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Fasten your seat belts, Breitbart promises MSM a bumpy week
2009-09-21 08:36:00
Those who read conservative (and libertarian) blogs know by now, Andrew Breitbart, who through his BigGovernment.com website released the videos which drew the corruption at ACORN to the attention of the nation, says we should preepare for a ?blockbuster? ?from left field? next week. Patterico thinks it will involve the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) ...
Sign of the Times
2009-09-20 23:59:00
(Via Ed Driscoll.)
Reducing media bias through regulation ¦ Vox [del.icio.us]
2009-09-18 14:22:00
[W]e show how advertising can seriously interfere with the quality, accuracy, and breadth of content and programming in the media (Ellman and Germano 2009). Biased content is most likely when competition amongst media outlets is limited or when advertisers are large and can threaten to withdraw their advertising business from the media. The analysis extends to media dependence on any business or state actors that can substantially affect media company profits. Analysing the delicate interaction between advertisers, financiers, media outlets, and media audiences within a two-sided markets framework generates new insights for policymakers. Our work points to the need for independent media and makes the case for promoting competition and public funding.
Of New Jersey and Nutjobs
2009-09-18 01:27:00
Finding a “remarkable level of anger toward Barack Obama in a lot of our recent polling so for New Jersey,” Tom Jensen writes that his outfit Public Policy Polling “decided to go a step further in determining how extreme some people’s feelings are about the President and asked respondents if they think he is the ...
ABCNews Joins Carter in accusing Obamacare Opponents of Racism
2009-09-18 00:59:00
The worst President in U.S History (well at least since the Civil War), perhaps the only U.S. President since the Civil Rights movement to have won an election by making explicitly racist appeals to white voters, is once again accusing of Obama critics of racism,  He does realize that if he wants anyone to pay ...
Doctors Overwhelming Oppose Obamacare
2009-09-17 07:25:00
While the President may claim doctors back his plan to overhaul the nation’s health care system, a recent poll tells an entirely different story: Two of every three practicing physicians oppose the medical overhaul plan under consideration in Washington, and hundreds of thousands would think about shutting down their practices or retiring early if it were ...
SHOCKER! CBS News Blows Hole In Another Obama Lie
2009-09-16 18:38:00
This is liquid-spitting material.  Not because it isn’t true (and most of us knew it already)… but because CBS News of all outlets is the one reporting it! The Obama administration has privately concluded that a cap and trade law would cost American taxpayers up to $200 billion a year, the equivalent of hiking personal income ...
With Anemic Ratings, Anderson Cooper Dwells on ?Race Factor?:Ignores Racist
2009-09-16 07:59:00
Thanks to Anderson Cooper, I got an extra few minutes of cardio last night.  As I was cooling down on the stairmaster, his CNN program came on one of the television monitors.  Breathlessly, he was reporting something I had just read on Gateway Pundit, the worst president in U.S. history (well, at least since the ...
Ma?am Talks Regularly with Woman Who Killed her Husband?!?!UPDATED: Boxer?s
2009-09-16 00:18:00
Welcome Instapundit Readers!! Wonder how many media outlets in the Golden State will investigate this story. In the latest video taken by James O’Keefe, the freelance investigative reporter posting as a pimp as he seeks housing assistance at various ACORN offices, he talks with Tresa Kaelke in the organization’s San Bernardino, California office.  Ms. Kaelke not only ...
With Trust in Accuracy of Press at Two-Decade Low,No Wonder More People Tur
2009-09-14 23:18:00
In a week where the MSM misses many of the big stories (an Obama adviser’s radical views, the growing grassroots opposition to big government), at a time when many media outlets downplay major scandals of the majority party, it should come as no surprise that The public?s assessment of the accuracy of news stories is now ...
The Left-Wing/MSM Obsession with Congressman Joe Wilson
2009-09-11 07:48:00
Last night, while doing my cardio, I looked up to see James Carville on Larry King Live, making much of U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson’s outburts during the President’s health care address on Wednesday.  The Democratic consultant/commentator faulted the South Carolina Republican for not apologizing directly to the President, without noting that he had tried to ...
Ignoring Democrat?s Opposition to Gay Rights while Painting his Republican
2009-09-10 22:00:00
If there is just a hint, even if two decades old, that a Republican official or prominent conservative may not hold perfectly politically correct views of gay people, expect the MSM to feature it prominently, but if a Democrat does not toe the gay rights’ line, expect the MSM (and even the gay media and ...
University of Wyoming Names Center for former Vice President:AP Focuses on
2009-09-09 22:00:00
Do you think a petition generating only 150 signatures in a year’s time to protest the naming of a center in honor of a former Democratic Vice President in his home state would have generated an AP article and led Yahoo! news? In reporting on the University of Wyoming’s naming “a new center for international students” ...
Van Jones: Dereliction of MSM in Age of Obama
2009-09-06 17:54:00
Were I not enjoying the last few days of an unusual vacation, I might blog more on two issues receiving scant attention from the mainstream media, but which show a level of corruption and radicalism among Washington Democrats that would raise the hackles of tens of millions of Americans, including many who pulled the lever ...
Can Healthcare Debate Help Revive GOP?(even with biased media)
2009-09-05 17:57:00
When a friend on Facebook offered that the anti-[Obamacare] side “short circuited the [healthcare] debate with craziness,” I responded with a rhetorical question: Did the anti-side short circuit the debate or did the media coverage of their opposition short circuit [it], given the media focus on [its] most extreme elements? It does seem many in the media ...
August 2009: The Month The Obama House Of Cards Toppled
2009-09-03 22:37:00
Sorry for my absence from the blog.  I blame my real job and a nasty sinus infection that just won’t go away. Anyway, I was just weeding through a ton of GayPatriot email and found this devastating summary by Dick Morris of President Obama’s current political situation.  I usually give Dick Morris just about grain of ...
How would MSM react if Bush Admin Official called Dems A*holes?
2009-09-02 18:14:00
Jus’ wonderin’ as a “former Communist” in the Obama White House described Republicans as such back in February. RELATED:  Obama?s Team Crosses the Rhetorical Line.
Lovers? Quarrel
2009-09-02 15:40:00
USUALLY PRESIDENTS ARE PAST THE 8-MONTH MARK BEFORE THEY HIT THIS STAGE: Obama?s Political Operation Escalates Attack On Media. Unfortunately, I fear we’re going to be treated subjected to some very public makeup sex. UPDATE:  This really does sound like a lovers’ quarrel.  Blogging law professor William Jacobson observes, “The complaint now is not that the media is ...
If this kind detail had been buried in a report investigating FoxNews cover
2009-08-26 16:30:00
MORE NEWS ON THE RATHERGATE SCANDAL: Mary Mapes knew before she put the story on the air that George W. Bush, the alleged slacker, had in fact volunteered to go to Vietnam. A google news search yields only links to conservative and iconoclastic (how I define Gawker) blogs (as of 10:45 PM PST, 08/25/09).  I would ...
Obama?s House of Cards (His Popularity) Is Collapsing Around Him
2009-08-23 19:39:00
From Rasmussen Reports: The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sunday shows that 27% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-one percent (41%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -14. These figures mark the lowest Approval Index rating ...
Is The United States In a ?Low Grade? Civil War?
2009-08-21 17:17:00
It is a chilling question and one that has been troubling me for about two weeks.  I read the “low grade civil war” phrase as a declarative statement from a commenter on a news story about the Congressional Town Hall meetings and it has been rattling in my brain ever since. I’ve been wanting to post ...
Unhinged Larouche Democrats Not Representative of Obamacare Opponents
2009-08-21 15:42:00
Over the past forty-eight hours, a number of my Facebook friends have linked the AP article reporting the unhappy Barney Frank’s takedown of a LaRouche Democrat for asking her fellow Democrat why he “supports what she called a Nazi policy.”  Not aware of her background (because the AP didn’t divulge it), it seems my friends ...
BOMBSHELL: ACLU Accused of Passing Personal Information about CIA agents to
2009-08-21 14:37:00
Just when you think the American liberal left can sink no lower to weaken their own nation…. WASHINGTON POST: The Justice Department recently questioned military defense attorneys at Guantanamo Bay about whether photographs of CIA personnel, including covert officers, were unlawfully provided to detainees charged with organizing the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, according to sources familiar ...
Why isn?t Maureen Dowd preening any more about the absolute ?moral authorit
2009-08-21 08:23:00
Maybe because she wrote those words in 2005 when Cindy Sheehan was protesting outside George W. Bush’s vacation retreat in Crawford, Texas.  Now that Mrs. Sheehan intends to camp out near Barack Obama’s summer retreat in Martha’s Vineyard, her political theater can no longer serve, to borrow John Hinderaker’s expression, as “a vehicle to return ...
If Barney Frank finds its wrong to compare Obama to Hitler, then surely he
2009-08-20 02:10:00
Once again, the mainstream media covers for the unhappy Barney Frank, reporting his arrogance as a principled reaction to a troglodytic Republican.  In an article for the AP, a reporter neglects the many times the cranky Democrat condescended to his constituents to focus on an exchange with an unhinged left-winger: Rep. Barney Frank lashed out at ...
Media All But Ignores Obama Advisor?s Double Dealing
2009-08-20 01:19:00
Scour the mainstream media for the first eight years of the current decade and you will invariably find a reference to the nefarious machinations of the diabolical Karl Rove.  In nearly every single report, you’ll find that the accusations against that good man and shrewd political tactician were based more on circumstantial evidence, innuendo and ...
Seems it?s only wrong to call America?s adversaries evil . . .
2009-08-19 10:08:00
. . . but Democrats get a pass when they so describe “opponents of the Democratic agenda.“
Go Flag Yourself
2009-08-14 14:14:00
I already have.  You should too. -Bruce (GayPatriot)
Will Reid Get ?Lott Treatment? for calling Constituents? ?Evil-Mongers?
2009-08-14 02:00:00
Something tells me the media will not pay as much heed to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s mean-spirited swipe at Americans opposed to the President’s health care plan, including many Nevadans, as they did to then-Senate Republican Leader Trent Lott’s 2002 suggestion we’d all be better off had Strom Thurmond, running on a segregationist platform ...
A Tale of Two Economies
2009-08-13 18:29:00
The Fed/CNN/DC elite join with the archangels and proclaim loudly today “the worst is over!” All Hail Obama! (on CNN’s FRONT homepage) The Federal Reserve said Wednesday it appears that the U.S. economy has halted the longest period of decline since the Great Depression, although it cautioned that economic activity is likely to remain weak in the ...
My Answer To Pelosi & Reid Calling Disagreement on Healthcare Reform: ?Un-A
2009-08-10 17:20:00
(Not My) Speaker & Crazy Harry had their say in today’s USA Today. ‘Un-American’ attacks can’t derail health care debate By Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer Here’s my response folks:  how about you buy this bumper sticker and slap it right on your car? UPDATE: James Taranto at the Wall Street Journal adds this perspective about the Pelosi-Reid ...
What?s Missing from this Sentence in AP article on Sarah Palin?
2009-08-08 02:24:00
More biased coverage from the AP: Palin resigned as Alaska governor on July 26 with nearly 18 months left in her term. She cited not only the numerous ethics complaints that had been filed against her also her wish not to be a lame duck after the first-term governor decided not to seek re-election next year. I’m ...
Doubt AP Would make the down economy sound rosier if W were still president
2009-08-07 08:07:00
As I read their latest headline, I recalled all the gloomy articles on the economy when, during the better half of the Bush Administration (before the election o a Democratic Congress), businesses were expanding and creating jobs.  And in those dark and difficult days, the media tried to pooh-pooh the economy. Today, however, with a bold ...
Did the Media Help Obama Con the American People?
2009-08-01 23:04:00
As we see the “media narrative” about Obama begin to shift in the month just concluded, we become increasingly aware just how fawning their coverage of Barack Obama had been, with many suggesting his life story and rhetorical prowess alone would guarantee a successful presidency. But, now as he tries to govern, people begin to see ...
AP to give Franken the Obama Treatment?
2009-08-01 19:54:00
This morning, as I sipped my coffee and checked the news, I learned from a headline on Yahoo!’s homepage that the least popular freshman Senator relishes policy role in new position.  In Henry C. Jackson’s fawning profile of former funny man Franken, we hear nary a word of criticism about the Democrat.   Yet, it ...
Can Obama lead without active assistance of MSM?(to which he had become acc
2009-07-30 20:52:00
Barack Obama has done so well since he first came to national attention (with his speech to the 2004 Democratic National Convention) in large measure because of the fawning treatment he has received from the news media.  They have soft-pedaled stories of his past association with a rogue’s gallery of unsavory characters.  They all but ...
Obama Faulted Bush Administration for Rushing Legislation
2009-07-28 10:28:00
If someone found a tape where George W. Bush, long before he had been elected President faulted a Democratic Administration for using tactics that he would use once in office, you can bet that the media would be playing that audio clip on a regular basis. Well, while reading what was on the mind of various ...
Can the president say he?s sorry, admit he made a mistake?
2009-07-26 02:36:00
Recall, for a moment when George W. Bush was running for reelection in 2004 and the media thought it their duty to expose that good man’s every flaw.  Regularly portraying (with some justification) the Iraq War as becoming a quagmire, they wanted the then-President to admit his mistakes. Writing about the then-President’s April 2004 press conference, ...
Sometimes our critics do have a point even as they help make ours
2009-07-26 02:09:00
Every now and again, a critic makes a point or raises a fact which challenges something we said. Sometimes, they do get a the heart of our arguments, other times, they just quibble with an issue we addressed in our posts.  And sometimes they even make our points for us, especially when we address ...
Media Uses Obama?s Words to Show His Emphasis Fiscal Restraint:(giving shor
2009-07-25 00:00:00
Last week when Nick praised Boulder, Colorado’s Congressman Jared Polis for penning an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, objecting to certain spending measures put forward by his own party, I objected in an update, . . . not ready to call the guy a hero.  So, what if he writes a letter?  Obama promised to ...
Basking in Obama?s Presence
2009-07-24 22:46:00
Reading a Canadian Press article this morning that a reader had forwarded to me, I was struck yet again at how fawning the media have been toward this President, certain that because of his presences, his coolness, his rhetorical gifts and the singular nature of his election (the first black man elected president in a ...
Lawyer Investigating Palin donates to Democrats, has ties to Obama campaign
2009-07-22 22:45:00
Seems the AP forgot to tell us that Thomas Daniel, the investigator who thinks that outgoing Alaska Governor Sarah Palin may have violated state ethics law in raising money to defend herself against frivolous ethics charges, cut a rather generous check to Democrat Mark Begich’s Senate campaign last fall summer.  According to Open Secrets, he ...
So, because she?s a public figure, Sarah Palin can?t raise money to defend
2009-07-22 03:40:00
As yet another piece of evidence to show just how biased the MSM have become against outgoing Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, take a look at the first sentence of an article which Yahoo! featured earlier in the day as one of its news headlines, Investigator rules against Palin in ethics probe:* An independent investigator has found ...
Questions for Obama
2009-07-22 03:39:00
I should be preparing for a trip I’m taking tomorrow, but got caught up as I always do in reading and discussing politics online. Ran across this great post at Keith Hennessey’s site. The president has a press conference scheduled for tomorrow evening. Naturally I’m expecting cherry-picked questions from an already doting corps. ...
If Ma?am Boxer were a Republican, her career would be over
2009-07-17 23:36:00
In August 2006 hortly after then-Virginia Republican Senator George Allen, running for re-election, called an operative from his opponent’s campaign “macaca,” he apologized: Reached Monday evening, Allen said that the word had no derogatory meaning for him and that he was sorry. “I would never want to demean him as an individual. I do apologize if ...
Jeffrey Toobin?s Arrogance Helps Further CNN?s Success
2009-07-14 02:00:00
Watching CNN coverage of the Sotomayor hearings as I was doing cardio before and after my workout earlier today, I was treated to the amusing spectacle of David Gergen, trying very hard to look important as he attempted to offer the conventional liberal wisdom of the hour.  He seemed to think that if he smiled, ...
Democrats Upset that Bush Administration had Secret Effort to Kill or Captu
2009-07-13 18:27:00
All weekend, we’d be hearing how upset Democrats were about a CIA program the Bush Administration kept secret from Congress.   With the high dudgeon typical of their criticism of Bush, they made it seem this was some program which violated the constitution, infringed on our civil liberties and just plain showed what horrible, no good ...
Americans Utter a Collective ?Ooops?
2009-07-10 21:00:00
The death of the Republican Party and the dominance of the Democrats for the rest of time is now being challenged by the reality of our world.  Americans are saying, “um… maybe we got it wrong last year.” Voters now trust Republicans more than Democrats on eight out of 10 key electoral issues, including, for the ...
Do Palin Haters ?Need? to Dismiss this Good Woman?s QualitiesBecause They R
2009-07-09 10:27:00
One of the reasons many Republicans and conservatives (and a good number of others) have warmed to the outgoing Governor of Alaska is that she has what many of our political leaders have lacked for the past twenty years, a natural charm and presence. She, like the Gipper, captures our attention merely by entering ...
Palin?s Public Image Damaged by MSM focus on Sensational Aspects of her Sto
2009-07-05 10:18:00
In one of the best posts (or articles for that matter) on Sarah Palin’s decision to step down as Governor of Alaska, Josh Painter writes on RedState: News about Gov. Palin that comes out of the 49th state tends to be the bad, as the media is not very interested in disseminating the good. Her accomplishments ...
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