We Told You So
The absolute and total pervasiveness of pro-Democrat, anti-Republican journalism throughout the national media continues to grow in both how widespread it is and the boldness of how openly blatant it is as well. However, some times the more subtle elements, what they don’t say is perhaps even more damaging.
Kudos to Ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, Lamar Smith, (Republican, Texas) who brought his concerns about media bias to the house floor. In a pithy one minute address, "The national media spells scandal without the 'D,'" citing the big three traditional networks and paying special attention to CNN criticized that networks continuously fail to mention the party affiliation of Democrats who stumble into trouble citing the Blagojevich impeachment as one example, "Two weeks ago the Governor of Illinois was removed from office, All three television networks ran full reports on the story the same night and again the following morning. Not one report mentioned that he is a Democrat." He went on to note three additional scandals, former New York Governor, Elliot Spitzer’s prostitute affair and recent criminal charges directed at corrupt big city mayors convicted Kwame Kilpartrick of Detroit and indicted Sheila Pratt Dixon of Baltimore and that their party affiliation was left unknown in reportage about their scandals as well.
Congressman Smith concluded with remarks that should be taken as a given but sound so profound in an atmosphere where such has been so shamefully absent in recent history by noting, "Americans need and deserve balanced reporting from the media, not selective omissions,"
The challenge now is to get this message out to the American public and pray that they have the concern and awareness for it to make any difference in this modern era obsessed with the cult of personalities.
Media bias isn’t always what reports say but what they don’t say. Framing stories through omission can be just as deceiving as through commission. Watch almost any television station on Presidents’ Day and see how much the news media was fawning over Barack Obama’s first Presidents’ Day from contrived comparisons to Abraham Lincoln to some local baker selling Obama cupcakes. Baltimore NBC affiliate, WBAL-TV, made its morning news broadcast from 5:00 to 7:00 am a virtual Obama love fest on President’s Day with one feel good soft news story after another that had all the components of fan worship stories, the kind of presentation, shows like “Entertainment Tonight” and “Access Hollywood” might air for the latest Hollywood flavor-of-the-month. Each half hour segment devoted more time to Obama Mania than any other story including the current economic mess where some careful analytic and critical reporting is so necessary. Granted AM news is fluff news, soft news for soft minds, yet this programming is a lead-in to the ultimate in news media bias soft news which covers its backstabbing bias of conservative and Republican hatred in sugar and anesthesia where Matt Lauer, David Gregory, and Meredith Vieira routinely trashed the Republican effort while practically going as far as to present stories full of happy little pixies dancing in joy as to what Barack Obama did with his first baby tooth. These sugar-laced pro Obama and Democratic Party stories are explicit signs of bias. Viewers can also be sure embarrassing stories about major Democrats will be omitted or if they are so newsworthy that they must be reported, the offending politician’s name will be mentioned but no mention of his or her party affiliation will be mentioned.
Does anyone think the Pope’s stern reprimand of Nancy Pelosi when she just visited the Vatican will be mentioned or how ironic and self-serving it is that she should arrange a meeting with the Pontiff given the way she has trash talked the Catholic church and ridiculed some of its stances on issues like abortion?
Watch the big three networks 6:30 news, cable news outlets CNN and MSNBC, or read most major big city newspapers led by The New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times and the interested news hound could only be led to assume that the Republican Party is the party of political corruption. There hasn’t been a Republican scandal recently since REPUBLICAN Senator Larry Craig was arrested for soliciting gay sex in a Minnesota airport bathroom. Reports were full of self-righteous indignation that this REPUBLICAN Senator was caught doing something that was so contrary to his REPUBLICAN social CONSERVATIVE beliefs. Every effort was carefully crafted to make sure the viewer would remember this scandal involved a REPUBLICAN senator. Did we fail to mention Larry Craig was a CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN?
Democratic scandals have been running rampant in the past year. Elliot Spitzer, the former New York Governor and zero tolerance Attorney General was caught red handed for his involvement with a Washington DC prostitute. Detroit Mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick has a long history of corruption, criminal activity, and abuse of power leading to perjury and other felony charges landing him in jail. Kilpatrick was even charged with assault. Given Detroit is one of the nation’s top ten cities, one with so much hardship and economic trouble, one would think this story would be more newsworthy. Oops, we let our topic sentence cover Kilpatrick is a DEMOCRAT. He’s a DEMOCRAT, Spitzer’s a DEMOCRAT. Here are two recent high profile DEMOCRAT’s involved in major scandals but in reporting these did CNN tell its viewers what these criminals’ party affiliation, that they were DEMOCRATS was ever mentioned?
There’s more. Has there been a bigger political scandal since Bill Clinton’s impeachment than the countless acts of pure criminality committed by DEMOCRATIC Illinois Governor, Rod Blagojevich. The day the story broke, only ABC mentioned his party affiliation in passing in its evening news. The entire morning and most of the evening news cycles passed without that he was a DEMOCRAT went almost completely unmentioned. Such a story demands some context as reflective as part of widespread corruption in the DEMOCRATIC political machine in Illinois from the Big City operation of Mayor Richard Daily throughout the party. Oops, their glamour boy Barack Obama who they were proud to trumpet as a DEMOCRAT is a product of that machine, the setting where his political career, was born, nurtured, and raised to attract national notice. Their attempt to put the Blago scandal in context is to mention that his predecessor, a REPUBLICAN, George Ryan wound up in the pokey too. Somehow, that misses the point. Of course, Rod Blagojevich appointed Roland Burris is turning out to be another bad apple for his tie-in’s with Blago’s campaign now becoming one of the big news stories of the day. Could anyone watch the major news outlets and know Burris is a DEMOCRAT.
Shelia Pratt Dixon, the acerbic tongued mayor of Baltimore, faced Federal charges for using city funds, gift card donations from area businesses to be donated to the poor for her personal use to buy such things as the latest video game machines for her own use. The Dixon administration and her campaign reek of corruption including two campaign chiefs who plead guilty to tax evasion. Was there any mention that Ms. Dixon was a DEMOCRAT? Of course not. We could, perhaps, give the media the benefit of the doubt that it should go without saying that a mayor of Baltimore would be a DEMOCRAT since a Republican hasn’t been elected mayor in Baltimore since 1963 when the Republican party was considered the more liberal party as the Maryland Democratic party was much more aligned with the old bigoted Dixie-crats whose fossilized remains still hold a handful of seats in the State Legislature from distant places in southern Maryland and the Eastern Shore.
(By the way, we typed in “Sheila Pratt Dixon charges,” to get some basic facts for writing this essay and we proudly report that our posting, “SELFISH BITCH” was the second listing listed in our Google search. Right Minded Fellow goes big time!!!
The national news media and its hordes of wannabes rising up through the ranks of their local affiliates are so clearly agenda driven where advocacy journalism, feel good, warm fuzzy stories about the figures they admire, and a general tone of distrust and contempt for corporate America as if each little artificial blonde bimbo with a microphone in her hand hired primarily for beauty over brains pretends to be the next Upton Sinclair dominate the presentation so pervasively, any pretext of objectivity is a lie.
As much as we loathe to stick up for Sarah Palin extending her fifteen minutes of fame by more mention of her little career, any evaluation of the facts surrounding the so-called “trouper gate” investigation would show her actions were justified. The press almost universally attempted to portray the event as a case of Palin intent on a personal vendetta against the former spouse of her sister.
President Barack Obama did one thing right. He quickly put an end to speculation he would support any measure to resurrect the “Fairness Doctrine.” The clear intention of that was to shutdown the one consistent media source that provides a conservative voice, talk radio, where stations would have to provide equal time for contrary views to popular talk radio celebrities like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, and Larry Elder. Thankfully, they provide a forum where contrary views can be expressed and balance out the slander, insane ideology, and outright false assertions presented daily on the editorial pages of the New York Times and all its sycophants across the nation from smaller news outlets.
Part two of the media campaign of distortion is to make much of its news coverage personality driven where feel good happy talk stories about the candidates they adore dominate stories that deal with their positions and record that put style over substance seducing the public in to humanizing major Democratic leaders are so warm and fuzzy. The sugar-laden stories on the Obama daughters is powerful enough to induce full-blown diabetes in viewers who take in too much of the coverage. What a turnaround. Remember how the Bush daughters were all but shown to be trashy tramps for simply doing some of the things college kids do like drink beer?
And how many members of Team Obama have dirty little secrets like their failure to pay taxes?
We rest our case.
The absolute and total pervasiveness of pro-Democrat, anti-Republican journalism throughout the national media continues to grow in both how widespread it is and the boldness of how openly blatant it is as well. However, some times the more subtle elements, what they don’t say is perhaps even more damaging.
Kudos to Ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, Lamar Smith, (Republican, Texas) who brought his concerns about media bias to the house floor. In a pithy one minute address, "The national media spells scandal without the 'D,'" citing the big three traditional networks and paying special attention to CNN criticized that networks continuously fail to mention the party affiliation of Democrats who stumble into trouble citing the Blagojevich impeachment as one example, "Two weeks ago the Governor of Illinois was removed from office, All three television networks ran full reports on the story the same night and again the following morning. Not one report mentioned that he is a Democrat." He went on to note three additional scandals, former New York Governor, Elliot Spitzer’s prostitute affair and recent criminal charges directed at corrupt big city mayors convicted Kwame Kilpartrick of Detroit and indicted Sheila Pratt Dixon of Baltimore and that their party affiliation was left unknown in reportage about their scandals as well.
Congressman Smith concluded with remarks that should be taken as a given but sound so profound in an atmosphere where such has been so shamefully absent in recent history by noting, "Americans need and deserve balanced reporting from the media, not selective omissions,"
The challenge now is to get this message out to the American public and pray that they have the concern and awareness for it to make any difference in this modern era obsessed with the cult of personalities.
Media bias isn’t always what reports say but what they don’t say. Framing stories through omission can be just as deceiving as through commission. Watch almost any television station on Presidents’ Day and see how much the news media was fawning over Barack Obama’s first Presidents’ Day from contrived comparisons to Abraham Lincoln to some local baker selling Obama cupcakes. Baltimore NBC affiliate, WBAL-TV, made its morning news broadcast from 5:00 to 7:00 am a virtual Obama love fest on President’s Day with one feel good soft news story after another that had all the components of fan worship stories, the kind of presentation, shows like “Entertainment Tonight” and “Access Hollywood” might air for the latest Hollywood flavor-of-the-month. Each half hour segment devoted more time to Obama Mania than any other story including the current economic mess where some careful analytic and critical reporting is so necessary. Granted AM news is fluff news, soft news for soft minds, yet this programming is a lead-in to the ultimate in news media bias soft news which covers its backstabbing bias of conservative and Republican hatred in sugar and anesthesia where Matt Lauer, David Gregory, and Meredith Vieira routinely trashed the Republican effort while practically going as far as to present stories full of happy little pixies dancing in joy as to what Barack Obama did with his first baby tooth. These sugar-laced pro Obama and Democratic Party stories are explicit signs of bias. Viewers can also be sure embarrassing stories about major Democrats will be omitted or if they are so newsworthy that they must be reported, the offending politician’s name will be mentioned but no mention of his or her party affiliation will be mentioned.
Does anyone think the Pope’s stern reprimand of Nancy Pelosi when she just visited the Vatican will be mentioned or how ironic and self-serving it is that she should arrange a meeting with the Pontiff given the way she has trash talked the Catholic church and ridiculed some of its stances on issues like abortion?
Watch the big three networks 6:30 news, cable news outlets CNN and MSNBC, or read most major big city newspapers led by The New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times and the interested news hound could only be led to assume that the Republican Party is the party of political corruption. There hasn’t been a Republican scandal recently since REPUBLICAN Senator Larry Craig was arrested for soliciting gay sex in a Minnesota airport bathroom. Reports were full of self-righteous indignation that this REPUBLICAN Senator was caught doing something that was so contrary to his REPUBLICAN social CONSERVATIVE beliefs. Every effort was carefully crafted to make sure the viewer would remember this scandal involved a REPUBLICAN senator. Did we fail to mention Larry Craig was a CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN?
Democratic scandals have been running rampant in the past year. Elliot Spitzer, the former New York Governor and zero tolerance Attorney General was caught red handed for his involvement with a Washington DC prostitute. Detroit Mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick has a long history of corruption, criminal activity, and abuse of power leading to perjury and other felony charges landing him in jail. Kilpatrick was even charged with assault. Given Detroit is one of the nation’s top ten cities, one with so much hardship and economic trouble, one would think this story would be more newsworthy. Oops, we let our topic sentence cover Kilpatrick is a DEMOCRAT. He’s a DEMOCRAT, Spitzer’s a DEMOCRAT. Here are two recent high profile DEMOCRAT’s involved in major scandals but in reporting these did CNN tell its viewers what these criminals’ party affiliation, that they were DEMOCRATS was ever mentioned?
There’s more. Has there been a bigger political scandal since Bill Clinton’s impeachment than the countless acts of pure criminality committed by DEMOCRATIC Illinois Governor, Rod Blagojevich. The day the story broke, only ABC mentioned his party affiliation in passing in its evening news. The entire morning and most of the evening news cycles passed without that he was a DEMOCRAT went almost completely unmentioned. Such a story demands some context as reflective as part of widespread corruption in the DEMOCRATIC political machine in Illinois from the Big City operation of Mayor Richard Daily throughout the party. Oops, their glamour boy Barack Obama who they were proud to trumpet as a DEMOCRAT is a product of that machine, the setting where his political career, was born, nurtured, and raised to attract national notice. Their attempt to put the Blago scandal in context is to mention that his predecessor, a REPUBLICAN, George Ryan wound up in the pokey too. Somehow, that misses the point. Of course, Rod Blagojevich appointed Roland Burris is turning out to be another bad apple for his tie-in’s with Blago’s campaign now becoming one of the big news stories of the day. Could anyone watch the major news outlets and know Burris is a DEMOCRAT.
Shelia Pratt Dixon, the acerbic tongued mayor of Baltimore, faced Federal charges for using city funds, gift card donations from area businesses to be donated to the poor for her personal use to buy such things as the latest video game machines for her own use. The Dixon administration and her campaign reek of corruption including two campaign chiefs who plead guilty to tax evasion. Was there any mention that Ms. Dixon was a DEMOCRAT? Of course not. We could, perhaps, give the media the benefit of the doubt that it should go without saying that a mayor of Baltimore would be a DEMOCRAT since a Republican hasn’t been elected mayor in Baltimore since 1963 when the Republican party was considered the more liberal party as the Maryland Democratic party was much more aligned with the old bigoted Dixie-crats whose fossilized remains still hold a handful of seats in the State Legislature from distant places in southern Maryland and the Eastern Shore.
(By the way, we typed in “Sheila Pratt Dixon charges,” to get some basic facts for writing this essay and we proudly report that our posting, “SELFISH BITCH” was the second listing listed in our Google search. Right Minded Fellow goes big time!!!
The national news media and its hordes of wannabes rising up through the ranks of their local affiliates are so clearly agenda driven where advocacy journalism, feel good, warm fuzzy stories about the figures they admire, and a general tone of distrust and contempt for corporate America as if each little artificial blonde bimbo with a microphone in her hand hired primarily for beauty over brains pretends to be the next Upton Sinclair dominate the presentation so pervasively, any pretext of objectivity is a lie.
As much as we loathe to stick up for Sarah Palin extending her fifteen minutes of fame by more mention of her little career, any evaluation of the facts surrounding the so-called “trouper gate” investigation would show her actions were justified. The press almost universally attempted to portray the event as a case of Palin intent on a personal vendetta against the former spouse of her sister.
President Barack Obama did one thing right. He quickly put an end to speculation he would support any measure to resurrect the “Fairness Doctrine.” The clear intention of that was to shutdown the one consistent media source that provides a conservative voice, talk radio, where stations would have to provide equal time for contrary views to popular talk radio celebrities like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, and Larry Elder. Thankfully, they provide a forum where contrary views can be expressed and balance out the slander, insane ideology, and outright false assertions presented daily on the editorial pages of the New York Times and all its sycophants across the nation from smaller news outlets.
Part two of the media campaign of distortion is to make much of its news coverage personality driven where feel good happy talk stories about the candidates they adore dominate stories that deal with their positions and record that put style over substance seducing the public in to humanizing major Democratic leaders are so warm and fuzzy. The sugar-laden stories on the Obama daughters is powerful enough to induce full-blown diabetes in viewers who take in too much of the coverage. What a turnaround. Remember how the Bush daughters were all but shown to be trashy tramps for simply doing some of the things college kids do like drink beer?
And how many members of Team Obama have dirty little secrets like their failure to pay taxes?
We rest our case.
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