Category: Media Bias

Flip Side Of The Coin

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by Smitty

So, NPR’s use of ‘Juan Begone’ has ended in a $2 million dollar contract for Mr. Williams. Well, that’s capitalism for ya.
What I’m wondering, putting Soros’ $1 megabuck grant to Media Matters, the recent canning of Rick Sanchez don’t point to internal financial turmoil within the various Lefty outlets, and the non-success that is Parker/Client 9 From Outer Space, is whether Juan is symptomatic of something bigger.
If the cash flow was regular, wouldn’t these relatively minor utterances from the various media personalities fail the ‘So, what’ test?
Stay tuned after the election, when the ratings vacuum starts to suck down some bigger names, and we arrive at MSNBC-NN-BS, in a vain experiment to see if bigger acronyms are correlate with, you know, viewers.

The WaPo Looks Really Bad Over Christine O’Donnell

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WaPo,
As a subscriber, one hopes that the correct people are held accountable for this debacle:
http://patterico.com/2010/10/20/wapoap-caught-revising-the-o%E2%80%99donnell-story-without-issuing-a-correction/
Suggestion: man up, do the correct thing, and give Christine O’Donnell a proper interview, post-haste. The media, in general, is engaged in a McCarthyite war against a lawful candidate, and the WaPo ought to be extinguishing, rather than pouring gasoline on the fire.
Regards,
Chris Smith,
Alexandria, VA

In a prompt reply, the WaPo noted that this is an AP story. Also, Ace lowers the boom on Ben Evans. Note to self: do not aggravate Ace.
Via BlogProf, Dana Loesch hammers Client #9 and Whatshername over the current state of US politics in general, and Christine O’Donnell inter alia:

Dana, you rock, lady.

CHRISTINE O’DONNELL for U.S. SENATE

CNN Parker-Spitzer Anti-Palin Hour

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OK, so Monday they brought on Aaron Sorkin to call Sarah Palin names and Tuesday it was Oliver Stone’s turn:

As Larry O’Connor at BreitbartTV says, this seems to be a nightly feature: “Let’s get some famous Hollywood lefty on the show to badmouth Palin, because that’s what CNN’s dwindling audience of people stuck in airport lounges really want to see.”

Genius Marketing Strategy: “We’re stuck in the cable-news basement, so we want to imitate the obnoxious attitude of the No. 2 network as slavishly as possible. Except, instead of using a smirky young lesbian to bash Palin, we’ll do it with a disgraced politician and one of Chris Matthews’ least-popular occasional guests.”

How bad is it? It’s so bad, Ace of Spades can’t even be bothered to joke about it anymore.

One Bright Ray Amid the Gloom

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Regular readers are by now aware that (a) my friends got invited to speak at Smart Girl Summit while I did not, and (b) the blog went kablooey today. Things have been going from bad to worse ever since that deer killed my car, and the situation now seems so impossibly hopeless that all I can do is joke about it while each new humiliation is piled atop the Towering Heap o’ Shame.

Yet after calculating the distance to the George Washington Bridge, I decided to check Memeorandum and saw this headline:

Breaking: Rick Sanchez fired from CNN

Thanks for that news, Allah Who Never Links Me. Why was Sanchez fired? Ed Who Links Me Once in a While quotes what Sanchez told a radio talk-show host:

I’m telling you that everybody who runs CNN is a lot like [Jon] Stewart, and a lot of people who run all the other networks are a lot like Stewart, and to imply that somehow they, the people in this country who are Jewish, are an oppressed minority? Yeah.

Here I am, at that nadir of discouragement where it feels as if the entire universe is conspiring to humiliate me, and never once did I attempt to single out a culprit.

My failure is, alas, entirely my own. Because I suck.

Meanwhile, here’s Mr. Hotshot TV Anchor taking potshots at a comedian and saying, Those Jews Are All In On It!

The beauty of the universe is sometimes so ironic — and the ironies often so beautiful — that some of us detect in it evidence of divine intervention.

God? Yeah, he’s Jewish, too.

And what a comedian!

(BTW, among the features rendered inoperable by the site malfunction: The tip jar, which could use some shekels.)

P.S: If any of our Zionist Media Overlords are looking to hire an award-winning journalist, feel free to drop me an e-mail. This business of being America’s Least-Respected Conservative Blogger™ is beginning to bum me out and, if it helps to establish my credentials as a ger toshav, I’ll point out that I was a finalist for the 2009 Malkin Award.

UPDATE: Pamela Geller reminds us that this isn’t the first such situation for CNN:

Who can forget Octavia Nasr, who was forced to resign after tweeting about weeping over the the death of grand jihadist Hezb’Allah Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah?

Considering the context of Sanchez’s remark, it seems that what he was doing was playing that popular liberal game, “Who’s the Bigger Victim?”

Sanchez pointed out that Stewart had grown up in an affluent suburb by way of disparaging any notion that Jews have a plausible claim to victim status. Whereas Sanchez grew up in a rat-infested slum the suburbs of Miami. Hr was subsequently persecuted prosecuted for being Hispanic driving drunk when he paralyzed a man in a hit-and-run accident.

No doubt, Rick Sanchez is at least the second-biggest victim of his own stupidity.

Do You Share My View That Cohen’s Ideas Are Symptomatic Of Why Progressivism Must Be Utterly Rejected?

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by Smitty (h/t HotAir)

I wish good health and long life to Richard Cohen. Let’s start off in a positive vein, as, turning to the risible pile of false ideas he served up in Tuesday’s WaPo, the opening sentence represents the nicest part of this post.
The title refers to the survey in the right column of the page posing the question “Do you share Cohen’s view that the GOP is ‘unfit to govern’?” Fit to govern, Cohen? Do you really want to go there, after a Democrat brought a comic in on Friday to have his colonoscopy result read into the Congressional record? On the same day where the Civil Rights Commission heard just exactly how little the Democrat party and its political appointees care about the sanctity of elections? Unfit to govern. Allow me to wish good health upon you again, in lieu of expressing a less savory opinion, Cohen.
Moving on to the column proper, “Republicans under a spell”:

Cohen Smitty
Christine O’Donnell, the Tea Party candidate from lil’ ol’ Delaware, confesses to have once “dabbled into witchcraft” — a fittingly ungrammatical revelation that not only was to be expected but explains what has happened to the Republican Party. Someone — possibly you know who — has cast a spell on it, and now it has a candidate whose main contribution to political thought or, indeed, the plight of the poor is to have railed against masturbation, which she likened to adultery. Only a spell can explain such thinking. Or she was referring to High School. Of course, you were, no doubt, too busy translating The Odyssey or whatever to have a life, explore, do anything regrettable.
Only a spell also can explain how Newt Gingrich, possibly a presidential candidate, can attribute the politics of Barack Obama to “Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior.” Obama allegedly picked up this behavior from his father, whom he knew only fleetingly, which is to say almost not at all, and who has long been dead. This, as Gingrich and others under the spell can tell you, is proof of the demonic power that can come out of the grave, enter the White House (look, the gate-crashing Salahis did it) and pervade the very body and mind of the commander in chief. It’s enough to give you the willies. Look, if you don’t know about Bill Ayers, then what exactly is it that you know, Cohen? The Newt segue is a non-sequitur from your Tea Party starting point. Or maybe Newt trolled you like you troll your readers.
Similarly, only a spell can explain why much of the Republican Party insists on calling Obama a socialist. To apply this label to the very man who saved Big Finance, who rescued Goldman Sachs and the rest of the boys, who gave a Heimlich to the barely breathing banks, can only be explained by witchcraft or voodoo or something like that. It has caused the GOP to lose its mind. Obama did something similar to the American auto industry, saving it from itself. He did not let it fail or nationalize it, as a socialist would have done, but pumped cash into it so that — this is me speaking — it can fail later on. At least give some linkage in the web version to where you think any of these things occurred, Cohen. The truth is that We The People think TARP was a big fat stinking lie, a run on the till by thieves knowing that the economic jig is essentially up, and a payoff for electoral favors done. One way of telling if your opinions are idiotic is whether they are congruent with those of Paul Krugman, the World’s Ugliest Cheerleader. After the election, when we shine a light down the dark hole, we’ll grasp the depths of the falsehood of the current fiscal policy.
The unseen effects of witchcraft are clearly the reason about one-fifth of Americans believe Obama is a Muslim. In fact, as time goes by, more and more people subscribe to this belief — a phenomenon so at odds with logic or rational thinking that the explanation has to lie in the darkest of arts — witchcraft and voodoo. (The GOP does the voodoo that you do so well.) Many other Americans think Obama was not born in the United States but abroad, in Indonesia or Kenya or even Hawaii, which unknown to a lot of people is an American state. (It’s Alaska that’s a foreign country.) The new GOP Senate candidate and Tea Party favorite in Alaska, Joe Miller, answers almost any question by referring to the Constitution. Nothing in it about Social Security, he observed. It also permitted slavery, he fails to observe. Since you bring it up, Cohen, why do you bring it up? Has it occurred to you that bringing it up tends to bring up the number? If you think the idea not worth discussing, then we could at least agree on something. But you insist on bringing this up. Possibly you are in the 20% who feel comfortable making that kind of assertion about another person’s relationship with the Almighty. However, precious few bloggers deign to mention it. The idea seems to have the most traction on the Left. Is that because the Left are the 20% (I doubt that) or the Left feels this is a fine, shiny distractor? Ah, now there we may have something.
This fatuous infatuation with the Constitution, particularly the 10th Amendment, is clearly the work of witches, wiccans and wackos. It has nothing to do with America’s real problems and, if taken too seriously, would cause an economic and political calamity. The Constitution is a wonderful document, quite miraculous actually, but only because it has been wisely adapted to changing times. To adhere to the very word of its every clause hardly is respectful to the Founding Fathers. They were revolutionaries who embraced change. That’s how we got here. [breaking format for readability]

Really, Cohen, really? The oath I swore to support and defend the Constitution of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic, is fatuous? The millions who have endured, bled and died for the ideals in that document are “witches, wiccans and wackos”? Would you go on an FSO tour and tell that to the troops, please? Because they would cheerfully tell you that they support and defend your First Amendment right to sound like an utter worm in print, sir. “nothing to do with America’s real problems”, you continue? The very problems themselves are predicated on the ignorance you espouse. Lacking the eminent domain over the individual wallet, an un-elected, un-accountable Federal Reserve to support endless irresponsibility, your ideas, your ilk, are the source of our economic and political calamity. This may help explain your vigorous finger pointing.
“wisely adapted to changing times” when, exactly? Abstract principles like liberty are invariant. Available technology varies over time. The historical truth is that Progressives perverted princiles in ways that may have seemed expedient at the time, but have proven devastating, giving rise to a Ruling Class of incumbents that are currently robbing the country blind in their avarice. Have I wished you long life lately? I sincerely want you to outgrow these moronic ideas and repent of them.
“To adhere to the very word of its every clause hardly is respectful to the Founding Fathers. They were revolutionaries who embraced change.” While I am toeing a pleasant, relatively civil line here, Cohen, I submit that those founding fathers would not. They were revolutionaries against the kind of Ruling Class authoritarianism in front of which you cannot wait to genuflect. They embraced liberty, and, I daresay, have put a bayonette through falsehoods like ObamaCare.
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Cohen Smitty
To hear Republican conservatives at the recent Values Voter Summit was to hear speaker after speaker talk about things that could not be seen and did not exist. One is the so-called homosexual agenda, which has made a political movement out of sexual orientation. This agenda, whatever it may be, must be a mystery to gay conservatives, of which there are several. And so what exactly do you think Harry Reid was recently trying to attach to the defense authorization bill, Cohen? A lousy Hardy Boys mystery? An Archie comic book? Stephen Colbert’s colonoscopy results? One of your columns, insofar as it differs from a colonoscopy result?
O’Donnell is where the GOP has been heading for some time. The party’s leaders have steadfastly refused to take a stand against any idiocy, even suggesting they agree that Obama might not be a Christian. Their intellectuals have supported and advanced the know-nothingness of Sarah Palin. Nothing to them is beyond the pale. This party is not fit to govern. It would support the Joker but not Batman, who hangs too much with Robin. Here’s the deal, Cohen: if the American people agree with you and the Democrats, we’ll know on 02 November. When We The People drive an electoral bus right over the Progressive falsehoods you espouse, my suggestion is that you just retire and go work on a memoir. I’ll give you one last read, as you weep for Socialist Utopia Lost, but then we must truly set about ignoring your useless distractions. You’ll have ceased to be fun, and be just another brick in a wall of false prophets.
So now it has a candidate in Delaware who truly is a career politician. She seems to have no means of support except campaign funds. She supposedly lives in her headquarters, although this is somewhat in dispute. Whatever the case, she has no job and no views worth a moment’s consideration. (She even appalls Karl Rove.) She’s not likely to win, but the way things are going this year, she just might. People are angry. People are mad. The night is dark.
Witch way out of here?		 The ~$2 million she raised in a week are a clear sign the correctness of your guage of We The People. Oh, and your guage is broken, Cohen. Your snarky little troll editorial is spent, and my rage at your lousy ideas with it. Truly sad stuff, your ideas. The real work will be explaining to everyone the Progressives have thoroughly rooked the American people. If we had a philosopher’s stone that could turn your distortions and finger pointing into cash, we could afford your Utopia.

You stay healthy, Cohen.
–Smitty