Examples of "spiked" news stories Items which appear to have been deliberately omitted by the mainstream press

News media bias is dangerous because of the way some stories are reported — with important details omitted — and because of the stories that are suppressed.  An example of this (from a couple of years ago) was the contrast between the coverage of Trent Lott's generous words for Strom Thurmond versus the silence about Senator Byrd's "baggage" in connection with the KKK.  Since all that happened several years ago, nearly everybody has forgotten all about it. The most obviously suppressed issue in the mainstream press is that of abortion.  The Democratic Party, in close cooperation with the news media, does not (and cannot afford to) allow a rational discussion of the facts, because if people would stop to consider what an abortion really is, the practice would come to a halt. Other issues are also conspicuously absent from the evening news on television.  Most stations do not report suicides and don't report cases where people successfully evade the police and get away with their crimes.  When somebody gets away with murder, a reporter will say, "the case is still under investigation", or, "police are still looking for a suspect."  Even in the newspaper, you have to read carefully to get the whole story in these cases. The press has shown undeniable favoritism toward Senator Barack Obama in the current election cycle, and that includes the suppression of damaging information. Examples of suppressed news stories about the war in Iraq can be found here.  In particular, you may be very surprised to learn that Guantanamo Bay is not as miserable as the media would have us believe. Examples of media bias related to news about the economy have been moved to this page. Material about The Trans-Texas Corridor has been moved to this page. One of the most successfully hushed-up news stories in history is the mysterious collapse of World Trade Center Building 7.  No airplane hit that building, yet it suddenly collapsed on the afternoon of September 11, 2001.  The official explanation is that the collapsed resulted from an internal fire, but there was almost no smoke visible when the building fell, which is why there was no news media presence at the building.  We are apparently supposed to forget that it happened, because it hardly made a blip on the news media radar, and the story evaporated within a few days.  More information can be found here. The discussion of Nancy Pelosi's giant gas-guzzling jet has moved here. One thing that never is discussed in the news media is that President Obama is a smoker.  You might say that's just gossip, and it's none of my business, but it shows that the news media constantly cover up Mr. Obama's unfavorable qualities -- a service they did not provide to George W. Bush. Many other news stories that have received very little coverage (for one reason or another) are shown here. This is a collection of several suppressed news items, past and present. Media Malpractice:  Tom Brokaw's World Implodes.  [Scroll down slowly]  Americans have learned the hard way that there was and is a serious effort by some of the most powerful figures in American journalism to quite deliberately keep Americans from making "informed decisions" by denying them accurate information.  By ignoring major news stories.  By not reporting stories that were or are at variance with liberal politics, as if, like Mary Meyer's diary or John Edwards' affair with Rielle Hunter or Van Jones' speeches or ACORN's scandals or Mark Levin's book they simply didn't exist. Another list: The Left's Blind Eye to the Obvious.  These stories were too big for a responsible media to miss.  They became mine as a result of what I call the "ABETTO Syndrome."  For at least the last generation, the left in general, and the media in particular, have been turning A Blind Eye To The Obvious — ABETTO.  Here are some nuggets the media chose not to notice.  These are all thoroughly and inarguably documented. Have You Heard?  Clinton Appointed Judge Is Impeached.  Judge G. Thomas Porteous, Jr. was appointed to the federal bench by Bill Clinton in 1994.  In March of 2010 he was impeached by the House of Representatives for bribe taking and corruption.  I'm just curious, but have you heard this story about this Democrat judge being impeached? How AP Helped Cover for a Female "Captain Bligh":  It was big news when Capt. Holly Graf was fired as skipper of the USS Cowpens.  But the story behind the story is how www.MilitaryCorruption.com unearthed a dramatic photo of Graf's cruiser nearly hitting the destroyer the USS John S. McCain while drag racing at sea and coming within 300 feet of collision.  Many media outlets in this country wanted to quote us and publish the photo.  But some — like the AP — wanted to avoid the truth. Caught on Camera — Crazed Captain of Cruiser Cowpens.  It's been said a picture is worth a thousand words.  We can only hope the one [in this article] is worth a court martial, even if it makes the Navy blanch to punish an incompetent and unstable "politically correct" poster girl for all the super feminists at the Pentagon and the U.S. Naval Academy. Living Legends.  This month in Chicago, an event will honor three men as "living legends."  The men are Minister Louis Farrakhan, head of the Nation of Islam, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the former pastor of Barack Obama's church, and Father Michael Pfleger, a radical-left Catholic priest. ... There are many interesting things about this exposition.  First, it has received almost no media coverage, even though Farrakhan, speaking before a crowd of 20,000 a few days ago, accused the "white right" of planning the assassination of President Obama. The Pill and Breast Cancer:  Bad news for women who have been using birth control pills, although you won't learn about it from the mainstream media.  An International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) Monographs Working Group has concluded that combined estrogen-progestogen oral contraceptives and combined estrogen-progestogen menopausal therapy are carcinogenic to humans, after a thorough review of the published scientific evidence. Brokaw Touts Corrupt Obama Friend/Mayor Kevin Johnson, Skips Misuse of AmeriCorps Funds.  Even though at one point Brokaw recounted that Johnson founded the St. Hope foundation to help provide education, the former NBC anchor did not bring up Johnson's history of corruption, specifically the finding that he misused $800,000 in AmeriCorps funding at St. Hope. You see, that's what the Walpin scandal is all about.  That's why this was a glaring omission. NBC:  Obama Made Dalai Lama Sneak Out of White House Past Trash Bags.  Uniquely among Friday's broadcast network evening newscasts, NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams gave his viewers a glimpse into the undignified exit endured by the Dalai Lama, who was made to walk past a number of trash bags as President Obama sought to keep the Chinese government from noticing the meeting.  A photograph of the Tibetan spiritual leader walking past the bags was shown as Williams read the piece. Global Warming in Last 15 Years Insignificant, U.K.'s Top Climate Scientist Admits.  The embattled ex-head of the research center at the heart of the Climate-gate scandal dropped a bombshell over the weekend, admitting in an interview with the BBC that there has been no global warming over the past 15 years. Evidence of Climate Fraud Grows, Media Coverage Doesn't.  Newsbusters' Noel Sheppard lets the mainstream media have it for completely ignoring this weekend's game-changing revelations from Climategate conspirator Phil Jones while jumping all over the ejection of director Kevin Smith from a Southwest Airlines plane for being too fat. Amy Bishop a 'bitter clinger' to Obama.  [Scroll down]  Apparently an Obama fan, living in a small town who was bitter and angry at losing her job, who felt the proper folks weren't paying attention to all her wonderful work, took the words of her idol to heart and skillfully — and tragically — once again using a gun shot and killed three colleagues at the University of Alabama. Spray-Shoot Politics.  A gun-toting Obama extremist shoots six at the University of Alabama, killing three.  But the media are curiously silent about the politics.  Think it would be the same if the shooter were right-wing? Largest Union Theft in History Goes Largely Unreported.  While the mainstream media swarmed all over Bernie Madoff, AIG and corporate billionaires, the gentlemen of the press, who are so proud of fighting for the Little Guy, were mostly out to an expense account lunch when Melissa King allegedly made off with $42 million rightfully belonging to members of the Laborers International Union of North America. Global warming science implodes overseas:  American media silent.  The revelations have been nothing short of jaw dropping.  Dozens — yes dozens — of claims made in the IPCC 2007 report on climate change that was supposed to represent the "consensus" of 2500 of the world's climate scientists have been shown to be bogus, or faulty, or not properly vetted, or simply pulled out of thin air.  We know this because newspapers in Great Britain are doing their job... The Great Unraveling.  Compounding the headaches for warm-mongers is a probe being launched by the British Parliament into the Climate Research Unit e-mail scandal. ... This isn't terribly fresh news, having been announced on Jan. 22 by Parliament.  But news that casts doubt on global warming tends to move slowly, if at all, in the U.S. media.  If not for the foreign press, the inquiry would be virtually unknown in this country. Convicted Dem Mayor of Baltimore Resigning; BaltSun Leaves Out Party Affiliation.  Criminally-challenged Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon (D) today announced her resignation from office effective February 4.  Nowhere in their 9-paragraph breaking news article filed at 3:44 p.m. EST today did Baltimore Sun reporters Liz F. Kay and Liz Bowie note Dixon is a Democrat, even though her party has a monopoly on the city's elected officials and has for decades. President Obama Names Transgender Appointee to Commerce Department.  President Obama recently named Amanda Simpson to be a Senior Technical Advisor to the Commerce Department. ... While Simpson is clearly one of the first transgender presidential appointees, Democratic officials say they're unsure if she is the very first one.  The White House had no comment on her appointment. Meet Obama's transgender appointee.  The Obama administration's appointment of Amanda Simpson to a relatively low-profile spot as advisor to the Commerce Department felt intentionally buried over the New Year's news cycle.  Why?  Simpson, who will be working in the Bureau of Industry and Security, used to be a man. Taxpayers Fund Abortions But Not School Vouchers.  If you didn't hear about this until now, don't be surprised.  Over 300,000 pro-lifers marched in Washington last month without notice by the mainstream media.  So, I'd like to take a moment to explain what happened. Tests Find Emissions of Fort Worth Drilling Sites Don't Exceed Standards.  State officials say preliminary tests showed no evidence that natural gas drilling is releasing hazardous chemicals in Fort Worth, after three days of sampling in December.  "Based on this study, the air's safe and we will continue to monitor," said John Sadlier, deputy director of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. The Editor says... You can be sure that if the results had gone the other way, this would have been headline news. Why Won't the MSM Cover Islam?  What Are They Afraid Of?  There are many things on the World Wide Web that are not suitable for public viewing but that should be required viewing for journalists and political figures to alert them to the horrors that exist in some parts of the world.  This should not be to incite but rather to rinse away their naïvité in dealing with a hostile culture and our potential enemies.  It is apparent that the mainstream media has no interest in covering stories that shed an unfavorable side of Islam and, frankly, this smacks of cowardice. So, was this a language misunderstanding or terrorist dry run?  Look up the date.  Flight 297, Atlanta to Houston.  If this wasn't a dry run, I don't know what one is.  They wanted to see how TSA would handle it, how the crew would handle it, and how the passengers would handle it.  I'm telling this to you because I want you to know.  The threat is real.  I saw it with my own eyes. Security Incident Aboard AirTran 297 Suggests Terror "Dry Run".  On November 17, an incident took place aboard AirTran Flight 297 scheduled to fly from Atlanta Hartsfield Airport to Houston that the media does not want to cover and everyone from the airline to the TSA and other government agencies want to keep very quiet. Labor Unions and the News Media.  Over the years, commentators have given much thought to the news media's "liberal bias."  But one issue has been overlooked — press criticism of labor unions.  That is because it is hard to spot something that doesn't appear in print.  The media just don't publish criticism of unions.  The main reason, I believe, is that newspaper reporters are themselves largely unionized.  Their operating principle is solidarity:  unionized workers don't criticize other unionized workers.  Which means they don't criticize labor unions. 'Welcome to Obamaville' Sign At Homeless Tent City, Media Mum.  A sign reading "Welcome to Obamaville Colorado's Fastest Growing Community" appeared at a homeless tent city in Colorado Springs this week.  You probably didn't hear about it because outside of two Colorado television stations nobody found this newsworthy. ACORN Throws Out Republican Voter Registrations.  ACORN wants people to register to vote — as long as they're Democrats.  Republican registrations go into the trash.  Here is a first-hand account of how it happens. 12 Days, 3 Networks and No Mention of ClimateGate Scandal.  Even as Copenhagen looms, broadcast news ignores e-mails suggesting warming alarmists 'manipulated' data, conspired to destroy information and thwarted peer reviews. Climategate:  How the MSM reported the greatest scandal in modern science.  [Scroll down]  But in the case of "Climate Change", the MSM has been caught with its trousers down.  The reason it has been so ill-equipped to report on this scandal is because almost all of its Environmental Correspondents and Environmental Editors are parti pris members of the Climate-Fear Promotion lobby.  Most of their contacts (and information sources) work for biased lobby groups like Greenpeace and the WWF, or conspicuously pro-AGW government departments and Quangos such as the Carbon Trust.  How can they bring themselves to report on skullduggery at Hadley Centre when the scientists involved are the very ones whose work they have done most to champion and whose pro-AGW views they share? More examples of media bias related to environmental issues. Signs of a scandal brewing? Anita Dunn's Husband Becomes White House Counsel.  [Scroll down slowly]  A highly placed Washington attorney ...[says] "I'm surprised not only that the press seems to be ignoring the fact that two presidential lawyers have left at about the same time, [...] "but that no one seems to care that for the first time, I think ever, we have a President's personal attorney also serving as White House counsel. Media Ignore Climate Science Scandal.  Media bias is one thing.  But we have just witnessed one of the greatest scandals of modern science, and it barely made the front page of the New York Times. Climategate:  how they all squirmed.  Among the many great amusements of the Climategate scandal are the myriad imaginative excuses being offered by the implicated scientists and their friends in the MSM as to why this isn't a significant story. Hot air under radar.  It should be known as "climategate" and should be a front-page story in every newspaper worth the name and the lead item on television and radio news throughout the world.  Instead it has generally been ignored and often deliberately covered up. What Story?  If you rely on the lavishly remunerated "climate correspondents" of the big newspapers and networks, you'll know nothing about the Climate Research Unit scandals — just the business-as-usual drivel about Boston being underwater by 2011. 'Science Is Dying':  What Media Are Really Missing About ClimateGate.  While most global warming-obsessed media have either ignored or downplayed the significance of the growing ClimateGate scandal, the Wall Street Journal has been on top of this story since it first broke two weeks ago.  On Thursday [12/3/2009], Journal editorial page deputy editor Daniel Henninger penned a piece that should be an absolute must-read for all the so-called journalists in America that have either intentionally boycotted this controversy or have participated in hiding its seriousness from the public. Seeing No Evil On Climate-Gate.  The shameless denial with which major newspapers and networks have treated "Climategate" layers even more scandal on top of the original one: Mainstream media now co-conspirators with scientific hacks and big government.  The evolution of America's dominant media from guardians of our freedoms to enablers of government growth has been a decades-long story, their biases copiously chronicled.  But their response to the scientific scandal of the century, since it broke a week and a half ago, bids to become known as history's great unmasking of these supposedly independent journalists. Did someone mention ClimateGate? Hit and Run.  Some recyclers still need months to strip thousands of clunkers before they send the last of the steel carcasses to the crusher.  Other than the recycling story, there has been little journalistic follow-up of Cash for Clunkers (C4C).  The business media has written about the economic lunacy of the C4C program, but the Obama media seems suspiciously quiet about its final results. Did someone mention Cash for Clunkers? Obama Gives Shout Out to 'Congressional Medal of Honor Winner' Who Isn't.  Obama, often described as "cerebral" by the mainstream media, should know the difference between the Medal of Honor and the Medal of Freedom, especially since he personally awarded the latter to Crow.  Don't expect his blunder to receive wide coverage. Obama Effect already working to embargo Fox News story.  Yesterday [10/21/2009], Fox News reported the hearings held by Senator Joe Lieberman with cabinet officials concerning a shortage of flu vaccine.  I'm sitting in Afghanistan not getting much broadcast TV news.  I wanted to find out more, so I searched Google News for related articles.  It turns out that as of this writing, the rest of the media is not reporting this event, at least in print. If you can't get a flu shot, maybe you're the lucky one... Over 1000 Adverse Reactions to H1N1 Vaccine Since October.  In recent months, H1N1, or swine flu, has been spreading all over the globe, raising concern and alarm. ... But while the vaccine may help protect against swine flu, reports from the Centers for Disease Control suggest that the vaccine has problems of its own.  Since the vaccine began being administered in early October, there have been almost two thousand adverse events reported to the Centers for Disease Control vaccine reporting system, VAERS. Mainstream media blackout on Dick Cheney speech.  American opposition to the Obama Administration and/or its policies are 'silenced.'  Former Vice President Dick Cheney gave an important speech today [10/22/2009] and it was not televised on any American "news' or "quasi-news" network.  Recently this administration has boasted about 'controlling' all American news networks.  Indeed, they apparently do.  Not even Fox news televised this speech.  They have, however, posted the speech on their website. The lack of coverage over horrific black-on-white killings in America's Deep South.  It was the kind of crime that strikes terror into the hearts of parents everywhere.  A bright young couple were carjacked after a Saturday night date and murdered in the most brutal way imaginable.  Christopher Newsom, 23, was tied up and raped, shot in the back of the head and then dragged to a railway track and set on fire.  His girlfriend, 21-year-old University of Tennessee student Channon Christian's fate was even more horrific. Obama's Pedophilia Czar.  Here we have the President of our country through one of his Czars telling our schoolchildren to not only to expect to be molested but that they should enjoy the experience.  You will never see a single story in any of the mainstream alphabet news organizations that could be considered detrimental to Obama's political career, especially not one this damaging.  You have noticed that this story has no legs whatsoever?  If this had happened under a Republican administration it would be page one in every news outlet there is and it would run for weeks with Congress calling for not only impeachment but jail time. Barack Obama's Anti-Semitic Website.  [Scroll down]  The site was and is closely policed.  The site moderators remove material that they consider to be "disrespectful to our other users" and to "detract from a welcoming community where all people can engage in positive discourse."  What they find disrespectful can be interesting ... But the most disgusting anti-semitic ravings remained on the site, along with blogs advocating anarchy and the overthrow of the United States Congress. How The VRWC Really Works:  The more accurate the reporting on a story that unnerves the Democrats, the more likely the major media are to block it.  There is no more stunning example of this than the reporting on Christopher Andersen's new best-seller, Barack and Michelle:  The Portrait of an American Marriage. Jobless rate hits 17 percent.  America's jobless crisis is much worse than the 9.8 percent unemployment rate reported Friday [10/2/2009].  To understand how there are many more unemployed than the government reports, it's necessary to look at the numbers used by the Bureau of Labor Statistics to calculate the unemployment rate.  The Household Survey numbers paint a bleak picture that no one is discussing. At the president's pleasure.  A teacher was told by a 15-year-old high school sophomore that he was having homosexual sex with an "older man."  At the very least, statutory rape occurred.  Fox News reported that the teacher violated a state law requiring that he report the abuse.  That former teacher, Kevin Jennings, is President Obama's "safe school czar." Capital Hill Switchboard Illegally Being Used to Push Obamacare?  If you call one of the numbers that leads you to the switchboard for Congress, the number you'd call to be put through to your Congressman or Senator's office, you get a short message selling Obama's healthcare policies before being transferred to the switchboard operator.  This should be the sort of story the Old Media would investigate fully.  But will it? The Media Genius Of Andrew Breitbart.  Breitbart, who first made a splash on the new media scene at The Drudge Report, released the first video shot by "the pimp and the prostitute" (James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles) on Sept. 10, the day Breitbart launched his new Web site, BigGovernment.com. ... O'Keefe previously helped expose racism at Planned Parenthood — phone operators for the pro-abortion group willingly accepted donations explicitly intended for killing black babies — but the liberal media wouldn't touch that story.  Live Action Films since has revealed criminal behavior at Planned Parenthood, but not only have journalists ignored that news, YouTube has banned the videos to help suppress the story. ACORN Story Grows But Mainstream Media Refuse to Cover It.  This story has everything you could ever want -- corruption, sleazy actions at tax-funded organizations, firings, government ties, sex, hookers.  It is a network news director's dream.  Imagine the ratings.  But almost no one is covering it. Media Ignore ACORN Giving Business Advice to Pimp and Prostitute.  You would think videos exposing representatives of the controversial organization ACORN giving advice on how a couple can get a loan to set up a brothel would be BIG NEWS.  Such would seem especially the case if the proposed house of ill repute would be employing minors illegally smuggled across the border from Central America.  Yet, when Andrew Breitbart's new website Big Government published such videos Thursday morning, media normally fascinated with sex stories almost completely ignored it. More about ACORN. T'was Accountability That Led the Mainstream Media to Suicide.  Mainstream news outlets have been caught off guard before, but they used to play catch up.  Today they play "hide the ball."  For as long as I've been politically aware the media's been biased, but willfully ignoring a major national news story at great cost to their credibility and relevance is a new low.  So what changed?  Ironically enough, scrutiny and accountability is the cause of much of the media's increasingly disgraceful behavior. Charles Gibson Claims to be Unaware of Five Day-Old ACORN Controversy.  This morning, co-host Don Wade of 890 WLS radio's Wade and Roma show in Chicago threw a question at ABC World News Tonight anchor Charles Gibson that I suspect was on many listeners' minds... A "Sting"-ing Indictment of Media Hypocrisy.  Undercover journalism is only acceptable when it fits a liberal agenda.  That is the message from "professional" reporters and left-wing activists outraged about three successful video stings targeting President Obama's old friends at the left-wing tax-subsidized outfit ACORN. ... Head-in-the-sand ABC News anchor Charles Gibson claimed he "didn't know" about the ACORN scandal this week and snarked that "maybe this is just one you leave to the cables." Mainstream Media Fears Where Stories They Ignore May Lead.  Yesterday the anchor of a major network (ABC) consciously chose to try and look like an imbecile rather than have to answer why he wasn't covering what so far ranks as the biggest story/scandal of the year.  And I say "try and look like an imbecile" because the ruse didn't work.  You, me and anyone with an IQ above room temperature knows he wasn't telling the truth about not knowing anything about the ACORN scandal. The New York Times attempts to ignore the ACORN scandal A deliberate omission of a major story from a leading newspaper could have worked ten years ago, but there are hundreds of news sources on the internet, and the editors of the New York Times cannot credibly pretend that they weren't aware of the ACORN scandal as soon as anyone else.  Even so, the newspaper kept the story out of print until it became embarrassing to hide it any longer. Finally:  An ACORN Story Sprouts Into Print at the NY Times.  On Wednesday morning [9/16/2009], the ACORN scandal finally blossomed into an actual print story from an actual New York Times reporter.  Previously the Times had almost totally ignored the blossoming scandal, even as the Census Bureau cut ties with the controversial left-wing housing activist group and the Senate voted overwhelmingly to withdraw the group's funding. NYT assigns editor to monitor opinion media.  After being late on Van Jones and ACORN — two stories pushed aggressively by Fox, talk radio and conservative blogs — NY Times public editor Clark Hoyt describes the paper's "slow reflexes" when covering both stories in today's column:  "Tuning In Too Late." The Blind Spot At The New York Times.  Surprise, surprise. Clark Hoyt, the ombudsman of The New York Times, has an ounce of objectivity in his bones — but only an ounce.  Hoyt's latest column, "Tuning In Too Late," took the newspaper to task both for ignoring the fall of ACORN and then dismissing the community organization's demise as the work of evil conservatives out to "draw blood." NYT Tries to Deflect Charges of Bias, Announces 'Opinion Media' Editor.  The New York Times announced today [9/27/2009] that it would appoint an editor to monitor 'opinion media'.  In an attempt to respond to criticism that it has been too slow to pick up on stories first reported by conservative blogs and talk show hosts, the Times acknowledged poor coverage, but denied a political agenda.  The self-proclaimed 'paper of record' was extremely slow in picking up on two recent stories. Out-Foxing The Times.  The New York Times, still smarting after losing scoops to Fox News, has thrown in the towel, vowing to avoid future embarrassment by monitoring the cable channel.  We have a better idea — it's called reporting. More examples of bias at The New York Times. 54 Percent Say the More They Learn About ObamaCare, the Less They Like It. Washington Post Ignores its Own Poll Finding.  A Washington Post-ABC News poll conducted in the three days following President Barack Obama's speech to Congress about his health care plan discovered that 54% say the more the hear about the plan the less they like it.  This particular poll result was not mentioned anywhere in the story about the poll that was posted by the Washington Post on its Web site on Monday [9/14/2009].  The result did appear in the data sheet from the poll that was linked to the story. Chicago Tribune Ignores Thousands at Tea Party Express Protest.  You might think a major metropolitan newspaper that boasts "The Midwest's largest reporting team" on its front page would report on a suburban demonstration attracting thousands of people.  In the case of the Chicago Tribune, you'd be wrong.  Today's Tribune print edition makes no mention of yesterday's Tea Party Express protest in New Lenox, Illinois, located only 36 miles from Chicago's Loop. More about the tea parties and town hall meetings which have received very little favorable coverage by the national news media. All Three Morning Shows Skip Any Reference to Radical Obama Czar.  All three morning shows on Friday [9/4/2009] skipped any reference to the developing controversy over Obama administration Green Jobs Czar Van Jones and his connection to the 9/11 Truther movement.  CBS's Early Show, NBC's Today and ABC's Good Morning America totally ignored the story, although ABC's Jake Tapper did file an online report over the subject. The Van Jones (non) feeding frenzy.  From a Nexis search a few moments ago: Total words about the Van Jones controversy in the New York Times: 0. Total words about the Van Jones controversy in the Washington Post: 0. Total words about the Van Jones controversy on NBC Nightly News: 0. Total words about the Van Jones controversy on ABC World News: 0. Total words about the Van Jones controversy on CBS Evening News: 0. If you were to receive all your news from any one of these outlets... NYT Editor Offers Tepid Excuses for Lack of Van Jones Coverage.  A top editor at the New York Times this week owned up to the paper's lack of coverage of the controversy surrounding former Green Jobs Czar Van Jones.  Rather than leaving it there, however, the editor noted the paper's minimal online coverage, insisted that the Washington bureau was short-staffed, and suggested that Jones and his contentious positions really were not important enough to cover at length. NHS 'Liverpool Care Pathway' Looks an Awful Lot Like a Death Panel.  There's a reason Matt Drudge just got done celebrating an all-time record August traffic count.  His visitors know that he constantly links to newsworthy stories they likely won't find reported prominently in establishment U.S. media outlets, if they're reported at all. ABC Buries Harsh Kennedy Obit in the Middle of the Night.  In the early hours of Wednesday [8/26/2009], reporter John Donvan narrated a tough, comprehensive look at the life of Ted Kennedy, one that went so far as to assert that the Senator was sometimes "a let down, an embarrassment to his family, to his party, to himself."  However, this eight and a half minute segment, which looked into Chappaquiddick, Kennedy's cheating at Harvard and other scandals, aired at 2:30 in the morning, during a special, late night edition of Nightline. White House Press Corps Happy to Attend Barack Obama's Off-the-Record BBQ.  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. It's official:  Obamanomics has failed.  With the sycophants in the Obama press corps distracted while rubbing elbows with the Obamas and other rich folk on the Vineyard, the O Team threw their sucker punch:  officially announcing that the federal budget deficit next year will be nearly 20% more than in their first forecast made just last May, and over the next ten years will be two trillion dollars more than they had predicted. 'Apostate' Girl's Father:  The Unreported Story.  Rifqa's parents, Mohamad and Aysha Bary, signed affidavits declaring themselves indigent.  That's why the Florida court appointed a lawyer for the father and a lawyer for the mother.  Both their lawyers are being paid by the taxpayers of Florida. ... Yet in a Dunn and Bradstreet report filed by Mohammad Bary himself for his business, Bary Gems, he states his business does $237,561 per annum.  The wife, Aysha Bary, makes high-end bridal gowns (that income may be off the books, but she works every day). Did someone mention Rifqa Bary? Media Blackout on Obama eligibility dates back to November.  The Northeast Intelligence Network and Canada Free Press are in possession of extremely sensitive investigative documents, including a stunning written admission by a nationally known talk show host stating that he was threatened with his career — or worse — should he talk about the issue of Barack Hussein Obama's birth records to a national audience.  This document was obtained on December 10, 2008, and provides explicit detail of a "gag order" imposed on this host before and immediately following the national election last November. Did someone mention President Obama's birth certificate? GE/NBCU Trying to Stifle Other Media's Coverage of Company.  It's a very dangerous situation when any huge multinational corporation wages war against media companies.  Especially when that huge multinational corporation is General Electric, which itself owns a media company, NBC Universal, and it's using all its power and influence and money to try to harm another media company, Nielsen, and Nielsen Business Media, and its trade publication The Hollywood Reporter. Part of Gates Gate Not Getting Much Media Attention.  Apparently, [Professor Henry Louis] Gates has since the arrest announced he is in the early stages of involvement in a PBS TV series on civil rights in America.  It is odd that this single fact has not been a focus of much discussion.  After all, if Gates is about to start a TV show about civil rights, what better way to punch up that participation than to "suddenly" get mixed up in a national civil rights "abuse" case? What better way to highlight America's civil rights problem than to become a nationally known victim of so-called racism? CNN Fails to Report Woman Comparing Obama to Hitler is a Lyndon LaRouche Democrat.  CNN's Larry King showed [a] video of Barney Frank laying the smack down on a woman at a townhall meeting who compared Obama to Hitler.  CNN left out the fact that this woman is a Lyndon LaRouche Democrat. White House War On Science.  Inspectors general are apparently not the only ones to pay for annoying the White House by doing their job.  The 18-member council existed to provide the president with advice on the moral and ethical implications of the rapid advances in science and medical research.  It exists no more.  The council existed to ponder whether we should do something just because we can.  Apparently President Obama wanted not advice but agreement on such matters, particularly with regard to one of the panel's areas of interest, embryonic stem cell research.  So he has fired them. How to write a NYT article on an Obama controversy.  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. The Editor says... Rest assured that the New York Times would never have mentioned this incident were it not for the internet acting as the "media bypass." Update: Examiner's York gets goods on Americorps.  On Friday, The Washington Examiner's chief political correspondent, Byron York, had another stunning report on the scandal involving the firing of Americorps Inspector General Gerald Walpin. ... York's latest blockbuster is his reporting of a congressional report prepared by Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, and Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif. While probing the misuse of funds allegations, congressional investigators were told that Johnson made improper advances toward three young women at St. Hope. ... To the extent the Walpin story has gotten any attention, the coverage has been appallingly slanted. He won't attend the National Day of Prayer, but... Obama Sends "Best Wishes" to Muslims Before the Start of Ramadan.  In a video message posted on the White House website President Obama extends his "best wishes" to Muslim communities in the US and around the world for Ramadan. The U.S. Department of Injustice.  Let's examine the uproar over Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to protect hate-mongering thugs who harassed and bullied precinct workers and voters on Election Day in Philadelphia.  Oh, wait.  There's been no uproar.  Let me tell you why. Our Dangerous Media.  What would happen if America won a war and no one reported it?  Is it still news?  What if a credible argument were made pretty much demolishing Darwin's theory of evolution?  If no media outlet conveyed this information to the American public, does that mean it's not a valid argument?  Does that mean it's not news?  The liberal media would have you believe so. Judge Sotomayor and The New York Times: A Strange Omission.  [Scroll down]  But there is a very strange and troubling omission in the online version of [Sherl Gay] Stolberg's article, when compared with what was in some of the actual print editions, and was removed from the version published online by the Times. ... Here is the missing sentence from Stolberg's article:  "In the footnotes, Ms. Sotomayor wrote that she relied on books that used 'Marxist-Leninist analysis' — not an uncommon tool for historians — to study the impact of colonialism on the island." Why the suddenly shy press corps?  The May employment figures are out.  The new jobs data blatantly, unambiguously contradict the claims made by the President earlier in the year when he was justifying the stimulus bill.  But the silence from the mainstream media over the difference between President's promises and his results has been nothing short of deafening. Global Cooling Report:  The Weather News You Didn't See.  A list of 100 recent news items about global cooling. Did someone mention global cooling? Obama Quietly Issues Statement on Terrorist Attack in Arkansas.  After two days of silence, President Obama issued a statement Wednesday on the shooting of two U.S. soldiers by a Muslim militant in Arkansas — but the White House didn't even email the statement to its list of national reporters.  Rather, the White House appears to have quietly released this statement to a local AP bureau in Arkansas... Bidding farewell to the country's 'war on terror'.  The liberal media are now actively downplaying Muslim terrorism, and that was vividly demonstrated last week when two soldiers were shot by an American-Muslim in Arkansas.  One of them, 24-year-old Private William Long, was killed.  There is no doubt the cold-blooded murder of Pvt. Long by Carlos Bledsoe, aka Abdulhakim Muhammad, was a shocking story.  But if you were watching Katie Couric on the "CBS Evening News," you missed it, as Couric did not mention the murder.  On ABC, Charles Gibson ignored the story as well.  On NBC, Brian Williams spent less than two minutes on the situation. Cops and Teachers vs. Chrysler and Obama.  The list of victims for Obama's government squeeze of auto maker bondholders is longer than anyone thinks.  Not only is the story of pension funds who were stiffed when Obama wiped Chrysler's slate clean not being widely reported, but the victims of those funds — in one case, Indiana cops and teachers — remain unidentified by the media.  It is a calamity for tens of thousands of Americans as reported in Business Week by Esme Deprez. News Media Blackout: Iraqi Muslims Slaughtering Christians.  Either intentionally or unintentionally, United States news media outlets are ignoring the violence perpetrated by Muslims against Christians in Iraq.  While some believe this stems from the fact that reporters have moved on to stories other than US operations in Iraq, others believe this lack of coverage has more to do with the anti-Christian bias that exists within the media. Heterosexual Pride Month.  Obama came through on his campaign theme of 'equality' Monday [6/1/2009] by proclaiming June as "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month". Gold and silver Yes, "Amero" No!  If you can't see where the U.S. dollar and gold are headed, I'll be crystal clear!  The dollar is going in the exact same direction as the Zimbabwe dollar and Mexican peso.  Between the last devaluations of the peso, it's lost 99.9%.  If you want to know the price of gold in old pesos; you just have to multiply gold by 100,000.  With everything that has taken place, many "main-stream" TV commentators believe or want us to believe, that the U.S. dollar is now the currency of choice; a safe haven or flight to quality.  Nothing can be further from the truth. Obama Lifts Ban on Lobbyists! Back to Business as Usual.  Roll Call is reporting that during the typical Friday afternoon document dump — a practice used to hide actions that might prove somewhat embarrassing to the White House — the administration quietly announced that some of the former restrictions on lobbying ballyhooed about during the late campaign have been lifted.  And now, we have to wonder:  will the media notice this sudden change?  I mean, a whole day has gone by and so far only Roll Call has mentioned it. Frivolous complaints.  The ethics complaints against Gov. Sarah Palin are dropping left and right — as in dropping dead.  That's an appropriate fate for most of them.  The Alaska Personnel Board has dismissed 11 complaints against the governor as of Tuesday's [5/12/2009] count. Palin ethics complaint dismissed.  [Scroll down]  The board, following the recommendation of an independent counsel, threw out the complaint for lack of merit.  The governor's office said it was the 13th ethics complaint filed against the governor or her staff that has been resolved with no finding of a violation of the state ethics law. What if George W. Bush had said this — before or after Hurricane Katrina? Obama:  Hurricane readiness is residents' responsibility.  Ahead of Monday's official start of the hurricane season, President Barack Obama urged Americans in vulnerable areas to take responsibility for their own safety and to get ready now. 'We Are Out of Money'.  President Barack Obama handed his political opponents a bludgeon the size of Thor's hammer Saturday [5/23/2009].  In a story played up by the Drudge Report but virtually ignored by the New York Times and Washington Post, C-SPAN's Steve Scully pointed to the massive financial obligations taken on by his administration and to America's generally lousy financial forecast.  He asked Obama, "At what point do we run out of money?"  "Well?" the U.S. president began with his practiced nod to the unhurried, unflappable style of Ronald Reagan.  Then he said it:  "We are out of money now." Media Love Ignoring Bad News About Al Sharpton.  Al Sharpton has certainly become one of the media's sacred cows of late, so much so that when bad news crosses his path, America is unlikely to hear about it.  Take for example a rather embarrassing incident that happened to the former Democrat presidential candidate on Friday [5/15/2009] which went almost completely ignored by journalists from coast to coast. Still the Biggest Missing Story in Politics.  In August of last year I wrote an article, "The Biggest Missing Story in Politics," which reviewed the single most important datum in the last thirteen Battleground Polls over a period stretching from early 2002 to late 2008.  The critical fact, completely ignored by almost everyone, was that in answering Question D3, which asked the respondent what he considered his ideology to be, sixty percent of the American people described themselves as "conservative" or "very conservative." Obama:  'We're out of money'.  I wish he would have realized that about $11 trillion ago.  In a Memorial Day weekend interview with C-SPAN's Steve Scully, the President of the United States told the people of America that their government was flat broke. ... This is a man who hasn't a clue. 'I Bond' Payments Get Wiped Out.  Rates on government securities, certificates of deposit and savings accounts all have plummeted in recent months.  Now, yields on another safe haven — Series I Savings Bonds, or I bonds — are dropping to nothing.  Friday [5/1/2009], the Treasury Department said these inflation-linked bonds that are purchased between May and October will earn 0% for their first six months, the first time rates have hit 0% since the bonds were issued in 1998. CNN Invents the News, Again.  Yesterday's top news story was the very public debate between President Barack Obama and former Vice-President Dick Cheney regarding the interrogation of captured terrorists. ... [But] CNN chose as its top news item something that happened over five years ago, not even providing its readers with a single sentence explaining how this particular story was remotely newsworthy. Media Malfeasance.  The majority of Americans realize the liberal bent of the old media.  Most can identify opinion pieces that are increasingly presented as news, but they have to resort to the net or talk radio in order to be made aware of all the good news which is deliberately relegated to the back burner in the (remaining) newspapers and nightly news broadcasts. Tea Parties? What Tea Parties?  Coverage of "tea party" protests in various cities around the country ... has been sparse to non-existent, especially at major establishment media outlets. ... As if you didn't know already:  With the exception of a one-paragraph blog post at the New York Times, searches at the Washington Post and the Times on "tea party" (not in quotes) indicate that there was no coverage of the protest events.  Maybe the tea partiers should have told the press that they were holding Iraq War protests. Tax Day, 2009:  The day the mainstream media died?  In the past, major media outlets have given antigovernment 'tea party' protests — like the ones held today — short shrift.  Critics say it is because they are out of touch with America. Note to the Media — Just Do Your Job and Cover the Tea Parties.  If you do something of note and the media choose not to cover it — the issue might just as well not exist.  Such is the fate of Wednesday's national Tax Day Tea Party.  This mega-gathering of tax protesters is scheduled for every single Congressional district in the country.  More than 500 events are planned.  And the national news media have either been silent or shown contempt for the effort. CNN Versus the Tea Parties.  When thousands of people in all 50 states assemble to protest government policy, you might suppose that this is news.  Not according to the coverage on the front pages of the Washington Post, New York Times, or the Wall Street Journal.  The "tea party" rallies went unmentioned. The Tax Story Media Invariably Bury  One of the assertions that the media make most often about the U.S. economy is that President Bush's tax cuts didn't do what he promised.  But the data clearly show nothing could be farther from the truth. Poppin-Jay.  Now that [Jay Rockefeller] and his lying cohort Nancy Pelosi have been exposed, watch the "torture" headlines turn into "enhanced interrogation techniques" and then — poof — vanish. Hawaii Lawmakers Pass Bill to Create 'Islam Day'.  Hawaii's state Senate overwhelmingly approved a bill Wednesday to celebrate "Islam Day" — over the objections of a few lawmakers who said they didn't want to honor a religion connected to Sept. 11, 2001.  The Senate's two Republicans argued that a minority of Islamic extremists have killed many innocents in terrorist attacks. "Islam Day" in Hawaii By:  Lloyd Billingsley.  Hawaii's state senate has approved "Islam Day" for September 24, 2009.  The measure, already been approved by the state's house, passed the senate 22-3 on May 6, with two Republicans and one Democrat in opposition.  According to news reports, "Islam Day" seeks to recognize the religious, scientific, cultural and artistic contributions that Islam and the Islamic world have made. The Editor says... Some of the Muslims' cultural "contributions" can be seen on this page. With bowed head and bended knee.  Has anyone ever seen Barack Obama publicly bow and bend his knee when meeting someone prior to yesterday?  I don't recall any photos of such a gesture of greeting, but I would be very happy if some of the President's defenders on the left could provide such evidence that his striking body language yesterday before the monarch of Saudi Arabia and custodian of the holy cities of Mecca and Medina was simply a habitual gesture of warmth. President Obama, King Abdullah, and the end of Israel.  During the G-20 summit in London, Barack Obama took time out for a brief meeting with King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia caught on video by two cameras, and by a still photographer, where the U.S. president bowed deeply in greeting the Saudi monarch.  No major American media paid any attention to the startling, unreciprocated bow, gesture of subservience. Obama Bows To No One, Unless You're a Saudi King.  Chances are good you haven't heard this one:  that, while in Buckingham Palace last week, milling about with G-20 leaders, the current president of the United States bowed deeply at the waist, one knee bent, on meeting the current King, so-called, of Saudi Arabia, who did not bow back.  Chances are even better you haven't seen the video.  That's because Big Media, from viewer-deprived networks to newspapers considering bailouts, have neither aired the video of the incident nor reported on it. ACORN Linked to Illegal Aid for Obama Campaign.  Watching the increasingly rapacious conduct of ACORN (Association of Community Organizations) over the past few years and the considerable power and funds being gifted to it by this administration — while the press and Congress largely remain silent — I fear we are most surely heading into a government run by wolves.  ACORN's role in the past two presidential elections has hardly received the kind of coverage a press concerned about protecting the right to free elections would have accorded it. 'New York Times' Spiked Obama Donor Story.  A lawyer involved with legal action against Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) told a House Judiciary subcommittee on March 19 The New York Times had killed a story in October that would have shown a close link between ACORN, Project Vote and the Obama campaign because it would have been a "a game changer." NYTimes Killed Story on Crooked Obama Donor.  According to election fraud lawyer Heather Heidelbaugh, The New York Times decided suddenly to drop all efforts last October to publish stories about the Association for Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) because it came to light that ACORN was a big donor to then presidential candidate Barack Obama's campaign. Update: New York Times Finally Admits It Spiked Obama/ACORN Corruption Story.  Acknowledging what the blogosphere has known for weeks, the New York Times finally went on record to admit that just before last Election Day it killed a politically sensitive news story involving corruption allegations that might have made the Obama campaign look bad. Killing A Story:  How It's Done.  In today's New York Times, Public Editor Clark Hoyt reveals the result of his investigation into the charge that the paper killed a story during the 2008 Presidential campaign in order to help Barack Obama.  Hoyt concludes that the claim is "nonsense." ... But the facts as related by Hoyt don't rebut the charge; they support it. All the News That's Fit to Suppress:  I've often said that it's the journalistic sins of omission that are more damning than the industry's sins of commission.  Right on cue, the Times acknowledged this weekend that it had spiked a story on possible illegal coordination between left-wing activist groups ACORN and Project Vote and the Obama campaign just before Election Day. The charges involved Team Obama sharing top campaign donor lists with ACORN's supposedly nonpartisan canvassing arm, Project Vote (the same group Obama worked for as a Chicago community organizer). Obama Sells U.S. to China Inc..  The truth is starting to seep out.  Because of the need for more money to finance the latest bailout — the Obama economic stimulus plan — America is going further in debt to the Chinese Communists.  Our country is officially being sold to the highest bidder.  And we have striking confirmation of this fact from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Obama's $500,000 book bonanza.  As he empathized with recession-weary Americans, President Obama arranged in the days just before he took office to secure a $500,000 advance for a children's book project, a disclosure report shows.  The terms of the book deal were disclosed in a Senate financial disclosure report filed Tuesday [3/17/2009].  Analysts say there don't appear to be any rules that would bar such transactions after a president takes office, but it's unclear whether an incoming or sitting president has ever signed a book deal upon entering the White House. The Editor says... Is Mr. Obama capable of writing a book?  Has he ever written anything?  I suspect he has not. Michelle Obama serves food to D.C. poor and homeless, but...  First Lady Michelle Obama showed up Thursday as a surprise and welcome volunteer at Miriam's Kitchen, a soup kitchen for homeless poor people not far from the White House.  She brought with her some food donated by White House staff. ... [But] If this unidentified meal recipient is too poor to buy his own food, how does he afford a cellphone?  And if he is homeless, where do they send the cellphone bills? Obama's Nominee to Justice Dept. Was a Terrorist's Lawyer.  On March 9, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on one of Barack Obama's latest nominees.  This time it was to assess the suitability of Tony West, Obama's nominee for the assistant attorney general in charge of the U.S. Justice Department's Civil Division. ... Curiously enough, though, not one of these brief reports mention that Tony West was "American Taliban" terrorist John Walker Lindh's defense lawyer.  Another key bit of info left out of these announcements was that Tony West raised $65 million for Obama's presidential campaign. Obama secretly ends program that let pilots carry guns.  After the September 11 attacks, commercial airline pilots were allowed to carry guns if they completed a federal-safety program.  No longer would unarmed pilots be defenseless as remorseless hijackers seized control of aircraft and rammed them into buildings.  Now President Obama is quietly ending the federal firearms program, risking public safety on airlines in the name of an anti-gun ideology. Obama Blasted for Diverting Money From Armed Pilots Program.  A Second Amendment group is blasting the Obama administration for quietly seeking to end the program that allows pilots — after special training — to carry guns in the cockpit.  The move will make air travel more vulnerable to terrorist attacks, something that should outrage travelers, said the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) said. Tea parties are flash crowds Obama should fear.  Thousands of Americans in dozens of cities large and small, coast to coast, have assembled recently to protest President Barack Obama's economic stimulus spending, proposed budget deficits and tax hikes on small-business owners and other entrepreneurs.  But odds are that the vast majority of people who depend solely on the mainstream media's print and broadcast giants for their news know little or nothing about the protests. Silencing the Opposition.  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, at a June breakfast for reporters sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor, took a bold position on whether government should resume regulating political speech on the radio.  "Do you personally support revival of the Fairness Doctrine," asked John Gizzi, political editor for Human Events.  "Yes," said Pelosi.  While this declaration was little noted in the mainstream media, it sent shock waves through the conservative blogosphere. Aspects of Sebelius' record apparently taboo.  A conservative media watchdog organization says the mainstream media is going out of its way to cover up the radical abortion record of Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius as she vies to become President Barack Obama's HHS secretary.  Dan Gainor is vice president for business and culture at the Culture and Media Institute (CMI).  He notes that during the 2001 confirmation hearings for Tommy Thompson to become George W. Bush's Health and Human Services secretary, CBS anchor Dan Rather reminded Evening News viewers of Thompson's "hardline anti-abortion stand." How Long?  How long can the rest of the mainstream media hold out without reporting on an embarrassing debacle for the Obama administration?  This is the John Edwards story on steroids — a virtual conspiracy of silence with little if any journalistic justification.  And here the issue is really important — the appointment of a key intelligence official who is alleged to harbor serious conflicts of interest and extreme views. Why the Cover Up Matters.  The mainstream media, with the exception of ABC's Jake Tapper, utterly ignored the Chas Freeman story.  A large number of mainstream outlets simply wouldn't report on it at all. The Orwellian Presidential Bully Pulpit.  The president brazenly sermonizes against scientifically challenged conservatives while triggering federal funding of research that is scientifically controversial and preparing to impose cap and trade penalties on corporate America in deference to global warming junk science.  While you won't hear much about this in the mainstream media, there is a meeting currently taking place in New York City that serves as an ironic backdrop for Obama's embryonic stem cell order. Soldier questions eligibility, doubts president's authority.  A U.S. soldier on active duty in Iraq has called President Obama an "impostor" in a statement in which he affirmed plans to join as plaintiff in a challenge to Obama's eligibility to be commander in chief. 2nd U.S. soldier in Iraq challenges eligibility.  Another U.S. soldier on active duty in Iraq is joining a challenge to President Obama's eligibility to be commander-in-chief, citing WND's report on 1st Lt. Scott Easterling, who has agreed to be a plaintiff in a lawsuit over the issue, as his inspiration. Michelle Obama's Patient-Dumping Scheme:  The First Lady helped create a notorious program that dumped poor patients on community hospitals, yet the national media ignore the story.  Imagine if her husband were a Republican.  The University of Chicago Medical Center has received a good deal of justly opprobrious press over its policy of "redirecting" low-income patients to community hospitals while reserving its own beds for well-heeled patients requiring highly profitable procedures. Rep. Grace Napolitano Pays Herself $200,000 In Interest On 1998 Loan.  The Democrats campaigned to take over the reins of the majority in Congress by promising to "drain the swamp" of a "culture of corruption" by the Republican Party.  Examples of Democratic corruption or self-dealing go largely unnoticed.  For two weeks now, the national media has ignored a Los Angeles Times report that Rep. Grace Napolitano has paid herself more than $150,000 in interest on $150,000 she loaned herself in her initial 1998 House campaign. The Heat Is On True Believers.  A Sunday New York Times story described an expected sea change in international global warming policy. ... Prominently missing from the 1,584-word story was any mention of President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore.  That's a surprising omission considering that Gore negotiated the treaty for Clinton in 1997, and that Clinton never asked the Senate to ratify the pact, which mandated that the United States reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 7 percent below 1990 levels by 2012. More Gun Control Introduced in Congress.  The liberals are at it again.  In a new bill introduced the first day of present session of Congress, and with zero coverage from the MSM, H.R. 45 (Blair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009) targets all gun owners in the U.S.A.  This nefarious bill seeks to strip us all of our Constitutional Rights to possess and bear firearms of any distinction.  It requires, within the first two years, that all new guns be registered.  The bill goes retroactive after two years.  Meaning that two years after the passage of the bill, ALL FIREARMS in a citizen's possession must be registered, not just those purchased after the bill passes, and this apparently applies to antique firearms as well. FBI Director Warns of Terror Attacks on U.S. Cities.  FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III today warned that extremists "with large agendas and little money can use rudimentary weapons" to sow terror, raising the specter that recent attacks in Mumbai that killed 170 people last year could embolden terrorists seeking to attack U.S. cities.  At a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, Mueller said that the bureau is expanding its focus beyond al-Qaeda and into splinter groups, radicals who try to enter the country through the visa waiver program and "home-grown terrorists." The Editor says... The words "muslim" and "Islam" are nowhere to be found in this Washington Post story. Who Attacked Our Economy?  Why Does No One Care?  [Scroll down]  Writing at Portfolio.com this week, Felix Salmon quite decisively dismissed the whole story as "fiction."  Is it?  If what Kanjorski says is "fiction," Americans, particularly Americans in Kanjorski's 11th district of Pennsylvania, need to know.  After all, this isn't a story that just goes away on its own, particularly not when Paul Kanjorski is chairman of the Capital Markets Subcommittee of the House Financial Services Committee.  Of course, incredible as Kanjorski's revelations were, almost equally incredible was the interviewer's failure to ask the next obvious question of national interest:  Who or what was responsible for that electronic run on the banks "to the tune of $550 billion"? The electronic run on banks nobody seemed to notice.  Sixteen months after the 11 a.m. simultaneous withdrawal of billions of dollars out of money market accounts in the aftermath of Lehman's demise a few days earlier, no one seems to care about the dimensions of this event. In Gregg Stories, Short Shrift to White House's Census Grab.  ABC, CBS and NBC centered their Thursday night stories, on Senator Judd Gregg's decision to withdraw as Commerce Secretary-nominee, around his disagreement with the Obama administration's "stimulus" plan — with only passing mention, if any, of the administration's wish to move the 2010 census count from Commerce to the White House. UPI 'Conveniently' Neglects Party Label Mention of Indicted Puerto Rico Governor.  Once again we have a politician who is indicted on corruption charges and once again we have a news organization who "conveniently" neglects to mention his party label. Deleting the 'D':  Rep. Lamar Smith, Texas Republican, thinks he's on to something — scandals minus the "D," you might call it.  "Two weeks ago the governor of Illinois was removed from office," the congressman notes, referring to the embattled Rod R. Blagojevich.  "All three television networks ran full reports on the story the same night and again the following morning.  Not one report mentioned that he is a Democrat." Did The Philadelphia Inquirer tell you they were Democrats?  To which political party do the two judges belong?  Naturally, upon reading this, I had to wonder:  were these crooks Republicans, or were they Democrats?  The information wasn't easy to find, but it did exist. He's a Mayor Accused of Soliciting Sex From Child... But is he a Democrat?  The AP spends several paragraphs detailing the world of Mayor Becker.  It describes his election, his marriage and kids.  It describes his accused crime and where and how he was snapped up by the police.  But there is one little thing the AP can't seem to find any information on... his party.  That's right, once again the Old Media gives us an alleged criminal sexual pervert politician and somehow forgets to mention the accused is a Democrat. Cuban Stalinism at 50 — and the Media Lies Continue.  The Castro regime oppresses and kills while issuing a smokescreen of lies not merely devious but downright psychopathic.  The worldwide media abandons all pretense as "investigators" or "watchdogs" and adopts a role, not merely as sycophants, but as advertising agency. How Obama Stimulates Feminists.  [Scroll down]  "Could it possibly be that women have lost only 20 percent of the jobs that have vanished in the last, devastating year?"  Yes.  Women (generally) favor public-sector jobs that are not contingent on high rates of productivity and involve little personal risk.  Being a teacher, an academic, a social worker, and/or a bureaucrat are not careers wherein one is exposed to physical danger or the elements.  Therefore, it is no surprise that they are largely immune to economic downturns because government never cuts programs.  Living on a budget is something only the taxpayers need do. World events fall through the cracks in U.S. media.  The U.S. media virtually ignored the slide toward anarchy and civil war in the most populous nation in Africa — Nigeria.  Yet Nigeria is the major force for stability throughout West Africa and one of the world's major oil exporters.  Soaring oil prices in the first months of 2008 were largely a result of tribal conflicts and guerrilla violence in the Niger Delta.  The Bush administration bet heavily over the past eight years that Nigeria would prove a far more stable and reliable source of oil for the United States than the traditional major producers in the Middle East.  It lost. Dems Target Private Retirement Accounts.  Democrats in the U.S. House have been conducting hearings on proposals to confiscate workers' personal retirement accounts — including 401(k)s and IRAs — and convert them to accounts managed by the Social Security Administration.  Triggered by the financial crisis the past two months, the hearings reportedly were meant to stem losses incurred by many workers and retirees whose 401(k) and IRA balances have been shrinking rapidly. Obama Questioned by FBI for Two Hours.  Two hours is a long time to talk to the FBI when you claim you've had no contact with Blagojevich.  Obama is the first black President-Elect but he's also the first President-Elect to be questioned by the FBI about a major criminal investigation.  Did the FBI ask Obama about this subject or was it just about Blagojevich? Barack Obama questioned by FBI agents over Blagojevich scandal.  President-elect Barack Obama has been interviewed for two hours by four federal investigators about the scandal surrounding the alleged sale of his Senate seat by Governor Rod Blagojevich of Illinois.  Mr Obama has broken new ground by becoming the first US leader to face questioning by federal agents between election day and inauguration. Winning Isn't News.  What would happen if the U.S. won a war but the media didn't tell the American public?  Apparently, we have to rely on a British newspaper for the news that we've defeated the last remnants of al-Qaida in Iraq. Obama Speechwriter Switches to McCain; Ignored by MSM.  Imagine if a speechwriter for John McCain had switched sides and announced she was going to vote for Barack Obama.  Would she not be featured bigtime in the mainstream media complete with new thrills running up Chris Matthews leg?  Well, this did happen except that it was an Obama speechwriter, Wendy Button, who became disillusioned with The One and switched to supporting McCain. Factcheck and the Brady Campaign Share the Same Sugar Daddy.  Just last year, FactCheck's primary funding source, the Annenberg Foundation, ... gave $50,000 to the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence for "efforts to reduce gun violence by educating the public and by enacting and enforcing regulations governing the gun industry."  Annenberg made a similar grant for $100,000 in 2005. Bias by Story Selection:  By selecting the story the liberals want reported, and ignoring the stories conservatives want reported, it's clear that the media elite aren't in the "news" business.  They're in the liberal publicity business. Obama's Fishy $200 Million:  An auditor for the Federal Election Commission is attempting to have his bosses seek a formal investigation into the collection by the Obama for President campaign of more than $200 million in potentially illegal political donations, including millions of dollars of illegal, foreign donations, and has sought a request for assistance from the Department of Justice or Federal Bureau of Investigation.  But the analyst's requests have largely been ignored. Obama's Foreign Donors:  The media averts its eyes.  I have been researching, documenting and studying thousands upon thousands of Obama's campaign donations for the past month.  Egregious abuse was immediately evident and I published the results of my ongoing investigation.  Each subsequent post built a more damning case against Obama's illegal contribution activity.  The media took little notice of what I was substantiating. … Despite dropping the groundbreaking bombshell story of "Palestinian" brothers from the Rafah refugee camp in Gaza who donated $33,000 to Obama's campaign, no big media picked up the story. Sex sting to keep Wisconsin mayor from inauguration.  Racine Mayor Gary Becker's plans to attend Tuesday's inauguration have been canceled after he was charged in an Internet sex sting.  Becker had planned to attend a U.S. Conference of Mayors event in Washington over the weekend and then stay for the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama. The Editor says... There's one little detail missing from this story:  He's a Democrat.  The same detail is also missing from these articles covering the same story:  [1] [2] [3] Democrat Governor Arrested!  [Scroll down]  Let's do a little survey of where in their stories certain well-known press outlets mentioned that Gov. [Blagojevich] is a DEMOCRAT:   — Home Town Paper Chicago Tribune — 5th graf.   — Associated Press — 4th graf.   — New York Times — 2nd graf.   — Washington Post — never. Not once. In a 2,500 word story the Washington Post never thought it might be important, interesting, or even amusing to note that Gov. B is a Democrat.  If Govenor Blutarsky had been a Republican that fact would have appeared in the headline. Berg v. Obama continues to be ignored in the "media".  There continues to be little coverage of Berg v. Obama in the media.  (For the purpose of this article, we define "media" as those venues available to the general public other than those exclusively available on the Internet.) In case you haven't heard, there are many who doubt that Senator Obama is a natural born citizen. Pro-Obama, Muslim-led voter registration in mosques.  A leading critic of Islam isn't surprised there has been virtually no coverage or action taken against a Muslim group that has been running an illegal "get out the vote" campaign in swing-state mosques. Obama and the Daley Machine.  It is quite telling that both Rahm Emanuel and Barack Obama know their places in the sphere of Chicago politics.  Obama's first appointment was Emanuel as his "minder" from the Boss. ... Barack Obama has a shorter leash than you might assume a president-elect could wear, and Mayor Daley holds the other end. In the Tank for Kyoto, Inc.  Pay no attention to the ceramic facilities in Spain shutting down because it was more profitable to go into the business of making nothing -- and just selling their CO2 ration coupons.  Nothing to see here; move along.  Those EU politicians and executives pleading for a carbon-cap cessation -- or, at a minimum, that Europe stop digging?  You don't hear that, either. Chicago Cops Dodge Blagojevich/Sears Tower Investigation.  We should remember just how dangerous government can be.  Every great American since the Founding Fathers has agreed on that point.  No one should be surprised that 'Blago' and company are part of a conspiracy.  It wasn't so long ago that Illinois officials conspired with Al Capone.  The Chicago cops stood by and played dumb then, too. Media haven't deigned to cover bailout dissent.  In my 18 years as a journalist — nine of them in Washington — I've rarely seen my profession behaving as badly on a hard news story as it has during coverage of the financial bailout bill.  The level of condescension has been breathtaking.  Particularly on network and cable television, journalists and supposed financial experts have been wagging their fingers at the voting public for pressuring Congress to vote against the bill. Democratic Double-speak on bailout bill.  Senate leaders have changed history — literally and retroactively.  Senators Levin and Dodd inserted language into the Congressional Record to make it appear that the intent of the Bailout Bill was to aid automakers.  This occurred after the Bailout Bill was passed.  If Republicnas had engaged in such deception, the media would have been publicized this far and wide.  As far as I can tell, only Wall Street Journal columnist Kimberly Strassel has revealed this "feat". Retail sales jump by largest amount in 6 months.  The stimulus checks are working.  A big increase in retail sales signaled that people are spending their rebate payments, helping to ward off a serious economic slump, at least for now. Pelosi Supports Return of Fairness Doctrine.  The mainstream media have remained virtually silent about Pelosi's support for the Fairness Doctrine.  Talk radio's suspicions of a movement to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine were confirmed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Tuesday June 24 during her comments at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast. Did someone mention the Fairness Doctrine and/or Nancy Pelosi? Missing headlines:  leftwing voter fraud guilty plea.  Readers may recall that the state of Washington was in the news in 2004 for the closeness of the election for Governor (won by Christine Democrat Gregoire by all of 133 votes; her Republican opponent, Dino Rossi, has since announced plans to run again next year).  That race was subject to claims of voter fraud.  While the defendants who worked for ACORN did not plead guilty for acts that led to actual voting... where there is smoke there is usually fire. Media Mum on Barney Frank's Fannie Mae Love Connection.  Prominent Democrats ran Fannie Mae, the same government-sponsored enterprise GSE) that donated campaign cash to top Democrats.  And one of Fannie Mae's main defenders in the House — Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., a recipient of more than $40,000 in campaign donations from Fannie since 1989 — was once romantically involved with a Fannie Mae executive.  The media coverage of Frank's coziness with Fannie Mae and his pro-Fannie Mae stances has been lacking. Before he was famous:  the truth behind Obama's meteoric ascent.  Three decades after abandoning his life as a fugitive, Bill Ayers has gone underground again.  The co-founder of the Weathermen, the anti-Vietnam War group that bombed the Pentagon and US Capitol in the 1970s, has vanished as John McCain seeks to make his links to Barack Obama a central issue in the last weeks of the presidential campaign. The word "black" is completely absent from this article. Attacks by Teen Groups Rising in D.C. and Nation.  In an eight-hour period last week, five people were attacked by juveniles in separate incidents, including an armed carjacking, in the Southwest waterfront neighborhood. And in the past month, there have been between seven and 11 "pack robberies" in or near Adams Morgan in Northwest Washington, Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier said. New Evidence of Nancy Pelosi Associate Supporting Chavez, Marxists, & Terrorists.  A Colombian associate of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is once again linked to FARC terrorists and Marxist Dictator Hugo Chavez with the revelation of damning new messages concerning Colombian Senator Piedad Córdoba that are currently being investigated by Colombian military officials.  Once again we have a powerful American politician, this one the Speaker of the House of Representatives, linked to those attempting to institute Marxist regimes to our South. How reliable is DNA in identifying suspects?  A discovery leads to questions about whether the odds of people sharing genetic profiles are sometimes higher than portrayed.  Calling the finding meaningless, the FBI has sought to block such inquiry. Unrelated people with similar DNA.  "State crime lab analyst Kathryn Troyer was running tests on Arizona's DNA database when she stumbled across two felons with remarkably similar genetic profiles." Obama might pursue criminal charges against Bush.  Democratic vice-presidential nominee Joe Biden said yesterday [9/2/2008] that he and running mate Barack Obama could pursue criminal charges against the Bush administration if they are elected in November.  Biden's comments, first reported by ABC news, attracted little notice on a day dominated by the drama surrounding his Republican counterpart, Alaska governor Sarah Palin. Tasting GOP Blood.  Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden says that, if elected, an Obama administration might pursue criminal charges against the Bush White House.  This is how he plans to unite the country? Joe Biden:  The incredible shrinking candidate.  The only time since his nomination that Biden has generated any interest whatsoever was when he said in a typically rambling monologue that Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., would have made a better and more qualified vice president than himself.  Conservative Web sites and radio talk shows were all over that one, wondering if Obama, D-Ill., had told Biden to say it as part of an orchestrated process to ease the poor old fellow off the ticket and replace him with Clinton after all. Cyber Attack Shuts Down Website.  It was [Jill] Metzger's claim, not backed up by any evidence, that she had been abducted and then heroically escaped her captors.  Many media organizations in the U.S. trumpeted this claim. ... If that tale turns out to be false, and there is a lot of reason to doubt it, the military top brass who have been protecting her — and the mainstream media which have refused to investigate the matter — will end up looking like fools or worse. Help Obama's Half-Brother Move Out of His Hut.  The biggest scandal of the election campaign is going unreported, for the most part, by the mainstream newspapers and TV shows.  Imagine if John McCain or Sarah Palin had a half-brother who was living in a hut.  Imagine if McCain, a multimillionaire, did nothing to help the guy.  Imagine if McCain came to the convention and spoke incessantly about compassion and how he was inspired by the biblical mandate:  we are our brothers' keepers!  This would be the lead story on the evening news. Thy brother's keeper?  [Scroll down]  The European press has now introduced us to a new character in this morality play.  Someone you are apparently not going to meet in the American press.  The Italian edition of Vanity Fair (no right wing journal) tracked down Obama's half brother, George Obama, living in penury in the kind of third world slum that only the smallest fraction of Americans have ever experienced. Did someone mention George Obama? The Continuing Censorship of 'The Path to 9/11':  We now know (thanks to the book, "Clinton in Exile") that it was Bill Clinton himself, among others, who called [Robert] Iger and demanded that movie be edited or pulled.  With the specter of a then nearly certain Hillary Clinton presidency staring them in the face (and with Iger and many others in the film's management hierarchy already financial contributors to the Clintons), Disney caved and committed perhaps the most blatant, under-reported, and significant act of censorship in modern American history. Charlie Gibson grills Sarah Palin Charlie Gibson Goes From Most Respected Anchor to Foolish Disgrace.  It's well known and well documented that Charlie Gibson is liberal.  But he generally seems to be a well meaning, likeable liberal.  He has only a cursory view of the economy, of geopolitics, in truth, of any significant issue, and a disinterest in all things military. … But his interview with vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin was way over the top. In fact, it was downright hypocritical. The Gibson Doctrine:  It wasn't even subtle.  Virtually everything Gibson did and virtually every question he posed was designed to trap, or trick, or demean Gov. Palin.  There are views of his face that so reek of contempt that anyone shown photos of his look would immediately identify it as contemptuous.  But one series of questions, in particular, blew any cover of impartiality and revealed Gibson's aim to humiliate Palin. ABC News Edited Out Key Parts of Sarah Palin Interview.  A transcript of the unedited interview of Sarah Palin by Charles Gibson clearly shows that ABC News edited out crucial portions of the interview that showed Palin as knowledgeable or presented her answers out of context.  This unedited transcript of the first of the Gibson interviews with Palin is available on radio host Mark Levin's website. Who is the Pontius Pilate here?  (Charlie Gibson is).  Gibson, to his all reputation as a courteous and mild-mannered journalist, couldn't have been more hostile and demeaning to Sarah Palin, the elected Governor of Alaska and Republican nominee for the Vice President of the United States, than he was during the "interview" (interrogation would have been more appropriate descriptor here) of her, the excerpts of which ABC has already posted on their website. Bring Your Own Camera:  How Sarah can Fight Back.  Charlie Gibson's ABC interview with Republican veep candidate Sarah Palin produced a lot of complaints from Palin fans.  There's not much anyone in the campaign can do about journalists like Gibson misstating candidates' "exact words," but there is something that candidates -- and anyone else interviewed by a possibly hostile media -- can do to make sure that things get played straight in the editing process.  You just have to break the camera monopoly.  Luckily, that's become easy. The Real Census Story.  Every August, the Census Bureau's release of the latest income and health insurance figures results in a political uproar, but this year the political class seems almost embarrassed by the good news.  Median household income rose slightly in 2007, the poverty rate held steady and the number of uninsured even dropped slightly. The Frank Marshall Davis Cover-Up Is Over.  [Scroll down]  [Frank Marshall] Davis was identified as a member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), controlled and subsidized by the Soviet Communist Party and the KGB.  As late as 1956, when he was called before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, Davis was still refusing to deny that he was a communist.  Wouldn't it be helpful if [Jon] Meacham, the editor of Newsweek, would make an elementary effort to get the facts right?  But that is too much to ask when the presidency is at stake and the media-backed candidate is trying to cover up his controversial background. Environmentalists Mum on Poisoned Streams.  When EPA-funded scientists at the University of Colorado studied fish in a pristine mountain stream known as Boulder Creek two years ago, they were shocked.  Randomly netting 123 trout and other fish downstream from the city's sewer plant, they found that 101 were female, 12 were male, and 10 were strange "intersex" fish with male and female features.  It's "the first thing that I've seen as a scientist that really scared me," said then 59-year-old University of Colorado biologist John Woodling, speaking to the Denver Post in 2005. Birth control:  The new pollutant.  In his book "The Really Inconvenient Truths:  Seven Environmental Catastrophes Liberals Don't Want You to Know About — Because They Helped Cause Them" (Regnery, 2008), Iain Murray writes:  "Why don't we have more outcries about hormones, and campaigns to save the fish populations?  Why aren't environmentalists lobbying on Capitol Hill to keep these chemicals from being dumped into our rivers?"  He answers his own question:  "Maybe because the source of these chemicals is not some corporate polluter, but something a little more dear to the Left:  human birth-control pills, morning-after pills, and abortion pills." The Pill as Pollutant:  A really inconvenient truth.  The cause of intersexuality among fish, scientists speculate, is pollution in the water, particularly hormones.  Why don't we have more outcries about hormones, and campaigns to save the fish populations?  Why aren't environmentalists lobbying on Capitol Hill to keep these chemicals from being dumped into our rivers?  Maybe because the source of these chemicals is not some corporate polluter, but something a little more dear to the Left:  human birth-control pills, morning-after pills, and abortion pills. Inquiry Turns to Humans On Pollutant, Hormone Tie.  Treated sewage, which carries human estrogen and birth-control pill components excreted in waste, has been linked to "feminized" male fish in waters around the world.  In the St. Lawrence River in Canada, a recent study found that a third of male minnows had female characteristics.  Another example might be the Potomac, though the cause of its problems has not been officially pinpointed. The Editor says... I scan through the headlines almost every day of the year, and I first heard of this issue only a few weeks ago.  But apparently there has been some concern about it for at least eight years.  That is why the topic is now being discussed on this page. GOP House Revolt Over Oil Drilling Gets Ignored or Buried.  It turns out that if you rely on the evening news programs of the three broadcast networks, you didn't hear about this extraordinary event at all.  And, if you're one of the few people that still reads newspapers, the one thrown on your driveway Saturday morning likely also ignored this story, or buried it well off the front page. Kansas Planned Parenthood Scandal Rolls On.  The scandal in Kansas involving a Planned Parenthood clinic and official government corruption is probably one of the most unreported stories in recent history.  The Kansas media has been dutifully misreporting the scandal and its implications, while the so-called mainstream media (MSM) outside of Kansas appears committed to ignoring it altogether. Ousting Jack:  Seven Marines have been cleared or won case dismissals in the Iraq war incident Murtha recklessly adjudicated in the court of public opinion — with willing mainstream journalists swinging their nooses.  Perhaps that complicity explains the great media wall of silence around [Bill] Russell's upstart campaign. Unmasked:  Chinese guardians of Olympic torch.  China's blue-clad flame attendants, whose aggressive methods of safeguarding the Olympic torch have provoked international outcry, are paramilitary police from a force spun off from the country's army.  The squad of 30 young men from the police academy that turns out the cream of the paramilitary security force has the job at home of ensuring riot control, domestic stability and the protection of diplomats. Rudd says 'no' to China torch guards.  Chinese paramilitary police will not be allowed to run alongside the Olympic torch in Australia, the country's prime minister said Thursday [4/10/2008], after their heavy-handed tactics drew criticism in earlier legs of the relay.  The men in bright blue tracksuits were dispatched by Beijing to guard the Olympic flame on its journey around the world.  They sparked concern in London and Paris, with the top official for the 2012 London Olympics calling them "thugs." Did someone mention the Olympics? UN-Believable.  When the so-called mainstream media don't want you to know something, they simply spike the story — meaning they just don't cover it. … First there's the strange case of Doudou Diene, the United Nations "Special Rapporteur" on "contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance."  He's really a lawyer from Senegal, traveling first-class on a U.N. ticket, and he arrived in the U.S. May 19 for a three-week "fact-finding trip." Another inconvenient truth down the Obama Memory Hole.  The staggering implications of another embarrassing Obama statement would remain unexplored, with the public record obscured, were it not for a video clip of one of his speeches posted to the web and alert internet journalists. The Mainstream Media Smears 'Obama Nation'.  Like it or not, we have a mainstream media that closely resembles the Russian Kremlin-controlled one-party media that basically reports only the Putin party line.  Our mainstream media, instead of supporting only Vladimir Putin, supports only Sen. Barack Obama.  That's a dangerous way to elect a president, only hearing about what the mainstream media thinks will help elect Mr. Obama. A Cog in the Chicago Machine?  While the convention will be held in Denver it will give off the greatest Chicago cast since 1996, when Mayor Daley hosted the convention that nominated President Clinton for his second term.  The June decision to place operations of the Democratic National Committee in Chicago together with Mr. Obama's headquarters reinforces the Windy City's dominance of Democratic politics.  The big question is whether American voters will notice. Six Degrees of Barack Obama:  Barack Obama Senior had multiple children by a variety of women and died as the result of one of his many drunk driving episodes.  It is messy and sordid tale that has been reported upon in Europe while being largely ignored in the United States. WaPo Addresses Obama's Faith — With NO Wright?  The Washington Post published a front page story on Sunday headlined "Obama Addresses His Faith:  Senator Describes Spiritual Journey."  But it completely ignored Rev. Jeremiah Wright and the Trinity United Church of Christ.  Obama was allowed to declare to audiences how he "let Jesus Christ into his life" on the south side of Chicago, but the Post utterly left out the fact that it was Rev. Wright who was his spiritual mentor. Obama's Other Radical Friends:  Apparently, back when he was running for state senate, Barack Obama had fund-raising events at the home of Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, and there's been some press about the senator's friendship with this controversial Weathercouple.  Many reporters are well aware, even though Mr. Obama has described his connection to Ayers and Dohrn as "flimsy," that the senator's relationship with his radical Hyde Park neighbors is actually quite warm, even close. … But mostly, the press doesn't want to touch this story — and no one else does either, as if it actually were TNT. Our Own Oil Cartel.  Last month, with almost no attention from the liberal media, the Bureau of Land Management released the report estimating the other part of America's undiscovered oil riches, the onshore resources.  This added another 53 billion barrels to the national petroleum pot. Obama's Stealth Pro-Abortion Stance:  In response to a Pennsylvania voter's question about elementary school sex education, Obama said:  "Look, I got two daughters — nine years old and six years old.  I am going to teach them first about values and morals, but if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby."  This makes two things clear.  First, Senator Obama supports abortion on demand — even "convenience" abortions — for minors, including his own daughters; and second, Obama considers babies a "punishment" he'd rather spare his daughters, even if those daughters have to abort Obama's own unborn grandchildren to avoid that particular "punishment."  That unguardedly candid public statement is political dynamite — or it would be, if the media had reported on it. NASA measures global temperatures.  NASA is spending around 20 million dollars a year to deploy and monitor 3000 robot buoys around the worlds oceans and the data coming in doesn't support their theory on global warming, in fact it turns out the world has cooled slightly in the last five years.  It's surprising the mainstream media hasn't picked up on this, you would think the fact that the earth is cooling would be front page news. The Editor says... News stories about NASA projects — especially the expensive robots on Mars — always seem to include marvelous details without ever mentioning the number of millions (or billions) of dollars spent on them.  Am I the only one who notices these omissions? Weather Stations Giving Bad Global Warming Data, A Problem Ignored.  A few months ago, the blogosphere and talk radio were abuzz with the story of how the nation's various weather stations and temperature reading devices have been improperly located or badly constructed and how the data received from these improper devices must be suspected as inaccurate. … Still, even as the blogosphere and talk radio blasted the news, the MSM ignores this explosive story. Mainstream Media Try to Burn a Book.  "Let's predict a couple of things about this very important book.  First, it will seldom be reviewed.  It will be set up for target practice; that is, second, if it is not altogether ignored, becoming a non-book by the dictates of the heirs of the people who swept its subject into the dustbins of history, viciously spitting on his grave." Only His Hair Dresser Knows For Sure!  The mainstream media's reaction to the National Enquirer's reports on John Edwards' "love child" scandal has been reminiscent of the Soviet press.  Edwards' name has simply been completely whitewashed out of the news.  Say, why isn't anyone talking about John Edwards for vice president anymore?  No, seriously — hey!  Why are we going to a commercial break? Clueless in Obama Nation.  What if a presidential candidate claimed that his view on an issue drew its power from the Sermon on the Mount, which was delivered by no less an authority than Jesus Christ?  What if that view contradicted 2,000 years of church moral teaching?  Wouldn't this be a major news story?  It would if it involved a Republican.  Or even another Democrat.  But when it comes to Barack Obama, the media continue to ignore newsworthy topics and refuse to give the public substantive details about the senator's views on many key issues. Hothouse Flower.  Somehow those scandals — involving high-profile Chicago figures — were broken by national news organizations like ABC News and the Politico.  In fact, when Obama's connection to Ayers received real scrutiny from the national press, local columnists offered "so what?" reactions, insisting the relationship was "no big deal." How crypto-Marxism won the Cold War.  Today, for the first time in American history we have two — count 'em, two — hard-core Leftists running for the Democrat Party nomination.  The Left hasn't had this kind of chance for power since Truman defeated Henry Wallace in 1948.  Hillary and Obama are Marx twins who only differ in race and gender.  All the media tell us is how great it is to have a woman and a black man running for president. The Audacity of Silence About Tony Rezko:  Jury selection began today in Chicago in the trial of Syrian-born businessman Antoin "Tony" Rezko, a major supporter of Barack Obama.  Two days before the 2006 elections in which Democrats won by running against a "culture of corruption," Chicago newspapers revealed that Obama purchased a home that summer for $1.6 million, but only because Rezko's wife bought an adjoining parcel for $625,000 to complete the deal.  Rezko was already under federal investigation for kickback schemes. ABC Spikes Michelle Obama's Gaffe, Then Declares It Unimportant.  ABC's World News, which on Tuesday [2/19/2008] skipped Michelle Obama's comment that "for the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country," on Wednesday finally got to it, but only minimally as George Stephanopoulos praised her "good damage control" and declared:  "I don't think it's going to be a huge deal."  Hard for it to become "a huge deal" when a broadcast network's most-watched news program doesn't bother to report it. Media's Double Standard on Race-based Voting:  It is not really relevant, frankly, to point out that most black voters are going to vote in droves for Barack Obama.  Regardless of his race, black voters would vote for the Democrat.  But when you read about Congressman Steve Cohen's race in Tennessee's Ninth Congressional District, you really are confronted by both racism and anti-Semitism in a way we rarely think about in this country.  And the media is silent.  Barack Obama is silent. Michelle Obama:  America is 'Just Downright Mean'.  As NewsBusters previously reported, the wife of Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama isn't very proud of her country.  Two weeks after making her disdain for the nation clear during a campaign speech for her husband in Wisconsin, Michelle further debased America by saying that we're a country that is "just downright mean." Obama's Imperilled Candidacy:  I found it very interesting to hear [Rev. Jeremiah] Wright explicitly endorse Obama over Hillary in church.  Normally when evangelical preachers cross the political line they get hammered for violating the separation of church and state.  One pastor I know invited a local Republican official to give his personal testimony in church and had to answer to the IRS for it.  How come black churches engage in blatant electioneering, even to the point of busing members to the voting booth, and nobody from the ACLU or the media raises an eyebrow? Obama's Clintonesque Speech.  Barack Obama came to Philadelphia on March 18 not so much to address his poisonous pastor, Jeremiah Wright, but to talk vaguely of race relations.  The news media swooned. … Newspapers and news networks tried to insist that Obama's speech drew praise "across the political spectrum," but this was nonsense.  Many outlets utterly excluded conservatives and Republicans from their stories.  They were hermetically sealing Obama from criticism. The Obamas are Just the Ghosts of Clintons Past.  It's amazing how much the Obamas are like the Clintons — who are now attacked by the same people who used to kiss the ground they stepped on.  Carl Bernstein talks about Hillary's "dark side."  Bill, says an MSNBC blogger, is a serial liar.  Well, thanks for performing your journalistic duty to the American people.  It only took sixteen years for our media to tell us what was clear to the rest of the world before the Clintons ever got elected in 1992. McCain Wrong to Support Media Shield Law.  President Bush has threatened a veto but the media are counting on Congress to override it.  The bill puts in the hands of federal politicians and judges the ability to define a "legitimate" journalist or blogger who is deserving of federal protection.  As such, it restricts First Amendment rights to a certain group of people currently in favor with federal authorities. Morning Shows Hit Snooze Button on Court Overturning San Fran Gun Ban.  None of the April 11 editions of the network morning shows:  ABC's "Good Morning America," CBS's "The Early Show," and NBC's "Today," noted the April 10 unanimous ruling of the California Supreme Court striking down a San Francisco handgun ban. Will the media ever report on the upcoming Clinton vs. Paul trial?  A status conference hearing is scheduled for April 25, 2008 in Los Angeles to set a trial date in Paul vs. Clinton.  The court delayed setting a trial date back in February, but a new trial date is expected to be announced three days after the all important Pennsylvania primary. ... How much longer will the media continue to ignore this case? Everything but the News!  CNN is famous for having a scoop on a breaking story, then, very oddly, the next hour it is discontinued.  This happens on other news sources also.  For example, the first announcement of Ron Brown's plane crash was said to have happened in the Adriatic Sea and that divers were preparing to go down to search for bodies.  The next announcement, an hour or so later, was that the plane had crashed into the mountains!  There was one survivor, a female flight attendant.  She walked to a rescue helicopter but was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital.  Was that in the news? LOST Runs Silent, Runs Deep.  According to Senator Jon Kyl, the entire Senate Republican leadership is now opposed to a controversial treaty supported by the President and an implausible alliance of special interests — from the U.S. Navy to Greenpeace.  At a joint press conference last Wednesday, he was one of several Senators to declare that, as a result, supporters would be unable to muster the necessary 67 votes for ratification of the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST).  Yet, it seems not one of the "establishment" media organs felt moved to report these momentous political developments. Bush's Ranch House 'Far More Eco-Friendly' Than Gore's.  George Bush may be a nemesis of the global green movement and Al Gore its hero, but the president's home is arguably far more environmentally-friendly than the home of the man he defeated in the 2000 election. Crouching Gore, Hidden Oil Stocks?.  Al Gore's long, former relationship with Occidental Petroleum is well-documented, and all but ignored in the mainstream media. Al Gore, the Oilman Who Hates Oil.  The mainstream media has relentlessly hailed Al Gore as a visionary for urging America to get off oil but has essentially ignored the fact that Gore is personally invested in the most cutting edge oil extraction technologies. NY Climate Conference:  Journey to the Center of Warming Sanity.  If you rely solely on the mainstream media to keep informed, you may not have heard that the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change concluded in New York City on Tuesday [3/4/2008].  And if you have heard anything — this being primarily a forum of skeptics — it was likely of a last gasp effort by "flat-Earthers" sponsored by right-wingers in the pockets of big-oil to breathe life into their dying warming denial agenda.  Well, having just returned from the 3 day event, I'm happy to report that the struggle against the ravages of warming alarmism is not only alive, but healthier than ever. Bias by Omission:  Media Silent on Nationwide Pro-Life Protest.  If a coordinated protest took place across the country on a single day you'd think major media outlets would cover it, right?  Thousands of people lining roads in communities from California to Florida should generate national headlines.  Such an event would generate headlines if the protest was against something the liberal media hated — like the war in Iraq.  But because it was a protest against abortion, there was nothing but silence from the national media. First Amendment Rights for Abortion Protestors?  On December 22nd a 69-year-old pro-life activist who was standing atop his automobile and protesting in front of the Hillcrest Abortion Clinic in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was physically attacked by an abortion supporter and thrown to the ground with enough force to knock him unconscious.  Doctors even worried for a time that the elderly man might perish from the attack.  Over a week after the attack, there aren't any accounts of the attack in the mainstream media.  As I searched for the story, I found only two Internet hits for it.  Why the silence from the MSM?  Can you imagine the MSM swarm that would have occurred if it had been a pro-lifer who attacked an abortion supporter?  The cacophony would have been deafening if a pro-lifer had been the one to get violent. Make English Official.  One of the most unreported stories of the past month is Democrats in Congress refusing to protect the Salvation Army and other similar organizations from lawsuits for requiring their employees to be able to speak English on the job.  This policy issue is also important politically, and Republicans will benefit politically by doing the right thing. When Peaceniks Attack, Journalists Snooze.  Have you heard about the plight of 22-year-old McGuire Air Force Base loadmaster Jonathan Schrieken?  Probably not.  The shooting got no mention in The New York Times — not even a squib in a back section. Hiding Black Interracial Crimes:  I don't know about you, but it was just recently that I heard about a gruesome murder in Knoxville, Tenn., that is far worse than the false charges in the Duke rape case and is at least as horrible, if not more so, than the dragging death of James Byrd.  Unlike the Duke rape case and the Jasper lynching, the national news media's coverage of the interracial Knoxville murders paled in comparison. Jury delivers death sentence to Davidson in torture slayings of couple in Knoxville.  A Tennessee man convicted of kidnapping, raping and murdering a couple on a date has been sentenced to death.  The defendant, 28-year-old Lemaricus Davidson, showed no reaction Friday [10/30/2009] as jurors announced the death sentences for the murders of 21-year-old college student Channon Christian and her 23-year-old boyfriend, Christopher Newsom. The Bad News Is The Good News Is Ignored.  More than a decade ago Ben Wattenberg wrote a book with the marvelous title, The Good News Is The Bad News Is Wrong.  If that book were republished today I would change the title to The Bad News Is The Good News Is Ignored.  It isn't surprising that in the world of media reportage only bad news counts.  The problem with this condition is that it feeds a generally one dimensional view of politics, a misperception of the world that promotes weltschmerz and despair. Buried news:  Former Soros top aide faces fraud sentence.  I take the fact that Soros was reportedly closely involved with such a crook as another data point on a man who operates in financial secrecy offshore, who has broken the British pound and made billions, and who is spending unlimited sums of money on building propaganda and other political organs in the United States with the apparent intent of swaying elections.  Maybe it is just me, but I think our media ought to be looking into him just a bit. The Untold Story of Delta Flight 1824:  The passengers aboard Delta Airlines Flight 1824 flying out of Orlando International Airport ... heard the following statement over the intercom as they were preparing to taxi onto the runway on their way to Atlanta, Georgia:  "Ladies and gentlemen, we have been informed that there is a credible security risk with this aircraft and we are returning to the terminal." ... If you rely on official government statements and the major media, the entire incident involving Flight 1824 was benign and was never a security risk. An Islamist Connection to OKC Bombing.  Ignoring a huge story like this is bad enough.  But at least two establishment outlets — the New York Times and CBS — affirmatively squelched it, albeit in different ways.  The Times shut down an investigation that was hot on the trail of the story.  CBS did not follow up on clear evidence of Middle East involvement.  Why? The Alchemy of Democrat Cover-ups:  [Scroll down]  Soon after the formation of 9-11 commission was officially announced the Clinton administrations National Security Advisor, Sandy Berger, went to National Archives over a period of weeks to steal and destroy highly classified records of the Clinton administration decision-making process in handling Al-Qaeda and terrorism.  He stuck them in his pants and socks and later burned and shredded them.  You can bet they held incriminating evidence, evidence that would have tanked the Democrats on security issues and ripped away the "Clinton Legacy."  It was a very successful cover-up, about which the press is remarkably silent. Hillary's 'Low Profile' National Security Adviser:  Sandy Berger.  It's gotten very little mainstream media coverage (surprise!) but Hillary Clinton's national security adviser is none other than Sandy "Docs In My Socks" Berger, who pleaded guilty to stealing and destroying classified documents related to the Clinton administration's anti-terror efforts, immediately before Bill Clinton's testimony to the 9/11 commission. It's the James Byrd case with the colors reversed -- so it's not news. Murder in black and white.  This appalling attack is more than a case study in sociopathic evil.  It is also a case study in journalistic malpractice.  Unless you tune in to the local Knoxville news, you are most likely hearing about this heinous crime for the first time — even though it took place last January.  True, there are some 17,000 murders committed in the U.S. each year, but this double murder was clearly far more barbaric, far more monstrous than most. Knoxville Horror:  Trial Dates Set; MSM "Discovers" the Case.  For months the mainstream media has ignored the kidnapping, gang-rape, and murder of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom.  The MSM is finally starting, ever so modestly, to report on Tennessee's Knoxville Horror, even as far from the crime scene as Denver! What is a hate crime?  What happened to Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom, a young Knoxville couple out on an ordinary Saturday night date, was undeniably brutal.  The two were carjacked, kidnapped, raped and finally murdered during an ordeal of unimaginable terror in January. SPJ Suggests 'Omitting Race' in Crime Reporting.  Society of Professional Journalists has decided that it is best to leave a suspect's race out of crime reporting except for "extraordinary" reasons.  Of course, to the SPJ, "good reporting" means race info in a story about crime isn't "useful to people in the community" even if the race of a suspect is part of a police report apparently.  Despite their claim that they aren't toeing the PC line, their explanation is filled with just the sort of reasoning based on PC thinking — one of which is that all whites are racists. 'Hardball' Promotes Ted Kennedy HBO History, But Completely Leaves Out Death at Chappaquiddick.  On Friday night's [7/10/2009] Hardball, guest host Lawrence O'Donnell enthusiastically promoted HBO's new, glowing Ted Kennedy documentary. ... It's not like the HBO film leaves Chappaquiddick out, which it shouldn't, because it was a continuing obstacle to Kennedy's White House dreams.  But MSNBC feels comfortable airbrushing it out of their warm, fuzzy historical memories. The Race for the American Mind:  Forty-three years ago it was a different world.  Ted Kennedy had co-authored the "Immigration Reform Act of 1965," which created a situation wherein 85 percent of our immigrants hail from the Third World and Asia.  He took to the Senate floor, claimed his brainchild wouldn't change the demographic composition of the nation and passed the culture-rending bill under the cover of darkness.  This darkness was not absence of light but that of truth; it was a media blackout.  With no Internet and little talk radio, mainstream journalists had a monopoly over the hearts and minds of America.  And they knew best. Unfavorable drug studies don't get into print:  report.  Nearly a third of antidepressant drug studies are never published in the medical literature and nearly all happen to show that the drug being tested did not work, researchers reported on Wednesday [1/16/2008].  In some of the studies that are published, unfavorable results have been recast to make the medicine appear more effective than it really is, said the research team led by Erick Turner of the Oregon Health & Science University. U.S. media lags in covering Latin America.  If you think that Latin America is getting a short shrift in the U.S. media, you are right:  a new study shows that the percentage of news from the region in mainstream U.S. media is pathetic. The Clintons' Chop Suey Connection.  I hope you followed the news with the utmost care last week.  A stupendous story peeked into the media, grew to adulthood in no time, and vanished.  The news story began with the Wall Street Journal's report that a major donor to the Clinton presidential campaign, Hong Kong-born Norman Hsu, appeared to have "bundled" vast amounts of money into donations to Democrats.  Particularly blessed was the Clinton presidential campaign. Did someone mention Norman Hsu? Crowd attacks, kills man at Juneteenth festival.  An angry crowd beat a man to death after a vehicle he was riding in struck and injured a young girl, police said Wednesday.  Police believe 2,000 to 3,000 people were in the area for a Juneteenth celebration when the attack occurred Tuesday night. The Editor says... Do you notice anything missing from this report?  Juneteenth celebrations are attended almost exclusively by blacks.  I wasn't there, but I'm guessing this is the story of a black lynch mob, with that one little detail omitted. Crowd kills passenger of car that struck child.  A crowd of Juneteenth partyers outside an East Austin housing project turned violent with several beating a man to death after the car he was riding in apparently struck a small child. … "It's sad for the city," said Commander Harold Piatt, who leads the Austin Police Department's homicide division. … "It's not a hate crime," he said.  "It's not racially motivated in any way.  The assault has nothing to do with the (city-sponsored) Juneteenth celebration." The Editor continues... The reporter describes a crowd of Juneteenth partyers at the beginning of the story, but the police say it had nothing to do with Juneteenth.  There is a new ingredient here that was missing from other news stories about this case — it was a crowd "outside an East Austin housing project", which further guarantees that the perpetrators were black, yet the word "black" is not in the text of the story.  I'm just saying that if the colors were reversed, the news media would still be talking about a lynch mob and a hate crime.  As it is, the story disappeared within two weeks. Reid labels military leader 'incompetent'.  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called Marine Gen. Peter Pace, the outgoing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, "incompetent" during an interview Tuesday with a group of liberal bloggers, a comment that was never reported.  Reid made similar disparaging remarks about Army Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, said several sources familiar with the interview. The Liberal Media has Voted Early … Again!.  The secular press has largely been silent on this controversial bill.  The media's silence and the unprecedented speed of this legislation are not accidental.  Congress has put this bill on a fast track to be passed just one month after its proposal. Will Obama go up in smoke?  In case you haven't heard — and many apparently still haven't — Barack Obama smokes.  Despite the crush of media attention enveloping him, few have spent much time discussing his nicotine habit, much less asking the obvious question:  In an era of unprecedented hostility toward tobacco users, can a cigarette smoker win a presidential election? [Wait a minute... Aren't Obama's supporters the very same left-wing Democrats who have campaigned to outlaw smoking in public places?] Now they tell us?  Raymond Hernandez of the New York Times informs the world that Hillary Clinton has long enjoyed the services of a chief aide, someone who plays an absolutely key role on her life, whose existence has received approximately zero media attention until now. … If anyone ever doubted that Hillary's public persona is a completely manufactured product, bearing only tangential relationship to the reality of the woman, the public oblivion of Patti Solis Doyle should provide evidence of the divergence between image and reality in the case of Hillary. KGB Letter Outlines Sen. Kennedy's Overtures to Soviets, Prof Says.  In his book, which came out this week, [Paul] Kengor focuses on a KGB letter written at the height of the Cold War that shows that Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) offered to assist Soviet leaders in formulating a public relations strategy to counter President Reagan's foreign policy and to complicate his re-election efforts. Networks Spike Revelations About Berger's Pilfering of Secret Papers.  Despite the colorful details about how Sandy Berger cut the documents, about the Clinton administration's reaction to terrorist threats in 1999, into small pieces, the broadcast networks weren't interested Thursday morning or evening [12/21/2006] even though the report discredits Berger's claims he simply accidentally mishandled the documents. Why Does Trousergate Go Ignored?  A House Oversight Committee report details the real and potential damage to national security of Sandy Berger's theft and destruction of classified documents.  And we may never know what was in them.  The report released this week by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee shows, as ranking Republican member Rep. Tom Davis of Virginia put it, how former Clinton National Security Adviser Berger "compromised national security much more than originally disclosed." The Secret Sandy Risked His All For:  If not the most skillful of embezzlers, Samuel 'Sandy' Berger is a far more formidable character than the media would have us believe.  When he made his now storied sorties into the National Archives, he risked his career and his reputation in so doing, and he knew it.  Rest assured, he would not have done so were the secrets to be preserved not worth the risk of pilfering them.  True to form, the major media refuse to even ask the most fundamental question:  just what secrets would justify so much personal exposure. It's about time Americans found out what Sandy Berger stuffed in his pants.  The theft and destruction of classified national security documents by former National Security Advisor Samuel "Sandy" Berger is a topic that never received the attention it should have. … My outrage, though, comes from the actual theft of the documents, rather than the way the media largely ignored it. Media Silence Surrounding Building 7:  The total collapse of the third huge skyscraper late in the afternoon of September 11th was reported as if it were an insignificant footnote.  The television networks played video of the jets impacting the Twin Towers hundreds of times.  But most people never saw video of Building 7's collapse. For Illegal Aliens, Crime Pays — and So Do We.  Except for when an illegal alien does something horrific … we rarely hear that these crimes are committed specifically by illegals.  This is due to two factors:  first, illegal aliens are often silent on family violence and afraid to report crime within their communities.  And second, the mainstream media seem to go out of their way not to inform us, as they rarely make any distinction between crimes committed by US citizen perpetrators or those committed by illegal alien perpetrators, and this is an egregious violation of the press's mandate. Levy suspect's illegal status stirs media debate.  It has become the dreaded "I-word" at many news organizations.  Much of the press has shunned the terms "illegal alien" or "illegal immigrant" to describe Ingmar Guandique, recently charged by police and federal prosecutors in the 2001 slaying of Washington intern Chandra Levy. Kidnap gangs target 'white gold'.  In Nigeria's oil-rich south, foreign workers are known as "white gold" among the gangs who kidnap them for ransom.  "Ah, the whites are coming," chuckled one young gang member as a heavily-guarded oil company convoy sped through Port Harcourt, sirens blaring.  "It's like ice cream vans in your country."  Nigeria is Africa's largest producer of crude oil, or "black gold".  But the country is in the grip of a kidnapping epidemic…. The Editor says... If the colors were reversed, this would be front-page news. Dreadful Democratic manners.  I wonder how the national press would have responded to a Republican being publicly ugly to, say, Bill Clinton, at a White House Christmas reception.  I don't wonder about that at all.  He would have been held up as an example of everything which is wrong with the spiteful GOP. Women in the Clinton era:  Abuse, intimidation and smears.  Here is Bill Clinton's legacy of mistreatment of women.  The common threads are that, almost to a woman:  (1) they had some vulnerability that he could exploit.  (2) they were victims of a smear campaign, and (3) there is an eerie similarity to the stories they tell of intimidation, threats, and burglaries of odd items, such as photographs and tapes. Black Gangs Terrorize D.C..  Because the Washington Post wants to obscure the basic reality of the situation, we believe that visitors to the nation's capital should be warned that there is a crime emergency in effect, sparked by a sharp increase in homicides, and they are potential victims.  The fact is that white tourists are being injured and killed by roving black male gangs, who are even showing up in exclusive areas such as Georgetown where some rich reporters live behind iron gates.  The Post, however, has a policy of deliberately keeping the public in the dark about the real nature of the problem. Panel:  Leaked Gingrich call broke rules.  Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., violated ethics standards by giving reporters access to an illegally taped telephone call involving Republican leaders a decade ago, the House ethics committee said Monday [12/11/2006].  McDermott, who at the time was the panel's senior Democrat, failed to meet his obligations as a committee leader, said a report released two days after Congress adjourned for the year.  The panel took no action other than the report. Crime Cover-Up in D.C.:  There is terrorism in Baghdad but a criminal gang problem has also been plaguing our nation's capital.  In an officially declared "crime emergency," black criminals had been robbing, assaulting, and even raping tourists in the National Mall area, where the Washington Monument and the World War II and Lincoln Memorials stand.  This is an area that had been considered safe and "tourist-friendly."  Three young black men were arrested for these crimes, but you could search in vain in the local media for any reference to their skin color. Instead, they were described as "D.C. youths" or just "five people." The arrogance of (Democrat) power.  Carole Migden is one of the most powerful people in California, and she knows it.  The lesbian activist (author of the state's original domestic partners act, "married" in a faux ceremony conducted by SF mayor Gavin Newsom) is chair of the majority Democrat caucus in the State Senate, and has held a series of extremely powerful posts in a state government that spends $100 billion a year with little press scrutiny. Trashing privacy:  Thanks to the U.S. Senate's remarkable but well-known lack of backbone, nations such as Albania, Croatia, Uganda and many others now will be able to call up the U.S. Justice Department and find out as much as they would like about anything you do with your computer.  At this point, you probably wonder why you haven't read about this.  Frankly, there's not much reason you would have, unless you read some relatively obscure publications that focus mostly on technology issues.  Another reason you wouldn't likely have heard of it is, of course, that most major media outlets ignored the issue entirely…. Intense chill of coming week threatens to eclipse Feb. 3-9 cold spell 112 years ago.  Chicago is headed into a deep freeze likely to take on, if not surpass, a series of long-time late-winter cold weather benchmarks.  An average of each day's temperatures over the coming 7 days may well finish colder than any Feb. 3-9 period on record since 1871 here. Pension Looters for the Left?  Imagine the following scenario:  during the height of election season, a high-placed Republican donor is discovered to have looted millions of dollars from the retirement funds of individuals and companies he manages, and then contributes more than $70,000 to his state GOP party. Beijing secretly fires lasers to disable US satellites.  China has secretly fired powerful laser weapons designed to disable American spy satellites by "blinding" their sensitive surveillance devices, it was reported yesterday [9/25/2006]. … Sources told the military affairs publication Defense News that there had been a fierce internal battle within Washington over whether to make the attacks public. The Princeton Hate Crime That Wasn't :  The Jena 6 case exploded overnight when the Media imagined they had a "race hate" issue on their hands.  They did the same with the Duke Rape case.  Both cases were later proven not to be a case of a "hate crime" at all and, in the end, weren't even real crimes. … Contrast that coverage with a reported crime that occurred near Princeton University that perfectly fits the definition of a "hate crime" and we found a media that stayed mum not reporting a thing about it.  The reason, of course, is because this victim was a conservative, Christian attacked because he was a conservative Christian — the news media obviously didn't feel there was anything to talk about. The Democrats' Culture of Corruption:  Did you notice the stories about Illinois Democratic Rep. Jan Schakowsky's husband being sentenced to prison for a check-kiting scheme involving millions of dollars?  Probably not.  It got little attention. Most Jews ever set to enter Congress.  A record number of Jewish members will enter Congress Thursday, but more remarkable are the unparalleled positions of power they will hold on committees related to Israel, many local Jewish activists say.  Six new Jewish legislators will be joining 37 familiar faces as the 110th Congress convenes, making the total the highest-ever, according to Doug Bloomfield, a former legislative director for AIPAC. The Editor says... The posting of the article above has been perceived by some people as evidence that this web site is run by "flaming nutballs."  But this article appeared in the Jerusalem Post, and the author was bragging, not complaining.  The article does not denigrate the members of Congress who happen to be Jewish, nor was that the intent of posting it here.  It is just another example of a story that the U.S. media omit -- in this case for the sake of political correctness.  The media, by and large, have also ignored the record number of Muslims in Congress:  two. A $40 billion scandal:  As reporter Lester Holt of NBC's "Today" put it in a Jan. 1 story, "Enron has been the poster child, if you will, of corporate scandals."  It isn't the only one, though.  There's $40 billion scandal with most of the same elements — even connection to prominent politicians.  Just don't expect to see much about it on TV.  After all, the top people involved here are Democrats. Bin Laden family gave $1 million to Carter.  Former President Jimmy Carter's center in Atlanta received more than $1 million from the family of Osama bin Laden, according to an investigative report. The Homeland Security Rackets:  On April 10th an American-registered DC9 was caught carrying 5.5 tons of cocaine destined for the U.S., the Mexican military announced, at an airport in Ciudad del Carmen.  In the more than two months since, the incident has slipped into a black hole. Carnival puts the bite on Hillary's brother.  A bankruptcy trustee for a carnival company whose owners received a pardon from President Clinton is seeking to garnish the bank accounts of Mr. Clinton's brother-in-law to recoup more than $100,000 in loans.  Anthony D. Rodham, one of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's two brothers, got the loans from United Shows of America Inc. after its owners obtained the presidential pardon in March 2000 over the objections of the Justice Department. Hillary's brother barred from bank account.  Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's brother Anthony D. Rodham has been barred from accessing his bank account while a bankruptcy trustee demands that he repay more than $100,000 in loans from a carnival company whose founder was pardoned by President Clinton, filings in federal bankruptcy court in Alexandria show. Why isn't this newsworthy?  Are American and European reporters in Iran covering today's protests at all?  If not, why not?  Thanks to Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi for sending these photos of protesting Iranian workers and students. Safe at Any Speed.  It's another summer weekend, when millions of families pack up the minivan or SUV and hit the road.  So this is also an apt moment to trumpet some good, and underreported, news:  Driving on the highways is safer today than ever before. 55 Guardsmen Decrease Mexican Border Infiltration 21% in 10 Days.  That pretty much summarizes what was undoubtedly the most important news story of the last week, a report that was all but buried by the mainstream media. … The shocking drop-off in human smuggling is attributed to one factor:  the arrival of the National Guard on the border. The census has grown beyond its bounds.  While the Patriot Act and National Security Agency wiretapping have received enormous attention and criticism from the mainstream media, another federal agency has been quietly gathering far more personal information about U.S. residents than those laws ever can.  And this unreported project affects thousands more people.  Our inquisitive federal government has been demanding that selected U.S. residents answer 73 nosy questions.  They are threatened with a fine of $5,000 for failure to respond. [The invasive and unreasonably nosy questions on the census started under President Clinton.  So that's why we voted for a guy who said he would "bring strong conservative leadership to the White House."  Sounds like the census is getting more intrusive, not less.] Clinton cover-ups:  Lost in the tumult over Islamic port deals and Katrina video capers is the recently released — and willfully ignored — Barrett Report.  David Barrett, you'll recall, is the independent counsel appointed in 1995 to investigate allegations of impropriety against President Clinton's Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros. More information about the Barrett Report can be found here. Hillary Clinton and the sweatshop tycoon of Saipan.  It turns out that Sen. Clinton has some big fans in Saipan.  And most of them are in the family of one Willie Tan. … You might not have heard of Willie Tan, but he is quite well-known in the Northern Marianas as a garment-industry tycoon.  Sometimes he's also described as a sweatshop operator. Top Stars Donated to Sen. Hillary Clinton.  Clinton has spent millions on direct mailings to prospective donors.  In the most recent three-month period, she spent more than $200,000 on postage alone.  The campaign paid nearly $650,000 to a company that handles direct mail business. Reid Accepted Free Boxing Tickets While a Related Bill Was Pending.  Senate Democratic Leader Harry M. Reid (Nev.) accepted free ringside tickets from the Nevada Athletic Commission to three professional boxing matches while that state agency was trying to influence him on federal regulation of boxing. … In an interview Thursday [5/25/2006] in his Capitol office, Reid defended his decisions to accept the tickets and to take several actions benefiting former lobbyist Jack Abramoff's clients and partners as they donated to him. Update: Reid says he won't accept free tickets.  Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid learned that what happens in Vegas doesn't always stay in Vegas after all. Oklahoma bomber had jihad material.  An Oklahoma University student who killed himself by detonating a bomb strapped to his body outside a packed stadium over the weekend was a "suicide bomber" in possession of "Islamic jihad" materials, according to a new report. Media Myths of Katrina:  It turns out that much of what we know to be true isn't exactly true.  Popular Mechanics magazine has published a much overlooked story, The Lessons of Katrina, in its March issue.  It got some attention at the time in the blogs and on certain online publications. But very little, if any, attention has been devoted to it in the mainstream media. Did someone mention Hurricane Katrina? Forcibly Disarming Law-Abiding Americans during Disaster:  It Can Happen to You.  This exact scenario unfolded in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, unbeknownst to most people across the country.  New Orleans and other government officials literally ordered reluctant law enforcement officers to confiscate firearms from law-abiding citizens at gunpoint.  In other words, at the very moment when Second Amendment rights mattered most, when innocent civilians needed firearms for self-protection, government forcibly confiscated them. AP's Betty Friedan Obituary Whitewashes Her Known Communist Roots.  The trouble is, the still widely-accepted accounts of Betty Friedan's early years have been shown to be totally, if you excuse the term, divorced from reality.  The only hint that Italie gives of Friedan's true past is the description of her as a "labor reporter" during roughly the mid-1940s.  There's much more to Betty Friedan's early years than Ms. Italie lets on. Calling Jimmy Carter:  Does a woman who accepts America's money to build democracy deserve 16 years in prison?  Only to a brutal dictator.  But that doesn't excuse Congress, NOW and Jimmy Carter for having nothing to say.  Right under the news radar, a politicized court is about to throw Venezuelan democracy campaigner Maria Corina Machado into prison for "treason."  Her so-called crime:  Accepting a $54,000 grant from U.S. Congress' National Endowment for Democracy. Appeals Court:  Rep. McDermott Violated the Law in Leaking Taped Call.  A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday [3/28/2006] that Rep. Jim McDermott violated federal law by turning over an illegally taped telephone call to reporters nearly a decade ago. NAACP chairman compares GOP to Nazis.  Civil rights activist and NAACP Chairman Julian Bond delivered a blistering partisan speech at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina last night [2/1/2006], equating the Republican Party with the Nazi Party and characterizing Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her predecessor, Colin Powell, as "tokens." Whitewashing a Black Leader:  Isn't it newsworthy when the leader of a venerable organization like the NAACP engages in such over-the-top, crackpot rhetoric? Subordinating the truth:  As I was watching President Bush's latest news conference, I was again struck by the thought of how different the news climate and public mood would be if the mainstream media (MSM) were truly as unbiased as they pretend to be. All quiet on Hillary's plantation.  If you think the networks were asleep at the switch, consider how the print media covered this brazen appeal to racial tensions.  Quite simply, they just didn't want to mention the "plantation" or "worst president in history" remarks.  USA Today skipped it.  The Los Angeles Times skipped it for three days before allowing one article, despite mentioning Pat Robertson's remarks on Ariel Sharon's stroke in stories on three different days. … Time and Newsweek just printed the quote, and U.S. News didn't even do that. Walter Cronkite — world federalist.  The man once described as the "most trusted in America" has come out firmly, boldly, explicitly — and stupidly — for the formulation of a global government at the expense of U.S. national sovereignty.  And, somehow, Walter Cronkite did this at the United Nations [in October, 1999] in near total media blackout. The Left's privacy hypocrites.  According to the McCurtain Daily Gazette, in the days after the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, the U.S. government used a spy satellite to gather intelligence on a white separatist compound in Oklahoma. … Investigators zeroed in on the compound in nearby Elohim City. … Photoreconnaissance satellites that gather intelligence from space usually target hostile governments and foreign terrorists.  "The domestic use of a military satellite for domestic spying is a violation of DoD and CIA regulations regarding the proper use of top-secret national security satellites," the Gazette reported.  But with the exception of a brief Associated Press recap, the story received absolutely no mainstream-media attention. If you're interested, I have assembled a whole page about the Oklahoma City Bombing. The Globalization Of Freedom.  With the media diet of genocide, civil war and terrorist chaos, you might be surprised to learn the world is freer than ever — and that the trend isn't new.  Indeed, since Ronald Reagan entered office in 1980, the world has gone from being a place largely hostile to political, personal and economic freedom to one now overwhelmingly free or at least "partly" free. Jesse Jackson to Face Civil Trial on January 17 for Assault and Civil Rights Violations.  Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes corruption, today [1/13/2006] announced it has received confirmation from the Los Angeles County Superior Court that Jesse Lee Peterson, et al., v. Jesse Jackson, et al. (BC 266505) will go to trial as scheduled on January 17, 2006. The mainstream media discover illegal immigration.  The other evening, … my husband made a rather astute observation:  "Why is it that all the news shows are suddenly doing 24/7 analysis of the immigration problem?  You think they're trying to help the Democrats?"  He had a point.  Problems stemming from illegal immigration have provoked strong feelings among voters for years without sparking much more than an NPR/La Raza lovefest. Fence fiasco:  Or Feliz año nuevo.  The decline of American sovereignty would typically be a big story in any year, but with all the news coming out of Hollywood this year, maybe it was a bit overshadowed by more significant events.  I mean, how can the virtual surrender of a 231-year-old nation to the Pollyanna-ish forces of political correctness possibly compete with the dramatic real-life struggles of Britney Spears, Angelina Jolie, Tom Cruise, and the nation's hot new nymphet, Britney's baby sister, Jamie Lynn Spears? The Scandal that Could Sink Hillary:  Virtually every detail of alleged [Tom] DeLay transgressions gets reported and in very great detail.  But scant coverage has been given to equally serious allegations against the junior senator from New York. Hillary gets a pass while DeLay is assailed.  What's that?  You say you weren't aware that Mrs. Clinton was at the center of a significant controversy?  No surprise there.  Like I said, she's a Democrat.  So her story has been buried or ignored by the big media bosses. Press Ignores Vigil for Grandmother Murdered by Homosexual Man.  The national and local press ignored a pro-family vigil … in Chicago on behalf of Mary Stachowicz, the grandmother who was murdered three years ago after sharing her faith with a homosexual tenant. Media Ignore Homosexual Murder-Rape Trial:  Family groups have complained that the news media have demonstrated a pro-homosexual bias in their reluctance to cover the case. Horrible coverage of a horrible murder:  The horrible torture-murder of a 13-year old boy by a pair of gays has been suppressed by the major media, partly because many people fear the power of the homosexual movement.  The murder of a gay in Wyoming three years ago, in contrast, was widely covered.  A New York Times reporter says that most of those deciding what the Times will cover are themselves gays.  The public isn't getting the news it deserves. When scientific fraud kills millions.  Scientific fraud often ends up killing people. ... The medical truth about the AIDS epidemic, that it was communicated by anal intercourse, especially among men, was suppressed for decades, causing thousands of more young men to die.  And now it seems that the global warming fraud, just one aspect of broader EcoFraud, is killing people in the Third World.  The proximate cause?  A doubling of food prices.  Why?  Because of the diversion of food crops to biofuels. Selective reporting and the state of the nation. Fox anchor goes unpunished:  After he was arrested for hitting a woman with a car, the charges were dropped.  The story, while reported briefly by local publications and wire reports, quickly fell off the media's radar. Jewish plot to kill Bevin in London.  Jewish terrorists plotted to assassinate Ernest Bevin, the foreign secretary, in 1946, as part of their campaign to establish the state of Israel, newly declassified intelligence files have shown.  The plan was devised by Irgun, the insurgent group led by Menachem Begin, who went on to become a Nobel peace prize winner and prime minister of Israel.  Begin, whom MI6 believed was backed by the Soviet Union, planned to send five terrorist cells to Britain to carry out bombings and assassinations that would "beat the dog in his own kennel". The Democrats go dumpster diving.  Have you heard about what New York Sen. Charles Schumer's meddling minions tried to do here in my home state of Maryland to embarrass a Republican opponent?  Don't bother with The New York Times if you want details.  Since revelations of the scandal first broke a week ago on the national wires and in the rest of the New York media, the Times has failed to print a single word about the Dems' invasive — and obviously illegal — dumpster diving. The news from Iraq that's not fit to print:  What was the most important news out of Iraq last week?  That depends on what you consider "important." All the news that's fit to omit:  When you read The New York Times (if you still bother to read it), always ask:  What is the Times NOT telling me?  The answers are invariably more compelling — and newsworthy — than what the paper actually deems "fit to print." Terri's grave:  "I kept my promise".  Michael Schiavo had a grave marker placed yesterday [6/20/2005] on the cremated remains of his wife Terri Schiavo that lists her death as Feb. 25, 1990 — more than 15 years before she died of court-ordered dehydration. The worst bill you have never heard of.  [Hawaii's two senators apparently intend to create] a race-based and racially separate government for Native Hawaiians.  Under S. 147 Native Hawaiians would be under the federal Indian law system and would be designated as a "tribe."  This new race-based government would have jurisdiction over 20 percent of Hawaii's citizens as well as 400,000 citizens nationwide.  This would be the first time in our nation's history that we have created an extra-constitutional race-based government out of a group of American citizens. Mailboxes Vanish:  If you've noticed that mailboxes seem harder to find than ever, it's true:  The government has removed almost 7,000 of them since September 11. The Reporters Who Didn't Bark.  There's a reason that the media hasn't asked national Democrats what they think about California's same-sex marriage bill.  The media knows this is an issue of intense interest across the political spectrum.  The mainstream media also knows that every single time the question of same-sex marriage has been submitted directly to the voters, it has been overwhelming rejected. Under the radar:  Our beloved mainstream media are complaining that President Bush is spending too much time at the "Western White House" in Crawford, Texas.  Their stories about his "vacation" make it seem as if he's not doing a whole lot.  But a closer look reveals that the president is working hard — the Fourth Estate just doesn't bother to cover what he's really doing. Beware of Strange Men With Rocket Launchers.  Many readers have e-mailed me about a recent report floating on the Internet that reveals military concerns about a suspicious trio of Middle Eastern men who apparently pointed a rocket launcher at low-flying aircraft near Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma earlier this month.  It's authentic. Media Agrees with Wilson:  2+2=5.  The [mainstream news media] are leaving out relevant facts, relevant information, ignoring other things — like the Senate intelligence committee testimony and report on Joe Wilson — the fact that they're leaving out the fact that the CIA unveiled Valerie Plame's identity a year or two before Robert Novak ever did. Bush Made Better Grades in College than Kerry.  Why didn't Kerry release his records during the campaign?  After all, his refusal seemed like a cover-up.  Now we know.  Kerry's military records also include his college grades.  (The New Yorker printed Bush's grades in 1999, but Kerry consistently refused to release his.)  It turns out that "dummy" and fellow Yalie George W. Bush made better grades than did brainy, intellectual John Kerry. The Howard Dean blackout:  If Howard Dean thought it would be a great idea to heighten his profile by becoming chairman of the Democratic National Committee, he was making a big mistake.  Since he was elected to the top party spot on Feb. 12, Democrats have been hiding him like the Clinton staff hid mistresses.  They've had big help from a national media blackout. First no more air maps, next no more road maps?  The U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has proposed to withdraw all aeronautical data and products from public distribution. FEC Rules Against DNC/Jesse Jackson.  The Federal Election Commission announced [May 26, 2005] that the Rev. Jesse Jackson and the Democratic National Committee have been found guilty of violating federal election law. Networks Were Silent On FCC Story.  A Nexis news database search showed that as of May 20, less than two weeks prior to the vote, neither Viacom-owned CBS or GE-owned NBC had said anything in their respective evening newscasts about the rules changes, changes for which both companies had been vigorously and expensively lobbying Congress and the FCC. Oiling the Green Political Machine.  Did taxpayers unknowingly help fund the 2004 election campaign to unseat President Bush?  Ignored by the media, a Senate probe has found grants from the Environmental Protection Agency financing a host of anti-Bush political lobbies and activist groups. Ignoring the Pro-Pope Polls of Catholics:  ABC and The Washington Post downplayed their finding that 81 percent of U.S. Catholics approve of the selection of Pope Benedict XVI, and the other networks just ignored it. Omaha stakes:  Last Thursday [5/12/2005], a federal judge in Omaha overturned Nebraska's constitutional amendment that banned same-sex "marriage."  And the press reaction to the story was muted.  Why?  Because this decision proves that we and other critics of the courts and advocates for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex "marriage" have been right all along. Fannie Mae's bailout tab:  Fannie Mae, the government-sponsored mortgage association, has been battling a mounting scandal since last year.  It has accounting errors of about $11 billion.  [That's Enron × 19.]  This is news — $30 billion worth of news — but only print reporters are out there covering it regularly.  TV news is out to lunch. George Soros and the Press:  "The media consistently ignore the fact that this so-called 'philanthropist' has had several brushes with the law," including a conviction in France for insider trading.  On March 24, that insider trading conviction was upheld. … This is the perfect opportunity for our media to finally start examining this billionaire's business and financial connections.  Remember this is the man who tried to buy the White House for John Kerry. Whistleblower on FBI vindicated.  Accusations by an FBI contract linguist fired after complaining about suspected security breaches and misconduct in the bureau's post-September 11 foreign language translation program "had some basis in fact" and are supported by documents and other witnesses, a report said yesterday [1/14/2005].  The Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General, in an unclassified summary of a secret, 100-page report issued in July, said the FBI should have "more thoroughly" investigated accusations by the linguist, Sibel Edmonds. ACLU supports Sibel Edmonds in FBI case.  As a language specialist for the FBI, Edmonds was responsible for translating potential terrorist documents from Turkish to English.  She reported two categories of problems within the FBI, including what she said was incompetence and the more serious problem of intentional mistranslations. FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds Defies Gag Order.  Sibel Edmonds has spent the past five years trying to tell her story — one where corrupt U.S. government officials allowed Pakistan and other states to steal nuclear weapons secrets — but wasn't able to because the Department of Justice has a gag order against her.  When Edmonds brought her case to court, the DOJ again interfered, allowing only officials with top-secret security clearances to attend hearings. Where was Kofi?  Our media have wanted to know why President Bush was allegedly too slow in publicly responding to the tidal wave disaster.  But where was Kofi?  James Langton of the London Telegraph reports, "UN officials went to great lengths to conceal the whereabouts of Kofi Annan, the organisation's general secretary, who was on holiday when the tsunami struck and did not surface in New York until Thursday [1/27/2005].  In fact, it was revealed that, Mr Annan spent Christmas at the holiday home of James Wolfensohn, the president of the World Bank and a critic of the Bush administration, who owns a 160-acre ranch in the resort of Jackson Hole, Wyoming.  Only a handful of Mr Annan's most trusted advisers were allowed to know his location. School Violence Is Under-Reported.  School violence, although generally decreasing in the United States, is under-reported in many schools, according to a new report from the Reason Foundation.  School crime data are largely unavailable and incidences of violence often downplayed. GI Jane at War:  The True Story of Women in Combat.  Women soldiers are being wounded and dying in record-breaking numbers.  Practically no one is talking about it — not the media and not even Congress. Unilateral self-flagellation:  Upon arrival at Camp Delta [Guantanamo Bay], detainees are issued a blanket, a sheet, two orange jump suits, flip-flops, a foam sleeping pad, two bath towels, a washcloth, toothpaste, soap, shampoo, a prayer rug and a Koran.  They are allowed two 15-minute showers per week; they get recreation time and three culturally sensitive meals per day.  Schedules are respectful of Islamic traditions, prayer calls are broadcast five times a day, and arrows painted on the floors point to Mecca.  Their regular quarters include a flushing toilet, running water and an off-the-floor bed.  Detainees who ask for them are provided with soccer balls, playing cards, chessboards and paperback books.  All of this courtesy of the American taxpayers the detainees have sworn to kill. Air Pollution Cut in Half, EPA Announces.  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has achieved a major milestone in its 34-year battle against air pollution.  As Administrator Michael Leavitt announced on September 22 [2004], "emissions have been cut by more than half (51 percent) since the Clean Air Act was passed in 1970."  Unfortunately, recent polls show the public is unaware that things have improved at all. A 55-point chasm in military support for Kerry and Bush.  October 11 editions of Military Times publications (Navy Times, Army Times, Marine Corps Times, Air Force Times) carried an astounding story not likely to get much coverage in the establishment press.  Bush leads Democratic Sen. John Kerry 73 percent to 18 percent in the voluntary survey of 4,165 active-duty, National Guard, and reserve subscribers. Kerry's Korea-gate mess:  On the one hand we have a major television network racing to broadcast news about 30-year-old "documents" — now proven to be fraudulent — all in an effort to discredit President Bush.  On the other hand we virtually have all of the networks ignoring a real, fresh-as-today, scandal involving the Kerry campaign's fund-raising.  The Associated Press reported this past week that a South Korean national who met with John Kerry's fund-raisers and discussed setting up a new political group for Korean-Americans was actually an intelligence agent for South Korea. A Free Pass for "21st Century Lenin".  The major media are desperate to avoid scrutiny of how or where leftist billionaire George Soros is getting the tens of millions of dollars that he is using to finance anti-Bush advertising campaigns and pro-Democratic Party political efforts before the November 2 election. Reporter Reflects on Leftist Hopes of Newspaper Publisher.  You might think media bias is a new thing, but a 40 year confession of a newspaper reporter gives us a peek behind the curtain as to how horribly biased newspapers have been for nearly a half century.  Martin Dyckman, a former reporter for the leftist St. Petersburg Times, reminisces about the day he read over the wire that John F. Kennedy had been killed in Dallas. Free Pass.  Amid the uproar over the ads run by the "Section 527" political committee known as Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, the Establishment media have remained eerily silent about the massive union-funded 527s that are spending exponentially more resources. A Very Kerry Christmas:  Some people wondered how long the major media would be willing to ignore the Christmas-in-Cambodia story.  Well, the answer is in:  at least 10 or 11 days.  I first noticed the story August 6...  Soon it was all over the Internet, the conservative press, talk radio, and some cable shows.  But the networks, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and other major media didn't run the story.  Some papers, like the Kansas City Star, got protests from readers on what appeared to be a news blackout. How Arafat's gunmen suppress the news:  On Sept. 11, 2001, Americans were shocked by footage of Palestinians dancing in the streets to celebrate the terrorist attacks on the United States.  But those scenes disappeared from the airwaves soon after — not because they weren't newsworthy, but because the Palestinian Authority gave orders to suppress them.  Editor's Note:   You have to wonder... what else is not being reported? Hazel O'Leary, Clinton's Energy Secretary, Removed From Plane.  Nine days after being named president of Fisk University, Hazel O'Leary found herself being questioned by the FBI after being escorted off a commercial airplane.  O'Leary disputes a report that she was loud and abusive. The Long Trail of Sibel Edmonds at the FBI:  Sibel Edmonds [was an] FBI translator who was fired for reporting on Bureau corruption in the area of handling investigations into terrorism.  Edmonds had run into some very dark situations where FBI terror probes had been shelved, scuttled, erased, and put into the freezer.  There were major indications that Edmonds, in her FBI job, had come up against a pervasive culture of CYA practices, aimed at shielding and protecting FBI employees after very serious screw-ups had occurred. Just what we need... US Offers Citizenship To 7000 Ahiska Muslims.  The United States has agreed to grant citizenship to 7,000 Ahiska Muslims who will be settled in Pennsylvania, according to a Russian newspaper, Novie Izvestia.  It added that the Muslims would be housed near the grand mosque in Philadelphia. Second Muslim Elected To Congress.  Democrat Andre Carson won't have much time to bask in his special election victory.  In just eight weeks, he faces another vote for the same congressional seat.  Carson, who on Tuesday [3/11/2008] won the office formerly held by his late grandmother and became the second Muslim ever elected to Congress, will face seven challengers in the May 6 Democratic primary for a full two-year term. PATRIOT Act Sneak Attack II:  As a result of many protests from US citizens, the Judiciary Committee postponed a vote on the bill, HR 3179, the Anti-Terrorism Intelligence Tools Improvement Act of 2003, and instead a subcommittee held a public hearing on May 18.  But you would never know that the hearing occurred if you read the American press or watch or listen to US electronic news media.  A major expansion of one of the most controversial laws ever adopted in the US was ignored by most of the media. Up in smoke stacks:  The much-maligned factory sector is booming.  Not rising.  Not improving.  Booming.  The industrial sector is so strong that the speed of supplier deliveries has hit its highest level since April, 1979. Liberal media?  I'm shocked!  A new survey by the Pew Research Center says that just 7 percent of journalists and news executives call themselves conservative, compared with 33 percent of the general public.  The self-identified liberals (34 percent) are five times more common as conservatives in the news business.  As you might imagine, this got very little play in the mainstream media. Deliver us from Democrats:  Sean Hannity's latest book, "Deliver Us From Evil," is even better than his last.  It hit No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list the week it came out and stayed there for at least five weeks.  [Yet] not a single major mainstream newspaper has reviewed it. The Ugly Truth:  Exsanguination or draining of blood?  A federal judge is demanding that abortion-industry witnesses speak in plain English as he considers one of three challenges to a federal law banning partial-birth abortions.  But despite all the sensational testimony and courtroom drama, the major news media are paying no attention. A Coverup That Won't Stay Covered:  CNN recently reported that "the Justice Department is re-examining its investigation into the 1995 death of a federal prisoner that the victim's family alleges was murdered at the hands of the government."  Editor's Note:   After doing a little searching on the internet for the name of the victim in this case, it appears that he might have been the elusive John Doe #2 in the Oklahoma City bombing investigation. Thirty Oklahoma City Bombing Questions That Demand an Answer:  Why has the media consistently suppressed and refused to report any information or evidence which indicates that, at the very least and regardless of who was responsible, there was Federal foreknowledge that the [Oklahoma City] bombing would take place? USS Liberty subsection: The USS Liberty: America's Most Shameful Secret.  The US government's long, disgraceful cover-up of the premeditated attack on Liberty has now burst into the open and demands full-scale investigation.  After 34 years, the voices of Liberty's dead and wounded seamen must finally be heard. USS Liberty Court of Inquiry:  The USS Liberty, a neutral ship in international waters, was attacked without warning by air and naval forces of the state of Israel on June 8, 1967.  USS Liberty had not engaged in any provocative conduct, nor was she any kind of obvious threat to other ships or aircraft in the area. Declaration of Ward Boston, Jr., Captain, JAGC, USN (Ret.).  It was our shared belief, based on the documentary evidence and testimony we received first hand, that the Israeli attack was planned and deliberate, and could not possibly have been an accident.  I am certain that the Israeli pilots that undertook the attack, as well as their superiors, who had ordered the attack, were well aware that the ship was American. Why did Israel attack USS Liberty?  For former US seaman Gary Brummett, the 40th anniversary of the 1967 Middle East war has stirred painful memories.  As a 21-year-old third class petty officer, Mr Brummett was serving on board the USS Liberty off the coast of Egypt on 8 June, when, without warning, the vessel came under fire, first from fighter planes, then torpedo boats.  The attack, which lasted at least 40 minutes, resulted in the deaths of 34 of Mr Brummett's fellow crewmen, at least 170 injured and catastrophic damage to the ship. New revelations in attack on American spy ship.  For [Bryce] Lockwood and many other survivors, the anger is mixed with incredulity:  that Israel would attack an important ally, then attribute the attack to a case of mistaken identity by Israeli pilots who had confused the U.S. Navy's most distinctive ship with an Egyptian horse-cavalry transport that was half its size and had a dissimilar profile.  And they're also incredulous that, for years, their own government would reject their calls for a thorough investigation. NSA's USS Liberty Page.  "The attack on the USS Liberty, like others in our nation's history, has become the center of considerable controversy and debate.  It is not NSA's intention to prove or disprove any one set of conclusions, many of which can be drawn from a thorough review of this material.  Instead, through these public releases, we intend to make as much information as possible available for the many scholars, historians, academia, and members of the general public who find interest in analyzing the information and forming their own conclusions." Do Orwell-ocrats Own 9-11?  The media has largely succeeded into putting America to sleep with hypnosis and by blacking out information that would shock the nation out of lethargy.  The Left is yet again trying to steal our political show by misdirecting our attention and by controlling what Americans are permitted to see. CNN Has Two Black Eyes.  CNN twice scheduled a program to examine evidence that TWA flight 800 was shot down by missiles.  Twice they cancelled their guest, once giving his spot to one of the government's chiefs of the cover-up.  Thanks to the Internet, many people knew of the evidence and wanted to see the CNN program.  They now know that CNN is not concerned to provide hard-hitting news. Islam and Slavery:  The Concealed Truth.  To this day the only places in the world where one can buy a slave for ready cash are Moslem countries.  The slaves in question are almost invariably black, and the countries in question are primarily Mauritania and Sudan. Sudan On The Brink:  It just shows what is wrong with our media.  The front pages of most newspapers last week carried a story about a horrific plane crash in the Sudan that cost 100 lives.  While this tragedy was certainly newsworthy, hardly a single media outlet has been covering the real story in Africa's largest country that could turn into a human catastrophe for millions of its non-Muslim citizens. Under-covered stories of the week:  Now that I'm blogging many times during the day (www.worldmagblog.com), I run across lots of provocative and evocative stories that have received some news coverage, but — often for ideological reasons — not what they deserve. Oil for Hussein.  As front pages report every bit of bad news on the Iraqi war front in bold type, newspapers are giving precious little ink to what could be the biggest kickback scheme in world history.  Call it:  How Saddam Hussein siphoned $10.1 billion for his regime — thanks to the United Nations. Self-Proclaimed "Scourge of the Liberal Media" to Speak in Chicago:  "As a crusading reporter, he chased snake-oil peddlers, rip-off artists, and corporate thieves, winning the applause of his peers.  But along the way, he noticed that there was something far more troublesome going on:  While the networks screamed about the dangers of exploding BIC lighters and coffeepots, worse risks were ignored.  And while reporters were teaming up with lawyers and legislators to stick it to big business, they seldom reported the ways the free market made life better." Report Accused Davis of Battery.  While the Los Angeles Times wallows in slime about Arnold Schwarzenegger's alleged groping and Gray Davis suggests that Arnold has committed "crimes," the paper has been strangely silent about charges that Davis himself had a nasty habit of physically abusing his staff. Bagram GI says Troops Waited While Hillary Chowed Down.  U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton forced U.S. troops stationed at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan to wait for their Thanksgiving dinner last Thursday while she and her entourage arrived late, then cut in line and were served first. Motorist Guilty in Windshield Murder:  A fact that many media are refusing to report about the case:  Mallard, who is black, giggled as she told friends several months later, "I hit this white man."  She has never, however, been charged with a "hate crime." The Jessica Lynch Subsection: Jessica Lynch:  Modern Myth.  Is this really the way we want to fight our wars, with young mothers coming home in wheelchairs?  (By the way, has anyone noticed how many of our women warriors seem to be single mothers?) The truth about Jessica Lynch:  Her Iraqi guards had long fled, she was being well cared for - and doctors had already tried to free her. Spin behind Jessica Lynch story?  Discrepancies in reports of POW's capture and rescue raise questions. Jessica Lynch family under gag order?  Parents withhold details of ambush and POW experience. The "Rescue" of Jessica Lynch:  Colonel Sam Gardiner (USAF, Ret.) has identified 50 false news stories created and leaked by a secretive White House propaganda apparatus.  The Pentagon's control over the news surrounding the capture and rescue of Pfc. Jessica Lynch receives a good deal of attention in Gardiner's report. … Lynch's family confused the issue by telling the press that their daughter had not sustained any bullet wounds.  Lynch's parents subsequently refused to talk to the press, explaining that they had been "told not to talk about it."  (Weeks later, the truth emerged.  Lynch was neither stabbed nor shot.  She was apparently injured while falling from her vehicle.) The looters liberals ignore:  Peter Jennings and the New York Times couldn't get enough of the looting stories out of Iraq.  But they couldn't care less about a massive, systematic looting scheme here at home that is robbing America's schoolchildren and rank-and-file teachers blind. CNN Charged with "Disinformation Campaign" from Iraq.  A media watchdog group is calling CNN to task for withholding information about the brutal nature of the Saddam Hussein regime in order to keep a bureau open in Baghdad. CNN Exec Admits Covering Up "Maniac" Saddam's Atrocities:  Here's another fascinating item we'll dedicate to Jacques Chirac, Nancy Pelosi and the other humiliated appeasement activists:  A CNN big is admitting his network covered up the atrocities of Saddam Hussein. Pinocchios of the Left:  [Scroll down]  In order to keep its Baghdad bureau open, CNN never uttered a negative word about Saddam Hussein's regime. … What does a so-called news organization gain from having a bureau for 25 years if it hasn't the slightest intention of reporting the news?  The fact that those on the left lie isn't so surprising.  What boggles the mind is how badly they do it. CNN's Disgusting Sins of Omission:  Those of us who did not live through the Nazi Holocaust find it hard to understand why so many who knew what was happening stayed silent for so long.  CNN provides the answer by its own example. The National Debt, Down To the Penny.  Does anyone care that it is rapidly approaching seven trillion dollars? "Reporting some of what we know":  Reporters want to be anywhere news is happening.  Sometimes, they face great danger.  In Iraq, for example, at least ten journalists have been killed so far.  But it doesn't do much good to have a reporter somewhere if he/she can't actually report what's happening. CNN -- the Most Untrusted Name in News Tom Daschle may no longer call himself a Catholic:  The Senate minority leader and the highest ranking Democrat in Washington has been sent a letter by his home diocese of Sioux Falls, sources in South Dakota have told The Weekly Standard, directing him to remove from his congressional biography and campaign documents all references to his standing as a member of the Catholic Church. Mrs. Daschle's lucrative lobbying:  Mrs. Daschle's lobbying activities as senior public policy director of the law firm Baker, Donelson, Bearman and Caldwell have received only a small amount of press scrutiny, save for an account in the Washington Monthly earlier this year.  Her lobbying activities surfaced again recently because of a controversial proposal before the Senate to lease military aircraft from Boeing - a client of Mrs. Daschle since 1998, according to federal records. The year's 10 most underreported stories:  WorldNetDaily's "Operation Spike" pinpoints major events the media ignored. 10 most "spiked" stories of 2001:  WorldNetDaily.com has compiled its annual list of the most "spiked" stories — unreported or underreported major news events of the last year — after polling its readers and editors.  While most news organizations present year-end retrospective replays of what they consider to have been the top news stories of the previous 12 months, WND's editors have always found it more newsworthy to publish a year-end compilation of the important stories most ignored by the establishment press. Most "spiked" stories of 2003:  Although it's attracted little media attention, the "ramp" or "back side" of an airport, where unscreened workers and vendors have access to baggage, air cargo, food supplies, mechanics' equipment and the aircraft itself, represents the gateway to the next terrorist attack on U.S. airliners, predicts a former airline security consultant. Most under-reported stories of 1997. Shenanigans at Greenpeace — And the Media Yawns.  After a year in which financial improprieties gobbled up headlines like never before, it would stand to reason that a brewing scandal involving a major international organization, millions of dollars, and alleged tax evasion would receive similar treatment.  But if that major international organization is famed environmental group Greenpeace, the media goes mute. The $600 Million Blacks Only Lottery:  The U.S. Department of Agriculture has paid $600 million to black farmers, admitting it discriminated.  Of course, this has had very little coverage in the news media.  As with so many other scandals in the Clinton administration, they have chosen not to report it. Media Keep Ignoring Interracial Mass Murder in Wichita:  Because the suspects are black and their victims white, many observers in Wichita expected the brothers to be charged with "hate crimes," which presumably would have sparked national news coverage.  It didn't happen, and some are raising the specter of a racial double standard by the national media, based on the lack of news coverage of this mass murder. Democratic political guru in sex extortion:  There is growing concern that the failure of most big media to report this case concerning a nationally known media figure may be evidence of media protecting its own. Media Ignore Black Farmer Fraud:  The news media have recently discovered a big story that has been around since January 1999, when the Washington Post reported that the government had agreed to a consent decree in a class-action lawsuit filed against the Department of Agriculture by black farmers seeking compensation for discrimination they allegedly suffered when they applied for government farm loans. The Biggest Story They Won't Report:  The most important breaking news story that has been suppressed in recent times is the murder of Deputy White House Counsel Vincent W. Foster Jr. in 1993.  A leading Republican senator said seven years ago that the reason they were not investigating Foster's death is that if he did not kill himself, the president was somehow involved and the democratic process could not survive such a disclosure.  The media seem to share that view, because no major news organization has ever investigated or reported the flaws in the official investigations. Attack at LAX:  The Clock Struck 13:  Tell us the truth. And if you don't have people who can tell the truth, or even recognize the truth, get some who can before it's too late and we lose all confidence in our government and our media. Promoting All the History That Is Fit … to Support Media Biases:  One way to detect liberal bias in the media is to monitor coverage of new scholarship on early American history or the founding fathers. Over 180 Witnesses Saw Midair Fire Before Flight 587 Crashed:  Most of the eyewitnesses to last November's crash of American Airlines Flight 587 have told investigators they saw fire and/or smoke aboard the doomed plane before it plummeted into a residential neighborhood in Rockaway, N.Y., the National Transportation Safety Board announced on Tuesday [6/4/2002]. Alaskans Hopeful Democrats Permit ANWR Vote:  The media fail to report about what Alaskans think about oil exploration in the Arctic. Hillary Gets Media Pass on Cop Incident, J.C. Watts Not So Lucky:  After Oklahoma Rep. J.C. Watts had a run-in with an airport security police officer late last month, media outlets, both in Oklahoma and around the country, amply covered the story.  But a more egregious altercation in mid-October involving New York Senator Hillary Clinton has received almost no coverage, despite the fact that the police officer involved was injured so badly by Clinton's car that he has yet to return to duty. America's wake-up call:  We have to wonder if the Clinton administration's cover-up of the cause of the crash of TWA Flight 800 emboldened the perpetrators of these attacks to carry out their kamikaze missions.  The evidence that TWA 800 was downed by missiles is overwhelming.  Hundreds of eyewitnesses either saw a missile rise from the surface of the ocean or spotted a missile in the sky heading for TWA 800.  Radar picked up a missile track.  But all of this ended up being disregarded by the FBI, the CIA and the National Transportation Safety Board. (See TWA Flight 800.) China Funded Secret Plan to Sway U.S. Elections:  Most major news media ignored the bombshell development. The Media Must Expose The Lies:  July 20th will be the eighth anniversary of the death of Deputy White House Counsel Vincent W. Foster, Jr.  For eight years nearly all our media have refused to examine the evidence in this case. Publisher Spikes Whitewater Tell-all by Key Witness:  A planned book by key Whitewater witness David Hale, who may be set to reveal new information about the death of Clinton lawyer Vincent Foster, has reportedly been spiked by publishers. Cooking the Books at Education:  The sad truth, which has escaped the attention of most of the major media, is that there is no real guarantee that any of this money will actually get to the students that may need it.  This is because the Department of Education has been so mismanaged that it can't account for the money it is spending. Embarrassing Chelsea Photo Hushed Up by Press The Last Radio Network:  The Emergency Alert System failed miserably at the FCC's ceremonial public unveiling of the system, though this fact was underreported.  No actual EAS messages were successfully transmitted and received at the event.  Instead, exhibiting vendors merely activated a cacophony of sirens and lights by manually switching them on.  Editor's Note:   (I have been able to find no additional information about this incident.) Abortion Foe Stabbed; Media Silent:  The investigation of a little-known stabbing of a pro-life activist outside a Little Rock, Ark., abortion clinic remains open, leaving many pro-life advocates alleging official indifference to the case.  With information about the investigation being withheld from the public, Laura Echevarria of National Right to Life Committee believes the incident, which received little media coverage, highlights an inherent media bias against abortion opponents. The last case of Louis Freeh:  Cynthia Grenier covers a story the mainstream media ignores. Jenna Nabbed for Alcohol Possession, Chelsea Gets a Pass. Foster Case Bombshell Tests the Media The Department of Unemployment Examples of media bias related to news about the economy have been moved to this page. The Secret Superhighway and the Homogenization of North America There was so much to say, all the material was moved to this page.

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