MY FACEBOOK: Media

Welcome
Image
Video

Showing posts with label Media. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Media. Show all posts

Video: Obama Refuses To Condemn Hoffa Remarks

The Obama White House says it has no comment about Hoffa's comments at taxpayer funded Labor Day event that the President attended and spoke at. When pressed with comparisons to previous events which the Obama team was very responsive about, the White House decided to spin.

'The Contessa' Makes A Complete Fool Of Herself

On the air, MSNBC's Contessa Brewer told a conservative Congressman that without the bailout, the country would be in "a depression." Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama* said he disagreed. The Contessa didn't like that, which prompted her to ask him if he had a degree in economics.
"Yes ma'am, I do. Highest honors," Congressman. Brooks answered.
And indeed he does. And not some mail-order degree, either. Brooks graduated from Duke University in three years with a double major in political science and economics, with highest honors in economics. Then, he graduated from the University of Alabama Law School.
And The Contessa?
We'll grant her a degree in dim-wittiness.
*BTW: Ever notice how some liberal elites think that if you're from the South and/or have a southern accent (unless you're Bill Clinton) that automatically makes you dumb?

Bravo: The Journal Fights Back!

America's best newspaper, The Wall Street Journal, is fighting back against those who are trying to destroy Rupert Murdoch and News Corporation.
And as a Journal subscriber, I couldn't be happier.
Here's part of what The Journal has to say in an editorial:

Our readers can decide if we are a better publication than we were four years ago, but there is no denying that News Corp. has invested in the product. The news hole is larger. Our foreign coverage in particular is more robust, our weekend edition more substantial, and our expansion into digital delivery ahead of the pack. The measure that really matters is the market's, and on that score Mr. Hinton was at the helm when we again became America's largest daily.
We also trust that readers can see through the commercial and ideological motives of our competitor-critics. The Schadenfreude is so thick you can't cut it with a chainsaw. Especially redolent are lectures about journalistic standards from publications that give Julian Assange and WikiLeaks their moral imprimatur. They want their readers to believe, based on no evidence, that the tabloid excesses of one publication somehow tarnish thousands of other News Corp. journalists across the world.
The prize for righteous hindsight goes to the online publication ProPublica for recording the well-fed regrets of the Bancroft family that sold Dow Jones to News Corp. at a 67% market premium in 2007. The Bancrofts were admirable owners in many ways, but at the end of their ownership their appetite for dividends meant that little cash remained to invest in journalism. We shudder to think what the Journal would look like today without the sale to News Corp.

You owe it to yourself to be well informed. So, read the entire editorial and read The Journal every day. Click here to read more.

Obama's Temperament? Thin-Skinned And Cranky

Once again, Jennifer Rubin nails it at the Washington Post, daring to lift the curtain and reveal Barack Obama as he really is. Here's an excerpt:

During the 2008 campaign Obama-spinners and nearly the entire press corps (I repeat myself) bandied about the notion that what the candidate lacked in experience (none when it came to running anything other than the Harvard Law Review) he made up in superior temperament. He was cool, calm, unflappable — a sort of Mr. Spock who put rationality above emotion. Has there ever been a worst case of false advertising?
Throughout his presidency Barack Obama has shown himself to be thin-skinned and cranky (be it with regard to the Chamber of Commerce, Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, town-hall protesters, Wall Street).

Click here to read Rubin's entire column.

Obama's Pro-Palestine Leanings Evident Early On

The American Thinker has a great article pointing our that Barack Obama's pro-Palestinian tendecies were evident long before he became President.
In fact, Obama flirted with (and praised) radical PLO sympathizers.
But, for the most part the mainstream liberal media shielded the public from these alarming leanings. There were a few exceptions (as the article notes) but the media didn't want to alarm voters lest it derail the Obama juggernaut.
Here's an excerpt from the article:

When President Barack Obama publicly endorsed the Palestinian view of Israel's future this week, he took many Americans, including many of his Jewish-American supporters, by surprise. Had the media been doing their job, he would not have surprised anyone.

In April 2008, Peter Wallsten of the Los Angeles Times wrote a lengthy article titled "Allies of Palestinians see a friend in Obama." The article pulled some of its information from a video shot at a 2003 farewell dinner for Rashid Khalidi, a Palestinian booster and a de facto spokesman for the PLO during his Beirut years. Khalidi, who had spent several years at the University of Chicago, was leaving for New York.

Domestic terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn reportedly attended the dinner as well. This would make sense. Khalidi begins the acknowledgment section of his 2004 book, Resurrecting Empire, with a tribute to the guy who lived -- and edited -- in their neighborhood. "First, chronologically and in other ways," writes Khalidi, "comes Bill Ayers." Unlike the calculating Obama, Khalidi had no reason to be coy about this relationship.

At the dinner, Obama thanked Khalidi and his wife for the many meals they had shared chez Khalidi and for reminding Obama of "my own blind spots and my own biases." Obama hoped that "we continue that conversation -- a conversation that is necessary not just around Mona and Rashid's dinner table [...] [but around] this entire world."

Click here to read more.

Obama Wants Higher Gas Prices To Be New 'Norm'

Dan Gainor of the Media Research Center has a great commentary at Fox News about the rising price of gas and why it's happening now.
Here's an excerpt:

When Obama took over in January 2009, gas was a "mere" $1.84 a gallon. Now, "mere" is what’s left in our wallets after filling up.

And it’s all deliberate.

It’s not your standard lefty war "about oil' conspiracy. There’s no grand cabal pumping up gas prices to the point where ordinary Americans can’t afford to drive.
No. High gas prices are the natural result of a series of decisions by the Obama administration that are geared to hiking the cost of fuel, limiting how much we drive and controling one more asepct of Americans’ lives. Obama isn’t the only factor. Mideast politics, wars – including Obama’s new one in Libya – and global demand all have impact, too.
What’s more, this high price reflects what most of the left believe it should be and is thoroughly embraced by the elite media who know they’ll still be able to pull up to a pump and afford $50 or $75 for a fill-up.

Click here to read the full column.

Trump: When The Joke's On Him, It Ain't So Funny

Donald Trump did not particularly enjoy the jokes at last night's annual White House Correspondents' Association Dinner.
He made his views known earlier today on Fox and Friends.
Here are some excerpts:

Trump called jokes made about him at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner "inappropriate in certain respects." . . . .
"Well, I really understood what I was getting into — I didn't know that I'd be virtually the sole focus," Trump said. "I guess when you're leading in the polls that tends to happen. But I was certainly in a certain way having a good time listening."
While much of the room was laughing during the acts, Trump smiled only a few times and an open-mouthed grin never seemed to actually cross his face.

Click here to read more.

Frank Rich Leaving The New York Times

Uber-liberal bellyacher Frank Rich is leaving the New York Times.
The relentless GOP-hating leftist feels it's time to move on.
Here's part of what Rich has to say:
There is no greater newspaper than the Times.
I leave the paper with deep affection for both the institution and my many brilliant colleagues, and with much gratitude for the opportunity the paper gave me to serve in two dream jobs in journalism. After seventeen years in my second career there, as a columnist, I feel much as I did after nearly fourteen years in my first, as chief drama critic -- both the satisfaction that I’ve given a great job all I had and a serious hunger to move on to fresh and expanded writing challenges after having done the same assignment for so long.
BuhhhhhhBYE! . . . Don't let the door hit you in the ass.

Video: Tracy Morgan Calls Palin 'Masturbation Material'

Shame on Tracy Morgan for saying it and shame on TNT for airing it.
Funny, we heard virtually no complaints from the left-leaning mainstream media about "lack of civility" after this aired. Nothing. Nada.
Apparently, when you're talking about a leading conservative you can trash him or her any way you want. So long as you're running down someone on the right, it seems civility doesn't matter one bit.

A Cogent Question For President Obama . . .

As part of Your Interview With the President, one of our former students, Ed Boyd has posed an important question for President Obama.
So now we're wondering: Will the President answer?
Click here at 2:30 PM to find out if the President answers this question.

Palinmania: It's Time For A Time Out

ABC television is reporting that ABC News “Good Morning America” Co-Anchor Robin Roberts will travel to Alaska "for an interview with Sarah Palin to air on Friday, December 17 on 'Good Morning America.'"
According to ABC "Roberts will spend a day-in-the-life with the former governor and mother of five at her home in Wasilla.
"In a wide-ranging interview, Roberts will talk to Palin about her new book 'America by Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith, and Flag,' plus all the major political news of the day, from taxes to health care to foreign policy."
Here's my observation: I think we can all use a break from Sarah Palin, her family, Wasilla and everything that goes with it just about now.
I've seen enough 'days in the life' of Sarah Palin. It's time for a "time out."

The Sayings Of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie

Maybe you've wanted to say it to an unfaithful spouse. Perhaps you've longed to shout it out to a shiftless co-worker. Or tempted to telegraph it to a disagreeable neighbor. "Let me help you pack."
That's what N.J. Gov. Chris Christie said to an overpaid school superintendent who tried to front-load his contract so he wouldn't be subject to Christie's proposed salary cap. When Christie tagged the superintendent the "poster boy of greed and arrogance," the school chief noted that he didn't have to work in Jersey - he could go elsewhere.
And then Christie said what a lot of people were thinking.
Click here to read the rest of my column from today's Philadelphia Daily News.

Obama: Too Tiny For The Office?

In its current issue Newsweek is arguing that the presidency is just too big for one man?
Is the office to big for one man or is the man who's in the office to tiny for the job?
Now, NewsBusters has discovered that the Washington Post used pretty mush this same argument in the 1980 when it tried to defend another failed president, Jimmy Carter. The Post then owned Newsweek.
Here's how NewsBusters tells it:

In the November 22 issue of Newsweek magazine, Daniel Stone defended the Obama administration by blaming the institution of the presidency for failures rather than the chief executive himself: "The issue is not Obama, it’s the office....Can any single person fully meet the demands of the 21st-century presidency?" The same argument was used to excuse an overwhelmed Jimmy Carter 30 years earlier.

The sub-headline for the piece read: "The presidency has grown, and grown and grown, into the most powerful, most impossible job in the world." At one point, Stone explained: "Among a handful of presidential historians Newsweek contacted for this story, there was a general consensus that the modern presidency may have become too bloated." A January 13, 1980 Washington Post article made a similar conclusion about the beleaguered Carter administration: "Voters have lowered their expectations of what any president can accomplish; they have accepted the notion that this country may never again have heroic, larger-than-life leadership in the White House."

Of course Newsweek was wrong when it said we would never have heroic, larger-than-life leadership in the White House. Within a year Ronald Reagan took the oath of office and America was once again on its way toward having another "heroic, larger-than-life" figure in the White House.
Over and over the liberal media get it wrong.
But they never learn -- and they never change.
And neither do the people who follow them, or so it seems.
Click here to read the full NewsBusters report.

Foul Air At National Public Radio

Christine Flowers at the Philadelphia Daily News on the Juan Williams/NPR imbroglio:

What happened to Williams is despicable. We help support NPR with our money, so we expect it to provide reportage that doesn't cater to any particular demographic. If we're going to be worried about offending the sensitivities of some groups and their secular liberal proxies, maybe we should also start a campaign to prevent NPR from airing any more of their heavy-handed and clearly opinion-driven reports on many topics, including the pedophilia scandal in the Catholic Church.
Click here to read the entire column.

Christie To NBC & NYT: 'I Don't Really Care!'

This clip is classic Chris Christie. Classic.
When Brian Williams of NBC News reads Chris Christie some negative comments from the New York Times regarding a recent Christie decision, Christie answers: "I’ll take a deep bow for that, Brian. I don't really care."
Christie notes that the New York Times is not responsible for the future of a state that is deeply in debt -- a state that simply does not have the money to fund massive new projects. Of the Times, he says: "They don't have the responsibility to balance the [NJ] budget."
When Williams quotes a columnist who infers that Christie may be spending too much time traveling around the country, Christie reminds Williams that they are conducting the interview in Scotch Plains where Christie is participating in a community Town Hall meeting. "I am home," he explains. "And I think in the last two months I’ve spent a total of six days out of New Jersey, out of 60. I don't think the people of New Jersey are all that upset about that. And candidly it gives me an opportunity to go around the country and rebrand New Jersey."
Don't try to snooker this guy. Chris Christie is sharp.
He's not intimidated by the New York Times or the mainstream media.
He doesn't govern according to the Times or NBC.
He governs the way he says he was going to govern -- straightforward, direct, decisive. He remembers who elected him.
Christie Christie says what he's going to do and then sets about doing it. And he makes no apologies for it.
Now, ain't that refreshing!

Mainstream Pundits Jumping Ship, Too?

Mark Halperin's latest column in Time (of all places) is a stunner.
Here's part of what Halperin says:
With the exception of core Obama Administration loyalists, most politically engaged elites have reached the same conclusions: the White House is in over its head, isolated, insular, arrogant and clueless about how to get along with or persuade members of Congress, the media, the business community or working-class voters.

Click here to read the full column. Trust me, this is worth your time.