Hip To Be Square
posted by The Sailor @ 5:33 PM Permalink
Checking out the news today I ran across this little item on NPR's website:
National Review: The Social Justice Code
When Glenn Beck urged Christians to leave churches that preach social justice, he allowed himself to be tripped up by conventional buzzwords of the campus Left. In plain English, "social justice" is a goal of all churches and refers to helping the poor and seeking equality. As a code word, it refers to a controversial package of goals including political redistribution of wealth, gay marriage, and a campaign against "institutional racism," "classism," "ableism," and "heterosexism."
Why is NPR reprinting an opinion article from the extreme right wing site National Review? If they are trying to broaden their base of contributors I have news for them, people who believe the hate spewed from the Nat'l Review are never going to donate money to NPR, and 'people like me' aren't going to in the future.
And guess who CNN just hired?
Meet Erick Erickson: CNN's newest political commentator
CNN announced that RedState.com editor Erick Erickson will join the channel as a political commentator, stating that he is "a perfect fit" for the new show John King, USA.
[...]
Erickson defends Beck's statement that Obama is "racist" and lashes out at "Obama Brownshirts."
[...]
Erickson calls Michelle Obama a "marxist harpy wife."
[...]
Erickson calls [Supreme Court Justice] Souter a "goat fucking child molester."
[...]
Erickson: "At what point do the people ... march down to their state legislator's house, pull him outside, and beat him to a bloody pulp?"
[...]
Erickson: Purpose of Bachmann rally is "to tell Nancy Pelosi and the Congress to send Obama to a death panel."
[...]
Erickson has made numerous sexist statements. After an anti-abortion ad during this year's Super Bowl, Erickson wrote, "that's it?!?! That's what the feminazis were enraged over? Seriously?!? Wow. That's what being too ugly to get a date does to your brain"; and "Thus ends the credibility of all pro-abortion groups. Thanks Mrs. Tebow for that. Ugly feminists return to their kitchens."
CNN, the most trusted name in hiring violent, misogynistic, homophobic, xenophobic neanderthals. (See Lou Dobbs, Glenn Beck
et al.)
They could have hired a rational, logical conservative, (I swear they're out there, I can hear them breeding), but no, they had to go bat$hit crazy.
Can we finally be done with the 'liberal media' canard!?
Cross posted at SteveAudioLabels: corporate owned media, media bias, violent worthless republicans
The Media explained
posted by The Vidiot @ 4:16 PM Permalink
I don't normally blog from work, but I'm taking a break from setting up WAY too many biz cards to post
this because it's awesome.
When their bosses were for the war, they were for the war, and they battered any candidate who was “weak on foreign policy.” When the political winds shifted four years later and the consensus inside the Beltway suddenly was that Iraq had been a hideous mistake, the campaign-trail reporters mysteriously started sounding like Sixties peaceniks on the plane and they hammered Hillary for refusing to admit her error on the Iraq vote (none of these pundits had to admit their mistake on the same question, but whatever), clearing the way for Obama.
Labels: media bias, MSM
Paralyzed by obsession
posted by The Sailor @ 11:30 AM Permalink
In the latest media version of the Kevin Bacon Game I bring you:
Clintons' ex-NY neighbor gets 25 years for murder
A man who lived a few doors down from Bill and Hillary Clinton was sentenced Tuesday to 25 years to life in prison for shooting and killing his wife.
In related news, my Dad was invited to a Clinton inaugural ball and now he's dead. Of course those last 2 facts have no more to do with each other than the linking of the Clintons to an ex-neighbor who committed murder, but such is the power of The Clenis to still derange our MSM scribblers & talking heads.
I actually remember the days when the print, television & radio news media reported facts that mattered and didn't concentrate mostly on meaningless salacious rumors and suppositions.
Cross posted at SteveAudioLabels: clinton, mainstream media, media bias
The Goose's Gander
posted by The Vidiot @ 3:26 PM Permalink
This is from the "paper of record," the old gray lady, all the news that's fit to print, aka.
The New York Times:
This is where things stand nearly three weeks after Russia invaded Georgia and radically upended ties with the West: Russian troops still occupy key areas, including the port of Poti; Moscow has recognized the independence of Georgia’s two breakaway regions; Georgia’s president, Mikheil Saakashvili, is still talking tough even though his army is routed and his country shattered.
From the outset, the very first line is WRONG. Saakashvili
instigated the bombing in South Ossetia, not Russia. Russia did not invade Georgia, Georgia, for all intents and purposes, invaded Russia and Russia fought back.
And they wonder why they're losing customers to the blogs.
Labels: corporate owned media, georgia, media bias, MSM, Russia
Crystal clear evidence of an anti-Obama bias from the WaPo.com…
posted by Bill Arnett @ 11:33 AM Permalink
…in an
editorial complaining that Obama is not doing something that McPain isn't doing either. Talk of wearing your prejudices like your favorite shirt!
Excerpts:
IT WASN'T so long ago -- last September, to be specific -- that a senator with a particular interest in campaign finance reform introduced a bill to provide important transparency in presidential campaigns. The measure, S. 2030, would require presidential campaigns to report the names of fundraisers who bring in "bundles" of individual contributions totaling $50,000 or more. The campaigns would have to report the occupations of the bundlers and the specific amounts they are credited with raising. This was a terrific idea. It's too bad that the bill's sponsor, Barack Obama, is failing to follow the rules he set out.[…]
John McCain, whose disclosure of bundlers had been sketchier than Mr. Obama's, told the campaign finance groups it would add employer and occupational information to his list of bundlers, promising monthly updates and saying he would include in the totals the amounts bundlers raised for the Republican National Committee to benefit the McCain campaign. The Obama campaign did not reply to the groups' letter.
The biggest flaw with both candidates' disclosures is that they stop being specific at what is a relatively low amount: $200,000 for Mr. Obama and $250,000 for Mr. McCain.[…]
Mr. McCain's recent additions are welcome but insufficient. How far Mr. Obama's performance falls short can be measured by his own legislation.
So why is the lede specifically critical of Obama and the criticism of McLame minimized? And didn't McBlame totally renege on the public financing bill he cosponsored with Russ Feingold, making him so much bigger a liar than Obama? And isn't McInsane operating unlawfully under the public campaign financing laws?
MEDIA BIAS. Don't leave home without it.
Just what we need, another scofflaw president like McSame replacing the war criminal bush.
UPDATE: I checked and S. 2030 was introduced only as an amendment to 1971 legislation and no action has taken place on it.
See, GovTrack.us where they state:
This bill is in the first step in the legislative process. Introduced bills go first to committees that deliberate, investigate, and revise them before they go to general debate. The majority of bills never make it out of committee. Keep in mind that sometimes the text of one bill is incorporated into another bill, and in those cases the original bill, as it would appear here, would seem to be abandoned. [Last Updated: Jul 5, 2008]
Last Action:
Sep 6, 2007: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration. NO VOTES HAVE BEEN HAD ON THIS AMENDMENT.
Kinda makes the WaPo.com look like prejudiced idiots, doesn't it?
Labels: Barack Obama, disclosure, disinformation, McCain, media bias, propaganda
