Comments on: L.A. Times to Readers: You Can’t Handle the Truth! (But a Judge Can, Apparently)

By: Cato

Cato — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 01:47:29 +0000

Patterico, if you’re really committed to the prosecutor’s responsibility to seek the truth why not ask why the Las Vegas homicide detectives haven’t done shit about investigating the Tupac homicide?

Oh, that’s right. You’re the all-knowing corrector of LA Times abuses. Infallible and followed by the same ditto- [aka dunder- ] heads as Slush Limpbaw.

The fact that you never talk about how the media, including the Times, serves the purposes of the police and DA’s office demonstrates YOUR BIAS.

By: A,

A, — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 05:39:25 +0000

Good thing we have you to provide the racist perspective that we just don’t get enough of in our L.A. newspapers. By the way, Patrick, what percentage of those whom you prosecuted in the D.A’s office were African American?

By: Another Drew

Another Drew — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:00:43 +0000

Comment by Mike K — 12/11/2008 @ 8:50 am

…and made a fortune treating the self-obsessed products of the 60′s.

By: Mike K

Mike K — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:50:51 +0000

The article also points out that medical schools admit more music majors than any other major except pre-med. My class, which began in 1962, had two music majors, one of whom had never taken a pre-med class. The story doesn’t have a happy ending, though. They both became psychiatrists.

By: Another Drew

Another Drew — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:36:16 +0000

Mike K…
Interesting post on that China music instruction.
When I was doing my upper-division work after leaving the service, some of us were talking about applying with various gov agencies, and it came up that the CIA/NSA was looking for musicians with math backgrounds (or was that math majors with a musical background? No matter) – they made excellent code breakers.

By: Mike K

Mike K — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:08:12 +0000

That “ethics” bill was passed unanimously. That should tell you something about it.

I had a somewhat similar experience taking computer science courses at the local junior college in 1995 after I retired. The semester would begin with a full classroom. By mid-term exams, half the class would be gone. It was less apparent at night, as you point out. By the end of the term, there would be five or six of us left. All but one or two would be over 50. The night classes were not only less subject to attrition, the instructors were better.

I am already regretting sending my daughter to a four year university for her first two years. Junior college core courses are not as politically correct.

By: Baxter Greene

Baxter Greene — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:15:57 +0000

I’m kind of sympathetic to these fools at the Times but they also support the teachers’ unions that have dumbed down our population. This is just one indicator.

The last generation of readers is getting old. Maybe they figured nobody would read the story once it got complicated.

Comment by Mike K — 12/11/2008 @ 5:49 am

Good point.

I worked during the day and got my college education at night(double major in computer information/Business).One clear advantage to going
at night was being in class with the actual workforce in the area you were studying for.
At the time,companies were offering between 4 and 7 dollars a line for code.(by the time I graduated,it had fallen to $1.00)
within the 4 1/2 years I went,the Asian,Pakistani,and people from India were taking more and more of these courses/degrees.
Working side by side with them came to be an eye opening humiliation.
They were light years ahead of almost everyone else in class.
I knew then that our standards and how high we set the bar education wise was nowhere near many other countries.We are spoiled.We have had it to easy to long.

On the embarrassing bias and idiocy of the press,
look at this breakdown of the last few days concerning the whitewash of Obama by his democratic activists friends that like to call themselves “journalist”:

(via instapundit)
Surprise! Stories Noting Obama-Blagojevich Meetings Disappear Down Memory Hole
http://jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com/2008/12/surprise-stories-noting-obama.html
Now you see it!

Change!

Just imagine the howls if a media outlet published a story potentially damaging to George W. Bush and a month later it disappeared.

Look at this unbelievable a$$ kissing drivel by the NYtimes:

Oh, and if you had any doubt the media wouldn’t go to any lengths to help carry water for The Messiah, this should put that to rest:

Obama’s Effort on Ethics Bill Had Role in Governor’s Fall

In a sequence of events that neatly captures the contradictions of Barack Obama’s rise through Illinois politics, a phone call he made three months ago to urge passage of a state ethics bill indirectly contributed to the downfall of a fellow Democrat he twice supported, Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich.

So Obama possesses such mystical powers, an innocuous phone call of three months ago greased the skids for his pal Blagojovich.

This is one he!! of an echo chamber these idiots have themselves in.

By: Mike K

Mike K — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:49:42 +0000

The truth is so complicated that comic strips seem much easier to understand. Some of this is the education system we have now. Have any of you read college freshman essays ? I'm kind of sympathetic to these fools at the Times but they also support the teachers' unions that have dumbed down our population. This is just one indicator. The last generation of readers is getting old. Maybe they figured nobody would read the story once it got complicated.

By: Baxter Greene

Baxter Greene — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:29:29 +0000

Could this countries press be anymore pathetic.
Watching the press spinning,defending,and kissing Obama’s a$$ on top of stories like this make me want to puke.

Welcome to Pravda West.

By: howard432

howard432 — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:48:35 +0000

I smell another downsizing at the LAT. It just doesn’t seem to dawn on any of the hermetically sealed LAT left and liberal bosses that people won’t knowingly buy falsehoods, lies, or deceptions.