http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/enemedia/ en-us Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:04:51 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050732/posts The first in a three part series on why to vote against Sen. Barack Obama and for Sen. John McCain. Will America elect an inexperienced Chicago machine politician, a radical, extremist, leftist, liberal, elitist, with no legislative or other accomplishments, who has demonstrated he is a world-class flip-flopping zigzagger? Will we go for someone with a painfully thin resume and body of experience, who has already demonstrated bad judgment by his selection of associates (racists, bigots, terrorists, and crooks) and by his output of ideas? This candidate is totally unfit to be our commander-in-chief and president in a time of... The Bulletin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050732/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:04:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050371/posts American pop culture has skewed the public’s view of what makes a hero in today’s world and what types of behavior make a person worthy of our attention and accolades. Those who contribute to the greatness of our country are largely ignored by the media who worship the cult of celebrity. Most Americans are familiar with the latest celebrity scandal; they can recite the particulars of the latest Hollywood divorce and Rattle off a list of “American Idol” winners. They know who set the new home run record or led his team to a Super Bowl victory. But if asked... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050371/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:37:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048081/posts The Afghan journalist who filmed and photographed the July 12 execution of two women by the Taliban says he was detained and held for two days by authorities in Afghanistan for suspected ties to terrorists. The footage and photographs of the executions were distributed by the Associated Press and widely circulated on the Internet, giving rise to suspicions that the photographer, Rahmatullah Naikzad, was connected with the Taliban. In an exclusive telephone interview, Naikzad told FOXNews.com that he turned himself in to Afghan authorities early this week and was held in custody and investigated for 48 hours. He said officials... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048081/posts#comment Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:11:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047551/posts This column will demonstrate how the Democratic Party and its candidate for president, Sen. Barack Obama, base their proposed foreign policy and their approach to the war in Iraq on lies and misconceptions. The Democratic Party and Mr. Obama are simply confused, perhaps deliberately so, about why we went to war in Iraq, and have ignored the clear and unambiguous facts and the record. The Democrats and their candidate are caught up in the sweet sounds of fancy oratory and soaring rhetoric, and have little room for hard facts or cold reality. Ironically, if the Democrats would finally face the... The Bulletin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047551/posts#comment Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:19:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044717/posts At long last, has the Associated Press lost all sense of decency? The AP's story (saved here for future reference in case the wire service is embarrassed into revising it; you might consider saving it too as Exhibit A on how far over the cliff the dinosaur media has driven itself) by Douglass K. Daniel, with Jennifer Loven contributing (I might have known), gets in at least three cheap, fundamentally untrue, and totally uncalled-for shots at Tony Snow, who died earlier this morning. AP / Newsbusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044717/posts#comment Sun, 13 Jul 2008 08:00:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038876/posts FINDLAY, Ohio -- On his corner of College Street, Jim Peterman stares at the four American flags planted in his front lawn and rubs his forehead. Peterman, 74, is a retired worker at Cooper Tire, a father of two, an Air Force veteran and a self-described patriot. He took one trip to Washington in 1989 -- best vacation of his life -- and bought a statue of the Washington Monument that he still displays in a glass case in his living room. He believes a smart vote is an American's greatest responsibility. Which is why his confusion about Barack Obama... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038876/posts#comment Tue, 1 Jul 2008 00:10:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042394/posts Some advertisers spooked by bad press over China By Kevin Downey Jul 8, 2008 In just one month, on Aug. 8, NBC will begin airing the Summer Olympics from China, but from the looks of things it's not shaping up all that well for NBC as it attempts to sell its remaining ad inventory. At the least, the Games are looking to be a disappointment for the network, say media buyers. A lot will depend on how viewers and advertisers respond to the Olympic trials now airing. Ad spending will most likely fall short of NBC’s goal of more than... Media Life http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042394/posts#comment Tue, 8 Jul 2008 14:47:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041827/posts There are critically important issues that aren't getting the attention they deserve. They are closely related but can be stated and analyzed separately: * One is the bias of the mainstream media, which floods us with dishonest and fraudulent journalism that gives us a false picture of the world. This leads to the wrong decisions on public policy questions. * Another is the willingness of the mainstream media to reveal national security secrets. The mainstream media led by the New York Times has developed a penchant for putting national security secrets on the front-page for no good reason. *Still another... The Bulletin (PA) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041827/posts#comment Mon, 7 Jul 2008 14:33:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041130/posts In a report on Monday’s "The Situation Room" purporting to clarify how Barack Obama "really voted on abortion" (as the graphic on-screen at right stated), CNN correspondent Carol Costello misconstrued the Democrat’s stance on legislation during his time in the Illinois state senate that would have protected infants that survived abortions.Besides the two votes specifically mentioned by Costello in the report, Obama also voted against it at the committee level, and when he was committee chair, denied a simple up or down vote on the legislation. The CNN correspondent also misrepresented the apparent pro-life stance of pro-abortion senators like... Life News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041130/posts#comment Sat, 5 Jul 2008 16:29:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040454/posts New York, NY — The potentates who run the taxpayer-subsidized Corporation for Public Broadcasting have an exquisite sense of timing. To honor America's 232nd birthday, PBS is bracketing our nation's anniversary with a three-part documentary on the horrors of warfare in the 20th Century. Regrettably, nearly two-thirds of the series is a dubious assessment of American motives and methods during and after World War II. Given that we are at war against brutal adversaries who despise our belief in being endowed by our "Creator with certain unalienable rights" — as in "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" — the... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040454/posts#comment Thu, 3 Jul 2008 22:14:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038991/posts Life on the fringes of U.S. suburbia becomes untenable with rising gas costs ELIZABETH, Colorado: Suddenly, the economics of American suburban life are under assault as skyrocketing energy prices inflate the costs of reaching, heating and cooling homes on the outer edges of metropolitan areas. As the realization takes hold that rising energy prices are less a momentary blip than a restructuring with lasting consequences, the high cost of fuel is threatening to slow the decades-old migration away from cities, while exacerbating the housing downturn by diminishing the appeal of larger homes set far from urban jobs. [...] Some... International Herald Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038991/posts#comment Tue, 1 Jul 2008 04:43:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038674/posts John McCain and his wife failed to pay house taxes and owe more than $225,000 on credit cards, it has been revealed. Newsweek, which discovered that Senator McCain and his wife Cindy, a beer heiress worth an estimated $100 million, owed $6,744.42 in delinquent property taxes on a California home, commented acidly: "When you're poor, it can be hard to pay the bills. When you're rich, it's hard to keep track of all the bills that need paying." After the magazine told the McCain campaign about the tax debt most of it was paid off immediately and an aide said... Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038674/posts#comment Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:49:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038440/posts SOURCES: BUSH ANGER AT COMING NEW YORK TIMES STORY DETAILING HUNT FOR BIN LADEN... The newspaper planning to expose internal debate surrounding 'highly classified Pentagon order'; Special Operations forces hunt al-Qaida leader in mountains of Pakistan... DEVELOPING.... Thats the Story from drudge, OMG if the Times is gonna report this... Good GOD.... This is Huge. ( yea and Series) This is NOT a good thing for national Security and I am just a housewife. Even I can see and call a Traitor, a Traitor, but the Editor and the signing off authority that Prints this, to bee seen by the... http://www.drudgereport.com/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038440/posts#comment Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:09:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036994/posts Austin, TX — Our FOX News "War Stories" team came here to the capital of the Lone Star State to work on a documentary about America's 36th president to coincide with the 100th anniversary of his birth on August 27. Full disclosure here: Lyndon Baines Johnson was the commander-in-chief who sent me and one of my brothers to war in Vietnam. Because of the way he handled the war in Vietnam, LBJ has never been at the top of my list of favorite presidents. Apparently I'm not alone. Despite his sweeping civil rights reforms and far-reaching "Great Society" domestic programs,... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036994/posts#comment Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:56:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036191/posts The mainstream media continues to smear the American military. It ignores the presumption of innocence and need to apologize for false accusations. Here are five examples of the mainstream media coverage that conclusively proves how these major outlets have slipped into the journalistic garbage can, with dishonest, fraudulent, and biased reporting. The first four have been well documented in previous columns, and now I add a number "five": No. 1: The mainstream media disrespects our servicemen by either ignoring altogether or severely downplaying those who win the nation's highest award for heroism, the Medal of Honor. They put any military... The Bulletin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036191/posts#comment Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:45:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034733/posts In an astonishing stroke of irony, the New York Times has outed the name of the CIA operative who interrogated 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, over the objections of CIA Director Michael V. Hayden and a lawyer representing the operative. Agency officials and legal counsel told the Times that publishing the agent's name would "invade his privacy and put him at risk of retaliation from terrorists or harassment from critics of the agency." In an Editor's Note linked from the story on KSM's interrogation, the Times defended its decision by stating that "other government employees" had been "named publicly in... NewsBusters.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034733/posts#comment Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:49:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033843/posts CBS News sinks to new low; publishes crackpot global warming story, attributes it to Associated Press, kills it with no retraction Yesterday I posted a story from CBS News: Quake n’ Bake: Global Warming Causes More Energetic Earthquakes? The main headline was this: Seismic Activity 5 Times More Energetic Than 20 Years Ago Because Of Global Warming This drew a lot of attention because of the total lack of verifiable science associated with it. I posted some graphs of USGS data showing that the opposite was true, that recent earthquake energy was actually less that in the early 1900’s, and... Watts Up With That? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033843/posts#comment Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:52:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032217/posts In the name of "defin[ing] clear standards as to how much of its articles and broadcasts bloggers and Web sites can excerpt" the Associated Press is now selling "quotation licenses" that allow bloggers, journallers, and people who forward quotations from articles to co-workers to quote their articles. The licenses start at $12.50 for quotations of 5-25 words. The licensing system exhorts you to snitch on people who publish without paying the blood-money, offering up to $1 million in reward money (they also think that "fair use" -- the right to copy without permission -- means "Contact the owner of... Boing Boing http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032217/posts#comment Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:42:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2028084/posts A California group is running a radio ad that uses Barack Obama’s former minister and Nebraska’s only black state senator to take aim at affirmative action in the state. The ad, which includes a clip of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright saying “God damn America,’’ says Wright and Nebraska Sen. Ernie Chambers believe in race preferences, but most Nebraskans don’t... The American Civil Rights Initiative, which is sponsoring the ad, is pushing measures in several states, including Nebraska, that oppose affirmative action, which the group says gives preferential treatment on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin. The... The Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2028084/posts#comment Mon, 9 Jun 2008 00:06:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026699/posts The same network newscasts that hyped the 2005 "alleged massacre" by U.S. soldiers in Haditha are so far ignoring the acquittal on all charges of Lieutenant Andrew Grayson on Thursday. Grayson was accused of attempting to cover up details of the events surrounding a raid that lead to the death of 15 Iraqis. However, Grayson's acquittal was skipped by ABC's "Good Morning America," CBS's "Early Show" and NBC's "Today" show. (CNN's "American Morning" covered the story only as a news brief.) In contrast, the morning shows seemed much more interested in the subject back when dark allegations were made about the actions... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026699/posts#comment Thu, 5 Jun 2008 21:30:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025091/posts One look at statistics — from GDP growth to the unemployment rate — and it's obvious this isn't the worst economic time in U.S. history. But it might be the worst journalistically. The major media give us only two degrees of economic news — close to "apocalyptic" and worse. They are so outlandishly negative that coverage of the Bear Stearns buyout was vastly worse than reporting of the 1929 stock market crash. As the stock market reeled from the Bear Stearns collapse back in March, ABC News asked: Is the "economy heading over a cliff?" Journalists made it seem so,... IBD http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025091/posts#comment Tue, 3 Jun 2008 01:22:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023344/posts Washington, DC — When the so-called mainstream media doesn’t want you to know something they simply spike the story – meaning they just don’t cover it. That’s what’s happened to the good news from Iraq. American Heroes in flak jackets and helmets and their Iraqi counterparts are asserting rule of law for millions of grateful Iraqi civilians once tyrannized by Al Qaeda terrorists and Shiite militias. In short, we are winning. That’s the good news that isn’t news. Then there is the bad news that isn’t news. This includes stories about the United Nations interfering in U.S. domestic politics; Iranian... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023344/posts#comment Fri, 30 May 2008 02:52:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2022962/posts To date, not one "mainstream media" journalist has pressed the leading advocates of unconditional surrender to describe in detail what might happen after we "bring the troops home now." There's plenty of unchallenged sloganeering, but no serious debate. This selective political softball and pep-rally journalism serves neither our country nor our political process well. So, let's bring those quit-Iraq time-travelers back to mid-2008 and fill them in on what's happened since they were ideologically stranded five years ago: * After our troops reached Baghdad, al Qaeda's leaders made a colossal strategic miscalculation and publicly declared that Iraq was now the... NEW YORK POST http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2022962/posts#comment Thu, 29 May 2008 14:51:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2022422/posts Probably almost everyone is familiar with the hyperinflationary episode that engulfed Germany after the First World War. That nation’s economy was crippled by monetary problems that resulted in dreadful personal hardships, even though up to that time Germany had achieved one of the highest living standards in the world. The newly formed German government, named for the city where their constitution was drafted after the Kaiser’s abdication in 1918, kept pumping up the money supply. The process started relatively slowly, but quickly the pace of money creation accelerated. The Weimar government was paying its bills on credit – just like... Kitco http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2022422/posts#comment Wed, 28 May 2008 13:45:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2021618/posts NEW YORK - NBC News has managed to achieve the near-impossible this election season in getting Hillary Rodham Clinton and George Bush to agree on something. That something, however, is antipathy toward NBC News. Through its unusual public criticism of NBC's handling of Richard Engel's interview with the president, the Bush administration struck at the soft white underbelly of the news division's co-existence with the opinionated personalities of MSNBC. "I'm sure you don't want people to conclude that there is really no distinction between the `news' as reported on NBC and the `opinion' as reported on MSNBC, despite the increasing... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2021618/posts#comment Mon, 26 May 2008 22:42:00 GMT