2/26/2013

MSNBC really is more partisan than Fox, according to Pew study


How does Comcast allow such wretched bias in presidential coverage?


The bias Pew has cataloged on MSNBC and Fox News in presidential… (AFP/Saul Loeb )

November 02, 2012|By David Zurawik | The Baltimore Sun


Check out the full Pew study here. It's a good one, and there is much food for thought in its findings as we approach the end of an election cycle marked by poor media performance.


In writing about the Pew study released today, I was struck by the big story of how negative coverage on several levels of presidential politics had become.


I think this is big trouble for democracy, especially the hostile level of discourse in social media. And that it's something the media need to address collectively after the election.


But here's one of several fascinating smaller findings of the study that are kind of stunning -- even if they seem obvious and ho-hum to some of my more jaded, postmodern, aren't-we-cleverly-ironic colleagues:


ON MSNBC, the ratio of negative to positive stories on GOP candidate Mitt Romney was 71 to 3.


That's not a news channel. That's a propaganda machine, and owner Comcast should probably change Phil Griffin's title from president to high minister of information, or something equally befitting the work of a party propaganist hack in a totalitarian regime. You wonder how mainstream news organizations allow their reporters and correspondents to appear in such a cauldron of bias.


I thought show host Sean Hannity of Fox News defined party propagandist. But while his channel was bad, it wasn't as bad-boy biased as MSNBC.


The ratio of negative to positive stories in Fox's coverage of President Obama was 46 to 6.

Idiots at MSNBC

"With Gibbs and Axelrod, MSNBC now worse than Fox on propaganda: How a so-called 'news' channel becomes a organ of state policy," http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2013-02-25/entertainment/bal-gibbs-axelrod-msnbc-propaganda-20130225_1_msnbc-axelrod-and-gibbs-fox-news 

MSNBC following the fine tradition of the old Soviet propaganda publication Pravda. The sad thing is, MSNBCs so called "journalists" are the biggest bunch of morons on TV. Fox has its own issues, but the blatant horse manure coming from MSNBC is utterly laughable.

2/19/2013

Colorado College Advises Vomiting Or Urinating To Stop Rapists After Lawmakers Pass Gun Control Bills


2/07/2013

FREE Obama-phones!!!

Remember the Obama-phone lady prior to the elections?



Well, post election here is a story further expanding the Obama-phone program, giving us a fine example of this administrations practice of crony capitalism.


Wireless exec with ties to Obama wins contract to supply poor with smartphones

Published February 07, 2013

A cellphone company run by a major Democratic donor and President Obama backer has extended its foray into government contracts, from the so-called “Obama phone” to a project intended to provide high-speed Internet access to low-income families -- amid criticism its product is ill-equipped.
Critics also suggest TracFone Wireless CEO F.J. Pollak used his Obama connections to help his company get one of the 14 contracts.  
At issue is a $13.8 million pilot project by the Federal Communications Commission that attempts to find the best ways to increase the broadband access rate among the poor and help improve their digital skills – to eventually help them manage household finances, look for work and do other tasks.
The contracts were awarded late last year, though it's unclear how much went to TracFone.
Pollak and his wife, Abigail, are major Obama bundlers and Democratic donors. The couple hosted a $40,000-a-plate fundraising dinner in June at their Miami Beach home. And Abigail Pollak alone raised at least $632,000 for the Obama re-election effort, a total $1.56 million for him since 2007, according to a financial documents obtained by The New York Times.  
In addition, F.J. Pollak has been to the White House at least twice. And he and his wife gave an estimated $270,000 to Democratic candidates in the last election cycle, according to OpenSecrets.org. 
"That has absolutely nothing to do with business,” Jose Fuentes, a spokesman for TracFone's parent company, America Movil, told The Washington Times. “There's been no pay-for-play — or even favors. What he does in his private time is his."
But critics also say TracFone, by supplying project participants with its top-line smartphone, would not accomplish the goals of the FCC project.
John B. Horrigan, a researcher at the Pew Internet & American Life Project, writes on the Social Science Research Network website that small screens and keyboards on so-called smartphones, and perhaps connectivity issues, result in their users having trouble engaging “as deeply with the Internet” as home broadband users.
An FCC spokesman told FoxNews.com on Wednesday the one-year projects were chosen through a competition intended to find ones that would gather facts and data about “technologically diverse approaches to increasing broadband adoption, including fixed and mobile broadband.”


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/02/06/wireless-exec-with-ties-to-obama-wins-contract-to-supply-jobless-with-smart/print#ixzz2KFguvSio

2/06/2013

Newton resident and father weighs in on the gun control debate

Obama unleashes the drones!


Disturbing news has been in the limelight about the Obama administrations justification for its use of drone strikes against American citizens as a way to curb terrorism.

This story covers a DOJ document that...

EXCLUSIVE: Justice Department memo reveals legal case for drone strikes on Americans
http://openchannel.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/04/16843014-exclusive-justice-department-memo-reveals-legal-case-for-drone-strikes-on-americans?lite

It states that "an “informed, high-level” official of the U.S. government" can make the determination on who gets killed in a drone strike. Who exactly is an informed, high-level official?

The absurdity of all of this stems from this being an Obama policy, given to us by the Democrats. These are the same Democrats who were screaming bloody murder about Ashcroft, Bush, and Cheney with their warrant less wiretap searches. There were protests and people were calling for the impeachment of Bush because his policies violated civil rights.

'Judge, jury and executioner': Legal experts fear implications of White House drone memo
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/05/16855539-judge-jury-and-executioner-legal-experts-fear-implications-of-white-house-drone-memo?lite

Where are all of those people who were protesting Bush about the Iraq war and Patriot Act abuses? Their silence simply proves that since "their guy" is the President, they are just FINE with it. It further examples what hypocrites liberal Democrats are.

The below story details how drone strikes killed a 16 year old American citizen because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time, but obviously the informed, high-level official did not care. This abuse of civil rights and state sponsored murder by Obama is so ironic because people game this man the Nobel Peace Prize.

American drone deaths highlight controversy
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/05/16856963-american-drone-deaths-highlight-controversy?lite