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Goldberg Is Mad As Hell, and He’s Not Going to Take It

August 4, 2011
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Goldberg Is Mad As Hell, and He’s Not Going to Take It

It’s not often that a respected publication runs an article title such as “To Hell with You People.” But that’s what’s happened at National Review. Jonah Goldberg has had it with the absolute hypocrisy of the left-wing, progressive-liberal media, which is nearly the entirety of the mainstream media. As Goldberg says in the very first sentence (and with which I agree), he is more than exhausted from talking about liberal media bias. But some of this bias is so brazen, so breathtaking in its mendacity, that it simply cannot be allowed to pass without comment. You may have heard, over and over and over this past week or two, how Republicans, especially the zany and dangerous Tea Partiers, were endangering America and life as we know it because, well, because they have had the temerity to insist that even governments have to live within their means. Here were some of the Democrat talking points conveniently echoed throughout the mainstream media as told by Mr. Goldberg: Tom Friedman—who knows a bit about Hezbollah—calls the tea partiers the “Hezbollah faction” of the GOP bent on taking the country on a “suicide mission.” All over the place, conservative Republicans are “hostage takers” and

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What’s Killing NPR?

March 21, 2011
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What’s Killing NPR?

This is the title of a piece by Howard Kurtz in Newsweek. This is a very strange title to a piece that says the following: But with its future on the line, NPR’s decimated management has opted for quiet diplomacy rather than a full-throated defense of one of the few news operations that is actually expanding, reaching an impressive 27 million listeners a week. For some reason unknown to the rest of the world, NPR’s future is “on the line” because the 10 to 15% of its budget that comes from our tax dollars is being threatened by congressional Republicans. I’m not going to address the money issue, but it’s absurd to think “public broadcasting” can’t survive without these funds. I’m more interested in what I’ve heard coming from NPR these last two weeks. It’s been kind of comical to hear NPR reporters and anchors lament that for some crazy reason conservatives see NPR as biased to the left. I heard Ira Glass, the host of the popular NPR staple “This American Life,” venting his frustration on another NPR show, “On the Media” last week at the wimpy defense NPR management is making of its journalistic integrity. He couldn’t fathom why

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What’s Behind the Materialist Explanation of Political Views?

December 31, 2010
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What’s Behind the Materialist Explanation of Political Views?

By Daniel Crandall Tip O’Neil famously stated, “All politics is local.” These days, it seems all politics is biological. The latest in the ridiculous pursuit of materialistic explanations for political opinions is this: Political Views Hard-wired Into Your Brain Scientists have found that people with conservative views have brains with larger amygdalas, almond shaped areas in the centre of the brain often associated with anxiety and emotions. On the otherhand, they have a smaller anterior cingulate, an area at the front of the brain associated with courage and looking on the bright side of life. And according to “researchers” at the “University of California” in “Berkeley” some people are imbued with a “Liberal Gene.” Liberals, you see, can’t help themselves from stealing your money and throwing it away in ideological money pits controlled by cold, heartless bureaucrats. That community-destroying behavior, it appears, is hardwired into “liberal” “brains.” This “scientific” foolishness is what leads materialistic wackos on the Left to assert that Ritalin turns kids into conservatives. All politics is biology. Drugs alter biology. Therefore

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The Media’s Infatuation with Justice Stevens

December 8, 2010
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The Media’s Infatuation with Justice Stevens

What makes the media so credulous when it comes to reporting on liberal progressives who would readily muzzle them and deprive them of their First Amendment rights if they said the wrong thing? Lester Jackson, on Accuracy in Media, thinks he knows: The media reports only one side, not out of ignorance or incompetence, but because it is largely populated by those who know that their unpopular values cannot be achieved in open democratic debates and elections, but must be imposed in the dark by unelected and unaccountable judicial activists. Of whom the prime example may be Justice John Paul Stevens, often referred to as a “moderate” even by self-designated “conservatives,” but who is anything but: The other side of the story has barely been mentioned, leaving unreported critical facts and unrefuted misleading statements (recently, even by Stevens himself). This is of great significance. Media misrepresentation and outright concealment of shocking truths about the Supreme Court is an essential requisite for enabling any five justices to usurp the democratic process and impose their own values upon the American people, against their wishes. Jackson reports Stevens’s true record on vital issues like the death penalty, free speech, and the proper purview

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Public’s Trust in Newspapers, TV News Nears All-Time Low

August 17, 2010
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The U.S. public’s confidence in the old media—specifically, newspapers and TV news—is at a near-record low, the Gallup organization reports. Story here.

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TNT Crime Dramas Push Political Points

July 26, 2010
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TNT Crime Dramas Push Political Points

I have long argued that contemporary U.S. entertainment offers a much greater variety of ideas and points of view than conservatives usually seem to realize, pointing out that many TV shows, movies, and music releases convey very sound values and ideas that traditionalists and lovers of liberty should appreciate. But there are still plenty of times when the producers of even good series that aren’t usually political (in contrast to, say, the intensely political Law and Order) have to take their jabs at the dangerously ignorant boobs they see as populating Middle America. Two crime dramas in the past week have done just that. Last week’s episode of The Closer, on TNT, set up a typical serial killer story but with an obviously political angle: the people being killed were all female illegal immigrants. Even more pointedly (spoiler alert), it turns out that the murderer is an agent of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) who chooses them as his targets because their lack of documentation makes it less likely he’ll be caught. The point of all of this is absurdly obvious, intended to suggest that illegal immigrants are unfairly singled our for abuse in the United States and made

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Journolist Scandal Documents Rampant Media Bias

July 22, 2010
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Journolist Scandal Documents Rampant Media Bias

By Ben Domenech The blockbuster series of Daily Caller reports on the Journolist—culled from the archives of the secretive email list which paired liberal academics, bloggers, and think tank members with the mainstream media—has not included many surprises for those who realize that any claim of a semblance of fairness or unbiased observation on the part of the U.S. mainstream media is an absurd myth. The revelations, however, have further undermined any pretense of real journalistic standards, much less objectivity, on the part of the nation’s obsolescent mainstream news media. So long, and good riddance, say we—in a world where only 29% of Americans trust the media, the concept was on its deathbed anyway. Many of the Journolist conversations turned to the kind of foul-mouthed venom one typically expects from activist bloggers, not journalists for Bloomberg, Time, Newsweek, Politico, Foreign Policy, The New Yorker, National Public Radio, and other such high-minded institutions. Some of the vitriol is quite extreme—the NPR journalist caught on a thread talking about her hopes for Rush Limbaugh’s death has apologized—and already, examples are emerging where conversations with the radical online left fed into the musings of prominent “mainstream” journalists. My strongest reaction, though, was disappointment

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Media Reluctant to Describe Spitzer as Democrat

March 14, 2008
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Media Reluctant to Describe Spitzer as Democrat

TV networks and other mainstream news sources hardly ever mention that Democrats embroiled in sex scandals are Democrats, but they always, emphatically identify the party affiliation of Republicans that get into such trouble.  

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U.S. Media’s Election Coverage—Biased, Sure, But Why?

November 7, 2006
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It’s Election Day, as you’ve probably heard, incessantly. The race for control of the U.S. House and Senate, between two political parties representing different sets of powerful, elite fatcats, is a close one, and hence the press coverage has been intense and hysterical. Given that the story is the potential displacement of the Somewhat Left party (the Republicans) by the Rabidly Left party (the Democrats), Republican partisans have identified an excessive glee among the press, who are widely and accurately documented to be composed almost entirely of leftists, in documenting every misstep and failure of Republican politicians and candidates, and giving Derms a free ride even when they make entirely outrageous statements. There have indeed been plenty of both—Republican idiocies and Democratic demogoguery—to go around, but it appears reasonable to observe that the preponderance of coverage has criticized the Republicans more strongly than it has done to the Democrats. That, however, does not necessarily indicate a manifestation of widespread liberal bias among the press, argues Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post. Kurtz says what the press really want not is not a leftist government but an interesting one: After six years of almost uninterrupted GOP control of Washington, divided government

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