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FCC’s New 'Diversity Officer' Wants to Force Private Broadcasters to
The International Sign of Censorship Matt Cover at the Media Research Center's News Division, CNSNews.com, has a piece out today entitled "FCC’s Chief Diversity Officer Wants Private Broadcasters to Pay a Sum Equal to Their Total Operating Costs to Fund Public Broadcasting."This is insane. The "Chief Diversity Officer" in question, Mark Lloyd, is…
Tina Brown Compares People Seeking 'Free' Health Care to Katrina Victi
Daily Beast editor tells 'Morning Joe' photos of thousands in line for treatment speak louder than town halls.
Kudos: CNN's Sanchez Presses Jackson-Lee Over Weird Claim Phone Video
On Thursday’s Newsroom, CNN’s Rick Sanchez couldn’t get a straight answer out of Democratic Representative Sheila Jackson-Lee about her cell phone use during a recent health care town hall, and after he repeatedly asked why she did it and if it was disrespectful, the Texas Democrat bizarrely raised the possibility that the YouTube video of her on the phone was “doctored” [the entire interview can…
CBS Uses Editor of Liberal Magazine to ‘Fact Check’ ObamaCare
At the top of Thursday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Harry Smith teased an upcoming segment on dispelling myths about health care reform: "There’s so much anger, this vitriol that we see day after day in these town meetings across the country....We’re going to try and determine this morning whether or not some of these bold statements are, in fact, true or not."Smith turned to Jonathan Cohn, senior…
Ed Schultz: Conservative Broadcasters Want Obama Shot
"Sometimes I think they want Obama to get shot. I do. I really think that there are conservative broadcasters in this country who would love to see Obama taken out."So said liberal talk radio host Ed Schultz Tuesday.I kid you not.What follows is a YouTubed audio of these absurd comments along with a partial transcript (h/t our friend Brian Maloney):
Update: NY Times Finds Town Hall Protesters Not Just White & Irritable
Citizens opposed to Obama's health-care overhaul are not only white, irritable, and angry, as the New York Times has confirmed in two front-page stories -- they're ignorant as well.That's the new wrinkle reporter David Stout brings to the debate, in his web-only report Wednesday afternoon on congressional town hall meetings across the country dominated by health-care concerns, "For Lawmakers,…
Double Standard: Lefty Media Now Targeting GOP Congresswoman's Son
Remember when the children of public figures were off-limits in the day-to-day hand-to-hand combat of political warfare? It's a rule that didn't just applied to the underage children of politicians, but the adult children. Witness the 2008 suspension of MSNBC's David Shuster for suggesting then-presidential contender Hillary Clinton's 28-year-old daughter Chelsea Clinton was being "pimped out"…
Patterico Busts TX Grad Student/Obama Delegate Posing As Doctor; Chron
Topside Update, 2:15 p.m.: Imagine that -- Roxana Mayer was also an Organizing For America "host" during the Texas primary last year. Anyone visiting here even semi-regularly knows that the establishment media consistently fails to determine the legitimacy of people who "say the right things." Further, when someone else, often a blogger, digs and finds the truth, the reporters and publications…
CNN Video from 2006: Bush With Hitler Mustache? No Outrage; Called A
The media are currently apoplectic about the Obama-as-Hitler references at town hall meetings across the country. As we have reported again and again, they are often incorrectly ascribing these references to talk radio host Rush Limbaugh and conservatives - as it is lunatic fringe Leftist Lyndon LaRouche that is making these Obama-as-Hitler posters and comparisons.But this collective media…
CBS Silent on Clinton Comparing Bush v. Gore to Massive Corruption in
Of the three major networks, only CBS has managed, thus far, to ignore controversial comments from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that compared America’s disputed election in 2000 to political corruption in Nigeria. ABC, however, highlighted the August 12 remarks on Thursday’s Good Morning America. GMA news anchor Chris Cuomo challenged, "Now, did [the comments] cross the line?" Co-host Robin…
NBC Notes Eunice Kennedy Shriver Was 'Lifelong Opponent of Abortion
Among Tuesday’s network evening newscasts, all three of which ran stories on the death of Kennedy family member Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the NBC Nightly News uniquely noted that she was strongly opposed to abortion, even while she was liberal overall. Anchor Brian Williams filed a full report on Shriver, which concentrated largely on her work on behalf of those with special needs, including her…
CBS Joins NBC, CNN & MSNBC in Mis-Ascribing Leftist LaRouche's Poster
Who says the media are monolithic in their thinking? Yesterday we informed you of the media's serial misuse of an Obama-as-Hitler poster from esoteric left-winger Lyndon LaRouche's website, as outlets like NBC (on their Nightly News and Meet the Press), CNN and MSNBC all ascribed the poster to sentiments roiled up by talk radio host Rush Limbaugh specifically and conservatives generally. We were…
CBS Warns of 'Right-Wing' 'Anti-Government' Extremism
On Wednesday's CBS Evening News, correspondent Bob Orr highlighted a report released by the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center claiming a recent increase in the number of militias, and warning of the possibility of increased violence by anti-government, right-wing groups and individuals, angry at Democratic party control of the government and of a black President holding office. Orr warned: "…
Press Largely Ignored Hostile Protester Rhetoric Towards Bush
UPDATE: video added at end of post with footage of the Portland protest.As Obama-loving media continue their assault on town hall meeting protesters, they seem to have forgotten how they covered civil disobedience when George W. Bush was in the White House.As Fox News's Bill Sammon pointed out Wednesday, when former President Bush was greeted by hostile protesters on a fund raising trip to…