Hello Nbers

Blonde asked me a question the other day and I would like to answer it. She asked me what I have learned since I have been on this site. I will say that, yes I do now admit there is a media bias The msm does not show good news as often a bad news, Republicans are not treated as fair as Democrats. I learned that there are some very intelligent people on this thread. The moderators are awesome, Noel especially. I find Warner Todd Houston a very intelligant man, but he is by far the most bias writer on NB. I question some of their bannings, but it is not for me to say. Made many good friends and respect alot of their opinions.

What? Why are you putting this in the woodshed shawn? Ok I might recieve some flames after this one. I also believe your using the media as just a scapegoat. Republicans are responsible for what is going kafloooie with their party Hollywood and msm are but a small part.

The awful strategy in Iraq"in the beginning"

Attorney firings

Immigration debacle

The lynchpin in the anthropogenic global warming theory is the shrinking Arctic ice, but now that some of that ice is actually increasing, scientists claim, without a trace of irony, it is normal for temperatures and ice sheets to fluctuate.

Greenland's Sermitsiak reported, “The ice between Canada and southwestern Greenland has reached its highest level in 15 years.” Denmark's Meteorological Institute used satellite images to track the southward expansion of the ice and when the paper asked how these findings “fit in with” continual reports of Arctic ice “melting at a record rate due to increasing temperatures,” global warming was, of course, affirmed  (map) (bold mine throughout):

Media watchers have been wondering how long it will take press representatives to start attacking John McCain now that he's become almost the certain Republican nominee for president.

On February 16, the wait ended, as the Associated Press went on a literally vulgar tirade about the Arizona senator's temper that would make Madonna blush.

Almost.

As reported Saturday (emphasis added throughout, h/t NBer DaBird, readers are warned about voluminous edited vulgarity):

The folks at General Electric must be so proud of their cable news network MSNBC.

Not only does one of its top stars regularly debase the President of the United States, but also his most recent tirade actually garnered the attention of an Iranian television network.

Coincidentally, the good folks at Press TV are just as enamored with Keith Olbermann as his fans at Daily Kos (h/t JWF):

Some people don’t care what’s best for children. I do. If you do then respond to this issue in terms of what’s best for children. If you don’t then say that you don’t care what’s best for children – don’t tell me I’m faking my concern – especially if you don’t even have children! That is completely rude and ignorant.

This is a thread that continues a very heated discussion between Jason Fitzfong and myself and we may all be too aggravated with each other to continue, but since Jason finally respectfully addressed my points I wanted to respond here where one of them could respond without being reduced to a single column if they wanted

Welcome. The gay marriage thread is getting unreadable. If we're ever going to hash this thing out, let's at least make it easier on the eyes.

Now, how about a good clean fight?

Be afraid, America! Be very afraid!

No matter how many times people like Nobel Laureate Al Gore claim that global warming isn't political, nothing can be further from the truth.

Take for example a bill in the California senate to require climate change be part of the science curricula in all public schools.

As reported in Friday's San Jose Mercury (emphasis added throughout, h/t Marc Sheppard):

 Just when you thought it was safe....to go back in the water---those crazy conspiros took their suspicions to Canada again.........

 

"Toronto Protests for SPP Referendum!

Women faint around him, and his message of hope and change are moving the mountains of Clinton inevitability. Now his wife tells us that he is the only one that can "fix American souls".

We have lost the understanding that in a democracy, we have a mutual obligation to one another — that we cannot measure the greatness of our society by the strongest and richest of us, but we have to measure our greatness by the least of these. That we have to compromise and sacrifice for one another in order to get things done. That is why I am here, because Barack Obama is the only person in this who understands that. That before we can work on the problems, we have to fix our souls. Our souls are broken in this nation.

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Check this out, Michael Savage was right all along. Well, I just feeeeeeel there priorities are different than mine.

I will be 68 soon, get my SS check on the 3rd  but I'm still out there 5 days a week, pounding the pavement, and today will go down in the woods to get some of next years firewood out. Not bragging, just thanking Him for good health and the ability to keep on keepin' on.  

Interviewing a student advocate of concealed carry on campus, Good Morning America's Bill Weir fretted today that it could lead to an "OK Corral" situation.

Weir spoke with Mike Guzman, a student at Texas State University and a leader of a national group called Students for Concealed Carry on Campus. Weir's opening gambit: "Are you carrying a gun now?"

Guzman said that he was, and does so everywhere but on campus. Sort of made me wish Guzman had asked Weir if he was unarmed.

You can view the video of the entire interview here, but I'd focus on this bit of editorializing by Weir:

While press outlets such as the New York Times grieved over the death of Imad Mugniyah last week, they disgracefully ignored the hundreds of innocent people directly and indirectly killed by this terrorist the past three decades.

One such was Robert Stethem, a Navy Seabee diver that was assassinated on June 15, 1985, during the hijacking of TWA Flight 847; Mugniyah was one of the hijackers.

On Thursday, during an interview with WOR radio's Steve Malzberg, Patrick Stethem made his feelings known about how the press covered the death of one of his brother's slayers (9-minute audio available here):

You're all aware, I'm sure, of the several attacks against our fighting men and women perpetrated by city governments of late. The Berkeley City Council, who intended to try and kick Marine recruiting offices out of the city, and Toledo, where Mayor Finkbeiner refused to allow the Marines to exit a bus in his city when they arrived to start planned upon exercises, are all over the news. It is also well known that in Toledo, Ohio and Berkeley, California protesters for and against the Marines have been deployed to face each other and the news media have been there to chronicle it all. But, one paper has taken it upon itself to try and excuse the very people who put these ignorant politicians into office who caused these rows in the first place.

The Toledo Free Press published a recent article titled "Controversy over Marines rejection impacts city's development efforts", the main thrust of which is that people shouldn't blame the businesses of either Toledo or Berkeley for the actions of their politicians. But, after seeing all the whining about lost revenue by the business community in both cities and after seeing them plead with people not to blame them for what their politicians do, it left me wondering why shouldn't we hold voters accountable for what their politicians do?

For those NBers not in Fayetteville, Arkansas, to watch Brandon Sheppard compete at the Tyson Invitational (men's high jump to begin just minutes from now, GO BIG RED!), here's your chance to discuss all things sports.

For instance: who's lying -- Clemens or McNamee? Will someone be charged with perjury and/or obstructing justice? Real baseball fans can start getting ready for the season at ESPN's Spring Training Blog.

Will Kobe play in the NBA All-Star game, and will Jason get traded?

Pretty full college B-ball schedule today. Any upsets to call?

Will Junior win tomorrow's Daytona 500?

Will Lefty have a good weekend at Riviera, or do one of his classic Sunday Slumps?

Finally, and with apologies to our female members, have you seen some of the gals competing in the LPGA lately? Can adding sex appeal make women's golf more, well, appealing?

This is too perfect! Barely an hour after Pat Buchanan proclaimed on NBC that the MSM is full of "out-of-the-closet Obamacans," ABC's David Wright provided a perfect illustration of the genre.

In fact, I'm nominating the GMA segment Wright narrated this morning as the single most slanted episode of the MSM primary season. The screen graphic "On the Attack," set the theme: Hillary is unfairly attacking Obama, and to the extent Barack's gone negative, it's only to rebut Clinton's unfair criticism. Oh, and Hillary's demographic is crumbling. And by the way, Bill's dissing Obama supporters.

View video here.

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: 6 dead college students in Illinois.

As our hearts reach out to the families and friends involved in this senseless act, should our minds be thinking it's time to consider securing our campuses? After all, I believe this is the fourth shooting at a school so far this year.

As the parent of one kid in college, and one in high school, my heart sinks every time I hear this kind of news. Is there anything we can do about this, or would any effective security procedures destroy that which is the American college experience?

Remember the former governor of New Jersey, Jim McGreevey? What political party did he belong to? Can't remember? Well, don't rely on the Associated Press to assist you in its article yesterday about him and his continuing marital woes:

They've bickered over whether she knew he was gay, whose tell-all book would sell better, whether a poster of a nude man hanging over his new lover's bed had to come down before she'd allow their 6-year-old to visit.

Ask an obvious question . . .

Amy Robach this morning asked the most rhetorical question in contemporary media: does the MSM have a thing for Barack Obama?

The weekend Today co-anchor didn't need guests Pat Buchanan or Rachel Maddow for the answer. She could have kept things in-house with NBC's own Lee Cowan, who has acknowledged “it's almost hard to remain objective” about Obama.

But pose the question Robach did, and Pat Buchanan gave her a colorful answer.

Some see the Democratic race as slipping away from Hillary Clinton, but others persist in seeing the race as "tick tight," to quote Dan Rather. On his Stumper blog, Newsweek cub political reporter Andrew Romano forwards the bundle of nervous energy that is Eleanor Clift, wondering if Al Gore will come to the rescue on the second ballot of the Democratic convention in Denver. Romano's take?

He foresaw global warming. He "took the initiative" on the Internet. And he knew exactly how Iraq would turn out. Who's to say that Al Gore hasn't known all along that the Democratic race would descend into some weird state of gridlock--and that only he, the Goreacle, could rescue the party from civil war?

How slowly do the regulatory agencies move? A few weeks ago, the FCC decided to fine ABC for airing nudity in prime time -- in a 2003 episode of "NYPD Blue." (It was still on the air in 2003? And why was Charlotte Ross's police babe hanging around with schlubby Sipowicz?) In his culture column this week, Brent Bozell looks at how Disney, formerly a brand name for family entertainment, filed lawyerly briefs against the FCC ruling that no one can defend on the grounds of common sense. 

When it was finally rapped on the knuckles, Disney-owned ABC was petulant. It responded first by joining the crowd in Tinseltown now asserting in federal court the “right” to drop the F-bomb on millions of children. Then the lawyers insisted to the FCC that there’s nothing inappropriate in an ABC show lovingly fixating the viewer on the young woman’s bare behind  several times. It was only seven seconds, they protested.

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If this is true, then how could he legally get a gun? didnt they just go over this whole thing after virginia tech about getting the hospitals to submit patients names so they cant get guns because they are crazy? also notice the cbs interactive link at the top of the article... how it just mentions deaths or whatnot from guns, what they fail to mention is the overall homicide and serious crimes in the states with gun control....