Well, if he works for ABC, he damn sure ain't no journalist.

He could start telling people he's a piano player at a whorehouse...

/folds arms and raises eyebrows

So?

re: #2 Iron Fist

He could start telling people he's a piano player at a whorehouse...

At least they have a talent.

"Play it, Sam."

Most journalist probably had to google the word ashamed to find out what he was talking about.

re: #4 Ward Cleaver

You can't beat the fringe benefits, either :-)

I feel badly for him. He's going to be trashed by his peers for writing this column.

I wonder how long he will keep his job?

Synonyms for "journalist": "traitor," "liar," "propagandist," "scumbag."

Sounds like he's grown a conscience. Now he'll be shunned.

Maybe he'll start a blog and do REAL journalism!

re: #7 Iron Fist

You can't beat the fringe benefits, either :-)

Can you say "barter"?

Although I accept that today's journalism has a lot to be ashamed about.....this is a bit dramatic is it not?

re: #12 hermeneutics

Maybe he'll start a blog and do REAL journalism!

What, and leave "the reality-based community"?

/

A ray of light comes from the House of Mouse.

Jiminy Cricket has finally gotten to one.

You must remember this
a spin is still a spin
a bias is still a bias
the Democratic press just lies
as time goes by

It took guts to write that column, but it won't change a thing.

re: #12 hermeneutics

Maybe he'll start a blog and do REAL journalism!

He could start with Obama's Columbia years, ties with Ayers, then move on to Rezko and in his off time maybe look into ACORN. That would keep him busy for the next four years or so.

Charles, you should contact this guy. I'd like to see him at PJMedia.

So what is his point? He's on the inside. He either continues to cash the fat paycheck and espouse the company line or he gets canned.

Great piece, too bad nobody who needs to read it will be.

re: #2 Iron Fist

He could start telling people he's a piano player at a whorehouse...

Yep, it's a more respectful occupation.

Money quote:

If the current polls are correct, we are about to elect as President of the United States a man who is essentially a cipher, who has left almost no paper trail, seems to have few friends (that at least will talk) and has entire years missing out of his biography. That isn’t Sen. Obama’s fault: his job is to put his best face forward. No, it is the traditional media’s fault, for it alone (unlike the alternative media) has had the resources to cover this story properly, and has systematically refused to do so.

Bang.

re: #22 Eowyn2

So what is his point? He's on the inside. He either continues to cash the fat paycheck and espouse the company line or he gets canned.

Or really follow his conscience by quitting, and starting a blog.

re: #10 SeafoodGumbo

Synonyms for "journalist": "traitor," "liar," "propagandist," "scumbag."

Not really, its the morals (or lack of) of the job holder not the job itself.

I'm glad he wrote this - but now what? I want a journalist to start rewriting these stupid stories without the spin and show the difference. I'm not sure those that use the MSM as their sole news source even know bias is there, let alone how bad it is.

Lifted from the story...

But what really shattered my faith - and I know the day and place where it happened - was the War in Lebanon three summers ago. The hotel I was staying at in Windhoek, Namibia only carried CNN, a network I’d already learned to approach with skepticism. But this was CNN International, which is even worse. I sat there, first with my jaw hanging down, then actually shouting at the TV, as one field reporter after another reported the carnage of the Israeli attacks on Beirut, with almost no corresponding coverage of the Hezbollah missiles raining down on northern Israel. The reporting was so utterly and shamelessly biased that I sat there for hours watching, assuming that eventually CNNi would get around to telling the rest of the story . . .but it never happened.

re: #22 Eowyn2

The best response to the left wing bias in the present day media, is what it has always been in America: Competition!

Instead of whining about it as we do all the time, someone with some smarts should just start the "FOX" of newspapers.

Heh.™

So has ABC sent out the notices for the stoning of the heretic yet?

I enjoyed that read.

But I'm sure it will be shrugged off with another "They always blame the media" comment.

re: #33 Ben Hur

I enjoyed that read.

But I'm sure it will be shrugged off with another "They always blame the media" comment.

"THEY"?

racist!

If what he say is true, and it is, the future is indeed bleak for the running dogs of the press. Fortunately out town is well equipped with lamp posts from which to display traitors and "journalists".

ISrael has a "fairness doctrine" only, ONLY, during an election.

re: #32 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

So has ABC sent out the notices for the stoning of the heretic yet?

Brian Ross will lead the stoning, and Charlie Gibson will egg them on.

re: #21 Ward Cleaver

Charles, you should contact this guy. I'd like to see him at PJMedia.

Did you click the linky? You got your wish already....

O/T, but we just got back from the McCain/Palin rally in Springfield. First one I've ever been to and all I can say is wow! 20,000 showed up, even PUMA's! We saw quite a few Hillary Supporter for McCain signs!

Journalists have engaged in shady behavior from the outset. It's only more recently in the development of the species that the idea of objectivity should play a role, though it's been pushed aside by the Bernstein/Woodward idea of journalism as crusade.

These media outlets still engage in yellow journalism, but it's a bias that is pervasive and generally in one direction - that of the leftists, Democrats, and by any measurable standard (how journalists donate to politicos, self identification, or analysis of their op-ed pages, #s of stories about the candidates, etc.) the media is the mouthpiece of the Democratic party.

Sad as his tale is, at this late date liberal news bias is simply a given, not even so much of a scandal anymore. Thankfully the internet can route around it and expose it. You can't be a gatekeeper anymore when the walls are down...

Obama's campaign, sensing a fresh opportunity to tie McCain to Bush, quickly notified reporters of Bush's vote, sending out a mass e-mail with the Associated Press story, "Bush votes early for McCain."

[Link: voices.washingtonpost.com...]

re: #38 Ward Cleaver

ABC News is the only national outlet pushing the Mahoney mess.

Adios, Old Media. Hello, New Media. The hardest thing will be credentialing. When new media figures that out, Old Media will disappear completely.

lol

It's Cog! Cog, you once were blind, but now you see!

re: #29 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Lifted from the story...

shouting at the TV

I can relate. My kids can't wait for election to get over because I have been doing this for the past 2 1/2 ears.

re: #39 wrenchwench

Did you click the linky? You got your wish already....

Holy crap. I just assumed the link was to ABC News. Silly me - ABC would never allow dissent.

re: #48 musicman

I can relate. My kids can't wait for election to get over because I have been doing this for the past 2 1/2 ears.

and years also? : )

Michael Malone ends the piece by trying to attribute a rational calculation to the editors he speaks of:

"And then the opportunity presents itself: an attractive young candidate whose politics likely matches yours, but more important, he offers the prospect of a transformed Washington with the power to fix everything that has gone wrong in your career. With luck, this monolithic, single-party government will crush the alternative media via a revived Fairness Doctrine, re-invigorate unions by getting rid of secret votes, and just maybe, be beholden to people like you in the traditional media for getting it there."

If this hope (that Obama will save the careers of senior editors) is truly the basis for the slanted coverage, there is even more fantasizing going on in the newsrooms than everyone thinks.

Well, I guess we aren't delusional after all. A good read, and a confirmation of what we've been saying here for years.

Yet another hysterical funny remix of "Downfall"
Pardon if already posted, or if you are a jazz fan, like me.

Problem one? Quit being a journalist and get back to the roots of being a REPORTER! There is no shame in reporting who, what, when, where, how, and why if it is applicable. You want to write fiction? Become a freaking novelist.

The story, unless it is on the OpEd page needs no spin, personal or editorial perspective on it.

Thank you Mr. Malone.

So called journalists of today are being taught far different rules of reporting than what I was taught in school.

The guy has a wiki. High-tech reporter. Must have something on the ball.

re: #44 taxfreekiller

Cognito?

tfk, that email you were sending rw today - is it okay for him to fwd it to me?

re: #27 Piglet-U93

Not really, its the morals (or lack of) of the job holder not the job itself.

Yeah, I guess, if you want to be logical about it. :)

The real news comes in on the carrier wave of silence

& Journalists have nothing to do with that at all

re: #50 Ozark Mountain Daredevil

and years also? : )

Oops why couldn't I remember to use the y?
P.S.
I haven't heard whether my son was able to get to the rally et.

Ironic that this guy's name is Michael Malone, the name chosen for the Michael Moore character in An American Carol.

Wow. Another Bernie Goldberg. Yes!

for the first time in my adult life — to be embarrassed to admit what I do for a living.

I've been waiting 20 years or more for a journalist to finally get this, and admit in it public.

The work done by journalists reflects on the character of the individual, his employer and his profession. Once you lose your credibility, once you lose the trust of your readers, you'll never really get it back.

re: #55 newsjunkie_ky

Thank you Mr. Malone.

So called journalists of today are being taught far different rules of reporting than what I was taught in school.

Now, they go to J-School to "Change the World" or "Make a Difference."

Which is, of course, the last reasons someone should go to J-School.

re: #18 godfrey

A fundamental miss-apply,
As time goes by

re: #53 rawmuse

Yet another hysterical funny remix of "Downfall"
Pardon if already posted, or if you are a jazz fan, like me.

I still like the XBOX one.

I'm going to have to get a new ke board.

re: #67 taxfreekiller

Hell no , Ward

It had a confession in it. and names.

Wish me luck though.

Okay, I understand. No problem. I'll say a prayer.

re: #53 rawmuse

LMAO

re: #64 Ben Hur

Which is ARE, of course, the last reasons someone should go to J-School.

Oofa!

The silliest thing about this is that it will be the journalists who lose their jobs first in the brave new Barack economy.

re: #67 taxfreekiller

Good luck TFK!

re: #41 lawhawk

Journalists have engaged in shady behavior from the outset. It's only more recently in the development of the species that the idea of objectivity should play a role, though it's been pushed aside by the Bernstein/Woodward idea of journalism as crusade.

These media outlets still engage in yellow journalism, but it's a bias that is pervasive and generally in one direction - that of the leftists, Democrats, and by any measurable standard (how journalists donate to politicos, self identification, or analysis of their op-ed pages, #s of stories about the candidates, etc.) the media is the mouthpiece of the Democratic party.

I've always had my suspicions that left brain/right brain thinking is reflected in all this. Right brain thinkers tend to drift into the "arts" of which writing is art. Right brain thinkers tend to be idealistic.

Left brain thinkers tend to go for the more analytical type work and tend to be more down to earth.

I've come to believe Democrats tend to be right brain thinkers and Republicans tend to be left brain thinkers. The media and Hollywood is controlled by right brain thinkers.

Of course, I could be full of sh*t on this theory.

re: #64 Ben Hur

Now, they go to J-School to "Change the World" or "Make a Difference."

Which is, of course, the last reasons someone should go to J-School.

Yep, I took journalism just before 'watergate'. Now, they all want to 'break' the big story and take down a Republican.

When this campaign fervor dies down I have some wobbly hope that many reporters will step back and do some true introspection about where their profession is heading.

If I were a prominent journalist I would call for a national meeting to write new ethics by laws.

I would include a requirement for footnoting on ALL stories and no more anonymous sources - and my personal favorite - that no "news" stories may contain adjectives.

There's a big difference between a "large explosion" and an "enormous explosion" when just writing "an explosion occurred" would be sufficient.

The reality is that the opposite is true and that the media will go further next time.

You will note that this piece is published on Pajamas Media and not in the pages or air of a mainstream outlet. I'm not sure what to make of that, shame on his part or recognition that it would never see the light of day in the mainstream press.

Dancing warthogs!

re: #75 newsjunkie_ky

Yep, I took journalism just before 'watergate'. Now, they all want to 'break' the big story and take down a Republican.

Exactly.

I saw an interview once with some big editor, and he (?) said that Watergate invented "Investigative Journalism" and that's not journalism is about.

All this while S&P just downgraded NYT to junk stock status. Heh.

A patern on credit card illegal donations?
This one is from Ace website:
[Link: ace.mu.nu...]
Guess What? Democratic Sentate Candidate Noriega Allows Fraudulent Donations Too

I did the whole fraudulent donation thing to McCain and Obama; the results were as noted on your page.

Then I thought, just for the hell of it, I'd try the same thing with our Texas Senate race matching Cornyn (R) and Noriega (D).

Cornyn's site wouldn't let me because the address and zip code didn't match. Guess what? With the same info, donating five to surrender-monger Rick Noriega was peachy. I'm not going to say it's a trend with only two examples, but you think this might be a little bigger than Obama? I'd test it myself on other races, but the thought of giving more than $10 to these assholes doesn't sit well with me.

Yes, I think we are looking here at the biggest political conspiracy since Watergate.

They have invited the world to donate illegally to them, and invited their well-heeled American donors to illegally donate tens of thousands of dollars over the limit.

They did this deliberately.

I think there are some who realize, especially when contrasting the world economy, and specifically their own industry, the hammer is coming down.

He knows exactly what the problem is.

Most people, despite political ideology, are willing to hear bad news, even if their is some tangible loss on their part.

I don't know of many Republican people who upon hearing the news about Foley, or Larry Craig, did not feel the media did their job. I for one thought what they had coming to them, was justly deserved.

It is the inequity.

He sees the writing on the wall.

re: #76 Noam Chumpski

Any published photo should have a 180 degree fish eye taken from the same location at the same time, published right alongside it. They could make double lensed cameras like that.

Otherwise I suspect all their photos.

re: #77 JohnSteele

You will note that this piece is published on Pajamas Media and not in the pages or air of a mainstream outlet. I'm not sure what to make of that, shame on his part or recognition that it would never see the light of day in the mainstream press.

We are witnessing the beginning of a new (forced) underground movement.

re: #8 hermeneutics

I feel badly for him. He's going to be trashed by his peers for writing this column.

They will make him an un-person.

His assignments from this point forward, if he gets any at all, will be to cover the obscure and the inconsequential. Banished to oblivion.

re: #40 Ozark Mountain Daredevil

O/T, but we just got back from the McCain/Palin rally in Springfield. First one I've ever been to and all I can say is wow! 20,000 showed up, even PUMA's! We saw quite a few Hillary Supporter for McCain signs!

Weren't you SHOCKED to hear all the shouts of "Kill Obama!" and "Terrorist!" ?

OT: So Strategic Vision released polls today that weren't favorable to The One, and received death threats! Charming supporters Obama has.

Linky: Campaign Spot

Pattern...sorry

re: #81 El Lizardo mejicano

Yes, I think we are looking here at the biggest political conspiracy since Watergate.

They have invited the world to donate illegally to them, and invited their well-heeled American donors to illegally donate tens of thousands of dollars over the limit.

They did this deliberately.

No kidding!

This is a fundamental blow aimed at our national soverignty.

Sonofabitch, offshore dorllars.

I hope this guy becomes an independent journalist like Michael Yon. That's the future of journalism -- reporters on their own, earning their keep through donations and not restrained from the truth by editors with an agenda.

I'm told that the percentage of Frenchies in the underground resistance, if 1946 numbers can be believed, added up to about four times the number of Frenchies in existence.

Darned near every German you met in 1946 had never, ever, not even once been a Nazi party member.

Ashamed to what you are? Dude, there is a simple solution.

Stop being that of which you are ashamed.

Now really, how tough is that to figure out?

re: #88 buzzsawmonkey

If you want to know what journalism was not so long ago, find and rent the original film of The Front Page, starring Pat O'Brien and Adolphe Menjou.

It is brutal--and hilarious.

Forget the remakes; this film is the real deal.

I thought the portrayal of the newspaper editor in Spiderman was very accurate for these days.

Too bad this guy will be doing the consumer reporting beat for the rest of his tenure at ABC.

Journalism 101

1. Who
2. What
3. When
4. Where
5. Why

And sometimes How.

. re: #81 El Lizardo mejicano

This isn't really anything new. Clinton and Gore broke most of the campaign finance laws that were on the books, didn't they? Buddhist temples and People's Republics, all gave to the great Leader and his lackey.

I admire his candor. I hope he'll be able to find employment after ABC fires him.

re: #83 Ojoe

Any published photo should have a 180 degree fish eye taken from the same location at the same time, published right alongside it. They could make double lensed cameras like that.

Otherwise I suspect all their photos.

Oh, wow. That would be great.

I'll ad that to the Agenda.

re: #98 Noam Chumpski

Yes, otherwise how many lies can you fit into "1,000 words"?

re: #81 El Lizardo mejicano

Although there are many disgusting angles to this election, one of the worst aspects is what you just posted.

Our country is for sale.

Someone like John Stossel needs to get on this. This is a travesty.

re: #32 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

"So has ABC sent out the notices for the stoning of the heretic yet?"

I'm partway through Bernard Goldberg's "Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News". Goldberg was crucified by his colleagues (soon to be former colleagues) for pointing out something which is insanely obvious to an outsider. The leftist mindset of the MSM is so pervasive, evidently, that no one within is aware of it.

re: #101 formercorpsman

I could let loose a very very long string of cuss words on this illegal donation thing.

re: #100 Ojoe

Oh, and provide the raw EXIF data on all photos.

re: #104 lawhawk

Yep. all the info. The technology is there to do it.

re: #102 crown_of_feathers

"So has ABC sent out the notices for the stoning of the heretic yet?"

I'm partway through Bernard Goldberg's "Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News". Goldberg was crucified by his colleagues (soon to be former colleagues) for pointing out something which is insanely obvious to an outsider. The leftist mindset of the MSM is so pervasive, evidently, that no one within is aware of it.

Great book, isn't it? I love how he calls Dan Rather, "The Dan".

"Why? I think I know, because had my life taken a different path, I could have been one: Picture yourself in your 50s in a job where you’ve spent 30 years working your way to the top, to the cockpit of power . . . only to discover that you’re presiding over a dying industry."

Being the magnanimous fellow that I am, I hope that they're choking on mortgage payments and college tuition bills when they're given the key to the street.

The industry can't die fast enough.

And then the opportunity presents itself: an attractive young candidate whose politics likely matches yours, but more important, he offers the prospect of a transformed Washington with the power to fix everything that has gone wrong in your career. With luck, this monolithic, single-party government will crush the alternative media via a revived Fairness Doctrine, re-invigorate unions by getting rid of secret votes, and just maybe, be beholden to people like you in the traditional media for getting it there.

And besides, you tell yourself, it’s all for the good of the country . . .

I just got a chill from read this.

ahhh! hasn't been a decent reporter since the old days at the "Dailey Planet" old man perry white took no guff from anyone. That woman reporter Lois something or another, what a pair of gams! she was always digging up dirt with that spunky cub reporter olsen, Jimmy I think they called him. then there was kent, clark to his friends. he was the best. but used to disappear at the strangest times! Used to wear this funny red and blue long underwear, might have been a mormon or something. those were the days !

re: #79 Ben Hur

Exactly.

I saw an interview once with some big editor, and he (?) said that Watergate invented "Investigative Journalism" and that's not journalism is about.

I think there is a place for investigative journalism. The front pages of the cities newspaper isn't one of them. Leave that to the magazines.

re: #86 JohnAdams

Weren't you SHOCKED to hear all the shouts of "Kill Obama!" and "Terrorist!" ?

Oh yeah. It was scary!
/

MSM, admitting it is the first step to recovery.

re: #108 littleoldlady

I just got a chill from read this.

Me too, hon...

re: #104 lawhawk

Put a compass in the camera and publish the photo taking direction. Put a gps unit in the camera and publish the location. Outdoor photos can be checked with sun angles with this information sometimes.

Good piece, but I disagree in part with his explanation at the end. It's not just the editors, it's also the reporters and everybody else working at newspapers. They're 90% dems - all of them - and they are all part of the same mind set. They have an agenda and it ain't reporting the news fairly and it's been going on for a lot longer than he cares to admit.

re: #51 jaunte

I read it as saying that the main motivation of biased reporters is POWER.
They are the king-makers.

Work day is almost over. Don't sit there and get transfixed by the bad guys and their relentless work. Get out there and talk to people.

It's your country. Take it back.

/listen to your inner tfk

Good, at least another journalist says what I have been saying and said earlier on posts yesterday. Obama represents the best and last hope for the dying generation of liberal journalists and their dwindling media outlets. They really, really think he will save their profession, much like Enron thought the Bush Administration would save them.

I was just talking with a friend of mine about the softball coverage. Unfortunately for the media, they've now set the pattern. If they become attack dogs to Obama after he's elected and scandals are revealed, the cry will be "where were you during the campaign?" More to the point, if Obama is brought down to size, the Republicans will likely regain power in 2010 in Congress and he will be a one-term president, a Jimmy Carter failure. (And we can't have the first black president be a failure, can we? Gosh, that would just prove those EVIL Republicans were right!?)

Face it, they've got no choice to continue the softball parade for the next four years. They've painted themselves into a corner. They can't stop now....

Their journey to the Dark Side is complete.

Does he know that this form of apostasy is punished far more harshly than that meted out by the Muslims?

re: #47 godfrey

lol

It's Cog! Cog, you once were blind, but now you see!

hahahahahhahahhaa

re: #116 wolfie

Unmerited power at that.

re: #103 Ojoe

It really shows the sales pitch on the other side, is more than a lie.

A party that has always touted itself as the party of the little man, in practice, has marginalized the little man to the point of extinction.

Recognizing, the absolute financial behemoth we are up against, a group of representatives who keep us financially tithed to other parts of the world seeking to erode our liberty by the way of $4.00 dollar a gallon gas, and now salivating at the prospect of nationalizing our retirement funds, I fear for what the future holds.

re: #108 littleoldlady

Dark times are coming, I am afraid. We can't really say that they come as a surprise, though. The Democrats have never really hidden their Statist agenda, nor have they not shown their willingness to do whatever it takes to get there. What I don't understand is why there are so many people that are willing to help them get there.

re: #122 formercorpsman

Ah well we're in the Creator's hands

re: #117 godfrey

Work day is almost over. Don't sit there and get transfixed by the bad guys and their relentless work. Get out there and talk to people.

It's your country. Take it back.

/listen to your inner tfk

Good advice. Have a great weekend, everyone!

The press and media bias in this election is so over the top that it has, IMO, almost turned into a caricature.

It's a if all of the reporting is a Sat Night Live skit.

And this is where my outrage shifts.

I continue to be angry at the media, but their bias is nothing new. As the author writes, just watch their coverage of the terrorists war on Israel. Which, by the way, resembles their coverage of the Left's assault on Republicans.

But screw the media. My shock and outrage is now focused on the fact that we now know that so many Americans are outright imbeciles. For example, what sort of analysis concludes that if the market is tanking what is needed to save it is Socialism?

How is it that so many voters can not appreciate that the media is rooting for Obama and sabotaging McCain?

A gullible, ignorant, and stupid people will be the downfall of America. The external enemy can just sit back and applaud.

why there are so many people that are willing to help them get there

It's the revenge of the risk-averse. Some people just don't want to compete, Iron Fist. Then they get all passive-aggressive. That's what this is about, on a very large scale.

re: #109 Spider Mensch

ahhh! hasn't been a decent reporter since the old days at the "Dailey Planet" old man perry white took no guff from anyone. That woman reporter Lois something or another, what a pair of gams! she was always digging up dirt with that spunky cub reporter olsen, Jimmy I think they called him. then there was kent, clark to his friends. he was the best. but used to disappear at the strangest times! Used to wear this funny red and blue long underwear, might have been a mormon or something. those were the days !

Nope ours is white. But we do disappear on Sundays and Wednesday evenings and we've got the whole Gee Whiz! clean cut thing down to an artform.

re: #101 formercorpsman

Although there are many disgusting angles to this election, one of the worst aspects is what you just posted.

Our country is for sale.

Someone like John Stossel needs to get on this. This is a travesty.

That means that ANYBODY in any COUNTRY can send money their way, specially from foreign/enemies/countries etc..

The local paper where I live is delivered door-to-door free on Fridays in order to drive up their circulation; otherwise, they would have to charge less for advertising. People are fed up with biased news and refuse to purchase the paper. If they don't smarten up eventually that industry will go the way of the horse and buggy.

A fellow lizard speculated a few days ago that the MSM was banking on an Obama administration not only reinstating the "fairness doctrine", but also directly supporting the MSM through some sort of BBC style government payment program... sort of a "tenure" system for journalists.

I can hear the rallying cries now...

"The MSM is too big to fail! We must bail them out! Leaving the news to the forces of the marketplace is wrong... the truth must be free from the corrupting influence of money!"

The MSM wants to be free to be as radical as the average humanities professor -- unconstrained by anything but their own [diseased] imaginations. They envy the way professors can define the truth as "whatever is convenient for my ideology right at this moment"

Time to go...big Band Booster fundraiser at the football game tonight. We are 7-0 for the season!

See all you lizards later!

re: #125 scottishbuzzsaw

listen to your inner tfk

re: #81 El Lizardo mejicano

A patern on credit card illegal donations?
This one is from Ace website:
[Link: ace.mu.nu...]
Guess What? Democratic Sentate Candidate Noriega Allows Fraudulent Donations Too

I did the whole fraudulent donation thing to McCain and Obama; the results were as noted on your page.

Then I thought, just for the hell of it, I'd try the same thing with our Texas Senate race matching Cornyn (R) and Noriega (D).

Cornyn's site wouldn't let me because the address and zip code didn't match. Guess what? With the same info, donating five to surrender-monger Rick Noriega was peachy. I'm not going to say it's a trend with only two examples, but you think this might be a little bigger than Obama? I'd test it myself on other races, but the thought of giving more than $10 to these assholes doesn't sit well with me.

Yes, I think we are looking here at the biggest political conspiracy since Watergate.

They have invited the world to donate illegally to them, and invited their well-heeled American donors to illegally donate tens of thousands of dollars over the limit.

They did this deliberately.

I agree. Ace has, actually, 2 stories, this was just one of them. It appears Murtha's site also has turned off the verification feature.

re: #114 Ojoe

Put a compass in the camera and publish the photo taking direction. Put a gps unit in the camera and publish the location. Outdoor photos can be checked with sun angles with this information sometimes.

Create a photo that you can walk into so that you can actually be transported to the location of the photo// Can't get more accurate than that.

re: #114 Ojoe

Some photographers already geo-tag their images.

re: #116 wolfie

I read it as saying that the main motivation of biased reporters is POWER.
They are the king-makers.

They are Kapos.

Don't feel too badly about it Mr. Malone of ABC news, you're becoming a lot less relevant to the daily lives of most Americans too, so your shame doesn't extend as far as it would have in your ancestor's generation. Of course, if you want to become part of the solution, I might recommend you join the responsible blogging community, where I go for about 80% of my news these days.

And a note to the rest of the media who still hasn't got the message: the time is coming very soon when the invisible hand of Mr. Smith will lead you to promote an end which is no part of your intention in trying to manipulate the public during this election.

re: #133 Ojoe

LOL

re: #102 crown_of_feathers

"So has ABC sent out the notices for the stoning of the heretic yet?"

I'm partway through Bernard Goldberg's "Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News". Goldberg was crucified by his colleagues (soon to be former colleagues) for pointing out something which is insanely obvious to an outsider. The leftist mindset of the MSM is so pervasive, evidently, that no one within is aware of it.

The emperors have no clothes.

re: #75 newsjunkie_ky

Yep, I took journalism just before 'watergate'. Now, they all want to 'break' the big story and take down a Republican.

Ironically, if the MSM, et al, succeed in taking down the Republican party, they may rue the day. Because what could replace it may not be very pretty. Witness the rise of fascist leaning parties in Europe. Many of us are worried about a de facto abrogation of the Second Amendment. Perhaps the journalists who are so devoutly in favor of single party rule in this country should stop and worry about the First.

re: #129 El Lizardo mejicano

You nailed it.

Now, take a look at how many places around the world, Soros has managed to insert himself, and his allies into the political process.

re: #134 reine.de.tout

But don't try replicating the fraud - you're only going to be enriching the very people you despise.

re: #135 midwestgak

an old stereo camera almost does that.

BBL

And then the opportunity presents itself: an attractive young candidate whose politics likely matches yours, but more important, he offers the prospect of a transformed Washington with the power to fix everything that has gone wrong in your career. With luck, this monolithic, single-party government will crush the alternative media via a revived Fairness Doctrine, re-invigorate unions by getting rid of secret votes, and just maybe, be beholden to people like you in the traditional media for getting it there.

Actually, if the Fairness Doctrine were reinstated and applied "fairly", talk radio would be decimated, but the level of conservative discourse in all other forms of media would increase......but what's the likelihood that it would be applied "fairly"?

re: #130 WarBicycle

The local paper where I live is delivered door-to-door free on Fridays in order to drive up their circulation; otherwise, they would have to charge less for advertising. People are fed up with biased news and refuse to purchase the paper. If they don't smarten up eventually that industry will go the way of the horse and buggy.

San Diego Union Tribune has been giving me free papers for the last 2 weeks. Straight to the trash with it.

re: #79 Ben Hur

BenHur did you get my linky?

re: #133 Ojoe

listen to your inner tfk

Sure, why not...what's one more voice...

So what do you do when its the conservative talk shows that miss the boat (not talking bias here). There is a local show that I listen to in the morning (Sean&Frank, 680am). Its fairly good - though lately I find myself knowing more than the hosts about their topics and must resist all urges to call and say "No, that isn't right. Here is the real story...." I did send an email when they had their news director Brenda Carl fill in as a co-host. I had to turn the radio off as her commentary was just dumb. I gave examples in my email (and I didn't call her dumb), but got no response. These last few weeks who has the host been invoking as his "great friend and popular blogger" with inflection like he was in awe of this woman? Pam Geller. Seriously. So after the 6th time of him saying "I just got off the phone with the very smart, in the know PG of AS, and she is saying..." I couldn't take it any more. I had and have no desire to attack her personally, but I did send an email with links to Ms. Geller's recent unsavory associations and her rant against those who have disassociated themselves with her because of it - not to mention the conspiracy theory stuff. I admitted that I used to really enjoy PG and even had quite a few email "conversations" with her, until she made the decision linking up with these groups was a justifiable means to her end. It isn't and never will be to me. As part of my proof and citations, I linked to Phil Berg's troofer blog. I pointed out that yes, he was a Deputy Atty General but that doesn't make you immune to crazy as they were saying this guy is no kook, he was an Atty General! This morning? Phil Berg is a guest! YIKES. No answer to my email, BTW. I guess I just won't listen any more.

re: #47 godfrey

lol

It's Cog! Cog, you once were blind, but now you see!

We'll have to needle him about that, next time he's on here.

re: #148 scottishbuzzsaw

LOL

That's why silence is good

I'm sure magnito would have a completely logical , yet completely different interpretation of this piece. How it is really in favor of todays "journalism", and we are just misunderstanding the premise. Or maybe its sarcasm, designed to make fun of our "conspiracy mindset".

Would the last HONEST reporter please turn ON the lights?

Good afternoon,

I wish I could have, as succintly as this writer did, captured the essence of what's at the root of what's wrong with our country today, but I encourage you to read this article and distribute it as far and wide as you can.

Put it this way, my brother used to be a News Anchor up in Washington, and he got fed up with what he was "encouraged" to cover and "how." My brother got out of the business....he's still liberal, and I still have some work to do, but he hasn't commented on this article.

This article is worth the read.

[Link: www.ldsmag.com...]

re: #148 scottishbuzzsaw

As long as the neighbor's dog will just shut up...

re: #148 scottishbuzzsaw

Sure, why not...what's one more voice...

For you? A full Greek chorus. :-p

re: #150 Ward Cleaver

It was TFK who first suggested it.

Just like the "backwards 'B'" lady, I'm certain that this is some sort of hoax to benefit Obama.

So he's on the inside (for now anyway) do something about the bias. He needs to start with himself and stop being part of the problem. I cannot say this strongly enough but I HATE the MSM I really do.

re: #132 musicman

Time to go...big Band Booster fundraiser at the football game tonight. We are 7-0 for the season!

See all you lizards later!

How is your band 7-0?

re: #123 Iron Fist

What I don't understand is why there are so many people that are willing to help them get there.

Willing Suspension of Disbelief.

/I don't get it either :-(

re: #126 Opinionated

Their agenda has come to fruition slowly but surely through the creation of idiots through our failed public schools and Marxist university system. Why are Ayers, Dohrn, Churchill, et. al. in academia?

Some people think were "the One" to win, journalism will catch up with itself and suddenly behave like the Emperor who realized he had no clothes.

I do not agree.

The fawning has just begun. BHO is a watershed. The leftist agendas in the MSM is in lockstep with a dictator which they truly seek deep down. In many respects the analysis comes down to a belief in Humanism vs. God (or a Higher Power/Spirit). BHO represents so much religion for them because he encompasses multi-sects such as the church of Environmentalism, church of Socialism, Marxism, egalitarianism, anti-capitalism, and the list goes on. Yes, to the Left he is so many things to so many people. No need for God when you have the One.

I am not apoplectic about this prospect because I maintain McCain will win. Maybe I am spending too much time on the Hillbuzz site and other(s) like it but ironically it is my Faith in something larger than Barack that keeps me optimistic.

re: #143 lawhawk

But don't try replicating the fraud - you're only going to be enriching the very people you despise.

Good advice and reminder - don't try this at home, people!

Personally, I don't have an extra $1 to give to Obama.

re: #145 eschew_obfuscation

Actually, if the Fairness Doctrine were reinstated and applied "fairly", talk radio would be decimated, but the level of conservative discourse in all other forms of media would increase......but what's the likelihood that it would be applied "fairly"?

It'll only apply to conservative talk radio. After all, conservative talk radio only took off after the first Fairness Doctrine was repealed, in the mid '80s.

re: #49 Ward Cleaver

Holy crap. I just assumed the link was to ABC News. Silly me - ABC would never allow dissent.

Actually, it's published at ABC News too:

[Link: abcnews.go.com...]

Michael Malone is an LGF fan, by the way -- he emailed me about this article.

That's great, Charles. Good on him.

Hey! Mr. Malone. I really appreciated your piece. Thanks!

re: #163 reine.de.tout

Good advice and reminder - don't try this at home, people!

Personally, I don't have an extra $1 to give to Obama.

oh, I'll give a little to see what happens..does anyone have change for a button?

/mr burns

re: #127 godfrey

It's the revenge of the risk-averse. Some people just don't want to compete, Iron Fist. Then they get all passive-aggressive. That's what this is about, on a very large scale.

I dunno, godfrey. I know quite a few people with a lot to lose. They ARE going to lose it, and no amount of evidence will divert them from this "historic vote".

The FEC never does anything until AFTER the election is over. When they do get around to doing something, it is too often little more then meting out small fines.

Toothless.

Worthless.

Enabling.

re: #144 Ojoe

an old stereo camera almost does that.

BBL

My friend actually had one of those cameras about 30 years ago, and the camera was old then. It was freaky, but cool.

It wouldn't be applied fairly. The Leftists in charge of determining the "fairness" would see themselves as unbiased, while only seeing the bias on the Right.

re: #145 eschew_obfuscation

Actually, if the Fairness Doctrine were reinstated and applied "fairly", talk radio would be decimated, but the level of conservative discourse in all other forms of media would increase......but what's the likelihood that it would be applied "fairly"?

re: #74 Outrider

I've always had my suspicions that left brain/right brain thinking is reflected in all this. Right brain thinkers tend to drift into the "arts" of which writing is art. Right brain thinkers tend to be idealistic.

Left brain thinkers tend to go for the more analytical type work and tend to be more down to earth.

I've come to believe Democrats tend to be right brain thinkers and Republicans tend to be left brain thinkers. The media and Hollywood is controlled by right brain thinkers.

Of course, I could be full of sh*t on this theory.

Writing isn't quite like other art forms. It requires the left brain skills of language and organization. I think successful imaginative writers can access both sides of their brain equally. As a technical writer, I am mostly using my left brain, although I frequently find myself organizing my material more intuitively than logically. As for whether Dems are right brained and Repubs are left-brained, I don't think it's quite that cut and dried.

re: #165 Charles

Actually, it's published at ABC News too:

[Link: abcnews.go.com...]

Michael Malone is an LGF fan, by the way -- he emailed me about this article.

That's nice, Charles. It's good to hear that somebody who's longtime MSM appreciates what you're doing here. Props to you.

Charles...I hope your enemies are pacifists.

re: #21 Ward Cleaver

Charles, you should contact this guy. I'd like to see him at PJMedia.

Either it writes the rhetoric or it gets the hose again?

/it's the end of the week and my mind is bent.

re: #148 scottishbuzzsaw

Sure, why not...what's one more voice...

Ask Jan Brady. :)

re: #165 Charles

Could it really, really be are very own Cognito writing...Cognito?

Cry me a river!

This Michael Malone guy is a 'high tech" reporter. I searched around the web and he has a couple of business opinion pieces like: (1) Microsft is dying, and (2) The HP-Compaq merger is doomed to failure.

I suppose it's touching that he wants to step into the realm of political opinion journalism, but his record of opinions on business journalsim does not seem strong to me.

Oh, and the wife and I voted today, taking a sunny walk down to the voting center with the lil' Llanite on her first walk outside the neighborhood. 17 days old and already helping mom and dad make some important political choices.

We voted for two democrats - one a county commissioner running on a single issue platform of opposing a proposal for a foreign conglomerate-developed toll road and we voted against the current republican sheriff who has been entirely absentee for the last year.

Also voted against every single damn jerk that voted for the bail-out... And sent them all letters telling them exactly that.

Duh! Thanks for finally getting around to recognizing what has been apparent for a while.

This is akin to admitting an affair to your spouse. She/he knows something’s wrong, or has noticed a change in behavior. I'm sure that it’s cathartic for the lone journalist to admit it. WE on the outside are still stuck with the crappy feeling of being outnumbered & betrayed.

Mike;
Just how profoundly ignorant (in denial) would one, who is in the "business" of journalism have to be, not to have seen that, which has been hiding in plain sight for at least the last 30 years (virtually this moke's entire career)? Last few months my azz.
It took the Soviets the better part of 20 years to subdue the credibility their press through beatings, institutionalization, murder and the gulag. Our press gave it up for nothing - nothing! Could the people (candidates) that are forwarded by the Dems be any less qualified and/or corrupt? Bubba, Lurch, Piaps, Obama take your pick. The perfect future Dem candidate will be a 40 year old inflatable doll. No background, no paper trail, no track record. Nothing. Perfect. The MSM will cover as long as the D appellation is attached to its azz.
The press has abdicated its roll in a free country. They no longer fill the roll envisioned by our founders. They are now the unfree press. No longer granted the exulted 1st amendment right of being able to ask the important questions. Their minds are in chains. We can no longer help or listen to them. Nor should we.
Zhivago

hey Lizards! Well that Journalist deserves the title!

How are you-all and what are we talking about?

re: #177 midwestgak

I am feeling very ill today. Fever, cough, snot, headache, sore throat.

And laughing my ass off! That was great!

re: #14 WrathofG-d

Although I accept that today's journalism has a lot to be ashamed about.....this is a bit dramatic is it not?

No. This is the truth. What's shocking is that someone in the profession has the nerve to be honest about it. That took serious guts on his part.

Ok let's out Michael Malone.

Will the real Michael Malone please stand up!

OT:

A joke:

Two goldfish are in a tank.

One looks at the other and asks, "Do you know how to drive this thing?"

re: #183 ggt

I'm good. Don't see you nearly as much as I used to. How you doin'?

re: #9 musicman

I bet he ends up at Fox.

From the comments on the version posted at ABC, listen to this LLL prick:

Could it be that the most educated people lean democrat? Could it also be that everyone around the world is sick of the radical right and having nothing good to say about the party or their candidates. The radical right always will have Fox News, Rush, Hannity, and O'Reilly. I think they spew out enough garbage to balance the coverage.
Posted by:
vonlaker71 3:06 PM

re: #185 capitalist piglet

The "dramatic" part was the way the quoted section is written.

juz mi 2c

{All y'all} have a great weekend!
Later, lizards.

re: #182 zhivago

Mike;
Just how profoundly ignorant (in denial) would one, who is in the "business" of journalism have to be, not to have seen that, which has been hiding in plain sight for at least the last 30 years (virtually this moke's entire career)? Last few months my azz.
It took the Soviets the better part of 20 years to subdue the credibility their press through beatings, institutionalization, murder and the gulag. Our press gave it up for nothing - nothing! Could the people (candidates) that are forwarded by the Dems be any less qualified and/or corrupt? Bubba, Lurch, Piaps, Obama take your pick. The perfect future Dem candidate will be a 40 year old inflatable doll. No background, no paper trail, no track record. Nothing. Perfect. The MSM will cover as long as the D appellation is attached to its azz.
The press has abdicated its roll in a free country. They no longer fill the roll envisioned by our founders. They are now the unfree press. No longer granted the exulted 1st amendment right of being able to ask the important questions. Their minds are in chains. We can no longer help or listen to them. Nor should we.
Zhivago

Whew! You get rant of the day honors.

re: #180 llanite

Oh, and the wife and I voted today, taking a sunny walk down to the voting center with the lil' Llanite on her first walk outside the neighborhood. 17 days old and already helping mom and dad make some important political choices.

We voted for two democrats - one a county commissioner running on a single issue platform of opposing a proposal for a foreign conglomerate-developed toll road and we voted against the current republican sheriff who has been entirely absentee for the last year.

Also voted against every single damn jerk that voted for the bail-out... And sent them all letters telling them exactly that.

In order to vote against my D Senator I have to vote for the Green Party candidate.

Let's see here. Frying pan or fire? Which to choose, which to choose.

re: #87 Semper gumbi

OT: So Strategic Vision released polls today that weren't favorable to The One, and received death threats! Charming supporters Obama has.

Linky: Campaign Spot

Wow. just wow. I won't click over to NR since they are still publishing that horrible Kathleen Parker woman.

re: #187 Dianna

This is up my alley. Ok:

Q Where do Generals keep their Armies?

A Up their sleevies!

re: #173 doppelganglander

I hear the word "compassion" from my left leaning friends when they talk about politicians. They want a person with "compassion." I want a person who will do their job --follow thel letter of the law --without emotion but with a clear idea of the difference between right and wrong.

I don't get the "compassion" angle. Is it a right brain thing?

My advice

Rather than introduce yourself as a journalist. Become a reporter. You remember 'reporters' dont you? They were the ones who REPORTED the news but would never have thought of adding their smirks, quirks, and jerks to the story.

Okay... what's the betting line?

Is he fired today or Monday?

re: #146 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

San Diego Union Tribune has been giving me free papers for the last 2 weeks. Straight to the trash with it.

I only get it because of the Sunday coupons. Mrs. Hawk saves more per week with those than the paper costs for a month. I wish they had Sunday only subscriptions like they used to.

re: #189 notutopia

I bet he ends up at Fox.

But Fox skews the news to the conservative side of things. I realize they feel they must, because everything else is so damnably liberal. But what a healthy society needs is truly objective reporting with an aim at getting to the truth wherever it lies.

re: #196 ArmyWife

This is up my alley. Ok:

Q Where do Generals Aggies keep their Armies?

A Up their sleevies!

/old aggie joke, too

Funny, Michael Malone is the pseudonym for Michael Moore in the movie American Carole

re: #190 Ward Cleaver

From the comments on the version posted at ABC, listen to this LLL prick:

Could it be that the most educated people lean democrat?

Not me! Masters Degree, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University. I haven't voted for a Dem for quite some time.

re: #190 Ward Cleaver

From the comments on the version posted at ABC, listen to this LLL prick:

Could it be that the most educated people lean democrat? Could it also be that everyone around the world is sick of the radical right and having nothing good to say about the party or their candidates. The radical right always will have Fox News, Rush, Hannity, and O'Reilly. I think they spew out enough garbage to balance the coverage.

The only ones with the freedom to attend school (or those with enough money) used to be those with more income from parents. At one point, those parents only had the money because they had earned it and knew what it cost to make it.

Today, those who have advanced degrees often have no idea what a hard struggle is, having grown up middle-class and living middle-class lives without much of a problem. Hence, they have no idea what happens financially in business or the markets.

re: #201 JohnAdams

But Fox skews the news to the conservative side of things. I realize they feel they must, because everything else is so damnably liberal. But what a healthy society needs is truly objective reporting with an aim at getting to the truth wherever it lies.

Not like they used to. Now they've got people like, ugh, Beckel.

re: #188 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

busy and tired. I don't often have the chance to get on during the day anymore. Today is an exception.

re: #170 Syrah

The FEC never does anything until AFTER the election is over. When they do get around to doing something, it is too often little more then meting out small fines.

Toothless.

Worthless.

Enabling.

Wow they should join with the UN, they sound the same.

re: #184 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I am feeling very ill today. Fever, cough, snot, headache, sore throat.

And laughing my ass off! That was great!

Thanks Fat. Can I call you that? Hope you feel better this weekend.

re: #197 ggt

I hear the word "compassion" from my left leaning friends when they talk about politicians. They want a person with "compassion." I want a person who will do their job --follow thel letter of the law --without emotion but with a clear idea of the difference between right and wrong.

I don't get the "compassion" angle. Is it a right brain thing?

It's just human psychology. Liberals want to liked and admired. Conservatives want to be right.

re: #197 ggt

No.

I'm left-handed, so I'm in my right mind, and compassion is not what I select my political representatives on.

Recognition is the first step.

re: #190 Ward Cleaver

This is crazy. Look at the education levels we have right here! We have highly degreed people as well as people who might not have all the diplomas to hang on a wall but run circles around many that do! Education comes in a lot of different forms.

re: #162 wright1

Some people think were "the One" to win, journalism will catch up with itself and suddenly behave like the Emperor who realized he had no clothes.

I do not agree.

Social Psychologists would agree with you.

The Press and Media have a stake in Obama. If they begin to criticise him in any serious way, they criticise themselves, having supported him.

It would almost take catastrophic events and/or events where their own ox is gored for them to turn on him.

And they just may get those events. The bad news is that those of us not guilty of an Obama Presidency will also suffer.

re: #187 Dianna

OT:

A joke:

Two goldfish are in a tank.

One looks at the other and asks, "Do you know how to drive this thing?"

2 birds are sitting on a perch.

One asks the other, "Does something smell fishy to you?"

Personally not guilty. Most of my 23 years in newspapering was on the editorial pages, where the stuff I wrote was clearly labeled as opinion (the conservative kind). I was lucky enough not to attend J-school.

When you think about it, the media has a lot to do with the current political climate in the United States. One thing that's sadly absent in political discourse today is historical allegory. The media is always going on about the next new scandal or product or idea with little regard for past events. Thus, because socialism is getting a lot of play in the media, it's considered a 'new idea' when, in fact, it's been tried before. Think Pol Pot and the killing fields of Cambodia. I'd have to say that ideas like American exceptionalism and the human rights improvements brought on by capitalism don't get mentioned much. So they're considered 'old ideas', or relics of a bygone time. And in today's newness-crazed culture (new iPod, new car, new governmental system) the so-called 'new' idea of socialism is going to win out.

The other issue is the attitude of youth towards generally American values. I told a peer of mine the other day a bit about how I thought a McCain administration would lend more credibility to American exceptionalism. He replied with, "So what? American exceptionalism is old news. It's someone else's turn now." Laissez-faire applies to the economy, not foreign policy!

re: #204 Zevy

I think it's the discipline in which people were educated. Hard sciences get less and less students these days (hopefully that is changing), psychology, anthropolgy and communications get more.

The call it Liberal Arts for a reason --it used to mean something different.

Please read this article....it is spot on! FWD to your friends! It spells out concisely what is wrong with the media today!

[Link: www.ldsmag.com...]

re: #202 Ward Cleaver

I am an Aggie and that wasn't funny.

/

PS I have a ton of Aggie jokes - the Engineers at my plant send them to me, its like some obsession with them or something.

a very disturbing article in PJM and BackyardConservative regarding partisan career lawyers in the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice targeting Republican political activists and candidates....

[Link: pajamasmedia.com...]

re: #194 razorbacker

Yes, I ended up voting for a libertarian. It may be a throw-away vote, but the sour taste the bail-out mess left in my mouth was going to ruin lunch. Instead I enjoyed my massaman curry and watched the baby try to focus on a late butterfly who landed on her foot...

re: #218 Sloppy

Personally not guilty. Most of my 23 years in newspapering was on the editorial pages, where the stuff I wrote was clearly labeled as opinion (the conservative kind). I was lucky enough not to attend J-school.

Two degrees in mathematics. Had to pay my own way for both.

re: #12 hermeneutics

Maybe he'll start a blog and do REAL journalism!

Enlist him! Strike while the irony is hot.

re: #184 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I am feeling very ill today. Fever, cough, snot, headache, sore throat.

You've been sick for days and I think it's time for you to see the doctor!

/mom mode

re: #217 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Q. Why was Tigger peering in the toilet?

A. He was looking for Pooh!

re: #217 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

2 birds are sitting on a perch.

One asks the other, "Does something smell fishy to you?"

*Snicker!*

I think a free press is an essential feature of any democracy. Yet, who would have thought that the press would suddenly turn its own papers into willing, complicit little Pravadas? If The Zero is elected (along with a Democratic sweep in Congress), then the Press will function as an adjunct to The State...Parroting and Praising all that the Dear Little Leader mouths. In the past, most of us believed that in order to achieve a State Owned and Operated press, coercion was required. Now, however, we see how willingly the MSM is to becoming a slave -- fettered and chained, "beholden" to one Political Party! but not through force, by willful, if not eager, betrayal.

I'm wondering what happened to bring this about? Why did this take place? this abandonment of all honorable principles? (might also add that with the MSM so thoroughly and egregiously in the pocket of Obama, there does arise an opportunity -- an opportunity for independent bloggers to counter the MSM). I'm curious also -- is this a generational thing here? A younger generation eagerly endorsing a biased, slanted, propagandist media? Are they incapable of applied reasoning, of critical thinking, of analyzing events? (I've read about a researcher into brain sciences -- he's alleging that due to the electronic media -- video games, television -- and the number of hours young people spend at these activities, that certain skills (ones associated with linear thinking/logic) are on the decline -- while other areas of the brain are being "trained"/"developed" in ways the world hasn't seen previously.)

re: #159 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

How is your band 7-0?

Stanford Band?

re: #64 Ben Hur

Now, they go to J-School to "Change the World" or "Make a Difference."

Which is, of course, the last reasons someone should go to J-School.

I used to be a counselor at a journalism camp at a state university; they held contests, and one of the prizes for winners was a copy of Woodward and Bernstein's book, "All the President's Men". I think a lot of this stuff started with those guys. Everyone wanted to be them.

Journalism was already starting to lean left at that time, I'm sure...but that seems like it was the start of the glorification of newspaper reporters.

re: #161 JohnAdams

Ah. Bernadine Dohrn, the gal who swooned over Charles Manson.
The "lawyer" whose admission to the bar was halted by her criminal record.
But NORTHWESTERN hires her.

Do you think parents sending their kids to the "best" schools give a damn?
Obviously not.
It's the sticker they can put on their car that matters.

re: #228 ArmyWife

Q. Why was Tigger peering in the toilet?

A. He was looking for Pooh!

Why was Spock looking in the toilet?

He was looking for the Captain's log.

OT--

Y'all have got to check this out (sorry if it's common knowledge) but here is BHO in his own words on his plans and dreams

This needs to be played a lot more over the next ten days

re: #171 midwestgak

My friend actually had one of those cameras about 30 years ago, and the camera was old then. It was freaky, but cool.

I have one. I have even made one. They are freaky and cool. Lots of fun.

I bought a sputnik from Czechoslovakia.

Great fun. Good images.

Surprisingly well designed and constructed.

As one who had to deal directly with the press during a crisis there were two groups I could never trust: attorneys and journalists- both acted without any regard for ethics and truth.

re: #77 JohnSteele

This could have been submitted to others, What MSM News outlet would shoot themselves in the foot by posting it?

re: #235 calcajun

OT--

Y'all have got to check this out (sorry if it's common knowledge) but here is BHO in his own words on his plans and dreams

[Link: www.youtube.com...]

This needs to be played a lot more over the next ten days

Yeah. But if you write that Obama says that Whites in the suburbs are racists and don't want Black children educated.......if you quote Obama....well....that, of course, makes you a racist. Don't you know?

re: #190 Ward Cleaver

From the comments on the version posted at ABC, listen to this LLL prick:

ah yes the statistic that the most educated vote dem. I love that statistic From that relevant statistic we can infer that those 60 yr olds who have 15 doctorates and have never lived outside the college campus vote democratic. They are the most highly educated after all. But like the wide eyed freshmen who are sneaking out of their dorm rooms to score a beer at the local 'will serve to minors' pub, we have no respect for those 'resident assistants' in the halls of academia. We must, unfortunately, live in the real world, where the price of food, clothing, lodging, and other per diems are paid out of pocket rather than with a grant.

I have two little ways of protesting against unfair news organizations. When it comes to TV, I turn them off. But my way of protesting against the NY Times is more fun. A few years ago, I used to get the Times on Sunday, but I cancelled it. However, they still send me postage paid envelopes along with the slip I need to fill out if I want to renew it. In fact I got another one yesterday. So now, I write them a note that goes something like this:

Dear NY Times, when you stop publishing such a piece of crap, and start producing a paper worthy of reading, I will consider renewing my subscription. Is that a deal? I didn't think so. But thanks for sending me the postage paid envelope so I could send you this note. I hope your stock price continues to plunge ... you have earned it.

re: #234 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

LOL!

Knock Knock

Who's there?

Madam.

Madam who?

Madam foots caught in the door.

re: #215 buzzsawmonkey

Cute one, Buzz.

re: #222 ArmyWife

I have one favorite joke from the whole Cold Fusion thing:

How can you tell the difference between a physicist and a chemist studying cold fusion?

A: The physicist believes that fusion is not occurring, yet shields the apparatus with several tons of lead brick.

The chemist believes fusion is occurring, and shields the apparatus with a plastic dishpan.

No one else laughs, but I do.

re: #227 littleoldlady

You've been sick for days and I think it's time for you to see the doctor!

/mom mode

YES! Get to the Doctor. I was feeling cruddy for months. I thought it was divorce depression. a friend finally talked me into going to the doctor. I was hospitalized directly from his office for 5 days. turns out I have had Type 1 diabetes for at least several years and never knew it. Just got back to work Tuesday.

Don't take chances. get it checked out.

re: #219 ClosetConservative

Look at today's global crisis. The USA isn't alone in facing the meltdown, but we are alone in actually seeing an appreciating currency durning it! Why is that? Because our fore-bearers did not succumb to government hand-outs of free shit for everyone!

Twit socialists countries are getting whacked harder and will take longer to recover.

If the USA adopt those socialist policies? Where is the logic?

re: #219 ClosetConservative

This is the damage of cultural relativism and the way it has been jammed down our throats through the media, and down the throats of kids through our education system and its roots in liberalism. There are no absolute American values anymore. Every idea is equally relevant. Therefore, the idea that "nothing is "right" is actually considered "correct." We must be very afraid of this. This takes our country into a realm where we have nothing to grasp at.

Back to work.

Back in 12 or so.

Kudos to Mr. Malone.

You Sir should not be ashamed to be called a journalist. It is the frauds that should be ashamed for living a lie.

re: #205 vxbush

The only ones with the freedom to attend school (or those with enough money) used to be those with more income from parents. At one point, those parents only had the money because they had earned it and knew what it cost to make it.

Today, those who have advanced degrees often have no idea what a hard struggle is, having grown up middle-class and living middle-class lives without much of a problem. Hence, they have no idea what happens financially in business or the markets.

A lot of "educated" people seem to believe that all of life is a theoretical exercise. They develop theoretical solutions such as Marxism and regardless of multiple failures of their solutions, insist that their theories are perfectly valid if only the right people implemented them. Such "educated" people somehow miss the fact that their theories are unworkable even after many efforts ending in failure.

Educated fools, the lot of them!

re: #153 Castlebravo
re: #221 Castlebravo
You are right, that's a great article. Many of us read it on Monday.

re: #244 Dianna

Did you see above where I said I was an Aggie? ;)

re: #250 wrenchwench

oh.

Great! Thanks!

re: #245 beblebrox

A divorce AND diabetes?!

/OY! :-(

re: #180 llanite

I hope lil' llanite will be told how todays voting had been a vote for her future to vote. Take a picture to commemorate the day!

re: #245 beblebrox

YES! Get to the Doctor. I was feeling cruddy for months. I thought it was divorce depression. a friend finally talked me into going to the doctor. I was hospitalized directly from his office for 5 days. turns out I have had Type 1 diabetes for at least several years and never knew it. Just got back to work Tuesday.

Don't take chances. get it checked out.

Or, if you can hold out until Jan. 22nd, it will be free.

re: #217 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

2 birds are sitting on a perch.

One asks the other, "Does something smell fishy to you?"

These jokes sound like a "New Yorker Magazine" cartoon.

re: #225 vxbush

Two degrees in mathematics. Had to pay my own way for both.

Paid my way through school too.

My Dad offered me a choice of a "Good Luck" or a "Best Wishes"

re: #242 ArmyWife

What do you call a dog with no legs?

Nothing, damn thing never comes when you call anyways.

re: #250 wrenchwench
I wasn't on on Monday....I was working. I'm very glad it got picked up! I'm curious to see what comments I'll get from the Liberals that I call friends and some family.....

re: #254 littleoldlady

Awesome avatar! LMAO

re: #239 Opinionated

Yeah. But if you write that Obama says that Whites in the suburbs are racists and don't want Black children educated.......if you quote Obama....well....that, of course, makes you a racist. Don't you know?

Sorry, what was that? My sheet is blocking my ears.////

If any white politician had been a member of a church that spewed the same bile as Rev. Wright's, he would have never survived the primary process.

BHO either is a bigot or he condones them.

re: #147 WriterMom

BenHur did you get my linky?

Yes.

But I need to listen at home. No speakers at work. Can barely hear it.

re: #261 Castlebravo

I wasn't on on Monday....I was working. I'm very glad it got picked up! I'm curious to see what comments I'll get from the Liberals that I call friends and some family.....

Working!?! Where are your priorities?

/oops, gotta go do some of that myself....

"... the sheer bias in the print and television coverage of this election campaign is not just bewildering, but appalling."

Bewildering? Not really. The main stream press has always been (and remains) in the deep pockets of the Left.

Appalling? Oh yeah. Funny you should just notice. Wonder if it has anything to do w/the effects of (at long last) competition upon the mainstream media?

re: #260 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Q How many letters are in the alphabet?
a 11

re: #252 ArmyWife

Yes?