Gee, wonder why that is...

At the end of this screed about how the media is upset with Dear Leader's press team, we have this gem:

When covering the White House, said Time's Michael Scherer, "the real substance of reporting doesn't take place in on-camera briefings."

And off-camera, Scherer said the press team has been more helpful than it was during the presidential campaign.

"Even when it's a story that they're not happy I'm doing," Scherer said, "they have not shut me out."

I'm curious as to which of the multiple cover stories about Obama that Time has done this year was viewed negatively by New Messiah.

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Fair and balanced

This San Francisco Chronicle article about some possible new consequences regarding Obama's decision to release the so-called "torture memos" is interesting for a number of reasons, but I thought the language in the opening paragraph (I hate it when people call that a lede, by the way) was very revealing:

Foreign prisoners who accused a Bay Area company of arranging torture flights for the CIA told a federal appeals court Tuesday that the Obama administration's disclosure of memos on brutal CIA interrogations undermined its claim that their lawsuit would endanger national secrets.

Notice that the reporter jumps right into phrases like "torture flights" and "brutal CIA interrogations." Gotta love that objectivity there, right off the bat.

The article goes on to say that "The Justice Department did not respond to a request for comment," but does not mention whether or not any effort was made to contact anyone at the CIA. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the plaintiffs' attorney from the ACLU is quoted twice.

There is no discussion about whether or not interrogation techniques like waterboarding ever provided any useful information, either.

We don't report, so how can you decide? Oh. Right. Why bother thinking about it when you're gonna get a free Unicorn?

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Oh, this is surprising

CNN put a copyright claim on the video of Susan Roesgen getting chewed out by the crowd at the Tax Day Tea Party demonstrations, and had a youtube clip of the exchange pulled.  Of course, the videos are clearly within the realm of fair use, and we can't allow CNN to pull this crap, so,

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Nervous breakdown or leave of absence?

Susan Roesgen needs to take a break. Whether this was ordered by her employer or by her psychiatrist is to be determined.

In case you're unfamiliar with Ms. Roesgen and her recent stress, here's a video:

May I be the first to say BWAHAHAHAHA! offer my condolences during what I'm sure she brought upon herself by buying into the thrill up her leg instead of doing her job as a journalist is a difficult time for Ms. Roesgen and her family.

(h/t @ConservativeGal)

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I'm shocked, shocked that this didn't make it to air

Watch, as Susan Rosegen gets called out by tea partiers for her shoddy "reporting."

(h/t)

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You're crazy

Marc Cooper of the Annenberg School for Communication at USC, writing in the LAT, called the Tax Day Tea Parties "collective insanity":

Go to a hobby store. Buy a scale model of a U.N. One-World-Government Black Helicopter and a tube of glue. Toss the model kit. Sniff the entire tube of glue. You're all set for the party.

Subtle, no? I don't remember any similar columns from Cooper when the Left was losing its collective shit and claiming that we were sliding into fascism during the last eight or so years, but, hey, who can remember that far back?

And now this. Whip out your Lipton and don your tinfoil hat and join the protest against ... against ... against what exactly?

The original Boston Tea Party was caffeinated by a very simple injustice: American Colonists refused to be taxed by a government that lacked any popular representation. That was remedied a few years later in a heroic struggle that stretched from Concord to Yorktown.

So, if you'll excuse the mixed metaphor, what's the beef behind today's protests? The Obama administration is cutting taxes for all except the very richest of Americans. Reduced withholding is already showing up in millions of paychecks.

Aaaand, that's gonna last forever, huh? Because when you push trillions of dollars worth of dubious spending through Congress, well, you can get that back just by raising taxes on just those "richest of Americans," right? I mean, it's only the millionaires who are gonna have to pay for that, and it's fun to soak the rich (or, as Cooper dubs them, "loaded country clubbers.") You and I? We'll never get a bill for any of it. Uh-huh.

Cooper also manages to squeeze in references to yesterday's protestors as "Teabaggers." You stay classy, MSM. And keep puzzling over why you're losing money hand over fist.

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Dissent is no longer the highest form of patriotism

Great news! The WaPo's Dana Milbank has apparently been awakened from an eight-year coma just in time to cover the Tax Day protests:

Without the spectacle of a 1773-style tea-bag dump in the square, the handmade signs became thfocus of the event. Though ostensibly an anti-tax protest, it was more of an anti-Obama festival. Among the messages: "The Audacity of the Dope," "O Crap" and Obama as an acronym for "One Big Awful Mistake America." Some messages were ugly ("Napolitano -- Obama's Gestapo Queen," "Hang 'Em High Traitors," and a sign held by a young girl saying "Victim of Child Tax Abuse"). Others were funny ("Don't Talk to Me! I Forgot My Teleprompter"). Certain ones had sinister overtones ("Tax Slavery Sucks," and "Obama bin Lyin"). Then there was the guy holding a Cabbage Patch doll by its hair with the message: "My kid's growth stunted by your stimulus."

Aaaaand, the effigies of Bush and members of his administration who have been hung or burned in effigy between the end of the 2000 election and the magical Inauguration? Water under the bridge, I suppose. The endless protests calling members of the last administration Nazis and murderers and criminals? I don't seem to remember Dana complaining too much about all of that trivial bullshit. After all, who on the cocktail circuit would give a damn?
And, um, how is "Tax Slavery Sucks" exactly "sinister"? Why would Dana find any of this so terribly wrong? Oh, right...

The theme was echoed in some of the homemade signs the demonstrators carried, including "Watch Fox News," "Thank You Fox News," and even a recommendation: "Move Glenn Beck to 7 PM.

Oops. Those idiots should have just stayed the hell at home. I mean, it's not like there's any bias regarding this story from any of the other cable news networks, right?

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Spelling lessons from Meat Loaf Aday

It's a good thing they fired all those journos and editors at the Rocky Mountain News, otherwise they might have someone on staff who knows how to write a headline.  Note the publication date.  The screenshot is from about five minutes ago.

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Opportunism

So, in the wake of two horrible tragedies in which nutjobs used guns to kill people, ABC News is running a 20/20 special on Friday night at ten p.m. called "If I Only Had a Gun," which, judging by the promo I saw for it will claim that ordinary people with guns (probably people like me who have never had any firearms training or experience, I'm guessing, which is hardly fair, but hey, that's being picky) would not have been able to stop the recent shootings in Pittsburgh and Binghamton.  There will also be segments on how guns are "irresistible" to children and bitching about the "gun show loophole."

Click on the link ("Questions Linger About Easy Access to Guns") to see what our MSM betters think about our Second Amendment rights and for a taste of what I'm sure will be a balanced report on the issue hosted by Diane Sawyer (yeah) this Friday night.

(As a bonus question, what do you want to bet that Diane Sawyer has armed bodyguards?)

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Lashing out

There's some interesting use of language floating around regarding the Palin women and their responses.

There's a story on People's website with the following headline:

and then we have this video:


I don't see where either of these responses could be construed as 'lashing out'.  Palin's commentary seems well-composed, Bristol seems calm in her interview. 

Has 'lashes out' become a phrase that means 'delivered an oppositional response', or is there a not-so-subtle attempt to portray the Palin women as venomous? 

(via Hot Air, via Head Moron Central)

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American Media Or Communist News Agency?

Sadly, the lines are being blurred.

Seriously, when the Deciders are cutting and pasting press releases from the Castro regime, shouldn't this be a big deal?

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Really? I hadn't noticed

John McCormick of the Chicago Tribune has some keen insights about his home town hero that the rest of us might have missed:

For a man known as a great communicator, President Barack Obama can put his foot in his mouth from time to time.

Although often deliberate and meticulous in his speaking style, Obama can also be prone to gaffes when he is relaxed or trying to have fun.

Keenly aware of the stage, the coolly confident Obama can drift into trouble during unscripted moments.

The hell, you say! Next, you'll be telling me he relies on some sort of crutch to keep him from making ill-advised remarks..

The most recent slip-up came Thursday evening as he sat on Jay Leno's couch and offered an ill-considered comment during a "Tonight Show" appearance. After telling Leno he had scored 129 in a recent bowling game, the president offered what he intended as self-deprecating humor. "It's like—it was like Special Olympics, or something," he said.

The timing of the gaffe is less than ideal for Obama, who has been subject to media teasing in recent weeks for his extensive use of a teleprompter.

Well, we're all only human. Except for George W. Bush, who was some sort of monstrous hybrid of drooling idiot and evil genius.

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Reminds me of when Biden brought attention to the field of American History after his Couric interview

Larry King finds a way to praise Dear Leader for making fun of 'tards on national television.

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CNN's ratings collapsing?

The March ratings for CNN were rough, and Fox News and MSNBC are blowing them away in the ever-critical 24-54 demographic for news watchers.  Certainly CNN is going to be around for a long time, they were the first to do the 24 hour news thing, and they're undoubtedly boosted by their international presence.  I think they're in trouble though, at least in America. 

CNN stuck with low key liberal advocacy in its reporting, and MSNBC went full libtard, and liberals make up the majority of their audiences.  Why would any liberal watch CNN, when they can get the full Marxist from MSNBC?

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A tale of two crises

Remember how Bush was an unserious idiot who couldn't keep focused on the Middle East because he was too busy playing golf (i.e. "Now watch this drive.")?  That was just scandalous, wasn't it?

But the Bush years are behind us, we have other challenges now, it's time to look forward, and ZOMG did you see Obama's bracket picks?!!!

Yeah.

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The media's ten favorite "Republican" pundits

Someone had to do the list, so here it is.

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Say what?

In the opening to an article on Dem squeamishness on the issue of gun rights, some guy named Carl Hulse writes the following in the NYT:

Democrats have been exorcising some of their most stubborn political demons of late.

In challenging former President George W. Bush over the war in Iraq, they showed they were overcoming their deep post-Vietnam fear of being painted as weak on defense when taking a strong anti-war stance. Now, exhibiting comfort with rolling back Bush-era tax cuts, Democrats seem to be losing their anxiety about the tax-and-spend label.

So, opposing a war (and taking every possible opportunity to compare it to Vietnam, I might add) when there are troops in the field makes them look stronger on defense?  And opposing tax cuts is helping to shed their image as tax-and-spend liberals? Uh-huh.

Big City newspapers may not have a lot of cash anymore, but, apparently, they still pay well enough that their reporters can afford some pretty good weed.

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Remember When Hoping For The President To Fail Was "Patriotic"?

Well, it was 2006.

 

Thanks to Patterico.

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Leva responds

So, if you missed out on this whole thing, Todd Leva, a sometime columnist for the Holland Sentinel had a lengthy discussion with some of us morons over a column where he was critical of Rush's "fails" comment.  Leva has a new column up, which is worth checking out. 

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CNN cites commentary from "heralded," "noted" "conservatives"

Trust me, the scare quotes are really, really, really justified here.

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