Archive for Media
Racism Update: 03-08-2010
Posted by: | CommentsWhich comment is racist? You decide….
NBC News: Calling Rangel ‘Harlem Democrat’ Is Racist
Dan Rather: ‘Articulate’ Obama Couldn’t Even ‘Sell Watermelons’
Sean Penn Wants Reporters Jailed for Calling Chavez ‘Dictator’
Posted by: | CommentsSean Penn Wants Reporters Jailed for Calling Chavez ‘Dictator’
First Amendment be damned . . . If Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn had his way, any journalist who called Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez a dictator would quickly find himself behind bars.
Penn, appearing on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” on Friday, defended Chavez during a segment in which he detailed his work with the JP Haitian Relief Organization, which he co-founded.
“Every day, this elected leader is called a dictator here, and we just accept it, and accept it” said Penn, winner of two Best Actor Academy Awards. “And this is mainstream media, who should — truly, there should be a bar by which one goes to prison for these kinds of lies.”
It was just the beginning of a busy weekend for Penn. When asked on CBS’ “Sunday Morning” about those who question his motives for his humanitarian work in Haiti, he said:
“Do I hope that those people die screaming of rectal cancer? Yeah. You know, but I’m not going to spend a lot of energy on it.”
Judge Andrew Napolitano, Fox News’ senior judicial analyst, said the same constitutional protection that applies to journalists also applies to Penn, who can say pretty much anything he wants in the “political arena” — aside from an immediate incitement of violence
For those who want to witness the thupidity for themselves, you can view Mr. Penn’s performance here.
MSNBC’s Ed Schultz: “We Ought To Rip Out Cheney’s Heart”
Posted by: | CommentsSo much thupidity from MSNBC and Ed Schultz…so little time to post it all.
Progressive Media Lies Continued: Arianna Huffington
Posted by: | CommentsGlenn Beck Breaks it down for Arianna Huffington
Roger Ailes defends Glenn Beck to Arianna Huffington
Chris Matthews: He’s an African American in front of White People
Posted by: | CommentsProgressive Media: “American’s Too Dumb to Thrive”
Posted by: | CommentsKlein’s complete lack of understanding of basic economics is exceeded only by his arrogance.
Absolutely amazing poll results from CNN today about the $787 stimulus package: nearly three out of four Americans think the money has been wasted. On second thought, they may be right: it’s been wasted on them. Indeed, the largest single item in the package–$288 billion–is tax relief for 95% of the American public. This money is that magical $60 to $80 per month you’ve been finding in your paycheck since last spring. Not a life changing amount, but helpful in paying the bills.
The next highest amount was $275 billion in grants and loans to states. This is why your child’s teacher wasn’t laid off…and why the fire station has remained open, and why you’re not paying even higher state and local taxes to close the local budget hole.
It turns out that what people are really upset about is all that wasteful money that has gone to political public works projects…except that the overwhelming portion of that money hasn’t been spent yet. Remember all those “shovel-ready” projects? Well, they didn’t exist. The big jobs-creating projects like the rebuilt “smart” electric grid, major highways and fast trains will come on line during the next year. (Although these projects might have gotten greater public support if they’d been chosen by a National Infrastructure Bank–a panel of experts, like the fed–that would have picked them according to their value added, rather than by the bozo appropriators in the Congress.)
So, two thoughts:
1. The Obama Administration has done a terrible job explaining the stimulus package to the American people…especially since there have been very few documented cases of waste so far.
2. This is yet further evidence that Americans are flagrantly ill-informed…and, for those watching Fox News, misinformed.
It is very difficult to have a democracy without citizens. It is impossible to be a citizen if you don’t make an effort to understand the most basic activities of your government. It is very difficult to thrive in an increasingly competitive world if you’re a nation of dodos.
Marc Thiessen Schools CNN’s Christiane Amanpour
Posted by: | CommentsSparks Fly as ‘Courting Disaster’ Author Clashes with CNN’s Amanpour (VIDEO)
But Thiessen pressed [Amanpour]: “I want to answer this, because it is very important. What you said was not waterboarding but a barrel filled with water. You have no evidence whatsoever that the CIA did what you said they did.”
Amanpour insisted that there was no difference between what she had described and what the CIA did. “Dipping people’s heads in water to simulate drowning. Period. End of story.” But as Thiessen explains in his new book, Courting Disaster, the Khmer Rouge not “simulate drowning” at S-21 – they actually drowned their victims. Only 7 of the 14,000 people who entered S-21 emerged alive.
In the shocking new book released this week, Thiessen takes Amanpour and other public figures to task for making false and shameful comparisons between the CIA and the torturers of murderous regimes like the Khmer Rouge. Among those Thiessen exposes for their lies and misstatements are Attorney General Eric Holder, Senators Sheldon Whitehouse, Christopher Dodd, Dick Durbin, former White House Special Counsel Lanny Davis, Atlantic Monthly blogger Andrew Sullivan and others.
Thiessen systematically dismantles their arguments, and shows how the “techniques used by the CIA bear no resemblance to the techniques used by the Inquisitors of the Middle Ages or the murderous regimes cited by the critics.”
Thiessen writes, “It is important to set the record straight—not only to restore the good name of those who interrogated terrorists in our custody, but also to restore the good name of our country. One of the principal arguments made against enhanced interrogations is that they have harmed America’s moral standing in the world. In truth, what has harmed America’s moral standing in the world are the false comparisons made by those who declare that America has practiced the same techniques as the most reviled despots and dictators in human history—when in fact we have done nothing of the sort.”
Thiessen set the record straight on CNN – and set Amanpour straight as well.
CNN: Republicans Fomented ‘Fear and Confusion Among Voters’
Posted by: | CommentsMika Brzezinski Favorite Founding Father: Lincoln
Posted by: | CommentsLiberal Hostility in the MA Senate Race
Posted by: | CommentsCoakley Office Lashes Out at Reporters
NBC News: Brown a ‘Homophobic, Racist, Teabagging’ Misogynist