Watcher’s Council member Omri Ceren (aka Mere Rhetoric) gets a big fat honorable mention by Michelle Malkin for debunking CNN’s “Top Ten Faux Pas” video by putting into perspective the many “Faux Pas” that the CNN cheerleaders missed while laying tribute to their new master’s first 100 days in office.

CNN can’t count

By Michelle Malkin  •  April 29, 2009 12:39 PM

Omri Ceren takes a look at CNN’s tally of Obama’s gaffes and finds — surprise! — that there are many, many items missing.

Here is a taste of Omri’s great post:

A perennial debate for conservative media critics: does the left enforce its increasingly tenuous hold over the airwaves by framing stories in a worshipful pro-Obama way or by using their gate-keeping privileges to ignore inconvenient stories? There’s plenty of evidence for both theories. And every time you think it’s leaning one way – say, the media’s embarrassing slobbering over Obama’s 100 days…

Obama worship, complete with halo images, has been noted before here on NewsBusters but it was nothing compared to current expressions in awe of The One as we approach his hundreth day in office on Wednesday. Matching the theme of “The Truth” painting is Joe Klein singing 100 day mark praises (while excoriating the “satanic” George W. Bush) of his beloved Barack… Chris Matthews, should audition to sing I Don’t Know Why Why I Love Him to the tune of I Don’t Know How To Love Him from Jesus Christ Superstar to serenade “The Truth” painting when it is unveiled at Union Square on Wednesday.

… something like this comes out and tilts the debate the other way. Here’s what CNN thinks were Obama’s “Top Ten Faux Pas” during the first 100 days. The list is, on the whole, aggressively stupid:

Read the whole great article here. Congrats Omri!!

I wanted to send out a quick note to inform our readers that Watcher’s Council member Rob Miller (aka. Joshua Pundit) has been published at American Thinker!!

The subject of Rob’s article is the “torture memo” controversy of which the MoveOn.org/George Soros crowd has been fanning the flames.

Here is an excerpt:

Amidst the huge controversy surrounding the story on the so-called torture memos, the bedrock issues are being almost entirely ignored in favor of political theater. And the potential for harm is enormous.

After promising not to indulge in revenge politics like some downscale banana republic after a change in leadership, President Obama suddenly decided to do exactly that, opening the way for prosecution of Bush Administration officials based on the release of some previously classified memos regarding what are referred to as ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ like waterboarding.

This is something new in American politics, something we haven’t seen before. Even after the Civil War and Lincoln’s assassination, Jefferson Davis was never tried for treason and got off with a short spell of imprisonment at Fort Monroe. Former Union Army officers who fought on the rebel side like Robert E. Lee or James Longstreet were never even tried or imprisoned at all, and even a revenge crazed Congress under control of the Radical Republicans never considered it.

The council would like to congratulate Rob on his insightful article. Please visit American Thinker and join in on the debate!

All the best – The Watcher

Watcher of Weasels and the Watchers Council welcomes Wolf Howling back to the fold after a long unforeseen hiatus. Veteran readers will be familiar with Wolf’s biting commentary. (click square for rim shot please, couldn’t help myself).

On that same note we’d like to wish luck and weasel free good fortune to Laer Pearce at Cheat-Seeking Missiles. Laer is leaving the council to concentrate on some exciting new work. Please make sure to visit CSM on a daily basis to get your USRDA of commentary that will continue to expose weasels and put a spotlight on media bias as seen through the eyes of a Navy brat, journalist and ex-liberal!

These changes leave open one council spot for a dedicated author that is not afraid to seek out and expose the truth about the weasels of the world! Please contact me if you have a body of work and would like to be considered for a spot on the Watchers’ Council.

Please join me in welcoming Right Truth as the newest member to the Watcher’s Council.

Debbie Hamilton rounds out the required 12 member council with her insights on politics, religion, history and the military.

Please visit all our member blogs and send your friends our way as we continue to search for the best, most informative articles discussing that which is important to America and the world.

Regards,
The Watcher