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Mainstream Media Wants You To Know About Van Jones

Chris Jones — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:37:28 +0000

From a Nexis search a few moments ago:
Total words about the Van Jones controversy in the New York Times: 0.
Total words about the Van Jones controversy in the Washington Post: 0.
Total words about the Van Jones controversy on NBC Nightly News: 0.
Total words about the Van Jones controversy on ABC World News: 0.
Total words about the Van Jones controversy on CBS Evening News: 0.

You really can’t rely on the mainstream media for anything anymore. Their goal is to protect the president they helped to elect and nothing more.

Video: The ObamaCare Ad That NBC And ABC Refuse To Run

Chris Jones — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:48:38 +0000

They state controlled media won’t show you this ad, but we will:

(hat tip Red State)

Media Hypocrisy On Health Care Protests Is Grotesque

Chris Jones — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:41:50 +0000

The media’s reaction to the health care protests has been so hypocritical at times, I actually get light headed. The putrid stench of hypocrisy is hanging like a thick cloud over every newsroom in America — with the exception of Fox and a few others.

Besides 9/11, the first thing that comes to mind when I think about the Bush years is protests. You couldn’t turn on the TV without seeing some hippie puke bellowing about the Iraq war or calling Bush a terrorist or war criminal. In fact, I can remember violent, ugly demonstrations that went light years beyond anything we’ve seen thus far over health care.

Bill Sammon has a great piece on FoxNews.com that should help jog the memory about just how scary things actually got during the Bush years — and what the media didn’t say about it:

News outlets that are focusing on the incendiary rhetoric of conservatives outside President Obama’s town hall meeting Tuesday ignored the incendiary rhetoric — and even violence — of liberals outside an appearance by former President George W. Bush in 2002.

When Bush visited Portland, Ore., for a fundraiser, protesters stalked his motorcade, assailed his limousine and stoned a car containing his advisers. Chanting "Bush is a terrorist!", the demonstrators bullied passers-by, including gay softball players and a wheelchair-bound grandfather with multiple sclerosis.

One protester even brandished a sign that seemed to advocate Bush’s assassination. The man held a large photo of Bush that had been doctored to show a gun barrel pressed against his temple.

"BUSH: WANTED, DEAD OR ALIVE," read the placard, which had an X over the word "ALIVE."

Another poster showed Bush’s face with the words: "F— YOU, MOTHERF—ER!"

A third sign urged motorists to "HONK IF YOU HATE BUSH." A fourth declared: "CHRISTIAN FASCISM," with a swastika in place of the letter S in each word.

Although reporters from numerous national news organizations were traveling with Bush and witnessed the protest, none reported that protesters were shrieking at Republican donors epithets like "Slut!" "Whore!" and "Fascists!"

Frank Dulcich, president and CEO of Pacific Seafood Group, had a cup of liquid thrown into his face, and then was surrounded by a group of menacing protesters, including several who wore masks. Donald Tykeson, 75, who had multiple sclerosis and was confined to a wheelchair, was blocked by a thug who threatened him.

No matter how dangerous or extreme the protests got, the media either didn’t report it or downplayed it. You never read headlines about “Angry Mobs” or “Political Terrorists” or anything even remotely close. The media preferred to call them “Activists.”

We all know the mainstream media is liberal as hell and didn’t report honestly on the Bush protests because they agreed with them. I get that, it’s no surprise.

What really chaps my ass is how the media treats the public like a bunch of brain dead jerks who can’t remember from one year to the next.

It’s just so sickeningly phony for the media to feign shock and horror over a few cranky senior citizens upset over health care, when they sat back and said nothing during eight years of the most extreme protesting since the Vietnam war.

I’m not even asking for the media to change, I’m just asking for an acknowledgement of the hypocrisy.

-Chris Jones

(Image via Rush The Court)

ABC Becomes The All Barack Channel

Chris Jones — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:24:18 +0000

ABC News has announced that on June 24, the network will be broadcasting live from the White House to shill for Obama’s health care plan.

This from Drudge:

ABCNEWS anchor Charlie Gibson will deliver WORLD NEWS from the Blue Room of the White House.
The network plans a primetime special — ‘Prescription for America’ — originating from the East Room.

Here’s the funny part. In an effort to reassure critics, ABC News says they’re committed to “thoughtful” and “diverse” points of view on the health care debate.

However, that assurance is meaningless because ABC’s primetime special will include no opposing points of view.

“Thoughtful” and “diverse” means shilling for the Obama administration and repeating whatever the Dear Leader says.

The media has always been in the tank for democrats, but the difference this time around is they’re not even trying to hide it.

-Chris Jones

(picture via Michelle Malkin)

Video: The Economy Then And Now

Chris Jones — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:08:48 +0000

Here’s how the media treated a recovering and then soaring economy under Bush and how they’re treating the economy under Obama.

(hat tip Gateway Pundit)

Video: Even Jon Stewart Can’t Take The NBC Obama Coverage

Chris Jones — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 22:54:14 +0000

I’ve made no secret out of the fact that I think Jon Stewart is a hack and not particularly funny. However, I must give credit where credit is due.

Stewart is thus far the only comedian with the balls to make jokes about Obama and lampoon the gruesomely fawning Obama coverage on NBC.

Here’s Stewart’s take on the cringe inducing Brian Williams “all access” Obama spectacular:

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart

M – Th 11p / 10c

The Real World D.C.

thedailyshow.com

Daily Show
Full Episodes

Political Humor

Economic Crisis

(hat tip Hot Air)

Audio: PBS’s Gwen Ifill Dismisses VP Debate/Book Controversy, Plays Race Card

Chris Jones — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:54:40 +0000

Ifill plays the black victimhood card — of course.

New York Times Rejects FBI Informant’s Op-Ed Response To Bill Ayres

Chris Jones — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 22:00:52 +0000

The New York Times was more than happy to print the lies and fantasy of unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayres on its sacred pages, but refuses a response Op-Ed from an FBI informant wishing to set the record straight.

Nobody expects the gray bitch lady to actually be fair, but now they don’t even care if they look fair.

Thankfully, Pajamas Media has published the Op-Ed in full.

(hat tip LGF)

Video: Joe The Plumber Laughs At Journalist Who Claims To Be Fair

Chris Jones — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 21:39:33 +0000

Video: Scarborough Calls Media Mockery Of Conservatives ‘Truly Offensive’

Chris Jones — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:56:08 +0000

Way to go Joe!!

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