The Liberal Hypocrite – Media Bias Is Ok If It’s A Liberal Bias

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Ahhhh the Democrats. When it comes to hypocrisy no one can beat em.

Recall this episode some weeks back:

Rupert Murdoch, who has never been shy about making his political views known, has voted with his sizable checkbook.

Murdoch’s News Corp. has made a $1 million donation to the Republican Governors Association, triggering swift criticism from Democrats that a contribution of that magnitude casts a shadow on his media properties, particularly Fox News.

“For a media company — particularly one whose slogan is ‘fair and balanced’ — to be injecting themselves into the outcome of races is stunning,” Nathan Daschle, executive director of the Democratic Governors Association, said Tuesday. “The people owning Fox News have made a decision that they want to see Democratic governors go down to defeat. It’s a jaw-dropping violation of the boundary between the media and corporate realm.”

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“Any pretense that may have existed about the ties between Fox News and the Republican Party has been ripped violently away,” said Hari Sevugan, spokesman for the Democratic National Committee. “Any Republican that appears on Fox should now have a disclaimer that they are financially supported by the network and any coverage of the elections this fall on Fox should be reported with disclaimer for what it is — partisan propaganda.”

Of course they had no answer for the facts dug up by Mark Tapscott:

Senior executives, on-air personalities, producers, reporters, editors, writers and other self-identifying employees of ABC, CBS and NBC contributed more than $1 million to Democratic candidates and campaign committees in 2008, according to an analysis by The Examiner of data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics.

The Democratic total of $1,020,816 was given by 1,160 employees of the three major broadcast television networks, with an average contribution of $880.
By contrast, only 193 of the employees contributed to Republican candidates and campaign committees, for a total of $142,863. The average Republican contribution was $744.

And just yesterday as Robert Murdoch testified in front of Congress in SUPPORT of amnesty for illegal’s Maxine Waters urged him to back up his views by slanting the Fox News coverage:

Mr. Murdoch, both you and Mr. Bloomberg have the possibility of doing a lot of education, you’re very powerful with your media networks, and you’re able to disseminate a lot of info and to frame issues. and to mr Murdoch, it does not appear that what you are talking to us about today and the way that you are discussing it, is the way that it is discussed on fox, for example.

Why are you here with a basically a decent proposal taking about the advantage immigrants to our economy but I don’t see that being promoted on Fox. As a matter of fact, I’m often times stunned by what I hear on Fox, particularly when you have hosts talking about “Anchor Babies” and all of that. Explain to me, whats the difference in your being here and and what you do not do with your media networks

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I’m very grateful that you guys are here and what you’re saying, but I’m trying to point out the contradiction between Mr. Murdoch being here, saying these vital things about immigration reform and the contribution that immigrants make to our economy and our society, and i don’t see you promoting that in any way with all the power and ability that you have to do that, and I’m trying to find out, what is the difference? What is the contradiction? Why don’t you use your power to help us to promote what you’re talking about?

So let me get this straight. The Democrats have railed non-stop about Fox News and the supposed Republican slant to the coverage. They railed against Murdoch because they believe he is “promoting” his views through his channel.

But it would be a-ok if what he promoted just so happened to be a view that they agree with.

Newsbusters:

Waters and her ilk want Murdoch to openly steer the content of Fox and other News Corp reporting operations. Unlike the hypothetical “education” campaign Waters’s proposed, News Corp’s political activities have no demonstrable effect on the company’s news subsidiaries – no one has been able to point to any instance of such interplay.

(Fox differs from competitor MSNBC in that regard. The latter cable channel, and its sister channels on cable and network TV, have been the subjects of pressure from executives at General ELectric, their parent company, according to former employees. Charlie Gasparino, a former CNBC reporter,claimed that GE CEO Jeff Immelt pressured CNBC staff to go easy on President Obama. NewsBusters has documented the immense conflicts between NBC’s “green” campaigns and the millions of dollars GE stands to make from environmental policies that benefit from such campaigns.)

Waters is not simply suggesting that News Corp. exert itself in the cause of comprehensive immigration reform (i.e. amnesty). Murdoch is already doing that – that’s why he was testifying in the first place.

No, Waters is suggesting that Murdoch discard any appearance of separation between News Corp’s political preferences and its media activities, and begin promoting a political cause not only through the activities of the parent company, but by pushing that cause under the guise of news at News Corp’s media holdings.

Media bias is all well and good if it’s liberal bias.

Hypocrisy…thy name is Democrat.

Oh, btw….You must go read the whole piece by Lachlan Markay at Newsbusters to read even more about the threat she gave to Mr. Murdoch. The woman is a friggin witch….and a criminal.

More here.

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This is the same woman who threatened to “socialize” the oil companies. I guess the media is next…

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1264

As a Member of Congress, Waters belongs to the Progressive Caucus and the Congressional Black Caucus, the latter of which she formerly headed. In June 2005 she co-founded and chaired the Out of Iraq Congressional Caucus (OICC), an entity dedicated to agitating for a swift withdrawal of U.S. troops from the Iraqi theater of war — alleging that the American invasion in 2003 had been launched on a pretext of lies and deliberately manipulated intelligence. Waters’ fellow OICC co-founders included Lynn Woolsey, John Conyers, Charles Rangel, Barbara Lee, Jan Schakowsky, William Delahunt, and John R. Lewis.

Prior to every primary and final election, Waters publishes her own Progressive Connection mailer for her constituents; Democrat politicians eager for votes from her district pay Waters anywhere from $10,000 to $35,000 to be included in the slates of candidates her mailer endorses.

Waters’ political rhetoric is often demagogic. In 2001 she depicted the retiring moderate Republican Mayor of Los Angeles, Richard Riordan, as a “plantation owner.” On another occasion, while addressing the allegedly pervasive problem of police brutality against African Americans, Waters said that she had never seen Los Angeles police officers abuse “little white boys.”

During the Los Angeles riots in the wake of the infamous 1992 Rodney King trial, Waters described the violence (in which 58 people were killed) as “a spontaneous reaction to a lot of injustice.” She held “economic, social, cultural and political” factors responsible for the disorder.[1] She dismissed the mass black looting of Korean-owned stores by saying: “There were mothers who took this as an opportunity to take some milk, to take some bread, to take some shoes…. They are not crooks.” Chanting the radical slogan “No justice, no peace,” she attributed the rioters’ underlying rage to the federal government’s allegedly longstanding “neglect” of America’s inner cities.[2]

Waters further asserted that racial injustice was rampant in America. She claimed that the L.A. tumult could rightly be called a “rebellion” or “insurrection,” but not a riot. “Riot implies to me wild, crazed, uncalled-for actions,” she explained, “and I’m not so sure that’s quite appropriate for what took place in Los Angeles.”[3] It was “unfortunate,” she said, “that “it takes things like this rebellion to wake people up.”[4]

Waters co-sponsored Rep. John Conyers’ bill calling for reparations for slavery to be paid to African Americans.

Waters blames illicit drugs for the rampant crime that plagues her congressional district, and she has blamed the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for the presence of those drugs. In the 1980s she accused the CIA of selling crack in black neighborhoods. However, the San Jose Mercury-News eventually retracted the story on which Waters had based her allegations for lack of evidence. Undeterred, Waters told the Los Angeles Times in 1997: “It doesn’t matter whether the CIA delivered the kilo of cocaine themselves or turned their back on it to let somebody else do it. They’re guilty just the same.”

Waters has traveled several times to Cuba, where she praised dictator Fidel Castro and called for an end to the U.S. trade embargo against the Castro government. In a letter to Castro (quoted during an October 2, 1998 newscast on Radio Havana), she wrote that Castro had a perfect right to grant “political asylum” to U.S. citizens fleeing “political persecution.”

In 1999, when six-year-old Elian Gonzalez requested asylum in the U.S. after his mother had drowned during their escape from Cuba, Waters pressured President Bill Clinton to return the boy immediately to his homeland. During the controversy over the matter, Waters flew to Cuba and met with the boy’s father and grandmothers, thereby giving political and propaganda support to Castro.

In 1998 Waters voted in favor of a measure calling on Castro to turn over (to U.S. authorities) a female fugitive named Assata Olugbala Shakur, who had received refugee status in Havana after escaping from a U.S. prison — where she had been serving time for her role in the 1973 murder of a New Jersey state trooper. After having cast the aforementioned vote, Waters learned that Shakur was actually the former Black Panther Joanne Chesimard, who had taken a new name in the early 1970s. Once Waters was aware of the fugitive’s actual identity, the congresswoman penned a letter of apology to Castro and urged the Cuban dictator to continue safeguarding the convicted killer — because the latter been “persecuted for her civil-rights work” in the United States.

Organized labor is by far Waters’ biggest campaign contributor and has supplied more than two-thirds of her Political Action Committee (PAC) donations. Her largest labor support comes from the Laborers’ International Union of North America and the Service Employees International Union. Other Waters campaign donors include the American Association for Justice (formerly known as the Association of Trial Lawyers of America) and Viacom, which owns CBS and many cable networks.

In August 2005 Waters threw her support behind Cindy Sheehan’s campaign to discredit President Bush and the Iraq War effort.

Also in 2005, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics (CREW) named Waters as one of the 13 “most corrupt” members of the U.S. Congress. The CREW report cited a December 2004 Los Angeles Times investigation disclosing how a number of Waters’ relatives had made more than $1 million during the preceding eight years by doing business with companies, candidates and causes that Waters had helped. Waters declined to be interviewed about this matter, saying only that her family members “do their business, and I do mine.”

In a May 2008 congressional hearing on gasoline prices, Shell Oil President John Hofmeister stated: “I can guarantee to the American people because of the inaction of the United States Congress, ever-increasing prices, unless the demand comes down, and that $5 [per gallon] will look like a very low price in the years to come if we are prohibited from finding new [oil] reserves, new opportunities to increase supplies.” Waters replied: “And guess what this liberal will be all about? This liberal will be about socializing – would be about, basically, taking over, and the government running all of your companies.”

During the national financial crisis that struck in the autumn of 2008, Waters was lobbied by representatives of OneUnited Bank, a black-owned depository institution that was seeking a federal government bailout after having squandered almost $52 million of its bank capital on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac preferred stock. These lobbyists were longtime friends, donors, and fundraisers of Rep. Waters.

Meanwhile, Waters’ husband had a long history as an investor in one of the banks that had previously merged into OneUnited; he had once served on OneUnited’s board of directors; and he owned large amounts of stock in OneUnited. In fact, both he and Rep. Waters had owned six-figure sums of OneUnited stock at various times during the preceding six years.

In response to OneUnited’s lobbying, Rep. Waters intervened to arrange a meeting where representatives of the bank could plead their case to then-Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and 20 of his subordinates. As a result of that meeting, Paulson et al secretly engineered a special federal rescue of the floundering bank. This bailout cost American taxpayers $12 million in TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program) cash.

On August 2, 2010, the House Ethics Committee filed three charges against Waters, alleging that she had used her influence to gain special favors (from the federal government) for OneUnited.

And, there have been opportunities for the press to call her out on her hypocrisy, but:

Caution, offensive language as well as offensive member of Congress:

Off-the-Hook Hypocrisy: Rep. Waters Used to Love Vulgar & Outlandish Protest Rallies

There is corruption in both parties. However the GOP when it was in power kept Delay in a respected position until he was INDICTED> The Gop Hastret withdrew all of the Republican Reps from the ethics committee so they would not have a quorum to vote AGAINST Delay for ethics violations for a THIRD TIME. Pelosi could have done the same but hasn’t Under Pelosi the House has been much more active in going after ethics violations, the GOP’s efforts were non existent.

I observe the press with a somewhat jaundiced perspective, I hate it basically. I can not count on getting anything from ANY news service that accurately represents anything. I will say that perhaps Fox News is a “more constitutionally” aware organization, defintely less “progressive, statist, or socialist”, that and that alone adds a some credibility IMHO. Any thing and everything I see on even the “internet” news pages, Google, Yahoo or MSN . . . I always, always, always do my own further “investigation”. I go to several blogs and review what is going on the “blogosphere” before a form any opinion at all. It is quite obvious . . . to the point of hypocrisy how “ommissive” ALL the MSM, including, Fox are. Again, I will give a little more credibility to Fox. What the major news services do is treat current events as defined articles of “ignorance” by ommission. For some, almost unbelievable reason, the Major MSM’s philosophy is if we don’t tell “them”, meaning We The People . . . that We The People will not be aware of it. That philosophy is so far out of touch with the world of today that it is ludicrous. News is no longer news . . . it is “infantile amnesia” . . . they have forgotten what made them what they are and the degeneration is far beyond “forgetfulness” it is as if the entire major MSM is suffering from mass “Alzheimer’s Disease”. Keep in mind that this disease is filled with “partial” memories and conclusions and the MSM will fight to the death in support of a past concept or even the here and now concepts that are no longer at all what exists in the world. We are watching the terminal effects of such disease.

Skookem lays it out very nicely. Maxine and her fellow members of The Progressive and Congressional Black Caucus are all traitors. We need to elect a conservative majority so that there are enough votes to impeach or prosecute.

Because of gerrymandering people like Maxine are in completely safe districts.

There’s no way to get rid of her until she simply quits running.

Same with Pelosi and Frank.

And many others.

I wonder how they will mess with the redistricting that has to be done because of the 2010 census?

I already heard they are trying to use redistriucting to get rid of Rep. Michele Bachmann from Minnesota.

The two prerequisites for being a liberal/leftist–utter hypocrisy and absolute shamelessness. All leftists exhibit these on a daily basis.

“The Democratic total of $1,020,816 was given by 1,160 employees of the three major broadcast television networks, with an average contribution of $880.
By contrast, only 193 of the employees contributed to Republican candidates and campaign committees, for a total of $142,863. The average Republican contribution was $744.”

That’s a total a bit over a million dollars, donated by 1,160 individual citizens who happen to work for ABC, CBS, and NBC.

That hardly raises the same set of issues as a million-dollar corporate contribution.

This most recent check to the the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is actually the second million-dollar donation that News Corp has made to a GOP-aligned group this election cycle. The first was in late June, to the Republican Governors Association.

By the way, it’s the U.S. Chamber of Commerce that has repeatedly blocked federal efforts to utilize the E-Verify system to prevent the hiring of undocumented aliens, which would remove one of the main incentives for illegal immigration. The Chamber of Commerce exerted enormous lobbying pressure to force E-Verify out of the stimulus package. They also sued to prevent the President from requiring the use of E-Verify by executive order. (Chamber of Commerce, et al v. Chertoff, et al.)

Whatever they might say, it’s always about the profits.

@Greg: You said:

That hardly raises the same set of issues as a million-dollar corporate contribution.

This most recent check to the the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is actually the second million-dollar donation that News Corp has made to a GOP-aligned group this election cycle.

Yeah that evil News Corp and their constant GOP fundraising and contributing…

News Corp President Hosts $850,000 Hillary Fundraiser

With Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa joining her, Clinton raised $850,000 at an event at the home of News Corp. prexy Peter Chernin

Source

@ anticsrocks, #10:

Big money tends to play both ends against the middle. In general, big money’s only real loyalty is to itself.

That may be, but your intimation that News Corp only contributes/fund raises for the GOP is still in err.

@John ryan:

@Greg:

What in the world does any of this have to do with the discussion of Maxine Waters and the media not taking her to task for her hypocrisy because of their bias?

Dodge and parry or, hijack?……again and again. 🙄

Please explain.

@ Missy, #13:

What in the world does any of this have to do with the discussion of Maxine Waters and the media not taking her to task for her hypocrisy because of their bias?

Dodge and parry or, hijack?……again and again.

The original post brought that matter up, not me. It suggested that the total of around a 1,160 individual donations from employees working at ABC, CBS, and NBC is somehow the equivalent of two corporate checks totaling a couple of million bucks from News Corp. I don’t believe that it is.

Had ABC, CBS, or NBC written out corporate checks for a couple of million bucks, there would have been equivalency. Charges leveled at News Corp could then be argued to be hypocritical.

The day the Supreme Court removed limitations on corporate political donations they diminished the power of the individual. The crack-brained theory behind that decision is that a corporate entity has the same rights as a person.

They may finish the power of the individual off altogether before they’re done. The next issue they’ll pronounce upon–probably early next year–is whether or not corporations also have the same privacy rights as an individual. If so, how corporations use their vast wealth to effect public opinion and the outcome of elections will become secret.

– Greg said:

The original post brought that matter up, not me. It suggested that the total of around a 1,160 individual donations from employees working at ABC, CBS, and NBC is somehow the equivalent of two corporate checks totaling a couple of million bucks from News Corp. I don’t believe that it is.

And I showed that News Corp does fund raising/contributions to both political parties. But that was conveniently ignored by him…

Maxine Waters has kept her family members employed in governmental positions for over 20 years – from the LA Unified School District to local LA political appointments. They are neither qualified nor actually contribute anything concrete to their positions. My brother worked for the LAUSD for over 35 years and saw it firsthand. It is no different than the mess she currently has created herself with her husband and the “bank” that was created to provide loans to minorities and can provide no record of having done so after receiving millions – if not billions – in TARP funds.

Oh yeah, money is the issue. As far as her being in the congressional position forever, her district is now over 60% Hispanic. One of the members of the Hispanic community needs to run against her and she would not only be toast, but burnt toast. There is always a way to get rid of these isidious people.