Posted on 12/24/2014 12:03:24 PM PST by Kaslin
Editor's note: This column was co-authored by Tim Graham.
Historians will record that 2014 was a terrible year for liberal Democrats, not just at the polls but also in the news. The networks spent most of the fall campaign pretending there wasn't a fall campaign, and for good reason. Obama's Hope and Change aura had completely sunk into the muck as Obama's honesty and competence both took a hit in the hard news of ISIS and Ebola.
But if Team Obama was going down, the journalistic elite were going down with him. They are cemented with their so-called savior, as can be seen in the Media Research Center's "Worst of the Worst 2014," marking the worst quotes gathered from media coverage this year. A panel of 40 opinion leaders selected the most ridiculous verbiage.
NBC News veteran Andrea Mitchell won the "Blue State Award" for fall campaign coverage for whining on election night that conservative victories were based on "a scare tactic by the Republican opponents of Democratic incumbents, who tried to focus on ISIS and Ebola in the scariest, most non-factual ways, to take the eye off the real issues."
Earth to Andrea: ISIS and Ebola are not real issues? How exactly did conservatives manage to politicize them? If anyone is guilty of scaring the public about the devastating potential of Ebola in America, isn't it the media themselves?
It's not hard for MSNBC's Chris Matthews to make this list. He uncorks so many boneheaded comments he merits his own "Mean-Spirited, Nasty Belligerent Chris Award." Back on Jan. 7, Matthews was already panicked at the though of a conservative wave in November. "You'll see the beginning of the end to what could have been -- what many of us believe should have been -- an historic turn toward full democratic government in this country," he complained. "The goal will be to erase not just Obama from the history books, but any evidence that someone of his background should ever think of being president. It will mean victory for the haters."
No hyperbolic character assassination there.
Matthews also won the "Ku Klux Con Job Award" for phony racism charges this year when he began his Oct. 21 show by accusing the Republicans of "killing the black vote." When you ask someone for an ID, you've apparently committed the cold-blooded murder of voting rights.
ABC's Barbara Walters retired in May, but her on-air adoration of two feminist heroes could not be ignored. She earned the "Media Hero Award" for praising Anita Hill, whose politically timed sexual harassment charges against Clarence Thomas have never been proven, no matter how much the Thomas-haters spin otherwise. "I would just like to say that I'm honored to be meeting you," she professed while interviewing Hill on "The View" on March 19. "I watched those hearings, as did so many other people. And to so many of us, you were our heroine."
On May 16, for her last day on "The View," Walters brought on special guest Hillary Clinton and won the "Pantsuit Patrol Award" for Hillary-boosting. "You are someone we admire -- and, for me, it's more than admiration -- it's very deep affection, and I thank you for coming on. ... No matter what she does, she will always, to me, be the most fascinating." Pure goo.
That sounded a lot like actress Gwyneth Paltrow, who won the "Barbra Streisand Political IQ Award for Celebrity Vapidity." Paltrow hosted a fundraiser on Oct. 9 with the president and declared, "It would be wonderful if we were able to give this man all of the power that he needs to pass the things that he needs to pass. ... You're so handsome that I can't speak properly."
It's probably too much to expect that 2015 will be the year that the media achieve political sobriety and speak properly in Obama's presence.
It's probably hard to speak with their mouths full.
Good thing Bozell reported these quotes or nobody would have heard them.
Pray America is waking
Yes, a bone-headed cult.
The Democrat Party is no longer a political party; it has become an Obama Cult. The closest historic parallel we have to this Obama Cult is the followers of the James Warren (Jim) Jones Cult who, at the behest of Jim Jones, willingly killed themselves with cyanide laced Kool-Aid, and, of course, both Jim Jones and Obama were “Community Organizers,” and both were/are avowed Marxist Communists with membership in the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). The only difference between the Obama Cult and the Jim Jones Cult, other than the enormous size of the Obama Cult, is that Jim Jones offered his followers poisoned Kool-Aid at the end, and Obama is offering his followers revolution, but the end result is the same: their followers perish.
Obie should be awarded the Anita Hill Award...
Gwyneth Paltrow, now there’s a supreme intellectual for ya, a chain smoking vegan who names her kid Apple, I suppose Banana was taken.
Gwyneth Paltrow, now there’s a supreme intellectual for ya, a chain smoking vegan who names her kid Apple, I suppose Banana was taken.
“You’re so handsome that I can’t speak properly”
Paltrow, you stupid hoor, he doesn’t like girls.
Why yes, it was, by a musical group, Bananarama. They did "I Heard a Rumor" in 1987.
“What, Jim Jones was CPUSA? I never read that at the time. Are you sure? Source?”
Simply Google Jim Jones Communist and read for a week. Here’s one from The National Review:
Yet the Jonestown massacre itself is only dimly known to contemporary Americans, and the details of the event are often ignored by news and academia. It is, after all, an inconvenient story, in which a Communist community, led by a committed Marxist and ’60s Bay Area radical, came to a horrifying end.
Following the mass suicide, the mainstream media spun the story into one of religious fanaticism rather than leftist fanaticism. Had a right-winger persuaded followers to join him in retreating from society and building their own enclave, then held them prisoner and ultimately persuaded or forced them to take their own lives in some sort of revolutionary act, Jonestown would be taught more widely in schools than Abe Lincoln. Instead, when Jonestown is addressed, the Marxism of the People’s Temple is whitewashed and the story is packaged as one of a religious cult gone awry, or as a warning against the perils of organized religion.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/377369/unburied-truth-about-jim-jones-j-delgado
I've been a conservative since the days of Barry Goldwater and Nelson Rockefeller's GOP convention spew on national television about "fascists" and "Nazis", when I saw with my own eyes the hatred and fury of the Eastern Establishment at the emergence of the rank-and-file of Republicanism and the Main Street crowd's refusal to be bossed and bullied by the Establishment any more.
But I've never read or heard that Jim Jones was a Communist - ever - and so I suppose my ignorance about that fact has been a small dark victory for the conspirators of the MSM.
Thanks for the schooling, I appreciate it.
The footage shot by a dropped camera, of the Jonestown firing squad shooting people on the airport tarmac, was unforgettable. An unforgettable legacy of a dead news cameraman who, dead or alive, got the story.
Jim Jones went to pro-Communist meetings in Indianapolis in his younger days. Years later, he praised Kim Il Sung and wanted his money to go to the USSR on his demise. No word if he was a card-carrying party member but he definitely was a communist. Pretty sure that Obama was never a CP member, though.
The worst ones never advertise, until they achieve state power and “come out.” Examples: Hiss, Philby, Castro, and now the Obama Ring.
Are you saying they’re lining up to give him Lewinsky? Girls will be disappointed.
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