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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

The MSM, Part III

Apr. 26, and May 10, 2011

Did you notice how the mainstream media (MSM), that rag-time mix of status-quo reporters, gets down on each Republican candidate as they appear on the horizon for the 2012 election season? No? Then, perhaps you've seen them call Sarah Palin (R-AK) an idiot and said there simply could not be a worse candidate than she. And then, they ridiculed Michele Bachmann (R-MN), and said she was a Tea Party radical. Next, they said Donald Trump was a clown, positively the worst candidate, ever. My guess would be that Herman Cain (R-GA) is next, but they'll have some difficulty insulting him.

The MSM keeps interviewing conservatives and tries to get them to look foolish. They always try to pin 'em down! Remember Katie Couric's interview with Sarah Palin? Or, Charlie Gibson peering down at Palin through glasses strategically placed at the end of his nose to make him appear superior? The formula is set up this way. The MSM interviewer makes a statement or two, and then says to the conservative, "So, [title], will you say right now that you have absolutely no doubts [tag line]?" There are variants, but you get the idea.

Example 1: To Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA), "Are you willing to say right now we’re not going to let the country go into default, and we won’t allow a government shutdown?" Chris Matthews of MSNBC crafted that one.

Example 2: Sometimes they repeat their question to try to force an uncomfortable answer. To Sen. Snowe (R-ME) in 2009, "Will you vote for it if you're the only Republican because Senator Grassley, another key Republican, said he's not going to vote for it if he has to be the only Republican? It has to be a broader plan than that. Would you be willing to vote if you're the only Republican that's for this?" Care of Bob Schieffer, CBS news.

Example 3: Governor, will you say right now that you have absolutely no doubts that President Obama was born in the U.S.? Christiane Amanpour said something close to this on her show on ABC.

Example 4: Bob Schieffer said this To Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), "You say you’re not for cutting taxes. But am I misinformed? I thought you were talking about lowering that rate for the top-income taxpayers back to about twenty-five percent, so isn’t that a tax cut?"

I rest my case.

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Tuesday, May 3, 2011

The MSM, Part II

Apr. 17, 19, and 26, and May 3, 2011

The MSM, that old time conglomerate of anti-conservative newspapers and TV networks, keeps implying that the Tea Party causes Republicans headaches, but it doesn't. I'm a Republican and I like The Tea Party - because it's honest. It's funny to see how members of the MSM don't get it!

Did you see that fun montage on TV, the one which revealed President Obama's favorite drinks? Most of the time, this kind of story starts with an over-the-top, abnormally jovial narrator, saying something like this, (remember, with more glee than usual): "Tea? No, that would be water. And, there you have beer and champagne, soda pop, a nice cold smoothie, a shot of Orange Juice..." At this point, the narrator's strikes a more serious chord. "And yes, ok, he also drinks tea... In fact, he's had to swallow quite a bit lately." The story implies the Tea Party stole Obama's line of 'change.' Next, the narrator's voice is somber and slightly irritated. "When a deal was struck to cut the budget by $38.5 billion - which is historic - they [those darn conservatives] had wanted $100 billion." (But, isn't this but a trifle compared to the $4.6 trillion, skyrocketing debt? For example, 38.5 billion is about 125 times smaller than the national debt.)

The same reporter next turns on the Tea Party. They defied John Boehner (the MSM loves such dissonance among conservatives), the narrator says, so he had to get Democrats to vote with him on the compromise. "This leads to the question, who's leading whom?" (They love to highlight what they see as problems for Republicans, don't they?) "They [Tea Party people], of course, are still going to want big tax cuts and that's going to be a fight because he [President Obama] also talked this week about government that is worth saving." Next the president says the following, "There's nothing serious about a plan [Rep. Paul Ryan's] that claims to reduce the deficit by spending a trillion dollars on tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires." The narrator finishes with, "Because to him [President Obama], that tea sounds like Cool Aid and that he's not drinking!" Did I make this up? No, my friends, it was narrated by ABC's John Donvan on This Week on Apr. 17, 2011. By the way, what is government that's worth saving?

Remember when reporters were inquisitive? They used to question everything, and ask the important people they interviewed meaningful and incisive questions, but not anymore. Notice how the mainstream media's reporters support Democrats and their positions? No? Then perhaps you missed Matt Lauer on the Apr. 6, 2011 edition of the Today show giving Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) a break by saying it all for him. Lauer said, "And when you look at some of the things the Tea Party and others on the far right are asking for: no funding for planned parenthood, no funding for climate control, public broadcasting..." Now, here comes the tough question (for Schumer) from Lauer, "Does this seem to you, Senator, that this is less about a fiscal debate or an economic policy debate and they [the Republicans] are making an ideological stand here?" Schumer could only respond with, "That's exactly, right, Matt. You've hit the nail on the head."

Yes, the MSM is quite a pain!