The incredulity begins with the title What Liberal Media?, journalist Eric Alterman’s refutation of widely flung charges of left-wing bias, and never lets up. The book is unlikely to make many friends among conservative media talking heads. Alterman picks apart charges made by Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, George Will, Sean Hannity, and others (even the subtitle refers to a popular book by former CBS producer Bernard Goldberg that argues a lefty slant in news coverage). But the perspectives of less-incendiary figures, including David Broder and Howard Kurtz, are also dissected in Alterman’s quest to prove that not only do the media lack a liberal slant but that quite the opposite is true.
Yeah, he proved it alright. He proved what a liar he is by participating in that secret liberal media cabal called JournoList, and once Obama won the election this is his response on that list:
During Wednesday interview with Channel 2 News and confronted with the anxiety that some Israelis feel toward him, Obama said that “some of it may just be the fact that my middle name is Hussein, and that creates suspicion.” He then added: “Ironically, I’ve got a Chief of Staff named Rahm Israel Emmanuel. My top political advisor is somebody who is a descendent of Holocaust survivors. My closeness to the Jewish American community was probably what propelled me to the U.S. Senate.”
“That is why I have moved quickly to work with my economic team and leaders of both parties on an American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan that will immediately jumpstart job creation and long-term growth.”
Well, it only took 4yrs of campaigning, but the left’s most moronic talking heads finally asked the same question that 2/3’s of the country has been asking, “Where’s the specifics?” President Obama tried to slow his melting poll numbers by addressing the nation, but all he did was give yet another campaign speech filled with promises, rhetoric, scapegoating, and anything and everything except…HOW he’s solving the problem of the BP oil spill.
Unless he can come up with some specifics….he very well may lose the support of a leftist base that is having increasing trouble blaming Bush and Republicans for Obama and the Democrats’ ineptitude.
Anyone happen to catch Joe McGinniss on the Today Show? I caught the tail end of it, which included this part:
I think it’s probably a lesson for the American people of the power Palin has to incite hatred and her willingness and readiness to do it. She has pushed a button and unleashed the Hounds of Hell, and now that they’re out there slavering and barking and growling. And that’s the same kind of tactic and I’m not calling her a Nazi, but that’s the same kind of tactic that the Nazi troopers used in Germany in the ’30s. And I don’t think there is any place for it in America.
What a disgusting piece of filth that moved itself in, next door….
Oh, my…look at what I just typed. Looks like I’ve become a “hound of hell, slavering, barking, and growling” at the push of a button from Palin.
Beauty pageants are what they are like them or not. When I grew up the Miss America pageant was everything. Perhaps the most awkward moment of the evening came when the host would ask what the candidate would wish for if she had a wish. The usual answer was world peace or saving the children or something. These are beauty pageants and not collegiate competitions and everyone understands that. But more recently there has been an insidious injection of political correctness into beauty pageants and the Miss USA pageant specifically.
During last year’s Miss USA competition Perez Hilton put a burning ember in the hands of Carrie Prejean:
“Vermont recently became the 4th state to legalize same-sex marriage. Do you think every state should follow suit. Why or why not?”
It was an utterly ridiculous question for a beauty pageant – a hot button question for which there was no winning. There was no way out. Someone was going to end up offended no matter what Prejean said. Hilton is gay and this was an issue of personal importance. That’s fine, but it had no place in the pageant and it was irresponsible of Hilton to put a firey question to one competitor and not all the others. Prejean tried to evade the question and while her answer wasn’t worthy of Faulkner one wonders what one is supposed to say in spontaneity when hit between the eyes like that. Soon after, Perez put out a youtube video in which he calls Prejean “a dumb b*tch.” Read the rest of this entry »
The United States and China reported no major breakthroughs Friday after only their second round of talks about human rights since 2002.
The Obama administration wants to push Beijing to treat its citizens better, but it also needs Chinese support on Iranian and North Korean nuclear standoffs, climate change and other difficult issues.
A senior U.S. official said that the two-day meeting lays groundwork for more regular talks to soothe an irritant in relations between the two world powers.
Eric Holder is unable to identify Radical Islam as a cause of terrorism. Holder looks like nothing as much as an incompetent chiropractor as he ties himself in knots in avoiding the painfully obvious. As Andy McCarthy points out, Holder has no trouble calling us a “nation of cowards” or calling out Bush administration officials as “war criminals” yet cannot admit what a sensible person knows. At first glance this seems odd. Then upon reflection it makes sense, because philosophically, radical Islamists are the same as Democrats.
Radical Islam and Demcrats have a dislike of free speech. That is, they dislike free speech for anyone other than themselves. One one hand Islamic radicals call for the end of Israel, but threaten with death those who would dare cast an insult at Islam. And it need not be an insult- Theo Van Gogh was murdered for his work showing how Islam abuses women. Some even feel free to say that Jews are pigs and apes. The lives of cartoonists are threatened when they dare include Mohammed in a satire. They are attacked when invited to give a lecture. Their homes are burned. Comedy Central caved to terrorism and censored a South Park episode. Then, after cowing to Islamic pressure to not even show Mohammed in a cartoon, Comedy Central is planning a cartoon featuring Jesus Christ as a “fish out of water.” To be critical of Islam can mean one lives forever under the threat of death. Read the rest of this entry »
Here is Nancy Pelosi a few months ago telling a group of musicians and artists that because of ObamaCare they can now leech off of the rest of us saps who have to work for a living:
We see it as an entrepreneurial bill, a bill that says to someone, if you want to be creative and be a musician or whatever, you can leave your work, focus on your talent, your skill, your passion, your aspirations because you will have health care.
I’m thinking a lot of doctors will want to escape the grind and become entrepreneurs themselves. Why wouldn’t they? They will be paid pennies compared to the amount spent in school, and now will be told the what, why, where, when, and how by the federal government.
What a wonderful world they envision eh? Our artist class will now have the time to “create” while the rest of us pick up the tab. Read the rest of this entry »
Very strong show by Glenn Beck today on all the President’s men, it’s an eye-opener. Yes, he is a bit of a showman but the information provided is a must see. Spend 30 minutes to watch all of it:
Any of these groups that says, “I’m young, I’m Democratic, and I’m a socialist,” is okay with me. You know that’s no light thing to do — to actually say, I’m a socialist. You’ve got to know, actually, we are living in a time that’s going to dwarf the McCarthy era. It is going to dwarf the internment of World War II. We are right now in a time that is going to dwarf the era of Jim Crow and segregation.
They are coming. And they are coming after you. And they are going to be brutal and oppressive. They’ve already shown it. … This is not rhetoric or hyperbole — this is real. … This tea party so-called movement — a bowel-movement in my estimation — and this blatant uncovering and ripping off the mask of racism…
As the anniversary of the Oklahoma bombing approached, liberals fell over themselves to suggest that Tea Party protests could lead to another McVeigh type incident. CBS News made the argument, as did Rachel Maddow and even Bill Clinton. Joe Klein said that the dissent which was once patriotic when Democrats dissented now implies that dissent is seditious. What lefties must hate is that all the real violence has originated from the left, not the right.
Kathleen Parker, hilariously called a “conservative columnist” by the doddering old fool Bob Schieffer, said that “this heated rhetoric and some of these words…that are pretty loaded, ‘reload,’ ‘targeting’…there’s a danger there.” Schieffer in turn said “some of this really nasty rhetoric that shows up on the Internet..” Bill Clinton said to “watch your words” and that “words have consequences as much as actions do.” John Heilemann of New York magazine said “Joe’s (Klein) right and I’ll name another person, I’ll name Rush Limbaugh who uses this phrase constantly and talks about the Obama administration as a regime. That phrase which has connotations of tyranny.” Had Heileman taken two seconds before he made himself look like an idiot he would have found out what Glenn Beck found- that Bush’s administration had been referred to as a “regime” 6500 times. Read the rest of this entry »
My liberal friend Pam and I are a perfect example of the class warfare currently being waged in America between the ‘haves’ and the ‘have nots.’ Also known as ‘the war against the rich,’ or, in a nutshell, socialism.
Though Pam and I are lifelong friends, we couldn’t be more different. Pam is the quintessential liberal, quick to espouse views that show America in a bad light. Sarah Palin is evil, Bush is bad and anyone (like myself) that doesn’t base their decisions on feelings is, well, just plain uncompassionate. End of story. I, on the other hand, am a traditional, conservative Christian.
Though conservatives have yet to be included under the leftist’s much vaunted ‘tolerance’ and ‘multicultural’ umbrellas, Pam has decided that she will tolerate her renegade friend, as long as that friend doesn’t publicly air any conservative views. Which is becoming a problem for our friendship. Read the rest of this entry »
This year’s April 15th Tea Party protests saw an interesting twist. Groups of leftists are so impassioned by their hatred for anyone who would be opposed to their agenda that they came up with a novel way to oppose them: infiltration. They planned to crash the party, showing up with signs showing extreme racist views, misspellings, etc. Inadvertently, their idea may be the most helpful thing they could have done for the Tea Partiers as well as the most damning indictment of our mainstream media.
First off, PJTV’s Bill Whittle (video requires registration but is free) raised an excellent point – are there so few radical, racist, homophobes who can’t spell that the left has to infiltrate with their own? More significantly is the message they never realized that they sent. Basically, what every crasher and supporter is saying is that our mainstream press is so lazy, gullible, and easily manipulated that anything that supports their partisan views will get published, regardless of whether or not actual evidence supports it. Another inadvertent consequence is that the crashers made it far more difficult for the press to use them as typical Tea Party members, as they would have loved to do. Read the rest of this entry »
Six years ago, the conventional wisdom was that Ayad Allawi, then prime minister of the appointed Iraqi interim government, was a puppet of the United States.
Last month, though, the Allawi-led Iraqiya alliance won, by a narrow margin, more parliamentary seats than any other coalition in national elections — and he may become the country’s next prime minister.
The secular Allawi successfully campaigned on the message of curbing religious interference in government — countering the often-argued charge that the U.S. has created a radical Islamic republic in Iraq. Read the rest of this entry »
My liberal friend Pam and I are a perfect example of the class warfare currently being waged in America between the ‘haves’ and the ‘have nots.’ Also known as ‘the war against the rich,’ or, in a nutshell, socialism.
