Who exactly is running their editorial staff? The Ayatollah Khamenei?
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Category Archives: Media Bias
Let’s Survey the Headlines Today, Shall We?
Snow. Check.
Lots of snow. Many inches of snow. Got it. Or as it’s known in the midwest, ‘Tuesday.’
Wait… What’s this? News?
I guess Fox didn’t get the memo.
Graphic from the Earl of Taint.
Filed under Media Bias
2014 probably NOT hottest year on record
The mainstream media has spent the past few days doing a victory dance in the endzone because of the announcement that 2014 was the hottest year on record based on instrument observations that the earth’s temperature might have increased by a factor of two-hundreths of a degree centrigrade with a margin of error of a tenth of a degree centigrade.
Re-read that last bit …
“might have increased by 2/100ths of a degree with a MOE of 1/10th of a degree.”
IOW, the Margin Of Error is GINORMOUS compared with the picayune little MAYBE increase. In fact, given HOW ginormous, the temperature could’ve just as easily gone DOWN.
But the Lamestream Media never lets pesky facts get in the way of political certitudes; hence, the overblown “it’s official” and “hottest year ever recorded.”
The worst example I saw was “Last year was the hottest in earth’s recorded history.” Talk about misleading! “Earth’s recorded history” suggests all the thousands of years that we have recorded HISTORY, when what it actually meant is all the years since we started using thermometers to record temperature. It’s only a teensy weensy difference between:
- 6,000 years for recorded history and
- 164 years for recorded temperatures.
Plus, the NASA scientists who were cited in these grossly biased reports say they are only 38% certain that 2014 was the hottest year. IOW, they’re 62% certain it probably wasn’t.
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- http://newsbusters.org/blogs/pj-gladnick/2015/01/18/nasa-scientists-admit-only-38-chance-2014-was-hottest-year-record
- http://newsbusters.org/blogs/clay-waters/2015/01/17/nyts-alarmist-enviro-reporter-gillis-eagerly-undermines-global-warming
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recorded_history
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature_record
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Filed under Al Gore, Climate, Media Bias
Gawker Media owner wants to expand audience
Gawker Media is an online media company and blog network, founded and owned by Nick Denton who styles himself one of those compassionate, open-minded, left-wing liberals.
- In June 2013, unpaid interns brought a Fair Labor Standards Act action against Denton and Gawker Media, saying their work was “central to Gawker’s business model as an Internet publisher,” and that Gawker’s failure to pay them minimum wage for their work therefore violated the FLSA and state labor laws.
- In January 2014, Quentin Tarantino filed a copyright lawsuit against Gawker Media for distributing his script for “The Hateful Eight.” He said, “Gawker Media has made a business of predatory journalism, violating people’s rights to make a buck” and that he wouldn’t continue with the movie because of the leak.
In January 2015, Denton said that he knows the company’s audience leans left, that “liberals are only a fifth of the US voting population”, and that he wants to reach more people:
“Let’s welcome, if not out-and-out racists, then at least the wide array of people with whom a conversation is possible: national greatness conservatives, Burkean Tories and business pragmatists, for instance; Christians and other spiritual people; economic liberals, libertarians and techno-utopians; and black and other social conservatives.”
He also said he wants to “look beyond our social stata” when hiring writers for the company, so they don’t all come from “the same small liberal arts schools.”
Tweeters responded helpfully with policy and story ideas for Denton:
- New editorial policy: A 50% reduction in references to conservatives as “f**king r*tards”
- Something Happened that Was Not Racist or Anti-Gay
- Some Intelligent People Live in States that Do Not Border an Ocean
- Watch This Policeman Justifiably Arrest Someone Based on Probable Cause
- How Free Markets Are Really The Best at Fighting Inequality
- Why Democrats Hate School Choice
And my personal favorite:
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- http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/312743/nick-denton-wants-to-reach-more-conservatives/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gawker_Media
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Denton
- http://twitchy.com/2015/01/17/help-has-arrived-gawker-medias-conservative-outreach-triggers-gawkerswingsright-suggestions/
- http://www.cbsnews.com/news/neil-degrasse-tyson-sparks-internet-fight-with-christmas-tweets/
- http://twitchy.com/2014/12/14/hack-neil-degrasse-tyson-uses-hypothetical-aliens-to-project-his-own-smug/
- http://twitchy.com/2014/09/27/neil-degrasse-tyson-finally-admits-he-was-wrong-kind-of/
- http://twitchy.com/2015/01/03/neil-degrasse-tyson-blows-more-minds-with-idea-to-prevent-computer-hacking/
Filed under Media Bias
MSNBC’s Fail and Tweeters’ Hilarious Responses
It started when MSNBC’s Luke Russert sneered about freshman Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) being chosen to deliver the GOP commentary after Obama’s State of the Union address.
Tweeters responded:
- Also, a Lieutenant Colonel in the Iowa Army National Guard and an Iraqi War veteran. But whatevs!
- So Luke … what’ve you done lately, you condescending, sneering little twerp? Besides acting like a colossal douchebag, I mean?
- Luke Russert’s meteoric rise continues. When his father was alive he was a blatant nepotism hire; today, he’s a Democrat shill.
- Why does Luke Russert say “pig farmer” with that air of elitist contempt?
- Any hog Joni’s ever castrated is twice the man Luke Russert is.
Some Twitter genius started #LukeRussertFarmTips:
- My first three dogs live on a farm now. My mom says they love it there.
- Cow chips are best served still warm and are a great source of fiber.
- A herd of ducks can reduce a bull to a skeleton in 37 minutes.
- Baby carrots are pulled from their mothers at birth and raised in dark sheds.
- John Kerry discovered the recipe for ketchup while serving in Vietnam.
- Jimmy Carter invented peanut butter by accident while clubbing a rabbit.
- Planting your corn in corn rows is cultural appropriation and probably a microaggression.
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Filed under Joni Ernst, Media Bias, State of the Union
And the Oscar for pointless movie reviews goes to … – UPDATED
… the New Republic review of American Sniper which the reviewer admits he didn’t watch.
THIS is worth reading!
“Make no mistake: Looking through a magnified rifle scope and killing another human being is a difficult job. It’s a burden many snipers bear long after their service is completed. But contrary to what many believe, snipers are not mindless murderers or killing machines. They’re intensely dedicated professionals willing to do a very difficult, extremely dangerous job with the goal of protecting others.”
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Filed under Armed Forces, Chris Kyle, Clint Eastwood, Media Bias, Movies & Television
Not a news story
Q. How is Ted Cruz having a beer 28 years ago a news story?
A. When it’s the best the Left Stream Media can come up with to diss a popular conservative leader.
Other crimes cited by tweeters:
- Saying “under God” while reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.
- Waving the American Flag! Yes, he does that!
- Sounding more presidential than the president.
- Speaking without a TelePrompter.
- Being a minority off the Democrat plantation.
- Living rent-free in the heads of Progs.
The “Oh wait” list:
- Left Americans to die oversees for political gaming…lied…got amnesia … Oh wait, that was Hillary Clinton.
- Bought guns for Mexican cartel with Taxpayer money then lied when caught … Oh wait, that was Eric Holder.
- Pleaded guilty to wire and mail fraud and misuse of campaign funds … Oh wait, that was Jesse Jackson, Jr.
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Filed under Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Hillary Clinton, Media Bias, Ted Cruz, Ted Kennedy
Why should we trust the MSM?
If they can’t even get the Pledge of Allegiance right, why should we trust them on anything else?
In 2011, NBC – not once, but twice – omitted “one nation under God” during its coverage of the U.S. Open Championship. The network got so much blow-back that it was forced to apologize.
In 2015, NBC did it again. During a commercial promoting spy thriller “Allegiance”, a chorus of voices recites the Pledge of Allegiance minus “under God.” A few days after Fox News caught the omission, NBC quietly replaced the promo with a new one that includes “under God.”
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Filed under Media Bias
Reactions to Obama’s absence
Obama tried to throw Secret Service under bus. They objected.
An Obama-drooler tried to find a deep reason. Mockery ensued.
No one with half a brain thinks there’s any chance of successful nuclear talks with Iran. So yes, that was the reason.
Apathy? I think not. This man sent a whole delegation to the funeral of a criminal who got shot for attacking a cop.
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- http://twitchy.com/2015/01/12/under-the-bus-secret-service-not-asked-or-notified-of-possible-trip-to-paris-unity-march/
- http://twitchy.com/2015/01/13/nyt-blogger-scrapes-to-find-the-secret-brilliance-in-obamas-failure/
- http://twitchy.com/2015/01/13/unfair-politico-cartoon-rips-obamas-absence-at-march-angers-some-devotees/
Filed under Barack Obama, Charlie Hebdo, Media Bias
The New York Times complies
I’ve heard the New York Times used to be a real newspaper. Now, it’s nothing more than the flagship for left-wing agitprop.
Case in point: It rewrote its own Charlie Hebdo story to remove evidence that the terrorists were Muslims.
ORIGINAL:
Sigolène Vinson, a freelancer who had decided to come in that morning to take part in the meeting, thought she would be killed when one of the men approached her.
Instead, she told French news media, the man said, “I’m not going to kill you because you’re a woman, we don’t kill women, but you must convert to Islam, read the Quran and cover yourself,” she recalled.
UPDATE:
Sigolène Vinson, a freelance journalist who had come in that morning to take part in the meeting, said that when the shooting started, she thought she would be killed.
Ms. Vinson said in an interview that she dropped to the floor and crawled down the hall to hide behind a partition, but one of the gunmen spotted her and grabbed her by the arm, pointing his gun at her head. Instead of pulling the trigger, though, he told her she would not be killed because she was a woman.
“Don’t be afraid, calm down, I won’t kill you,” the gunman told her in a steady voice, with a calm look in his eyes, she recalled. “You are a woman. But think about what you’re doing. It’s not right.”
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Filed under Charlie Hebdo, Islam, Media Bias, Terrorism
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