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NY Times: Fort Hood Massacre American's Fault The shootings at Fort Hood , however, pose a different problem for the president, by shining a spotlight on the tensions Muslims feel inside the United States. The score at Ft. Hood so far: Muslims 13, Non-muslims 0.

We are not exactly sure what is going on with the producers over at NBC News and the TODAY Show, but the quality of people they are digging up for their news and interview segments has certainly been lacking. Yesterday, The TODAY Show featured a segment detailing the latest “trend”: people in foreclosed homes are stripping them bare and selling the contents before turning the property over to the banks, going so far as even selling the toilets for $20. In this video clip, NBC Reporter Kerry Sanders is talking with Zorene Brodek (sp?) who justifies her actions: Sanders: What...

At yesterday's Governor's picnic, an A.P. reporter was looking for controversy. It seems they have ginned it up in this story on Palin. Palin cited the financial toll of the investigations for quitting before the end of her term. "She's not a quitter; she's a fighter. She wants to fight for the Alaskan people and for the greater good nationally," Villanueva said. Randy Jedlicka, 31 of Anchorage, was less impressed. He held up a sign at the Anchorage picnic asking why, if Palin can quit before her terms ends, soldiers in Iraq cannot do the same. "I just don't think...

Reporters from roughly 30 television networks, newspapers, magazines, and web sites celebrated the Fourth of July with Barack Obama at the White House last weekend. Why didn't you know that? Because they were sworn to secrecy. We reported yesterday that Politico's Mike Allen was spotted milling about as a guest at the White House's "backyard bash" by the pool reporter, who was allowed into the event for 40 minutes and kept in a pen before being ushered out. When Allen quoted from the pool report in his Playbook column the next day, he deleted a reference to his own name...

The most troubling aspect of international security for the United States is not the killing power of our immediate enemies, which remains modest in historical terms, but our increasingly effete view of warfare. The greatest advantage our opponents enjoy is an uncompromising strength of will, their readiness to “pay any price and bear any burden” to hurt and humble us. As our enemies’ view of what is permissible in war expands apocalyptically, our self-limiting definitions of allowable targets and acceptable casualties—hostile, civilian and our own—continue to narrow fatefully. Our enemies cannot defeat us in direct confrontations, but we appear determined...

Yahoo has done Andrew Sullivan proud with their headlines.....and doesn't this have a "deja vue" ring to it? And, didn't we just see this same media trick in September? Of course the article has to go on to mention that the babies Father-Levi Johnston mothers was recently arrested on Drug Charges. Johnston's mother, Sherry, was arrested on drug charges earlier this month after an undercover narcotics investigation.

Viewing the United States through the eyes of a foreign national is one thing. And viewing the United States through the eyes of foreign media professionals is another thing. So as we close-out 2008, and begin a new year with the soon-to-be President Obama, the view from the “foreign news desk” may shed some light on some of the ways in which the world misunderstands both our country, and our President-elect. I don’t have any “McCain scandal” to tell. No tabloid-style inside scoop about John McCain and Sarah Palin squabbling behind the scenes on election night, or Palin’s daughter’s boyfriend’s...

Verizon Wireless's permit to build a permanent cellular telephone tower on John and Cindy McCain's Arizona ranch is still in effect, Yavapai County officials said today, as the wireless company keeps its options open for the previously shelved plans for the site. In a statement, Verizon's spokesman Jeffrey Nelson labeled as "wrong" a story about the cell phone coverage at the ranch in Thursday's Post. McCain campaign spokesman Brian Rogers told the Associated Press, "This story is a disgrace. The McCains went through the process that is available to anybody who subscribes to one of these cell phone companies to...

Chilean Homosexual Non-Discrimination Law Fails Following Protest Activist Believes Bill's Proponents Will Try Again on September 11th By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman CHILE, September 10, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A bill whose opponents warned would make opposition to homosexuality illegal in Chile was quietly defeated last week when it was removed from a scheduled vote in the Chilean Senate, according to Salvador Salazar, president of Muevete Chile! (Go Chile!). The tabling of the measure followed a campaign by multiple groups and individuals to encourage senators to oppose the measure and preserve the Chilean people's right to speak against homosexual behavior. The bill,...

Toronto Sun Columnist Trots out Usual Phony Abortion Slogans in Attack on Catholic Church Silent No More Awareness spokesman dispute columnist's support for Amnesty International By Hilary White TORONTO, August 22, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - It appears that the campaigners for legalised abortion did their work well back in the 1970's when they invented a set of standard propaganda slogans to be disseminated through the media. For forty years, the same five or six grossly false assertions, familiar to pro-life people everywhere, have manipulated the discussion on abortion and all related issues. These slogans are so solidly entrenched in the public...

NBC Proud Part of the Culture of Death HumanEvents.com by Charles Adler (more by this author) Posted 04/23/2007 ET It was late Wednesday afternoon, April eighteenth, when a Virginia police officer told the world that NBC had received a so-called manifesto from the Virginia Tech gunman. We were told that the tape and the ramblings would help in the investigation. Within minutes of the news conference, some of the sick pictures that the gunman took of himself were released on an NBC Web site. Pretty soon, all the media had the images. Many newspapers decided to publish them on...

NOW: In Depth: Climate change An 'unequivocal' truth Global warming is man-made — and getting worse, scientists conclude CBC News, Feb. 2, 2007 .... but, barely a year before & prior to drinking the Goracle's kool-aid, CBC sang a completely different tune: As you can see for yourself: Doomsday called off (1/5)Doomsday called off (2/5)Doomsday called off (3/5)Doomsday called off (4/5)Doomsday called off (5/5) DOOMSDAY CALLED OFF Sunday November 27, 2005 at 7pm ET on CBC Newsworld In this eye-opening documentary viewers will discover how the most respected researchers from all over the world explode the doom and gloom...

THE NEW WORLD DISORDERReport: 'Free trade' enslaves poor nations Globalization benefits wealthy exporters at expense of farmers, workers, says Oxfam World Net Daily March 31, 2007 WASHINGTON – So-called "free trade" agreements are not free at all, victimizing the poor while benefiting the wealthy, says a new report by Oxfam International, the coalition fighting poverty, suffering and social injustice around the world. Nevertheless, a trend toward regional agreements and globalization continues, with an average of two bilateral or multilateral investment treaties being signed every week, according to the study. "In an increasingly globalized world, these agreements seek to benefit...

What's wrong with this picture? & Just How Islamized is 'The Guardian'? Muslim organization to address Jewish audience Associated Press of Pakistan, Pakistan - Mar 18, 2007 LONDON, March 18 (APP): Britain's leading Muslim organization will tomorrow signal a radical shift in its position when one of its senior members addresses ... MCB at JCC event Something Jewish British Muslims extend a friendly hand to Jews Guardian Unlimited Instead of the MINORITY Jewish organization having a clean foot a sane voice in the dirty hate empire of Islamofascistic 'mainstream Islam' that teaches that non Muslims are apes & pigs, What...

Whither Mother Corp? Lorne Gunter, National Post Published: Friday, February 16, 2007 There are probably more Canadians who complain about CBC television than actually watch it. The public network, which was already in ratings free fall before its month-long 2005 staff lockout, has seen its viewership numbers drop even faster since. On a typical evening, under 700,000 Canadians tune into the Ceeb for any part of prime time, down from about 900,000 prelockout and over 1.5 million a decade ago. Ratings both for original CBC programming and programs bought from abroad are pathetic. In 2005, when the network's mini-series...

The joke's on us Barbara Kay, National Post Published: Thursday, January 11, 2007 I caught the opening episode of CBC's Little Mosque on the Prairie Tuesday night. It wasn't quite as bad as I'd anticipated. That is to say, it's awful, but at least my worst fears were not realized: Thanks be to Allah, there are no Jews in this sitcom. So I was spared my fantasized plot thread of a young Muslim boy and a young Jewish boy -- the son of the local rabbi, of course -- who find some quarrel in a straw, but then, through...

U.S. deserves respect By MICHAEL COREN Toronto Sun Saturday, January 6, 2007 It was impossible not to see the obvious parallels between the deaths of despot Saddam Hussein and democratic Gerald Ford. The former was surrounded by insults and hatred, the latter by love and praise. Yet Saddam had decades to make the world a better place, Ford merely a few years. It's important that we don't merely attribute this to circumstance, accident or country. Because while the hyena of Iraq may have been particularly repugnant, there is hardly a leader anywhere in the Arab world whose death would...

What happened to crime and punishment? Judicial system is too lenient, but then again crime is not out of control in Canada The Edmonton Journal Fri 29 Dec 2006, Page: A16 Section: Opinion, Byline: Lorne Gunter In the debate over what to do about crime in Canada, I side with the law-and-order types (not surprisingly), but not on every issue. The get-tough-on-crime forces overstate the amount of crime in Canada. Some even play on public fear needlessly. Meanwhile, the lenient every-boy-a-good-boy camp ignores the true extent of crime in Canada, and overplays the amount of crime elsewhere (notably the...

The Glowing BBC's Journalist-PROPAGANDIST: Matthew Price on the dead in Gaza (Nov 2006)Don't these propapgandists ever have any brains how transparent they are? You could almost see it in Matthew's eyes how he was waiting for this moment, the moment he can damn Israel for daring to fight for it's survival. As the BBC testifies: "The BBC's Matthew Price was one of the first members of the world media to reach the scene the Beit Hanoun shelling". You didn't see him when Hamas told the Palestinian Arab women to serve as shields for the terrorists in Beit Hanoun. Because he...

Iraq: Full Coverage For a fine example of the media campaign against our government and our troops, see Yahoo's 'full coverage' of Iraq. Not one positive story, not one thing about our troops accomplishments.

Arabist Media, the Arab Muslim or/and it's Opinions Control on Worldwide MediaIf you thought Arabism & Islamism effects only in certain countries? Think again, it's dirty hands are all over the place, it's the BBC, (http://biased-bbc.blogspot.com), it's Reuters, it's the CNN, it's the NPR (http://nprsucks.com), it's the WashingtonPost (http://EyeOnThePost.org) and so on. Take for example the latest, a simple war on terror, a sinmple fighting back of Israeli defenders provoked by Hezbullah terrorists (Huzbullah invaded into Israel from S. Lebanon, 2006) that used their Arab brothers civilians as shields, whewre were the photos of Israeli kids in the hospitals from...

As the U.S. military death toll nears 2,700, daily bombings and shootings continue in Iraq with little hope for peace in the immediate future. What should the U.S. do? Stay the course. We need to remain in Iraq until a stable government has control of the country. Start withdrawing troops now and reduce the American presence over an extended period of time. Pull out our troops soon. We've done all we can. I'm not sure.

Filmmakers David Leaf and John Scheinfeld offer a compelling look at the efforts of the United States government to silence one of rock & roll's most outspoken war critics in this documentary detailing the Vietnam-era struggle between the Richard Nixon administration and iconic peace activist John Lennon. The Vietnam War was raging and the nightly news was filled with stories of failed offensives and massacred U.S. troops. As anti-war protests back home gained momentum, it was the hopeful voice of former Beatle Lennon that served to perfectly encapsulate the frustrations felt by many citizens that the U.S. had gotten caught...

Reuters Photo Fraud, nothing new! Dear friends, The blogosphere expressed a level of surprise when Reuters was caught falsifying and staging photos, seeming to completely integrate into the Hezballywod propaganda machine. I have been loading my archive history, and came across Reuters complicity in anti-Israel propaganda early in 2001. See http://dfrankfurter.livejournal.com/2001/02/21/ - exposing staged photography by Reuters journalist Suhaib Salem, with a blatantly misleading caption. And a Google search on the man stumbled over the following piece from the Wall Street Journal of a year and a half later. Wonder what motivates Reuters? Monday, June 3, 2002 2:40 p.m. EDT...

Via email from: http://msliwa.com * For Interviews with key pro-democracy activists inside and outside of Lebanon, contact: Rev. Dr. Keith Roderick, 202-498-8644, keith.roderick@csi-usa.org IMMEDIATE RELEASE Christian Solidarity International (CSI) Contact: Rev. Dr. Keith Roderick, 202-498-8644, keith.roderick@csi-usa.org Hezbollah is Using Christian Villages to Shield its Military Operations in Violation of International Law WASHINGTON, August 1, 2006: Hezbollah is using Christian villages to shield its military operations against Israel. Southern Lebanese Christian villages, such as Ain Ebel, Rmeish, Alma Alshaab, and others are being used by Hezbollah terrorists for launching missile attacks. "Hezbollah is repeating the same pattern that it practiced against...

Gabrielle Goldwater's open letter to Prime Minister Olmert ........................... To Prime Minister Ehud Olmert eolmert@moital.gov.ilGeneva Switzerland August 14th 2006 Dear Mr. Olmert; It is with the utmost sadness as a Jew and Holocaust Survivor, that today I have to see that You surrendered our Jewish Homeland Security to an organization which in her deepest core, is anti-Semitic, and the most helpful tool serving Islamo Fascism - I talk about the UN and it's leader Sec. Gen. Kofi Annan. Looking back in history my father would turn in his grave knowing that Jews have NOT stood tall - but caved in...

Sacha's love letterHis father gave us the Charter of Rights.So what is Sacha Trudeau doing writing obsequious agitprop for a communist thug? Jonathan Kay National Post Tuesday, August 15, 2006 The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 rid the world of a political system that slaughtered tens of millions in purges, and sentenced hundreds of millions more to economic slavery. Less consequentially, communism's demise also spared the world of arts and letters one of the most appalling literary tropes known to history: the mythic communist hagiography. If you've ever travelled to a communist nation, or read its official...

"Civilians", "civilians", Is there any Huzbullah terrorist in Lebanon, CNN's Jim Clancy? Sickening CNN's "Know all" Jim Clancy's hammering us with that term "civilians" I was watching the repetitions of CNN's "report" made by Jim Clancy (he's also active on the 'Inside the middle east' with Hala Gorani), a report that was actually telling you one word, over and over again, "civilians", "civilians", he made sure we heard that it's "civilians". 1) How does Jim know who's a civilian or not, even Arabist BBC admitted that many are terrorists and they can't know for sure how many. 2) How about...

Does Israel have any children?Having watched TV lately, flooded with images of Arab civilians that their brothers - the Hezbollah love to use as shields to fire among/behind them. Being witness to the racist remark of the "moderate" Arab Muslim leader of Lebanon as a reaction to Israeli police hitting the criminal Jihadi murderers: 'Israel is a war machine'. Question: Is there such a thing as an Israeli child, an Israel woman, let alone an Israeli child injured from deliberate Arab Muslim "holy wars"? PS 100 Israeli civilians have beenb injured last week from Hezbollah shelling. Yes, accurate numbers, unlike...

REUTERS' HIJACKING LEBANON'S ANSWER TO THE UN? By Walid Phares A few hours after a Franco-American draft for a UN Security Council resolution was released, pro-Hezbollah lobbies and allies launched a campaign to hijack the response of Lebanon to the United Nations. As noted by seasoned observers the campaign started at the top with an alert release by News Agency Reuters written by Lin Noueihed. The article, put out early Sunday has reached the four corners of the Globe and its title has framed the position of the Lebanese people in a "no" to the UN expected resolution. Amazingly enough,...

The Dirty Picnic of the Washington Post What happens when (a typical lefty Arabist media like) the Washington Post "reports" "Palestinian" dirty propaganda as a "fact" and "quotes" a low-blogger to "back" it's point... http://blog.washingtonpost.com/worldopinionroundup/2006/06/the_hostage_and_the_picnic_1.htmlThe Hostage and the PicnicWashington Post, United States - Jun 29, 2006The US media coverage of the ongoing Israel incursion into Gaza "has been irresponsible ... civilians on a Gaza beach earlier in the month," says blogger Juan Cole ... As if we haven't had enough of the PALLYWOOD & "Palestinian" dirty tricks past & present, their continuously making themselves THE bitter joke on the entire...

News headline option # 1:http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-06-21T163058Z_01_L21879187343_RTRUKOC_0_US-MIDEAST.xml&archived=False Palestinian woman killed in Israeli air strike Reuters News headline option # 2:http://english.people.com.cn/200606/21/eng20060621_275982.html Palestinian militant killed by Israeli troops in W.Bank You be the judge.

KurdishMedia World hails al-Zarqawi's deathNEWS.com.au, Australia - THE most-wanted man in the Middle East, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, has been killed in a US air strike northeast of Baghdad, capping a massive three-year manhunt ... Al Qaeda chief Zarqawi killed in Iraq ABC Online Abu Musab al-Zarqawi killed in air raid National PostAl-Zarqawi: From Jordan streets to war symbol Ireland Online Reuters - National Post Scotsman World reacts to al-Zarqawi deathCNN - 53 minutes agoAl-Zarqawi is seen in an image from a video aired in April by the Al-Jazeera network. "Today, Zarqawi has been killed. Every time ... Zarqawi leaves gap...

Remember those January newspaper headlines heralding the survival of... 12 trapped miners in West Virginia? ... but only one miner had actually survived. ... reporters failed their journalistic responsibility, and this penchant to rush to judgment before all the facts are verified is again occurring on two recent hot button issues... ...one that is being disgracefully hyped by Rep. John Murtha, who has just been salivating for another My Lai incident to bolster his call for our retreat from Iraq. "Civilians in Haditha murdered by Marines," the headlines screamed, and of course a case still under investigation was tried in...

The major newspapers around the nation are all chirping in harmony that all is well in newspaper-world: the Audit Bureau of Circulation's report showing huge declines in the nation's largest cities' largest newspapers are only down because internet news readership is up. Don't believe it. Two seemingly contraditory trends are happening at once: Readership is down the most in precisely the areas where the network effect would most help newspapers establish a dominance through synergism with their web sites and their hardcopy readerships: the large, urban markets. At the same time, readership is holding steady the best at newspapers whose...

    ABC News has suspended for one month without pay John Green, executive producer of the weekend edition of "Good Morning America," because of an e-mail he wrote. I say "an" e-mail, even though Mr. Green wrote at least two that have recently come to light. More about the second e-mail in a moment.     The first e-mail, published on the Drudge Report Web site, was written by Mr. Green to a colleague during the first 2004 presidential debate. It said: "Are you watching this? Bush makes me sick. If he uses the 'mixed messages' line one more time, I'm going to...

President Bush prepares to take questions from the MSM

It is fitting in more ways than one that Ted Koppel devotes the final program in his 26-year reign on ABC's "Nightline" to the charming sociology professor who died from Lou Gehrig's disease and inspired Mitch Albom's "Tuesdays with Morrie." The three 1995 "Nightline" shows in which Koppel talked with Morrie Schwartz about living life and coping with death were among the most memorable of his 6,500 programs. Additionally, his last show, which airs at 11:35 tonight on Channel 7, will show "Nightline" fans what they will be missing with Koppel's departure: The time to devote to one captivating story...

Despite the distribution of a video of the Arab suicide bomber who intended to blow up a hospital by the IDF, nearly all foreign news agencies chose to boycott the story altogether. An outraged former undersecretary to US President Ronald Reagan and candidate for Republican Presidential nominee, Gary Bauer wrote a scathing critique of the world media’s decision to avoid the story. Excerpts from Bauer’s letter: ”If you don't get the Fox News Channel then you didn't see any of the dramatic footage of the Israeli army's arrest yesterday of a 21-year old, female Palestinian homicide-bomber, strapped with 25 pounds...

I have a few friends who think that liberal media bias is a conservative myth. They obstinately cling to the explanation that biased people see bias in the news when they're offended by the target of the story. I'm willing to concede that their argument has merit, but it doesn't invalidate the claim that the collective American press is slanted to the left. When I present them with countless examples of skewed reporting, they always retreat to debunking the ridiculous idea of there being a secret journalistic society that coordinates hit pieces and represses news benefitting Republicans. I repeatedly describe...

  MSNBC.comCalif. student gets 8 years for SUV vandalism Sentenced for 2003 spree that torched Hummers, other gas guzzlersReuters Updated: 9:45 p.m. ET April 18, 2005 LOS ANGELES - An aspiring physicist was sentenced to more than eight years in prison on Monday and ordered to pay $3.5 million for his role in a spree of arson and vandalism that targeted gas-guzzling Hummers and other sports utility vehicles.Rejecting pleas for clemency from William Cottrell, a 24-year-old doctoral candidate in physics at the California Institute of Technology, U.S. District Judge Gary Klausner added more time to the sentence after finding that Cottrell...

My wife and I looked in the paper today to see the latest in our favorite conservative comic strip, "Prickly City". But today it wasn't there, this explanation was offered instead: "Today's Prickly City strip does not meet the Chicago Tribune's standards of fairness. please enjoy this substitute." Here is a link to todays strip-- http://www.ucomics.com/pricklycity/

Polluters of US Perceptions Linda S. Heard • solitairemedia@yahoo.co.uk CAIRO, 28 December 2004 — The results of a recent US nationwide poll, conducted by Cornell University, are shocking. Can you believe that in the “land of the free” almost half believe the civil liberties of American-Muslims should be restricted? Most enthusiastic to single out Muslims were religious Republicans, and frequent watchers of television news channels. While more than a quarter of all respondents thought Muslims should be required to register their home addresses with the government, while almost one third supported the covert infiltration of Muslim organizations within the US....

The Osama bin Laden video tape was big news in the final days of the campaign, and this news event was spun by the media so as not to benefit Bush. A Washington Post story by Dana Priest and Walter Pincus said that bin Laden had "injected himself into the final days of the U.S. presidential campaign, warning that American voters will be held accountable for electing any president who seeks to destroy al Qaeda and persecutes Muslims." But near the end of the article, if you read that far, the authors cited evidence that bin Laden was on the...

I also want to see the female body that had her face disfigured along with the removal of her arms and legs, and she was also disemboweled. They won't show these things on television, but they love to show a Marine trying to protect himself from a possible booby trap.

President: John Kerry In a national election, national perspective must prevail Every parochial reason argues for Alaskans to lean toward George Bush in Tuesday's presidential election. He is a vociferous advocate of oil production from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. He just signed a bill with significant federal incentives for a natural gas pipeline from the North Slope. He listens to Alaska's elder statesman, Ted Stevens, on everything from missile defense to fisheries policy. And he helps our senior senator deliver the federal dollar back home to build a state that still lacks infrastructure and amenities taken for granted everywhere...

I just called Tim Curley, CEO and President of AP 1-212-621-7550 I asked him why the AP has not requested Kerry's Military records. He said "we have looked at them all and found nothing" I asked how he could read them all if Kerry hasn't signed Form 180 allowing his records to be released? Silence. I went on to say that Kerry's own biographer has advised Kerry to sign Form 180 and release his records. (I got a few ums with this) I asked if he thinks we are all stupid and will believe whatever the AP writes, for example...

Posted on Thu, Aug. 19, 2004 SqueezedMiddle class moving backward financially If middle-class Americans feel like they are getting the squeeze, there's a reason: They are. Not only are they now shouldering a bigger share of the tax burden, but the gap between them and wealthy Americans is widening.Add in stagnant wages, outsourcing and soaring costs for health care, college tuition and gasoline, and many middle-class families are moving backward financially, while the rich are getting richer.How is that fair?Part of the shift is linked to President Bush's tax cuts. Those with incomes in the top 1 percent saved...

Some families of Sep. 11th victims as well as Democrats are upset that President Bush used some clips of Ground Zero in his new campaign ads. Watch them yourself and see if he really was exploiting the deaths of three thousand people. They were tastefully done. There were no pictures of the planes crashing into the twin towers, and there weren't any shots of the towers crashing down. To critics it seems Sep. 11 has to fall into the memory hole, or only victims and their families have the right to use those horrible images. Lucy Willett said, "He [Bush]...

WASHINGTON - In a sign of how Republicans may try to quell criticism of prewar intelligence in Iraq (news - web sites), the head of the House Intelligence Committee tried Wednesday to direct blame to the Clinton administration.