Monday, May 14, 2012
More on the media
Truth in Labeling: Why Not Just Call The Media Democrats? "The reality is when a Republican is interviewed or a Republican position is reported, it is actually a Democrat interviewing or reporting on the issue. ....This opportunity for Democratic reporters to slant their coverage without explicitly revealing their prejudice is enormous. Common tricks that reporters use to slant a story are the selection of facts, which "experts" are called upon for quotes, adjectives describing people or events, and many more. An explicit label or repositioning of the reporter and media outlet would be a constant reminder to a busy public that the information being supplied is actually from a partisan Democrat parading as fair and objective reporter. The public will be able assign their own context and weight to the story based on the bias of the reporting source. Over time the Democratic media's power and influence will greatly diminish."
Washington Post Ombudsman Gives Up Any Pretense of Credibility
CNN's Soledad O’Brien Beclowns Herself on National TV "You won’t be surprised to learn that she was just pretty much reciting the Wikipedia definition of critical race theory (CRT). (Which apparently has changed throughout the day today as the Arbiters of Truth and Knowledge attempted to strip out any references to ‘white superiority’.)
"Pexton also admits that the Post timed the story to help the president.
Ed Driscoll: Regarding ‘Our First Gay President’ and Other Goofy Recent Newsweekly Covers "Once Matt Drudge blew open the story of Bill Clinton’s dalliances with Monica Lewinsky, a story that Newsweek attempted to suppress, the walls quickly began to fall, and savvy news consumers quickly began to receive their news elsewhere — including from news aggregation sites such as Drudge and Instapundit, which can be and are updated numerous times a day, unlike the increasingly lethargic schedule of the newsweeklies."The other criticisms are that this story was published knowing that President Obama was going to announce his shift in favor of gay marriage. The allegation is that somehow The Post is working with the White House to time the story.Do I think The Post took advantage of the timing? Yes. Vice President Biden had telegraphed the president’s position on gay marriage just days earlier. This story on Romney was in preparation for three weeks. It is part of a series of biographical stories on Romney being written by Horowitz and others and edited by The Post’s Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and associate editor, David Maraniss, who is known for his best- selling biographies of major U.S. political figures.
Head Games "Think about it: when was the last time you heard any story embarrassing to the Obama administration pursued to an actual conclusion?"
Newsweek columnist Michelle Goldberg spoke out against the scourge of motherhood on MSNBC’s Up with Chris Hayes. "She attacked Ann Romney for talking about the glories of being a mom – on Mother’s Day, no less – her with Hitler and Stalin:"...
CNN's Don Lemon Compares Mitt Romney to 60s Segregationist George Wallace "At the beginning of a CNN Newsroom segment he calls "No Talking Points," Lemon played a clip of Wallace saying in 1963, "I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever" followed by Romney saying Saturday, "Marriage is a relationship between one man and one woman" "
Obama's Hawaii press conference with his slobbering sycophants. More here.
CNN WH Correspondent Asks Obama if GOP Candidates Are 'Uninformed, Out of Touch, or Irresponsible' (Video)
"And this is the type of hard-nosed journalist the supposedly most trusted name in news has as a White House correspondent.
CNN's Don Lemon Compares Mitt Romney to 60s Segregationist George Wallace "At the beginning of a CNN Newsroom segment he calls "No Talking Points," Lemon played a clip of Wallace saying in 1963, "I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever" followed by Romney saying Saturday, "Marriage is a relationship between one man and one woman" "
Obama's Hawaii press conference with his slobbering sycophants. More here.
CNN WH Correspondent Asks Obama if GOP Candidates Are 'Uninformed, Out of Touch, or Irresponsible' (Video)
"And this is the type of hard-nosed journalist the supposedly most trusted name in news has as a White House correspondent.
"Imagine for a moment how much better the country would be doing if there were real questions asked at these events."
Iran's - and the left's - contempt of Israel
http://terrellaftermath.com/
Editorial in the Jerusalem Post: In 1942, George Orwell said that “so-called peace propaganda is just as dishonest," intellectually disgusting as war propaganda.
"Orwell was intrigued by the “psychological processes by which pacifists who started out with an alleged horror of violence end up with a marked tendency to be fascinated by the success and power of Nazism.”
"“Even those who don’t,” he wrote, “imagine that one can somehow ‘overcome’ the German Army by lying on one’s back” and they shun “discussion of what the world would actually be like if the Axis dominated it.”
"Sound familiar? It should."
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"Orwell regarded them as “objectively pro- Fascist. This is elementary commonsense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, he that is not with me is against me.” "
"“Even those who don’t,” he wrote, “imagine that one can somehow ‘overcome’ the German Army by lying on one’s back” and they shun “discussion of what the world would actually be like if the Axis dominated it.”
"Sound familiar? It should."
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"Orwell regarded them as “objectively pro- Fascist. This is elementary commonsense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, he that is not with me is against me.” "
The final, official report on the bin Laden raid by the President
Obama watched Bin Laden die on live video as shoot-out beamed to White House
The president makes his report public: The real story as it came down.....Now you know!
Ron Paul would have wanted us to be nice to Osama so he would not be a threat. I went for the final solution because Paul, Romney and Bush would not have done it - the press would have roasted Bush for not arresting Osama and reading him his rights while my attorney general Eric Holder would have put Bush's SEALs on trial.
Hat tip to Harley Standlee; Placerville, Ca (Hangtown)
The Beholden State/ How public-sector unions broke California
Gov. Scott Walker, California has needed you for years!
This was 2010: The Manhattan Institute
"The camera focuses on an official of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), California’s largest public-employee union, sitting in a legislative chamber and speaking into a microphone. “We helped to get you into office, and we got a good memory,” she says matter-of-factly to the elected officials outside the shot. “Come November, if you don’t back our program, we’ll get you out of office.’ "
....How public employees became members of the elite class in a declining California offers a cautionary tale to the rest of the country, where the same process is happening in slower motion. The story starts half a century ago, when California public workers won bargaining rights and quickly learned how to elect their own bosses—that is, sympathetic politicians who would grant them outsize pay and benefits in exchange for their support.
...."It will take an enormous effort to roll back decades of political and economic gains by government unions. But the status quo is unsustainable. And at long last, Californians are beginning to understand the connection between that status quo and the corruption at the heart of their politics."
California will need courageous politicians in Sacramento who are prepared for angry union members to occupy the capitol building as in Wisconsin; courage also to stand up to a scathing leftist press and to demagogic Democrats in the state legislature and their useful idiots on college campuses. TD
This is 2012: Shortfall in California’s Budget Swells to $16 Billion "Mr. Brown disclosed the news in a video that had all the trappings of a campaign announcement. In it, he aggressively accounted for the steps he said he had taken to try to scale back a $26 billion deficit he found upon taking office. And he urged viewers to back an initiative he is putting on the November ballot that would increase sales taxes by 0.25 percent and impose an income tax surcharge on wealthy Californians to try to stave off more cuts."
This was 2010: The Manhattan Institute
...."It will take an enormous effort to roll back decades of political and economic gains by government unions. But the status quo is unsustainable. And at long last, Californians are beginning to understand the connection between that status quo and the corruption at the heart of their politics."
California will need courageous politicians in Sacramento who are prepared for angry union members to occupy the capitol building as in Wisconsin; courage also to stand up to a scathing leftist press and to demagogic Democrats in the state legislature and their useful idiots on college campuses. TD
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