Media
Media Bias
Ronald Reagan said,
“The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just
that they know so much that isn't so." This seems to apply to the so called
Mainstream Media. Since they report so much that just “isn’t so” it is often
correct to believe just the opposite of what they say.
"The
liberal media long ago forfeited their respected role as watchdog over the
government and have voluntary descended to the status of a public relations arm
of the Democratic Party and various liberal causes ... They deliberately
influence it to advance the liberal political agenda. So while they engage in
plenty of deceptions on the micro level, they daily engage in a category of sin
that far exceeds the despicable doctoring of videos. For what they're about is
grand deception on a macro scale ... The liberal media's fraud is so pervasive
that by presenting the news through a distorted, progressive prism, they've
created an alternate reality that bears little relationship to actual reality.
What has emerged is a new normal, foisted on us by a cluster of malicious
manipulators who long ago abandoned their honor and their professional calling.
This manufactured pseudo-universe is what allowed President Barack
Obama to win re-election despite presiding over (and
largely causing) the longest period of high unemployment since World War II and
the worst recovery in 50 years ... Just ask yourself whether Obama could have won if the media had reported on his
economy objectively and let the facts speak for themselves. But they did much
worse; they apologized for him and his failures every step of the way,
shamelessly conspiring with him to scapegoat his predecessor, President George
W. Bush, even four years after his term ended. This was as immoral as it was
preposterous, but they did it with such faux earnestness that those who rely on
them for their news lapped it up and digested its poisonous seed ... despite
the smorgasbord of corruption, scandal, mismanagement and policy failures that
would be a welcome feast for journalists with a modicum of integrity ... Whereas
they aided Democrats in constructing false scandals against the Bush
administration, they wholly ignore very real ones under Obama,
from the dismissal of the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case to 'Fast
and Furious' to Benghazi." (2/1/13)
"With
many of the polls and much of the momentum trending for Mitt Romney, much of
the mainstream media is in full-panic mode as they work overtime to tilt the
'news' in favor of Barack Obama
... No surprise there. As my former boss and friend Bob Dole once told me: 'If
World War III were breaking out tomorrow, liberal reporters would still ask
Republicans about abortion' ... while understanding that these 'news' outlets
will be unethically shaping their 'news' coverage to favor Mr. Obama until the last second, it's almost jaw-dropping to
realize what Mr. Romney is up against in the closing days of the
election." (10/28/12)
"To
protect President Obama from the failure of his
administration to anticipate or respond appropriately to the attacks on our
embassies in the Middle East, the media has absolutely raped the truth.
Americans were targeted and murdered by radical monsters around the globe. The
president did nothing about it. The White House had at least a 48-hour advance
warning this was coming. It told no one. It didn’t warn the diplomats or
increase security at the embassies ... And when the attacks were over? The
president took all of one hour of out of his busy fundraising/campaign schedule
to address this matter. Then, it was off to Las Vegas and back to his rich
friends to shake the money maker. Let me be clear, every drop of blood spilled
by Americans as a result of the actions of these monsters drips through the
hands of this administration before it hits the ground ... the media burnt more
calories this week attacking an American in California for exercising his First
Amendment right to free speech than they did condemning the murderous mobs or
their enablers in their respective governments. Whatever outrage they had
leftover was reserved for Mitt Romney for committing the unforgivable sin of
standing up for American values in the face of terrorism and speaking out
against it hours before the President did. That the President’s campaign
attacked Romney for standing up for American values a full 8 hours before the
President condemned the attacks on and murder of Americans isn’t a story ...
President Obama has learned well from great
propagandists in the past: When the chips are down, invent a phony outrage to
distract the public. Follow the pattern: As more stories of violence and
dismissed warnings come in, more criticism of Romney comes out. As our credit
is downgraded again, more criticism of Romney comes out. As the Federal Reserve
announces plans to print $40 billion a month in a third attempt at
'quantitative easing' to right the president’s broken economy, more criticism
of Romney comes out. No matter what happens, no matter how detached our
president gets from the job he seeks to keep for four more years … no matter
how many people die…we still haven’t seen enough of Mitt Romney’s tax returns.
That’s how sick the media has gotten." (9/17/12)
http://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2012/09/16/the_medias_rape_of_reality/page/full/
"Floyd
Corkins, a volunteer for the last six months at the
D.C. Center for the LGBT Community, marched into the Family Research Center
with a gun and serious ammunition, denounced FRC's policy positions and shot a
security guard in the arm before being subdued. Another hate crime, but this
time against, perhaps, the pre-eminent pro-family organization in America ...
These networks are aiding and abetting liberal violence by refusing to identify
it as liberal violence. Whether it's vandalism at Chick-fil-A
or rapes in Occupy Wall Street camps, these networks simply cannot find 'news'
in liberal violence of any kind ... These same media outlets pounce on
allegations of conservative hatred, even when there isn't a scintilla of
evidence ... Within 24 hours of a gay-left activist shooting at the FRC, the
world-class jerks at CNN are still demeaning FRC and social conservatives as
'hate groups' that should be drummed out of the public conversation." (8/18/12)
http://townhall.com/columnists/brentbozell/2012/08/17/skipping_over_the_shooting_at_frc/page/full/
“But
Obama can lie and lie and lie and lie and lie and
other than making an obligatory effort to report it, the President pays no
price for lying, not even while looking the media straight in the eye while
doing so. Not a single mainstream journalist today is doing what we know ALL of
them would do if Obama were a Republican: exactly
what they
attempted to do to Marco Rubio. First off, the media would be outraged and
indignant over being lied to. And what would follow is a perfect narrative
storm that would demand Obama either correct the
record, prove his assertions, or bridge these factual discrepancies. On a daily
basis, press briefings would become Thunderdome as
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney was inundated with demands that the
President come clean and clear the record. And you can bet the cable networks
would be filled with stories and talking heads explaining to us why this is
relevant in 2012. Because it is relevant. Obama
wasn't a child when ‘Dreams From My Father’ was published. He was 35 years-old.
And he certainly wasn't a child in 2008 when he downplayed his relationship
with Ayers -- he was a sitting United States Senator and serious candidate for
Presidency. Same with when his campaign told the media Obama
was never a member of the New Party. But if it helps Obama
stay in power, the media likes being lied to by Barack
Obama, which is why he will never be held accountable
or forced to pay a political price for the truths that have been uncovered over
the past few months. The media is worse than a bunch of corrupt sycophants. It
is an institution that wants to be used.” (6/20/12)
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/06/18/Media-likes-obama-lying-to-them
“If you’re a 20-year-old black
male, you can beat an 85-year-old white woman to death and pummel her
90-year-old white husband straight into ICU, and it won’t make the national
news. Yep. Tyrone Woodfork, a black male who -- much
like Trayvon Martin -- looks like Obama’s
son, allegedly killed Nancy Strait and broke her husband Bob’s jaw, several
ribs and shot him in the face with a BB gun last month in Tulsa. 20-year-old
Tyrone also raped the nearly blind 97-pound Mrs. Strait, a
great-great-grandmother, before he murdered her. Did the above monstrous crime
make the national news? Are you kidding me? Why, hell no. Of course not, silly!
Why wasn’t it fit for primetime, you ask? Well, it starred the wrong races in
the wrong roles, and it thus did not fit into the fairytale the Left’s trying
to foist on us goobers of Obamaland … I wonder if
President Obama is going to lecture the nation on
this despicable act and tell us something similar to what he said regarding Trayvon’s shooting … For two more (out of many) recent
black-on-white crimes that have ranged from unreported to insanely
underreported, click here and here.” (4/9/2012)
“This is how it works: if you are a
journalist who clearly favors the re-election of President Obama,
you ask questions of Republicans in an effort to make them look foolish,
forcing them to address subjects other than the economy and threats to national
security. When you question Democrats, you ask questions people care most about
and usually allow the answer, however inaccurate, to go unchallenged … And so
it goes in every modern election cycle. To the mainstream media, Republicans
are pigheaded and unwilling to compromise with a Democratic president (or a
Democratic Congress). That's because in media-land, only Democrats want what is
best for ‘real Americans.’ Get it? … None of this will change as long as
liberals continue to dominate major media ... Instead of complaining, which
changes nothing, Republicans should run the equivalent of a Tebow
option play. They should refuse to participate in any more dog-and-pony shows
designed to trip them up. Instead, they should create their own panels with an
ideological mix of interrogators … The ratings would be huge and the public
would get better answers to more substantive questions than the ‘gotcha’
questions they must now endure.” (1/12/12)
http://townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/2012/01/12/time_to_run_a_tebow_media_option_play/page/full/
“We've been dealing with liberal media bias
for years, but George Stephanopoulos' performance in the Republican
presidential debate Saturday night in New Hampshire was particularly egregious
… In addition to misdirecting the debates substantively, the liberal moderators
have also, too often, injected themselves into the debates as if they were
either driven by their irrepressible egos to make themselves players rather
than facilitators or so ideologically revolted by the GOP's policies that they
were compelled to argue Obama's side in his absence
... they shouldn't present Obama's side for him,
giving him and the liberal position a free ride … With a half-century of
experience as a witness to liberal media bias, I'm not easily shocked or
outraged by current displays of it, but George Stephanopoulos deserves special
notoriety for his disgraceful performance Saturday night.” (1/11/12)
“Gone are the days when broadcasters like
Walter Cronkite attempted to convey objective and unbiased news. Propaganda
seems to be at the heart of most national news. Passions, preferences and
political persuasions permeate nearly all the news. Opine is ubiquitous and
made obvious alone by many broadcasters' tone of voice or facial expressions …
As reported by NewsBusters (www.newsbusters.org),
consider in a single day
last week how the MSM angled their reporting in ways to manipulate public
opinion … The fact is that the primary networks -- ABC, CBS and NBC -- and
their smaller cable channels are owned and financed by an interlocking network
of corporate conglomerates and controlled by progressive and politically biased
proprietors. Billionaire moguls like George Soros are using millions and
millions of dollars … to carry out a greater goal of chipping away the very
foundations of our republic. Just a few months ago, Media Research Center's Dan
Gainor exposed globalist George Soros' financial
connections to MSM and his funding of $52 million to influence and direct
journalism in the national networks. Or do you think it's merely a coincidence
that Soros has ties to over 30 major news organizations, including The New York
Times, The Associated Press, The Washington Post, NBC and ABC, and yet no one
hears anything from those networks about his behind-the-scenes finagling and
financing … It prompts one to wonder: Why haven't such power relations been
reported by the MSM? And would they be so silent if the correlations were
between such agents of control and the tea party?” (11/15/11)
The stories behind these headlines illustrate
why good people no longer want to run for the presidency of the United States. They
immediately become targets of the left, which almost always pulls the race card
or the sexual harassment card when they have nothing legitimate to say against
the people they fear. In Herman Cain's case they use both disgusting smear
tactics. They have no shame … The media's double standard is once again exposed
inasmuch as President Obama's clouded background is
carefully ignored. (11/2/11)
http://townhall.com/columnists/michaelreagan/2011/11/02/no_shame/page/full/
“Christians speak the truth about God’s best
for humanity as it applies to morality, laws and governing principles, but the
secular media views these truths as Hell. Truth always feels like Hell to those
who reject, deny, or hate the truth … They express their hatred for God’s truth
by heaping venom on anyone who declares God’s truth. Bible-believing Christians
proclaim the truth about the biblical principles that guided this nation’s
founders. But those who are rewriting American history to fit their desire for
self-worship want to silence them. Thus, whenever a Christian lovingly and
thoughtfully points them to the truth of history, they hound them down,
accusing them of ‘racism,’ ‘hate speech,’ and ‘bigotry.’ Why? Because truth to
them is Hell, so they want to muzzle Christians and their message … If I were a
rich man, I would offer these self-worshipping gods of the secular media a six
month trip to Afghanistan or Iran. If they ever returned from such a trip, they
would be changed men and women. My concern is that the very truth that can set
them free is the truth they attack. I know why they attack it—because it feels
like Hell to them. It is condemning. However, my heart is not to condemn them,
but to pray to God to open their blind eyes, just like He opened mine, so that
they may see the truth before it is too late for them.” (10/24/11)
“Gaffes hit us all. But the frequency
and folly of Obama’s are particularly troubling
considering that he has an army of researchers, writers, handlers and
teleprompters at his disposal. That makes Obama’s
gaffes a special kind of stupid. Then there are the policy statements that are
so far removed from reality. When have you heard Michele Bachmann tout a
‘Recovery Summer’ like Joe Biden did while the labor force shrinks and the
economy limps along? Or can you recall Bachmann blaming the persistent
unemployment on modern technology, including those pesky ATM fees, as our genius
President did? When has Bachmann ever advocated codifying a new
health-care law and then, and only then, finding out what was actually in that
new health-care law, as Nancy Pelosi admitted to the press? You haven’t … The
media will let Democrats get away with driving a girl off a bridge and leaving
her to die (Ted Kennedy), but Republicans, especially unapologetic conservative
ones, won’t be given the benefit of the doubt, even when it comes
inconsequential errors.” (6/28/11)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=44517
“Over the years, leftist lies and media
complicity have done enormous damage … Sometimes, the nature of the crime is
reckless denial. Like Obama declaring that under Obamacare, we can keep the health coverage we have now. Or
Massachusetts Democrat Rep. Barney Frank telling a House committee in 2004 that
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were in no danger: ‘I don’t see anything in this
report that raises safety and soundness problems.’ Other Democrats accused the
Bush Administration of bad motives and even racism for demanding more
accountability. Later, after the ‘affordable’ mortgage-driven housing bubble
burst in 2008, driving the economy into the worst recession since the Great
Depression, Democrats blamed private ‘greed’ and lack of government oversight …
why is Barney Frank continuing to make financial policy for the United States?”
(6/8/11)
“After nearly 3 years of dishonest attacks
and innuendo against her, her husband, her beliefs and her children by the
media, it’s ironic to see the MSM complain that SHE is treating THEM poorly.
They’re like an abusive husband who thinks his wife should be grateful that he
took off his rings when he hit her this time. Palin
would have none of it, she was a class-act throughout, and was greeted by
surprised adoring fans everywhere she went. That, more than anything else, is
the real root of the MSM’s vitriol. Despite their best efforts to destroy her,
she is exposing just how irrelevant they are.” (6/5/11)
“Anyone who follows politics knows that the
mainstream media has two sets of rules: one set for conservatives and another
set for liberals. Conservatives spend most of their time correcting smears and
trying to explain to the public what they really believe. Liberals, on the
other hand, can count on the press to hide their unpopular beliefs and put the
best spin possible on everything they do … In Barack Obama's case, the media would be focusing on an entirely
different set of issues if he were a Republican … How does Quayle's gaffe
compare to Obama thinking there are 57 states … What
about signing a guest book 2008 in 2011
… Obama's stupidity would be a staple of late
night talk show jokes if he were a Republican … If Obama
were a Republican, the media would be telling us we need to get a Democrat in
office to repair the damage caused by Obama's
blundering … Remember when the media talked about the size of the deficit all
the time? Remember when we heard about Halliburton and Blackwater
on a daily basis? Oh, yes, that was when we had a Republican President … tens
of billions in tax dollars have been transferred to corporations that have
given money to the Democratic Party. Now suddenly the ‘fierce watchdogs of the
press’ have become completely complacent … Can you imagine the stories we'd see
every day if a Republican were President? We'd have daily stories on the people
left homeless by the ‘Obamaconomy,’ human interest
stories about single mothers who can't feed their kids anymore, and we'd hear
from experts every day about how Obama is killing
jobs, raising costs at the pump, and destroying the economy with his policies.
Remember how the press used to slip a reference to George Bush speaking in
front of the ‘Mission Accomplished’ banner into every story about Iraq? Well,
they'd do the same thing with Barack Obama's empty promises about how his 1.1 trillion dollar
stimulus would ‘save or create jobs.’ Can you hear them now?” (3/31/11)
“How much longer can the Democratic Party,
the mainstream media and other leftists successfully maintain the ruse that
intolerance, hatred and the propensity for violence mainly come from the right
in this country? The lie is getting old. The left's ideas continue to fail in
the real world, and the majority of the people reject them, which is why their
proponents so often disguise their true intentions … One of those means is to
pre-emptively strike their political opponents by
falsely condemning them for behavior that they -- leftists -- actually engage
in. It's called ‘projection’
… the left continues to equate conservative
talk with hate speech that will lead to violence and advocates selectively
suppressing conservative speech through such insidious means as the Fairness
Doctrine. Talk about hate -- and violence … Why didn't they report on the calls
by union thugs for blood in the streets … Their arrogance, extremism and
brutality should be their undoing.” (3/1/11)
“What incredible gall for the national media
to try to transform
http://townhall.com/columnists/brentbozell/2011/02/23/the_media_on_wisconsin_a_bad_joke/page/full/
“Jaws dropped across the nation's capital at
the audacious annihilation of the truth on the front page of the Feb. 15
http://townhall.com/columnists/brentbozell/2011/02/16/the_medias_budget_fantasy_land/page/full/
“Those censorious liberals who truly hate the
very existence of the Fox News Channel denounce it for being a political
organization, not truly a news network. Behind that line is decades of liberals
being able to strangle, smother and spike news stories they didn't like.
Liberals defined what ‘news’ was and what it wasn't. They're still at it today
… The same gaggle of broadcast TV watchdogs that has mustered endless outrage
over the notion that the Catholic Church would fail to alert authorities about
sexual abuse of minors is utterly uninterested in the sexual abuse of minors
when someone more pleasing to secular progressives -- like that abortion
factory Planned Parenthood -- is caught on camera.” (2/9/11)
http://townhall.com/columnists/brentbozell/2011/02/09/planned_parenthood,_spiked/page/full/
“We all know not to take politicians'
rhetoric at face value. But not enough of us have yet learned not to take media
rhetoric at face value either, even when it appears in what looks like a ‘news’
story, but is actually a disguised editorial on the front page … In other
words, we are not talking about creating wealth. We are talking about
transferring wealth from one community to another, with no net increase-- and
doing so at a cost of billions of tax dollars … Nobel Prizewinning economist
George Stigler pointed out that the government advertises all the time-- only
it is not called advertising. So-called ‘news’ stories like those in the San
Francisco Chronicle repeat the party line of government bureaucrats and serve
it up to the public as information, rather than ads.” (1/19/11)
http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2011/01/19/budget_crisis_rhetoric_part_ii/page/full/
“Since Holder apparently wasn't watching Fox
News a few weeks ago, I'll repeat myself … Among the criminal laws apparently
broken by Assange is 18 U.S.C. 793(e), which
provides: ‘Whoever having unauthorized possession of, access to, or control
over any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, (etc.
etc.) relating to the national defense, ... (which) the possessor has reason to
believe could be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of
any foreign nation, willfully communicates (etc. etc) the same to any person
not entitled to receive it, or willfully retains the same (etc) ... Shall be
fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.’ As is
evident, merely being in unauthorized possession of classified national
security documents that could be used to harm this country and publishing those
documents constitutes a felony … Assange would be
prosecuted for committing the crime of possessing and releasing classified
national security documents that could do this country harm. The First
Amendment has no bearing whatsoever on whether Assange
has committed this particular crime, so whether or not Assange
is a "journalist" is irrelevant.”
(12/16/10)
“It's taxpayers who need to be untethered from NPR and other state-sponsored public
broadcasting. Public radio and public television are funded with your money …
The government imprimatur gives NPR and PBS a competitive edge, favoritism with
lawmakers and the phony appearance of being above the fray … But vindictive
Vivian Schiller and her colleagues have undermined state-sponsored radio's
credibility for years with impunity -- from NPR legal correspondent Nina
Totenberg publicly wishing for the late GOP Sen. Jesse Helms to die a painful
AIDS-induced death to NPR affiliate employee Sarah Spitz pining for radio talk
show giant Rush Limbaugh's death on a journalists e-mail list. Thomas Jefferson
famously opined: "To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of
ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical" … Not one more
red cent of public money should go to NPR, PBS and CPB. Let the
speech-squelching progressives and jihadi-whitewashing
apologists pay for their own propaganda. Free the taxpayers!” (10/22/10)
“This is the left’s planned, organized and
concerted effort to destroy their opponents – working hand-in-hand from liberal
media, to politicians to old school media. The goal is nothing short of
terrorizing anyone who might disagree with them. When liberals conspired using Journolist to set a news agenda, it was obvious they had
done so. This is more insidious and goes all the way to the top. Pick a name
that has been a genuine threat to Team Obama and you can usually find the same
strategy. Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, CNBC’s Rick Santelli and Jim Cramer, Matt Drudge, the U.S. Chamber of
Commerce, billionaire funders Charles and David Koch and even former CNN host
Lou Dobbs. While the attacks are reminiscent of the assault against Justice
Clarence Thomas, that was amateur hour. This is a professional operation …
Today those appalling attacks are part and parcel to the lefty war plan. The
typical targeting has one of the bogus liberal sites like HuffingtonPost.com or
TheNation.com write something similar to journalism. It then gets picked up and
commented on either by the clowns at MSNBC or some marginal left-wing
politician like Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y. Or even the president of the
“But the conventional media, instead of
hailing this trend, warns that conservatives cannot be elected and bemoans the
victory of true believers saying that it is equivalent to handing seats to the
Democrats and the liberals. This reasoning, which made sense in other times, is
badly flawed in today's political climate.” (9/18/10)
“When conservatives hold to their convictions
about, say, sound economic policy, liberals in the media and in Congress label
them ‘ideologues’ … When liberal Democrats hold to their views that higher
taxes and more government spending are the way to revive an economy, they acquire
no negative labeling. In fact, they are no longer referred to as liberals, but
as ‘progressives.’ Who could be against progress? Which is the point of the
word. When their policy fails to produce the announced results, they are not
called fanatics, but remain progressives. Liberals who refuse to admit their
misplaced faith in Keynsian economics when it doesn't
work are like cult members whose misplaced faith has been exposed as bogus. In
fact, liberals dig in their heels claiming it isn't that too much has been
spent, but too little … ‘Don't you love farce?’ … This president has become a
fanatic, enabled by the likes of Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority
Leader Harry Reid. He refuses to budge when his policies clearly are not
working. Cue the music: ‘But where are the clowns? Quick, send in the clowns.
Don't bother, they're here.’" (9/10/10)
http://townhall.com/columnists/CalThomas/2010/09/09/send_in_the_clowns/page/full/
“So
how did Smiley, Martin and Cuomo make such morally egregious statements … The
answer is leftism, the way of looking at the world that permeates high schools,
universities, news and entertainment media. Those indoctrinated by leftist
thinking become largely incapable of accurate moral judgments: They regarded
Great Political Cartoon Showing Liberal response to tea
party movement. (8/27/10)
http://townhall.com/cartoons/cartoonist/NateBeeler/2010/08/12
“While engaging in astonishing viciousness,
vulgarity and violence toward Republicans, liberals accuse cheerful,
law-abiding Tea Party activists of being violent racists … So I'm thinking that
… conservative commentators might want to think about saying, ‘That is a
complete lie’ … Liberals explode in rage when we accuse them of being
unpatriotic based on 50 years of treasonous behavior ... but the best our
spokesmen can think to say when accused of racism is: ‘Man is imperfect.’
Conservatives who prefer to come across on TV as wonderfully moderate than to
speak the truth should find another line of work and stop defaming
conservatives with their "both sides" pabulum. (7/30/10)
“These incidents shed light on a pervasive
problem within the national media. Most reporters have a liberal
perspective and it affects their reporting … As a result, the news most
Americans get is passed through a liberal prism before it reaches our newspapers,
televisions, computers, etc. Sometimes the national media’s liberal ideology
causes them to totally ignore news stories … Given our commitment to a free
press, it is particularly troubling that Americans’ freedom to form their own
views of events and issues is limited by biased reporting … when the media
don’t report the facts about important issues, Americans can’t make good
decisions. And if Americans can’t make good decisions, our system of
government is threatened ... Americans have lost faith in the national
media. Just 8% of Americans trust the media, according to a recent Zogby public opinion poll. By a margin of
three-to-one, Americans said the media are too liberal rather than too
conservative, according to
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=38174
“That’s the crux of their willful ignorance
right there; sometimes, being an Islamic terrorist IS the motive itself. As
Leon de Winter wrote at Pajamas Media, ‘Faisal
Shahzad is a Muslim terrorist motivated to kill by
his religion, not by the loss of his house to the bank.’ Instead of
busily demonizing American citizens, apologizing to those who wish to kill us,
and frantically avoiding perceived ‘profiling’ out of the insane fear of
looking non-politically correct, they should learn that lesson. I’ve said it
before and I’ll say it again: Political correctness is no longer just annoying.
It’s deadly. It’s because they want to kill us, stupid.” (5/6/10)
http://www.redstate.com/snarkandboobs/2010/05/05/its-because-they-want-to-kill-us-stupid/
“While many Americans believe the national
press is biased toward the left, a more damning charge is now being debated:
Are U.S. media outlets actually corrupt? Those who believe they are point to
the cheerleading of Barack Obama's presidential campaign and to the recent
reportage on the Tea Party movement … Today, we have a problem in America.
Entire news operations are devoting themselves not to reporting events
honestly, but to promoting a certain ideology or party … This isn't bias; it's
corruption.” (4/11/10)
http://townhall.com/columnists/BillOReilly/2010/04/10/is_the_american_press_corrupt
“Also, because the Left controls the
mainstream media, they can often get away with lies no conservative ever could.
Put another way, conservatives tend to be more honest because they have to be
while liberals are used to having the mainstream media cover up, ignore, and
explain away their lies.” (3/9/10)
http://townhall.com/columnists/JohnHawkins/2010/03/09/5_ways_liberals_misjudge_the_american_people
“Surely now, Young thought, the media would
jump on the story. But it didn't happen … it finally bubbled up, from the blogs
to talk radio to late-night television. By the second week of August, Edwards
appeared on ABC News to semi-confess. An explosive scandal had been kept out of
the press for months at a time when the man at the center was an important
player in national politics. Why?” (2/8/10)
http://townhall.com/columnists/ByronYork/2010/02/08/why_the_media_ignored_a_scandal
“Boycotting debates, kicking journalists off
a campaign jet, planting questions from friendly media during presidential news
conferences, freezing adversarial media out of interviews, singling out
individual journalists to scold them publicly — they've all been part of Team
Obama's efforts at manipulating and intimidating the media.” (1/17/10)
http://newsmax.com/Headline/obama-ailes-fox-hannity/2010/01/18/id/346721
“The mainstream political media fell in love
with him. It was a schoolgirl crush with febrile commentators like Chris
Mathews swooning then and now over the man. The venom directed against McCain
and, in particular, Palin, was extraordinary … Now,
nearly a full year into his first term, all of those gilded years leading up to
the White House have left him unprepared to be President. Left to his own
instincts, he has a talent for saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. It
swiftly became a joke that he could not deliver even the briefest of statements
without the ever-present Tele-Prompters … Oddly and perhaps even inevitably,
his political experience, a cakewalk, has positioned him to destroy the
Democrat Party's hold on power in Congress because in the end it was never
about the Party. It was always about his communist ideology, learned at an
early age from family, mentors, college professors, and extreme leftist friends
and colleagues … The pattern repeats itself. He either blames any problem on
the Bush administration or he naively seeks to wish away the truth.” (1/2/10)
http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2010/01/02/obamas-make-believe-life/
“Obama and his fellow elites just ignore and
lie to the American people as they continue in whatever illegal and
unconstitutional ways they can think of to ensure that we are imprisoned in
this nightmarish system ... It is just as stunning to watch this Administration
working so hard on a daily basis, (they know they don’t have much time), to
destroy this nation, as it is to observe the mainstream media working
with equal diligence to make sure that this Administration succeeds in
this effort. The media is, at this stage, not just complicit in what Obama
and his people are doing, they are actively and frantically assisting them ...
The leg tinglers are not only refusing to report on
any news that reflects negatively on Obama, and work overtime to try to
annihilate any conservative or republican, even if they are not in office, they
are now also refusing to even report real news stories they don‘t want known …
What I sometimes wonder is why the members of the mainstream media, who at this
point have lost any shred of impartiality, respect , dignity, honesty or
professionalism, want to see their country destroyed.” (12/22/09)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=34918
"So
what did James Cameron put in his “Avatar” script? Lots of capitalist-bashing,
anti-military sentiments, and environmental propaganda permeate the movie's
scenes ... With all the technological innovations in this film, one would be
inclined to want to take a peek at it just for the effects. Too bad that as a
condition of seeing the flick, audiences will have to put up with undisguised
propaganda and cliche-ridden plot lines." (12/21/09)
http://newsmax.com/Hirsen/Avatar-JamesCameron-DanceswithWolves-3-D/2009/12/18/id/343820
The double standards and pro-liberal
negligence are mind-boggling. If media malpractice were a crime, many
"reporters" would be on death row. (10/29/09)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=34276
“What should alarm all First Amendment
proponents is that so many liberals don't really champion the free and open
expression of ideas; they support only the advancement of liberal policies,
even if that means one-sided dominance to the point of indoctrination in our
public schools and universities and in the media … Obama's approval numbers
have cratered more rapidly than those of any other president in modern history,
but can you imagine where they'd be and how much more his agenda would be
stalemated (for the common good) if the MSM hadn't been covering for him but
had been reporting the facts — not to mention the public's opposition to his
agenda?” (10/29/09)
http://www.newsmax.com/limbaugh/Obama_fights_Fox/2009/10/27/277492.html
“Democracy itself suffers from use of news as
political weapon.” (9/29/09)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=33734
“Matthews has no memory of the left-wing
protest signs and cartoons that portrayed George W. Bush as a chimpanzee and
compared him to Hitler and the Nazis …” (9/21/09)
http://www.redstate.com/curt_levey/2009/09/18/chris-matthews-unhinged/
“It's not Obama who didn't vet Jones, but the
MSM who have never vetted Obama. Had they vetted Obama, they would have
realized that he is Van Jones and that he didn't need to vet Van Jones
because he already knew him and considered him a soul mate.” (9/8/09)
http://townhall.com/columnists/DavidLimbaugh/2009/09/08/the_mainstream_medias_temper_tantrum
“They should be ashamed of themselves, but that takes a modicum of humility — a state of being unfamiliar to their idol or his media toadies. Press conference? Not on your life. It was the theater of the absurd attended by sycophants enchanted by the impresario of absurdity made simple.“ (6/28/09)
http://www.newsmax.com/brennan/obama_reed_tapper/2009/07/23/239425.html
“The
press has met their
http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2009/20090724014423.aspx
“Are you comprehending this,
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=32395
“At some point, the spell will dissipate. The
question is whether that will happen in time to prevent irreversible damage to
this nation.” (6/16/09)
http://townhall.com/columnists/DavidLimbaugh/2009/06/16/americas_fatal_attraction
“The accusations made news, but with another
dismissal of an ethics charge last week against Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the former
Republican vice-presidential nominee has quietly been cleared of every ethics
complaint filed since the torrent of allegations began in 2008 … ‘It is
regrettable that the ethics process has been diverted for partisan purposes by
some, but it is also commendable that the board remains focused on the
law.’"
http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/palin_charges_dismissed/2009/06/08/222621.html
(6/8/09)
“Right
on cue, the Times acknowledged this weekend that it had spiked a story on
possible illegal coordination between left-wing activist groups ACORN and
Project Vote and the Obama campaign just before Election Day.” (5/20/09)
http://townhall.com/columnists/MichelleMalkin/2009/05/20/all_the_news_thats_fit_to_suppress?page=1
Propaganda, Not News (3/5/09)
“Oh,
I’m sorry. I assumed that you’d already heard about it—but then I just recalled
that ABC, NBC, CBS, and NPR haven’t said a word about it since it happened.” (2/22/09)
“But
the Times won't run that series because liberals adore single motherhood
and the dissolution of traditional marriage in
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=30285
“But liberals
who claim to oppose "inflammatory rhetoric" on television when it
comes from conservatives have no problem with uncivil liberalism. Or 100
percent hate-filled left-wing character assassination. Take NBC, which could
not look sillier if it ever seriously banned Coulter for being hyperbolic, when
vicious, hyperbolic liberals (Keith Olbermann, Rachel
Maddow and Chris Matthews) dominate MSNBC.” (1/7/09)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=30176
“But
the media were giddy over their latest crush.” (1/7/09)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=30193
“Mainstream
Media Ignores the Real Stories...Again” (12/19/08)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=29986
“Once
again, Barack Obama is treated as though he were not even a part of this
story.” (12/12/08)
http://townhall.com/columnists/DianaWest/2008/12/12/where_were_you_born,_obama?page=1
“Media
Malpractice…How Obama Got Elected.” (11/24/08)
“But
the people who most scorn what they deem the religious “Dark Ages” are trying
to building a secular-left dark age in our time. Because the left is a
religion, a substitute for the Christianity it seeks to displace.” (11/25/08)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=29636&keywords=social+justice
“The
left's venomous reaction to the passage of Prop 8 has showcased these people
for who they truly are … It has exposed the self-proclaimed agents of
"tolerance" and "diversity" as the most intolerant, hateful
and bigoted among us.” (11/16/08)
Suppression of Free
Speech (11/11/08)
http://townhall.com/columnists/DavidLimbaugh/2008/11/11/liberal_censorship_and_its_roots
Landslide of Media
Mud (10/29/08)
http://townhall.com/columnists/BrentBozellIII/2008/10/29/obamas_media_landslide
(article)
“… when journalists who are supposed to be
even-handed watchdogs of all politicians turn instead into lapdogs serving one
political party and sleazy partisan attack dogs snarling at the other party.” (10/10/08)
http://www.newsmax.com/lowell_ponte/obama_acorn_connection/2008/10/10/139217.html
(article)
Are
There Any Honest Journalists Out There? (10/5/08)
http://www.ornery.org/essays/warwatch/2008-10-05-1.html
(article)
Slanted Profiles “… a new low for broadcast journalism.” (10/2/08)
http://www.newsmax.com/timmerman/NBC_profiles_obama_mccain/2008/10/02/136606.html
(article)
“The
Senate passed the 1973 Alaskan pipeline bill by an overwhelming 80-5 vote. Only
five senators voted against the pipeline on final passage. Sen. Biden is the
only one who is still in the Senate -- the other four having been confined to
mental institutions long ago.” (10/1/08)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=28834
(article)
Attacking Free Speech
To Suppress Truth (Posted
9/28/08)
Past and Present
Media Bias (Posted 9/24/08)
http://www.newsmax.com/lowell_ponte/obama_media_bias/2008/09/24/133901.html
(article)
Bias By The Numbers (Posted
9/16/08)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,423443,00.html
(article)
“…
Quindlen's obtuseness doesn't hold a candle to that
of MSNBC's Chris Matthews.”
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=28452
“It's time to brace
ourselves for the coming war against Sarah Palin.” (9/5/08)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=28409
(article)
Edwards: Hypocrisy
and Media Bias (8/6/08)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=27938
(article)
“Does the media accurately report economic news?” (Posted 5/10/08)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354206,00.html
(article)
Media Suppresses WMD
Intent
http://www.newsmax.com/kessler/saddam_wmd_/2008/02/13/72345.html
Bad News (Posted
10/20/07)
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichTucker/2007/10/20/a_depressing_lack_of_bad_news?page=1
(article)
The AP: Beyond
Liberal Bias (Posted 12/28/07)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=24127
(article)
Free Speech Under
Assault (Posted 12/28/07)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=24176
(article)
http://www.mrc.org (website)
FrontPagemag.com
http://www.frontpagemag.com (website)
Can’t Even Buy Free
Speech (Posted 8/30/07)
http://www.humanevents.com/rightangle/index.php?p=24387
(article)
Spinning the Facts
“Imagine
what reporters could contribute to the public debate if they actually wanted to
inform the public as to the facts, rather than representing political
interests.”
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=20543
“Numbers
Watch – All about the scares, scams, junk, panics, and flummery cooked up by
the media, politicians, bureaucrats, so-called scientists and others who try to
confuse you with wrong numbers. Working to combat Math Hysteria.” (Posted
11/29/07)
http://www.numberwatch.co.uk (website)
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Historical Section
“Big
Media have pulled out all their stops in trying to elect Barack Obama by
withholding from the American people the truth about his radical record and
associates.” (10/28/08)
“Don't Be a Media Dupe … You can kiss your
rights and your traditional values goodbye …” (Posted 10/23/08)
http://townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2008/10/23/dont_be_a_media_dupe_-_vote_to_win
(article)
Biden’s Blunders and
Lies Ignored by Media
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=28942
(10/8/08) (article)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,433314,00.html
(10/7/08) (article)
“Obama: WRONG Change
for Children.” (Posted 9/23/08)
http://www.newsmax.com/hirsen/youtube_censors_/2008/09/22/133081.html
(article/video)
“In
this election, the choice is clear: Do we continue to protect ourselves, our
families, and our country with an aggressive approach? Or, blinded by media
distortions, do we leave ourselves wide open to more attacks …” (Posted 9/16/08)
http://www.newsmax.com/kessler/bush_911_attacks/2008/09/10/129623.html
(article)
“If
you raise any of these issues, you risk being punished, smeared, and silenced.”
(10/28/08)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=29214
(article)
“Barack
Obama, in other words, if this were an honest election, would win approximately
1 out of every 9 eligible voters.” (11/3/08)
http://www.newsmax.com/lowell_ponte/obama_mandate/2008/11/03/147089.html
(article)
McCain Aide On How
The Media Thinks
(Posted 9/25/08)
http://www.newsmax.com/kessler/McCain_Pfotenhauer_/2008/09/25/134310.html
(article)
“Obamageddon
… Fiction?” (11/3/08)
http://townhall.com/columnists/DouglasMacKinnon/2008/11/03/obamageddon_fiction?page=1
(article)
“Message to Obama: We Were Greeted As Liberators” (10/8/08)
Slanted Questions
http://michaelmedved.townhall.com/blog/g/baede55a-70b3-4980-b998-5e6eaf88b437
http://www.newsmax.com/kessler/McCain_media_creation/2008/02/03/69766.html
(article)