Korea poses a potential deadly threat to the United States, according to former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton. Bolton told an audience on March 11 that North Korea would sell nuclear technology to terrorist organizations, specifically Al-Qaida, given the opportunity.

Dictatorships Like North Korea Merely "In Disfavor with the U.S."?

admin — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:18:00 +0000

American the bully boy? "China had the dubious distinction of being lumped in one section of the report alongside a number of governments that are in disfavor with the United States." Such "disfavored" nations include the tyrannical North Korea.

Clay Waters

The annual State Department report on human rights worldwide finds Helene Cooper in a familiar place - criticizing Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ("U.S. Releases Rights Report, With an Acknowledgement").

Dangerous Japanese "Right Wingers" vs. North Korean "Leader" Kim Jong-il

admin — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 17:09:00 +0000

"Right-wing" Japanese critics of North Korea insist on making a big deal about that little abduction-of-its-citizens thing. Scary!

Clay Waters

Asia-based correspondent Norimitsu Onishi doesn't seem to appreciate criticism of the unhinged dictatorship of North Korea, whether it's coming from Christian conservatives or even North Korea defectors.

Dictatorships and Double Standards in the Times

admin — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:25:00 +0000

"Brutal dictator" Pinochet vs. "grandfatherly" North Korean dictator Kim Il Sung.

Clay Waters

"Augusto Pinochet, 91, Dictator Who Ruled by Terror in Chile, Dies" reads the headline to Jonathan Kandell's front-page obituary today for the Chilean ruler. A related editorial calls Pinochet "The Dextrous Dictator" (perhaps a play on words, as the Latin root of dextrous is dexter, meaning "on the right side," hardy har har).