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Apr 30

NPR: Water Carrying Propagandists For Obama

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NPR is a pathetic organization which engages in propaganda on a regular basis.

We have a proof positive propaganda headline from NPR. Behold:

Yeah I know. Pretty unbelievable, isn’t it? That’s like asking the question, Is skydiving without a parachute safe?

Andrea Ryan at The Gateway Pundit wrote:

NPR has no shame.  None.  But, apparently, they have embarrassment.

The headline “Is Slow Growth Actually Good for the Economy?” topped NPR’s brazen spin that a stagnant U.S. economy floundering in the tank is actually “good for us”.

….Only Liberals can take a pile of trash, put a bow on it, and believe we’ll think it’s pretty. Obama’s failed Keynesian economics of “tax and spend” would spread Detroit’s plight to the rest of the country. And NPR would redefine it as “good for us”.

There’s more from Tim Groseclose at Ricochet who explains how this story has gone viral:

“Is Slow Growth Actually Good for the Economy?”  That, I’m not joking, was an actual headline at NPR.

The headline not only exposes  the Obama-water-carrying attitudes at NPR, it also exposes the fact that NPR is filled with what I call “insular progressives.”  …

This time, however, the NPR progressives seem to have realized their insular nature, and it seems they became embarrassed by the headline.  They changed it to “Is Moderate [my emphasis] Growth Actually Good for the Economy?”

What brought on the embarrassment?  How’d the progressives at NPR come to realize how ridiculous their headline was?

It appears that two people, Gabriel Malor and Michelle Malkin, and one institution, Twitter, are most responsible.  Malor wrote a link to the headline along with the the following tweet: “Unbelievable.  Actual NPR headline.”  He wrote another tweet making fun of NPR’s headline:  ”Is high blood pressure actually good for your health?”

Malkin retweeted Malor’s tweet, and she urged her twitter followers to “let the NPR headlines games begin.”

Here’s the first salvo by Michelle Malkin:

Let the party begin!

That’s just a dozen of these gems. There are literally thousands more at: https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23nprheadlines

Mar 15

PPP pollster: “People are stupid”

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And pollsters are … ?
It’s one thing to acknowledge that the average American doesn’t have hours at his disposal with which to study the details of every last development in a presidential race or the details of every last piece of federal legislation. It’s another to suggest that voters are stupid simply because they have

Read the rest at Hot Air

Oct 15

Media Will ‘Lie About the Economy’ To Get Obama Reelected

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The media has already lied on multiple occassions. Continually calling the unemployment rate that has continued to go up, month after month since Obama was elected, “unexpected.” Please. Spare us, okay? We aren’t stupid. We know what you are doing.

Oh yes, I concur. The media will lie and will lie big to get their sacred cow reelected. I’ll bet money on that. Any takers?

MRCTV

Sep 12

PBS censors/sanitizes/rewrites Obama speech to hide a big mistake

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PBS again. Gee, I’m shocked. Ever wonder why I never give them any money and never will? Ever wonder why I strongly believe they should be defunded and eliminated? Ever wonder why I call PBS what they really are (Politburo Broadcasting System)? Wonder no more:

via The American Thinker:

Barack Obama has gone to Congress asking for more money to spend. The President, in a rambling and tedious exercise mixing blame with demands, made quite a few dubious statements in laying out the case for Congress to vote for the plan which as yet does not exist. Much like Obamacare, Congress must ultimately vote for the bill to know what is in it.

At one point Mr. Obama made a major gaffe; he identified Abraham Lincoln as the founder of the Republican Party.

Lincoln did not join the Republicans until 1856, over two years after the party was founded. The first Republican convention was held in Ripon, Wisconsin in 1854.

Such a gaffe would have brought huge amounts of ridicule and derision on George W. Bush, but in the case of Obama the media yawned.

Actually, they did more than yawn; government-funded PBS has altered the transcript of the President’s speech, removing the offending comment.

Oddly enough, the New York Times actually printed verbatim what Obama said:

“We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party. But in the middle of a civil war, he was also a leader who looked to the future — a Republican President who mobilized government to build the Transcontinental Railroad — (applause) — launch the National Academy of Sciences, set up the first land grant colleges. (Applause.) And leaders of both parties have followed the example he set.”

Then there’s the Politburo Broadcasting System (PBS) which should not receive one thin dime of taxpayer money, and what did they propagandize on their website?

“We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. But in the middle of a Civil War, he was also a leader who looked to the future – a Republican president who mobilized government to build the transcontinental railroad; launch the National Academy of Sciences; and set up the first land grant colleges. And leaders of both parties have followed the example he set.”

Propaganda folks, I’m telling you! Can you actually believe this is the United States of America anymore? This is so much closer to the Soviet Union than it is to what it was when I was growing up, it’s truly sickening.

One of my absolute rules is when something like this happens, you take a screenshot so there is proof. Kinda like this:

You see, if you don’t take the screenshot, these Soviet style websites have a habit of scrubbing their “edits” just like the Politburo Broadcasting System (PBS) recently did with this piece. No screenshot, no proof. Well, we have the screenshot, we have the proof, and we exposed PBS for what it is.

Jul 15

Documents Show Obama White House Bias Toward Fox News Channel

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Press Release from Judicial Watch:

Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has uncovered documents from the Obama Department of Treasury showing that the Obama administration, contrary to its repeated denials, attempted to exclude the Fox News Channel (FNC) from a round of interviews with Treasury’s “Executive Pay Czar” Kenneth Feinberg. The documents, which include email exchanges within the Department of the Treasury and between Treasury and White House staff, also provide colorful evidence of an anti-Fox News bias within the Obama White House.

The documents, obtained last week by Judicial Watch pursuant to an October, 28, 2009, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, concern a series of interviews with Feinberg, who served as the Special Master for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) Executive Compensation, on October 22, 2009, organized by the Treasury Department. According to press reports, the Fox News Channel was specifically excluded from joining the pool of reporters which precipitated a backlash among the networks and a reversal by the Obama Treasury Department.

According to The New York Times: “Fox’s television news competitors refused to go along with a Treasury Department effort on Thursday [October 22, 2009] to exclude Fox from a round of interviews with the executive-pay czar Kenneth R. Feinberg that was to be conducted with a ‘pool’ camera crew…”. Fox News Channel’s James Rosen reported this backlash forced the Obama administration to reconsider its position on the matter: “The Washington bureau chiefs of the five TV news network consulted and decided that none of them would interview Feinberg unless Fox was included, and the administration relented…,” reported Rosen. Ultimately, after other media representatives objected, Fox News Channel was allowed to participate in the interviews.

The Treasury Department’s official response, as detailed in back-and-forth emails uncovered by Judicial Watch, included a clear denial of any such plot to exclude Fox News from the interviews: “There was no plot to exclude Fox News, and they had the same interview that their competitors did. Much ado about absolutely nothing.” Moreover, in an October 23, 2009 email to New York Times reporter Jim Rutenberg, Jake Siewart, Counselor to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, repeated the denial that there was an effort to exclude Fox News Channel: “Call me today on your Fox-Treasury report,” Siewart wrote. “Not true that there was an ‘effort to exclude’ Fox.”

However, despite this public position, internal Obama administration emails obtained by Judicial Watch provide evidence that FNC was specifically singled out for exclusion. According to one October 22, 2009, email exchange between Dag Vega, Director of Broadcast Media on the White House staff, to Jenni LeCompte, then-Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs in the Treasury Department, Vega informs LeCompte that “…we’d prefer if you skip Fox please.”

Regarding general anti-FNC bias within the Obama White House in an October 23, 2009, email exchange between Jennifer Psaki, Deputy White House Communications Director and LeCompte, Psaki writes, “I am putting some dead fish in the fox cubby – just cause”. In an email on the night of October 22, 2009, commenting on a report by Fox News Channel anchor Bret Baier noting the exclusion of the network from the pool, Psaki writes to Compte and fellow White House colleagues, “…brett baier just did a stupid piece on it — but he is a lunatic”.

Deputy White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest bluntly described the White House’s position on Fox News Channel in an October 23, 2009, email to LeCompte: “We’ve demonstrated our willingness and ability to exclude Fox News from significant interviews…”

The Treasury Department blacked out a key email regarding its refusal to make available Treasury Secretary Geithner for an interview on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace.

“The Obama administration seems to have lied about its attempt to exclude Fox News Channel from access to an interview with the ‘pay czar.’ These documents show there is a pervasive anti-Fox bias in the Obama White House,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “The juvenile Mafioso-talk in these emails has no place in any White House. For the Obama administration to purposely exclude a major news organization from access to information has troubling First Amendment implications.”