No MSM bias to see here... move along..

[SteveW]

Media skips over 2000 death milestone in Afghanistan, unlike Iraq.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-gra...arker-afghanis

I guess if they can't blame Bush it's lost it's lustre. Wonder why they don't follow Cindy Sheehan around these days.....

[jimzinsocal]

Whereas Obama's compaign contributors are simply "regular folks" that dine on $40,000 /plate dinners while rubbing elbows with the Hollywood elite content to send in a buck or two when they are able.

http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2012/...tics/?iid=Lead

[tucker]

NBC swallows pride and a lot of crow to report on Fast and Furious scandal


By Dan Gainor

Published June 13, 2012


Big Gulps might be on the way out in New York, but not at 30 Rock, the home of NBC News. There, the big gulp happened last night as network newsies were forced to swallow their pride and report on the deadly “Fast and Furious” scandal as Attorney General Eric Holder testified on Capitol Hill.

This was the first time the network had covered “Fast and Furious” though the scandal dates back more than a year. For a whole year, stubborn, Obama-supporting network news execs probably thought the whole embarrassing episode would disappear. When it finally didn’t, NBC covered it as you might expect – poorly and with spin.

Anchor Brian Williams set up the piece and the GOP at the same time. “In Washington today, Attorney General Eric Holder took heavy fire from Republican critics in a Senate hearing and calls for his resignation are growing louder, but Democrats contend it’s all about politics in an election season.” Viewers could easily note what seemed to be disdain in his voice when Williams mentioned the idea of “resignation,” but then again, he was probably just upset and resigned to doing the story.

Correspondent Kelly O’Donnell then took over, repeating the Williams theme that this was all about a Republican ax to grind. -- And certainly never about an American border agent being killed by guns that Holder did everything but Fed-Ex to Mexican drug lords. -- Williams and O’Donnell mentioned Republicans seven times and Democrats just twice because this was a “long simmering conflict between Republicans and Attorney General Eric Holder.”

Just in case you missed it, it’s just politics to NBC: “Republicans leveled a series of accusations – the latest over national security leaks – that Republicans allege could involve senior Obama administration officials.” “Holder refused Republican demands for an outside special counsel.” “Another controvery? Republicans claim Holder has misled and refused to cooperate with Congress’s investigation of a failed operation that sent US guns into Mexico codenamed ‘Fast and Furious.’”

Bitter much? Maybe NBC is tired of being stomped by competitor CBS News worse than watching a skateboarding competition between Tony Hawk and Williams. Even then, no matter how bad Williams would do, at least he’d have to show up. And that’s something NBC was incapable of managing for more than a year.

Ironically, NBC did have a few mentions of term “fast and furious” during the past year, just none of them actually referred to the scandal. In one, “Today” co-host Ann Curry told viewers that reaction to a Dugar family baby announcement was “fast and furious.”

Perhaps network execs will learn there is fallout from such disdain for an important story by their audience. In the future, when they ignore stories because of their agenda, maybe that reaction will be “fast and furious,” too.



http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/...ntcmp=obinsite

[AMDScooter]

Carrying bamma's water is teh hard. Jane Andrea, you ignorant slut...

Andrea Mitchell Struggles To Respond To Claim Obama Outsourced Jobs Via Stimulus (VIDEO)

MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell struggles in her attempt to respond to a charge by guest John Sununu that President Obama is the job outsourcer, not Mitt Romney.

Andrea Mitchell, MSNBC: Isn't it a winning issue for the White House, fundamentally, granted that the PolitiFact folks and the Washington Post pointing out that the President's campaign ad on that issue had a lot of questions and a lot of questionable attacks?

John Sununu: But they said it was wrong. A lot of questionable tactics is not right, it was wrong.

Mitchell: But the point is, that isn't Mitt Romney more vulnerable than the President on this issue because there still is -- the whole question of private equity of outsourcing. Yo could argue about when he left Bain Capital and whether he was still getting money from Bain Capital and what some of the companies in Bain were doing, companies that did end up working overseas and sending jobs overseas. But isn't it a bigger problem for Republicans than for the White House?

Sununu: No. When you've sent $500 million to Fisker and it goes to Finland immediately. When you send the solar money and it goes to Mexico. When you send the turbine money and it goes to Denmark. And we can go on all day. There is $29 billion worth of purchases that came out of this administration, outsourced jobs to foreign countries.

Mitt Romney outsourced zero --

Mitchell: Zero?

Sununu: Zero. He wasn't there when those issues came up.

Mitchell: Well, first of all the $29 billion are not all outsourced from the administration because ---

Sununu: Sure they are.

Mitchell: A lot of those jobs still remained here. There are jobs -- when you do a grant, governor, there are jobs here as well as overseas.

Sununu: [laughing] You're struggling, Andrea. You're struggling.

Mitchell: First of all, these are competing claims and we will get back to you with all of the numbers.

Appropriate she s-s-s-s-stutters as bad as the guy she is pimping talking points for.

[Dutchcedar]

Hey MSM, have ya ever heard the saying, "You reap what you sow"?

Well, now that you're just about as popular as Congress...



Americans' Confidence in Television News Drops to New Low

[SteveW]

Carrying bamma's water is teh hard. Jane Andrea, you ignorant slut...

Andrea Mitchell Struggles To Respond To Claim Obama Outsourced Jobs Via Stimulus (VIDEO)

Appropriate she s-s-s-s-stutters as bad as the guy she is pimping talking points for.

The legendary Obambi s-s-s-s-s-s-s-Stutter is caused by "Oxygen Depravation" which is caused by the extremely high "Bull$h!t to O2" ratio.

[AMDScooter]

MS divorces NBC...

NBC News Declared Dead: Microsoft Leaves MSNBC

NBC News, the legendary television and news organization that once starred such journalistic pros as Chet Huntley, David Brinkley, John Chancellor and Tom Brokaw was declared officially dead on Wednesday afternoon.

The death was preceded by a stunning divorce announcement between Microsoft and NBC that had resulted in a long, tempestuous televised and website union known as MSNBC.

The details of the divorce are reported by Daily Beast media columnist Howard Kurtz.

In the traditional style of liberal journalism, the real story was buried deep inside the Kurtz piece and revealed this way:

…as the MSNBC channel has forged a separate identity as the liberal home of Rachel Maddow, Chris Matthews, Ed Schultz and others, the company has worried about the brand confusion caused by its straight-news site bearing the same name.

Catch that?

There were worries at corporate about "brand confusion" between "the liberal home of Rachel Maddow, Chris Matthews, Ed Schultz and others" with the so-called "straight-news site bearing the same name."

So the obvious question.

Why in the world would NBC be worried about "brand confusion" with a cable version of itself?

That's right. Because there was nothing "straight-news" about what has evolved at MSNBC.

Let's take a stroll through some of MSNBC's greatest hits, hits that became immutably identified with the NBC brand that includes Tom Brokaw, Brian Williams and Matt Lauer. An MSNBC created by its current head Phil Griffin.

Ed Schultz

- The Daily Caller reported that Schultz "recently and regularly" used Media Matters content for the programming of MSNBC's The Ed Show.

- The Daily Caller reported that MSNBC's Schultz had been on labor union payrolls since 2005.

- Newsmax reported that MSNBC's Schultz had his radio show "bankrolled" by liberal "Sens. Hillary Clinton, Tom Daschle and Debbie Stabenow" who "lined up $1.8 million in funding for Democracy Radio, which underwrote Mr. Schultz's show."

- Mediaite chimed in with a story showing that Schultz's far-left rantings had become a ratings loser for MSNBC. Shortly thereafter the network fired conservative commentator Pat Buchanan.

- And who could forget the famous Schultz rant calling Laura Ingraham a "talk slut"?

- Or the time when Schultz called for ripping out then-Vice President Cheney's heart?

- Not to mention the time CNN's Anderson Cooper couldn't resist running through Schultz's fury at being named the third least influential man alive -- by that liberal favorite GQ?

One could go on -- and on and on and on -- with all the MSNBC hits. Moments that have immutably branded the network as having problems with race (Al Sharpton's use of the n-word") and Chris Matthews saying of President Obama that "for a moment I forgot he was black." Moments that have branded the network as the home of gay bashing (Al Sharpton again and his videotaped "punk faggot" routine.) Not to mention misogyny (the Shultz "slut" business and calling the wife of Senator Joe Lieberman a "whore"). And religious bigotry (a staple of MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell, as seen here and here). O'Donnell's distaste for Mormonism, by the way, mysteriously doesn't extend to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Mormon -- presumably hoping no one noticed the double-standard.

Only this week there was Andrea Mitchell, once a serious journalist, now establishing the Obama case -- badly -- at MSNBC in this foolish dust-up with former New Hampshire Governor John Sunnunu. Even Jon Stewart took Rachel Maddow and MSNBC to task for using the sexual term "teabagger" when discussing the Tea party.

This month Vanity Fair has a long piece on the woes of Microsoft. The company's association with MSNBC is never mentioned by the left-wing magazine.

But it is abundantly clear that Microsoft has enough problems without having its brand associated with what has become a wacky, far-left media culture that specializes in hosts who have problems with racism, misogyny, gay bashing and religious bigotry.

Now comes the news that Microsoft and NBC News are getting divorced.

The "brand confusion" will be ended by renaming MSNBC as "NBCNews.com".

Finally, formally and officially, the spewings of hate and hard partisanship that gush forth from MSNBC will belong to NBC News. And NBC News alone.

The NBC News that is today the network of Brian Williams, Matt Lauer and the retired Tom Brokaw, the NBC News network that once boasted of names like Huntley and Brinkley and Chancellor -- is now the NBCNews.com of Ed Schultz, Chris Matthews, Lawrence O'Donnell, and Rachel Maddow.

To borrow from Charles Dickens?

NBC News is dead. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of its burial was signed by Schultz, Sharpton, O'Donnell, Matthews and Maddow. Phil Griffin signed it. And Brokaw, Williams and Lauer's name put their seal of approval on it.

NBC News is now dead as a doornail.

[AMDScooter]

They never f*cking learn...

ABC News, Brian Ross apologize for report suggesting shooting suspect tied to Tea Party

Not a shred of evidence to back it up but they air the guy's ID anyway. Exactly how bad can you f*ck up the agenda pushing and still have a job? Apparently pretty badly.

Exclusive: Interview With James Michael Holmes, Hispanic Tea Party Member Falsely Accused by ABC

[otoc]

They never f*cking learn...

ABC News, Brian Ross apologize for report suggesting shooting suspect tied to Tea Party

Not a shred of evidence to back it up but they air the guy's ID anyway. Exactly how bad can you f*ck up the agenda pushing and still have a job? Apparently pretty badly.

Exclusive: Interview With James Michael Holmes, Hispanic Tea Party Member Falsely Accused by ABC

Breitbart? The site that tried to tie the shooter into being a registered democrat in relatiation before they had to update the site with no apology that he wasn't registered? Spare me the fake outrage of the day...

[AMDScooter]

Breitbart? The site that tried to tie the shooter into being a registered democrat in relatiation before they had to update the site with no apology that he wasn't registered? Spare me the fake outrage of the day...

Not a word about ABC's foul up? That sounds awfully familiar.

. . .



. . .
Right wing blogs are already freaking out in full-on persecuted victim mode, because an early report from ABC News wrongly confused the shooter with another James Holmes in Colorado, who is a Tea Party member.

In response to this incorrect report, for which ABC News apologized soon after, the wingnut bloggers immediately started digging for evidence that Holmes is connected to the Occupy Wall Street movement. Joel Pollak blared the headline at Breitbart.com: EXCLUSIVE: CONTRA ABC NEWS, DARK KNIGHT AURORA, CO SHOOTING SUSPECT JAMES HOLMES COULD BE REGISTERED DEMOCRAT.

Oh, but wait — now there’s an update: “UPDATE: NOT REGISTERED?”

. . .


Well thanks for taking the time out from hanging with your far left radical pals at LGF to stop by and regurgitate their ABC apologist angle here... but I already read it there.

[otoc]

Not a word about ABC's foul up? That sounds awfully familiar.

. . .



. . .
Right wing blogs are already freaking out in full-on persecuted victim mode, because an early report from ABC News wrongly confused the shooter with another James Holmes in Colorado, who is a Tea Party member.

In response to this incorrect report, for which ABC News apologized soon after, the wingnut bloggers immediately started digging for evidence that Holmes is connected to the Occupy Wall Street movement. Joel Pollak blared the headline at Breitbart.com: EXCLUSIVE: CONTRA ABC NEWS, DARK KNIGHT AURORA, CO SHOOTING SUSPECT JAMES HOLMES COULD BE REGISTERED DEMOCRAT.

Oh, but wait — now there’s an update: “UPDATE: NOT REGISTERED?”

. . .


Well thanks for taking the time out from hanging with your far left radical pals at LGF to stop by and regurgitate their ABC apologist angle here... but I already read it there.

Oh my, false outrage, lack of reading comprehension, conspiracies based on you stalking my habits from close to a year ago. Seems like you were the one who linked to breitbart. Didn't take much to look around and see how they tried, failed, and never apologized the way abc did. Oh the outrage!!

[AMDScooter]

Oh my, false outrage, lack of reading comprehension, conspiracies based on you stalking my habits from close to a year ago. Seems like you were the one who linked to breitbart. Didn't take much to look around and see how they tried, failed, and never apologized the way abc did. Oh the outrage!!

Speaking of fakes... how ya doing otoc? That time of the month again? Still nuthin to say about ABC?


**edit**

Stalking habits from nearly a year ago? LOL. Google works. If you are going to attempt being a leftist shill hiding behind fairly thinly veiled centrist claims you should try acting smarter than that knob in BD24's siggy. Yes.. nearly a year ago. You remember. That time before you outed yourself as a LGF contributor in which you frequently regurgitated their front page news here in TLR verbatum. They appeared at LGF. A short time later **poof** they appeared there here.

[otoc]

Not a word about ABC's foul up? That sounds awfully familiar.

. . .



. . .
Right wing blogs are already freaking out in full-on persecuted victim mode, because an early report from ABC News wrongly confused the shooter with another James Holmes in Colorado, who is a Tea Party member.

In response to this incorrect report, for which ABC News apologized soon after, the wingnut bloggers immediately started digging for evidence that Holmes is connected to the Occupy Wall Street movement. Joel Pollak blared the headline at Breitbart.com: EXCLUSIVE: CONTRA ABC NEWS, DARK KNIGHT AURORA, CO SHOOTING SUSPECT JAMES HOLMES COULD BE REGISTERED DEMOCRAT.

Oh, but wait — now there’s an update: “UPDATE: NOT REGISTERED?”

. . .


Well thanks for taking the time out from hanging with your far left radical pals at LGF to stop by and regurgitate their ABC apologist angle here... but I already read it there.

Speaking of fakes... how ya doing otoc? That time of the month again? Still nuthin to say about ABC?


**edit**

Stalking habits from nearly a year ago? LOL. Google works. If you are going to attempt being a leftist shill hiding behind fairly thinly veiled centrist claims you should try acting smarter than that knob in BD24's siggy. Yes.. nearly a year ago. You remember. That time before you outed yourself as a LGF contributor in which you frequently regurgitated their front page news here in TLR verbatum. They appeared at LGF. A short time later **poof** they appeared there here.

Reserved for future comment. Awaiting input.

[AMDScooter]

Reserved for future comment. Awaiting input.

Heh.. lemme guess.. confirming victim status?

[AMDScooter]

While we're waiting.. appears Krugman is over the shark as well.

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