Olbermann suspended for Dem contributions

Why is this a problem?
Are we really pretending that people in the media are not liberal?
Come on...
They are 85 percent liberals and that is just the way it is...
The problem is that even if they try and be "fair and balanced" it is impossible.
The bias comes in the stories they choose to report, the labels they put on people.
It is the way it is.
Just one example.
Republicans were described as "extreme" a large number of times in the past few weeks on MSNBC..dems, zero.
Just one example..a little late to get into it now.
But I'm really surprised there is a rule that tries to assume these people are going to be operating "down the middle"

Obama does nothing again...nothing positive that is

Despite plan, not a single fire boom on hand on Gulf Coast at time of oil spill

Obama WH says they have been doing stuff "since day one" Well, its day 12...nothing yet

Just think about the outrage, screaming and yelling that the liberal media would be engaging in if a Republican was President. Since it is their Lord and Savior they have no idea what to do. They are kind of reporting on how nothing at all is being done, but never mention Obama. IF they say anything they comment that the government is doing nothing.

If it was Bush, OH BOY!!! The machine would be running 24/7.

Once again, Obama shows that he and his crew are not ready for prime time. They do nothing when it matters, and ruin our country when they actually put plans in motion. What a winning combo!

Poll: Fox is most trusted name in news

Kind of an open thread...comment...

AP Turns Heads for Devoting 11 Reporters to Palin Book 'Fact Check'

just some more media bias incase you forgot where the media sways

White House boasts: We 'control' news media

You have to give them credit...at times they are very honest with what they are are doing...

Without Bush, media lose interest in war caskets

This is obvious to most, but I'll post it to really drive the point home.

The second Obama won the election all of a sudden Iraq did not matter...even though things are very similar under Obama as they were under Bush..

Where are all the news stories and protests?

Where is the outrage at Gitmo? That was going to be closed immediately..its not, but I guess the liberals don't care anymore.
Could it be because they can only draw up fake outrage against the Right?
I don't see any other reason?

President's opinion of Kanye West sparks debate

What Obama said is not the problem, he is correct..West is a jack-ass.
The issue is that Obama does so many interviews, is so available and out there that he is going to say things that most people believe the President of the United States should not be saying.

So I guess I am playing the middle of the road on this one.
What is said is correct, but the POTUS should not be saying stuff like that about individual citizens on a weekly basis.

Remember how bent out of shape the media got when they heard Bush and Cheney call a reporter a major league asshole? I'm sure the guy was an asshole. The fact the media went nuts about that and not this (yet) shows a double standard.

All in all, lets focus on the complete change in the way of life of the people of the United States, not on this gay fish.

MSNBC: Gun-Toting Protesters are 'White' Racists... Black Guy with AR-15 Edited to Conceal his Race.

ya...no liberal media...no..no agenda..wow
see it here

here is this "white guy" with the gun
How can you trust the liberal media
I would LOVE to see a liberal defend this

New All-Time Lows for Both CBS & ABC Evening Newscasts

that is going to happen when you make it so so so obvious that you are not fair and balanced, that you do not present the news-as-is.
Hard core liberals probably like seeing news that is directly controlled and run by the White House, but most moderates and no one to the right is going to watch this propaganda.
We are getting close to the day when a cable news channel is going to out-draw a network...

CNN Reporter at Chicago Tea Party: It's "Anti-CNN Since This is Highly Promoted By the Right-Wing, Conservative Network Fox"

This woman is disgusted, she is yelling at the people, she is emotional.
They don't even try and pretend they are not biased. I guess they do not need to because they must be happy with the few liberals who still watch it and think it is fair and balanced.
Just listen to her voice, she is either going to cry or throw up because there are people who would dare say anything bad about our new, wonderful, awesome liberal government.

What do you think the media would say if there was a similar protest while Bush was President?
Those of you who think CNN or MSNBC isn't anything but liberal are amazing.

Obama taxing health insurrance

So, during the election Obama really drilled McCain for wanting to tax health benefits and giving a tax credit to offset the costs. The media jumped right in.
Well, Obama has now said he wants to tax health care benefits, but there is something different...he doesn't want to give the tax credit.

I'll just stop there and allow liberals to be intellectually honest and get really really mad about this just like they were when they gave this as one of the reasons they didn't want to vote for him.

It kind of plays into my theory that liberals really don't care about anything, just being elected and having power.
Do Republicans change their minds on things...sure...however the media gets all over them and so to conservatives.
Remember..."Read my lips"

Random sample of media bias

Lets see what the media has decided is an important story on the morning the President of the United States makes fun of special needs students.
I wonder what they would be talking about if a Republican would have said the same thing?

MSNBC: AIG flap heartens critics of high pay
small video on page one

CNN: Spitzer: 'I failed in a very important way'
link to Obama flap on page one

FOX: It Can Get Worse
story on the bottom of page one

UK telegraph: Obama calls head of Special Olympics to apologise after his late-night TV gaffe
You have to go to Europe for fair and balanced news?

To be honest, all the web sites had a story on page one. Wow, that means he REALLY screwed up...maybe thats why the President of the United States doesn't go on a late night comedy show.
Especially when the President sounds like an idiot without his teleprompter

Obama says he bowls like a retard

Just look at all the stupid things these guys have said. Just imagine how Bush would have been treated if he would have said these things. Video of all of them here

Perhaps Barack Obama was just trying to make Joe Biden feel better by dropping his clanger on Jay Leno. Whatever the President was thinking, 60 days into their new administration it's time for a post-election Obama-Biden Top 10, in reverse order:

10. Just after he's been sworn in by him, the newly-minted Vice President Joe Biden gets the name of Justice John Paul Stephens, "one of the great justices" of the Supreme Court, calling him "Justice Stewart":

9. Barack Obama jokes about Nancy Reagan having séances in the White House. He later called her to apologise after the AP noted that although she had consulted astrologers, "she did not hold conversations with the dead":

8. Joe Biden forgets the "website number" for the White House internet site designed to show how TARP money is being spent:

7. Barack Obama mixes up the windows and doors at his new home:

6. Joe Biden jokes about Chief Justice John Roberts fluffing the inauguration oath. The president is visibly annoyed with his veep and Biden later apologises:

5. A Marine One double. First, on his maiden Marine One trip Obama breaches protocol and makes life uncomfortable for an enlisted marine by shaking the the serviceman's hand as he's saluting his commander-in-chief:
Then - Gerald Ford, eat your heart out. Barack Obama bangs his head as he boards his helicopter:

4. Joe Biden tells his wife that he had the choice of being either Secretary of State or vice-president - an offer that was news to Obama aides and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton when Jill Biden spilled the beans on Oprah:

3. Gordon Brown presents the new President with: a pen holder carved from the timbers of HMS Gannett, a sister ship of HMS Resolute; the commissioning certificate of HMS Resolute; and a seven-volume biography of Winston Churchill. In return, the Prime minister gets 25 DVDS, which don't work in Britain:

2. Joe Biden tells a former Senate colleague who addresses him as "Mr Vice-President" to "give me a f---ing break":

1. The latest one takes the biscuit. Barack Obama jokes about the disabled on the Jay Leno show. Afterwards, he calls the head of the Special Olympics to apologise:

NB I've only included gaffes committed since the presidential election on November 4th. In October, I did this blog on the top dozen campaign gaffes, which features several from Obama and Biden.

CNN Correspondent Now the Communist Candidate in El Salvador

oh sweet irony

Media bias of the week

Its easier than ever to find this stuff now that the media is apart of the Church of Obama

1. CNN: Obama Leading U.S. 'Into Sunlight' & 'Up to Mountaintops' CNN personalities Jack Cafferty and David Gergen continued the chorus of praise for President Obama on Wednesday evening for his first address to a joint session of Congress, twenty-four hours after he had given it. During his regular "Question of the Hour" segment on The Situation Room, Cafferty gushed that the Democrat "had that place in the palm of his hand for the entire time he was in that room" and, despite all the serious issues he discussed during the speech, that the President "seems remarkably unruffled by all of this, serene in an inner confidence that he's got what it takes to lead this country back into the sunlight." Later that evening on Anderson Cooper 360, it was apparent that Gergen's afterglow about the address hadn't subsided from the previous evening. He described it as a "rousing speech, took us up to the mountaintops."
2. Meredith Vieira Cites 'Conservative' David Brooks to Bash Jindal On Thursday's Today show, NBC's Meredith Vieira invited on former George W. Bush assistant Mary Matalin to discuss the excessive spending in Barack Obama's budget, and the interview got off to a promising start as Vieira actually asked Matalin: "Do you see it as a disaster in the making?" However the segment quickly turned sour when Vieira cited a critique of Bobby Jindal's post-Obama address response by New York Times columnist David Brooks and claimed: "Conservatives were criticizing him for stale ideas. He didn't say anything, nothing new."
3. MSNBC's David Shuster Touts Jindal as Beavis and Butt-head Insult MSNBC's 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue host David Shuster on Wednesday delighted in a comparison of Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal to the MTV characters Beavis and Butt-head. Shuster singled out the Republican, who gave the GOP response to Barack Obama's February 24 congressional address, in his "hypocrisy watch" segment. The MSNBC host slammed "Jindal's hypocrisy" for criticizing what he called wasteful spending, including volcano monitoring. (According to Shuster, Jindal is a hypocrite because, while the governor attacked volcano monitoring, he's also asked for comprehensive flood and hurricane funds for his own state.) The anchor gleefully recounted an attack by liberal New York Times writer Paul Krugman. Reading from Krugman's column, he recited: "The intellectual incoherence is stunning. The party of ideas has become the party of Beavis and Butt-head." Agreeing with the juvenile insult, Shuster added: "Beavis and Butthead? Well, Krugman didn't say which one Jindal is. Nonetheless, all of us at 1600 agree with the larger point."
4. Garofalo: 'Self-Loathing' Steele, Eva Braun Types Like Limbaugh On Thursday's Countdown show, left-wing actress and comedienne Janeane Garofalo appeared to talk about a recent poll finding that Rush Limbaugh is substantially less popular with women than with men. Evoking laughter from MSNBC host Keith Olbermann, Garofalo remarked that "the type of female that does like Rush is the same type of woman that falls in love with prisoners." After citing serial killers Richard Ramirez and Charles Manson, she then compared women who like Limbaugh to Adolf Hitler's girlfriend, Eva Braun: "Eva Braun, Hitler's girlfriend. That is exactly the type of woman that responds really well to Rush." After mentioning that former CNN anchor Daryn Kagan used to date Limbaugh, Garofalo cracked that Kagan has Stockholm Syndrome, which she also attributed to RNC Chairman Michael Steele, with Olbermann agreeing that Steele suffers from "self-loathing."
5. CBS's Early Show: Junk Food Ban/Tax Needed to Prevent Cancer On Thursday's CBS Early Show, correspondent Richard Roth reported on a new cancer study that found that obesity can increase the likelihood of getting cancer: "Aside from avoiding smoking, the report says that maintaining a healthy lifestyle is the most important thing you can do for cancer prevention. That means diet, physical activity, and weight management...The report recommends laws and policy changes by government, industry, and schools, from adding bicycle lanes to public roads to banning junk food from vending machines." Following Roth's report, co-host Julie Chen spoke with Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, an oncologist and brother of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, and asked: "In light of this report, how big of a role do you think government should play in making sure Americans lead a healthier lifestyle?"

Media bias playbook: Dems are never to look stupid

What would happen if GWB thought a White House window was a door?
What if Palin would have said McCain's stimulus package had a 30% of failing?
What if GWB was caught on tape banging his head on his desk?

Obama and Biden have done these things and the media is keeping it as hidden as possible...
It doesn't fit the template...Dems are intellectual and caring
Repubs are stupid and heartless...

Bush commutes sentences of former US border agents

Thank God, he did the right thing.
Now, I know that he didn't pardon anyone who denounced their American citizenship and owed near 200 millions bucks, or domestic terrorists, but he did his best.
Even with that fact, even though anyone who is sane would never even dream of insulting anyones intelligence by trying to compare Clinton's last days of pardons with these two pardons Bush gave...there was someone on CNN today saying just that.

I have to think at some point some liberal has to start being embarrassed with this hysterical, non-sensical hatred of Bush or reality in general.

There is absolutely no way in hell anyone who is intellectually honest can compare Clintons 140 pardons on his last day in office including Marc Rich and 16 members of FALN with the pardons of two border agents who shot a drug dealer. Even if you want to argue the self defense issues of the boarder case, to compare these two Presidents in relation to their use of the pardon is flat out insane.

Chris Matthews no longer playing hardball

I have to post this quote, especially since I have noticed in the last...lets say...two months Chris Matthews is flat out emotional over, dare I say in love with, BHO. In one show he had 8...yes 8 pro-Obama people on in a row, never saw a McCain supporter then entire time...
In another show he actually had someone on against Obama and Mathews actually stopped, him, looked like he was literally going to cry, and told him he is not going to let him get away with this.
The media bias would be laughable if it wasn't so so sad

MSNBC’s Chris Matthews: "You know what? I want to do everything I can to make this thing work, this new presidency work, and I think that-"Host Joe Scarborough: "Is that your job? You just talked about being a journalist."Matthews: "Yeah, it is my job. My job is to help this country....This country needs a successful presidency more than anything right now."— MSNBC’s Morning Joe, November 6.

Zogby Poll: Almost No Obama Voters Ace Election Test

No surprise that we have uninformed people voting for a Democrat, but maybe more of you will understand the power of media bias.
Almost NO ONE who voted for Obama understood his or McCain's positions and were misinformed by the media..
Liberal media bias obviously mattered...

Survey finds most Obama voters remembered negative coverage of McCain/Palin statements but struggled to correctly answer questions about coverage associated with Obama/Biden
UTICA, New York -- Just 2% of voters who supported Barack Obama on Election Day obtained perfect or near-perfect scores on a post election test which gauged their knowledge of statements and scandals associated with the presidential tickets during the campaign, a new Zogby International telephone poll shows.

83% failed to correctly answer that Obama had won his first election by getting all of his opponents removed from the ballot, and 88% did not correctly associate Obama with his statement that his energy policies would likely bankrupt the coal industry. Most (56%) were also not able to correctly answer that Obama started his political career at the home of two former members of the Weather Underground.
Nearly three quarters (72%) of Obama voters did not correctly identify Biden as the candidate who had to quit a previous campaign for President because he was found to have plagiarized a speech, and nearly half (47%) did not know that Biden was the one who predicted Obama would be tested by a generated international crisis during his first six months as President.

With these breaking news stories about Obama, what does the MSM report?

We know that the media only reports 18% negative stories about Obama while they report 53% negative about McCain...I can't believe it is that close...

Lets see what each media outlet is reporting as their top story while we have a candidate for President being caught making radical, far left wing socialistic comments:

CNN: Palin going off-script, McCain aides gripe
MSNBC: When Mom loves McCain and daughter dotes on Obama...
ABC: Time to Choose: McCain, Obama Make Closing Arguments
CBS: Gun Sales Thriving Despite Tough Economy
and here is the only network who can be fair and balanced:

FOX: Spread Wealth 'Tragedy'