Unlucky 13: Thirteen Cases of Media Bias During Past Three Days

The Lid  "As mentioned previously, along with my duties here at The Lid, I have been contributing to a new media watchdog Truthrevolt.org. My work there is focused on media bias which, as it turns out is more wide-spread than I expected.
" Since I last shared with you on Monday morning, there have been thirteen more media bias incidents published under my byline (and there have been many more written by others.
" Below is the list of the unlucky 13 (unlucky because they got caught). The headline of each is hot-linked to the full article. Please click and give them a read.

A Moment of Uncomfortable Honesty on MSNBC
There was an uncomfortable moment on today's Now With Alex Wagner program when guest Jeff Greenfield accused his liberal colleagues on the panel of being policy advocates as well as journalists. The host and the three other panelists-- David Korn of ...

Juan Williams: Administration Hid Heathcare.gov Issues For Political Reasons (And That's O.K.)
Tuesday night's Fox News Special Report with Bret Baier featured an "All-Star Panel" discussion of the technological issues surrounding the introduction of Healthcare.gov. One question raised was

NY Times White House Correspondent: Image of Cheney As Bush Puppet Master is Cartoonish
Tuesday Morning, NY Times White House correspondent Peter Baker was a guest on the Morning Joe program. He was there to discuss the account of the Bush administration published in his new book, “Days of Fire.” During a conversation with host Joe Scarboro ...

Chris Matthews Calls Ted Cruz Racist
There is a common joke made by politicians of all political persuasions. Making fun of the federal government's reputation of being out of touch with the people, upon returning to the home district the politician will declare, "Gee it's gre ...

Guardian Columnist: Race Is Central To The Fear And Angst Of The US Right
It's a common crutch for the mainstream media and progressives in general, when they cannot debate facts or feel their policy cannot be defended to rely on calling their opposition racist. Yesterday's Guardian (a UK newspaper) ran a column by G ...

MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry: Illegal Immigration is the Modern Form of Slavery
Sunday morning on her MSNBC program Melissa Harris-Perry and guests discussed the new movie " 12 Years A Slave," the story of Solomon Northup, who was born free, went to Washington D.C. to find more work in 1841, but was beaten, drugged and sol ...

Fareed Zakaria: Conservatives Are Racists Who Hate America
In less than 80 seconds on this morning's Global Public Square, which appears on CNN and CNN International, Fareed Zakaria described conservatism as a negative political philosophy, the Tea Party as a radical group like the Black Panthers, and con ...

Public Believes Bigger ObamaCare Problems Are Ahead
The mainstream media and Obama administration are telling the public that the problems with ObamaCare are limited to the disaster associated with the rollout of Healthcare.gov. According to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, the public doesn't se ...

NBC Contributor's Racist Attack 

NBC News contributor on Iranian affairs Hooman Majd, adviser to two Iranian Presidents, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Mohammad Khatami, attacked fellow Iranian and Wall Street Journal assistant books editor Sohrab Ahmari as “ WSJ’s (Iranian) House Negro." ...

CNN Buries Crucial Fact About Latest Anti-GOP Shutdown Poll
The big story from CNN on Monday was their latest CNN/ORC poll. Under the headline GOP, Boehner Take Shutdown Hit In New CNN Poll the network revealed 44% confidence in the President versus 31% in Republicans in Congress; 63% said John Boehner (R-OH) s ...

ABC's Jonathan Karl Battles Jay Carney To Get Answer to Simple Question
The line of questioning in today's press briefing with White House press secretary Jay Carney centered around the failure of the Obamacare website, Heathcare.gov. CNN’s Brianna Keilar asked Jay Carney if the website would be fixed, and if the indiv ...

MSNBC's Alex Wagner: Cheney Was Bush's Heartless Puppet Master
On her MSNBC program today, Alex Wagner poked fun at Dick Cheney's heart disease before branding George Bush a mindless marionette to Cheney's puppet master. The topic for discussion was Cheney's new book " Heart," which discusse ...

Washington Post's E.J. Dionne Declares The Era Of The Far Right And The Era Of The Tea Party Is Over

The Washington Post's E.J. Dionne was a guest on NBC's Meet The Press this morning. Dionne declared both the Tea Party and conservatism dead: I think that the era of the far right and the era of the Tea Party is over. We wasted $12-24 billion of ...
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Allyson’s Geo-Political Inspections posts this case as well: TIME Magazine Flacks for Iran 
"In an October 15 article entitled, “Four Good Reasons Why Iran Doesn’t Trust America,” TIME Magazine seems rather sympathetic to Iran’s point of view:"....

'You let them die': Hillary Clinton heckled over Benghazi terrorist attack during speech to university students

UK Mail  "Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was relentlessly heckled over the Benghazi terrorist attack as she tried to deliver a speech at a New York university on Wednesday night.
"Clinton was speaking at the University of Buffalo as part of the university's 'Distinguished Speakers Series' when a man in the crowd began screaming about the attack that left three people dead, including Libyan Ambassador Chris Stevens.

" 'Benghazi, Benghazi - you let them die,' the man screamed as Clinton continued to give her speech."
....
" 'We have to be willing to come together as citizens to focus on the kind of future we want, which doesn’t include yelling. It includes sitting down and talking to one another,' she said sternly.
"The crowd then erupted with applause."
 

Obama the Blameless

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David Limbaugh  "Could there be more convincing proof that President Obama is more concerned about himself than he is about the Americans he is supposed to serve than his Monday morning speech defending the disastrous Obamacare rollout rather than apologizing for it?

"Could there be more compelling evidence that he is first and foremost a Saul Alinsky agitator than the fact that he took the offense and attacked Republicans for fighting him on the budget -- a fight that in no way caused any rollout problems -- rather than humbly admit these inexcusable and humiliating problems?

"Democrats and the liberal media savaged President George W. Bush for allegedly never admitting a policy mistake. Can you fantasize them expressing disenchantment with Obama on these grounds, with far more justification?"

 

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NBC FINA World Cup Swimming Broadcast Censors Out Israeli Flag to Appease Muslims...

So much for a courageous press. Lets see you bloviate over this, Chris Matthews.

 

Debbie Schlussel    "The FINA World Cup swimming competition video feed censored out the Israeli flag to appease the host country of the games, Qatar. The Israeli flag was also pulled from outside the swimming facility. Don’t blame the Muslim Nazis in Qatar. Blame the FINA co-conspirators who obeyed the demands of Qatar. FINA is the international governing body of swimming, diving, water polo, synchronized swimming and open water swimming. And if today’s FINA officials had been around in 1930s and ’40s Europe, they’d have fit in perfectly. Sieg Heil! .... Watch the video:

 

"....Middle Eastern countries have had a long history of snubbing Israeli athletes whenever and wherever possible, with many athletes from Middle Eastern countries electing to disqualify themselves from competition against any Israeli athlete. In swimming, Israeli swimmers have been subjected to being announced as nationless athletes, sometimes just referring to them as hailing from ISR."....

 

As Woody Allen said, last week, to Israel Channel 2:

There are many people that disguise their negative feelings toward Jews, disguise it as anti-Israel criticism, political criticism, when in fact what they really mean is that they don’t like Jews.

AMEN.

 

That Was Then . . .

This Is Now . . .

 

The Obama administration issued an angry protest on behalf of the US's long-time friends and allies.

Cancel the above report; that did not happen. We regret the error and any offense it may have caused the nation of Qatar. TD

When Democrats run foreign policy

Obama ‘Impatient’ and ‘Disengaged’  The New York Times and Hurriyet
on White House's incoherent and opaque Syria policy.
 "Perhaps with the prospect of cutting a deal with Iran, Obama is loath to upset Tehran by committing any resources to toppling an ally in whom they’ve invested money, manpower and weapons."...

Mark Steyn: American Ineffectualism  "On CBS, Bashar Assad called the U.S. government “a social-media administration.” He’s got a better writer than Obama, too. America is in danger of being the first great power to be laughed off the world stage. When the president’s an irrelevant narcissist and his secretary of state’s a vainglorious buffoon, Marco Rubio shouldn’t be telling the world don’t worry, the other party’s a joke, too."

Our Standing in the Middle East Hits Rock Bottom  "Saudi Arabia lives in perpetual fear of its neighbor across the Gulf, Iran... Despite all this, and despite a longstanding alliance with the United States, today the Saudis found it necessary to break off diplomatic relations with us, due to our confused and lackadaisical response to the Syrian Civil War."

Report: Obama Regime Purging Military of Commanders They Don’t Agree With…

Weasel Zippers   "So far this year alone nine top ranking military commanders have been fired by the Obama administration."

Full article at The Blaze:
“ 'Obama will not purge a civilian or political appointee because they have bought into Obama’s ideology,” Vallely said. “The White House protects their own. That’s why they stalled on the investigation into fast and furious, Benghazi and Obamacare. He’s intentionally weakening and gutting our military, Pentagon and reducing us as a superpower, and anyone in the ranks who disagrees or speaks out is being purged.' ”
"A Pentagon official who asked to remain nameless because they were not authorized to speak on the matter said even “young officers, down through the ranks have been told not to talk about Obama or the politics of the White House. They are purging everyone and if you want to keep your job — just keep your mouth shut.

One such: Gen. Carter Hamm, Army

Served as head of the United States African Command during the bloodshed in Benghazi, Libya when four American citizens, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens and two retired Navy Seals, were murdered by militants on Sept. 11, 2012. Senior military officials told TheBlaze Hamm was extremely critical of the Obama administration, including when reinforcements were not sent to help the U.S. citizens under attack in Benghazi. Hamm “resigned and retired” in April 2013.

Is this the proper American Muslim response to jihad in America?

By Pamela Geller at American Thinker   "They cite the Quran, chapter and verse.  Muslims worldwide continue the 1,400-year-old war to impose Islam across the world -- all citing the same Islamic texts and teachings.
"There is a problem in Islam.

"So what is the response of the Muslim community?

"On the same day that Hassan Abu Omar Ghannoum was arrested, the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California issued a statement: "We share the collective concern for the safety of our communities and security of our nation."  However, it went on to say: "We ask that law enforcement officials and members of the media refrain from assuming that the alleged criminal's wrongful conduct, if any, was a product of his self-proclaimed faith or associations with members of the southern California Muslim community.' "
....
"Why isn't the Muslim community trying to reform Islam?  Why aren't Muslim groups shutting down mosques that teach and preach jihad?...."  Via Lucianne

The Muslim Brotherhood’s Man in the White House

Robert Spencer  "When the State Department announced early in October that it was cutting hundreds of millions in military and other aid to Egypt, it was yet another manifestation of Barack Obama’s unstinting support for the Muslim Brotherhood, a support that has already thrown Egypt back into the Russian orbit. The aid cut was essentially giving the Egyptian people a choice between Muslim Brotherhood rule and economic collapse. Nothing else could have been expected from Obama, who has been a Brotherhood man from the beginning."  Via Lucianne. 

 

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The Arab News Reports: Faulty website shaming Obama/ Irony Alert!

Arab News   "US presidents are used to deference and barking orders, not wiping egg from their faces.
"So it was unpalatable for Barack Obama to go on television Monday and admit glaring failures in the rollout of the health care law that bears his name."
....
"The idea that government can work is also at the center of Obama’s political creed, and is a driving motivator of his ideological clash with Republicans. So any evidence to the contrary is inconvenient to say the least. But the faulty debut of the Healthcare.gov website is spurring questions over Obama’s
competence in implementing a law he wagered his presidency to pass three years ago, but which has yet to deliver a political payoff."

IRONY ALERT! Letterman writer: Obama 'too competent' to make jokes about

It's not because he's black and it's not because we're afraid. It's just that he's, just so far, just a little too damn competent and we ain't used to that. [multiple panelists say "yeah."] 

Ineptness of Obama leaves America staggering  "The ineptitude is painful to watch. The arrogance is truly suffocating. And the coolness that was once Mr. Obama’s hallmark has turned into brittle anger that he barely conceals."

Plano, Texas: Three [um, gentlemen] Caught On Tape Desecrating American Flag On A Veteran’s Porch

Weasel Zippers 

 

"Plano veteran Larry Lorance always has a flag flying at his home. And he’s fed up with having to replace it.

"Lorance’s front door flag was destroyed for the third time early Friday morning. He says his verbal response to the attack isn’t fit for publication; but, he thought ‘my gosh, they did it again.’

“ 'A lot of men and women gave their lives for this flag,” he said sternly, adding that, “as an American, and as a veteran, I was offended by that.”

"After the second flag was destroyed, Lorance installed a surveillance system and sure enough the culprits were captured on video. And he says the incident went beyond damage—he was appalled at the disrespect."

Full Article.

Tea-partier unloads on Democrat Rep. Alan Grayson for KKK email (UPDATED)

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WND   "Outspoken Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson is facing considerable outrage after comparing the tea party to the Ku Klux Klan in a new fundraising email.
"In the final days of the government shutdown, Grayson told MSNBC’s Al Sharpton he believes the tea party is about as popular as the KKK. He is now circulating a fundraising email that shows a burning cross and two Klansmen in the background. The graphic uses the cross to begin spelling out “tea party,” and the caption reads, “Now You Know What the ‘T’ Stands For.”

"The following is an image of the email:


UPDATE: Armed Mommy asks us to photo bomb Grayson's Facebook page with this photo.

Jennifer Burke, national outreach director for TheTeaParty.net, which is the largest grassroots tea-party group in the nation addresses Grayson's remarks to Sharpton.  (Audio at the link)
“He’s taken the history of the Democratic Party – because they were the party of the KKK. They were the ones that were burning crosses and lynching black people and shooting them because they were the wrong color – he’s applying that horrible time in our history to a group of people who simply want constitutionally limited government and who want the government to respect the freedoms that the Constitution grants us in our God-given rights,” Burke told WND.
"Grayson is not backing down. The man who once said the GOP health-care plan was for people to die quickly and once called an opponent a member of the Taliban, doubled down when questioned about the fundraising message.
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