Chavez Arrests Last Opposition TV Station Owner; Latest Ex. of What F
Is this what Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chief Diversity Officer Mark Lloyd meant when he said (on camera) Venezuelan thug dictator Hugo Chavez (take that, Sean Penn) had begun "to take very seriously the media in his country"- while praising Chavez's "incredible...democratic revolution?" The Associated Press (AP) late Friday night reported "Chavez criticizes US as arrests stir…
Prelude to a Media Victory Lap: Santelli Warns Not to Buy Hype of Upco
With March unemployment data to be released April 2, some are anticipating what potentially lower jobless numbers will all mean for the financial markets and the economy as a whole. However, that data will come with the caveat that it will be misleading because it will include temporary jobs driven by hiring for the 2010 census. On CNBC's March 29 "Squawk Box," CME floor reporter Rick Santelli…
CNN Uses Misleading Headline to Further Smear James O’Keefe (Update
(March 27th, 10:06 a.m. -- Please see update at the end of the post.)What is the first step in the main stream media's handbook of liberal bias? Why, alter the headline to fit your agenda, of course.To say that CNN was misleading in their headline about James O'Keefe is to be kind: Feds punish ACORN filmmaker? Seems an odd choice of headline considering the article itself does not mention any…
Ed Schultz Mocked Us in 2008 for Warning About the 'Fairness' Doctrine
They Know Nuh-Think It was the 2008 Talkers magazine New Media Seminar - June 6 and 7 in New York City. I was there to hob nob with the elite of talk radio. And Ed Schultz.I was there also to curry support for our then latest effort to keep the radio airwaves free from tyrannical and censorious government regulation. At that time it was against…
Cokie Roberts: Glenn Beck 'Corrupting' Democracy, a 'Traitor' to Ameri
Journalists love the marketplace of ideas until people start selling ideas they find objectionable. The liberal media somehow manages to shout about its right to speak freely while demanding others be silenced.Glenn Beck is probably the most popular target for the left's demands for censorship. Cokie Roberts and her husband Steve picked up that ball and ran with it today in their joint syndicated…
Vanity Fair Fears ‘Texas Witch Trials’ Will Erase the Civil Rights
In a textbook case of liberal-hysteria, Henry Rollins and Vanity Fair fear the Texas Board of Education will wipe Thomas Jefferson, Martin Luther King, Charles Darwin, the Civil Rights movement, and even the outcome of the Civil War from the pages of history in the "Great Texan Rewrite."At question is a recent victory by conservatives on the Texas Board of Education to adopt more traditional…
Boston Globe Belatedly Sees Islam in Ft. Hood Shooting
Upon further research and examination into the Army's complete findings on the Fort Hood shootings, in a February 22 report, the Boston Globe's Bryan Bender conceded that politically-incorrect conservatives were right all along - just not in those words of course. Immediately after Major Nidal Malik Hasan murdered 13 U.S. soldiers November 5, major news networks and publication bent over…
WaPo Peddles 'Citizens United' Untruths While Reporting Public Opposit
Update - 7:15 PM | Lachlan Markay: The questions from the poll phrase the issue in similarly misleading language. Details below.The news media have a tremendous potential to shape public opinion. So when they misreport important events, it has significant consequences for public opinion and public policy.An ABC News/Washington Post poll released today shows that 80 percent of Americans disagree…
With Bush Gone, NYT More Concerned With National Security Than Freedom
The New York Times has apparently discovered its inner patriot. The paper decided after a request from the White House to hold off publishing key information about the war effort in Afghanistan for fear of alerting the enemy to key U.S. intelligence.The Times and its executive editor Bill Keller, who defended the decision, have left the nation collectively uttering, "It's about time." Now that's…
Memo to MSNBC: Media Companies Are Corporations Too
The left is up in arms over the Supreme Court's recent decision in "Citizens United v. the Federal Elections Commission". But few voices have been louder than those emanating from the echo chamber at MSNBC. It seems that the cable network's talking heads feel that their parent company, General Electric, deserves a special exemption to what should be a blanket ban on unrestricted corporate…
CBS Rejects Gay Dating Website's Super Bowl Ad
CBS on Friday rejected an ad submitted by a gay dating website to air during next Sunday's Super Bowl"The network shot down the commercial Friday in a letter to the site -- ManCrunch.com -- saying the 'creative is not within the Network's Broadcast Standards for Super Bowl Sunday,'" reported Jason Hibberd at The Live Feed. Hibberd cited a letter from CBS in which the network expressed concern the…
'Women's Groups' Pressuring CBS to Scrap Tebow Super Bowl Ad
The story behind Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow's arrival into this world is remarkable.So-called "women's groups" would seem to prefer that as many Americans as possible not know the story about the courageous and faith-based decision Tebow's mother made to carry her pregnancy to term. That's the only plausible reason why they are opposing a 30-second Focus on the Family (FOTF) ad scheduled to…
Olbermann Whines about Mainstream Media’s Lack of Outrage over SCOTU
The guy has an hour-long television show that isn't the highest-rated program on cable television, but does fairly well considering the circumstances. Yet, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, who has expressed his own "unhinged" anger about the Supreme Court ruling that corporations have a free speech right to participate in elections, says there is a deficiency of anger about the ruling. Olbermann, on the…
Kucinich's 'Fairness Doctrine' Threat To O'Reilly
During George W.'s administration, liberals loved to wail over the supposed--but never demonstrated--suppression of free speech. But now we have the spectacle of a member of the Dem majority warning a leading representative of Fox News to stop celebrating his network's success--under threat of reinstitution of the so-called "Fairness Doctrine." On last evening's Factor, Rep. Dennis Kucinich,…