http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/mediabias/ en-us Sun, 3 Jan 2010 01:41:39 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419777/posts As you start to read all this, you'll laugh at how incestuous it all gets. Let's start with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which as I've noted in the past is tied in with the Soros foundation. Together, the two worked on something called The Project on Death in America.(PDIA) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2341083/posts And speaking of Mr Soros, he himself(his foundations) have given directly to NPR. Compared to some of the other numbers I'm seeing, it's a small amount of $250,000. But it doesn't matter. Soros money is soros money in my book. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2396058/posts Additional information about RWJF can be found here.... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419777/posts#comment Sun, 3 Jan 2010 01:41:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418337/posts From radical advisers in the Obama White House to hacked e-mails showing questionable work by climate scientists, 2009 has seen its share of scandals. But if you only followed the mainstream media, you might have missed some of the biggest stories of the year. Here's a list of the top nine stories the mainstream media ignored in the past year. (Slideshow at link) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418337/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:09:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418070/posts ...a sign when President Obama delayed his Hawaiian vacation until the Senate passed the healthcare bill: There wasn’t going to be a whole lot of relaxing going on this Christmas. Sure, there’s been the requisite Hawaiian vacation activities -- golf, basketball, tennis, picnics and snorkeling, but for every minute of fun, the president has had hours and hours of briefings and secure conference calls. SNIP Even without politics, Obama’s days are frenzied. He works out at the Marine Corps Base before dawn every morning, including Christmas Day. On Sunday, a day many people might watch football and sleep in, Obama... Los Angeles Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418070/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 01:53:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2418022/posts Here is video of Chris Matthews, Steve Kornaki, and Jonathan Martin discussing "Politifact's" biggest "political lies" of the year. Politifact named Joe Wilson one of the biggest liars for shouting out "you lie" while Obama was speaking and "the lie of the year" went to Sarah Palin for claiming that there will be "death panels" as a result of the Democrats' Health Care legislation. . . . (VIDEO) Freedom's Lighthouse http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2418022/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:23:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2417998/posts Several times each day, I find in my inbox one of those "must-forward" e-mails from some well-intentioned person upset with someone or something. Usually, I delete them quickly. Today, however, I felt compelled to share excerpts (below) from one such message that uses rhetorical questions to slam the media bias apparent when one compares coverage of President Barack Obama to that given President George W. Bush. Bob McCarty Writes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2417998/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:50:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417820/posts Some Obama defenders are sending around new articles from the Huffington Post and the Politico arguing that President Obama is being subjected to a double standard of criticism for his handling of the Detroit terrorism incident.In "Obama takes the heat President Bush did not," the Politico's Josh Gerstein writes that when shoe-bomber Richard Reid struck on December 22, 2001, "it was six days before President George W. Bush, then on vacation, made any public remarks…and there were virtually no complaints from the press or any opposition Democrats that his response was sluggish or inadequate." Now, Gerstein continues, despite "striking" similarities... Washington Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417820/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:23:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2417856/posts You can bet your bottom dollar that the Democrats are already planning for 2012. In fact, President “I’d Rather Be Campaigning” still has his political organization mobilized and working toward his re-election. If Obama is to be defeated in 2012, the GOP had better start girding its loins now for a massive fight to take back the country. And it will be a fight. We have all seen the new “transparency” that President Obama has brought to the White House. It’s a style strangely reminiscent of Chicago bare-knuckles “they send one of yours to the hospital, you send one of... Grand Rants http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2417856/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:10:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416929/posts From President Barack Obama's historic inauguration to Tiger Woods' surreal fall from grace, 2009 has proved to be a tumultuous time in American history. As the year comes to a close, we take a look back at the political controversies, celebrity scandals, and public outrages that most defined the end of this decade. JanuaryOBAMA INAUGURATION STIRS RACIAL TENSIONS With the economy teetering on the edge of collapse, the nation's first African-American president is sworn into office under what many commentators consider the most difficult domestic circumstances since the Great Depression. His skin color continues to provoke debate: While Rush Limbaugh... The Week http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416929/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:42:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416885/posts If there was ever a textbook example of kissing up to a host in a television interview, Rep. Jim Moran, D-Va., gave a demonstration on MSNBC's "The Ed Show." During the Dec. 28 broadcast, Moran, who represents a district that is just a stone's throw away from the U.S. Capitol, encouraged "The Ed Show" host Ed Schultz to keep pushing for the public option as part of health care reform, even though it is losing support as being essential in the U.S. House of Representatives. "You've got to keep up the pressure, Ed," Moran said. "You know, they pay much... Newsbusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416885/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:47:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416394/posts The bitterness toward the tea party movement continues to go on and on. Case in point - Chicago Tribune columnist Clarence Page, who on the Dec. 27 broadcast of "The McLaughlin Group," deemed it "The Most Defining Political Moment" of 2009, but refused to call it the "tea party." Instead, he granted the movement the preferred name by the left-leaning cable network MSNBC, the "teabaggers" and somehow devised the notion that the movement "asked for" the derogatory name. "The backlash movement known as the ‘teabaggers,' who kind of asked for that name and now they regret it," Page said. ...more... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416394/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:15:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2416314/posts Let's compare media reactions http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2416314/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:24:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416143/posts Winning Quotes in the MRC's Best of NQ Annual Awards for the Year's Worst Reporting By: Brent Baker December 28, 2009 02:10 ET   The winning quotes in the MRC's “Best Notable Quotables of 2009: The Twenty-Second Annual Awards for the Year's Worst Reporting.” As announced in a CyberAlert Special last Monday, the awards issue was posted, with videos, on Monday, December 21, but following tradition, today, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday -- the last weekdays of the year -- MRC.org's BiasAlert and corresponding CyberAlert e-mail newsletter will run the winning quotes followed on succeeding days by the runners-up. The page... The Media Research Center http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416143/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 09:32:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416014/posts The current strategy from the White House is especially odd considering the issues the president did make an effort to address. Remember the Cambridge Cop Mr. Obama excoriated for "acting stupidly" on national TV this summer? The Chicago Sun Times columnist Lynn Sweet points out (H/T TWT's Amanda Carpenter) that the White House blog has made no mention of the terror attack. Apparently hanging out in Hawaii is more important to reporters who hated Crawford, Texas trips with former President Bush than reporting the importance of a presidential response on a terror matter, so Mr. Obama's avoiding them is not... Wash Times Water Cooler http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416014/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 02:21:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2415334/posts Get the pity party violin music warmed up because Ezra Klein and Dave Weigel are whining that Sarah Palin has forced them, the press, into a "submissive role" because she is so mean to them. Klein favorably cites the analysis of Weigel who whined that the "Palin problem" has "put the press in a submissive position." Read the rest at Publiusforum.com... Publius Forum http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2415334/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 16:25:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415187/posts Check this entry: Naughty: Sen. James M. Inhofe (R-Okla.), a vacuum for oil industry political contributions whose nonsensical denials of climate-change science in the face of vanishing ice sheets and decaying coral reefs make him Earth's Public Enemy No. 1. Nice: Sens. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), who are working diligently to craft a bipartisan climate bill despite obstructionism from the likes of Inhofe. Los Angeles Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415187/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 04:07:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2415089/posts Media Bias Is Real, Finds UCLA Political Scientist By Meg Sullivan December 14, 2005 Category: Research While the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal is conservative, the newspaper's news pages are liberal, even more liberal than The New York Times. The Drudge Report may have a right-wing reputation, but it leans left. Coverage by public television and radio is conservative compared to the rest of the mainstream media. Meanwhile, almost all major media outlets tilt to the left.... http://www.newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/Media-Bias-Is-Real-Finds-UCLA-6664.aspx?RelNum=6664 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2415089/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 22:14:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415069/posts At face value, it seems harmless enough. According to ABC "Good Morning America" co-host Robin Roberts, every Christmas the show features various "spiritual leaders" to talk about the role of faith in their lives. And this year's Christmas Day broadcast was no exception. "And now, it is a ‘GMA' tradition on Christmas Day, to talk about the role of faith in all of our lives," Roberts said. "We gathered a group of spiritual leaders from different traditions to talk about the importance of belief, in good times and belief in bad times, too." Roberts' panel featured Father Edward Beck, an... Newsbusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415069/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 21:00:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414779/posts In keeping with the tradition of the holidays - the minds at MSNBC, the place for politics if you're of the lefty persuasion, decided rate the top 10 political stories of the decade. And leading this gang of masters of political journalism universe was "Hardball" host Chris Matthews, who on the broadcast of his Dec. 24 program, announced that conservative activism, mainly the tea party movement was the eighth biggest story of the decade - but labeled "angry white voters" (emphasis added). "Welcome back to 'Hardball' - our number eight political story of the decade, angry whites at town hall... Newsbusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414779/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 01:30:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413731/posts On Dec. 22, when Rep. Parker Griffith of Alabama announced he would be switching from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party, it was to be expected MSNBC, the so-called "Place for Politics" would spin it in anyway imaginable. But Rachel Maddow decided to use the left's favorite boogeyman, the tea party movement, to denigrate conservatives and distract from what could be real problems for House Democrats. During the Dec. 22 broadcast of "The Rachel Maddow Show," Maddow interpreted a joint conference call with Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele and FreedomWorks chairman Dick Armey to mean that the grassroots... Newsbusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413731/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:02:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413630/posts Does Keith Olbermann have some special appeal to bad mothers? The question arises in light of a TV ad for something called FloTV that aired this morning. A mother is giving dinner to her kids when she glances at the clock, notices it's shortly before 6 PM, and proceeds to dump the kids plates and toys, pour a bag of flour on the table and . . . throw a glass of milk in her son's face [see still shot after jump]. Cut to shocked coming-home-from-work hubby at the door. Mom informs him "I just need an hour." Cut to... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413630/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:58:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413427/posts Angry, frustrated, troubled, disappointed, disgust, disrespect - words not normally associated with holiday season. However, they were words Katie Couric used to describe where she sees the mood of country right now. Couric, the anchor of the "CBS Evening News," in a live Facebook video chat on Dec. 22, took on illustrating her view of the populace - a not very sunny picture (emphasis added). "I think more distant - I hate to say that, but I think, I think the economic situation in this country, I think, when people are struggling, that sometimes they need a place to vent... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413427/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 01:15:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412965/posts Remember Barack Obama's pipe dream put forward during the 2008 presidential election cycle - that he was going to usher in an era of "post-partisanship" and change from "the politics of usual" in Washington? How's that working out? Not so well according to NBC "Meet the Press" moderator David Gregory. Gregory appeared on NBC's Dec 21 "The Tonight Show" and was asked by host Conan O'Brien about the prospects of health care reform becoming a reality - which Gregory praised as some sort of monumental achievement. ...more (w/video)... Newsbusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412965/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:19:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412789/posts Must be nice to be a liberal reporter and to get calls from the White House eh? Did I say calls? Oh, I meant orders: [VIDEO AT SITE] This is all over this kerfuffle: During his syndicated radio show Friday, libtalker and MSNBC host Ed Schultz relayed to listeners how he observed 'Morning Joe' Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski take feedback directly from the White House during their program last week. Schultz appeared on Thursday's Morning Joe and directly challenged Obama's David Axelrod on the current version of the health care bill under consideration in Congress. Interestingly, this particular segment has... Flopping Aces http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412789/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 07:04:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412641/posts If I already have health insurance, can I keep it as is? The short answer is: yes. Can I keep my doctors? Again, yes. If I change or lose my job, can I keep the same insurance? No... But the government would set up a new "insurance exchange" that you can buy into. If I'm on Medicare, will there be cuts to my benefits? No - your benefits will not be cut. In fact, the bill would improve your prescription drug coverage. Will taxes go up? In some cases, yes. If I'm uninsured now, how soon do I get the... ABC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412641/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 01:06:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411670/posts <p>"He's a great guy, a sweet guy," gorgeous ABC correspondent Bianna Golodryga says of President Obama's Office of Management and Budget director, Peter Orszag.</p> The NY Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411670/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:26:10 GMT