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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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."
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"?
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.
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
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