This was pretty damned stupid: China’s ambassador to Canada called the Dalai Lama a liar Wednesday and said it is irresponsible for people to criticize China’s record on human rights. In a rare news conference at his embassy, Lu Shumin defended the Chinese military’s crackdown on Tibetan protesters that has brought calls for a boycott of this summer’s Olympic Games in Beijing. “The Dalai Lama has presented himself to be

Then I came across what in my view is the single most biased and dishonest public opinion survey I’ve ever seen. CBS News released a poll that read, “Most voters following the events regarding Senator (STET) Barack Obama and Rev. (STET) Jeremiah Wright think Obama’s speech was a success.” This lead sentence in the press release appeared in media outlets all over the world. It gave the impression that Obama’s

TPM’s Greg Sargent is among those printing a supposedly “private” letter from Hillary Clinton’s big donors to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, criticizing her public suggestions that superdelegates should support the winner of the pledged delegate count and demanding that she “clarify” her coments and ” a more open view” toward the “independent” choices of superdelegates. Meanwhile, undecided and pledged superdelegates are being turned off by Clinton’s bogus claims about being under sniper fire in Bosnia and

Patterico has the story.

I’m currently reading Hendrix: Setting the Record Straight, by John McDermott with Eddie Kramer.  Hendrix fans will know Kramer as his longtime engineer and the main architect of Hendrix’s studio sound.  I recommend it for both fans and those interested in learning about one of the most important figures in musical history.  It combines a history of the development of Hendrix as a business commodity with some great tidbits about his personal

TNR’s Obama-friendly Noam Scheiber thinks it is time to toss Air Force Gen. Merrill A. McPeak (Ret.) off the campaign plane (figuratively), with his now-publicized claim that Jews in New York City and Miami were preventing the Israelis and “Palestinians” from making peace as the final straw.  (Public opinion polls show broad support for Israel, but I digress.)  The Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder sees it as a case more like the pastor John

Incredible file footage of Hillary Clinton braving terrorist carnage in the sniperiest spot on earth. Must see. Actor who prefigured Heath Ledger dies: Richard Widmark, who made a sensational film debut as the giggling killer in “Kiss of Death” and became a Hollywood leading man in “Broken Lance,” “Two Rode Together” and 40 other films, has died after a long illness. He was 93. Transport for cleavage criticizes Clinton.

Jeremiah Wright is now the moral equivalent of David Duke? He asks, incredulously. Yes, Andrew, he is, only with more anti-Americanism. He’s just as racist, if that’s what you mean. However dim a view you take of some of Wright’s rhetorical excesses, and I’m not defending them, to compare a man whose church has such a long history of social work, black self-help, outreach to people with HIV, and inclusion

Liberal revanchism: Republicans are no longer denying the scientific basis for global warming. That’s good news for those of us who have grown accustomed to the continued existence of things like polar sea ice, various forms of life, and Miami. The bad news is that Republicans, having seen the light, have fallen back on the possibly even more annoying stance of simply refusing to do anything about the problem. Too

totally into Meghan McCain? (h/t Hot Air) Here’s the most recent post from her website: Chelsea Clinton on Monica Lewinsky Bet it’s a P-Shop.