Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Old Media: GOP Blocked Unemployment Bill to Hurt Economy Before Midterm Elections
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On Thursday, a new unemployment bill died in Congress as Senator Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) joined Republicans on the grounds that government spending can't go on forever.
Instead of reporting both sides, the media couldn't seem to hide their anger.
The bill was called a "jobless aid" package that "governors were counting on" to help "the poor" across the nation. Almost all news reports began from the Democrat perspective and waited several paragraphs before weakly defending Republicans.
Worse yet, a consensus with far more damaging impact began to grow: the loss will cause the nation's economy to fall into a double dip recession, and it will be entirely the Republicans' fault.
Never mind last year's stimulus bill worth $700 billion, or the bank bailout of 2008, both of which have failed to live up to promises of recovery. No, our economy is suffering because fiscal conservatives won't spend even more.
The Seattle Times was quick on the draw Thursday night with a clearly disappointed report headlined "Republicans Continue Blockade of Federal Aid Bill." What followed was an obviously biased effort to paint Republicans in a bad light:
[Spin by omission: Republicans wanted the bill paid for by redirecting unspent 'Stimulus' money - already a deficit debt, but Democrats are insisting to 'charge' yet more on our national credit card so the their 700 billion dollar slush fund stays intact...]
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Small business sidelined in slow recovery from recession
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Reporting from Washington — In every recession over the last three decades, it has been America's small businesses — those Lilliputian companies with fewer than 100 employees — that stepped forward, began hiring and pulled the country out of the mire.
Not this time.
Small firms are on the sidelines, and it's not just because of tight credit from the financial meltdown, as the Obama administration and others have been saying. Rather, a host of factors — some well-recognized and others seemingly unnoticed in the national debate over economic policy — are converging to restrain small-business owners from hiring...
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Howard Davidowitz: U.S. Economy "Is a Complete Disaster"
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The U.S. economy is in shambles and Americans will continue to see high unemployment and lower living standards in the years to come, Howard Davidowitz tells Henry and Aaron in the accompanying clip. Davidowitz lays much of the blame for the economy's woes at the feet of the Obama administration, which he calls "the worst of my lifetime. Davidowitz says of Obama. "He is Mr. Mass Destruction,""I mean he is a human destroyer. This guy has spent his way into oblivion and we don't have a budget. He is surrounded by a bunch of complete incompetents, led by himself. "
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[Everything he's pursuing for his socialist agenda is to the detriment of any nation's economy, but he evidently doesn't care {or worse, truly subscribes to the Alinsky school of revolution that says you must break the status quo before it can be replaced with what you want...]
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Progressive Mag Editor Hates Fourth of July: Patriotism Leads to Fascism
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Imagine being an American that hates the Fourth of July.
Seems impossible, right?
Apparently not for the editor of the uber-liberal magazine The Progressive proudly wrote Saturday,
"It's July 4th, my least favorite holiday...You see, I don't believe in patriotism."
As amazing as it might seem, the 27-year-old Matthew Rothschild was just getting warmed up:
[This is 'progressivism'.]
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The Progressive Magazine Commemorates Anti-America Historian Howard Zinn for the Fourth of July: 'Put Away the Flags'
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Fireworks, barbecue, parades on the Fourth of July ... but hold the flags.
Sounds ridiculous, right? Although Howard Zinn died earlier this year, that was his suggestion back in 2006. And what does The Progressive magazine do this July 4th? They trot Zinn's anti-American sentiments out for their left-of-center audience by republishing his piece, "Put away the flags."
"On this July 4, we would do well to renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in song that God must single out America to be blesse[d]," Zinn wrote. "Is not nationalism -- that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder -- one of the great evils of our time, along with racism, along with religious hatred?"
And that disgusting sentiment comes in addition to Progressive magazine editor Matthew Rothchild's immature July 3 anti-patriotism piece saying that "between God, country, and apple pie, I'll take the apple pie" suggesting patriotism is "toxic."
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[Who could possibly belive this tripe?
Never mind.]
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Obama revises NASA's Bush-era policy blueprint
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President Obama today revised the national security-oriented policy for space adopted by President George W. Bush in 2006 to open the door to unprecedented long-term U.S. 'collaboration in space with international partners', potentially including nations such as China, India and Brazil...
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Krauthammer Responds to NASA Chief for Declaration to Improve Relations with Muslim World
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If you haven't heard the report of the remarks recently made by NASA Administrator Charles Bolden over what the role of his agency, it's a little troubling. And it hasn't gone unnoticed, at least not by syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer
Recently, Bolden, in an interview with Al Jazeera English, said that the "foremost" mission of NASA is to improve relations with the Muslim world. This drew the ire of Krauthammer on the July 5 broadcast of Fox News Channel's "Special Report with Bret Baier." (h/t Gateway Pundit)
"This is a new height in fatuousness, NASA was established to get America into space and to keep is there. This idea to feel good about their past and to make achievements is the worst combination of group therapy, psychobabble, imperial condescension and adolescent diplomacy."
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Triumph of the Regulators
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President Obama hailed the financial bill that House-Senate negotiators finally vouchsafed at 5:40 a.m. Friday, and no wonder.
The bill represents the triumph of the very regulators and Congressmen who did so much to cause the financial panic, giving them vast new discretion over every corner of American financial markets. Chris Dodd and Barney Frank, those Fannie Mae cheerleaders, played the largest role in writing the bill...
Congressman Paul Kanjorski even offered a motion to memorialize it as the Dodd-Frank Act, saying
"It's as if Tony Hayward of BP were allowed to write new rules on deep water drilling."
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Calls to ‘Rein in the Federal Government’ Are ‘Not Very Rational,’ Al Hunt Declares on ABC
[Typical old media guest selection at work.]
“The side that talks about the need to rein in the federal government” is “not very rational,” yet “is winning” the debate over whether to pass another “stimulus” bill, Al Hunt regretted on Sunday’s This Week on ABC...
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Obama's Former Rev. Wright Gives Seminar Bashing Whites and Jews, Media Mum
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According to the New York Post, during the five-day course that cost up to $1,000, Wright claimed "whites and Jews are controlling the flow of worldwide information and oppressing blacks in Israel and America."
"White folk done took this country," Wright said. "You're in their home, and they're gonna let you know it."
Despite the astonishingly racist comments during this week-long event, as well as his former connection to the current President of the United States, not one media outlet besides the Post reported what transpired at the Chicago Theological Seminary on the university campus.
Not one.
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Relabeling Americans
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No longer a numerical concept, the word "minority" has been redefined in this country. It is no longer an objective numerical measure, but an indicator of socioeconomic status. Countless U.S. government, business, union, and university programs are based on this redefinition.
Thus, the Japanese-American is not a "minority" because he belongs to an educationally and economically gifted ethnic group. Never mind that there are only about a million Japanese-Americans in the U.S. and that not all of them are well-educated or well-to-do. Neither are Jews in America a "minority." For they, too, belong to a group of educational and economic overachievers. Never mind that Jews comprise only about two percent of the population, and that not all of them are well-educated or well-to-do.
It is obvious that "diversity" and "minority" as currently labeled and applied are dangerous concepts. At the very least, they foster class warfare, balkanization, and resegregation. The time has come to drop the terms and call ourselves just Americans.
[First, control the language.]
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American Atheist Editor: Christian Daycare is ‘Child Abuse’
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"He's got the whole world in his hands?" To one atheist, it's more like ‘He's got the whole world under his thumb." David Smalley, the editor of American Atheist magazine and a self-described "civil rights activist," wrote t June 7 that Christian daycare "a form of child abuse."
"In short, by starting your child off in a Christian environment, you are heading them down a path of forced ignorance," Smalley wrote. "At least let your child begin in a secular world, and if he or she chooses Christianity after an age of accountability, then so be it. But forcing them to learn things as fact that you don't even know to be true is a form of child abuse: inducing psychosis with thoughts of good and evil watching over them, as if they are constantly being graded or evaluated."
Smalley further stereotyped and generalized religion-based childcare by suggesting "it's bad for positive self-esteem, and slows social development later in life."
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Stop hiding millions of Christians.
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There are millions of Christians in the United States, and three hard-to-ignore questions. They are: Why is the media hiding Christians? Do they not breathe? And where are all the "shoe-leather reporters" covering Christian stories?
Granted, the atheist S.E. Cupp is speaking out. In her thought-provoking book Losing Our Religion: The Liberal Media's Attack on Christianity the bright writer states (p.213):
The loss of the religion beat around the country also risks sending a dangerous message to news consumers - that faith has disappeared and religious issues aren't worth covering. Of course, the zeitgeist tells just the opposite story. In a country still so polarized over domestic policies [in the post-partisan Obama age] with explicit religious implications - gay marriage, abortion, abstinence education, prayer in school, stem cell research, and even the environment - religious ideology is often the stage on which those arguments are hashed out, not only by philosophers and scholars, but by political candidates, religious leaders, and their congregations.
Tellingly, when campaigning journalists decide to cover Christianity, it is in a deceptive light. So when a non-representative Christian leader "sins," on the one hand, he is religiously mocked and presented as a rule. On the other hand, the only supposedly good Christians are pastors who don't believe in God...
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ABCBSNBC Lost One Million Viewers Last QUARTER
The big three nightly news broadcasts, NBC Nightly, CBS Evening and ABC World, lost a combined one million viewers in the second quarter of 2010, according to TVNewser.
These numbers are comparable to the first quarter, which saw Evening News and World News get their lowest average viewers ever, while NBC's Winter Olympics coverage helped it get their highest average viewers since 2005. In the second quarter, NBC lost 440,000 viewers, ABC 260,000 and CBS 340,000. It was about this time last year that ABC and CBS' news programs had their lowest ratings ever.
These numbers are not at all surprising in light of the public's continued distrust of the old media. As Newsbusters' Rich Noyes wrote of a Rasmussen poll released earlier this month, "Perhaps as a result, the poll finds an astonishing two-thirds of the public (66 percent) say they are angry with the media, ‘including 33 percent who are very angry' with the press."
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