Council News:
This week, The Pirate's Cove, Wolf Howling, Simply Jews and Seraphic Secret earned honorable mention status with some great articles.
You can, too! Want to see your work appear on the Watcher’s Council homepage in our weekly contest listing? Didn’t get nominated by a Council member? No worries.
To bring something to my attention, simply head over to Joshuapundit and post the title and a link to the piece you want considered along with an e-mail address (mandatory, but of course it won't be published) in the comments section no later than Monday 6PM PST in order to be considered for our honorable mention category. Then return the favor by creating a post on your site linking to the Watcher’s Council contest for the week when it comes out on Wednesday morning
Simple, no?
It's a great way of exposing your best work to Watcher’s Council readers and Council members while grabbing the increased traffic and notoriety. And how good is that, eh?
So, let's see what we have for you this week....
Council Submissions
- Don Surber – Stephanopoulos made the Clinton Foundation dirty
- The Noisy Room – Di Blasio's "Contract For Communism"
- Joshuapundit-Ramadi Falls To ISIS In A Major Victory - And Why It's Important
- The Razor – Islamic State a Leftist Nightmare
- The Right Planet – How Democrats ‘Celebrate’ Memorial Day
- Bookworm Room – Feminist claims that bad consensual sex equals rape victimize women just as surely as the McMartin trials victimized children
- GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – Angels Of Palestine
- VA Right! - Bill Janis Unleashes the Flying Monkeys!
- The Independent Sentinel – Words Matter: Michelle Obama Refers to the US as a Constitutional Democracy at Oberlin
- The Glittering Eye -They Wrote What They Saw, Memorial Day, 2015
- Nice Deb – Ralph Peters: Release of Bin Laden Docs Timed To Divert Attention From Ramadi Embarrassment
- Ask Marion – EPA Supports Monsanto Roundup
- Rhymes With Right – Be Kind To Wheelchairs
Honorable Mentions
- The Pirate's Cove - People Very Upset Over Gentrification In San Francisco’s Mission District
- Wolf Howling - The Left's New Definition Of Racism And Rape
- Simply Jews - On some peculiarities of Russian political discourse
- Seraphic Secret - Obama's Jews -FOX News
Non-Council Submissions
- Washington Post – Save Obama (On Trade) submitted by Don Surber
- Mark Steyn –Nothing Another 42,000 Airstrikes Can't Fix submitted by The Noisy Room
- Sultan Knish – De-Islamization Is The Only Way To Fight ISIS submitted by Joshuapundit
- Walter Russell Mead/Via Meadia –Obama, Anti-Semitism and Iran submitted by The Razor
- The People's Cube – Stages of the Progressive Agenda submitted by The Right Planet
- Quin Hillyer/NRO-At Sea in an Alien Culture, Where ‘Normal’ Is Defined as ‘Deviant’ submitted by Bookworm Room
- The Daily Beast – With Help From ISIS, a More Deadly Boko Haram Makes a Comeback submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
- TeaParty.Org – Pamela Geller Plans Muhammad Cartoon Bus Ads for Washington D.C. submitted by VA Right!
- Ammoland –Barack 'Climate Change' Obama submitted by The Independent Sentinel
- Walter Russell Mead/The National Interest – Obama, Anti-Semitism and Iran submitted by The Glittering Eye
- Victor Davis Hanson -Disasters At Home And Abroad submitted by Nice Deb
- Reclaim Our Republic -MB Obama Amnesty BLOCKED AGAIN – Australia Considers Tougher Citizenship Tests submitted by Ask Marion
- Robert Tracinski/The Federalist – Why Does the Left Kowtow to Islam? submitted by The Watcher
- NewsBusters – Bob Woodward: Wrong, Bush Did Not Lie Us Into Iraq submitted by The Watcher
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http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/174826/survey-nprs-listeners-best-informed-fox-news-viewers-worst-informed/
ReplyDeletePeople who watch MSNBC and CNN exclusively can answer more questions about domestic events than people who watch no news at all. People who only watch Fox did much worse. NPR listeners answered more questions correctly than people in any other category.
http://www.examiner.com/article/study-shows-fox-news-viewers-less-informed-than-those-who-watch-no-news
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2011/11/21/fox-news-viewers-uninformed-npr-listeners-not-poll-suggests/
And my side of the aisle can "prove" just the opposite, using PEW Research "http://cfif.org/v/index.php/commentary/54-state-of-affairs/642-survey-says-liberals-stingier-stupider-than-conservatives."
Deleteand, again here: "http://www.people-press.org/2012/04/11/what-the-public-knows-about-the-political-parties/"
The report says this: "Republicans fare substantially better than Democrats on several questions in the survey, as is typically the case in surveys about political knowledge. The largest gaps are in awareness of which party is more supportive of reducing the size and scope of the federal government (30 points) and which party is more conservative (28 points).
Republicans also are 21 percentage points more likely than Democrats to know that the GOP is more supportive of drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. [...]
Republicans also are more familiar with the partisan affiliation of two leading Democrats – one from the present, Nancy Pelosi, and one from the past, Franklin Roosevelt. Three-quarters (75%) of Republicans know that Pelosi is a Democrat, compared with 59% of Democrats. And while 73% of Republicans identify FDR as a Democrat, just 58% of Democrats do so.
Independents also are less knowledgeable than Republicans about the parties’ positions on a number of issues and the affiliation of some political leaders. Notably, independents (71%) are less likely than Republicans (85%) or Democrats (84%) to know that John F. Kennedy was a Democrat.