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Liberal Media Playing Connect The Dots — Again

February 22, 2010 by 3 Comments

As that great American philosopher Yogi Berra once said:  It’s deja vu all over again.

When Timothy McVeigh blew up the federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995 it took the mainstream media — and other liberals — about 2 seconds to blame conservative talk radio in general and Rush Limbaugh in particular for what happened.  Why?

Because conservative talk radio, they said, was too “hot.”  It inflamed passions.  It was too anti-government.  Or as Dan Rather put it:  “Even after Oklahoma City, you can turn on your radio in any city and still dial up hate talk; extremist, racist, and violent from the hosts and those who call in.”

Conservatives, in other words, created a dangerous and ultimately deadly atmosphere that either produced or at least emboldened a Timothy McVeigh – and made him think that what he was about to do was the right thing.  This is what passes for the wisdom of the elite Left.

Fast forward to today.  Now we have the screwball who flew his prop plane into an office building in Austin that housed the IRS.  Joe Stack detested the IRS – and many other things – and this was his statement.

So who are the crazies on the Left blaming for this?  If you said the Tea Party movement give yourself a gold star.

We get this from the so-called mainstream media:

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People Died, WaPo Lied

February 22, 2010 by 2 Comments

So anyone with a pulse saw the Austin plane crash for what it was–an ugly event caused by a bitter weirdo. And nearly everyone was thankful it didn’t turn out worse.

But I guess Washington Post contributor, Jonathan Capehart, is pulse-less. After reading Joseph Stack’s suicide note, J.C. wrote, “I am struck by how his alienation is similar to that we’re hearing from the extreme elements of the Tea Party movement.”

For as most of us know: during those massive tea party protests, there were no acts of violence. As I’ve said before, people were throwing picnics, not Molotov cocktails. The same could not be said for the more romanticized WTO protestors, or the dopes in Copenhagen, who capture the imagination of tools like Capehart, because they don’t shop at Walmart.

But as the great website HotAir pointed out, in order for Capehart to link Stack to the tea parties, he had to deliberately omit key parts of the suicide note. You know, the stuff where Stack bashes Republicans, Bush, our current state of health care (which he says kills thousands), and of course, capitalism.

Read More: By Greg Gutfeld, Washington Post

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Obama Tops Bush At Ducking Reporters

February 22, 2010 by 3 Comments

President Obama, who pledged to establish the most open and transparent administration in history, on Monday surpasses his predecessor’s record for avoiding a full-fledged question-and-answer session with White House reporters in a formal press conference.

Barack Obama 6 SC Obama tops Bush at ducking reporters

President George W. Bush’s longest stretch between prime-time, nationally televised press conferences was 214 days, from April 4 to Nov. 4, 2004. Mr. Obama tops that record on Monday, going 215 days – stretching back to July 22, according to records kept by CBS Radio’s veteran reporter Mark Knoller.

The president has seemingly shunned formal, prime-time sessions since his last disastrous presser, when he said police in Cambridge, Mass., “acted stupidly” by arresting a Harvard professor who broke into a home that turned out to be his own. The off-the-cuff comment took over the news cycle for a week, overshadowing his push for health care reform, and culminated in a White House “Beer Summit,” where the president hosted white police officer James Crowley and the black Harvard professor, Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Read More: By Joseph Curl, Washington Times

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March On Washington To Tell President To Prove It Or Quit

February 22, 2010 by 13 Comments

Organizers of a new march on Washington are offering Americans the opportunity to show President Obama their birth certificates and declare that unless he produces documentation of his eligibility to occupy the Oval Office, he should quit.

Barack Obama speech hand 2 SC March on Washington to tell president to prove it or quit

The event is headed by Philip Berg, the first to bring court challenges to Obama’s eligibility under the U.S. Constitution’s requirement that presidents be a “natural born citizen.”

While a number of cases, including several of his own, remain pending, Berg told WND today the issue needs to be pressed.

“Since the courts are taking their time to get to the point of allowing ‘discovery,’ it is time to motivate the citizens of the United States for a ‘peaceful revolution’ to expose the ‘hoax’ of Obama, the biggest ‘hoax’ in the history of our country, in over 230 years,” he said.

Berg, who publicizes his cases through his ObamaCrimes.com website, said the planned “Birth Certificate March on Washington” will demand Obama resign.

Read More: By Bob Unruh, WND

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Social Isolation And New Technology

February 19, 2010 by 1 Comment

People who use modern information and communication technologies have larger and more diverse social networks, according to new national survey findings that for the first time explore how people use the internet and mobile phones to interact with key family and friends.

These new finding challenge fears that use of new technologies has contributed to a long-term increase in social isolation in the United States.

The new findings from the Pew Internet & American Life Project show that, on average, the size of people’s discussion networks – those with whom people discuss important matters– is 12% larger amongst mobile phone users, 9% larger for those who share photos online, and 9% bigger for those who use instant messaging. The diversity of people’s core networks – their closest and most significant confidants – tends to be 25% larger for mobile phone users, 15% larger for basic internet users, and even larger for frequent internet users, those who use instant messaging, and those who share digital photos online.

The survey was conducted by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication, led by Keith N. Hampton, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Communication and the Pew Internet Project.

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One-Time Dissident Stockholder Scott Galloway Leaving New York Times Co. Board

February 19, 2010 by Leave a Comment

Scott Galloway, the Firebrand Partners chief who teamed up with Harbinger Capital Partners to challenge family management at The New York Times Co. in 2008 and ended up on its board of directors, is leaving the board, the company said late Thursday.

Also leaving the board is Daniel H. Cohen, a director since 2007.

The Times Co. said its directors had nominated Carolyn D. Greenspon — a fifth-generation member of the Ochs/Sulzberger family that controls the publisher through super-voting stock — for election at its April 27 annual meeting. The size of the board, which had been increased by two seats when Galloway and a Harbinger representative became directors, will be reduced to 13 seats, the company said.

Read More: – By Mark Fitzgerald, Editor and Publisher

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RAB: Radio Crippled In 2009

February 19, 2010 by Leave a Comment

Radio may have just come out of its worst year in history. Total 2009 revenue, including on-air, off-air and digital, plummeted 18 percent to just over $16 billion, according to figures released Friday (Feb. 19) by the Radio Advertising Bureau.

The medium’s bread and butter—local and national on-air advertising—was down a whopping 20 percent to $13.2 billion. Network radio held up relatively well, declining 9 percent to just over $1 billion.

The only good news was the continued growth of digital, which increased 13 percent to $480 million.

Read More: – By Katy Bachman, Mediaweek

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Breitbart To NY Times Reporter For Alleging Racial Tones At CPAC: ‘You’re A Despicable Human Being’

February 19, 2010 by Leave a Comment

After Barack Obama’s election as the first black president of the United States, we were supposed to have entered a new, post-racial era. However, as many feel it has turned out, any dissent or criticism of the most powerful man in the free world or his agenda draws allegations of “racial tones,” as happened on the New York Times Web site on Feb. 18.

And on Feb. 18 at the 2010 Conservative Political Action Conference, Andrew Breitbart, publisher of Breitbart.com, Breitbart.tv, Big Hollywood, Big Government and Big Journalism, called out the Times’ reporter, Kate Zernike, for making those allegations. (6:00 in first video)

Breitbart was accepting the Reed Irvine Accuracy in Media Award for extensively covering one of the most “uncovered” stories of 2009 for corruption within the so-called community activist organization ACORN.

Read More: – By Jeff Poor, Newsbusters

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Cable Ratings: NBA All-Stars, StarStruck, WWE RAW, Pawn Stars, SpongeBob And Burn Notice Top Weekly Cable Viewing

February 19, 2010 by 1 Comment

Despite airing against the Winter Olympics on NBC, TNT still won the cable gold medal for the week with  the NBA All-Star Game.   Disney’s StarStruck which also went up against the Olympics (and, also against the NBA All-Star Game) was second for the week.

Top 25  cable shows for the week ending February 14, 2010:

Read More: – by Robert Seidman, TV by the Numbers

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Radio And TV Both Growing For CBS

February 18, 2010 by Leave a Comment
cbs logo Radio and TV both growing for CBS
Executive Chairman Sumner Redstone hailed the Q4 results as “fabulous” and praised the “terrific team” at CBS Corporation headed by CEO Les Moonves as the company reported improvement in all areas for the quarter. Pacings, meanwhile, are strong for the current quarter.
“Content is king and will always be king. And no one has better content out there than CBS and one other company, whose name I cannot mention today,” Redstone said with a joking reference to rival Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation.
Reporting for the first time under its new segment organization, CBS said Q4 revenues were down 8% for local broadcasting to $680 million. Revenues for the O&O television stations were down 3% to $358.2 million, although CFO Joe Ianniello noted that the lack of pollitical was worth 14 points, so our math says the TV group would have been up 11% excluding political. Radio revenues were down 12% to $322.2 million, but two points of that was attributed to station divestitures – so down 10% on a same stations basis.

Executive Chairman Sumner Redstone hailed the Q4 results as “fabulous” and praised the “terrific team” at CBS Corporation headed by CEO Les Moonves as the company reported improvement in all areas for the quarter. Pacings, meanwhile, are strong for the current quarter.
“Content is king and will always be king. And no one has better content out there than CBS and one other company, whose name I cannot mention today,” Redstone said with a joking reference to rival Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation.
Reporting for the first time under its new segment organization, CBS said Q4 revenues were down 8% for local broadcasting to $680 million. Revenues for the O&O television stations were down 3% to $358.2 million, although CFO Joe Ianniello noted that the lack of political was worth 14 points, so our math says the TV group would have been up 11% excluding political. Radio revenues were down 12% to $322.2 million, but two points of that was attributed to station divestitures – so down 10% on a same stations basis.

Read More: – Radio Business Report

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