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Chris Matthews Responds to SOTU

MSNBC's Matthews On Obama: "I Forgot He Was Black Tonight"

MSNBC's Chris Matthews: "He is post-racial by all appearances. You know, I forgot he was black tonight for an hour. You know, he's gone a long way to become a leader of this country and passed so much history in just a year or two."

He's black? Oh, now that Chris mentions it, yeah but so what. I didn't notice. I was paying attention to what he was saying. Obama’s Deficit of Trust

Chris forgot he was black? For an entire hour? What about the rest of the time?

Why is he obsessed with that?

Gee, "the just say no party?" I think Chris Matthews is clueless. Why are all the Dems marching in lockstep, blindly voting "yes" for a terrible bill? Well, some of them apparently need to be bribed, but still... that is a bigger question. Ya think?

Pro-life vs Pro-death? The MSM.

I refuse to call it "pro-choice.". After all, the decision NOT to have an abortion is a "choice," but the abortion advocates do not seem to acknowledge that.

This video provides an illustration of media malpractice.

...and is anyone in the MainStream Media, Congress, the White House or the Supreme Court listening to the people at the March For Life?

If I may be so bold:

"Today I have given you the choice between life and death, between blessings and curses. Now I call on heaven and earth to witness the choice you make. Oh, that you would choose life, so that you and your descendants might live!"

- << Deuteronomy 30:19 >> New Living Translation (©2007)

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Rahm Emanuel and the First Amendment.

Is everyone in the Whitehouse a radical?

Perhaps they are hoping "healthcare reform" will provide a medication for that.

Dead Air America

Air America, the Talk Radio Network, Will Go Off the Air

According to the NY Times:

Air America, the long-suffering progressive talk radio network, abruptly shut down on Thursday, bowing to what it called a “very difficult economic environment.”

Is that why they are a complete failure? They failed because they are liberal.

In a troubled time for advertising-driven media businesses, “our painstaking search for new investors has come close several times right up into this week but ultimately fell short of success,” Mr. Kireker said.

Charlie Kireker is The chairman of Air America Media.Gosh, you don't think it has anything to do with the fact that they are liberal? The cash-strapped NY Times didn't see any connection.

Although it lacked a substantial audience, the network catapulted a number of progressive media personalities into stardom, most notably Rachel Maddow, who now anchors a prime-time program on the cable news channel MSNBC.

Al Franken, now a Democratic senator from Minnesota, hosted an Air America show from 2004 to 2007, before running for office.

Several other prominent talk radio personalities who worked at Air America, including Randi Rhodes and Thom Hartmann, remain on the radio, but without the network affiliation. “It would be a shame if the world sees the failure of Air America as representing the failure of progressive talk radio,” said Michael Harrison, the editor of Talkers Magazine, a talk radio publication.

Such a shame... NPR and PBS are "progressive" and they need government subsidies to stay on the air. They failed because they are liberal. MSNBC ratings are on the bottom, and they are liberal.

The Collapse Of The Far Left Media

Air America has Crashed

Michelle Malkin covers it and links to the Air America "shady finances" story: Lib talk radio flops again: Air America goes bankrupt

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MSM, McCain Feingold media bias

Leftist Media Bias of the Day

The SCOTUS overturned the McCain Feingold law prohibiting SOME corporations and people from advertising for/against politicians right before an election. Corporations that were exempt, such as liberal news organizations, are upset. Oh, Boo-hoo-hoo. I guess they liked the advantage. Some say they helped their boyfriend get elected president.

Thursday's Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United is being lauded by conservatives and loathed by liberals (including the Obama Administration). I thought Justice Kennedy's majority opinion, broadly rejecting limits on the speech of corporations (or unions), unusually good, and Justice Stevens' dissent unpersuasive for the reasons set forth in Justice Scalia's concurrence. But that's not today's topic.

Jump ahead to the point:

So, before Thursday, broadcasters and newspapers (like the Times and Post) had somewhat of a monopoly on election advocacy in the month or two prior to elections: uniquely among for profit corporations, they could (and obviously, did) endorse or oppose Federal candidates. This made those companies' voices relatively more visible and, possibly, more lucrative. Thus, the press had an economic interest in the former law. Yet, the two leading papers failed to disclose that fact when editorializing. (An Adam Lipak Times story on Friday hinted at the issue.) So much for journalism's code of ethics -- which is enforced solely to shield news staff, not ensure neutrality.

Gee, I thought The NY Times would always be in favor of free speech, HAHAHAHAHAHAHahahaha!!!!!

That's a good one!

And while we are on a roll, here is an editorial from the St. Petersburg Times called High court overreaches wherein it is stated:

An activist U.S. Supreme Court overreached Thursday with its 5-4 opinion that lifted a decades-old ban on corporations directly spending money to support or oppose federal candidates.

However, it is not noted that the St. Petersburg Times itself is a "corporation" that can spend money to support or oppose federal candidates. It has a staff and probably big barrels of ink ready to to so. They conclude (This is hilarious)

The media also will have an even larger role to play by highlighting connections between election ads, corporate funds and the candidates who benefit. Corporations may not be too keen on having consumers know they are promoting a candidate — and candidates will have to explain to voters why they are being supported by corporate interests. Ultimately, though, it will be up to voters to educate themselves beyond the irresponsible attack ads that will be more prevalent than ever.

In other words, the media will have to work even harder to shout down those they disagree with, such as right wing Republican conservatives.

The liberals are howling. Us too, but with laughter!

That's my opinion and I'm Oldhardhead

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MSNBC/NBC bias

See if you can spot a little bit of media bias in these clips.

Here is another...

And another!

Did I mention that today the voters decide between Scott Brown and Martha "Marsha Jokely" Coakley?

Too bad they don't let facts get in their way. I wonder if CNN is going to be fact-checking these... "journalists" the way they checked SNL (Saturday Night Live) skits!

I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for THAT to happen. Ya think there is any bias there?

Media Bias

The Story The Media Is Missing Because It Does Not Fit Their Narrative

This is a good article for two reasons. First, it explains liberal media bias, then it makes a point.

For years I read and watched liberal bias in the news but could not understand why or how it could exist in such obvious intensity and quantity. This explains well what I've learned.

Let’s admit there is media bias. We know there is despite the best efforts of some on the left to deny it.

I cannot tell you the number of reporters at major networks and newspapers who will, in private moments, admit there is a real bias.

In most cases it is not an intentional bias. It is a product of being largely highly educated, liberally inclined, white urbanites who live on the Upper West Side, have drivers whisk them off to their studio or out of Adams-Morgan into downtown DC where they hang out with other fashionable liberals who, unlike me, think Jimmy Choo is a shoe manufacturer and not, a I thought, a Chinese restaurant.

They talk about what’s in the New York Times Magazine and on its front page. They gossip about who isn’t sleeping with Maureen Dowd anymore. They go to wine country in France, tie the latest J. Crew sweater around their neck because Michelle does, and otherwise live in an insular world of group think.

They hang out with other liberals, think anyone else is wrong. Therefore they hire liberals and work with liberals - and there you go. There is no diversity of opinion.

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There are examples. Years from now when the "global warming" is forgotten, a different issue will apply, unless the "Mainstream Media" stops presenting a one-sided (often wrong) view of the world.

The preconceived notions they develop in this insular world of their likeminded friends colors what gets reported and what doesn’t. The majority of Americans who realize global warming is a scam are pooh-poohed as ignorant because all the guys at Brown, Harvard, and Vassar say so.

The credible scientists who disagree with the group think are shunned as holocaust deniers. Republicans and conservatives are treated as the same creature.

What's the story the media is missing?

Conservative and liberal Republicans are united behind Scott Brown. You’d think a mainstream media that has generated millions of words on television, radio, and print about conservatives demanding a pure party would take notice.

But that would shatter their whole narrative. And the last thing anyone wants to do at the next party at the Met or Sally Quinn’s house is mention the latest liberal friend in rehab or that maybe their group think on conservatives is shallow, self-serving, and vain.

Amen to that.

Media Lowlights Of 2009

Watch The Decline: The Media Lowlights Of 2009

Climate "scientists" are about as trusted as used-car salesmen or congressmen these days thanks to the beating their profession has taken in the "ClimateGate" scandal. But give the alarmists their due: They know how to hide the decline.

See the article for more details.

The tea party movement exposed the bias of liberal journalists to start the year, and ClimateGate did the same to end it.

There were so many media lowlights that it's a challenge to pick the best of the worst for a year-end recap, but here goes:

"Teabaggers" everywhere!

Global warming games.

Obamania.

"Palinoia."

Van Who? What ACORN videos?

People are shouting about Climategate and everything from ACORN to Van Jones. The media was busy giggling every time they said "teabagger."

Merry Christmas To All!

(Turn it Up!)

Not News of 2009

Here are two excellent articles. I'm sometimes astounded by the degree of media bias that exists. Professional, objective fact-based news indeed...

Media bias can influence what is reported as well as what is not reported. Here are two articles that list what was vastly under-reported by the MSM (Main Stream Media) in 2009.

It's a great topic, fitting for the "big stories of the year/Year in review" type of thing the TV networks used to do around New Year's. I'm just learning what buttons to press, and finding my way around typepad, so bear with me. Here are the top ten, it's worth reading the original articles.

‘Clueless’ Clark Alert: The Top Ten Undernews Stories of the Year, Part I

10. “Fistgate” Why it’s important: Because Obama’s “Safe Schools Czar,” Kevin Jennings, appears to be the kind of guy parents used to warn their kids about, and his elevation by Obama to a position of national prominence shows how far and how fast the culture has changed. Jennings’s views – alien to most of America, but perfectly normal in his Harvard-educated social circle – are only now beginning to sink in, as his at least tacit approval of teaching various gay sexual practices to children has come to light.

More from OldHardHead: Safe Schools – The Education Czar

9. Van Jones Why it’s important: Because a self-identified communist, “Free Mumia” radical and 9/11 “Truther” nut became, however briefly, Obama’s “Green Jobs Czar,” a bogus position addressing an imaginary issue that turned out to be just another way to get Hussein’s camel’s nose under the tent in the president’s continuing end-run around the Constitution.

More from OldHardHead: Another Czar in the White House

8. Anti-Americanism as official State Department policy Why it’s important: Because Foggy Bottom – long regarded by sensible policy-makers as “Indian country” – has now fully embraced its inner Kim Philby and has gone completely over to the other side. Yes, an institution so penetrated by enemy operatives that it makes porn star Jenna Jameson look like Bernadette of Lourdes, came down squarely on the side of the mullahs as protesters battled the evil Iranian regime during the recent “elections” and, via its lapdogs at CNN, barked at the Hondurans about an illegal “coup,” as they, perfectly constitutionally, removed a Chavez-wannabe from office and, in an orderly transition, replaced him and then held free elections.

7. The National Endowment for the Propagation of Obama Why it’s important: The White House and the National Endowment for the Arts were recorded during a conference call encouraging pro-Obama arts types to create “art” on the theme of health care (among other issues) at a time when health care reform legislation was heading toward hot-button status. This shameless attempt at propaganda was abruptly halted after the appearance of the story on Big Hollywood, and the revelations led to the resignation of the NEA Communications Director, Yosi Sargent, and the issuance of conduct guidelines by the White House to deal with the “appearance” issues of the call.

‘Clueless’ Clark Alert: The Top Ten Undernews Stories of the Year, Part II

6. Andy Stern and the SEIU Why it’s important: Return with us now to those glorious days of yesteryear, when the labor movement ruled the roost and “collective bargaining” was often negotiated at the point of a gun, one way or the other. It was a time when labor and capital were at each other’s throats, and every right-thinking, soon-to-be-the-parent-of a red diaper baby knew whose side the Engels were on. Because, if your cause is just, it’s OK to beat the crap out of Kenneth Gladney, a conservative African-American selling patriotic gear, and call him a “nigger.” After all, in the ongoing struggle between labor and capital, the ends justify the means, and if a black guy gets in the way of Hope and Change, tough.

5. Hide the Decline: “Climategate” and the CO2 ruling Why it’s important: The unauthorized release in November of 61 megabytes of confidential files and emails hacked from the computers at the East Anglia Climate Research Unit – Ground Zero of the “anthropogenic global warming” racket – shocked nearly all sentient people into the realization that scientists could be just a corruptible as your average politician or, worse, your average “environmental journalists” as they sought to “hide the decline.” While each country’s capo di tutti capi was gathering in Copenhagen to hatch yet another scheme to beggar the industrialized West in the name of collective guilt, the scandal burbled along under the radar as rational people finally had the proof they needed that the Chicken Little alarmists were, well – crowing capons. For years, skeptics had been derided by such barking lunatics as Albert Arnold Gore, Jr., as “deniers” – the word was deliberately loaded to evoke the Holocaust – even as the Man Who Flunked Out of Divinity School did his best to dodge all challenges to his newfound religion:

Meanwhile, with AGW going up in smoke like a fruitless sacrifice to a god that failed, and the Waxman-Markey “cap and trade” extortion bill faltering in Congress, along came the EPA, right on schedule, with its “endangerment finding” that carbon dioxide – you know, the stuff you breathe out when you exhale, and the same stuff that makes the good green plants happy, healthy and wise – is, of all things, a “pollutant.” Still, the news for the Karbon Krazies just keeps on getting worse.

How could the media miss this story? (I think they are they complicit, and that's my opinion.)

More from OldHardHead: Climategate Gateway

4. Death Panels Why it’s important: Because Sarah Palin, the woman who rules the world from her secret redoubt somewhere in the bowels of Facebook, said it. What else do you need to know? In one pithy phrase, the Woman Who Drives the Left Nuts drove them nuts yet again by summing up all that is wrong and monstrous about Obamacare.

3. The “Army Psychiatrist” and other Muslim plots against America. Why it’s important: Because, eight years after 9/11, the ongoing jihad against our country continues, whether we want to recognize it or not. And yet, whenever there is an incident, the authorities, led by the FBI, immediately assure us that “there’s no evidence” it has anything to do with terrorism, and then slowly have to back away from their politically correct stupidity. Recall the “Beltway sniper,” John Allen Muhammad, who recently met his Maker at the hands of the people of Virginia for murdering ten people in the Washington, D.C., area in 2002. Or Najibullah Zazi, the “Denver man” who turned out to be an al-Qaeda-trained Afghan terrorist who wanted to blow up the New York City subways. And then, in a class by himself, is Nidal Malik Hasan, the “Soldier of Allah” who (allegedly) shot and killed 13 real American soldiers last month at the Fort Hood army base in Texas. And what was the MSM’s first reaction? Why to describe him as an “Army psychiatrist,” of course! Here’s the Christian Science Monitor’s take: note the scrupulous omission of the “M-word”:

2. ACORN Why it’s important: Let’s let Hannah Giles, who played the “prostitute” in the now-famous videos, explain:

Back in early September ACORN, one of the most established community organizing groups in the United States, found itself involved in an undercover video scandal involving a pimp, a prostitute, tax fraud, the smuggling of underage girls from El Salvador and a brothel used to fund a congressional campaign. Within days of releasing footage of ACORN employees assisting the pimp and prostitute with their business plans, the Census declared it was severing all ties with ACORN. The Senate voted 83-7 in favor of de-funding the controversial group. The House voted 345-75 to cut ACORN’s funding, and more than 20 states have demanded either a full investigation of ACORN or that they lose their funding. The IRS also ended up cutting their connections to the group.

More from OldHardHead: I thought ACORNs were nuts!

More from OldHardHead: Holder, ACORN, and InJustice

More from OldHardHead: ACORN – Nuts Crack Don’t They?

More from OldHardHead: ACORNs are Nuts

Media demise

1. It’s the End of the Media as We Know It And We Feel Fine It’s only fitting that the last word goes to Andrew Breitbart:

Why it’s important: The absolute admission by the reigning media class that they are not objective journalists and earnest gumshoe reporters is cause for celebration. The cabal that made sure George W. Bush became a toxic name to the body politic had even greater plans in 2008 when it offered up one-term senator and former Punahou School benchwarmer, Barack Obama, as the candidate of the millennium. Now that the deed is done, multiple scandals that would have felled mere-mortal presidents have gone completely unreported. Who needs Teflon when it’s not you who’s frying in the pan? Problem for the ostriches, however: the undermedia — the Internet, social networking, talk radio — has grown to become a formidable checks and balances for the traditional media. The current paradigm bodes ill for those rooting for ABC, NBC, CBS, The New York Times, Time Magazine, et al. As their readership and viewership plunges with every missed megastory, so do those eyeballs transfer to the more reliable and democratic new media now being fueled by citizen journalists testing their abilities in groundbreaking investigative journalism.

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