Category Archives: Media Bias
It was okay when the butt of the joke was a Republican president
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Filed under George W. Bush, Media Bias
Lapdogs for Obama
Because of the absurdly left-wing bias of the Lamestream Media, Republicans like George Bush and Sarah Palin were mocked endlessly for things they NEVER SAID, while Democrats like Barack Obama get their most idiotic statements ignored or fixed for them.
- What did George Bush never say? “Mission Accomplished.” Those words were on a sign behind him when he made a cautious speech about the future of the war in Iraq. The sign was put up to celebrate the ship’s return from a six month deployment.
- What did Sarah Palin never say? “I can see Russia from my house.” Those words were part of a Tina Fey comedy skit on Saturday Night Live.
This week, AP inserted the words “(and in)” when quoting this statement made by President Obama:
“If we don’t deepen our ports all along the Gulf – (and in) places like Charleston, S.C., or Savannah, Ga., or Jacksonville, Fla. – if we don’t do that, these ships are going to go someplace else and we’ll lose jobs,” Obama said.
Charleston, Savannah and Jacksonville are not Gulf ports.
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Filed under Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Media Bias, Sarah Palin
A CØØL-AID drinker wakes up
This guy is reportedly this rag’s token non-liberal, which makes him about as right-wing as John McCain. This is what he said about why he heretofore ignored everything the right’s been screaming about Benghazi for ELEVEN MONTHS.
“Like many people, I figured anti-American radicals had launched the attack, guessed that Obama was as upset about it as anyone, and didn’t blame him or Hillary Clinton for failing to secure a diplomatic outpost in an unstable country. I opposed Team Obama’s reelection for totally unrelated reasons.”
The Twitchy team summed up his epiphany perfectly:
Welcome aboard, Captain Obvious.
My fave comments at Twitchy:
- Holy crap. Two unconnected instances of real journalism escaping the plantation.
- Is it possible that even the bootlickers have had enough?
- Awwww….they’re so cute when they first wake up aren’t they?
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Filed under Barack Obama, Benghazi, Chris Stevens, Media Bias
Thou shalt bow to Teh Won … or else!
The Chattanooga Times Free Press has fired Drew Johnson for publishing an opinion piece critical of President Obama on the same day he visited the city. Johnson tweeted, “I just became the first person in the history of newspapers to be fired for writing a paper’s most-read article.”
President Obama’s policies have harmed Chattanooga enough
Opinion By Drew Johnson – July 30, 2013
President Obama,
Welcome to Chattanooga, one of hundreds of cities throughout this great nation struggling to succeed in spite of your foolish policies that limit job creation, stifle economic growth and suffocate the entrepreneurial spirit.
Forgive us if you are not greeted with the same level of Southern hospitality that our area usually bestows on its distinguished guests. You see, we understand you are in town to share your umpteenth different job creation plan during your time in office. If it works as well as your other job creation programs, then thanks, but no thanks. We’d prefer you keep it to yourself.
That’s because your jobs creation plans so far have included a ridiculous government spending spree and punitive tax increase on job creators that were passed, as well as a minimum wage increase that, thankfully, was not. Economists — and regular folks with a basic understanding of math — understand that these are three of the most damaging policies imaginable when a country is mired in unemployment and starving for job growth.
Even though 64 percent of Chattanooga respondents said they would rather you hadn’t chosen to visit our fair city, according to a survey on the Times Free Press website, it’s probably good that you’re here. It will give you an opportunity to see the failure of your most comprehensive jobs plan to date, the disastrous stimulus scheme, up close and personal.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 helped fund the Gig to Nowhere project, a $552 million socialist-style experiment in government-owned Internet, cable and phone services orchestrated by EPB — Chattanooga’s government-owned electric monopoly.
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The Gig to Nowhere is a Smart Grid, a high tech local electricity infrastructure intended to improve energy efficiency and reduce power outages. After lobbying for, and receiving, $111.6 million in stimulus money from your administration, EPB decided to build a souped-up version of the Smart Grid with fiber optics rather than more cost-effective wireless technology. This decision was supposed to allow EPB to provide the fastest Internet service in the Western Hemisphere, a gigabit-per-second Internet speed that would send tech companies and web entrepreneurs stampeding to Chattanooga in droves.
In reality, though, the gig, like most of the projects funded by your stimulus plan, has been an absolute bust.
While the Smart Grid will cost taxpayers and local electric customers well over a half-billion dollars when all is said and done, there has been little improvement in the quality of EPB’s electric service. Worse, despite being heavily subsidized, EPB’s government-owned Internet, cable and telephone outfit that competes head-to-head against private companies like AT&T and Comcast is barely staying afloat, often relying on loans from electric service reserve funds to afford its business expenses.
Further, there has been no credible evidence to suggest that EPB can even provide a gig of service consistently and reliably. Any companies hoping to utilize the Gig to Nowhere are quoted monthly billing costs that make the service unfeasible. As a result, Chattanooga has remained a relative ghost town for technological innovation. Almost no economic development whatsoever has resulted from the gig.
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What the gig has brought, however, is that shocking price tag. Because of your unwillingness to balance the budget, Mr. President, the $111.6 million federal handout to subsidize the Gig to Nowhere will actually cost federal taxpayers $158.2 million, due to interest. Once EPB received the stimulus infusion to fund the pork project, the electric monopoly took out a $219.8 bond that will balloon to $391.3 million by the time Chattanoogans are done paying it off.
The bond’s first payment comes due this fall and there remain significant questions about how EPB can manage to pay the debt without hiking electric rates on EPB customers.
Building a Smart Grid to get into a telecom sector already well-served by private companies was a bad idea from the start. But getting government involved in places it doesn’t belong is a hallmark of your administration. As a result, you and your policymakers were happy to fund the Gig to Nowhere.
You claimed that the Smart Grid would create jobs for Chattanooga. But in reality, all it did was push America deeper in debt and lure a local government agency into making a terrible financial decision that will weigh on Chattanoogans like a millstone for decades to come.
So excuse us, Mr. President, for our lack of enthusiasm for your new jobs program. Here in Chattanooga we’re still reeling from your old one.
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Filed under Barack Obama, Media Bias
McCain helped elect Obama in 2008
During the 2008 primaries, the Democrat Media Complex chose John McCain as the Republican presidential candidate and Barack Obama as the Democrat candidate. During the primaries, they pimped their favorites and sabotaged the rest.
As soon as the primaries were over, McCain went from being the media’s bestest bud to being their new target. And McCain not only cooperated, but gagged his otherwise conservative and outspoken VP candidate, Sarah Palin.
McCain FORBADE Palin from talking about Obama negatives [1:21]
Why was McCain chosen to run against the Magic Negro? And why did he cooperate in losing the election to the man who so clearly wanted to destroy our way of life?
Blackmail.
- Many of McCain’s fellow Vietnam POWs say they saw very little of McCain when they were held at Hoa Loa, aka the Hanoi Hilton. McCain told them when he was not in with them, he was in solitary.
- But according to some, the CIA has notes and reports made by John McCain’s POW interrogators at the Hanoi Hilton that show he collaborated with his Communist captors, giving his captors information and making propaganda videos in exchange for medical care, an apartment in Hanoi and the services of prostitutes.
- Because of McCain’s cooperation, the North Vietnamese contemptuously nicknamed him “Songbird.” On June 4, 1969, a U.S. wire service story headlined, “PW Songbird Is Pilot Son of Admiral,” described one of McCain’s radio recordings:
- “Hanoi has aired a broadcast in which the pilot son of the United States commander in the Pacific, Adm. John McCain, purportedly admits to having bombed civilian targets in North Vietnam and praises medical treatment he has received since being taken prisoner.”
Democrats have friends in the CIA who would be happy to use that information to destroy McCain’s cushy Senate career. It’s clear that McCain will continue to “reach across the aisle” (code for “do what he’s told”) for as long as the Democrats pulling his strings consider him a useful Republican idiot.
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Filed under Barack Obama, Elections, Jon Corzine, Media Bias, Sarah Palin, Vietnam
There are no words
Wendy Davis’s one day pro-abortion filibuster in the Texas state senate was given THREE TIMES more big media coverage than the six-weeks-long trial of late term abortionist and serial killer Kermit Gosnell.
Science schmience. MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry says life begins when the parents’ feelings tell them it begins.
It was recently revealed that back in 2007, NBA player J.J. Redick and model Vanessa Lopez negotiated a legal contract in which Redick agreed to continue dating Lopez for another year in exchange for Lopez aborting their baby. And “Redick” (not Reddick) does appear to be the correct spelling of his name. I didn’t make that up for a joke, though really, I could have, all things considered.
Filed under Abortion, Kermit Gosnell, Life Issues, Media Bias, Wendy Davis
What Do George Zimmerman and Roderick Scott Have in Common?
When I saw the headline above, I could only wonder … who is Roderick Scott? Here’s the story:
In 2009, a man was asleep on his couch when he heard noises outside. He grabbed his gun, told his girlfriend to call 911, then went outside. Once there, he confronted three youths who were attempting to break into a neighbor’s vehicle.
His desire was to merely detain the three. He specifically stated it was not his intent to shoot anyone. As he approached the three, he could see that the dome light of the vehicle was on and at least one person was inside rummaging around.
From that point, things start to ramp up. “At that point, Scott testified he pulled his handgun out of the holster, and chambered a round. ‘I wanted to protect myself and I intended to,’ Scott said.” As he approached one individual, that individual began walking away. There were two still left looking through things on the inside of the vehicle.
At this point, Scott said he took the “shooter’s stance” because he said he did not know what he was up against and did not know if any of the individuals were armed.
“He told the individuals to stop, that his girlfriend had called 911, and that he had a gun. The individuals stopped, and a few seconds passed. Scott says the teens were talking, then one of them ran around the front of the truck. The other ran down the driveway toward him, screaming. Scott warned him he had a gun, then shot him.”
The shooter – Roderick Scott – was immediately arrested and charged with murder. A citizen’s grand jury recommended the lighter charge of manslaughter, which was what the prosecution went with for Scott. There was a trial and Scott was acquitted of all charges.
Cervini was an honor student who had never been in trouble or arrested for anything and whose father described as gentle. Cervini had also not laid a hand on Scott, had not even come in contact with Scott when he was gunned down.
Clearly, George Zimmerman was much more careful of Trayvon Martin’s life than Roderick Scott had been of Chris Cervini’s, yet they were both acquitted for defending themselves and only Zimmerman has been demonized … no doubt because “racial tension” goes only one way in this country and, in the Roderick case, the shooter was black and the victim was white.
Remember ANY racial tension or media brouhaha about the Roderick Scott case back in 2009?
Remember ANY Neo-Nazi Race-Baiting White Supremacists being praised by President Obama, appearing on television shows with friendly hosts, or having meetings with top Race-Baiting White Government Leaders and Justice and Liberty Loving White Hollywood Celebrities back in 2009?
Remember ANY Persons of Pallor holding vigils to honor White Martyr Chris or wearing shirts with Scott’s face and a target on them back in 2009?
Remember ANY Persons of Pallor marching, rioting, looting, setting fires or randomly attacking black people in the streets back in 2009?
Me neither.
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- http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/07/what-do-george-zimmerman-and-roderick-scott-have-in-common/
- H/t bluebird of bitterness
Filed under George Zimmerman, Media Bias, Race Relations, Trayvon Martin
While the Obamedia obsessed about Trayvon … UPDATES
… Israel bombed Russian-made missiles within Syria, Russia has amassed over 160,000 troops, naval ships, fighter planes, and strategic bombers that Putin put on a state of “full combat readiness” today, and the federal debt bomb just keeps ticking away.
While we’re at it, let’s just think back, shall we? WHEN exactly was the last time you heard any mention of the fact that we STILL have troops fighting and dying in Afghanistan? Where’s all the brouhaha about Blood for Oil and Stupid Wars? Why isn’t Code Pink camped outside Obama’s place?
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- http://tatoott1009.com/2013/07/19/they-are-keeping-everyone-distracted-while-disaster-is-about-to-strike-russia-just-said-they-are-at-full-readiness-for-war-against-who/
- http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/08/17239340-defense-chief-chuck-hagel-in-afghanistan-were-still-at-war?lite
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Filed under Afghanistan, Barack Obama, George Zimmerman, Media Bias, National Debt, Trayvon Martin
The media doesn’t have clean hands
Charles Barkley on Zimmerman: A black athlete who makes sense [2:21]
Best lines: “They didn’t have enough evidence to charge him.” He “feels bad” that the trial gave “every white person and black person who is racist the platform to vent their ignorance.” He also called out the media for not having a “pure heart” when it comes to race. “Racism is wrong in any, shape or form,” Barkley said. “A lot of black people are racist too. I think sometimes when people talk about racism, they say only white people are racist, but I think black people are too. I don’t think the media has clean hands.”
Filed under George Zimmerman, Media Bias, Race Relations
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