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Bill, I think you are getting the handle on this video cluebat added to your arsenal. Keep it comming.

BTW: My brother-in-law has 2 feet of snow out in Colorado today. I would make a nice iceing to top off your global warming essay. Perhaps just a few more flakes and it will be good to go?

… it would make a nice…
Dougman!!!

Ready for Prime Time, Bill. When the “Rally” committee runs out of spin, (Soon, I think), I believe there will be a sea change in media. All the MSM have been doing is potentiating a huge backlash for decades. On point as usual.

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Damn. That was nice.

And you didn’t even have to get into Anderson Cooper courageously ‘coming out’ on national television.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyhP1pFO_8A

Off-the-cuff, unprompted – tell me that’s not a man speaking from experience!

Kind of gross but still, very brave!

– MuscleDaddy

Rocking as always Bill.
After all the years of calling GW a fascist, it not surprising that the left can’t recognize it when it finally arrives.
Fascism
1. (sometimes initial capital letter) a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc.,

GW just didn’t fire enough CEOs, I guess.

Hey, Unquiet!

Boo.
Yah.

Slam dunk, Mr. Whittle. I especially loved-LOVED- your closing remarks that start at 7:55.

Just fantastic.

Roesgen isn’t that a product sold to make the bald grow hair? What’s the difference?

She is perfect to use for Journalism schools on what not to do.

Just short of the halfway mark, she drops a comment that reveals a great deal. I quote:

“I think you get the general tenor of this, it’s anti-government, anti-CNN since this is highly promoted by the right-wing, conservative network FOX, and since I can’t really hear much more, and I think this is not really family viewing…”

So, let me see here… in her phrasing, the government and CNN are clearly associated with eachother (anti-one, anti-the other) Is this in effect a statement in first person plural? We? Are their interests synonomous? Are they partners?

And since she asserts that it logical for the “right-wing” to oppose CNN, isn’t that a tacit admission that CNN is, in fact, the left-wing? After all, it is she herself that positions them as opposites.

FOX tilts to the right, and their conservative commentators admit it. However, CNN tries to pretend that it is unbiased, and people fall for it.

CNN needs to finally admit that it is a propaganda organ of the Left.

P.S. “not family viewing”? is she saying that upset conservatives are so disturbing that they should have a mature rating? Are they worse than letting your toddler’s watch HBO?

dammit I hate it when I put in misplaced apostrophes.

Bill

How much does a stolen information stream cost a free people?

Nothing but the very essence of that freedom.

Leftists are on a perpetual hunt for “victims” to exploit and then exalt, but the real victims are truth, integrity, honor and a once great land not betrayed by traitors to it, with all the keys to its kingdom.

Simply amazing in its utter takedown of the mainstream media. This will never been shown anywhere but on the net or Fox. It shows the “objectivity” of the MSM for what it is: faked.

Perfect. This is what reporting really is. Once again you nailed it, Mr. Whittle.

Ya know…complaints about media bias from the Pajamas Media crowd is a bit like listening to complaints about online retailers from Amazon. It just rings hollow.

Susan Roesgen is beyond the pale, but a partisan hack like Tom Blumer is a-OK?

Bill,
I’ve been moved by your essays for a few years now. I recall with particularly affection our cameraderie of the cardboard submarine.

I’d like to offer my own small efforts along your line, for your amusement.

http://willstuff.wordpress.com/2009/04/18/the-sound-of-freedom/

Bill McNutt

Thank you so much for this. It’s good to know I’m not the only one who sees this sort of thing going on in the media.

I get so tired of pointing out the liberal bias in the media and our society in general and people just ignore it. I thought for sure the 2008 election would be enough to convince anyone who was willing to look at this issue with a fair mind. It was so overwhelming! But not even the endless slandering of Sarah Palin and multitudes of magazine covers and glowing stories about Obama made the slightest difference in their opinion. It was just… mind boggling.

When something is this blatant and people still don’t see it, what else can you do? I am truly at a loss at this point. Even an example as blatant as this video, and they will still sit there and not see a darned thing wrong with it.

Bill Whittle,

Tsk, tsk, tsk. You’re awful hard on Ms. Roesgen just because she’s trying to elbow her way to the table where the oligarchs are feeding. So how about a recipe for baked electoral politics?

1. Take one body politic and slice, dice, and divide into bite-sized factions.

2. Add a generous amount of racial and class animus. Mix well and allow the concoction to simmer in its own juices for two to three generations.

3. Add one tablespoon each of the following: academic dishonesty, moral relativism, and cultural subversion. Cook over low heat until the mixture begins to boil.

4. The last step is the most important so pay attention because timing is everything. Add one charismatic leader (lacking that, a garden-variety demagogue will do) to two heaping cups of media bias and stir into the pot before your mix boils over. Reduce heat and allow to simmer.

Baked electorate will serve any number of the following: corrupt politicians, fat-cat lobbyists, carnivorous lawyers, corpulent bureaucrats, and/or flatulent media types. Welcome to the Oligarch’s Dinner.

Oh, you say you didn’t get an invitation? Don’t worry because you have a place at the table. Body politic: it’s what’s oligarchs have for dinner every day of the week.

“no subscription or registration needed” — Actually your link took me to a place that said I needed to register to see it. So I’m still curious what you said.

JK — I went to the site a few minutes before I read your comment and had the same result. It’s hiccuping a little, and we have the tech guys on it. If you try the link once or twice, or maybe restart your browser, it seemed to do it for me… but we’re working on it and I’m sorry for the inconvenience.

Worked fine for me. I was outraged when I saw that harpie pounce on that hapless guy. She should be ashamed but, they have no shame do they? Again Bill you hit the nail on the head. Your analysis is spot on and very persuasive. Of course, nobody on the left will listen or learn from it – how sad.

The clip where you were telling about Bush being called Hitler and worse with the pictures behind you was chilling. They cannot deny it but, they continue to try – don’t they?

Excellent piece on the state of reporting in this country. Should be required viewing for everyone.

Thank you!

“I’m proud of it. I think it’s powerful. You can find it here.”

…and I think you’re right.
I’m really enjoying how the press’s –not just bias, but something else: Petulance? Megalomania?– has come to the surface. It’s kinda refreshing to have it out in the open. Like Han Solo, I prefer a straight fight to all this sneakin’ around.

As much as I’ve loved reading your writing, I have to admit that the ability to add clips and juxtapose images and stuff like that, makes for a really effective and entertaining presentation. And the fabulous video quality doesn’t hurt, either (though it does keep crashing my Firefox unless I do everything veeeery carefully).

(“You don’t need to be so antagonistic.” HAH! Good one, reporter lady!)

Bravo.

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I think the bit I loved most, Bill, was when you were pointing out with utter calm and perfect accuracy the fundamental dishonesty and disrespect for the Presidency involved in calling any holder of that office a “fascist”.

While behind you on the screen flashed image after image, all taken from MSM publications and progressive protests, of George W. Bush made up as Hitler.

Sometimes all one needs to do is remove the splinter from one’s own eye to make the plank in your neighbour’s that much more obvious.

The only way MSM can continue to do this is due to the apathy and ignorance of much of our population. As they begin to feel the pain of this lack of knowledge, perhaps they will decide it is time to become an informed member of this great nation.

I agree with #24; that part was brilliant. Just the sort of thing I’d expect to see on the Daily Show, if they weren’t a part of the left-wing propaganda machine you’re describing.

The part I loved the most was when, mere minutes after she verbally attacked the guy with the child, Roesgen responded to the woman she was talking to with “You know, you really don’t need to be so antagonistic.”

Wow, double standards much?

Bill, I’m recommending this PJTV video to everybody I can think of. And maybe a few I can’t think of.

Think this’ll make Fox News? Somehow I doubt it!

Igor

Enough of the complaining. It accomplishes little to nothing. When are there going to be creative bloggers who think out of the box and supply ideas of things to do…ways to change the problems? Until we go onto the college campuses and publish Conservative newspapers and produce Conservative television programs then we will be doomed to live in Liberal Socialist utopia.
The Tea Parties were a fantastic start. But it is just a ripple on the water when it is actually a tsunami that is desperately needed. But as long as Conservatives remain passive we won’t ever be able to take on the Liberal onslaught.

I used to consider myself a republican, and could stomach some of the right-wing talk shows that completely dominate the radio. I feel like the kind of vitriolic, smirking, pessimism that your ilk ladle out is more destructive than anything the left-wing whackos dish out. Why hate our government? Why always the ad hominem attacks on anyone who voices a different view? Why all the sniveling fearfulness and xenophobia? Why not come up with some positive plans for our country? I think part of the problem is that the media tries to be unbiased and, in so doing, feels they have to present the opposing side, no matter how poorly supported it is by fact (ex. creationism, climate change as “myth”, etc… – all of which are Republican pet issues, by the way).

My mother-in-law is visiting and I’ve been forced to watch smug fear/hate mongers like Glenn Beck and Bill O’Reily for the last couple of nights. These right-wing media “news” pundits have enormous followings and ridiculous power to support Fox News’s “tea party” campaign.

Please, you guys, lighten up. The nation is sick of all the venom. I thank God that we have a positive, respectful, and forward-thinking president for a change. Our country couldn’t take 4 more years of the kind of thing we’ve had to suffer through for the last 8 years.

By the way, when are guys going to start in with a “special prosecutor”? Isn’t that what happens when you lose an election?

Here’s a group that’s been doing exactly that on the campus newspaper front. Are you helping them distribute on your local campus?

http://the-undercurrent.com/

So let’s ask … how do we get everyone to see this?

Dave Thompson? Sounds a bit more like an Obama White House staffer. Frankly, I doubt the line “I used to consider myself a republican” very much. It’s what you seminar caller leftists always say, and it is almost invariably a lie. You follow that up with sneering derision and outright lies (“the media tries to be unbiased”? “The nation is sick of all the venom”?) and seem to think that you’re making points. In reality (yes I know, you’re not familiar with the concept), we ARE the nation, and you’re not.

Doug – Yes, it’s getting annoying to hear the wacko leftists calling on the radio talk shows saying, “I used to be a Republican, but all the have totally turned me off from them.” It’s like they actually think they are not as transparent as glass, trying to lay out all these “complaints” they have, especially when accusations like hatefulness and fear-mongering are exactly what the liberals and media have been doing for the last 30 years or so.

Hmmm… Looks like some of your fine readers have proven my “venom” point. I hear this kind of talk a lot on the nicely balanced conservative shows. Doug and Wayne make some great points.

I did actually consider myself a Republican, and still espouse the Republican core values that are now pretty much opposite to what mainstream Republican’s believe (ie. state’s rights, keep your hands off people’s rights to the degree possible, small government, etc…). Can’t really say I want to be associated with a party that has so many members who want to dabble so much in religion, sex lives, etc…

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Good video — never thought about it this way.

I seem to recall that the Left endlessly charged that the Bush Administration “cherry-picked” intelligence pertaining to Iraq’s WMD program. We are expected to ignore the fact that the Clinton Administration was receiving similar intelligence reports, as were leaders of nations that ended up opposing Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Now let us consider the function of the news media. Their job is to provide information to the electorate, so that we can make informed decisions regarding the future of our republic. Note that this neatly parallels the function of our various intelligence agencies, which is to provide information to our elected and appointed officials, so that they can make informed decisions regarding the future of our republic. Is there anyone who seriously believes* that the news media do not “cherry-pick” the information they deign to provide to the public? From what I’ve seen over the past few years, the actual motto of the New York Times has been “All The News We See Fit To Print.”

*Sadly, it does seem that quite a few of those who live here in America believe that, among all the news media, only Fox News (or, as they refer to it, “Faux News”) has ever shown any bias in its reporting of events. Evidently, any news reporting that doesn’t fit the Left’s viewpoint is an out-and-out lie, regardless of how accurately it reports what actually happens in the world.

Check your levels big guy. I couldn’t hear the report, which wasn’t a problem with other Afterburner segments. I had both the computer speakers and the movie window at maximum volume.

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“If Congress fails to represent the people, the republic will die.” —Thomas Jefferson

‘Nuff said.