What the Danish and European media misunderstand (and misrepresent) about America, and vice versa. And other stuff.
Almost anywhere you look these days, you can see, hear, or read leftists saying that the state abortion restrictions resulting from the reversal of Roe v Wade will be harder on some identity groups than on others. Elizabeth Warren, for example, says that affluent women “will be fine.” She goes on: “But you know who…
It’s Friday and we’re hosting an overnight party for eleven 13-year-olds, so I won’t be opining on anything this evening. I just thought I’d leave this post here like this because this is what Danish coverage of America looks like when the international left wants to get a message out. DR TV2 BT Berlingske Politiken…
This is a tough post to write for two reasons. First, it’s just one more example of something I’ve chronicled many times already. Second, it makes me so angry I have to fall back on my Clemens quote: “A man can’t write successful satire unless he be in a calm judicial good humor,” [Clemens] remarked…
As of this writing, late on Friday afternoon, there’s still nothing on DR about Wednesday’s foiled assassination of Brett Kavanaugh. (But, as you can imagine, plenty of stuff on the star chamber show trial underway in Congress.) Nothing on TV2 News, either. Can’t find anything related to the story when using “Kavanaugh” and even “højesteret”…
There’s obviously been big news out of America since my last post, but believe it or not I’m not going to write about JD Vance having won the Repubican primary for the Ohio Senate. Instead I feel obliged to write about the other little story that broke Tuesday night: the leak of the Supreme Court’s…
At this point in the 2022 election cycle Democrats are mostly bracing for impact. By that I mean that their focus is not on retaining their slender majority in the House, but on “battlefield prep” to delegitimize the Republicans’ probable victory and cripple their legislative agenda. Their thinking, in other words, is that if you…
It has to be said over and over and over again: Amy Coney Barrett is going to be confirmed as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. The Constitution gives the president the power to nominate her, and it gives the Senate the power to approve her nomination. The president has nominated her and…
I’m registered to vote in New York, so my Senators are Chuck Schumer (currently the minority leader of the Senate) and this piece of work: Yes, that’s the junior Senator for New York, Kirsten Gillibrand, proudly (and “without evidence,” as the kids say) declaring Amy Coney Barrett unfit for office, and (also without evidence) calling…
There’s been a lot of Danish coverage of President Trump’s nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, and I obviously haven’t seen or read it all. But from what I have seen, the coverage isn’t surprising. We can start with a DR piece that’s pretty representative of the genre: Trumps kandidat til Højesteret…
All is transpiring as I foretold. Here’s a state-funded DR explainer of sorts, “Vejen er banet for Trumps næste højesteretsdommer: Mitt Romney slukker demokraternes håb.” It’s everything we’ve come to expect from state-funded journalism: it begins with an actual fact: Senator Mitt Romney has publicly declared he would not block a Trump nomination to the…
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died yesterday, Friday the 18th of September. Everybody you knew that was a Constitutional scholar back in January, an amateur microbiologist this spring, and an amateur sociologist and civil rights historian this summer will now astonish you with their command of judicial norms and precedents… their mastery of…
