Evangeliet ifølge Dooley

I’m old enough to remember when quarterback Tim Tebow took a lot of crap for kneeling during NFL football games.  Not during the national anthem, but whenever.  He was mocked for being just a little too religious on the field for people’s liking.   It may or may not have had something to do with his…

Høitider for Herman Cain

“Don’t speak ill of the dead” used to be a thing.  So did “Black lives matter.” Not at Berlingske, however.  Not anymore, at least: “Kendt Trump-støtte fornægtede farligheden i coronavirus. Så slog den ham ihjel.” The “så” is a nice touch: is it the adverbial form meaning “then,” or is it being used as a…

Formørkende forklaringer

Another day ending in -y, another Danish media “explainer” piece to help ensure the perpetual befuddlement of Denmark on all things American. This time it’s my old employer, the ostensibly “borgerlig” Berlingske. “FBI, coronavirus og kongresmedlemmer: Sådan vokser konspirationsteorierne i USA.”  It caught my eye because I thought someone at Berlingske was on the ball. …

Nå, videre…

This blog is still in its early days.  It’s still officially pre-launch.  One of my goals has been to post frequently and with a good mix of post length, depth, and seriousness.  I haven’t been good about that. I was about to go into a long-winded aside on why I haven’t, when a little alarm…

Videnskabsfornægtelse

In the course of another post I mentioned that for all the academic studies on police shootings, not a single one has shown a correlation between race and the likelihood of being shot by a cop. What’s interesting (and by “interesting” I mean “disgusting”) is that rather than allowing the record to be corrected with…

En anden hund gør

The Mollie Hemingway article that triggered my previous post lays out a lot of facts, many of them recent, that the Danish media—like the American media—still don’t seem interested in reporting. In a July 27 column from The Hill (“More willful blindness by the media on spying by Obama administration“), Jonathan Turley makes a similar…

Hundene der ikke gør

The almost exclusively one-sided nature of American political coverage by Danish media shouldn’t only concern Danish or American conservatives.  Anybody interested in the truth should be concerned when only one side of every story is told. If all you ever hear about American politics, government, culture, and economics is stuff that reflects well on the…

DRs rene propaganda (fortsat)

Given how long it took me to work through the headline of this piece from DR, I’m going to try to tighten things up as I turn to the content. Emphasis on try. In the opening section, on Beyoncé’s “Formation”: “Orkanen [Katrina] påvirkede især boligområder i New Orleans, Louisiana, med en overvejende sort befolkning, der…

DRs rene propaganda

An article appeared on the DR homepage on the 14th of July with the following headline: “Troede du Black Lives Matter-kampen var ny? Her er 13 numre, du skal høre for at forstå den sorte frihedskamp.” We need a simple word or phrase for things that are done carelessly and thoughtlessly on the basis of…

Ur posten

This is the Ur post, a post I’ll refer people back to for the basics of what this blog is about and who I am. What this blog is about I’d like to offer Danes an alternative point of view on American phenomena.  That raises the obvious question: “Alternative to what?”  The answer is: just…