It’s almost like the Alinsky-trained Socialist-in-Chief intentionally went out and sought to hire the family of the heads of the MSM to work closely to him…
Almost.
Nah…I’m sure it must be a coincidence:
What biased media, indeed.
But I’m sure the totally professional and objective and not totally flipped to the Left members of the media will assure us that they don’t provide favorable coverage and spin for the White House or for their brother/sister/wife/husband.
I’ve sat down several times over the last week and tried to write about the Kermit Gosnell trial and story. And each time I would find out more details about the sickest serial killer I’ve ever heard of, and how he murdered dozens or more innocent babies in the most brutal and heartless fashion — the harder it was for me to write about it.
Megan McArdle and I both hesitated to write about Gosnell for the same basic, reason…though from different perspectives (she’s pro-choice, I’m pro- not-murdering-babies). As she writes in her byline, “Gosnell is accused of grisly crimes that I didn’t want to think about.”
I’d start writing, and then see a picture of one of the babies whose spinal cord was cut with scissors after it was born alive. And then I’d look over at my own nearly-one-year old son, and my stomach would turn.
Haven’t heard of Kermti Gosnell and what he’s on trial for right now? Well, you can blame our insanely biased MSM, who simply refuse to cover any story that would paint Democrats and their pet policies in a bad light. And there is not pet issue bigger for Democrats than abortion.
But Kirsten Powers provides the low-lights:
Infant beheadings. Severed baby feet in jars. A child screaming after it was delivered alive during an abortion procedure. Haven’t heard about these sickening accusations?
It’s not your fault. Since the murder trial of Pennsylvania abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell began March 18, there has been precious little coverage of the case that should be on every news show and front page. The revolting revelations of Gosnell’s former staff, who have been testifying to what they witnessed and did during late-term abortions, should shock anyone with a heart.
NBC-10 Philadelphia reported that, Stephen Massof, a former Gosnell worker, “described how he snipped the spinal cords of babies, calling it, ‘literally a beheading. It is separating the brain from the body.” One former worker, Adrienne Moton, testified that Gosnell taught her his “snipping” technique to use on infants born alive.
The Adam Lanza trial will be non-stop, 24/7 media circus, with NBC, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, the NY Times, and the Washington Post allocating every spare resource they have to his trial. If George Zimmerman ever goes to trial (I doubt now he does), the circus will be even bigger.
But the Gosnell trial, which really should be the biggest trial story since OJ Simpson was acquitted? Crickets. Literally, crickets.
Photo: Empty ‘Reserved Media Seating’ at Abortion Doc Gosnell’s Murder Trial shar.es/JHgqg via @breitbartnews
— Charles Sykes (@SykesCharlie) April 12, 2013
Those empty rows? Reserved for the media at the Kermit Gosnell trial.
If #Gosnell shot 7 infants w/ an AR-15, it’d be national news. 24/7. Every network. #tcot @wolfblitzer @theviewtv @cnn @jaketapper
— Gadsden (@GadsdenRattlers) April 12, 2013
So true. But Gosnell only murdered maybe as many as one hundred babies who managed to survive the attempt to abort them in late-term abortions.
Barack Hussein Obama is the policy. Kermit #Gosnell is the practical application. #abortion #prochoice #p2 twitpic.com/ciy9sq
— Resist Tyranny (@ResistTyranny) April 15, 2013
I don’t any Glock’s…but only because I prefer Springfield Armory’s handguns. But they do make a damned-fine handgun.
This story, via Breitbart’s Big Journalism, should come as no surprise to anybody who is paying attention.
It’s not so much that ABC News and Nightline are anti-gun and anti-second amendment (they are), but that their primary purpose is to promote the Democrat agenda — in this case, gun control. This “report” was little more than a political ad from the Democrat Media Complex.
On March 22 ABC’s Nightline did a segment focused on how Glock handguns are the scourge of the anti-gun world.
Before the segment started, anchors teased it as being framed around America’s love for the Glock. But once it began, they criticized the way Glock advertises it pistols and the way Glock refurbishes and sells used pistols. Throughout the segment, every time legal uses of a Glock were highlighted, the anchor made sure to point out facts like “Congressman Gabby Giffords was shot by a Glock in Tuscon,” and “Adam Lanza carried a Glock into Sandy Hook Elementary.”
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How desperate can the gun-grabbing criticism get?
The truth that Nightline didn’t bother reporting is that Glock makes some of the most dependable, long-lasting, and easy-to-use handguns in the history of firearms. And the fact that their executives are smart enough to outwit gun-grabbing Democrats is just icing on the cake as far as American gun owners are concerned.
I’d say you’re better than this, Texas Tribune — nay, Evan Smith and Ross Ramsey —, but, alas, perhaps not…
Yesterday, Buzzfeed posted an image of Gov. Rick Perry posing with a young girl and a tiny guitar used in the Guitar Hero Battle video game.
The caption under the photo simply read: “My friend lives next door to Rick Perry and invited him over for a Guitar Hero battle.”
About 5 seconds worth of research showed that this picture was taken about 3 years ago, when Gov. Perry was still living in a rented home in west Austin while the Governor’s mansion was being restored (after some Liberal douchebag tried to burn it down).
As I noted in this post, you can tell a lot about a man by the way he treats dogs, children, and old people.
And Gov. Perry has proven to be an exceptionally kind and accommodating man when it comes to young children. So I’m not surprised that he accepted this young lady’s request for a Guitar Hero battle. And, as a father of two young children, it’s not surprising Gov. Perry might be familiar with playing video games. This image should be a warm reminder that our Governor is a kind and decent man.
But Leftists decided instead to use this gesture of kindness to be…well, douchebag liberals.
Take for instance the Leftists over at the Texas Tribune. I’m sure they know this is an old photo, and really…not all that news worthy. But that didn’t stop them from posting a “caption this picture” thread on their Facebook page:
Gov. Perry surprised this young lady by accepting her invitation to play Guitar Hero.
The Texas Tribune, despite being funded and founded by Leftists, claims to be “unbiased” and “objective.” But you can easily see which way their coverage runs by simply seeing who their primary audience is. Read the comments to any one of their Facebook posts or home Web Site articles, and you’ll quickly realize that the overwhelming majority of their engaged audience are way left of center.
They know a kindred soul and a shared ideology when they read it.
So, the Tribune folks knew that all they had to do to get in a few cheap shots at the Governor’s expense was to post this picture and invite their classy readers to do publicly that which they likely do privately: mock the Governor.
And their readers did not disappoint.
Would anybody at the Texas Tribune like to condemn the overwhelming homosexual insults and insinuations posted by your less-than-classy readers?
Notice how quickly the insults turn to homophobic references and insinuations. Would anybody from the Tribune like to respond to your readers’ calling the Governor of Texas “gay?” Would you allow to stand on your pages any insinuations that Barrack Obama and his boy toy Reggie Love are also gay?
Do you know why nobody believes that you’re actually an “unbiased” and “objective” media organization, Trib? Because you pull stunts like this, knowing what the outcome will be, while trying to keep your own hands clean (“Hey, we merely posted a three year old, un-newsworthy picture. And asked for comments; it’s not our fault our readers went all homophobic on us…”).
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UPDATE: In the story about the biased-Leftists media jumping to defend the Obama administration over their threats to reporter Bob Woodward, Ace of Spades has been hammering (vai Twitter) the Leftist tools over at BuzzFeed. These two tweets, however, are also relevant to this post:
As with people, you can tell an organization’s politics by looking at its allies and its opponents. Duh.
— DepressiveBlogger69 (@AceofSpadesHQ) February 28, 2013
@katmckinley @buzzfeedandrew @buzzfeedben A lot of liberal people in the media are good people, I’m sure. They’re also lying.
— DepressiveBlogger69 (@AceofSpadesHQ) February 28, 2013
Andrew Breitbart understood that our real battle — our real enemy — wan’t just Liberals. But rather the Democrat Media Complex (which, yes, is comprised almost entirely of Leftists) that spins and carries water for the political Left.
And he implored members of Conservatives in the new media to call them out — by name and organization — every time we see examples of their bias. Which if often illustrated by not so much as what they cover, but what they don’t. Stories damaging to the political left that are ignored all together, or reported in such a way as to make the Left look the least culpable and — if possible — find a way to pin it on Conservatives.
Even is solidly red Texas, we can’t escape the spin and bias of far left journalists and media organizations. Like Morgan Smith at the Texas Tribune.
All you have to do is read her Leftist spin on yesterday’s Capitol Education Rally at the state Capitol. Nearly 800 pages, almost entirely devoted to parroting the anti-school choice, pro-spend-more-money, pro-teachers union education lobby’s talking points. Ms. Smith does a good job of pointing out all of the various organizations and groups who showed up in Downtown yesterday. She even found the “handful of school choice advocates” from Texas Public Policy Foundation who were present on Saturday.
So…what Liberal bias am I referring to then?
Well, there’s one group who was better represented on Saturday than any other single group. As Michael Quinn Sullivan tweeted:
International Socialists out in force at today’s anti-student rally in Austin. Any guesses how many TV/newspaper reports will mention?
— Michael Q Sullivan (@MQSullivan) February 23, 2013
Yep. Lots and lots of socialists in the crowd. Just as their are in our education system (led by our nation’s socialist Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan).
Nope, not a mention from the Democrat Media Complex. To include the far-left Texas Tribune.
Any guesses as to why Ms. Smith would fail to mention all the socialist groups in attendance on Saturday?
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UPDATE — Will Franklin has pictures and charts.
Two of the drums that I beat the loudest here at my little blog on the vast Intertubes are:
Liberalism is a mental disorder, and the exceptional Leftist bias of the Democrat Media Complex. Those two things, coincidentally, are related.
And few stories have illustrated that so perfectly as the story of the cop-killing piece of shit Chris Dorner.
I told you guys… Leftists have a fetish for cop-killers. It’s innate in them for some reason. They can’t help themselves…
— Brandon Darby (@brandondarby) February 10, 2013
Liberalism is a mental disorder: The leftists actually believe that this guy is a fucking hero. Why? Because cops, especially the LA PD, are a bunch or racist bastards, and being murdered is exactly what they deserve. Guns are evil. Unless a black former cop is using them to kill other black cops. Or something. It’s hard to actually follow their logic on this one.
Check out Twitchy, who has a round up of the unhinged lunatic leftists who think this murdering PoS is also a hero. This tweet is pretty representative:
Christopher Dorner is my hero! lol. He got these motherfuckers MAD AS SHIT!! lol. He’s bout to die a Martyr. Fight on brotha!
— Trae Fittz (@TraeFittz) February 9, 2013
According to Liberal Logic, Dr. Ben Carson is an Uncle Tom, a house nigger, and/or “not authentically black.” But Chris Dorner? A hero.
The Democrat Media Complex and the demise of honest, ethical journalism: And how has the Democrat Media Complex decided to cover this story? By hiding the fact that this cop killer is a HUGE fan of Obama, gun control, and the far-left wing media.
Dorner left a 22-page manifesto, describing not only his plan to kill as many cops as possible, but also professing his unadulterated love of Barry and Moo-chelle Obama. And how he masturbates while watching MSNBC and Chris Matthews, while cleaning his guns that he thinks should be banned.
But the manifesto being linked and reported on by the MFM? Only 11-pages long.
I’d ask if you know why MSNBC, CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC, the Washington Post, and the NY Times have all posted the 11-page manifesto instead of the full 22-page manifesto — and if you have any guesses as to the parts that were left out of what they did post — but it would be a rhetorical question that we all already know the answers.
Mediate has a great run down of the leftwing media’s bias on this story.
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I hope that authorities catch Chris Dorner before he can hurt another person. I hope that they do not take him alive. I hope Dorner goes out like the coward that he is, and puts a bullet between his own eyes. And if he does decide to shoot it out with the agents hunting him, I hope they fill him so full of bullet holes that he dies of lead poisoning.
What’s missing from this headline and story by Julie Chang over at The Austin Sanctuary-City-Statesman?
Two men, juvenile accused of stealing truck to smuggle immigrants
Two men and a juvenile have been arrested after police say they stole a truck to smuggle immigrants, according to arrest affidavits.
Oscar Hernandez-Villanueva, 18, and Rosalio Tovar-Torres, 30, were charged with engaging in organized criminal activity — theft.
On Tuesday, Austin police were conducting surveillance on a 2003 Yukon Denali, which they said in the affidavit had been involved in several large truck thefts in the past. The trucks were stolen for human smuggling, police said in the affidavit.
You can read the rest of the report if you’d like to…but I’ll save you the trouble. The key word missing from this report and headline? Everybody…all at once: ILLEGAL!
I believe the word you’re looking for is ill-fucking-legal. As in “criminal trespass.”
Reading their story, you might be under the impression that these young Canadian men (Hernandez-Villanueva and Tovar-Torres are Canadian surnames, right?) were doing little more than giving a lift to a bunch of their fellow Canadian friends who were also totally-legally in the States. Their only crime, really, was stealing a truck.
The word you’re missing is ILLEGAL, Julie Chang (who, given her surname, might also very well be an “immigrant.” Or perhaps her parents were. If she, or they are “immigrants,” statistically they are much, much more likely to be LEGAL immigrants. You’d think a possible immigrant from China [or possibly Korea] would be pissed about a bunch of ILLEGAL immigrants encroaching on her LEGAL immigrant status).
Ms. Chang also interned in Washington, D.C., working on the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
From the Project Veritas caption on the video:
Posing as “Citizens Against Senseless Violence,” we visit the homes of journalists working for Westchester Journal News, MSNBC, and the Star-Ledger. We also visited the home of Eric Holder. None will take our signs that say “THIS HOME IS PROUDLY GUN FREE.”
Since these reporters and editors did not consider it a violation of the privacy and safety of others to reveal which homes have guns and which homes don’t, we went to see which of them would be willing to put a sign up publicly declaring their homes to be gun-free zones. While we didn’t find any members of the media with the strength of their convictions, we did find quite a few guns, and some good explanations for why they might be necessary….. Guns for Me, but not for Thee.
I know a battle of wits with libturds is an unfair fight, still the pwnage is just too entertaining.
“For tis the sport to have the enginer Hoist with his owne petar”.(Shakespeare-Hamlet)
Make no doubt about it, the Texas Tribune is a left-leaning arm of the Democrat Media Complex. They were founded and funded by leftists, and — to the best of my knowledge — are staffed entirely by fellow leftists (again, if there is a single Conservative on the editorial or reporting staff at the Tribune, please stand up now).
But that doesn’t make them completely worthless (just mostly worthless). What the folks at the Tribune do exceedingly well is finding and collecting political data (often public, open-records stuff), and then developing cutting edge applications and interfaces to share and analyse that data.
Like their latest project, the Lawmaker Explorer, which is “a guide to the financial interests of State Legislators.”
The Lawmaker Explorer is an interactive tool to help educate citizens on the degree to which legislators’ personal interests conflict with the public interest when passing bills and setting policy. Use the search box or click on the headshots below to find research and analysis on specific lawmakers. You can also sort them by party, office or occupation. For more information about this project, which was generously supported by the Fund for Investigative Journalism, please visit our about page.
One of the interesting features is the ability to see who has donated big dollars to particular legislators.
While the folks at the Trib claim to be, “a non-profit, nonpartisan public media organization. Our mission is to promote civic engagement and discourse on public policy, politics, government, and other matters of statewide concern…” I have found them to be anything but non-partisan in their liberal activism.
As I noted above, the Trib was founded and funded by Leftist money. Most notably from John Thornton, who is a general partner of Austin Ventures, a local venture capital firm. Mr. Thornton is also an active supporter of Texas Democrats, but claims he has “given up partisan politics for the sake of the Texas Tribune.”
With that in mind, I searched his name in the new Lawmaker Explorer and came up with these hits:
Campaign contributions from folks named John Thornton
That’s somewhat helpful, but I couldn’t be certain which, if any, of these John Thornton’s was the same deep-pocketed founder/funder of the Trib. So I asked the folks at the Trib for a little transparency about their transparency project:
Cool data app by @texastribune – Curious though, which, if any, of these John Thorntons is co-founder of the Trib: texastribune.org/library/data/c…
— Robbie Cooper (@RobbieCooper) January 14, 2013
So far the response has been “no reply.”
So…let’s just make some assumptions here and whittle the list down a bit. We know that John’s wife’s name is Julie and that they live in Austin, to include property downtown (78701).
Right off the top of the bat, we can see that John and Julie made at least 6 political “joint” contributions to politicians last year:
Let’s take a closer look and see to whom they gave so generously: Continue reading »
Unbelievable. And exceptionally irresponsible. And horrifically biased anti-second amendment activism disguised as “journalism.”
Perfect example of biased media running on a political agenda. ow.ly/1QvXpk #guns #war
— Celia Bigelow (@CeliaBigelow) December 24, 2012
Via Breitbart:
Today, the Journal News in upstate New York, owned by Gannett, published the names and addresses of all gun permit holders in the Westchester and Rockland county areas of New York. The Journal News said:
The map indicates the addresses of all pistol permit holders in Westchester and Rockland counties. Each dot represents an individual permit holder licensed to own a handgun — a pistol or revolver. The data does not include owners of long guns — rifles or shotguns — which can be purchased without a permit. Being included in this map does not mean the individual at a specific location owns a weapon, just that they are licensed to do so.
The newspaper didn’t even feel it necessary to publish a rationale for that violation of privacy – publishing the names and addresses of gun owners makes them more vulnerable to robbery when they aren’t at home, since criminals will know where the guns are.
As soon as I read this, I immediately thought (and tweeted) that it’s time to start publishing the names, photographs, and addresses of reporters, editors, and publishers in the MSM:
I believe it’s time to start posting the names and addresses of all MSM reporters and editors. And note that they are likely unarmed.
— Robbie Cooper (@RobbieCooper) December 24, 2012
I wasn’t the only one thinking that:
We need to have an online map and database of liberal reporters’ home addresses… #p2 = #FAIL
— Gunservatively (@Gunservatively) December 24, 2012
In fact…
The publisher of the Journal News, who had the final say on whether or not to publish this map of gun owners in their reading area is Janet Hasson.
Janet Hasson, publisher, Journal News
If you’d like to contact Ms. Hasson about her irresponsible actions, you can contact her at:
Janet Hasson
3 Gate House Lane
Mamaroneck, NY 10534
Here’s a map showing her house – interior shots are on Zillow.
Amazing what one can find about people using public records.
Like the fact that Hasson is married with one child. And that her home is valued at $1.3 million (Wow. The newspaper business pays pretty good, huh?).
I bet there’s real nice stuff in a home that cost that much. And, unless she’s a flaming hypocrite (very possible, given that she is a liberal), they likely don’t have any weapons in their nice home with which to protect their nice stuff iff’n someone were to show up and try to appropriate it for their own personal use.
Now, imagine the outrage if Fox News decided to post the names and addresses of all women who have had abortions at Planned Parenthood over the last year…
An excellent argument against any and all licensing requirements for gun ownership. lohud.com/interactive/ar…
— James Taranto (@jamestaranto) December 24, 2012
Exactly!