With elections approaching, remember the state of American media (formerly called "journalism")

 We trash ABC for hiring, um, this guy, but what about NBC's hiring of Sharpton?

Clash Daily; GEORGE STEPHANOPOLOUS, ANOTHER SHIFTY CHARACTER: Courtesy of the Democrats!  "Another guy who the Democrats allowed near the levers of power, who also, just happened to be a crook. There is no double ethical standard in politics and the Media. There is only one standard…and it is very rigorous. It applies only to conservatives. No other standard exists. None."

ABC Colleague: George Stephanopoulos ‘Really Isn’t a Journalist’  . . .  “And I am sorry that again the public trust in the media is being challenged and frayed because of the actions of some of the top people in the business.”

Stephanopoulos, ABC have not fully disclosed Clinton ties: Schweizer

Beware the Democrat media complex — a permanent conflict of interest.

 

. . . "ABC, with its parent company Disney standing squarely behind it, is the same network that re-edited the Clinton docudrama “Path to 9/11” to benefit the Clintons after being berated by Bill and Hill — and being threatened by congressional Democrat jackboots with a revocation of their broadcast license for failing to do so. After that the network buried its $40 million investment completely, despite the millions they would have made in rebroadcasts and DVD sales."

Ten Times George Stephanopoulos Sucked Up to the Clintons on ABC News
. . . " Stephanopoulos has also, not-so-subtly, pressed guests from Nancy Pelosi to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor about the prospect of a female president. And, of course, in 2008 he called a potential Barack Obama/Hillary Clinton team-up the “dream ticket.”   

"The following are just a few examples, from the MRC archives, of Stephanopoulos praising the Clintons from his ABC News perch: " . . . Keep reading; there is much more here.

http://legalinsurrection.com/2015/05/branco-cartoon-journalism-for-dummies/

Romney: "We Found Out" Why Stephanopoulos Asked About Contraception   "You recall, back in the debate we had George Stephanopoulos talking all about birth control. We wondered why in the world that contraception -- it's like, 'why's he going there?' Well, we found out when Barack Obama continued his attack on religious conscience."
When so-called "journalists" ask a question of conservatives, we must assume they are setting the table for Democrat attacks. TD

Much more on Mr. , um, ... the little Clinton sychophant here.


But what about MSNBC hiring Al Sharpton?

NO, MRS. OBAMA: You Were Never Part of ‘The Help’

 Why do so many treasure the status of being a "victim"? TD

 Doug Giles   "Moochelle, no one cares if you went to a formal event and were mistaken for being part of “the help”. It never happened. Never. And if it did, you should be thankful that for once in your life someone thought you useful. Your help isn’t needed.

"Not when your number one mentor Valerie Jarrett assumed the number two General in the United States Army at the time, four-star General Chiarelli, was a waiter at a White House event. Maybe the taxpayer funded booze was a wee strong for Jarrett – the drinks always are when somebody else is buying – but really, confusing the number two guy in the Army with a waiter? Really?

"And not when your own life’s history is replete with examples of privilege the ultimate of which is your and your husband’s occupation of the White House. Michelle, try as you might, you’ve never been a welfare queen – but you do bear a striking resemblance to Eminem’s adversary in the movie Eight Mile. How interesting.

"And certainly not if your example of “help” is in any way defined by what your husband’s agenda has accomplished. A critic of mine once summed up those “accomplishments” well and I quote “it could always be worse”. What a benchmark! What a slogan! “It sucks but hey it could always be worse”.
I’m glad past Presidents aimed a little higher. “We all work in slave camps for Hirohito now but it could be worse”, for example. Or, “this slavery stuff blows but it could be worse”.

"No Michelle, you never were part of “the help”. You’ve not been helpful for this country. The most helpful thing you will ever do is move out of the White House come January 2017.
Get there.
Image: http://fidyabeauty.com/2014/01/17/il-make-up-di-michelle-obama/

Links to stories of news media figures supporting the Clintons

 

Fly Specks on the Debate Commission Table    .."The last thing I read before going to sleep was Rick Ballard’s pithy comment on the news that almost every media operation and figure had contributed to the Clinton slush fund:

“It's actually the perpetual Clinton Campaign using tax deductible donations to the Foundation to finance itself. If the investigative press were not extinct, they would be trumpeting the names of Clinton campaign workers and vendors sustained by employment by the Foundation rather than paying access fees to it.”

. . .

[I]t still must be pointed out that if a journalist were exposed as giving money to the Koch Brothers charities and then reported on them, there would be howls for his scalp throughout the media. The rules are different for liberals. Analysts who wonder about the shrinking audience for such shows and networks whose political coverage is drenched in the tired rhetoric of liberalism need wonder no more. Stephanopoulos’s lack of transparency i[n] this story is just one more piece of evidence indicting mainstream outlets for outrageous and blatant liberal bias.
But it has ramifications far beyond the media bubble.

 

 Victor Davis Hanson: George Stephanopoulos’s Clinton Foundation Hypocrisy Is Staggering
 . . . "When he attacked Schweizer for a supposed conflict of interest in having been a Bush speechwriter for four months, he assumed that his own much longer tenure as a war-room political flak for Bill Clinton could never impinge on his own objectivity — much less provide the context for his recent donations to the Clinton family foundation." . . .

Clinton Foundation donors include dozens of media organizations, individuals
. . . " The following list includes news media organizations that have donated to the foundation, as well as other media networks, companies, foundations or individuals that have donated. It is organized by the size of the contribution:" . . .

Flashback: George Stephanopoulos to Hillary Clinton: 'I Love You'     . . . "But Stephanopoulos's affinity for the Clintons has never been in doubt. In 1999, the now-ABC anchor recounted his "love" for Hillary Clinton and the heartfelt affection he received in response." . . .

But Stephanopoulos's affinity for the Clintons has never been in doubt. In 1999, the now-ABC anchor recounted his "love" for Hillary Clinton and the heartfelt affection he received in response. - See more at: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2015/05/16/flashback-george-stephanopoulos-hillary-clinton-i-love-you#sthash.wBhg86f6.dpuf

All above from Lucianne
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George Stephanopoulos has forfeited all trust as a newsman " The hat trick of arrogant anchor scandals helps explain why Americans don’t trust network news. With apologies to Walter Cronkite, that’s the way it is, and the way it is stinks."

 PBS Anchor Judy Woodruff Also Admits Donating to Clinton Foundation 

Stephanopoulos Another Example Of Revolving Door Journalism

 

"Media Bias: George Stephanopoulos' $75,000 gift to the Clinton Foundation says a lot about the major media. Not only are they dominated by the left, but their stars have often worked for the very people they're supposed to cover.

"Political operatives become journalists, and journalists become political operatives. It happens all the time.

"But Stephanopoulos didn't just take a job as a talking head or pundit. He was elevated to a high-profile news position. He poses as an objective journalist when, in fact, his entire background has been political." . . .

‘WE DON’T LIKE YOU AND NEVER WILL': SNL Goes After Hillary Again With Wicked Funny Skit

Clash Daily   "Saturday Night Live produced another hillary-ous skit lampooning Hillary Clinton and her ‘summer campaign’. Enjoy."

 Video is a bit jerky, but fun.

Hillary’s Endless Reintroduction Tour

 

Why does Hillary Clinton—the best-known female politician in the world—feel a need to constantly reintroduce herself to the American people? Ana Marie Cox makes the case for authenticity over artifice.

"The biggest problem with the premiere video out of Hillary Clinton’s Brooklyn campaign headquarters isn’t the video itself."

Barack Obama Marks Death Of B.B. King With Picture Of . . . Barack Obama…

Weasel Zippers

 

"Even worse, half his official statement is about himself.

President Obama had the following to say on the passing of American icon B.B. King:

“The blues has lost its king, and America has lost a legend. B.B. King was born a sharecropper’s son in Mississippi, came of age in Memphis, Tennessee, and became the ambassador who brought his all-American music to his country and the world. No one worked harder than B.B. No one inspired more up-and-coming artists. No one did more to spread the gospel of the blues.

Three years ago, Michelle and I hosted a blues concert at the White House. I hadn’t expected that I’d be talked into singing a few lines of “Sweet Home Chicago” with B.B. by the end of the night, but that was the kind of effect his music had, and still does. He gets stuck in your head, he gets you moving, he gets you doing the things you probably shouldn’t do – but will always be glad you did. B.B. may be gone, but that thrill will be with us forever. And there’s going to be one killer blues session in heaven tonight.”

Hillary Clinton’s consigliere covers up her scandals

NY Post via Drudge

 

"If Congress really wants to get to the bottom of Hillary Clinton’s missing Benghazi and pay-to-play emails, it should call her consigliere Cheryl D. Mills to testify — under oath, and under the klieg lights.

"A hearing featuring Clinton will be a wasted show trial with a lot of political grandstanding.

"But Mills, who served as the former secretary of state’s chief of staff and counselor, knows where the bodies are buried. After all, Hillary tasked her with “identifying and preserving all emails that could potentially be federal records.”

"And, presumably, deleting.

"Mills has a long track record of hiding Clinton documents." . . .

Stephanopoulos so bad, he’s making Geraldo look good

Legal Insurrection
 "Here’s the related story from Jessica Chasmar of the Washington Times:

Geraldo on Stephanopoulos apology: ABC fired me over $200 donation
Geraldo Rivera on Friday questioned why he was fired from ABC News 30 years ago for making a $200 political donation to a family friend, while the network appears to be standing firm behind George Stephanopoulos, who apologized Thursday for donating $75,000 to the Clinton Foundation.
“In 1985, after fifteen great years, I was fired by ABC News,” Mr. Rivera wrote in a Facebook post, Mediaite reported. “The official reason for my firing was a non-disclosed $200 donation to a family friend running in a non-partisan mayoral campaign in New Bedford Massachusetts.”

"Rivera discussed the issue on FOX and Friends this week:"

"David Bauder of the Associated Press:

ABC Faces Credibility Crisis Over Stephanopoulos Donations . . .

Who’s smiling now?
Geraldo, that’s who.
Featured image via YouTube.

When Professors Turn Foolish They Turn Really Stupid

The boycotting of Israel is a fashionable cause that brings learned fools out in droves. Everyone and his aunt glow with righteous wrath when the boycott show hits town. Clever people love to hang their faculty gowns on the peg of anti-Zionism.

 American Thinker   "It took a George Orwell to point out that higher learning and stupidity make a regular couple. “There are notions so foolish that only an intellectual will believe them,” wrote Orwell, laconic and lucid together. The luminary of that era who left a bonanza of political idioms, among them “Big Brother,” “Doublethink”, and “More equal than others,” found that intelligent people can be gullible people. He’s a reminder that professors may lack a modicum of common sense. He learnt that to parley with learned people may be to parley with fools. We don’t have to upturn rocks to uncover Orwell types. Look no further than a fashionable cause or a conventional wisdom and you’d find them – fool believers clinging for dear life to nonsensical notions.

 "In our troubled landscape one collecting point attracts more such pairings than any other point. A vast deposit of learned fools sticks to the brouhaha over Palestinian rights and Israeli wrongs. “A sore evil under the sun,” old King Solomon said. He might have been prophesying the cock-and-bull morality play called BDS. The boycotting of Israel is a fashionable cause that brings learned fools out in droves." . . . Read more:

 Boycott the Boycotters movement gains momentum

. . . " In addition to federal legislation, Illinois is on the verge of passing legislation which effectively causes the State to boycott the boycotters. The Washington Free Beacon reports, Anti-BDS Bill Poised for Passage in Illinois Legislature:" . . .

The bill, which would force Illinois’ five state pension funds to divest from any company supporting boycotts of Israel, passed by a 10-0 vote through a key executive committee on Wednesday and is now on its way to a full vote in the state’s legislature, where it is expected to garner widespread support.
The measure has been championed by newly installed Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner, who has been pushing for such a bill since before his election in 2014, when he defeated Democrat Pat Quinn.

Evidence of Real Live "Moderate Muslims" - Parents of Students Picket Islamic School Because It Has Introduced New Curriculum Which is "Too Fundamental"

Infidel Bloggers Alliance

AUSTRALIA – Adelaide – More than 100 angry parents have picketed the Islamic College of South Australia, worried it is becoming too fundamental after it cut music and sport from its curriculum, described pianos as evil and stopped singing the national anthem at assemblies.

. . . FEDERAL Education Minister Christopher Pyne has warned of the potential radicalisation of Muslim students in Islamic schools, following another parent protest against management of the Islamic College of SA.

Parents rallying outside the school yesterday demanded the resignation of its board and called for State Government intervention.
They claim a hardline school board has introduced a stricter form of Islam, including more segregation of male and female students, while firing experienced staff and lowering education standards.

'He wanted to go to hell — he is going to get there early': Hero off-duty firefighter who rescued Boston bomb victims reacts to 'vile' Tsarnaev's death sentence

Daily Mail   . . . "Michael Ward was off duty along the marathon route when two explosions went off, killing three people and injuring more than 260 others.

"On Friday, two years after he pulled wounded men, women and children to safety, Ward was in court to witness Tsarnaev being sentenced to death.

' 'I remember the vile, disgusting thing that this person did and his brother,' Ward told a press conference. 'They destroyed countless innocent lives.'

"Seven women and five men unanimously voted to punish the 21-year-old with death for his part in detonating two bombs at the 2013 Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring more than 260 others.

"Tsarnaev was convicted last month of all 30 federal charges against him, 17 of which carried the possibility of the death penalty.

"The jury found that he deserved the death penalty for some but not all of the charges - which means he will be executed by lethal injection." . . .

Some of his victims:

 

 

 Defiant: Tsarnaev is pictured above in a jail cell shortly after being arrested making an obscene gesture at a camera. He has been largely emotionless throughout the trial, even as his victims testified

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BARACK AND MICHELLE OBAMA:The Un-American Divider in Chief and His Wife

Clash Daily   . . . "As horrific as the states’ rights and slavery issues were considering the toll they took on the country, at least they were situations that mattered and worth the time and effort to resolve them. Take for example, the ongoing mission of the divider and chief, Barack Obama and his embittered wife, First Lady Michelle Obama. Just recently, Mrs. Obama gave a commencement address at the historic Tuskegee University in Alabama. Instead of encouraging the hopeful graduates to go seek opportunities and to be the best they can be, she chose to focus upon the wasteful topic of the limitations of racism. 

" Here we are in a nation facing a major crossroad in her history and Mrs. Obama complained about the “daily slights” that she and her husband have experienced. This is from a woman whose own husband won’t even associate with you on any level if you are not a fellow progressive. " . . .

No luck finding a print version of this to keep out the trashy ads. TD

The Final Posts of a Murdered Blogger

The Atlantic

 “No one with a free mind can limit themselves within the walls of narrow-mindedness,” Ananta Bijoy Das wrote hours before his death.

"Earlier this week, as he left for work, Ananta Bijoy Das was ambushed by four masked men outside his home in Sylhet, Bangladesh. Armed with machetes, the men—suspected Islamist militants—hacked Das to death in broad daylight on a busy street in the country’s fifth-largest city.

"Das’s crime was that he blogged. A writer critical of religious fundamentalism and enthusiastic about science, his fate matched that of two other men, Avijit Roy and Washiqur Rahman, who were killed in similar fashion in Bangladesh in February and March, respectively, for writing on and promoting secular themes in a country where 90 percent of the population is Muslim.

"Das’s work has been described as the least controversial of the three. “He had written about superstitions, but he wasn’t among the writers that would hurt the sentiments of religion,” one of Das’s friends told The Guardian. The friend added, however, that the frequency of death threats against Das had surged following the killings of Roy and Rahman." . . .

Das was a citizen of a nominally secular state. But that state has been failing to safeguard free speech and demand accountability for machete-wielding fundamentalists. Das wasn’t the first blogger killed; he was the third in three months. Bangladeshi politics are polarized between secular and Islamist camps, and, according to the BBC, the government has recently been cracking down “on civil liberties and freedom of speech … affecting both religious fundamentalists and those who argue for free speech and for faith to be separate from government.”