Walter Cronkite: Trailblazer of Bias by Dan Gifford “Krankheit” in German is pronounced the same as the “Cronkite” following “Walter.” The German word means “sickness” while the “Walter” word means the man who infected TV news with the gazillion dollar-salary Star Anchor larger than the news he is supposed to be presenting. I don’t say […]

By Dan Gifford Since W.W.II weighs on our minds today, I thought it proper to mention a man who was largely responsible for our having the military gear to win it. The man in this photo I took as a kid in my Chapel Hill, North Carolina hometown is University of North Carolina (UNC) statistics […]

By Dan Gifford During the 5 years I sat on the ACLU Board, few laws used to excite my fellow members like gun control laws — especially ones that took an innovative approach to infringe on a right that says it “shall not be infringed.” To them, such laws were not only a middle finger […]

By Dan Gifford A vexing aspect of working in the entertainment media — at least for me — is keeping up with all the different social and political words and terms which seem to erupt overnight as either neologisms or new definitions of old practices. Those words and terms are important because, whether new or […]

By Dan Gifford First published in Firing Line Magazine   How I wish the answer to the above sub title question was “yes!” But my personal anecdotal experience in the wake of the 1965 Watts Riot, the 1968 Baltimore Riot following Martin Luther King’s murder and the 1992 Rodney King Riot say otherwise. Don’t misunderstand. […]

By Dan Gifford First published in Firing Line magazine Appeasement is the tactic of offering concessions to an aggressor in order to prevent attack. Problem is, the peace it brings is temporary. As Rudyard Kipling put it: ” … we’ve proved it again and again, That if once you have paid the Dane-geld You never […]

Superheroes Reflect Their Times Dan Gifford Jun 2010 When times get tough, the unsettled among us turn to fictionalized superheroes to vicariously battle the world’s uncertainties. They can even provide an example for turning the lemons in our personal lives into lemonade just as Bruce Wayne (Batman) and Tony Stark (Iron Man) did by turning […]

By Dan Gifford 22 May 2010 Robin Hood is back on the big screen in his umpteenth adaptation and he’s not only fighting social injustice by robbing the rich and giving to the poor, he’s fighting it by forcing English King John the cruel to sign the Magna Carta. More on that later. For now, […]

By Dan Gifford 3 Nov 2008 When Uncle Sam fought WWII, Hollywood backed him with patriotic movies and war bond drives and moral boosting celebrity appearances. When Uncle Sam fought Communists, Hollywood was a mixed bag. His GIs in Korea got support. His GIs in Vietnam, not so much, as some damned his war with […]

By Dan Gifford 20 Oct 2009 If the evil men do lives after them, the legacy of dishonesty, demagoguery and hypocrisy that Michael Moore has been enabled to legitimize in film and the body politic will endure for a long time after he quits making documentaries as he says he may. That hopefully means his […]

By Dan Gifford 2 Sep 2009 As Gloucester in Henry VI beguiled like the mournful crocodile, so the political praises and tears for the late Democratic Senator from Taxachusets mouthed by his enemies have diminished and signaled the time for candor. Teddy Kennedy was a cheat, a proven liar, a shameless demagogue and a probable […]

Walter Cronkite: Trailblazer of Bias by Dan Gifford “Krankheit” in German is pronounced the same as the “Cronkite” following “Walter.” The German word means “sickness” while the “Walter” word means the man who infected TV news with the gazillion dollar-salary Star Anchor larger than the news he is supposed to be presenting. I don’t say […]

By Dan Gifford 16 Jul 20090 Who says time travel isn’t possible? I spent 92 long minutes in Woody Allen’s cinematic wayback machine yesterday, reliving almost all the 60’s pseudo-psychoanalytic cultural neuroses, nihilism and negative leftist judgmental-stereotypes he popularized then that still have us on the couch and at each other’s throats. Allen wrote the […]

By Dan Gifford 22 Mar 20090 Breitbart.com Every time I have started to write a follow-up to last week’s piece about the evolving Jon Stewart, Rick Santelli, Jim Cramer CNBC massacre, new information that altered the narrative slid in over the transom. The newest part of that story comes from a self described progressive (leftist) […]

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