http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/enemedia/ en-us Mon, 6 Jul 2009 14:23:59 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286479/posts ...snip....TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – Already volatile Honduras slid toward greater instability after soldiers blocked an airport runway to keep ousted President Manuel Zelaya from returning, and protests that had remained largely peaceful yielded their first death. ...snip...Critics feared Zelaya might try to extend his rule and cement presidential power in ways similar to what his ally Chavez has done in Venezuela — though Zelaya denied that. But instead of prosecuting him or trying to defeat him at the ballot box, masked soldiers flew the president out of the country at gunpoint, and Congress installed Micheletti in his place. ...snip..."This is a... Yahoo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286479/posts#comment Mon, 6 Jul 2009 14:23:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286071/posts Eight days before the election, I spent 20 minutes alone with Sarah Palin on her campaign bus between rallies in Leesburg, Va., and Fredericksburg, George Washington's childhood home. Our encounter brought to mind a crusty Texas editor's description of politicians who didn't know what they didn't know: Delusions of adequacy. By then, John McCain's handlers were so spooked by the disastrous Katie Couric interview they'd hermetically sealed his running mate from media interrogators. But Tucker Eskew, the savvy Republican operative running her road show, graciously offered some "face time" - if our conversation was off the record. Reluctantly, I took... New York Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286071/posts#comment Sun, 5 Jul 2009 20:15:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283851/posts On the same day Republicans surrendered a symbolically significant seat in the Senate, the Sarah Palin wars erupted again inside the party. Leaks followed by trash-talking followed by recriminations. The latest Palin flare-up began in Vanity Fair with a lengthy article by Todd S. Purdum examining the Alaska governor's past and her potential future. The controversy migrated instantly to the Web and the blogs -- it was, in fact, made for the viral communication that dominates today's politics -- and became even more intense, nasty and personal. The Palin controversy highlights personal enmities and strategic disagreements among Republicans. The victory... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283851/posts#comment Thu, 2 Jul 2009 04:11:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283342/posts (snip) But I asked one of the senior McCain campaign officials who worked closest with Palin what he thought of the article, by e-mail last night and then this morning over the phone. He e-mailed back immediately, calling the article "absolutely fascinating" and "completely riveting." "While the Palin camp is surely marshaling the torches and pitchforks and baying for blood by now, my hope is that somehow — against the odds -- Palin is able to draw some sort of lesson out of all of this that helps her find a way to exist peacefully in the public space. It... The Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283342/posts#comment Wed, 1 Jul 2009 16:10:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282739/posts ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says she'd come out ahead if she went one-on-one with fellow jogger President Barack Obama in a long run, according to an interview published online Tuesday. "I betcha I'd have more endurance," she told Runner's World magazine. "My one claim to fame in my own little internal running circle is a sub-four marathon. What I lacked in physical strength or skill, I made up for in determination and endurance." Palin, a 45-year-old former beauty queen who became the first woman and youngest person to be elected Alaska's governor, is featured in the... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282739/posts#comment Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:21:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282637/posts ‘Meet John Doe’ and the Old Fakearoo Posted By Michael McGruther On June 30, 2009 @ 11:10 am In Classic Hollywood | No Comments Dear Reader, Do you have a little time to sit back and examine a classic movie that will absolutely shock you when seen through the prism of now? This is not my typical short article or essay. This is my own argument that what occurs in the 1941 picture “Meet John Doe” is exactly what has come to pass in America today with the Democratic Congress and their Presidential puppet. All the players and plays... BigHollywood.Breitbart.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282637/posts#comment Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:40:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281900/posts A black topless dancer lies about a rape that never happened. Three young white men are brought up on the charges and brought to the brink of having their lives totally ruined. Al Sharpton marches. (And he still never apologized). The media sings loudly. Now, the media is silent. And this case should get just as much publicity as any other. But it won't. It won't because it involves a homosexual researcher from the University who molested his own adopted five year old son. ...and also gave offered him out to other homosexual pedophiles online who wished to molest him.... Town Hall http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281900/posts#comment Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:29:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281901/posts With a change in directions so sharp that it could give observers whiplash, Arianna Huffington is defending the carefully orchestrated question posed by a Huffington Post writer at the presidential news conference last week. After braying criticism during the Bush administration over perceived coziness between the press and the White House, she is now defending the HuffPo's hand in glove--or should I say, hand on keyboard--cooperation with.... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281901/posts#comment Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:32:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281640/posts Back in 2008, New York Times correspondent David S. Rohde, along with Afghan reporter Taki Luden, were abducted in Pakistan by the Taliban. Because they felt it might adversely affect hostage rescue efforts, the Times requested a news black-out. The Associated Press and other news agencies respected the request and only broke the story recently, after Rohde and Luden had scaled a wall and made their escape. It would be nothing other than a story with a happy ending, except that the Times has time and again ignored the government’s requests that it not report the specific ways in which... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281640/posts#comment Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:01:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281243/posts A new and even more scandalous rape allegation has surfaced at Duke University. Yet the usual media and campus PC crowd are keeping mighty quiet. Identity politics apparently trumps all sense of outrage. Of course, after the disgraceful media and university reaction to the phony allegations against Duke Lacrosse team members, it is wise avoid jumping to conclusions, but the comparative silence on the current case is nonetheless remarkable, considering how many particulars of the case were left out of the main AP account. Mike Adams, writing on Townhall, lays out the facts the MSM won't: Frank Lombard is the... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281243/posts#comment Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:07:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278876/posts The fickle and tunnel-visioned western media apparently has had it’s fill. For days the nation watched mesmerized as Iranian demonstrators, under physical and police assault, smuggled out news via the New Age Internet media even professional journalists couldn’t match.Yesterday and today… sans any shocking bloody videos to show… US news has turned it’s eye away from Iran and the citizens fight for fair elections and the right of free speech.Just because the media’s eye isn’t focused, doesn’t mean Iran is quiet and banking on the Ayatollah’s five day election review extension. In fact, since they certified Ahmadinejad as the winner... Flopping Aces http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278876/posts#comment Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:40:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2278383/posts Last year during the height of the Democratic presidential primary, I produced a video mash-up that captured the media's infatuation with then-candidate Barack Obama. The video features glowing broadcast segments, news clips and magazine covers about Obama set to the audio of The B-52s singing their 1980s hit, "Love Shack." With ABC News headed to President Obama's love shack today for a one-sided special report on healthcare policy, the video seems even more relevant now than last March. Enjoy! Accuracy In Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2278383/posts#comment Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:21:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2277700/posts I heard ABC News report on the radio at 2:00 PM today that made me sick. They had "sources" that stated that the "Neda" video of her being shot and dying on the street "was definitely not from an Iranian security force" and "appeared to be staged to get international attention". I guess I can't be too surprised. The liberals at ABC News are running propoganda broadcasts for Obama, so why not for the Iranian dictators? Besides, that fight for freedom in Iran is none of our business. ABC and the rest of the American left need to squelch it... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2277700/posts#comment Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:22:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2276950/posts It takes a village. GMA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2276950/posts#comment Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:13:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276875/posts Good Morning America's Diane Sawyer popped up on Sunday's Reliable Sources and swore that ABC's much-scrutinized health care special with President Obama "won't be an infomercial." She also seriously touted the objectivity of the network, cheering, "I know that our network has worked very, very hard to be completely-completely responsible and fair and serious about big issues." NewsBusters.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276875/posts#comment Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:08:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2276820/posts The reader might be warned that reading this San Francisco Chronicle Father's Day piece serves as a most perfect emetic. In fact, it's a wonder that writer Jennifer Weiss could type with all those stars in her eyes. Her Father's Day adulation of Obama is so over-the-top that Obama suddenly becomes the "father of our country," and is determined to have "super-dad status." The most offensive part of this piece is, of course, the aforementioned assigning to Obama of the role of "father of our country." There is only one father of our country and that is George Washington, war... Publius' Forum http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2276820/posts#comment Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:58:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276328/posts People on the government’s terrorist watch list tried to buy guns nearly 1,000 times in the last five years, and federal authorities cleared the purchases 9 times out of 10 because they had no legal way to stop them, according to a new government report. In one case, a person on the list was able to buy more than 50 pounds of explosives. The new statistics, compiled in a report from the Government Accountability Office that is scheduled for public release next week, draw attention to an odd divergence in federal law: people placed on the government’s terrorist watch list... NYT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276328/posts#comment Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:02:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276807/posts (In the interest of full disclosure, I acknowledge upfront that a constitutional law professor and unabashed freedom lover wrote the following column.) NBC pawns off a White House tour as news. Former journalists, including Linda Douglas, Jay Carney, and Tom Brokaw, are officially on the White House payroll. ABC provides a valuable prime-time slot so the Obama administration can air a healthcare infomercial. What’s going on here? An Obama takeover of the media, that’s what. Just another industry notch in the president’s belt? Newsmax http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276807/posts#comment Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:41:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276455/posts The BBC is refusing to admit wrongdoing by manipulating this Iran protest photo. Only to say- "We wrongly stated that this was a pro-Mousavi rally when in fact it was a pro-Ahmadinejad rally." http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276455/posts#comment Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:28:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2274871/posts Report: News Legend Walter Cronkite Gravely Ill By TAMER EL-GHOBASHY Updated 9:00 PM EDT, Thu, Jun 18, 2009 American journalism legend, Walter Cronkite, is nearing death and CBS News has been scrambling to update the 92-year-old's obituary, Mediabistro.com reported Thursday. The former anchor of "CBS Evening News" is gravely ill, according to TVNewser, a news blog on Mediabistro.com that cited several sources at CBS News. The Los Angeles Times reported that rumors surrounding Cronkite's health began swirling when CBS began calling other top TV anchors for quotes and comments on Cronkite's career. CBS News declined to comment on Cronkite's condition.... nbcphiladelphia.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2274871/posts#comment Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:29:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276068/posts This is from the "Preface" of William McGowan's highly acclaimed book, "Coloring the News," in which he shows how affirmative action can result in death. It's the story of one Patrick Chavis, an unqualified black who was granted admission to the University of California at Davis Medical School under a special minority preference program. He "bumped out" a qualified white student, Allan Bakke. Bakke was admitted to another medical school and became a successful physician. But Chavis had a notorious practice and his incompetence disfigured and actually killed patients. Above all, it's the story of how the MSM served as... Coloring the News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276068/posts#comment Sun, 21 Jun 2009 01:15:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275515/posts We hear Platinum Equity has been doing some serious tire kicking at the bankrupt Sun-Times Media Group, which is not only ready but eager to deal. Platinum Equity is a Beverly Hills-based private-equity company that, in its own words, finds itself "typically working with 'strategic sellers' that seek to shed a non-core asset in order to refocus their business operations." The STMG is willing to shed everything -- in one swoop or in bits and pieces. This March Platinum Equity bought the formerly prosperous, influential San Diego Union-Tribune -- for what online newspaper analyst Ken Doctor said was reportedly a... The Chicago Reader http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275515/posts#comment Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:19:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2274535/posts The New York Times finally got around to reporting that the White House fired Inspector General Gerald Walpin, a week after it happened, when the Associated Press — to which the Times belongs — first put in on the wires. They managed to include the Obama administration’s accusation of mental illness, and even threw in the part about Senators Claire McCaskill and Charles Grassley objecting to the firing. But what did Neil Lewis and the Times forget to include in the story (via The Right Scoop)? The White House said Wednesday that President Obama had dismissed a government agencyÂ’s internal... Hot Air http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2274535/posts#comment Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:32:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2274563/posts ABC network has denied the Republican National Committee the opportunity to advertise during the White House’s presentation on health care reform. With General Motors, banks, and health care at his fingertips, it's not surprising that media is to follow. It's just unfortunate that ABC is so willing to oblige. It's probably just a coincidence that Obama's Director of Communications for the Office of Health Reform is Linda Douglass, a former long time reporter for ABC news... The Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2274563/posts#comment Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:05:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2274501/posts After yesterday's news that the Finance Committe would be delaying its health care legislation while they try to slash $600 billion from a draft of the bill that was priced at $1.6 trillion by the Congressional Budget Office, liberal journalists are getting nervous. American Spectator http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2274501/posts#comment Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:49:34 GMT