NewsBusters draws attention on the Left, and some of it is very amusing to read. On today's Huffington Post, Al Gore devotees Dave Johnson and James Boyce are so angry with Brent Bozell's column on Gore that they claim the MRC can't find a single example the media are liberal. (Are they sure they've read this blog?) Their unfavorite line was Brent comparing Gore's censoriousness toward global-warming skeptics with a certain Venezuelan autocrat:
Al Gore and Hugo Chavez? That's a pathetic, stupid pairing right out of the high school playground. But look at their web site, we wouldn't expect more. One thing that is interesting is Conservatives love to claim that the media is liberal. But ask for a single example and it stuns them into silence.
Let's hope they received Al's Assault opus for free.
Garrison Keillor, the host of National Public Radio's "Prairie Home Companion," mentioned a blog post by MRC's Clay Waters in a column in reference to whether Harry Reid said one word in support of Mitt Romney when Al Sharpton joked that he wasn't one of "those who really believe in God." Maybe Reid was too busy, wrote Keillor:
More often than not when leaders of his stature comment on things outside their normal bailiwick it's because they're asked about it, and I notice that some right wing web sites have faulted the press for not raising the Sharpton issue with Reid. Newsbusters.org, for instance, criticized the New York Times story: "What Democratic Sen. Majority Leader (and Mormon) Harry Reid thinks of Sharpton's comments or his church's racial history was left unexplored." In addition, Reid -- like members of any religion -- is probably fairly sensitive to when his faith is being attacked, and he may not have read the Sharpton observation that way.
It was an interesting exercise to examine Sen. Reid from a religious viewpoint, but one thing I didn't tell my friend was something that kept running through my head: Whenever U.S. citizens have shown a lot of interest in the religious views of their leaders (particularly the Klan-dominated 1920s), it has usually helped make unhappy times in the nation's history.
—Tim Graham is Director of Media Analysis at the Media Research Center
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"Silence"???!? Us
May 31, 2007 - 16:22 ET by sarcasmo"Silence"???!? Us?? Wow... That accusation stuns even me into silence, so I guess we have a self-fullfilling prophecy effect, but... Where's the silence on bias?
JMR
Stunning
May 31, 2007 - 16:39 ET by acumen"....stuns them into silence" - Got me Sarc. Hmmmm, possibly they have been mistakenly referring to liberal media darling Hugo's Goon Squad instead of NB. With the Chavez socialist way of dealing with media bias, "stuns them into silence" makes more sense.
It's the denial and hypocracy
May 31, 2007 - 16:44 ET by TruthMongerIt's the denial and hypocracy on the left that stuns me into silence...
Maybe NB should add more soun
May 31, 2007 - 17:08 ET by mattmMaybe NB should add more sound...
naw, my speakers on my laptop
May 31, 2007 - 22:25 ET by Conservative in the Artsnaw, my speakers on my laptop are broken. I'd hate it if I was missing out on the true NB experience.......
Dave Johnson and James Boyc
June 1, 2007 - 04:48 ET by sarcasmoDave Johnson and James Boyce have never stunned me into silence until now, and even now they're not passin' the laugh-test...I wonder if they'd have the stones to directly take us on, right here? Some of us have a history of going toe to toe with those who disagree, after all, so let me make the invitation official. Dave and James, any time, at your convenience, stop by and I'll serve-up an example-fest of media bias. Your allegation that you've silenced any of us does, however, suggest that you two may have a new career-option in the future. Comedy is said to be quite lucrative, too...
JMR
"stunned into silence&qu
June 1, 2007 - 08:52 ET by kathleenirish"stunned into silence"?!!!
yeah, right, you liberal propagandists. not on your pathetic, limp little brainless lives. why don't you go suck on Hillary for awhile, that's what you're good at...gobshites.
Anyone who says they support the troops but not the mission is a liar.
But ask for a single example
May 31, 2007 - 16:23 ET by NoMoreClintonsBut ask for a single example and it stuns them into silence
Good Gosh . . . where should we begin?
I am stunned - at their overwhelming stupidity. What stooges at the PuffHo . . .
for starters
May 31, 2007 - 16:24 ET by LionKingHow about the manner in which the media consistely portrays the economy as doing poorly inspite of the Dow and SP500 at all time highs? How about unemployment at ridiculously low rates?
Does the Bush Admin get any credit for restoring the economy after 9/11 destroyed further than the NASDAQ bust under Clinton?
"...high school playgr
May 31, 2007 - 16:27 ET by MightyMouth"...high school playground..."
I know I have an eye for the strangest things in a post, but... What high school has a playground??
"There are two types of people in this country; those who provide freedom and those who enjoy it." MM says...
MM...evidently its the one th
May 31, 2007 - 16:31 ET by bassndudeMM...evidently its the one this guy graduated from.
Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!
bass, he goes on to say:&qu
May 31, 2007 - 16:34 ET by MightyMouthbass, he goes on to say:
"But look at their web site, we wouldn't expect more"
I'm almost insulted, I mean it's not our fault that whacked out moonbat liberals post here! as balboa would say: harrrumph!!!
"There are two types of people in this country; those who provide freedom and those who enjoy it." MM says...
Ahhh MM, dont take is so hard
May 31, 2007 - 16:38 ET by bassndudeAhhh MM, dont take is so hard. After all, there are not alot of words in NB that he can read yet. All that play ground time in high school was during english class..
Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!
All play and no....
May 31, 2007 - 16:42 ET by acumenWhat high school has a playground??
Wishful thinking for Huff-n-puff commentors MM?
Could be acumen, next they'
May 31, 2007 - 16:47 ET by MightyMouthCould be acumen, next they'll be asking for "milk and cookie time" and "nappy time" These guys sound like real thumb suckers to me.
"There are two types of people in this country; those who provide freedom and those who enjoy it." MM says...
Star-Struck Groupies MM
May 31, 2007 - 17:01 ET by acumenHa, star-struck groupies.....
You know MM, the more I think about the "stuns them into silence" comment, the more I begin to agree with the premise. Lib media bias has been around so long and is so blatantly obvious, if someone asked me to give them an example, I would be so shocked that they haven't picked up on bias themselves and they are seriously wanting an example, I believe I would be speechless. I mean, lib, conservative, whatever, if you haven't picked up on at least one example of lib media bias by now......
Then again, I guess I shouldn't be surprised. Many on the left don't believe the Government is getting enough of our tax dollars either. Yeah, I'm speechless....
I am speechless! Speechless I
May 31, 2007 - 16:27 ET by bassndudeI am speechless! Speechless I say!! Just goes to show, you can lead a jackass to water, but you cant make him read..or something like that...
Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!
Actually Bass it's "You
May 31, 2007 - 16:35 ET by Airforce_5_OActually Bass it's "You can lead a donkey to water but will he stop and smell the roses?"
Hope I cleared that up.
Thanks Airforce. I knew there
May 31, 2007 - 16:39 ET by bassndudeThanks Airforce. I knew there was a saying something like that....:-)
Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!
Hey Leftist dips**ts: The t
May 31, 2007 - 16:33 ET by mattmHey Leftist dips**ts: The thing that "stuns" us is that you actually seem to believe your B.S. !
Let's see not 6000 stories on Abu Grahib, 0 on Al Qaeda torture... nope, no bias there....
And another thing:
Question for Keillor - the millionaire marxist pretending to be a down-home midwesterner: Can you back up your statement with any facts?
"Whenever U.S. citizens have shown a lot of interest in the religious views of their leaders (particularly the Klan-dominated 1920s), it has usually helped make unhappy times in the nation's history."
No? What's that I hear...stunned silence???
The Dems championed the relig
May 31, 2007 - 16:51 ET by Del DolemonteThe Dems championed the religious views of their candidates in both 1960 and 1976 (JFK later got us into Vietnam, and I don't need to mention what happened between 1976 and 1980).
Garrison's whining about the treatment of Reid is hypocritical, especially considering how many on the left are going after the Mormon running for Prez.
These are same mental midgets
May 31, 2007 - 16:35 ET by ArchConservativeThese are same mental midgets that think Bush stole two elections, think that the administration caused or had something to do with 9/11, that believe there is no global war on terrorism, and that think "so-called global warming" is more of a threat to us than Islamofacists.
Once again, the ignorance of the HuffPo crowd rears its face.
single example
May 31, 2007 - 16:35 ET by bulbasaurAllowing an amateur forgery of a National Guard Memo about GW Bush to influence the outcome of the 2004 Presidential Election is a pretty good example of liberal bias.
Suck it up drive-by media. You got busted. Instead of crying about it, why don't you face your failure, apologize, and take concrete steps to make amends to America? Instead, you have the gall to say there is not a single example of liberal bias. Kind of sad, really.
Classic example
May 31, 2007 - 16:38 ET by LionKingThis is the perfect example. They would go with an unverified story about Bush, but no investigation into "Flip-Flop" Kerry. SwiftBoaters had to reveal the truth about John Kerry.
They also ignored the economi
May 31, 2007 - 16:53 ET by Del DolemonteThey also ignored the economic recovery that began in March of 1991. All the better to get their boy in office.
correct me if I am wrong
May 31, 2007 - 16:58 ET by LionKingDidn't the media go after Perot when he referred to the audience of the NAACP as "You people"? Didn't that get blown out of proportion also?
I missed that one. But given
May 31, 2007 - 18:36 ET by Del DolemonteI missed that one.
But given how the media have given Robert "KKK" Byrd a pass for almost a half a century, simply because he has a "D" after his name, I'm not surprised.
I would really enjoy a deba
May 31, 2007 - 16:40 ET by balboaI would really enjoy a debate between, say, someone from NB and someone from HuffPo about media bias. Not abstracts, but go through articles and debate why they're written the way they are, etc. That would be good stuff.
Flushed debate
May 31, 2007 - 16:45 ET by acumenI'd be willing Bal, but I'm so mad right now I'm leaving for Gitmo immediately to flush a Koran.
acuman,That koran just might
May 31, 2007 - 19:17 ET by upcountrywateracuman,
That koran just might fit now.
http://www.bigjohntoiletseat.com/images/domestic_4.jpg
The one on the right is the M
May 31, 2007 - 20:15 ET by MikeBThe one on the right is the Michael Moore model. The Rosie O'Donnell/Helen Thomas model is made of a pink hued plastic.
"A communist is someone who reads Marx. An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx." Ronald Reagan
acumen---this just in---
May 31, 2007 - 19:20 ET by misterbillacumen---this just in---Sheryl Crow says you must flush it one page at a time.
Me, too, Ac. I p!ss toward Me
May 31, 2007 - 19:35 ET by Dad GummitMe, too, Ac. I p!ss toward Mecca.
"Political Correctness is a doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical, liberal minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end."
It would, for sure, Bal, but
May 31, 2007 - 19:49 ET by Dad GummitIt would, for sure, Bal, but you really wouldn't want that. If you could actually debate it would work. However, these are liberals you're talking about. You'd hit 'em with one small bit of logic, or one fact, then the Hufftard would fly into a name calling & yelling contest, and if they can get more vulgar and be louder than you, they'd think they won the "debate". Facts and reason will not register in their dirty little minds. They always (yes... absolutely ALWAYS) beleive what they wish was true, regardless of what actually is true. I'm sure you know that, but it IS a nice dream.
"Political Correctness is a doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical, liberal minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end."
balboa Says:May 31, 2007 - 17
May 31, 2007 - 19:54 ET bybalboa Says:May 31, 2007 - 17:40
I would really enjoy a debate between, say, someone from NB and someone from HuffPo about media bias
I thought that's what you were doing
Supreme Court, National Security, Borders, Fiscal Restraint, my litmus test for President.
Folks... you're missing the
May 31, 2007 - 16:41 ET by Tim the EnchanterFolks... you're missing the catch phrase. It would be impossible to cite a single instance of liberal media bias. Now, if they asked for a few million, that would be easy. With so many examples, which single one would stand out?
Tim...Very astute observation
May 31, 2007 - 19:45 ET by Clear thinkerTim...
Very astute observation.
Help a wounded soldier here...
http://newsbusters.org/node/12877
Like Lay's Potato Chips, &quo
May 31, 2007 - 20:18 ET by MikeBLike Lay's Potato Chips, "no one can eat just one." With liberal media bias, no one can give just one example. But if you start listing incidents of media bias, the liberal would say, "Aha! I knew you couldn't give just one example! You lose the debate."
"A communist is someone who reads Marx. An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx." Ronald Reagan
Garrison Keillor.."Pra
May 31, 2007 - 16:46 ET by charlietexasGarrison Keillor.."Prairer Home Companion"...lol....is that any thing like "BrokeBack Mountian"??
Liberal Bias example's:
1 ABC NBC CBS
2 MSNBC
A. Keith Oddberman
B. Chrissy Matthews
C. Dannt Abrams
3 CNN
A. Lou Dobbs
B. Anderson Cooper
C. Paula Zahn
4. HBO
A. Billy Mahar
B. Left wing crap on Global Warming they show nightly
5. Comedy Channel
A. Daily Show
B. Corbert Show
6. MTV & VH1
7 Air America......are they still in bisiness???
Did I leave anyone out??
NPR
May 31, 2007 - 16:47 ET by LionKingNPR
NY Times, WaPo, Boston Globe,
May 31, 2007 - 17:09 ET by acumenNY Times, WaPo, Boston Globe, just about every other major rag....
LA Times, any paper in San Fr
May 31, 2007 - 19:59 ET by Airforce_5_OLA Times, any paper in San Fran.
Af....Speaking of San Fran...
May 31, 2007 - 20:06 ET by bigtimerAf....
Speaking of San Fran...I saved this from this morning....
My heart just bleeds for them....lol.
Someday the leftist may wake up and smell the coffee...if we are lucky, maybe not....they will go under....and finally be useful.
Bigt this stood out to me:Rob
May 31, 2007 - 20:30 ET by Airforce_5_OBigt this stood out to me:
Robert Rosenthal, who joined the Chronicle five years ago, said in a note to staff Tuesday that he is leaving the paper "without rancor or acrimony." He does not have another job lined up, but wants to "help another organization grow and another group of talented people find success."
It said at the begining he was leaving due to deep cuts. So they are not making money. How SUCCESSFUL was he in the first place.
Answer: Not at all.
Maybe he can get on with the Huffpo site. heheheheh
Airforce...Exactly what stood
May 31, 2007 - 20:39 ET by bigtimerAirforce...
Exactly what stood out to me right off also....
How lame brained can the leftists get...let alone the readers that may believe that BS spin.
LOL...
HuffnPuff would love to take him in most likely...he would fit right in...right up their alley.
"But ask for a single
May 31, 2007 - 16:50 ET by Dave in Texas"But ask for a single example and it stuns them into silence."
No silence here. Name me one major media outlet (other than Fox) that:
a. Is reporting on the reintroduction of DDT in fighting malaria in Africa, and how successful it is so far.
b. Reports any kind of positive economic news without following it up with some "expert's" opinion on why it really isn't positive after all (only when Republicans are in the White House, of course).
c. Uses the label "liberal" just as much as they use the label "conservative" to describe a person or group.
d. Reports the latest profit numbers for any oil company without using the words "shocking", "appalling", or "obscene" anywhere in the report.
e. Dared to suggest that some of the people who remained in New Orleans when hurricane Katrina hit bore most of the blame for their situation because they didn't have an evacuation plan.
Oh this is just priceless...p
May 31, 2007 - 16:52 ET by bigtimerOh this is just priceless...priceless.... throw in deliciously funny.
Example below.....
One thing that is interesting is Conservatives love to claim that the media is liberal. But ask for a single example and it stuns them into silence.
Are they out of their minds?!...Never-mind, no need to answer that....too obvious.
Second example....
In addition, Reid -- like members of any religion -- is probably fairly sensitive to when his faith is being attacked, and he may not have read the Sharpton observation that way.
Yeah right...sure....when pigs fly.
What they really mean is Reid is to chickenshite to say a danged word about him being Mormon when his party arm in arm with the liberal media are going after someone with a 'R' behind their name within the same religion....you would think anyone who believes in their own religion and another person of the same religion in the same field as the other person especially (politicians) there would be some sort of fellowship and speaking up for that religion...it would be easy to do...all poor little weakling fearless leader Harry would have to say is that he does not like the implied statement from Sharpton about his religion even if it is going against one of our opponents politically.... or some-such.
Yo.... HuffnPuff and oh not-so-brilliant one Garrison K...How danged dumb do you think we are here...we are not like your posters here..we have intelligence.
For Keillor to imply anything about the KKK to any of this is disgustingly shameful, deceitful and intentionally outrageous...
He may want to look at his own leftist party with KKK member Byrd...that leftists like Garrison always seem to omit, arm in arm with the leftist press/media....there is absolutely no comparison.
HuffnPuff has to shut down there sites because of their raunchy, sick, ill minded posters on there own site...they had better clean up their own house first before trying to tell others what shape theirs is in.
What pitiful little leftist creatures...starting with 'I don't know which party I am except when it is convenient and I can get media attention'... Arianna herself.
Talk about a real media whore.
Kiellor: wasn't that the name
May 31, 2007 - 20:23 ET by MikeBKiellor: wasn't that the name of that stupid buzzard in the Bugs Bunny cartoons? The one that was "bringing home a baby bumble bee"?
"A communist is someone who reads Marx. An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx." Ronald Reagan
I don't think they're idiots-
May 31, 2007 - 16:57 ET by Andrew H.I don't think they're idiots--all they have to do is scroll the articles on this site. What they are, are liars (*of course).
Liberalism is a convenient lie.
silence
May 31, 2007 - 17:00 ET by LilyPearlThe only reason they are hearing silence is because they are afraid to ask for examples of how the MSM is liberal.
Ok here are some examples:
May 31, 2007 - 17:02 ET by c5then1. The MSM not reporting Cindy Sheehan quitting the Democratic Party because of their not keeping their promises this past weekend.
2. MSM not reporting that Venuzuela used tanks and water cannon to disperse protestors when Chaves shut down the private radio station.
3, MSM not reporting that there are STILL 10's of thousands protesting the radio station shutdown.
4. MSM not reporting on the AGW claims that have been made in the past and that virtually none of them have materialized.
5. Dan Rather reporting on a fake National Guard memo and then, after it was shown to obviously be a fake, defending it as probably true anyway.
6. MSM reporting extensively on the fluffy democratic presidential debate and on the obviously hostile republican presidential debate held on MSNBC, but almost not mentioning the very well run and extremely informative republican presidential debate held on FoxNews.
etc, etc. etc.
I suspect that after the "OK", Garrison Keilor had his eyes tightly shut so he could say "I don't see any examples there".
The day that "politician" became a career choice is the day we started losing the Republic
c5: I'm also reminded of the
May 31, 2007 - 17:44 ET by QueenMumc5: I'm also reminded of the many instances where a news photo or video is misidentified, such as when a small crowd "fills" a photo and the caption inflates the numbers.
We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. - Queen Victoria
c5then: 5. Dan Rather repor
May 31, 2007 - 18:05 ET by Galvanicc5then: 5. Dan Rather reporting on a fake National Guard memo and then, after it was shown to obviously be a fake, defending it as probably true anyway.
And how many of the other networks launched their own investigations of CBS when it was revealed that its producer, Mary Mapes, contacted the DNC several days before airing the story, informing them that they should contact the alleged source of the memos, yet they never contacted the subject of the story --- merely the President of the United States --- to present him with the alleged evidence and permit him to respond ---- a journalistic principal and courtesy that CBS extends even to indicted criminals.
The fact that a network news organization deliberately attempted to influence a Presidential election with bogus story, and the rest of the MSM sat virtually silent, is all the proof anyone needs of liberal bias in the MSM.
Oh, and how did they treat the credible rape charges of Juanita Broaderick against Bill Clinton? Nada. Silence.
Re.: 2. and 3.Wasn't it actua
May 31, 2007 - 18:38 ET by Del DolemonteRe.: 2. and 3.
Wasn't it actually a TV station that was shut down? One story I read said it had been on the air for 53 years.
This is hysterical:"One
May 31, 2007 - 17:40 ET by QueenMumThis is hysterical:
"One thing that is interesting is Conservatives love to claim that the media is liberal. But ask for a single example and it stuns them into silence."
Giving examples of liberal media bias is what Conservative talk radio does every day. And this website gives ample documentation for every challenge to the MsM. Just goes to show you what sheep these libs be. All they do is regurgitate what they hear from their programmers. Critical thinking is not permitted in Liberatopia. They are like the monkeys with their hands over their ears and eyes.
We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. - Queen Victoria
"Critical thinking is no
May 31, 2007 - 18:47 ET by Del Dolemonte"Critical thinking is not permitted in Liberatopia. They are like the monkeys with their hands over their ears and eyes."
Have you ever seen the picture taken during the Clinton Administration of Bill, Maddy Albright, Defense Secretary William Cohen, and Sandy "Stolen Documents" Berger? They're posing just like those monkeys. And yet it's the left that calls Dubyah the "Smirking Chimp".
For examples of true tolerance, visit any of the discussions on www.democraticunderground.com
Any dissenting view is dealt with ("tombstoned", as they so quaintly put it) almost immediately. Be sure to put on a scrub suit before going there, though. The abuse of language and grammar is unbelievable. And the lack of logic is immediately apparent!
Media bias poll
May 31, 2007 - 17:56 ET by LionKingParticipate in this poll about media bias by the AFA.
Maybe a Sunday morning Newsbu
May 31, 2007 - 17:57 ET by Liberally IneptMaybe a Sunday morning Newsbusters hour would really stun the left.
I Keep wondering when the Huf
May 31, 2007 - 19:31 ET by Dad GummitI Keep wondering when the Hufftards are going to say goodbye to Cindy the She-hite. Will 7-11 hire her back, or will she go to work at Mohammad's Stop & Shop? Also, did anyone notice their big to-do about how bad the economy is? Worst since ....what, the Bush administration?
No, liberals won't find examples of media bias on the biased media.... DUH!!!!!
"Political Correctness is a doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical, liberal minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end."
Guys this is the way I see it
May 31, 2007 - 20:11 ET by Airforce_5_OGuys this is the way I see it.
We are making an impact and it scares the heck out of them.
Liberals stoop to the one tactic they know when something scares them. Snub your nose at it and sound superior. Sound more educated.
All they do is show their rear ends.
They are scared NB'ers, so be proud.
Airforce...Two thumbs waaaaay
May 31, 2007 - 20:13 ET by Clear thinkerAirforce...
Two thumbs waaaaay up!
Help a wounded soldier here...
http://newsbusters.org/node/12877
Airforce...You hit the nail s
June 1, 2007 - 14:17 ET by bigtimerAirforce...
You hit the nail smack-dab on the head.
Again!
"the media is liberal. B
May 31, 2007 - 22:52 ET by thefightinggop"the media is liberal. But ask for a single example and it stuns them into silence."
It would be easier to list examples of them not being liberal. So here goes:
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Denial
June 2, 2007 - 05:00 ET by nkviking75I'd have expected the Hufftards to say that at Newsbusters we see liberal media bias under every rock, rather than claiming we can't site any examples. This episode demonstrates the major characteristic of a true liberal: The ability to deny reality even when it walks up and slaps you in the face.
When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.
Good point, they took the ext
June 3, 2007 - 07:48 ET by dahliatraversGood point, they took the extreme in the wrong direction.
do thing they learned their lesson
June 5, 2007 - 18:17 ET by LionKingDo you think they learned their lesson, yet?