Category Archives: Journalism

O.J.-Like Evidence Convicts Noxious Knox

Crime, Europe, Journalism, Justice, Law, Media, Sex

The excerpt is from my new, WND.COM, December 11 column, “O.J.-Like Evidence Convicts Noxious Knox.”:

“Oblivious to the cameras—or perhaps for them—Amanda Knox (22) and Raffaele Sollecito (25) exchanged a slow, sensual kiss in full view of world media. Not far from where the two kissed lay the body of Meredith Kercher, the English girl with whom Knox had shared student accommodation in Perugia, Italy. Her throat slit, Meredith had expired in slow agony.”

“The kinky canoodling of Knox and her paramour outside the house of horrors conjured the climactic moment in the film noir ‘The Comfort of Strangers.'”

“Christopher Walken and Helen Mirren play an older couple (Robert and Caroline) who live in a palazzo in Venice. They gain the trust of the vacationing Mary and Colin (played by the late Natasha Richardson and Rupert Everett), a young English couple. As Colin sips a cocktail with Robert at the latter’s Venetian residence, Robert suddenly and swiftly (as planned) moves to cut Colin’s throat. He then steps over his gurgling victim and the gushing blood to engage in frenzied sex with his eager wife Caroline.”

“The two have fulfilled a shared fantasy. …”

THE COMPLETE COLUMN, starting with the kiss of death, is now on can be read on Friday, on ilanamercer.com

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Updated: Christmas Appeal

Ilana Mercer, IlanaMercer.com, Journalism

My mother was saying, “Do you remember the post you wrote in May of 2006 titled ‘Holland Keeps Afloat; Why Can’t New Orleans?’? Well, Time magazine has finally caught up with you. In November of 2009, Time ran an article with a similar theme.”

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Merry Christmas and a happy Hanukah,
ILANA

Hanging with mom

Update (Dec. 14): Bar those few faithful souls whose commitment to my causes I appreciate more than they know, I’m afraid the response to our Christmas appeal has been poor.

Those of you who have my P.O. Box are welcome to use it (and keep it private).

What are you supporting? A marginalized voice that beats most well-funded group thinkers out there in coverage and commentary.

On the topic of those fattened collectivists: Neil Cavuto has begun, lately (on December 11, 2009, to be precise), to cover the discrepancy between the respective incomes of workers employed in the private vs. the parasitical sector. Cavuto got his column “idea” from USA-Today data.

I beat both entities to it.

Let’s see, when was my “Life in the Oink Sector” written? September 25, 2009. That column was cited by the New York Times’ “Economix” blog. Needless to say, the Times would have never ever bothered to apprise its readers of the cost “of these pampered pigs”:

“There are upward of 20 million of these pampered pigs, hogging 87,000 different institutions in government and public education, where the payrolls are always lard-laden in comparison to private-economy paysheets.”

Ultimately, what neither the Times nor Cavuto will ever do for you is speak to the economic-cum-moral principles that differentiate the voluntary sector from the work force that uses FORCE to keep itself larded up.

Updated: What? Southern Rubes Aren’t Racists After All?

Journalism, Left-Liberalism And Progressivisim, Media, Propaganda, Race, Racism

The excerpt is from my new, WND.COM column, “What? Southern Rubes Aren’t Racists After All?”:

“… It is one thing for a starlet like Janeane Garofalo to defame tea party attendees as ‘a bunch of teabagging rednecks,’ and accuse men and women she knows nothing about of ‘hating a black man in the White House,’ and harboring unadulterated racism. It’s quite another matter for cable-network anchors to parrot the loopy lady’s lines.

Nevertheless, ape they did.

So it was that thought-crime investigator Keith Olbermann broke news on his MSNBC nightly show. With his most solemn, commissar-like countenance, Keith informed his viewers, matter-of-fact, that the intensity of the animosity toward Barack Obama is based on his being a black man. …

No wonder, then, that the malign men and women of MSNBC pointedly failed to report conclusive findings to the contrary.

A progressive research group—among whose stars is Democratic political consultant and prominent clintonista (now Obamaniac) James Carville—discovered that when it comes to their assumptions about older, white, Southern Republicans, the cable quislings had been wrong all along. …”

The complete column is “What? Southern Rubes Aren’t Racists After All?” Miss the weekly column on WND.COM? Be sure to catch it on Taki’s Magazine on the weekend.

Update: (Nov. 6) HOLLYWOOD’S HATEFUL HOOEY ABOUT THE SOUTH is not limited to HOLLYWOOD’S. Many Southerners have internalized the stereotype.

Updated: What? Southern Rubes Aren't Racists After All?