Posted on 09/06/2009 4:03:30 PM PDT by rvoitier
You have to see it to believe it. The singular lesson of the past week, after big media failed to uncover Jones’s Truther past and then actively suppressed it when it broke online, is that they can’t be trusted to chase stories that are inconvenient to The One — especially if doing so would burnish Glenn Beck’s credibility. And yet here they are, through two of their priestlier representatives, warning the public that only a fool would play in the “open sewer” that is the Internet, where lies and smears and video clips that the networks won’t show of Obama administration officials calling Republicans “assholes” flow insidiously onward. Plenty of viewers will believe them, too: Remember, for many, their first taste of the Van Jones story came this morning, and no sooner did they hear about it than a trusted figure like Tom Brokaw appeared to dismiss it as a smear campaign. You couldn’t script a more Orwellian ending. Friedman actually goes so far as to call this a cautionary tale about how everyone’s a potential target in the age of mass media. Hey, Tom? He’s a Truther in charge of $60 billion in taxpayer money. We’re not talking about some alderman here who got caught saying something off-color at the Dairy Queen. Quoth Jonah Goldberg: “What a tragedy that fewer people will support cop-killers and anti-American conspiracy groups because of poor Van Jones chilling effect on the culture.”
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
“Meet the Press” that used to be a television show didn’t it? /s
Makes perfect sense -- in lala liberal land.
Liberal priests are in a panic at the lack of faith in the pews.
“Jones’s position, for example, did not require Senate confirmation. So he avoided the kind of vetting Cabinet officials were subjected to…”
0bama owns this.
Van Jones & Obama's "Centrism" (Jonah Goldberg)… The Corner ^ | 6 September 2009 | Jonah Goldberg“……………Update: Oh and the conversation between Tom Brokaw and Tom Friedman about the lessons of Van Jones was a complete scandal. One of Friedman's key take-aways from this whole affair is that too many people will self-censor themselves so they can get government jobs. What a tragedy that fewer people will support cop-killers and anti-American conspiracy groups because of poor Van Jones chilling effect on the culture.Oh, and listening to Friedman and Brokaw disparage the internet as a useless news medium, makes them sound like cranky old monks lamenting that flash-in-the-pan printing press.”
Getting news from television, how 20th century.
Live by the Sword ... and all that rot
The really “big lesson” is why didn’t the bobbleheads in the state run MSM come to the defense of Jones if he was being “smeared” and “lied” about on the internet? This didn’t happen overnight. Obama’s eunuchs could have saved Jones’ ass had they the courage to do it. However, the MSM realized that he was a loser and a liar just like them and they could not come up with a defense to save him.
LOL! It really has been sucking badly, and progressively more badly. Brokaw does manage to cure my worst bouts of insomnia, however. I've caught the first 3 to 7 minutes of the show several times lately.
Seriously, I have been TIVOing it out of morbid fascination.
on Drugs And this is Brokaw... 
on drugs
Naw, that's Tom... 
every day!
In other news, Van Jones today said... 
"It is a lie what those white, Right Wing, Racist Republican a-holes said I said!"
Don't ya just luv old Van? Reminds me... 
of a Reverend I once knew.
Now they're bitter, washed-up has-beens whose best days are behind them. Used to be that everyone in the country had to see Brokaw every night at 6:30 EST. Now, most wouldn't know him from a hole in the wall, and those who do know him couldn't give a flying cr*p what he thinks about anything.
Put some ice on it Tom.
These media dinosaurs can warn people about the Internet all they want, but there’s no one watching them do it.
I would have never even known they did had I not read it on the Internet.
Meet the Press, it’s producers, directors, and participants, are ludicrous. They listen uncritically to a paid mouthpiece and publicist for the Administration, David Axelrod. Yet, they cannot point to a single lie or distortion in anything that was reported about Jones on the internet. Jones should have lost his jobs because of the facts - what he said and what he did. The news media should have reported these facts, if indeed they were interested in journalism. They are only interested in exchanging silly sentimentality with Democratic politicians. Enough of this nonsense.
Someone in my household when television surfing watches a few seconds of MSNBC and I declare that they are doing it to drive me insane! I cannot tolerate even a few seconds of those lunatics!
And if you do vet them and conclude that they can’t pass the Senate — as almost certainly happened with Jones — then just make them a czar and the problem is solved. It’s not like Tom Brokaw or Tom Friedman is going to hassle you. Exit quotation from Glenn Beck: “The American people stood up and demanded answers. Instead of providing them, the Administration had Jones resign under cover of darkness.”
Ohhh, that's gonna leave a mark...
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I don't know the exact date it happened, but it's been replaced by Meet the Useless Press.
This would be even worse if it was a percentage of the population... Since the population has almost doubled since 1980
You’re right. The fact that an administration official had to resign without a peep from the midstream media is historic.
According to your chart, in about 28 more years it drops to zero!
These people are absolutely criminal. They are abusing the power of the press to push outright propaganda for 0bama and the Demonrats. And it is so easy to refute, but I find it astounding they try to push this story as a smear and all that BS and obviously they are hoping the public doesn’t dig too far and find out on their own. It will and has gotten out enough where it is posing a danger to all of them and it’s about time. But an all-out war needs to be declared against these criminals. Conservatives and Republicans need to be more in their face and call them on it and not let them dictate. There is no legitimacy with these fascists. They are one in the same and have no credibility and think they are going to silence dissent in the only forum that actually has any credibility.
The pews are empty, Elvis has left the building
I'm not sure, but I think its some guys who you take shirts and pants to. They get the wrinkles out, and fold them real nice. Anyways, when you go to them, you feel like you've been taken to the cleaners.
BBTTT.
Tom’s eyes are beadier than a pit bull’s.
Looks like that banjo kid in Deliverance.
Funny how we can’t trust it anymore. Gee, we trusted the internet and bloggers when TV’s Carrie Bradshaw was a blogger in ‘Sex in the City’ and blogging was all the rage, set up the new movie about Julia Childs’ life, we trusted it for our Hollywood gossip, we trusted it when the Daily Kos and DU helped ‘keep the faith’ during the Bush years, and during the Kerry/Edwards campaign when it got the word out, but now, now, it’s suddenly untrustworthy? Yeah, okay. *more painful eyerolling*
Amen
As Fred Barnes said on Fox News Sunday if you watch MSM , Van Jones resigning will be a shock.
Very embarrasing - Jones and his anti-American rants turn out to be the biggest story of the week and the MSM, by trying to keep it buried, look like out of touch fools - which come tho think of it, they actually are.....
Thing is that it just does not matter what the media says or does these days. They either leave out pertinent facts, spin the facts, or ignore the facts... You have to really hunt for the truth on the internet. Their “fact checkers” are way too busy trying to debunk the internet rather than do actual fact checking...heh.
I was screaming at my TV by that point, and turned it off. I was fuming.
I never watch that idiotic show, but I spent the morning flipping channels to see if any of the MSM would cover the story. Fox hit it hard and straight. The others buried it deep in the hour. On Meet the Pravda, the two points were, “you can’t say anything controversial and “the internet is full of lies”. They made sure to completely fill the time so Giuliani couldn’t raise any true points such as Van Jones self-identifying as a radical communist.
I only watched to see how the enemy would spin it, and they didn’t let me down. Anybody who doesn’t see the EXTREME media bias since they buried the tea parties outright, is wilfully blind.
Mapes: "I’m perfectly willing to believe those documents are forgeries if there’s proof that I haven’t seen."
Ross: "But isn’t it the other way around? Don’t you have to prove they’re authentic?"
Mapes: "Well, I think that’s what critics of the story would say. I know more now than I did then and I think, I think they have not been proved to be false, yet."
Ross: "Have they proved to be authentic though? Isn’t that really what journalists do?"
Mapes: "No, I don’t think that’s the standard."
— ABC’s Good Morning America, November 9, 2006.
Heh - you and me both! I was yelling at the TV this morning after expecting some truthful information to actually be admitted by the leftist idiots this morning. Wow...to my surprise, stupid questions, stupid answers, and letting the guests get away with typical political statements without actually answering any questions. Follow up questions were non-existent or ignored.
Well, after cursing them out, I have vowed never to watch these stupid Sunday morning shows again! Talk about a waste of my time - all it got me was heartburn and a sore throat from yelling at my TV... Let them drown in the primitive ratings - ie., their bottom feeding ratings are well deserved!
O.M.G. Did he actually say that?! (Is it possible to laugh out loud with your jaw on the floor?)
What did the alderman say at the Dairy Queen?
Meet the Press lost any credibility it had when Tim Russert died. Now it's just another show spreading the Liberal Media's propaganda.
Their elitist snobbery selves shine through once again, “ How dare the peasants report on the truth, we only know the truth and what’s good for you “
That phrase has a really sweet ring to it.
I could watch a show anchored by a lib if he/she were at least interesting, intelligent and retained some shred of journalistic instinct. Brokaw, however, is a crushing boor, unintelligent, uninformed, and seems utterly unconcerned about breaking news.
The execs at NBC who put this flagship show in his hands absolutely MUST have been (and must still be) on a crack binge.
On second thought, though, consider the NBC stable. Who were they going to turn to? Stone Phillips? LOL!
The insane delusion of these people would be comical if it wasn't so sinister. They still think they live in a monopolistic vacuum with themselves as the sole purveyors of news information. The depth of their denial and outright lying is truly something to behold. They are abject fools to millions and millions of people, and they go merrily along with their agenda regardless.
If/when TSHTF, these bastards better hide themselves real good.
WHY SO SOCIALIST TOM ??
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