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  • “I’m not racist”: Common claim after racial slurs

    05/23/2013 1:55:33 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 70 replies
    Associated Press ^ | May 23, 2013 4:17 PM EDT | Jesse Washington
    It’s almost a cliché. First, someone talking about blacks makes reference to fried chicken, watermelon, monkeys or dogs—or even uses the indefensible N-word. Then, along with the inevitable apology, comes the kicker: I’m not racist. The latest denial is from golfer Sergio Garcia. Asked a joking question about having dinner with his adversary Tiger Woods, Garcia said: “We will serve fried chicken.” He later apologized for what he called a “silly remark,” then added, “but in no way was the comment meant in a racist manner.” … “I think it’s human nature that if you’re a racist, you don’t want...
  • If I were a journalist and wanted to disarm the people, here's how I would accomplish my goal

    05/23/2013 8:08:15 AM PDT · by ProgressingAmerica · 8 replies
    PGA Weblog ^ | Progressingamerica
    In chapter 1 of the book "Public Opinion", Walter Lippmann writes the following: (page 40) The wireless constantly used the statistics of the intelligence bureau at Verdun, whose chief, Major Cointet, had invented a method of calculating German losses which obviously produced marvelous results. Every fortnight the figures increased a hundred thousand or so. These 300,000, 400,000, 500,000 casualties put out, divided into daily, weekly, monthly losses, repeated in all sorts of ways, produced a striking effect. Our formulae varied little: 'according to prisoners the German losses in the course of the attack have been considerable' ... 'it is proved...
  • Mediaite Writer Furthers MSNBC Spin On IRS Scandal: 'They Have To Pin This On George W. Bush'

    05/21/2013 10:44:11 AM PDT · by chessplayer · 3 replies
    You just knew this was bound to happen. Some on the left are trying to blame George W. Bush for Obama's IRS fiasco. Take for example Mediaite's resident Obama apologist Tommy Christopher, who wrote a much ado about nothing post on May 16 insinuating that this egregious abuse of government power stems from former Bush appointed IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman – and that credit for clearing this whole thing up will go to Obama.
  • Obama Scandals Bring MSNBC 7-Year Low While Fox News Rises

    05/20/2013 7:25:08 PM PDT · by Jet Jaguar · 33 replies
    deadline ^ | May 20, 2013 | By DOMINIC PATTEN |
    The scandals of the Obama administration seem to be hurting not just the White House but MSNBC as well while Fox News Channel scored its second-best week of the year. After double-digit gains during last year’s presidential election, May 13-17 saw the progressive-aligned “Lean Forward” news network hit new lows as the IRS scandal erupted and revelations that the Justice Department secretly obtained AP records became public. With 350,000 viewers on average and 94,000 among the adults 25-54 demo, MSNBC had its least-watched and lowest-rated total-day results of the year last week. That was also the lowest total-day demo result...
  • What Happened to Obama?

    05/20/2013 3:45:06 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 25 replies
    Jewish Journal ^ | May 20, 2013 | David Suissa
    You know things are getting rough for President Barack Obama when even The New Yorker, that bastion of liberal thought, starts ridiculing him. Reacting to how the president is distancing himself from his administration’s three emerging scandals — the mishandling of the embassy attack at Benghazi, the targeting of a right-wing group by the IRS and press snooping by the Department of Justice — the magazine’s resident humorist, Andy Borowitz, wrote a post on its Web site titled, “Obama Denies Role in Government.” To milk his point, as humorists are wont to do, Borowitz put words in Obama’s mouth: “Right...
  • “Daily Show” Creator Lizz Winstead: Oklahoma Tornado Meant for Conservatives

    05/20/2013 3:52:30 PM PDT · by Morgana · 81 replies
    Life News ^ | Steven Ertelt
    As families and schoolchildren hunkered down in storm shelters to avoid a massive tornado today near Oklahoma City, a liberal “comedian” found time to use the disaster to attack conservatives. The subtext of a tweet from “Daily Show” co-creator Lizz Winstead was clearly meant to insult the pro-life and family values people who live in the state of Oklahoma, one of the most Republican-oriented states in the nation. At a time when “PrayforOklahoma is the highest trending topic on Twitter, conservatives noted Winstead’s lack of class. This is the same Winstead who attacked Michele Bachmann on abortion and raises funds...
  • Archie Comics gets first gay kiss with openly gay character Kevin Keller

    05/20/2013 12:05:01 PM PDT · by Bubba_Leroy · 37 replies
    news.com.au ^ | May 21, 2013 | Staff
    IT'S just a quick kiss, but it's a long step forward for Archie Comics' only openly gay character Kevin Keller. The Riverdale teen finds his life turned upside down after locking lips with his boyfriend, Devon, in Pop Tate's diner, drawing the ire of at least one disapproving Riverdale mom. The woman "gets very offended and kind of pitches a bit of a fit," said Dan Parent, who writes and draws the issue, Kevin Keller No. 10 that is released Aug. 7. "Kevin is kind of used to that, but Veronica records the whole thing and of course uploads it...
  • Media Will Quickly Revert to Defending Obama, Attacking Republicans Over Scandals

    05/18/2013 9:15:29 AM PDT · by chessplayer · 28 replies
    The liberal media are not really "up in arms" with the Obama administration, but are simply having a "lover's quarrel" over the AP scandal in particular, NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell told CNBC host Larry Kudlow on his May 16 The Kudlow Report program. What's more, it won't be that long until "[t]he Bill Clinton syndrome is going to be upon us, where it's time to move on, we've covered it [the media will say] and they're going to turn the fire right on Republicans as being obstructionists. Mark my word," the Media Research Center founder predicted. "They would report what...
  • Jon Stewart Continues Piling on Scandal-Plagued Obama: He’s Either Nixon or Mr. Magoo

    05/16/2013 8:00:30 AM PDT · by mandaladon · 63 replies
    Fox Nation ^ | 16 May 2013
    For the third night in a row, Jon Stewart was unrelenting in going after the Obama administration for the multiple scandals it’s been caught up in. Stewart admitted that after piling on Fox News for so long for overreacting to every little thing Obama does, they finally have something to be justifiably angry about, and could not begrudge them their moment of outrage. Stewart even agreed that President Obama could have acted like Richard Nixon, but if he wasn’t directly involved, it’s still bad because that makes him Mr. Magoo. Stewart recapped the “shitstorm that is rocking the Obama administration”...
  • Media's Meme is BS! Obama not Disengaged, He Leads Government Waging War on Domestic Enemies

    05/15/2013 11:21:42 AM PDT · by servo1969 · 12 replies
    RushLimbaugh.com ^ | 5-15-2013 | Rush Limbaugh
    FULL TITLE - "The Media Meme of the Day is BS! Obama Isn't Disengaged -- He Leads a Government Waging War on Its Domestic Enemies" BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Did you hear how David Axelrod attempted to defend Obama on the IRS scandal? I think he was on MSNBC today. David Axelrod said (paraphrasing), "Well, you know, the government's too big. The government's simply too vast for Obama to control it." Bingo! Exactly! That's the whole reason the Tea Party exists. The government is too big. Not only is the government too big, it's growing. It's growing to the point that...
  • ‘Media Matters’ posts talking points to defend Obama DOJ spying on AP reporters (Nixon Matters)

    05/15/2013 5:07:04 AM PDT · by The Old Hoosier · 7 replies
    ConservativeIntel.com ^ | 5/15/13 | David Freddoso
    Media Matters is an organization dedicated to finding conservative media bias — which means it’s an overstaffed, over-funded group with little to do but quibble over details and interpretations and engage the most conspiratorial-minded and least influential conservatives in America. But they’ve really done it this time. As it turns out, a free press matters a lot less than President Obama matters.
  • Benghazi: Hillary Could Eat Kittens While Stomping on a Naked Granny & “Media” Hail It as ‘Poetry'

    05/12/2013 2:04:45 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 11 replies
    Townhall ^ | May 12, 2013 | Doug Giles
    Hillary better thank her god, The Father of Lies, that she’s not a conservative like Sarah Palin, because if she were a conservative, after last week’s blistering testimony against her by the Benghazi whistle blowers, all news outlets, far and wide, would be yelling “off with conservative Hillary’s head”. But not The Original, Leftist, Hillary. Original Hillary gets a pass. Yep, the numb-nuts that make up the ubiquitous fake news organizations gave scant to zero coverage of the testimonies that completely contradicted Mrs. Clinton’s account of the Benghazi Massacre. For instance, MSNBC gave no live coverage for the Benghazi hearings...
  • Soledad O'Brien: "OK, White Person, This Is A Conversation You Clearly Are Uncomfortable With"

    05/13/2013 5:13:36 PM PDT · by Third Person · 66 replies
    RCP ^ | MAy 13th, 2013 | Callie Crossley
    Soledad O'Brien and WGBH Boston Public Radio Show Host Callie Crossley discuss how the conversation around race has changed over the years, how journalism has changed and how social media should be used to tell a fast-breaking news story. O'BRIEN: People would sometimes, when I give speeches, stand up and say, 'You know, I think your black America documentaries (are) divisive. I think like, you know, listen, we shouldn't think of ourselves as African-American. We're Americans, and everybody should stop separating themselves out,' O'BRIEN: First of all, it's only white people who ever said that -- 'if we could just...
  • AP CEO's letter to Eric Holder

    05/13/2013 5:24:46 PM PDT · by Nachum · 170 replies
    Associated Press ^ | 5/13/13 | Gary B. Pruit
  • New York Times Reports Kermit Gosnell Guilty of Killing “Fetuses”

    05/13/2013 4:43:43 PM PDT · by Morgana · 19 replies
    Life News ^ | Steven Ertelt
    Someone get the staff of the New York Times down to NYU for a Biology 101 class. The Gray Lady reported today that abortion practitioner Kermit Gosnell was found guilty of killing “fetuses.” Never mind that a “fetus” is an unborn child in the womb, not a baby who was killed after purposefully being birthed in an abortion process that is essentially infanticide. Unlike what the Times reported, a jury of 12 people, who clearly paid attention in seventh grade Life Science class, convicted him of three counts of first-degree murder. But, as the Washington Free Beacon first noted, the...
  • GOP legislators use power to control local affairs

    05/11/2013 11:13:08 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 12 replies
    Associated Press ^ | May 11, 2013 11:45 AM EDT | Bill Barrow
    Even with Republicans holding unprecedented political power across the South, Democrats remain mostly in charge of urban centers in otherwise conservative states. Yet increasingly that control is threatened, not at the ballot box, but by Republican-led legislatures reaching into local governing decisions, often over objections. In Georgia and North Carolina, GOP efforts range from regionalizing the Charlotte airport, the Atlanta metro transit system and the Asheville water system to redrawing district lines for local offices to benefit Republican candidates. Republicans insist there’s no power play at work as they do battle with Democrats such as Charlotte Mayor Antony Foxx, who...
  • x-CNN Reporter: I Received Orders to Manipulate News on Syria and Iran

    05/08/2013 11:44:04 PM PDT · by Cronos · 30 replies
    disclose ^ | 31 Mar 2013 | Disclose tv
    Ex-CNN reporter Amber Lyon revealed that during her work for the channel she received orders to send false news and exclude some others which the US administration did not favor with the aim to create a public opinion in favor of launching an aggression on Iran and Syria. Lyon was quoted by the Slovak main news website as saying that the mainstream US media outlets intentionally work to create a propaganda against Iran to garner public opinion's support for a military invasion against it. She revealed that the scenario used before launching the war on Iraq is being prepared to...
  • ESPN Host: Palin Addressed 'Dumb,' 'Angry,' Phony Patriots at NRA Convention

    05/07/2013 1:29:56 PM PDT · by Nachum · 93 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 5/7/13 | Tony Lee
    Mike Lupica, the ESPN host and regular panelist on the network's Sunday "The Sports Reporters" program, wrote in a column that former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin addressed "mean," "dumb," "angry," and phony patriots at the NRA convention last Friday in Houston, Texas. In a New York Daily News column published late Sunday evening, Lupica also called NRA attendees the "craziest and creepiest gun lovers on the planet" who are also "phonies" who think "they're patriots and brave defenders of the Second Amendment." Outraged that Palin rightfully called out those like Lupica who have shamelessly tried to exploit senseless tragedies like...
  • Washington Post Earnings Drop 85 Percent (Good News)

    05/03/2013 6:36:43 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 23 replies
    NewsBusters.org ^ | May 3, 2013 | Paul Bremmer
    Politico reported today that net income at The Washington Post Co. dropped an astonishing 85 percent from the first quarter of last year to the first quarter of this year. The newspaper division posted an operating loss of $34.5 million over that period. It looks as if the Post, like many other newspapers around the country, may have entered an age of decline. Newspapers just aren’t as profitable as they once were. The proliferation of online news outlets has given consumers a plethora of free news sources to choose from. But another factor may be the Post's persistent liberal bias,...
  • MoveOn.org Petition: ESPN Must 'Immediately Suspend' Broussard for 'Gay Bashing'

    05/01/2013 6:52:17 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 106 replies
    Breitbart Sports ^ | May 1, 2013 | Tony Lee
    MoveOn.org has started a petition to get ESPN reporter Chris Broussard immediately suspended from the network for comments he made regarding Jason Collins's homosexuality, which Broussard said was a sin according to his personal Christian beliefs. The group said Broussard was engaging in "gay bashing." The petition reads: Chris Broussard's hateful attack on Jason Collins for being gay was an unacceptable misrepresentation of the Christian faith. ESPN must immediately suspend Chris Broussard and guarantee that their network will never again be used for gay bashing. In its "petition background" statement, the left-wing organization says that after Jason Collins "emphasized the...
  • How did journalists make themselves associates of the state?

    05/01/2013 6:36:54 AM PDT · by ProgressingAmerica · 1 replies
    Back in 2011, I wrote about how George Creel's plan with the Committee for Public Information (CPI) was to make journalists associates of the state. Here is in part what he wrote: (page 17) With the nation in arms, the need was not so much to keep the press from doing the hurtful things as to get it to do the helpful things. It was not servants we wanted, but associates. Better far to have the desired compulsions proceed from within than to apply them from without. And from page 18: My proposition, in lieu of the proposed law, was...
  • Koch brothers want to make your newspaper their megaphone

    05/01/2013 9:02:18 AM PDT · by Nachum · 80 replies
    L.A. Times ^ | 5/1/13 | David Horsey
    The people of Los Angeles would be up in arms if some out-of-town billionaires tried to buy the Dodgers and institute a rule that only right-handers could play on the team. Petitions would be signed, protests would be organized and politicians would rise up to condemn the sale. It would be nice if there were a similar outcry at the prospect of the Koch brothers buying the Los Angeles Times. After all, as exciting as it may be for a city to have a major league sports team, a good newspaper is a far more valuable asset.
  • NBC Cancels Radical Left Wing “The Chris Matthews Show”

    04/30/2013 10:21:50 PM PDT · by onyx · 104 replies
    The Palookaville Post ^ | April 30, 2013 | By The Paperboy
    (PP)- Tuesday NBC News, a radical left wing news organization, announced they mercifully will be ending “The Chris Matthews Show,” an unwatched syndicated public affairs production broadcast out of the NBC News Washington D.C. bureau. The final edition of the dismal program will be forced onto the airwaves July 21. The half-hour slobber-fest aired primarily on Sunday mornings, in an obviously failed attempt to compete with highly respected political programs like “FOX News Sunday.” “Matthews says he is ending the syndicated Sunday show to focus on some MSNBC show called “Hardball,” said a liberal political insider. “But Chris has to...
  • Chris Matthews Inks Long-Term Deal With MSNBC, But Ends ‘The Chris Matthews Show’

    04/30/2013 1:11:47 PM PDT · by illiac · 30 replies
    TVNEWSER ^ | 4/30/13 | Alex Weprin
    MSNBC has signed Chris Matthews to a new, long-term contract with the channel, TVNewser has learned. As part of the new deal, however, he will be ending “The Chris Matthews Show,” a syndicated public affairs show produced out of the NBC News DC bureau. The final edition of the program will air July 21. The half-hour show typically aired on Sunday mornings, though not every local market carried it. The show has been produced by NBC since 2002.
  • ESPN Apologizes For Commentator's Christian Worldview on Homosexuality

    04/30/2013 11:48:53 AM PDT · by Kazan · 45 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 4/30/2012 | Ben Shapiro
    While the left lectures Americans about the historic breakthrough made by NBA free agent Jason Collins in announcing his sexuality and calls for well-deserved tolerance, they are on full-out attack against ESPN commentator Chris Broussard for expressing his Christian views. And now ESPN has been forced to apologize. ### In response to all this leftist tolerance, ESPN dutifully released a statement apologizing for Broussard’s comments: “We regret that a respectful discussion of personal viewpoints became a distraction from today’s news. ESPN is fully committed to diversity and welcomes Jason Collins’ announcement.” Naturally, Buzzfeed’s Kate Arthur ripped ESPN anyway for not...
  • Live Thread: Media Worships Obama @ 10:15 am "news conference" [Cash in on Gay NBA player!]

    04/30/2013 6:07:41 AM PDT · by SoFloFreeper · 309 replies
    Fox | 4/30/13
    <p>Wendell Goler just announced the Assclown will demand media attention again this morning.</p>
  • New Poll Finds CNN Far Less Believable Cable Channel Than Fox News

    04/29/2013 10:11:32 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 13 replies
    NewsBusters ^ | April 29, 2013 | 19:30 | Randy Hall
    It used to be that whenever an important news story broke, cable television viewers would quickly turn to CNN for must-see coverage of what was happening. However, according to a poll conducted regarding the five-day coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing, that is definitely no longer the case. The survey, which was conducted by the liberal Huffington Post website and the international marketing agency YouGov, determined that former titan CNN came in as far less trustworthy than Fox News over which was the most believable cable news channel. During the poll, which was based on interviews of 1,000 adults last...
  • Barry Diller: I Wish I Hadn’t Bought Newsweek

    04/29/2013 3:31:34 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 21 replies
    Newsmax ^ | Monday, 29 Apr 2013 02:38 PM | Lisa Barron
    Barry Diller, the chairman of Newsweek parent company IAC, stated Monday that he didn’t have “great expectations” for the future of the Daily Beast and Newsweek in their new digital-only format. … (Diller) is far from optimistic about the future of the fledgling operation. “I don’t have great expectations”, (he) revealed. “I wish I hadn’t bought Newsweek. It was a mistake.” …
  • HuffPo edits Obama’s joke calling himself ‘strapping young Muslim socialist’

    04/28/2013 5:04:05 AM PDT · by T.O.K. · 16 replies
    bizpacreview.com ^ | April 28, 2013 | Janeen Capizola
    Not a single one of us expected to find any humor in President Obama’s stupid jokes at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, but the sheer level of cocky arrogance he displayed is frightening. And the sheer level of liberal media, politically correct bias in selective journalistic editing was in full display over at the Huffington Post Saturday night. The president swaggered up to the microphone Saturday night to the rap song, “All I Do is Win,” and told the roomful of mostly liberal journalists and movie stars this was what Rush Limbaugh had warned them about – “Second term, baby,”...
  • How the L.A. Times can stop the Koch Brothers

    04/26/2013 10:11:54 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 40 replies
    Washington Post ^ | 04/26/2013 | Steve Pearlstein
    The Koch brothers have become the nation’s leading cheerleaders for free markets where consumers, employees, entrepreneurs and investors are free to pursue their own selfish interests without interference from government or unions or anyone else for that matter. Now comes word that the billionaire brothers want to buy up Los Angeles Times, one of the nation’s last remaining quality newspapers, or its parent, the Tribune Co., which has only recently emerged from bankruptcy reorganization following the disastrous takeover by real estate mogul Sam Zell. All this has come to a head because the bottom-fishing hedge funds that grabbed control of...
  • NY Times to roll out new products in search of revenue (11.2% drop in revenue since last year!)

    04/26/2013 1:17:24 AM PDT · by tom h · 14 replies
    New York Times ^ | Apr 25, 2013 | Jennifer Saba
    (Reuters) - New York Times Co reported a decline in quarterly revenue on weak advertising sales but said it would try to grow out of the slump by expanding its suite of digital products. The 11.2 percent drop in advertising revenue in the first quarter underscores the pressure that the New York Times faces to increase its subscription revenue, especially for its digital products, and find new veins of income. The company plans to roll out a line of lower-priced products - including an expansion into e-commerce and games - to attract more readers around the world. Compounding the challenge...
  • Why Big Cities Make Media Liberal—and Why the Koch Brothers Can't Do Anything About It

    04/25/2013 12:46:31 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 25 replies
    The Atlantic ^ | 04/25/2013 | GARANCE FRANKE-RUTA
    On Sunday, the New York Times reported that the Koch brothers -- yes, those Koch brothers, of dumping mad cash into elections fame -- are considering buying the Tribune network of newspapers in a bid to establish a pro-business conservative media chain. Well, good luck with that. There are several reasons regional newspapers are an awkward fit for anyone looking to counter-program what they see as liberal bias in the news media. The main reason is that all major U.S. newspapers are based in cities. Cities in America are in the main run by Democrats, because they are populated, by...
  • NY Times to roll out new products in search of revenue [ 11.2 percent drop in ad revenue ]

    04/25/2013 11:44:47 AM PDT · by NoLibZone · 28 replies
    reuters ^ | April 25 ,2013 | reuters
    New York Times Co reported a decline in quarterly revenue on weak advertising sales but said it would try to grow out of the slump by expanding its suite of digital products. The 11.2 percent drop in advertising revenue in the first quarter underscores the pressure that the New York Times faces to increase its subscription revenue, especially for its digital products, and find new veins of income.
  • Don't Let the Koch Brothers Buy the Media

    04/24/2013 9:39:58 PM PDT · by Ernest_at_the_Beach · 59 replies
    newser.com ^ | Posted Apr 24, 2013 1:24 PM CDT | Kevin Spak, Newser Staff
    Harold Meyerson doesn't want the LA Times to become a political toolNewser) – The Tribune Company's board likely views the Koch Brothers' attempt to buy its eight newspapers as a purely financial transaction. But almost no one else sees it that way, writes Harold Meyerson at the Washington Post. Thousands of LA Times readers, for instance, have already signed petitions against the move, because they see it for what it would be: "a political transaction … turning LA's metropolitan daily into a right-wing mouthpiece whose commitment to empirical journalism would be unproven at best." The deal would include the LA...
  • NPR Host: Constitution 'Like Tinkerbell...Only Alive As We Collectively Decide'

    04/24/2013 6:01:18 PM PDT · by Sir Napsalot · 50 replies
    Breibart - Big Journalism ^ | 4-24-2013 | Larry O'Connor
    Peter Sagal, host of NPR's highly entertaining "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me," is planning a new PBS special on the US Constitution. In an interview with Politico, Sagal explains that he will be using the show to "educate" Americans about our government's framing document . The tax-payer funded show, "Constitution USA with Peter Sagal," sounds harmless enough: … We talked to people who were basically living the Constitution whether they wanted to or not, as opposed to the usual array of pundits or activists who have opinions about it. But as Sagal reveals his personal views of the constitution, a...
  • What would the Koch brothers do to the Los Angeles Times?

    04/24/2013 6:24:46 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 34 replies
    Washington Post ^ | 04/24/2013 | Harold Meyerson
    On May 21, Los Angeles voters will go to the polls to select a new mayor. Who will govern Los Angeles, however, is only the second-most important local question in the city today. The most important, by far, is who will buy the Los Angeles Times. The Times is one of the eight daily newspapers now owned by the creditors who took control of the Tribune Co. after real estate wheeler-dealer Sam Zell drove it into bankruptcy. Others include the Chicago Tribune, the Baltimore Sun, the Orlando Sentinel and the Hartford Courant. The Tribune board members whom the creditors selected...
  • Don Imus On CNN: "It’s Over For Them"

    04/23/2013 1:23:41 PM PDT · by Biggirl · 7 replies
    Politico ^ | April 23, 2013 | Mackenzie Weinger
    Fox Business Network’s Don Imus on Tuesday tore into CNN’s handling of the Boston Marathon bombings, calling the network’s coverage “absurd and frustrating.” “Remember, there was a time whenever something would happen, we would all turn to CNN,” the “Imus in the Morning” host said. “But that was a long time ago. That was a long time ago.”
  • CNN's John King says mistakes last week were 'embarrassing' ( 'We were wrong.'" )

    04/23/2013 11:48:57 AM PDT · by NoLibZone · 26 replies
    wtop.com/ ^ | April 23 2013 | Amy Hunter
    WASHINGTON -- CNN's John King says he is embarrassed after wrongly reporting last week that a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings was arrested, calling the mistake a "double kick in the head" because he's a Boston native. "When you do something like this, it's embarrassing," King, the network's chief national correspondent, told WTOP on Tuesday. "The one thing you have to do is look straight in the camera and say, 'We were wrong.'"
  • Terror Attack Ratings Prove Fox Is Now 'The Most Trusted Name In News'

    04/20/2013 7:04:01 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 33 replies
    Breitbart's Big Journalism ^ | April 19, 2013 | John Nolte
    In a piece published earlier today, Big Journalism made note of the fact that, in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings, ratings confirm that CNN has now lost its "Big News" ratings dominance to Fox News. For over a decade, whenever major news broke, Americans were simply expected to abandon their regular news source to tune in to CNN. What we've seen lately, though, and without a doubt during the Boston Marathon terror attack, is that this is no longer the case. Fox News is now, if you will pardon the expression, "The Most Trusted Name In News." While...
  • "David 'let's hope the Boston bomber is white and not Muslim' Sirota's head, over at Salon, ....

    04/20/2013 8:23:07 AM PDT · by Perseverando · 31 replies
    Atlas Shrugs ^ | Arpil 20, 2013 | Pamela Geller
    Here is a good analysis from Heresy Today: A European Bulletin of Hidden News and Dissident Views: Chechen refugees from the war torn region of the Caucasus, one in receipt of an Ivy League scholarship to MIT. Somewhere in the United States, David "let's hope the Boston bomber is white and not Muslim" Sirota's head, over at Salon, has just gone into meltdown. The perpetrators of the Boston bombing, and the subsequent attacks against law enforcement, were actually successfully identified to the FBI by the double amputee victim, shown in the most striking photograph from Monday's attack. The most useful...
  • Boston Marathon Bombing from the NPR perspective.

    04/20/2013 3:49:48 PM PDT · by moneyrunner · 28 replies
    The Virginian ^ | 4/20/2013 | Moneyrunner
    Diana Temple-Raston in NPR’s All ThingsConsidered blames the Boston Marathon bombing on Right Wingers celebrating Hitler’s birthday. Transcript: ALL THINGS CONSIDERED APRIL 17th. Diana Temple-Raston provides insight into the Boston investigation. This thinking as we’re reporting is that this is a domestic extremist attack. And officials are leaning that way largely because of the timing of the attack. April is a big month for anti-government and right wing individuals. There’s the Columbine anniversary. There’s Hitler’s birthday. There’s the Oklahoma City bombing. The assault on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco. So according to NPR we Right Wingers were having a...
  • Sorry, Media, No White Tea Partiers Were Involved

    04/19/2013 4:13:03 PM PDT · by raptor22 · 42 replies
    Investor's Business Daily ^ | April 19, 2012 | IBD EDITORIALS
    Media Bias: There's palpable dismay at outlets such as MSNBC and Salon that the Boston Marathon bombers were radicalized young men from Chechnya and not angry white males from the vast right-wing conspiracy. Shortly after Monday's tragedy in Boston, David Sirota of Salon Magazine penned a piece titled "Let's hope the Boston Marathon bomber is a white American." His hopes were dashed when the suspects turned out to be Muslim brothers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, whose family origins are in Chechnya, the rebellious Russian region that is a breeding ground for terrorists. In 2002, about 40 armed Chechen separatists took...
  • Jon Stewart Shreds CNN's Bombing Coverage, Says Network **** in Its Own Mouth'

    04/19/2013 1:50:48 PM PDT · by Responsibility2nd · 43 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 04/18/2013
    CNN knew it had journalistic egg on its face after announcing an arrest in the Boston bombing case earlier this week--and then later dancing back the claim. The network's brass couldn't predict Comedy Central's Jon Stewart would use one of the most upsetting horror films in recent memory as a metaphor for their factual faux pas.
  • How the Media Blew the Gun Control Debate

    04/18/2013 10:36:58 AM PDT · by servo1969 · 21 replies
    breitbart.com/Big-Journalism ^ | 4-18-2013 | John Nolte
    The first mistake the media-complex made was the decision to immediately make the National Rifle Association the "Newtown Bogeyman." This happened even before the bodies had been removed and was an immediate "tell" into the media's motives. This wasn't going to be about protecting children, this was going to be yet-another culture war launched to marginalize the dreaded NRA and hand Obama a win. This was also a media so full of its own power, they simply assumed they could exploit another tragedy into yet-another another Us vs. Them cultural victory. Out of the box, though, the plan was tactically...
  • 72 Congressmen slam media over Gosnell, Planned Parenthood infanticide remarks

    04/18/2013 11:43:09 AM PDT · by topher · 16 replies
    LifeSiteNews.com ^ | 4-18-2013 | John Jalsevac
    72 Congressmen slam media for failing to cover Gosnell, Planned Parenthood infanticide remarks WASHINGTON, D.C., April 18, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a sternly worded letter, 72 congressman have accused the three leading mainstream media networks – ABC, NBS, and CBS – of “blatant media bias” for failing to cover two of the biggest abortion-related stories in recent years: the trial of “House of Horrors” abortionist Kermit Gosnell, and remarks made by a Planned Parenthood representative in support of infanticide. “The broadcasters’ blackout of the Planned Parenthood infanticide lobbying scandal and the Gosnell ‘House of Horrors’ murder trial are the biggest...
  • Colorado’s Fox 31 Investigative Reporters Trying to Entrap Honest Gun Sellers

    04/18/2013 9:43:59 AM PDT · by B4Ranch · 11 replies
    http://www.ammoland.com/ ^ | Wednesday, April 17, 2013 | ammoland.com
    Colorado --(Ammoland.com)- It has been brought to our attention that FOX31 reporters Julie Hayden and Josh Bernstein have been attempting to set up straw purchases via online firearm markets. Keep an eye out for these FOX31 reporters trying to SCAM you in their “investigative reporting”: Many of our members have made us aware of these activities through a website called armslist.com. If you are selling a firearm through this website, or any other website for that matter, please make sure that you exercise caution and your best judgment when completing a transaction in person. Remember, while journalists have used these...
  • MSNBC: NRA "in the Business of Helping Bombers Get Away With Their Crimes"

    04/17/2013 7:46:51 PM PDT · by rickmichaels · 89 replies
    The Weekly Standard ^ | Apr 17, 2013 | DANIEL HALPER
    MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell made the case this evening that the National Rifle Association is to blame for the slow investigation into the Boston bombings: Video here"There are new developments tonight in the bombing investigation here in Boston," said O'Donnell. "But that investigation could be moving faster were it not for the successful lobbying efforts of the National Rifle Association. The NRA's efforts to guarantee that American mass murderers are the best-equipped mass murders in the world is not limited to murderers who use assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. The NRA is also in the business of helping bombers get...
  • CNN: Pressure Cooker Bomb 'Right-Wing' Signature

    04/17/2013 5:47:18 AM PDT · by Sir Napsalot · 134 replies
    Breibart - Big Journalism ^ | 4-17-2013 | Lee Stranahan
    An article published on CNN's website makes an unproven claim that pressure cooker bombs like the ones used at the Boston Marathon terror attack are a 'signature' of 'right-wing extremists.' The article was co-written by Jennifer Roland and Peter Bergen. Bergen is the CNN ananlyst made the claim that right-wing extremists could be behind the bombing less than two hours after it took place. The article says (emphasis added) : A senior U.S. counterterrorism investigator told CNN that pressure cooker bombs have also been a signature of extreme right-wing individuals in the United States who he said tend to revel...
  • Let's just let the Left keep talking and hoping "Boston" will go away, because it won't

    04/16/2013 9:14:33 AM PDT · by Oldpuppymax · 8 replies
    Coach is Right ^ | 4/16/13 | Kevin "Coach" Collins
    The hysterical screeching has already started. The Left is drawn to blame a terrorist attack on American soil on conservatives like a moth is drawn to a flame. They’re psychopaths who only care about moving their destructive agenda forward. Liberals will say anything; they can’t do otherwise. They’re not bound by any restrictions of common human decency because they have none. Despicable cancers such as Chris Matthews, Michael Moore and lunatic Cynthia McKinney have already started accusing conservatives of this ugly attack. Let them keep talking. Either the Boston Police or the media are lying about whether...
  • Why Did This Act Of Terrorism Occur? MEDIA COPY GUIDE

    04/15/2013 4:32:10 PM PDT · by Lazamataz · 129 replies
    Free Republic Original Content | 4/15/2013 | By Laz A. Mataz
    Predictably, the American Pravda Press immediately began conjecturing that the tragic terrorist act in Boston, at the Marathon, was possibly caused by 'right wing extremists'. Quoted Peter Bergen: ""One of the things that I'd be looking at, once the device, if it is a device, is found, what kind of explosives were used. If it, for instance, if it was hydrogen peroxide, sort of a signature of al Qaeda. If it was more conventional explosives, which are much harder to get hold of now, it might be some other kind of right wing extremists..."We've also seen other extremist groups, right...