What the Danish and European media misunderstand (and misrepresent) about America, and vice versa. And other stuff.
In an article published this morning, Danmarks Radio (DR) makes an interesting accusation against Donald Trump: At no point during his speech did Trump give concrete examples of his accusations against Biden. Nor did he at any time give examples or evidence of his other assertions, such as the persecution of Christians by democrats. That’s…
The Danish government is willfully misleading the citizens of Denmark about America. So are most of the privately owned Danish news media, but privately owned companies are entitled to be as biased as they want. Steffen Kretz is the U.S. correspondent for the taxpayer-funded, state-controlled media Danmarks Radio (DR). I’ve chronicled his bias, misperceptions, misrepresentations,…
I like Ron DeSantis. I think he has the most principled and consistent approach to politics of any major figure in America right now, but that may just because he seems to be only one operating by principle instead of going whichever way the wind blows. His competence is also refreshing. Berlingske Tidende’s editorial board…
An opinion piece in Berlingske Tidende on Sunday raises some interesting questions about the future of the war in Ukraine, some of which are stated directly and some of which are merely implied. Will we still say “Slava Ukraini” if the US pulls the plug?Adam Holm, Berlingske.dk, May 21 The subhead or lede of the…
Everybody run, the Dread Tyrant Trump has been handed a gun! Thanks to the Durham report released earlier this week, we now know that the “Russia collusion” accusations against Donald Trump were a fabrication—a lie—engineered by the Hillary Clinton campaign and dutifully leveraged by partisans within America’s law enforcement and intelligence agencies and ultimately enflamed…
Tom Jensen is the editor in chief of Berlingske Tidende. He uses a column on its editorial pages as his “center-right” (borgerlig) newsletter. I’ve covered some of his previous “newsletters” in the past. Have you almost forgotten about the war in Ukraine? Be careful with thatTom Jensen, Berlingske.dk, April 27 The upshot of this one…
I was surprised to see that as of 7:00 this morning, there was only one article on DR.dk having to do with yesterday’s arraignment of former U.S. President Donald Trump in New York. Then, suddenly, by 7:15 there were four. The top of their website looked like this: In English: Trump tore into everything from…
The coverage is everywhere. So are the hot takes. I have no coverage to offer and I don’t do hot takes. A New York grand jury indicted Donald Trump yesterday and the indictment is sealed. That means we don’t know what he’s been charged with. We’re told that Trump’s attorneys have been in communication with…
(I’m back after a week off including a few glorious days in Tallinn, Estonia. There’ll be an article about that trip over on Nagan of Copenhagen soon, if it’s not already there.) We begin (as one must) with disclaimers, disclosures, confessions, and context. I’m grateful for a lot of the things Donald Trump was able…
The headlines aren’t splashy. DanmarksRadio (DR): Biden after find of secret papers: “I don’t know what’s in them.” Berlingske (using Ritzau): Find of secret papers at previous office surprises Biden TV2 News (using Ritzau): Find of secret papers at previous office surprises Biden Politiken (using Ritzau): Secret Papers from Biden’s time as vice-president found in…
Danish winters are surprisingly mild, weather-wise. I grew up in New York and New England, spent two college years in Pittsburgh, and lived five years in both Chicago and New York City. I know how cruel winter can be. Danish winters aren’t cruel. But they’re dark and they’re gloomy. On days like today, when the…
First things first: I’m not gonna lie to you—that’s what my journal’s for—the American midterms pissed me off. Conditions could not have been much better for Republicans to take a huge majority in the House and a safe majority in the Senate, thereby putting a brake on the Democrats’ insane agenda. They did neither. As…
This morning—not much more than 24 hours before polling places open in America—Berlingske published a signed editorial entitled “Berlingske believes: The USA is in a death-spiral of mistrust.” There’s plenty of empirical data to support that premise. I touched on a lot of it yesterday and on Friday. Berlingske’s lede states things pretty plainly: The United…
AUDIO NOTE: It’s a long post, today, and therefore a long audio. To save myself some time I did most of it in one take. It’s therefore bubbling over with mispronunciations, self-corrections, improvised riffs, and random musings that aren’t found in the text below. So it’s messy but fun. All you lurkers who come around…
I just want to lay down a marker: my advance transcript, posted hours before the transcript was even released yesterday, nailed it. Here’s the real transcript from the New York Times. Compare and contrast—and marvel at my powers of precognition. Which I had thought was just satire. I never would have imagined Biden’s handlers would…
Let’s start with a some textual analysis. Here’s the text: What we’re seeing now is the beginning or the death knell of an extreme MAGA philosophy. It’s not just Trump, it’s the entire philosophy that underpins the—I’m going to say something, it’s like semi-fascism. Those words were spoken by Joe Biden at a fundraiser in…
Back on August 9th I wrote about the raid on Mar-A-Lago. The words “banana republic” don’t appear in the post, but I did make a cute banana republic flag for the featured image: When you have armed federal investigators swarm the private home of an ex-president who happens to be one of your loudest and…
Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton deleted confidential emails from the illegal server maintained at her private New York residence. Former National Security Adviser Sandy Berger was caught smuggling stolen documents from the National Archives by stuffing them into his clothes. President Joe Biden has been heavily implicated in the emails discovered on the laptop of his…
