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Another Lefty Attack On NBC’s Patriotic Coverage Of The Olympics
I told you a couple of days ago about the NY Times’s Alessandra Stanley attacking NBC for their pro-American coverage of the Olympics.
Now, the Washington Post is getting in on the America-bashing action. Radical leftist Susan Jacoby took to her WaPo blog, “The Spirited Atheist” to bash American patriotism as “anti-intellectual” and a “social disease”.
If you would like a graphic (literal and figurative) demonstration of our nation’s greatest failing, sit in front of your television set and watch NBC cover an international sports event, the Winter Olympics, as if only Americans were participating.
…The conviction that the United States is morally and culturally better than other
countries–including other developed democracies–is a real social disease that hurts us more than it does anyone else. It is also a profoundly anti-intellectual.
She goes on to cite achievement test scores of other nation’s children as a major reason our pride in America is unwarranted, or at least overblown. Our failure to adopt a European style socialized health care system is another reason we suck, and Canada and Europe rule.
Jacoby touts Canada’s glorious free health system even as a Canadian Premiere Danny Williams is taking heat for coming to the US for his heart surgery.
Williams defended his decision to seek treatment in the US, saying, "This was my heart, my choice and my health.”
Anyway, Jacoby goes on to complain that NBC could have used the Olympics being in Vancouver to highlight Canada’s health system and shill for ObamaCare — instead of clucking about “Team USA’s” medal count.
She also bashes religion and America’s embrace of it — Christianity in particular.
Susan Jacoby’s message is not new and is the same basic mantra we’ve heard from the left for years. Americans are a bunch of God loving, gun loving, patriotic hicks, who are too stupid to realize how much better Europeans have it.
My question for Susan Jacoby is simple. If Europe is so damn great and their health system is so superior, why the hell do you live here?
-Chris Jones
Conan May Quit
It looks like Conan O’Brien has no intention of going along with the new Tonight Show time slot. Judging from the lengthy public statement he released, I’d say he sounds pretty pissed off about the whole thing.
He basically says that if NBC intends to move his program to the 12:05 time slot it’s going to be without him.
Video: NBC’s Andrea Mitchell Doesn’t Think George Soros Is Left-Wing
This is hilarious. Kudos to Orin Hatch:
(hat tip Weasel Zippers)
Video: Jenna Bush Makes Her ‘Today’ Show Debut
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Why did she have to pick NBC to work for? Doesn’t she realize how much they hate her family? Moreover, how did Fox allow the cretins at NBC to grab Jenna Bush?
That said, it’s a good video.
(hat tip TV Newser)
Video: ‘Today’ Show Interviews Obama Teleprompter
Check out this interview the “Today” show did with TOTUS (Teleprompter Of The United States):
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Video: Muslim TV Founder Who Recently Beheaded Wife Profiled In 2004 By NBC
Hey look, it’s Muzzamil “Mo” Hassan who started the first English language Muslim TV channel. He was arrested last week for beheading his wife at the Bridges TV station. Phony positive narratives about Islam kinda get lost when you chop your wife’s head off after she files for divorce.
Hassan doesn’t want people to have a negative view of Islam? Oops — too late.
(hat tip TV Newser)
NBC Cancels Coulter, No Criticisms Of Obama Allowed
It’s certainly no secret that NBC is in the tank for Obama. They decided to become the Obama network pretty much the day he announced his candidacy. But if you thought they couldn’t possibly get any more pathetic in their worship of all things Obama — they just did.
According to Matt Drudge, Ann Coulter was booked several months ago to appear on a number of NBC shows as part of her media tour promoting her latest book called “Guilty” which came out today.
In it, she pulls no punches in describing the outrageous liberal bias in the media and how it got Barack Obama elected president. However, today NBC canceled Ann’s appearances at the last minute claiming they were “overbooked” and ran out of time. Yet for some reason, they had enough time to interview blogger Perez Hilton about his new book. Incidentally, Hilton promised on the air to give anyone who throws a pie at Ann Coulter $1,000 dollars.
Drudge says he spoke with an insider at NBC who told him the real reason Coulter was cancelled:
“We are just not interested in anyone so highly critical
of President-elect Obama, right now,” a TODAY insider reveals. “It’s
such a downer. It’s just not the time, and it’s not what our audience
wants, either.”
Yeah, it’s such a bummer when people are mean to Obama. Coulter says the book is actually not too critical of Obama himself, but rather the despicable media (see NBC).
Head over to Drudge Report to read the rest of the sordid tale.
Video: SNL Skit Skewers Keith Olbermann
This is SNL’s best skit of 2008. They perfectly captured Olbermann’s pompous personality, nightly calls for resignations, and phony charges of racism. Ben Affleck did an incredible job.
(hat tip NewsBusters)
Why Does MSNBC Fly The Flag Upside Down?
I have to hand it to johnny$ for keeping on this story. He was been on this from the beginning and it remains an unresolved matter.
Like Fox and other news channels, MSNBC often runs a small animated flag graphic on the bottom corner of the screen. What sets MSNBC apart is that their flag is upside down. After repeated requests for comment or explanation the network remains as silent on this issue as they were on the Edwards scandal.
Since the flag continues to fly upside down, one can only assume the network is making a statement.
As johnny$ points out:
Flying the American flag upside-down has a specific and long-held meaning: it is an internationally recognized sign of “dire distress” signifying “extreme danger to life or property” (US Code Chapter 10, 176). Any other display of the flag with the union side down is categorized as disrespect. How odd that MSNBC, which uses a right-side-up flag in other circumstances, chose to use a warning of “dire distress” in connection with American politics.
Given the fact that MSNBC is a radical left-wing news channel that hates our President and worships Barack Obama, I think the message is clear.
What they really should do is just scrap the flag all together and replace it with Barack Obama’s seal.
Video: NBC’S Andrea Mitchell Blasts Obama For ‘Fake Interviews’
Animal Intuition: Dog Vomits On Mika Brzezinski During ‘Morning Joe’
Watch this dog tell Mika what he thinks about NBC:
NBC Reporter: Covering Barack Obama Makes My Knees Quake
If you thought NBC couldn’t possibly think of any new ways to express their deep love and unhealthy sexual attraction towards Barack Obama, you were wrong.
Take a look at NBC reporter Lee Cowan’s “Reporter’s Notebook” on The Peacock. He writes that when NBC told him he would be covering Barack Obama, it made his knees quake.
“When NBC News first assigned me to the Barack Obama campaign, I must confess my knees quaked a bit.”
Keep in mind that this is the same guy who famously said on the air that “it’s almost hard to stay objective” when covering Barack Obama.
Cowen goes on to describe his experience covering the campaign during the Iowa caucus. He says he barely had a chance to “savor” the Senator’s win before everyone was back on the bus heading to the next city.
“Presidential campaigns have always been tests of endurance, but this year, with the compressed calendar of contests, the challenge is Olympic. In Iowa, when Obama had his first caucus victory, there was hardly time to savor it. His victory speech had just ended when we were all thrust back out into the cold (and there is no cold like Iowa in January) and onto another plane to fly to New Hampshire.
Cowen doesn’t mention whether or not he asked to “bunk up” at night with Barack and Michelle, but I suspect he probably did.
Here is the video from January when Cowan made his “objective” comment to Brian Williams:
(video and story via News Busters)
