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Every day, the media commits outrageous, damaging and deliberate distortions in their “reporting” of the news. And fortunately for us, there are some outstanding watchdogs who report on these betrayals of the American people by the media they turn to for information. Welcome to RATM’s “PICKS OF THE DAY” feature where we highlight those articles and reports that best summarize the bias, corruption and/or dishonesty. |
November 2: from MRC
Even though it shouldn’t, it continues to astonish us that the only enemy against whom fear is a legitimate tactic is the Republicans. Democrats in every other case are the masters and proponents of appeasement, modifying the old 60s mantra into “there’s no such thing as an enemy, only a friend we haven’t abased ourselves before.” What does this tell us? That the right strikes greater fear in THEIR hearts than anything or anyone else. Oh, with the exception of Global Warming.
That aside, the blatant partisanship of Andrea Mitchells revealed here, where she “[f]rets Unpopular Obama Can’t ‘Frighten’ GOP Anymore.”
On her 1 p.m. ET MSNBC show on Thursday, host Andrea Mitchell whined about Senate Republicans blocking some of the President’s recent nominees and worried about the impact of Obama’s sagging poll numbers: “…in terms of presidential power, polls affect votes….this is diminishing the President’s clout, when he can’t frighten – you know, have enough political weight to frighten everybody into line to try to peel off some Republican votes.”
November 1: From the Daily Caller:
AP editors: Obama relies on staged propaganda photos
The administration which crowed about being the most transparent in history ( and which was even presented with an award for transparency in a closed-door ceremony, an irony even recognized by HuffPo) refuses to allow photojournalists access to the President, insisting they only use pictures by his own paid photographers. It seems they have proven their complicity in propagating the narrative out of the White House, and now only publish photos provided from the White House. One might ask why this president doesn’t trust the sycophantic press to the extent that they aren’t allowed to take their own photographs, but really, it’s in keeping with their fundamental world-view. Everything this administration does is about fostering dependency (Obamacare isn’t about care but about control and encroaching reliance on government subsidies, just as one of countless examples) and undermining individual pursuits and effort. It’s the Leftist way: without government, we are nothing.
Read the Daily Caller piece here
October 30 – from IJR
Incredibly,Chris Matthews commits acts of Journalism
(photo Larry Downing / Reuters)
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews finally took time off of calling all critics of the Democratic president a “racist” to address some serious questions about the deadly terrorist attack at Benghazi, Libya on the 11th anniversary of 9/11.
read and watch here but don’t get your hopes up…
MRC Study: How the Broadcast Networks Spun the Shutdown Obama’s Way
When the media creates the world-view of 20 million Americans, we can’t ignore their deliberate dishonesty. This report by MRC outlines the spin by the media about the Shutdown. One startling finding: Of the “Big Three” networks’ coverage of the 16-day government shutdown, 41 stories blamed Republicans and zero blamed Democrats.
From Breitbart, October 13
CNN Mocks Million Vet March as Tea Party Crazies
Ben Shapiro ∫ October 13, 2013
Ben Shapiro, Editor-at-Large at Breitbart.com, excoriates CNN for their adding our Veterans to their Enemies List. CNN, in its duty as watchdog protecting the president, lashes out at any dissenters, even (especially?) those who deserve our respect and gratitude.
More Media Circus of the Zimmerman Trial:
A terrific summation about the media’s disgusting manipulation of everything to do with this trial from Brent Bozell:
America, Forever Racist?
Brent Bozell | July 17, 2013
From Newsbusters:
Feds Targeted Tax Records of Political Candidates; All Three Networks Ignore
By Scott Whitlock | July 17, 2013
The Media Circus of the Zimmerman Trial
July 15, 2013
Everything to do with the Zimmerman trial has highlighted the dangers of a media deeply entrenched in the liberal agenda. …read more
From Commentary Magazine:
Back to Full-Time Racial Incitement
Jonathan S. Tobin | @tobincommentary 07.15.2013
…In much of the mainstream media today, but especially on MSNBC, the verdict has been treated as a green light not only for recriminations about the verdict but an excuse for an all-out, nonstop stream of racial incitement. …read more
From Media Research Center: NBC’s Doctored Audio
Shameless: NBC Never Tells Viewers it Smeared Zimmerman with Doctored Audio
Despite firings, apology, lawsuit, network silent about phony tape.
By Matt Philbin | Published: 6/19/2013 2:26 PM ET
…. For a full week in March, 2012 NBC “Nightly News” and “Today,” along with its local Miami affiliate ran audio tape of George Zimmerman’s 911 call the night he fatally shot Trayvon Martin. NBC viewers learned that Zimmerman had said to the 911 dispatcher, “This guy looks like he’s up to no good. He looks black.”
That was pretty damning evidence of racial profiling. It was also an entirely false representation of the 911 conversation. Someone at NBC had edited the tape to make Zimmerman appear racist. …read more
From GOPUSA/AIM Center for Investigative Journalism
CNN Commentator Embarrassed By Zimmerman Verdict
By Cliff Kincaid | July 15, 2013
After the not-guilty verdict was handed down, George Zimmerman attorney Mark O’Mara strongly criticized the media’s role in getting his client charged in the case. …read more
Some generic lunacy from MSNBC:
Good news from Newsbusters:
Zimmerman Will Move ‘ASAP’ on Lawsuit Against NBC for Fraudulent Audio Editing
By Matthew Sheffield | July 14, 2013
Now that he has successfully defended himself from criminal charges brought against him by the state of Florida for the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman is going to resume a lawsuit he filed several months earlier against NBC News. …read more
From Breitbart.com:
And now we have this; Al Sharpton, up on his NBC dais, calling for race riots in 100 cities.
NBC’S SHARPTON PLANS PROTESTS IN 100 CITIES
by JOHN NOLTE | 15 Jul 2013, 9:19 AM PDT
During MSNBC’s 11 am hour, above a chyron that read, “More Marches, Protests Planned in Coming Days, Weeks,” MSNBC anchor Al Sharpton said that he and his National Action Network are “mobilizing” protests in 100 cities. …read more
From Breitbart:
LOS ANGELES ANTI-ZIMMERMAN DEMONSTRATORS SHUT DOWN 10 FREEWAY
by BEN SHAPIRO | 14 Jul 2013
On Sunday evening, protesters against the not guilty verdict for George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin shooting shut down the 10 Freeway in Crenshaw, a largely-minority area of Los Angeles. …read more
And of course, because it’s all about race, the media have honed in on this one case of a “white Hispanic” killing a black man, and ignoring, with a willful blindness that is pathological, the hundreds upon hundreds of deaths of African Americans at the hand of other African Americans (according to one source, “in the 513 days between Trayvon dying, and today’s verdict, 11,106 African Americans have been murdered by other African-Americans” – and let’s not even mention the statistics regarding abortions of African Americans (according to the CDC, 1452 African American babies are aborted every day – and since 1973, the year of the Supreme Court Decision Roe vs. Wade, 13 million (13,000,000) African American lives have been lost to abortion.) And their coverage of the horrific numbers of murders in Obama’s adopted home-town of Chicago (under the mayoral “leadership” of his friend Rahm Emmanuel?) Silence; Crickets chirping.
From MRC
Sequestration Cancels July 4th?
By L. Brent Bozell III | Published: 6/27/2013 6:45 PM ET
Two years ago, a humor website called The Washington Fancy presented the headline “Obama Cancels July 4th Because of Budget Cuts.” The fake article in the middle of debt-ceiling battles insisted “President Obama sees the cancellation of the holiday as due punishment for Congress’s recent behavior.” …read more
And this, also from MRC: but I’m warning you, it’s a shocker!
‘Today’ Show Panel Praises Pop Culture Being ‘Ahead of the Courts’ on Gay Marriage
By Kyle Drennen | Published: 6/27/2013
[As part of a panel discussion] on Thursday’s NBC Today applauding the Supreme Court’s gay marriage decisions… pop culture expert Ramin Setoodeh agreed: “A lot of people, I mean, even if you look at the New York Times article, they explicitly said one of the reasons why this ruling seemed like it was natural was because public opinion had changed and the reason public opinion has changed is because the stories we see on TV and in the movies and the music we listen to, reflects that change.” [emphasis added] …read more
I know. Shocking, right, that pop culture is “upstream” from politics and from legislation? Who knew!
From MRCTV:
Poor Winners: Supporters of DOMA Decision Call Dissenting Justices Hateful, Uneducated, Homophobes MRCTVone
After the Supreme Court struck down DOMA in a 5-4 decision, MRCTV’s Dan Joseph asked some of the decision’s supporters why they thought four justices dissented with the majority ruling. …WATCH IT HERE
From Breitbart.com:
Obama Calls Rubio to Congratulate Him on Immigration Reform
by Breitbart News | 28 Jun 2013,
On Friday, President Obama took time out from his trip to Africa to call members of Senate’s so-called “Gang of Eight,” including Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), to congratulate them on the immigration reform bill that passed the Senate on Thursday in a 68-32 vote. …read more
From Politichicks:
Farm Bill isn’t for American Farmers, It’s for Food Stamps
June 27, 2013 | by Dr. Jacqueline Lang
The Farm Bill that is supposed to be for American Farmers:
Today, only 20% of ‘The Farm bill’ actually goes to American Farms. Really? That seems a little odd since the American farmers supply Americans and World with much needed food. …read more
From PJMedia
The Science of What Is and Isn’t Happening with the NSA’s Phone Surveillance
What’s it all about, George Orwell?
by Charlie Martin | June 27
So, there’s this NSA thing. Since the stories about the NSA, Edward Snowden, PRISM, and so on have broken, there has been more misinformation, disinformation, bad information, speculation, ignorant commentary and flat out nonsense going around than any topic in recent memory. And to tell you the truth, I’ve been working on this article for two weeks and never finishing because there is always one more howler. Let’s see if we can clear some of this up. …read more
From Commentary Magazine
9/10 Mentality: CIA Blasted for NYPD Help
Jonathan S. Tobin | 06.27.2013
The most recent installment in the New York Times’s effort to dial America’s security back to a September 10, 2001 mentality came today in the form of an article detailing the latest faux scandal the paper has tried to attach to the New York City Police Department. What did the NYPD do now? Apparently, in an unusual bout of federal-local cooperation, the Central Intelligence Agency allowed four of its staffers to help New York’s police deal with terror threats in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. …read more
From Media Research Center
MRC-TV’s COLLEGE “POP QUIZ” video on Hannity – how scary is this?
MRC Study: CNN Handed Airwaves to Liberals After Supreme Court Decisions
By Matt Hadro | Published: 6/27/2013 3:18 PM ET
CNN really showed its bias in reacting to two very different Supreme Court decisions this week. On Tuesday, the Court struck down a portion of the 1965 Voting Rights Act; in the hours that followed, CNN’s coverage included four times as many critics of the decision as supporters (8 vs. 2).
On the subject of the IMMIGRATION vote, we have this from TOWNHALL
BREAKING: Senate Passes Immigration Reform Bill, 68-32
Guy Benson | Jun 27, 2013
From Breitbart
Senate Passes Immigration Bill
by David Espo and Erica Werner
From PJmedia
PJ Media is not the only one with this story, but they have a good take on it:
Free Speech Dies in UK: Robert Spencer, Pamela Geller Banned from Entering – by Roger Kimball
From the Daily Caller
Boston Imam Shared Ties with Senior al-Qaeda Operative
Patrick Howley | 7:47 PM 06/27/2013
The Islamic organization that includes Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s mosque has ties to the al-Qaeda operative that reportedly inspired Tsarnaev to carry out the Boston Marathon terrorist attack, according to FBI surveillance documents.
From Rasmussen
A real Eye-Opener
26% of Obama Supporters View Tea Party as Nation’s Top Terror Threat
Half of all voters consider radical Muslims the bigger terrorist threat facing the nation, but supporters of President Obama consider the Tea Party to be as big a danger.
[ In other words, Obama supporters fear the tea party more than radical muslims.]
From Breitbart.com
A movie review you won’t want to miss about a movie you should do everything to miss
WHITE HOUSE DOWN’ REVIEW: UNRELENTING LIBERAL PROPAGANDA DISGUISED AS POPCORN ENTERTAINMENT
by CHRISTIAN TOTO | 27 Jun 2013
White House Down lets director Roland Emmerich indulge in his favorite stunt–dumping ideological sludge atop his already bloated disaster films.
Emmerich, who previously prayed at the altar of Al Gore with the global warming fright flick The Day After Tomorrow, outdoes himself with his latest adventure. White House Down slams conservatives, the “military industrial complex,” defense contractors and any politician who thinks it might not be wise to withdraw all troops from the Middle East.
From FrontPage Mag
New York Times Offering the Boston Globe at 90% Off
June 27, 2013 By Daniel Greenfield
One of the ironic things about the New York Times trying to report on the economy is that the company has made a series of really bad financial decisions, expanding and trying to build up some kind of media empire, that it now has to resell at a fraction of the price.
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