Posted on 09/07/2009 8:17:42 PM PDT by Starman417
Charles Krauthammer at his best in identifying how a Van Jones can happen in Obama's world:
It's a reflection of the boss. The boss also had a history before he became a candidate of being around and friends with the likes of Jeremiah Wright and William Ayers. The liberals scolded us last year on how irrelevant all that is and how it's a smear campaign against Obama. But, if you live in that environment and you find nothing inherently wrong with that kind of radicalism. Then a Van Jones will show up. You'll watch him years and years and you'll think this guy is perfectly mainstream.
We've been saying this very same thing for over a year now. What did we hear from the left when Obama's associations with nuts and racists was brought up? Why, we're all just racists ourselves....nothing to see here.
We all railed against the MSM bias in not covering the associations, and now we need no clearer proof of this then the Van Jones story. If you received your news from the MSM you had no idea who Van Jones was, Andrew Brietbart:
...the American mainstream media - ABC, NBC, CBS, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, et al - must be held to account for sitting on the sidelines as this major story kept building without them, went viral on YouTube, and then became so large that a key appointee of President Obama was forced to step down.But with their decision to ignore the Jones story, they may have actually done Mr. Obama far more harm than good: Who vetted this guy? How did he get past the FBI? What did he say, and how did he answer the infamous seven-page questionnaire that all Obama appointees were required to fill out? Inquiring Freedom of Information Act minds want to know.
For most people in this country, the resignation was the first they had heard of Van Jones. For this sin of journalistic omission, there's institutional media blame. Bias is too tame a word for the utter shamelessness on display: Only Republican scandals - real and imagined - matter.
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net
MSM = Mute Stupid Morons....
The good news is that China won’t bail out the debt of America’s failing newspapers.
Marxist Sycophant Museum of relics.
MSM = More Stupid Morons
Those that voted for obama.
I was originally going to say: “Mother******* Stupid Morons” but my desire to nice beat out my desire to be truthful....
People have gone from thinking press bias was a "mistake" and wanting to enlighten the press - to understanding the bias is intentional and feeling contempt for the press.
I’m really starting to believe that Obama is controlled by others.
OUTSTANDING analysis by Curt! He gives them both barrels and for those who have escaped scrutiny up until now...he is rounding up a posse to go get them.
Ludicrous. There is a thirdmajor contributor to this state of affairs.
The RNC which has allowed open primaries which in turn has allowed liberals to push socialists as the Republican nominee.
“People have gone from thinking press bias was a “mistake” and wanting to enlighten the press - to understanding the bias is intentional and feeling contempt for the press.”
This paper examines the growth of government during this century as a result of giving women the right to vote. Using cross-sectional time-series data for 1870 to 1940, we examine state government expenditures and revenue as well as voting by U.S. House and Senate state delegations and the passage of a wide range of different state laws. Suffrage coincided with immediate increases in state government expenditures and revenue and more liberal voting patterns for federal representatives, and these effects continued growing over time as more women took advantage of the franchise. Contrary to many recent suggestions, the gender gap is not something that has arisen since the 1970s, and it helps explain why American government started growing when it did.
I think this is a major new evolution in media. For the Rev. Wright, it took one (just one) story on him on ABC's "Goodmorning America" to break the story open. This was after months on talk radio and the internet.
But the story wasn't "real" until ABC covered it.
This one, Jones, did NOT require the mainstream imprimatur. It started, grew and finished all without the networks, NYT or WaPo.
That's a new level, or new low, for the need for mainstream media to make a story "real".
I have always said that things took a very wrong turn when women were given the vote.
I believe it was ALice Roosevelt Longworth who quipped: “any woman who can’t get her own husband to vote the way she wants isn’t worth much.”
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