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I really can’t explain why I don’t like her…it’s just this feeling I’ve had for a while!

 

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Obama Praised for Golf, Bush Demonized

Barack Obama has already matched George W. Bush’s 24 rounds on the golf course in 10 short months what took Bush 34 months.  Eventually, Bush quite all together because of media criticism.

As USA Today points out:

The Oval’s good friend Mark Knoller of CBS News reports that Obama on Sunday played his 24th round of golf since his inauguration Jan. 20 — matching Bush’s presidential total, which he racked up in two years and 10 months. …President Bush played his last round in 2003, telling reporters he didn’t think it was appropriate to play the game with the  U.S. at war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Previously, Bush’s mixing of golf and foreign policy had gotten him into trouble.

Despite two war locations, a massive recession, 10 percent unemployment, and a runaway spending, Obama’s golf game is not criticized by the media.  However, when Bush played golf he was demonized.  Can somebody say “double standard” out there?

 

Spinning Out Of Control: Honor Killings and Media Bias

We are entering an all-spin zone, a wild, weird and spooky season and I am not talking about Halloween.

With a few exceptions, the mainstream media continue to kill stories about honor killings and attempted honor killings in North America. How often did you read stories about the honor killings that took place in Toronto (07), Dallas (08), Atlanta (08), Oak Forest, Illinois (08), Alexandria (08), Buffalo (09), and Kingston, Canada (09)—on and on, until the most recent attempted honor killing in Phoenix?

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The Reconstruction of American Journalism

I just read through the document, The Reconstruction of American Journalism by Leonard Downie, Jr. and Michael Schudson. I found it a bit disturbing.

The article discusses the current transition of traditional media in light of the Internet, and the future funding of traditional media.

“As this report will explain, credible independent news reporting cannot flourish without news organizations of various kinds, including the print and digital reporting operations of surviving newspapers. But it is unlikely that any but the smallest of these news organizations can be supported primarily by existing online revenue. That is why we will be exploring a variety and mixture of ways to support news reporting, which must include nonmarket sources like philanthropy and government.” (emphasis mine)

The authors recommend creating government-sponsored news organizations (tax exempt and government funded – in part or in full) as the solution to this problem.

In addition, they want universities to train students in “enterprise and accountability journalism, which by definition bring new information to light, can grow into society-changing work not that dissimilar to academic research that makes original contributions to knowledge in history and the social sciences.” (emphasis mine)

My question is: if government funds the news media, who is going to watch the government? Will we be able to criticize the government if they control the media? Isn’t this a problem in China?

Also, is it the role of news reporting to “change” society? What happened to news reporters simply reporting the news? Using the media to “change” society sounds like propaganda to me. Do we really want government-sponsored, propaganda-based news?

You may (or may not) agree with the current government or like some of the current media offerings, but what will happen when we get a new batch of politicians? How will these people restrict free speech in the process of “supporting” news reporting and “providing” independent reporting. How will this or a new administration want to “change” society using the media or restricting the use of media? You can’t just look at one administration. These rules will evolve as the government evolves, either for good or for bad.

I, for one, am tired of our government bailing out failed and/or outdated companies using taxpayer money. We didn’t bail out the manual typewriter manufacturers or the stagecoach manufacturers. I’m sure jobs were lost, but progress created new jobs in the same or in new industries. If the traditional media dies, a new media industry will take its place. New jobs will be created and media will still be independent of government. Then let’s spend our government money on reeducating those who lost jobs so they can compete in the new industries.

If we keep bailing out automobile manufacturers, banks, and newspapers with government funding, we may keep the same jobs, but will it be worth it? What will we lose in the process?

Update: Snooper has commentary

Originally posted on EmptyNestMom Goes to College

New York Times Says the Darnedest Things, Regarding ACORN, Van Jones, and so on and so forth

What do you make of this? Yes, it is humorous, but, I don’t think that was the main effect they were going for, over at Marxstream Media, Manhattan.

THE PUBLIC EDITOR
Tuning In Too Late

By CLARK HOYT

Published: September 26, 2009

ON Sept. 12, an Associated Press article inside The Times reported that the Census Bureau had severed its ties to Acorn, [sic, ACORN] the community organizing group. Robert Groves, the census director, was quoted as saying that Acorn, one of thousands of unpaid organizations promoting the 2010 census, had become “a distraction.”

What the article didn’t say — but what followers of Fox News and conservative commentators already knew — was that a video sting had caught Acorn workers counseling a bogus prostitute and pimp on how to set up a brothel staffed by under-age girls, avoid detection and cheat on taxes. The young woman in streetwalker’s clothes and her companion were actually undercover conservative activists with a hidden camera.

It was an intriguing story: employees of a controversial outfit, long criticized by Republicans as corrupt, appearing to engage in outrageous, if not illegal, behavior. An Acorn worker in Baltimore was shown telling the “prostitute” that she could describe herself to tax authorities as an “independent artist” and claim 15-year-old prostitutes, supposedly illegal immigrants, as dependents.

But for days, as more videos were posted and government authorities rushed to distance themselves from Acorn, The Times stood still. Its slow reflexes — closely following its slow response to a controversy that forced the resignation of Van Jones, a White House adviser — suggested that it has trouble dealing with stories arising from the polemical world of talk radio, cable television and partisan blogs. Some stories, lacking facts, never catch fire. But others do, and a newspaper like The Times needs to be alert to them or wind up looking clueless or, worse, partisan itself.

Some editors told me they were not immediately aware of the Acorn videos on Fox, YouTube and a new conservative Web site called BigGovernment.com. When the Senate voted to cut off all federal funds to Acorn, there was not a word in the newspaper, although a report in the Caucus blog that day covered the action. When the New York City Council froze all its funding for Acorn and the Brooklyn district attorney opened a criminal investigation, there was still nothing.

Readers noticed. James Jeff Crocket of New Britain, Conn., spoke for many when he said he was sure he knew why the paper was silent: “protecting the progressive movement.”

The piece goes on, tip-toeing an imaginary line between confession and denial, apology and excuse. This, particularly, brings a lasting smile:

Jill Abramson, the managing editor for news, agreed with me that the paper was “slow off the mark,” and blamed “insufficient tuned-in-ness to the issues that are dominating Fox News and talk radio.” She and Bill Keller, the executive editor, said last week that they would now assign an editor to monitor opinion media and brief them frequently on bubbling controversies. Keller declined to identify the editor, saying he wanted to spare that person “a bombardment of e-mails and excoriation in the blogosphere.”

Despite what the critics think, Abramson said the problem was not liberal bias.

Liberal bias? Naaaa. The solution to the not really bias? Let us see that again: “…assign an editor to monitor opinion media and brief them frequently on bubbling controversies.” The “controversies” of “opinion media?” Is that what you call journalism, from those pesky Americans who happen to believe government should abide by the Constitution, Mr. Hoyt? And, do you really purport, your comrades are so Old World that they fail to heed any particular kinds of new, er… “opinion media?”

Here is how it closes. (Still grinning and shaking my head, as fingers move on the keyboard.)

But Rosenstiel said The Times has a particular problem with conservatives, especially after its article last year suggesting that John McCain had an extramarital affair. And Republicans earlier this year charged that the paper killed a story about Acorn that would have been a “game changer” in the presidential election — a claim I found to be false.“If you know you are a target, it requires extra vigilance,” Rosenstiel said. “Even the suspicion of a bias is a problem all by itself.”

The public editor can be reached by e-mail: public@nytimes.com.

Do you really think he is reachable? Look up! Take my hand, Clark! What are you trying to say, Mr. Hoyt? Hint: what were you just trying not to say?

Here is one email, to the public editor:

Come out from that closet,
Before the door closes,
And brings more pain,
To your reporters’ toeses.

Escape “the polemic world…
…of” which your noses,
Snort up all their lines,
from the Daily Kozes.

Okay, maybe not straight from Daily Koz, all the time; call it poetic license. And, if you read this as you begin your day, Clark, I don’t mean to distract you too much, during the morning conference call with Pravda John Podesta.

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Also see: Michelle Malkin – A welcome message for the NYT’s new “opinion media monitor”

US News and CBS attack The Right

Showing their bias, CBS News and US News attack the right (even using Barney Frank as an expert).

 

Michael Moore Says Capitalism Killed Newspaper Industry

Mental midget, Michael Moore says Capitalism is the reason newspapers are failing. Uh, this is as dumb as celebrities can get. Enjoy watching him make an idiot of himself.

 

Obama Has a Lot in Common with Kanye

 

Shortly after 9/11 I unplugged my television. I was fed up. This February I plugged it back it. Now I must consider unplugging it again.

This coming Sunday will be a good time to be in church. The pretender, the great one, great leader, the big O (is the O for overexposed?), by whatever name you call him, will be doing the rounds of the big three on Sunday 20 September. In his first seven months as POTUS he has done 114 interviews compared to 41 by Clinton and 37 by Bush.

By choosing a Sunday morning he is hoping to speak to his strength and loyal demographics, the non-religious viewers. I am guess that in his twenty plus years of the great Bible scholar Jeremiah Wright, BHO never heard about keeping the Sabbath holy or perhaps he celebrates another day as his Sabbath.

Not since Kanye West stole the microphone from Taylor Swift have we seen a more egregious cry for the spotlight.

We have seen how Obama hogs the microphone at his so called “town halls”, once he starts talking he doesn’t shut up but he has yet to say anything substantive. I would pity the poor interviewers if I actually expected them to do their jobs but that will never happen. They are no longer true journalists or reporters, they have become sycophants.  Obama has to have adoration because he is intolerant of any viewpoint that even hints of being different.

The one place you won’t see Obama is on Fox. They are mean to the anointed one…they actually ask hard questions and TOTUS requires programming with answers by Axelrod and Rahm. No, an unscripted interview with the narcissist Obama is not a good idea, nor would it be good for his reputation as an orator.

Er…er…er… I… We…

Barack, solo or with at least part of his family have dominated the Time and Newsweek magazine covers for the last 19 months. It must be wearing on him for his hair seems to go from salt and pepper to black and back again, or perhaps that’s just the reflection from his faux halo that he is having grafted to his horns for his next coronation as Leader of the World.

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Mainstream Media Fails Again

By and reprinted with the permission of Nancy Matthis at American Daughter

The mainstream media made no mention of the controversy surrounding Van Jones until AFTER he resigned. The usual suspects, who have shaped the news for years, — CBS, NBC, the Washington Post, and the New York Times — carried no news at all until the Jones affair was over.

Then they reported, briefly (trying to minimize the damage to Obama), that Jones had resigned as the result of a vicious right-wing smear campaign. That is a very biased way to characterize an exposé consisting entirely of video clips of the man’s own speeches. How do you smear someone by quoting his very words?

The bloggers, the radio and cable television talk shows, and the social networks were the only sources of information. Yet it was sufficient to inform the public, who raised an outcry that brought results.

It would seem that the mainstream media is no longer necessary. More than that, it is pretty obvious that they are not doing their jobs. So we will not feel sorry for them when they whine about declining subscription numbers.

At the Washington Examiner, Byron York asks — Why did the press ignore the Van Jones scandal?:

Certainly there’s bias involved. Given what we know from the formal and informal polling of journalists at mainstream organizations, most of the people involved in political reporting are liberals, and likely Democrats. They want the Obama administration to succeed….

There was a day, not too long ago, when … influential news organizations could kill a story … simply by ignoring it. Sometimes they still try. But it just won’t work anymore.

The erstwhile media moguls are not taking their downfall gracefully. At Townhall, David Limbaugh notes The Mainstream Media’s Temper Tantrum:

With the resignation of green czar Van Jones despite their efforts to protect him, the mainstream media have finally been reduced to sputtering incoherence, as they’ve observed the un-deification of their anointed messiah and experienced firsthand their own diminishing relevance.

The MSM are engaging in a colossal temper tantrum over their lost news monopoly — a monopoly they forfeited through their bias, arrogance and self-imposed insulation….

This is an especially hard pill for them to swallow considering that during the past year, they’ve been stewing in the intoxicating delusion that they were again supreme, as they appeared to be getting away with their conspiratorial enthroning of King Barack Obama. And they’re not handling rejection well.

If you have time, read the rest of Limbaugh’s piece. He details the arrogant and self-serving remarks made by the media dinosaurs in the aftermath — a sorry lot they are and it is so heartwarming to see them squirm. It puts one in mind of that famous remark:

“You couldn’t have a starker contrast between the multiple layers of checks and balances [in the mainstream media] and a guy sitting in his living room in his pajamas writing.”

It is a stark contrast indeed. Just not the way that he meant it.

 

NBC’s Meet The Press Attack The Internet & Bloggers

The panel on Meet the Press attacks bloggers and internet users. He refers to them as “flat out stupid.”

 

Does Obama Scare You?

(Updated)

I am revising an old quote instead of FDR’s original, “The only thing we have to fear is fear it’self – nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.” I am changing it to:

The only thing we have to fear is is death, not only our death but the death of a great Republic.

A death orchestrated and controlled by a messianic anti-American President and a sycophantic Congress. A voting public that is bedazzled by false rhetoric and dumbed down by a liberal education system and a biased media. A populace the majority of which has been spoiled since birth to take rather than give.

Lou Prichett, a former VP of Proctor & Gamble wrote an open letter to the NYT, but as is normally the case the gray lady chose not to publish such an intelligent dissenting view. This is that letter:

AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA

Dear President Obama:

You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and unlike any of the others, you truly scare me.

You scare me because after months of exposure, I know nothing about you.

You scare me because I do not know how you paid for your expensive Ivy League education and your upscale lifestyle and housing with no visible signs of support.

You scare me because you did not spend the formative years of youth growing up in America and culturally you are not an American.

You scare me because you have never run a company or met a payroll.

You scare me because you have never had military experience, thus don’t understand it at its core.

You scare me because you lack humility and ‘class’, always blaming others.

You scare me because for over half your life you have aligned yourself with radical extremists who hate America and you refuse to publicly denounce these radicals who wish to see America fail.

You scare me because you are a cheerleader for the ‘blame America ‘ crowd and deliver this message abroad.

You scare me because you want to change America to a European style country where the government sector dominates instead of the private sector.

You scare me because you want to replace our health care system with a government controlled one.

You scare me because you prefer ‘wind mills’ to responsibly capitalizing on our own vast oil, coal and shale reserves.

You scare me because you want to kill the American capitalist goose that lays the golden egg which provides the highest standard of living in the world.

You scare me because you have begun to use ‘extortion’ tactics against certain banks and corporations

You scare me because your own political party shrinks from challenging you on your wild and irresponsible spending proposals.

You scare me because you will not openly listen to or even consider opposing points of view from intelligent people.

You scare me because you falsely believe that you are both omnipotent and omniscient.

You scare me because the media gives you a free pass on everything you do.

You scare me because you demonize and want to silence the Limbaughs, Hannitys, O’Reillys and Becks who offer opposing, conservative points of view.

You scare me because you prefer controlling over governing.

Finally, you scare me because if you serve a second term I will probably not feel safe in writing a similar letter in 8 years.

Lou Pritchett

I have assembled a few quotes for you to ponder:

Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual – and the soul of a people. (Anwar el-Sadat)

He who takes a stand is often wrong, but he who fails to take a stand is always wrong.

The brave don’t live forever, but the cautious don’t live at all. (Timothy Luce)

The best way out is always through. (Robert Frost)

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. (Ambrose Redmoon)

 

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Is the News Media Becoming Color Blind?

Well, time for me to salt up some crow. I honestly didn’t think any good would come from the Obama Administration. I was hoping against hope that it would the platform wasn’t a bunch of lies, but alas I continue to look for some good and at last may have found some.

At first look we are now truly a nation that is color-blind, not even cynical news readers from the biased media can tell a white man from a black man. They have scrubbed race from the staples of journalism (who, what, when, where and why). They have eliminated race from their reporting for so long that they are now truly color blind.

Here is the un-cropped video of the “white” man by a rival media company.

 

Oops, after reviewing both tapes and the audio voice over guess I don’t have to eat any crow just yet,  since both of the alleged reporters attempted to make this a racial issue.

Since Obama is half black and half white, at least according to his alleged autobiography, it is only fitting that he is disliked by half the country.

The Constitution and the Bill of Rights is for all Americans regardless of ethnicity. Why is that belief so hard for the liberal media to understand?

Also an AR15 is a semi-automatic rifle NOT an assault rifle. An assault rifle is a selective fire weapon capable of semi or full automatic fire. These type weapons while legal are tightly controlled via tax stamps by the BATF. When will the pretty faces of news readers get the facts correct?

The liberal media is now asking the question, “What if a black liberal showed up at a Bush Rally carrying a loaded gun?” Well, that pre-supposes several other questions, like do liberals other than anarchists own guns? Are they in an open carry State?  If they did legally carry a gun to a rally I would worry that they would blow their own foot off… literally not figuratively like the liberal media. I wonder how the liberal media would try to spin that?

The Truth Behind the Obama-as-Joker Posters

The L.A. Times today interviews the creator of the now-famous poster of President Obama as the Joker. To the amazement (and probably the disappointment) of many in the mainstream media, the creator is not what they might have expected:

When cryptic posters portraying President Obama as the Joker from “Batman” began popping up around Los Angeles and other cities, the question many asked was, Who is behind the image?

Was it an ultra-conservative grassroots group or a disgruntled street artist going against the grain?

Nope, it turns out, just a 20-year-old college student from Chicago.

Bored during his winter school break, Firas Alkhateeb, a senior history major at the University of Illinois, crafted the picture of Obama with the recognizable clown makeup using Adobe’s Photoshop software.

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[He didn't vote in the last election, but] If he had to choose a politician to support, Alkhateeb said, it would be Ohio Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich…Regardless, Alkhateeb does agree…about “socialism” being the wrong caption for the Joker image. ‘It really doesn’t make any sense to me at all,’ he said. ‘To accuse him of being a socialist is really…immature. First of all, who said being a socialist is evil?’ Read the entire article on the L.A. Times >>

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Hundreds Show Up to Protest SEIU Thuggery & Violence In St. Louis

Nowhere are we seeing the reports of what real Americans are doing to combat the communist tactics that Obama, and his Czars are perpetuating upon the American people. Well, Gateway Pundit has a report that includes videos which prove the Mainstream media is not doing its job.

Via Gateway Pundit…

 

Golf: Love Obama vs. Hate Bush

When it comes to golf, the media loves Barack Obama but hated George Bush.  Let me give you an example:

The Washington Post on June 9, 2009, in an article with the headline “Just the Sport for A Leader Most Driven.” On August 5, 2002, The Washington Post wrote about President Bush golfing, “Before Golf, Bush Decries Latest Deaths in Mideast.”

The Washington Post mocked George Bush for golfing during a time of war, “wearing khakis and a knit shirt, was holding a driver in his gloved left hand… However incongruous the setting, the president plunged ahead…. His business out of the way, Bush barely paused for breath before saying, ‘Thank you. Now watch this drive.’”

Obama on the other hand, despite the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, violence in Iran, and an economy that Obama has described as the worst since the Great Depression, golfed several times in the past few weeks–on April 26, May 16, May 25, May 31, June 7, June 9, June 14 and June 21.  In return, a Google search will show he received countless praise by the press for his golf adventures.  Take the New York Times recent statement, “Obama was briefed on the latest events on the ground in Iran. Obama also played a round of golf at at Fort Belvior, Virginia, before spending the remainder of his day with his family at the White House. He also took his daughters out for frozen custard Saturday.”