It’s Gut Check Time, Ms. Couric
by Andrew BreitbartThis week’s Washington Times column:
Now that White House “Green Jobs Czar” Van Jones has resigned, what’s next?
Inevitably, the American mainstream media – ABC, NBC, CBS, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, et al – must be held to account for sitting on the sidelines as this major story kept building without them, went viral on YouTube, and then became so large that a key appointee of President Obama was forced to step down.
But with their decision to ignore the Jones story, they may have actually done Mr. Obama far more harm than good: Who vetted this guy? How did he get past the FBI? What did he say, and how did he answer the infamous seven-page questionnaire that all Obama appointees were required to fill out? Inquiring Freedom of Information Act minds want to know.
For most people in this country, the resignation was the first they had heard of Van Jones. For this sin of journalistic omission, there’s institutional media blame. Bias is too tame a word for the utter shamelessness on display: Only Republican scandals – real and imagined – matter.
And it’s not just those the Democratic-Media Complex dub as “mobs” or “tea baggers” that are taking notice. Diminishing audience and evaporating subscribership reflect widespread consumer dissatisfaction. Eventually, the money will run out.
But until then, the growing alternative media of Internet and talk radio and a burgeoning mass of justifiably angry Americans will make every effort to expose the sham that is mainstream journalism.
Obviously, it’s not that the Jones story wasn’t newsworthy. His racist rants, his radical background and his membership in a 9/11 “truther” group made for heavy-rotation YouTube viewing that would have immediately destroyed other mere mortals if the shoe were on the right – or white – foot.
Compounding the problem, the Jones narrative hurts Mr. Obama because it underlines how the mainstream media helped elect the president by glorifying him instead of vetting him.
Just as Mr. Obama was not even cursorily investigated, Van Jones, a fellow “community organizer,” was not given the slightest media attention when named as an unaccountable “czar” selected to oversee billions in taxpayer money for the ambiguous purpose of “green energy.” And that despite having a body of damning evidence that could be found with a single Google search by an ADHD-addled high-school journalism student.
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On the plus side of all of this – I was just mentioning to a consedrvative friend today – is that the New Media in all its forms got this story out and we didn't **need** the Katie Courics.
On the plus side of all of this – I was just mentioning to a conservative friend today – is that the New Media in all its forms got this story out and we didn't **need** the Katie Courics.
This is a great and important point, Mr. Breitbart. The MSM buried this story hoping it would go away, they instead focused on what can only be called a fake-roversy, opposition to Obama's school speech. But it didn't go away, it went nuclear on them, and now they are in the worst possible position: having to explain why they never talked about it.
They make the news, or at least they used to, and they are accustomed to deciding what is news, with no other source to challenge them. That era is over though, because of talk radio, the internet, and more fair news organizations like Fox.
No, what we're going to see now, and it ought to be entertaining, is the MSM trying to explain that Van Jones resigned, and then explain why none of their viewers has ever heard of the guy.
Goodbye, Democrat Media Complex. I'm enjoying watching you die.
Liberals make judgments based on the value and virtue of one's emotions, not actions or consequences. Van Jones "feels" in his heart like liberals do, so of course Couric and Williams and all the other over-paid "journalists" will ignore him, because to address or investigate Jones would require "mainstream" journalists to see themselves and be truly baffled over why the rest of the country doesn't "feel" like they do. They will never get it. Well, maybe they would get it if there were a direct connection to their pay and specific market forces (you know, kind of like what most Americans experience). Maybe then the media would actually pay attention to how the customers (the public) think, what they want, etc.
"And that despite having a body of damning evidence that could be found with a single Google search by an ADHD-addled high-school journalism student."
Forgive my ignorance, but did a high school student with ADHD start this ball rolling? I have some people close to me that would take that as encouragement if so. ^_^
ABC,CBS,NBC, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, et al do not care about
Van Jones' opinions on 9/11 – …only third-tier GOPropaganda *news operations* like Brietbart care about
contributing to Democratic character assassination. Skewering true leaders is what the GOP does best.
So now you've had your three-peat:
> You creeps got Letterman to apologize to that nutcase Pailin.
> You got Obama to recognize the rascist, dogmatic cop in Boston.
> You twisted facts to smear Obama's architect of green business regarding
his disbelief in 9/11 jingoism.
Where was your reporting of TN Senator Paul Stanley's sex scandal hmmmm?
causing him to resign three weeks ago… Oh yeah – you skipped that one.
Let's wait to see how you cover the upcoming Iraq War Crimes tribunal — !
Betcha there'll be plenty of stories about movies and trailer skirmishes
on Breitbart and all of Fox News during that page in REAL NEWS history!
And – how come you're not mentioning http://www.tortureteam.org – those are fun playing cards!
Andrew, asking Katie Couric to look in the mirror is cruel.
Her botox-head and Tony Hawk circa 1988 hairdo would shatter the mirror.
I am planning to hit local media with just this point…
You missed something extremely important.
Why?
The OSMSM ( the OS is 'open sewer' as the Internet and the 'disinformation' on it has been recently referred to, but now more aptly applies to the MSM, Brokaw, Couric, Williams, Gibson, et al.) will be busy circling their CYA wagons, and either continue to ignore the story of Jones being forced out , or will try to spin it like a frisbee to blame conservatives.
Unfortunately for them, whatever they do will be too little, too late. The Jones incident has proven the OSMSM has reached bottom in relevancy, and there are trustworthy alternative souces of information available.
'When the money dries up………' as it will. The truth from them has dried up long ago.
The MSM should now be called the "Jonesers" for ignoring the facts of the entire story. The racist crap alone should have had him kicked to the curb. Imagine, lets say, Sarah Palin's 2nd cousin saying all this stuff?? There would be chartered flights to AK 24/7 by the MSM
no of the jerks vetted obama. We but we can make 1773 happen again
See, I don't think this is the end for the MSM. I do think it's a big mile-marker on their long road to irrelevance.
They've still got some fight left in them. They'll ignore breaking news if it hurts their dreamy man-crush Obama and dutifully report last week's stories with a left-handed curve. They'll still be able to twist some segments of public opinion if they push hard enough.
The problem for them is that as time goes on, the population that relies on them as their major source of news will inexorably shrink as people get fed up with the major media's incompetence and bias. The MSM blackout on Van Jones is yet another sign for the viewers-who actually want to know what is happening now-to rely on other sources.
I believe this may be a wake up call for the so called big time media. The alphabet news divisions can not afford
to let any more of the hated Big 3, to quote Mr. Sammybull, expose them, no embarrass them, for no longer being in the news business. Even Mr. Big of CBS, Sumner Redstone at some point is is going to question why he is paying the perky Ms Katie Couric 15 mil a year and 100 mil or whatever for the news division and being scooped by Beck and company, Mr Breitbart and Drudge, I would make a guess and could very well be wrong , but what the heck, they probably don't make 15 mill between them let along 115 mil. Times the economics by three and you see why the liberal media can only take so much liberalism. Even Soros has a ceiling on his bets.
they will never budge an inch no matter who scoops them. They have the ignorant as their viewers and their loyal masses keeping them going. Doesnt mean they will survive the BO era though.
The MSM have already "ingnored" themselves into irrelevancy, and it won't be all that long before they are financially bankrupt as well. I say good riddance.
Thing is that the MSM will not learn it's lesson. They still think they know better, they are right and we are to be led by our noses to the 'truth' by them.
Now "someone" at MSNBC (to steal a term from Bill O'Reilly) is going to dig dirt on Beck to get him fired.
If losing those advertisers didn't get Glenn fired, I doubt "someone" can!
[...] at Big Hollywood, Andrew Breitbart shines alight on the MSM’s collective failure on this [...]
Gateway Pundit deserves major credit also.
I heard one of the MSM pontificate on one of the Sunday shows that "the Internet was an open sewer" I agree, because it sure carried a lot of sh!t out of the White House today.
But does she pay her taxes? Of course not. Only poor saps like the rest of us do that.
Beck brought up a point friday. Either there was a breakdown at the FBI, and didn't tell President Obama about how radical this man is. Or Obama knew all about him.
Which scenario seems more likely?
How much do you want to be that the usual suspects (Olby, Mathews, McCafferty) will scream on how the FCC must police the Internet!
In the on deck circle is………Mark Lloyd.
That is a rhetorical question, isn't it?
Let's hope the American public sees this MSM/ Ignoring the Van Jones story like a Umpire.
MSM Ignoring Obama STEEEEEEEEEERIIIIIIIKKKKKKKKKEEEEEEEEE ONE!!!
MSM Ignoring Van Jones STEEEEERIIIIIIIIIIIKKKKKKKKKKKKKEEEEEE TWO!!!
MSM Ignoring the next big story STEEEEEEEEEEEEEEIIIIIIIIKKKEEEEE THREE YOUR OUT!!!
This indecent illustrates why newspapers and Network Broadcast News are losing viewers and readers at a tremendous clip.
Here is a good Fox News clip discussing this issue…
http://motorcitytimes.com/mct/van-jones-and-the-m...
Yeah, but still has to be asked.
Another great column, Andrew.
All good points and I agree. I wanted to comment on the media paying attention to the customers (the public).
I worked in news radio in the Denver metro area for almost six years. No one saw the listeners as customers. No one I worked with cared for the listeners. The listeners didn't pay us to listen to us, they listened for free. TV and radio get money from the advertisers who purchase air time for commercials. Essentially, they are selling our attention span.
That's why journalists and the MSM in general doesn't care about us. We aren't the customers–we're the product.
What's wonderful is that "we" did it.
Well, you Mr. Brietbart and others like Glenn Beck.
With little, wait NO MSM attention, one of his staffers resigned.
Of course Jones was the worst of the worst, at least as bad as I can imagine would possible get in there, but who knows?
Maybe "we" should take down a Czar a Month?
Just as the administration held a press conference to state that they were "shocked" to hear of the release of the Lockerbie Bomber…..we know better….
Nah, Who's Who, here's a better idea for Beck's next target: Steven Chu. Who's Chu, you ask? He's not a communist, racist . anti-Semite or even a Truther (that I know of). He's not even a czar. He's SECRETARY of Energy! He's a distinguished professor (Berkeley, of course) and a Nobel Prize winner, just like Arafat and Gore. He's the guy who told a recent London symposium that the answer to global warming is painting every roof on Earth white. No, seriously. He added that it would be helpful if all roads were also light colored. "The effect would be the same as removing all cars on the road for 11 years." A true rocket surgeon if I've ever heard one. Beck needs to have fun with his next choice. Chu as an absurd example would get everyone laughing, and for a narcissist like Obambi, that's the the worst. (Y'all can thank me later).
What's so wonderful is that it was, it really was, the TRUTH. The truth is the big winner here.
This is one very small step, but make no mistake about it; the MSM is loaded with a bunch of arrogant, self-important, megalomaniacs who have no intention of letting anyone other than themselves determine what is newsworthy (and we all know what THAT is).
The Jones resignation is already gone from the Chicago Tribune, but the "silly" controversy over Obama's speech to kids is still there (been a couple of days now).
Better yet, the sub-headline under the original 'Jones Resigns' story was "Score one for Glen Beck, Sarah Palin, other Republicans targeting WH aide."
That's right, Palin.
Well, I first heard it on Glenn beck. Does that answer your question? =)
BTW – I LOVE Glenn.
The MSM was too busy interviewing the teenage ex-boyfriend of the daughter of an ex-Governor to find out what time she puts her pajamas on to look into it.
Well said, Andrew!
Yep, if we had had a watchdog media that was fairly vetting both candidates, we never would have had the likes of an Obama elected as President of the United States of America. I still haven't got my mind around the fact that we basically have an authoritarian as our president!
I suspect that after another big a**ed batch of folks go Van who? and discover that only the folks reading right blogs and watching FOX already knew all about it…
FOX will again bleed the competition white, as they hemorage the few remaining viewers they have.
Tell me Katie?
Was it worth it? Whoring out your integrity as a bought and sold commodity to the Obama campaign? But that's not fair is it,.. there was no whoring going on,..
you did it for free.
You gave away any claim to any status other than third rate hack at large.
Don't worry, the media is already providing cover for Obama on this story; Politico, for one, has an article on it basically reading, "Of course, no one is reasonably suggesting that Obama knew about or agrees with the statements of Van Jones, leaving troubling questions about the vetting process at the White House, even for the lower echelon personnel like Mr. Jones." Pravda, eat your heart out.
This is an outrage. What is their response?
Don't know,.. my friend, but maybe this will help,
My son was diagnosed ADHD a few months ago, and in tecourse of running the family history,. they told me, with nere certainty that I had it as well. Undignosed as they didn't do that in the sixties. I learned to adapt though, with a lot of effort, I developed ways to compensate on my own, catching up by the 3rd grade, reading at a college level by the 5th. An Honor graduate both in High School, and in USAF Basic Training, top 5 percent. IQ of 133,..
and I was undiagnosed, a problem child, that only my mother believed in.
she was enough.
I hope that helps, my life was nothing extra special, but it shows, even the lowest of us, can achieve, if someone believes.
Kudos to Mr. Beck, Mr. Breitbart, Mr. Drudge, and Gateway Pundit. It was an interesting comparative exercise that I did by comparing what the above mentioned non-MSM sources had in their arsenals as opposed to what was deliberately, (I believe), shelved or ignored by our national media lapdogs.Since I do not have cable TV, (alas no FOX News), I had to watch, and wait….and wait… and wait…for any mention of the Jones situation.I came to the conclusion that if we, the American people,need answers or information about this administration, get on the net, take some notes. If Brian, Katie, Charlie et. al. don't report on it , you can bet the "Powers That Be" are hiding something outright or they want nothing said about it….Transparency? Goodness, we' ll have none of that nonsense here!
Hope this story slaps the smug the Hell off her perky little chipmonk face.
Howard Deaniac set the tone on Sunday, he "was brought down" by harsh and mean politics in Washington. No mention that he was a truther, and ADMITTED communist, a racist of the first order who never met an innocent white person in his life. That it was his OWN words on tape and video that hung him, his very own words,.
But now, if we play your own words back at you, somehow, that's men, and a "smear" campaign. Guess they'll be tking down Youtube pretty soon, as that's where the loonies always end up imolating themselves.
Excellent commentary. But I have to throw out a warning after this event as I expect it to be the impetus for bringing the Fairness Doctrine to bear. Jones claimed he was smeared; Brokaw says vetting bloggers must be done, and I'm sure there are all sorts of buzz words being repeated by all the talking heads. The Libs are pissed and they're going to do something about it….
In a way I hope they do attempt to install a fairness doctrine or some form of censureship.
They will over over reach at some point and the libs in congress will suffer mightily.
At least one hopes.
That just shows that Dean is as far left as Jones. They are bird of the same feather.
Hey, Katie got a nice plaque and a testimonial dinner for her hatchet job on Sarah Palin….
You know- it's not so much that the MSM has changed in recent years, as that the rise of independent media has ripped the cover off what's been going on all along.
The real power of MSM propaganda has never been so much writing stories with a particular slant (although they've certainly done that)- but rather not writing the stories at all. Before Rush and then the Net, the MSM's leaders, really fewer than about 100 people in DC and Manhattan, decided which issues would ever be issues at all, as far as the public knew. It's not like Duranty tried to excuse Stalin's famines: he simply pretended they didn't exist. In similar vein, did anyone notice how the homeless 'crisis' suddenly dropped off the radar when Clinton took office? Out of sight, out of mind. Nothing to see here, people; move along.
One wonders what else our 'guardians of liberty' never told us about.
But now that every citizen with an internet connection is a broadcaster, the Fourth Estate Fifth Column has now lost its oligopoly over information: Mintruth is breaking down.
Hallelujah! The mainstream media has shot it's self in the foot. It's going to be fun watching them go down in flames when the money runs out. Glenn Beck is going after all of Czars.
Wouldn't it be funny if Rush Limbaugh bought one of the big three stations?
GO FOR IT RUSH!
The MSM is credibility-challenged.
Love it. And more to come.
Vetting? We don't need no stinking vetting!
This is a small win! Until Valerie Jarrett and ALL her CZAR appointees are out of the White House she will just install another one with the same Progressive mindset.
Didn't mean to exclude Mr. Hoft. Make that "The Big 4". Hoft is a one man wrecking crew against Obama administration stupidity.
What if congress passed a law, and noboby paid any attention to it, because no one gave a shit. This nation has one thing no other nation has had in recorded history. More guns. Think about it.
Andrew, Couric is irrelevant, period. Does she have less or more viewers than Olby, who has called for an all out witch hunt on Beck? Real mainstream journalism died in 2008. But, thank you Andrew, for carrying the torch.
As sure as the unions would rather see an industry that made them very rich go belly up than show a profit, the MSM would rather become irrelevent than report objectively on their chosen few. What we are witnessing are the death throes of the old MSM. Fox, Drudge and Breitbart are the future of news media. Even the liberals know if they want to know what is really happening, the old MSM is the last place to go.
Agree with your point, I think the reason Fox News, or the other two, would keep SOBama awake, its that they don't worship him. Zippy SOBama does not appear, to me, able to handle criticism well. That's why he was whining about them, Fox News, a week or so ago. He seems to ignore the fawning media and focuses on the fair and balanced reporting, which does not put him in to a very good light always.
Chartered flights!!?? They would build an airport, NObama stimulus, and open up full-time bureaus in Wasilla.
Ogreman is after Glenn Beck now LOL I usually dont wish bad things on people but…
That's right… and I'm always amazed at their obstinance. The MSM could save itself by turning to more fair and balanced coverage. In fact I think it's the only thing that can save them. But they are so bull-headed that they will drive their companies into the ground before they admit that they were ever wrong. They just can't give up on the power.
Katie Communist agrees with the Van Jones' of the world. Why would she think that his ideas were news worthy unless it was a point of praise?
I have often thought – a truly honest and good press ought to make everyone mad from time to time in its coverage – make the left and right mad – but they would have the respect of the majority of American people. And a "Professional" journalist would go whether the story took him – not spike stories that "offend" their political "sensibilities".
Amazing that for so much of the news about Clinton when President we had to turn to the UK papers (thank God for the Internet!!!)
I think when the NYT goes bankrupt we ought to have a party. I will be sad, for what she once was and sad for what she could have been, but rejoice in the end of such biased coverage.
Borrowed, I admit:
Van Jones: "I am a communist."
Conservatives: "Van Jones is a communist."
Dems and MSM: AAAAAAAAAAH! RIGHT-WING SMEAR CAMPAIGN!
Looking over these comments, evidently the Liberals are in the deep grass. Don't be afraid guys…now is a perfect time to explain to us again why you voted for Obama and what a great job he's doing.
I agree. I see this as a big win for "alternative" media. I found out about this story through two sources:
First, through emails and blogs.
Second, through Fox News.
All along, I knew the "mainstream" wasn't covering it. I wondered if the MSM really had the power to ignore something such as this. When I saw that he resigned, I was very pleased. Not only is a racist radical out of a job, but it happened without the MSM's blessing.
Now I know for sure that the MSM is on the way out.
"What are you waiting for, Katie Couric?"
The teleprompter…to tell her what to say next.
Isn't this the same non-MSM approach that cost Trent Lott his committee leadership in 2002? (His poorly phrased praise of Strom Thurmond went initially unremarked by the MSM, as I recall) Also George Allen's "macaca" moment in 2006 appeared online first and gained momentum from there, didn't it? This isn't the first (and certainly won't be the last) case of citizen journalism trumping the industry. I would hazard that it's not a new phenomenon at all, it just moves even faster now. I truly pity anyone running for any sort of public office these days…I have of course lived a completely blameless life, but I cringe at the thought of things I mouthed off about years ago ever seeing the light of day.
Ohh, Katie does love her Red. Red politics, red dress. And now she's going to have a red face.
That will be so convenient as the colors won't clash with that sea of red ink she and the whole damned MSM will be drowning in shortly.
It will be so great when all these liberal "reporters" finally start getting what's coming to them: and that's the truth about their beloved Obama. The fact that he's a radical socialist and surrounds himself with his own ilk. The liberal media is heading for a judgement day and it can't happen soon enough.
Well, hon – the reason the Messiah didn't hear about Van Jones was because the Messiah didn't have enough TIME! You know – like 20 years. Sitting in the same pew every Sunday.
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I will thank you in advance…I hope Beck runs with it…..WILL BE SUCH FUN TO WATCH the hysterical nationwide laughter.
I like it. Call it the Bork of the Month Club.
(Hey, the Dems invented it…..)
Spot on Andrew I have asked these questions over and over again. The MSM knows all the dirt and their actions are contemptible; The questions is: How complicit are their actions? Is it a clear and present danger to the republic? Can they be charged with treason for their silence or their out right dishonesty. Why no FBI ? Who is really pulling all these strings? Hmmm….. How do these people sleep at night? Their hatred for this country defies logic
When it comes to Couric and others in the state run media I'm reminded of the Mark Knophler song "Money for Nothin". Andrew is spot on in saying that the money's going to run out and when it does there better be no talk of bailouts for these elitist snake oil salesmen. Just give em "end of life counseling" instead.
I think we will look back and see this as the last straw that brought down the MSM. Bloggers, social media and FOX news, vetted a story, brought it to the public and forced a party with one of the largest voting blocs in the history of the Congress to do something it did not want to do, fire Van Jones. All without the help and perhaps at the determent of the MSM. Pat yourself on the back, we deserve it.
ABC, NBC, CBS, the New York Times are irrelevant. The big three news sources Fox News, Breitbart and Drudge took Van Jones out at the knees by simply reporting the truth. "The Big 3" gives the Obama administration many a sleepless night.
"Who vetted this guy?" Good question A.B., you have no doubt seen Tom Brokaw's comment deriding the very people who were necessary to ferret out this uber-radical/communist *rich guy* with a Yale degree because network news and the big newspapers aren't doing their JOBS…Tom the liberal shill said:
"“You have to vet information, you have to test…” speaking about the bloggers doing the work of the Main Stream Media. So, we should *vet* the bloggers but the W.H. doesn't have to vet their radicals…What nerve….
Commas are, not your friend.
If we had a frank ,incorruptible, honest press in this Country instead of what resembles at times an elitist 5th column. Half the ills in the U.S. might be solved and the politico's on both sides of the aisle would walk the line for fear of the People instead of the People having fear and mistrust of their Government. Your right Mr. Andrew The People have had it. You say they'll take up pitch-forks. Let's hope it's not Fixed Bayonets. Great Article Thanks.
Wait a minute. Van Jones wasn't fired. He resigned for the good of the administration so they wouldn't be distracted by all these unfair attacks on him.
I just heard that while watching the MSM.
Never mind.
Jarret led a big cheer for V Jones (along with Pelosi) for this man. Seems this would be a great start to question the credibility of those doing the vetting.. Jarret would be that person.
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We have a fairly large group there who would welcome you.
What's wonderful is that "we" did it.
Well, you Mr. Brietbart and others like Glenn Beck.
With little, wait NO MSM attention, one of his staffers resigned.
Of course Jones was the worst of the worst, at least as bad as I can imagine could possibly get in there, but who knows?
Maybe "we" should take down a Czar a Month?
"Wouldn't it be funny if Rush Limbaugh bought one of the big three stations?"
I was thinking more along the lines of purchasing the NY Times. Of course you know he couldn't resist writing some of the editorials. Were that the case, I'd buy that paper every day.
One can only hope that not too much damage is done before the grown ups take over.
And don't you think if the FCC tries anything to kill talk radio, that Rush would sue their pants off and keep them in court for the better part of a decade?
I mean he's got the bankroll for it.
This whole Jones fiasco only proves how insignificant the lamestream media really is. Time to run 'em out of business and run 'em out of town. TaTa little Katie.
Van Jones: story ignored.
Rezko: story ignored.
Jeremiah Wright: story ignored.
Bill Ayers: story ignored.
Monica Lewinksy: story ignored. (every major news org passed on it before Drudge ran it)
hell remember JFK's womanizing… the press gave him a pass that they never would have given say… oh I dunno… Nixon!
I think it's time Americans start calling these companies and asking why they didn't report anything on Van Jones.
Put the pressure on them America!!
Great Article but I am sure the cheerleaders, uh er I mean reporters will not listen. Journalism in the mainstream media is dead. If you want real journalism and reporting you have to go to other sources. And yes Glen Beck is doing some great reporting on Acorn, the Appolo Project, etc. any reporter worth his salt would be salivating over such a story if it was about the right.
LOL, yeah him and his 15 followers, while Glen's audience of millions has been building steadily, Hmm didn't all this come to head about Van Jones after he and his org. "Color of Change" went after Glen. Ah well one good turn deserves another. So glad Glen is doing all this reporting for a "Commentator" he is doing a lot of heavy lifting. Ogerman ehat a joke couldn't agree with you more SuperCat, LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
But they don't feel embarrassed. They are taking the same line that Jones is… even with VIDEO, we are lying, and/or taking things out of context. How you take the man's signature on a Truther petition out of context I have no idea, but somehow we've done it. The way the MSM sees it, they didn't miss the story, they just didn't want to report lies. They are protecting us from ourselves and the open sewer of disinformation on the internet. They are not embarrassed and feel as if they have done their jobs. It is amazing to me how they and the libs just get smacked in the face with facts hard enough to leave a mark and still deny they are facts…..and expect us to go "oh, I see…." and just forget the fact that we know the facts!
Things are gonna get good Beck is going after these czar people one at a time and there's nothing the MSM can do about it..THAT is what is pissing them off. They don't know how to be embarrassed.
Ha! Beautiful.
Excellent article Andrew! I couldn't agree more. The Van Jones story is a huge victory for New Media and the News. I wonder if anyone who was on top of this story will get an award?
Great article Andrew, and once again points out the thin veneer of our politicians, the MSM in general, put them under scrutiny and they evaporate. Stay vigilant people, an adversary is most dangerous when it’s wounded.
Great piece, Mr.Breitbart. It's good to see such honesty in the media, which is rare.
The MSM is first and foremost responsible for the condition of this country today. The fawned over Obama during the campaign and they remain Obama's mouthpiece today. They do not do any investigative reporting, they merely read what Obama and the WH put out. There are so many serious stories and issues surrounding this administration and not one of them gets correctly reported to the American citizens if even reported at all. When you try and discuss political issues with someone who only listens to ABC or CNN they look at you like you have three heads because they don't have the whole story. The MSM is a disgrace. Some day there will be a reckoning for these people.
Excellent idea!
What we used to refer to as "mainstream" media (Time, Newsweek, NY Times, Wash Post, city papers, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN) no longer exists. Like MSNBC, these outlets have become merely propagandists for Democrats. As with any country whose media is state owned, state controlled (or, in our case) part of one of the parties, the populace have to go to other places for their news. Were this the forties or fifties, we'd be toast. But it isn't — there is the internet, talk radio, Fox News, so the news gets out. The problem is not enough people have figured this out. Until they do, we'll continue to be propagandized.
Well syvyn11, when you fail the course you get left back.
They best start reporting on a third grade level, that is the IQ of the remaining groupies.
They are not too important to fail.
They are now irrelevant.
Vetting bloggers? What the heck is wrong with Tom Brokaw? I used to think he was one of the "good guys".
If a story fits a template, they report it, if not, it gets ignored. The MSM is rapidly being consigned to the ash heap of history due to the stubborn pig headedness of the elites running the appartus into the ground. In the information age, the hunger for news is widespread and available. The MSM resembles the dinosaurs, unable and unwilling to adapt and they will not be around much longer, unless the Feds pump a boatload of money into them, thus making many more PBS', and NPR's, maybe a TASS or two.
They are being rendered irrelevant and impotent. Can you just imagine the vitriol being thrown at all the rubes out in the heartland at the elite cocktail parties? The masses just do not know what is good for them.
Too true!
I have been thinking I might write a letter to the various companies whose products I buy, something like the following.
Dear ******
I recently brought your product *******. I choose your product because you advertise on Fox (or Rush, etc.).
Thank you for supporting Freedom of Thought and Reporting.
Sincerely,
Ginger
or
Dear ******
I recently switched from your product to (********) because you advertise on repressive news shows. I can not in good conscience support them by supporting you.
Thank You.
Ginger
He won't be telling my kid squat, since she'll be at home. Her principal gave us no option. If the teachers decide to show it – the kids have to watch, so she'll be taking another day off.
Just off the top of my head…there was Kerry's discharge, Oil for Food, UN Peacekeeper rapes, Joe Biden's gaffe-a-minute manner, Al Gore's hypocrisy, John Edwards' hypocrise, Ted Kennedy's hypocrisy…you get the drift…
And now they have announced yet a new czar – Ron Bloom, "Manufacturing Czar".
What did the White House know about Van Jones in re of the questionnaire that all new employees had to fill out? Either he lied (very likely) or someone glossed over his answers. They would have to explain that no one in the White House had any idea that he held these outrageous views and made these ridiculous and dangerous comments. Quelle surprise!
(Ever)
State-run media will NOT abandon their ideology – no matter how many times their bias is explicitly indicated. They are TRUE BELIEVERS, so they will rationalize any effect on their bottom line as attributable to some other cause.
They failed to recognize the significance of the tea parties because it just didn't fit in with their world view.
They failed to recognize the significance of the town halls because it just didn't fit in with their world view.
They will fail to recognize the significance of the 9/12 rally because it just doesn't fit in with their world view.
Soon enough, they will look back on the 20th (and early 21st) century, and bemoan the loss of "the right to a free press" – when the truth is that they *never* exercised that right fully.
'Four Legs Bad'
'Two Legs Good'
I am already designing the cake I want for the party when she dies a groaning. I'm just hoping that it is soon.
The mainstream media has become irrelevant. Watch Katie Couric? I'd rather jam a fork in my eye.
Right….Van Jones' own words are what convicted him. No distortions whatsoever. Such a childish response to this story, and typical of the left. But, but look at Jimmy, he's doing bad things too! And if they were distortions and lies, why wouldn't he simply fight it on it's own merits? Is that the kind of guy you want in a top level government position? One that runs from a fight? If he so believes he has been wronged, why not mount a defense and let the world know just how bad we Republicans really are?
Because the truth prevailed, and his "paper" trail (and videotaped words and actions) and he had no choice but to resign in disgrace. Live with it.
Good parenting.
If all those 'news' outlets really had faith in Obama's ability to govern, they wouldn't need to hide stories, lie, spin , and distort the truth in an attempt to keep Obama propped up, eh? But they do. CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, NYTimes, Washington Post, many blogs, paid 'contributor's,- to come out and spin and lie…on and on it goes….
Silence is consent. And the majority of the media are silent on facts concerning Obama and his Communist, thug czars, who promote the death panels and health rationing, and plan to control your life and mine with 'cap and tax, a tax for being a human and breathing….
You truly are a dreamer, wonder_all.
One can dream can't one??
Actually now that I think of it, no one asked Van Jones the key question–apparently–for getting an outstanding Journalism Award in these United States. That question being: "Van Jones, what news do you watch and/or read? Just name one."
We dropped the ball on that one. lol
I'm sorry, I just can't help think about Katie's colon after her on-camera colonoscopy, hence her new name, "Colonic Katie".
You bring up some great points Mr. Breitbart, but we shouldn't hold our breathe for the mainstream media to run much of anything on the Van Jones fiasco.. They're complicit and they know it, and their credibility is brought in question if the bring it up now that the alternate media and talk radio did their jobs for them…..http://cooperscopy.blogspot.com/
I think we should all email the MSM and ask the very question….
WHY di YOU miss this story?????
The actual story is that the radicals' arrogance and elitism, thinking that the wildly unpatriotic, socialist drivel so well documented in this case would be OK because Jones is an obstreperous black man. I actually believe that Van Jones could have been a good green jobs advocate, given his experience. The support of radicals by progressives will be the downfall of the progressives in government. I blame Obama's staff for not protecting him better. The frantic support of Obama by jewish people while he surrounds himself with Palestinian advocates and Chavenistas is what strikes me as especially ridiculous. This support of radical action and speech encourages good people to fall into the trap and disqualify themselves for public service. Need I suggest that a truly SMART radical would be a bit more circumspect? In case you elitists don't pay attention to the polls, the center is actually coming up overwhelmingly dominant in USA polls… radicals on both sides may prefer to drop the snotty elitist comments.
> You got Obama to recognize the rascist, dogmatic cop in Boston.
> You twisted facts
Calling Officer Crowley racist and claiming someone else is twisting facts is a real hoot man. Funny stuff.
Good post. You can go to Foxnews.com, clik on any video report and surf ALL the Fox News video… need hi-speed, tho.
My Hometown paper the St Pete Times ran almost a third of their editorial page on Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palins's, daughter's, boy friend Levi Jones and acccording to this article she once asked him to get a haircut before one of her speeches.
Somehow they have missed the on going trial of DEMOCRAT Presidential candidate John Edwards for paying off the mistress he fathered a baby with using campaign funds while his wife lay sick with cancer and he continued collecting donations and running for President even as the tabloids dogged him with the story and he continued to lie his way out of it.
The Mainstream News Media my rear end can't we just call them The Bunch of Leftist Shills.
Ouch WriterX, that’s brutal, LOL!
It's tough love, Stan.
Yes, yes, yes! Is he not one scary SOB? This guy is in a position to do major damage to the conservative media. We can sit around and think we are out of the game but the Chicago thugs have their game on and this was just one strike out. The top of the first inning is still going and Mark Lloyd is the clean up hitter that will take out conservative media.
We also shouldn't ignore the fact that the MSM has only sniffed at the Jones story. They have only discussed the A-hole slur and the "truther" stuff. They left out the most incendiary, racist remarks made toward whites. We need to keep this story in the spotlight until all the shadows have been revealed.
Actually, massive northern tier deforestation would have the same beneficial effect as painting all our roofs white. There's something for the "greenies" to chew on…
Can you say Mark Lloyd?
Reading that post, I can almost hear that guy's head exploding. How soon can we expect all the leftist trolls to evaporate into tiny molecules of hate and self-deception?
Wow Bill, nice observation. And one that gives me hope and peace! May the sensible in this country continue the rise.
I could be wrong, but I think this renders the boycott of Glenn Beck practically irrelevant. While I wouldn't go so far as to call him a "true journalist," right now he's closer to it than just about anyone else in the media. There's absolutely no way he can be forced off the air now.
Their award will be the respect and trust of the people. They've earned it.
Remember when he even got irritated at the MSM a few months ago because they were finally asking real questions and not sucking up to him as much as he wanted? Imagine what Fox News, Breitbart, and Drudge must do to his psyche.
They won't. The most they do is say… "I hope he has a plan".. Over at KOMA .. or was it KOMO, they see the debt, but want more time to turn this :air craft caririer" around.. Or hope his plan works.. They don't wish to look at history and see that everytime these kinds of policies are implimented, the country collapses.
By the way, do you folks know, the KOMO people are trolling through your site? They were mad when a few from our site went visiting.. Drop in, you would be welcomed at <a href="http://912communique.ning.com/page/3397719:Page:5…” target=”_blank”>http://912communique.ning.com/page/3397719:Page:5…
"I could no more disown Van Jones than I could my own grandmother…"
Be kinder to yourself X. We need you and both your eyes. Be Well
The actual story is that the radicals' arrogance and elitism, thinking that the wildly unpatriotic, socialist drivel so well documented in this case would be OK because Jones is an obstreperous black man. I actually believe that Van Jones could have been a good green jobs advocate, given his experience. The support of radicals by progressives will be the downfall of the progressives in government. I blame Obama's staff for not protecting him better. The frantic support of Obama by jewish people while he surrounds himself with Palestinian advocates and Chavenistas is what strikes me as especially ridiculous. This support of radical action and speech encourages good people to fall into the trap and disqualify themselves for public service. Need I suggest that a truly SMART radical would be a bit more circumspect? In case you elitists don't pay attention to the polls, the center is actually coming up overwhelmingly dominant in USA polls… radicals on both sides may prefer to drop the snotty elitist comments.
One can dream can't one??
So far and for now! Waiting for the part 'dreams really do come true.'
Thank you CapnRick. I'll be sure to take advantage of your advice.
I'm with you Brother just give me the unvarnished truth and let the chips fall were they may. I'm a big boy, I and the American people can handle it. As for the party. I'm there. First round's on me. Cheers.
The MSN has "jumped the Jones".
Tea parties are misplaced, IMO. The sick, corrupt congressional members did not elect Barack Obama.
The MSM/State Run Media did. Until bricks are thrown through the Black Rock windows and huge crowds of American citizens are chained to each other in front of the NYT headquarters, the MSM will continue with their treasonous, Fifth Column ways and we will have Obama for another four years, even if his unfavorability ratings are in the GWB range come 2012.
Something tell me this is the tip of the iceberg. Just what is an "Ethics Waiver" ? I know what a Waiver is, and Ethics, well if you dont have any to start off, I guess a waiver is just a bandaid on decapitation.
Maybe Valerie, Axelrod, Emanuel, you know, the people running the show at the WH, can grab up Meg Whitman to replace her bud, Van Jones. Although we run the risk that the WH could be disappointed to learn she isn't actually a communist. A blow to be sure.
Well, Barry shouldn't worry about the specifics of those wild and wacky czars. He'll need to rest up if he wants to get to school in time to indoctrinate our kids on Tuesday. (Katie Couric's girls will be unavailable for comment, their private school not airing the lecture).
Great article, Andrew!!
Since the obvious answer is no, the question is, should the alternative media start creating honors and awards of our own, since the State Controlled Media's awards are so corrupted and meaningless.
Anyone notice how beat up and tired BHO looks? Thought it would be easy, didn't you? Thought we'd be sheep and head toward the light? Every time I see a Obama/Biden sticker out here in LA, I flip them off. Finger is sore obvs. How's that hope and change working out for you? Idiots. Now we're racists for pointing out that the emperor has no clothes and the MSM is an elitist socialist puppet factory. Fine, I'm a racist.
I do remember T-Tav. I find it a little ironic our whiner in chief got his current position as a result of the alphabet media, slimes, compost, not reporting accurately about him. And now as you stated, the Teleprompter gets annoyed when they are finally doing, albeit still hesitantly, their jobs and asking questions.
How he would handle a media that treated him like his predicessors, would be very interesting, indeed.
Saturday 18,000 people had a "Tea Party" outside the Voice of America Museum in Ohio. Not a peep could be found in the MSM. Not news? 20 anti-Bush protesters were in heavy rotation nationwide two years ago.
Someone put a stake thru the heart of the MSM. Please.
And why, Andrew, do you carry AP stories? Hire three or four writers and start doing your own news feed. You will put AP out of business in a year. Free business advice. People are hungry for the truth.
Obama and Anthony V Jones are two peas from the same rabble-rousing pod called "social justice". Why would a soul mate vet a soul mate? As far as the MSM goes, why would a soul mate jump on a band wagon to denounce a soul mate? Human nature says it ain't a gonna happen. The MSM is no friend of the majority of Americans. See them for what they are.
I, was told I had it, back in high school, I only took the drug for a few months. I too, have a obsession with commas,.
Second that. Tell us, Obama voter, what a great temperament Obama has. When will he start to "look evenhandedly at the issues on the table"? Any day now the Won will bring us together in a spirit of bipartisanship, no? When you said he would make us better liked abroad, did you really expect him to insult our friends and agree with our enemies? (I could tell some stories about what Obama has wrought in that regard!) Do you still think that he is the smartest guy EVER in the White House, so smart that even bringing up his actual experience is offensive? I remember the mantra: He went to Harvard! And Van Jones went to Yale! He will cut taxes and clean up "the mess" any day now. Do you still believe that Wright, Ayers and the other radical mean nothing at all? Are you glad your party smeared John McCain as a senile cancer patient who can´t even send an e-mail? Are you proud they smeared his military service (anyone can bomb people from 20,000 feet! He crashed 5 airplanes! He broke under torture!)? And they did it to elect this haughty bolshevik?
Meg Whitman. That was a bitter pill. I don´t believe for a second that Whitman agrees with Van Jones on anything. I was very impressed with her so far. But she should have know that´s what you get for jumping on the global warming bandwagon and desperately wanting to appear moderate (which she is already anyway). So, does she feel more electable now?
Unfortunately, I believe one big change we are going to see from all of this is a new push for the "Fairness Doctrine".
MSM et ilk will want to be sure this never happens again.
That is going to be a huge fight, and one this country cannot afford to lose.
Just look at them in Hollywood adoring Chavez. It's just sickening. They want to see a "democracy" like his, with Obama at the helm.
"..contributing to Democratic character assassination"
The beauty of this entire issue is; Jones shot himself in the foot with his arrogance and hate fulled speeches.
Beck picked up the baton and reported the truth on his show with thanks to Gateway Pundit.
The 'creeps' as you claim, didn't have to lift a finger, now that's delicious irony.
Bravo Andrew! Spot on.
The MSM is first and foremost responsible for the condition of this country today. The fawned over Obama during the campaign and they remain Obama's mouthpiece today. They do not do any investigative reporting, they merely read what Obama and the WH put out. There are so many serious stories and issues surrounding this administration and not one of them gets correctly reported to the American citizens if even reported at all. When you try and discuss political issues with someone who only listens to ABC or CNN they look at you like you have three heads because they don't have the whole story. The MSM is a disgrace. Some day there will be a reckoning for these people.
Oh Yes We Can have all these commies and whackjob czars removed!
Andrew,
Thank you for this clear calling out of the no longer mainstream media (nlmm). They are now in my mind lower case, upper case shall henceforth refer to the Free Thinking Media. (FTM).
Much thought ,questioning, talk and blogging has been expended – wondering WHY the media was not covering this or reporting that.
As for me—I no longer care Why! They have dropped the ball too often to be considered just careless or nearsighted. They are part of the problem (having chosen sides), and I now consider as suspect 'anything' they report.
I am aware of at least 3 people, who formerly relied on and believed all the (nlmm) side of an issue, who now will believe almost any alternative source of news over them.
The nlmm, built their own scaffold and brought their own rope, and are even now in the act of tying the noose around their own necks.
Who will mourn the passing of the turncoats?
Wrong use of the word "Bork" .
The Democrats with Ted Kennedy in the lead demonized an eminently decent and accomplished justice Bork with sensationalist fiction and outright lies.
Jones on the other hand is a communist wingnut truther and black bigot who hates white people and he was done in by documented proof of his own words and actions.
There is no comparison.
MSM SCUM.
Call me old-fashioned, but I lost what little respect I had for "Gums" Couric on 9/12/2001. She sat in a chair, on air, in an outfit that was so short, from certain camera angles, you couldn't even tell she had a skirt ON. Call me picky, but why not bland, black suit while the nation grieved. On one of the saddest days in American history, she decided to show her legs. I found it totally inappropriate and insulting. I haven't watched her since.
The reason that Van Jones wasn't reported on is that he didn't do anything that controversial and the Right Wing idiots are making a mountain out of a suggestion of a molehill.
And everything Palin does is controversial, right? Cindy Sheehan was controversial when she protested outside of Crawford, not a peep from the MSM when she was outside Obama's vacation spot on the vineyard. The MSM amplifies every story if it harms the right, ignores them if they could harm the left, that is the point of the article. Do you honestly think that if an idiot like Jones was a czar in Bush's administration that it would not get reported?
Put your head back into the sand like a good little liberal.
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Lets see
Letterman should apologize for insulting an under age girl. He's turned into a big grouchy bully since he got old.
The only racist is the Boston case was the one who yelled racist
Twisted facts? do you not know how to youtube? And I wouldn't call East Bay Express a "righty" paper
Oh, another politico sex blah blah blah, he resigned, what else is there to say?
War crimes tribunal. well if the geneva convention was violated, charge 'em, if not, just another fifth column witch hunt.
name that tune
How can you see to type when you have your head shoved so far up your ass?
"I could no more throw Van Jones under the bus that I could anyone else who becomes politically inconvenient for me."
That's more like Barack!
yeah, but they are in the classroom with the most kiddies. So to speak.
Fox News Chanel is gaining, but…. the MSM isn't giving up the ghost.
I need to point out again a story from a few weeks ago that was completely overlooked by everyone because it was attached to "Birthers".
From: Klein, Jon (CNN)
Sent: Thu Jul 23 19:00:44 2009
Subject: Important re birth certificate
I asked the political researchers to dig into the question "why couldn't Obama produce the ORIGINAL birth certificate"… the show's mission is for Lou to be the…enlightener, he should be sure to cite this …And then it seems this story is dead – because anyone who still is not convinced doesn't really have a legitimate beef. In 2001 – the state of Hawaii Health Department went paperless.*Paper documents were discarded*
This was false, paper documents had not been discarded.
Point: The PRESIDENT OF CNN (an avid Obama backer) FORCED HIS REPORTER TO CITE A PHONY STORY. Remeber that the next time you see a liberal refer to "Faux News".
by his own admission- a communist East Bay Express interview oh, they've tried to hide it but its still out there http://www.eastbayexpress.com/gyrobase/the_new_fa...
by his own words- a racist http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO-D-ZeqN5U&fe...
by his own vulgar words- unprofessional http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt66eWnjoTo
by his own signature- unAmerican
had a repub done any ONE of those, he'ld be done. The story isn't just what Jones did, its the MSM duplicity that shows them as nothing but a propaganda mouthpeice for the One Team.
But wait he was a socialist jerk so the MSM did not need to cover him since he was so similar to the zero.
Yes! Excellent idea!!!!
New Playbook Rhetoric:
Yes. Van Jones –the man in charge of green jobs in Obama's signature Cap and Trade–was just a lowly assistant really, a janitor if you think about it. He wasn't important at all. He was like the guy that the guy goes to for advice after the guy went to all the other guys. Nah. He was less than important.
I haven't watched the main broadcast network newscasts in years. I tried Katie Couric when she started at CBS, and she sounded so condescending I never went back. When Diane Sawyer was appointed to take over for Charlie Gibson at ABC, I hardly cared. There are talented and numerous female anchors on the cable channels all the time. Having a female anchor for a nightly 30-minute newscast is no be deal in 2009, not when anchors work for hours on cable news routinely and have for years.
Skewering true leaders? Why'd the motherfucker resign, then? You're a tool…
Okay, I thought about it. Now my head hurts… WTF are you talking about?
And if I'm not mistaking, the Fox producer, or it might have been a blogger, was asked to leave, because she didnt want to talk to them about her "hatchet" job. She's such a sweety. Go Sarah
Remember, Katie Couric was the one who in the 1990s blamed Dr. James Dobson for a murder spree a criminal from Texas went on in the Central Plains and was eventually arrested in Wyoming. Yes, she is another "truther" but only about stories she pulls out of her arsh!
Tankfurdig, that would require them to do some investigating, Couric and Williams, et el, are all reporters, in the new progressive sense. They just report what they are told to say, they don't investigate.
Can one twist facts?
I've noticed latly that the only thing MSN reports is what is on FoxNews…
Did I not see Purezzzzz the blogger on MSNLSD, uhf, guess his sewer is OK.
There will be leaked infromation from the FBI, They dont want Americans thinking they cant do the job.
Jones isn't an obstreperous black man. He's an obstreperous man. Being black or not has nothing to do with it, but it didn't escape you. Who's the racist here? How would one with such hatred and so muany personal agendas be a good choice for a POTUS advisor?
As far as SMART radical, is there such a person? Has there been a SMART radical that had a REAL success in history? EVER? Rick, the snotty elitist captain?
Ken in Irvine, i couldnt have said it better.
i believe you experessed the new realization for many of us.
ALTERNATIVE media as you put it is now where one goes
when we want the WHOLE story on anything regardless of
how it might harm or help any party.
and they sit their in their marketing offices and cant figure out
what's the key in building their market? REAL DUMBOS.
their loss.
just like the sponsors who suddenly figured out it is better to
be on Beck than not to be. Glenn has a larger audience in
that time slot so the only ones losing out are the sponsors
who refuse to take advantage of it.
"ALTERNATIVE media" as one poster put it is now where one goes
when we want the WHOLE story on anything regardless of
how it might harm or help any party.
and they sit their in their marketing offices and cant figure out
what's the key in building their market? REAL DUMBOS.
their loss.
just like the sponsors who suddenly figured out it is better to
be on Beck than not to be. Glenn has a larger audience in
that time slot so the only ones losing out are the sponsors
who refuse to take advantage of it.
Sure, I have an answer for ya…. the racist here is VAN JONES. He's the one spewing racist conspiracy theories. I'm the one who is not allowed to criticize black people or I will be disrespected by elitist trolls.
As to your other question …Abe Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, M. Gandhi, Martin L. King…. the list of smart radicals goes on. We can agree that there are not enough smart radicals to go around… which makes it tough for BO to fill his cabinet, White House and Czar stable with ones who haven't shot themselves in the foot but HAVE paid their taxes. The dumb ones want ordinary people to pay their taxes and give to charities and political action groups… they expose their contempt for the sheeple that they feed upon.
My mama told me ages ago, "You are known by the company you keep." True words…now, Michael Moore and rest of Move on.org are calling capitalists evil. This from a man who has made how much doing it the capitalist way? The Left wing trolls complain, bully, threaten…but what exactly have they put together for, not against, our country? Every step is a tear down, but no ideas how to make things work…ex. where to put the detainees, how to get healthcare to the few million americans, not illegals, who lack but want insurance without discommoding all the rest of us who are satisfied with our care, how to combat fraud in government waste without making the debt grow, how to secure our borders and make our border cities safe….instead, these losers keep an incompetent who began the housing implosion, Barney Frank, and want to reward him by making him Secrestary of HUD??? This man should be under indictment.
Fox News is number #1
the reason is clear, they don't lie, hide stories, make stories up, and Fox is fun to watch.
If Jones is a racist, then why there were so many white people cheering for him? Infact, a white person got him the czar job.
5 months to get out Van Jones. Does this country have that much time? We have to do a better job of attacking the LSM.
Okay, okay,.. Let's not all celebrate too much just yet, there's hundreds more just like him that need the boot.
Guess we all have the proverbial "straw that breaks the camel's back" and this issue was it for me. I canceled my subscription to the Ft Worth Star Telegram because of their selective and biased reporting. There are certainly media outlets further to the left, but when they couldn't address the Van Jones issue on time, and then left off his racist remarks when they finally chimed in, that was it. Strange too: they've exhibited for more egregious violations of intellectual honesty and integrity.
You're right. Barry needs to get more GOP's on his cabinet; though I'm not sure which party Ghandi belonged to.
Katie Couric is a Democrap enforcer! I remember when Pres.GWBush had just "WON" a state against McCain…. all she wanted to know was….. "When are you going to DROP OUT"? If you can go back and see the video on it…. she was mean, insulting (NO SMILE) and hateful to him….. JUST like she was to Sarah Palin! It makes me want to stick my finger down my throat, everytime I see her fawn over a Leftist DemocRat! I don't watch her show…. or ANY news media, which does not show BOTH sides!
I think people are figuring out that they are just embarrassing themselves…. if they admit to watching….the girlie men….
Keith(BEND)OverMan or Chrissy(TingleUpMyLeg)Matthews….. LOL!
And……. are there any people, who take Katie Couric seriously?
[...] about them instead," wrote Andrew Breitbart, a Washington Times columnist and leading … It's Gut Check Time, Ms. CouricThis is a great and important point, Mr. Breitbart. The MSM buried this story hoping it would go [...]
What has clearly emerged from the smoke and mirrors erected by the media around Obama is that he is not the sophisticated twenty-first century man whose intellectual curiosity involved surrounding himself with crazies like Wright Pfleger, Ayers and now Jones.It's that Obama is one of the crazies himself.It is actually in this sense that he is transformational.Various types of men have occupied the White House.The great. The not so great.The highly intelligent and the woefully mediocre.But Obama is the first looney toon to actually be put in charge of the Executive Branch and consequently he has no way of knowing that crackpot left wing conspiracy theorists are not mainstream and can hurt politically. Like just about everything else he does, the Van Jones appointment demonstrated that Obama has really no idea of how the world outside of Hyde Park actually works, despite his "compelling narrative" etc etc
Mr. Brietbart is another source of right-wing slander, misinformation, hate-mongering, and totally devoid of reality. It is easy to pour gasoline on hate-filled fires, but harder to deal with TRUTH.
Only if people keep voting her insanity down, otherwise she'll keep gaining points. Why aren't you voting her down? You trying to verify that concept about evil triumphing when good does nothing?
kadaka
The trolls are out in force…not so much commenting as voting (early and often) as usual.
I've noticed it the last two days. They just go through the list clicking the down button.
Yeah baby. Go Andrew!!!
Sorry. Most of the time I am laughing so hard I forget.
You copied that post. I could see copying it if it was a particularly good post, but it wasn't.
When YOU feel up to dealing with the truth, come on back.
Oh that, I've seen it happen off and on for months.
If your own comment gets voted down without any replies, just copy it, delete the original, and re-post to "restore" it. Then use your vote on the rest of the string. You can also do the re-post thing if someone singled out your comments, I've seen it done, heck I do it all the time to trolls. If there were replies, then deleting would disrupt the thread, so there I may vote back up then leave a brief comment about it.
If you feel squeamish about re-posting to get rid of a down vote, in case a "legitimate" vote was involved, lately I have seen a Rule mentioned about making your opponents stick to their rules, choke them on their own ethics. The system allows it, so go for it. It's not like we have different accounts and are voting ourselves up, which I'm wondering if bestindependent/hatefighter/Fatarsrepub (BlockHeadRepub) has been trying. Legitimate voters can still vote you down again, and the trolls are drive-by's who rarely return to a thread.
unfortunately Van Jones is NOT unemployed… He's already working with the Tides Foundation… probably with the 4 ladies just fired by ACORN
show them out the door… they walk into the ally to go in another back door…
They've already passed laws that are ignored because they're stupid.
Brietbart you are a freakin studd. Keep fighting the good fight my friend.
We number in the tens of millions.See you next election day.
I grew up watching Walter Cronkite. I watched Dan Rather to the end. I watched Katie Couric until the day she ran a rare story on immigration and preceded the segment by mentioning the clip would include " the so called Minutemen" with a snear on her face.
I don't watch national News on TV or read the Miami Herald anymore over their biased reporting on immigration, never missing a chance to smear patriots calling for less immigration as racists or bigots or xenophobes.
I went from a democrat that voted for Carter and Gore to a Pat Buchanan and Lou Dobbs Democrat overnight.
The mainstream media is dying for a lot of reasons, but their attacks on immigration conservatives like myself is often overlooked as a reason.
I go to vdare.com and numbersusa.com and learn more about politics on their sites than all of the media combined. Sure, I listen to Glenn Beck now and Rush, who I would have cringed if someone found out I listened to them 5 years ago, but not know. They may be biased, and the news sources I go to may also be biased, but they don't pretend to be . Bill Moyers and those like him that want fairness in the media should look in the freakin mirror.
WHAT? WHAT'S GOING ON? HUH? CZAR, WHAT CZAR?
The liberal saps are bouncing around hurling "racist" in every direction as they try to figure out what is happening. "Jones called Republicans a bad name!" Yup, that is all you will hear from ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and the rest of the MSM.
Someday, if you truly care about America and you decide to do your own thinking, try to hear all the news, not just the pap fed you by the MSM.
The real story behind Van Jones is the fact he wasn't hired for the Whitehouse job in spite of his radical views. He was hire for the job BECAUSE of them. MSM won't touch that with a 10 ft pole.
Please, there is no longer anythng that resembles what you all call mainstream….they are, and have been for some time, NON-mainstream media. They no longer matter.
Obama has found a way to exploit the avenues of access by planting his Marxist goons into positions of influence within the government. I guess none would pass the typical vetting, FBI background check, but then again the messiah requested their appointments, one commie after another!
Miss Couric is an embarrasment to UVA.
No one with the capacity to think watches Couric or her comrades at the other MSM. We are hip to their jive for the O man. It is kinda fun though watching them parade their bias and speak the most absurd hog wash. They do it with a straight face ( maybe they are truly ignorant…naaaa no one is that dumb). They are totally unaware that they have slit their own wrists and it is just a matter of time…( I hope none thinks this is a racist comment…racism seems to be the new witch hut.
If this means I have to endure another LIVE TV eye-probe through Katie's poop chute, I have two guns right next to me, Right Now….one for each ear. *ack… Spit-tooey! … *spit… *snuuuh… *ack
This goes right along with Gibbs saying he didn't know about the rally. Just pretend it doesn't exist and it will go away just like the MSM. Does he really think people believe that?
If, as he says, he didn't know, it makes me feel real safe that they 'didn't know' thousands of people were coming to Washington.
Gibbs, again, acting stupidly.
I hope you're suffering from nightmares and indigestion in light of the Obama administration's awful failures to exemplify transparency, honesty, ethical behavior and wise leadership. I hope you're nauseated and appalled at the blatant racism on exhibit from the "hope and change" and "post-racial" liberals.
I know the majority of Americans are!
Who's katy couric?
In an interview a couple of days ago, Charlie Gibson said he didn't know ANYTHING about the ACORN scandal, nothing! He's either lieing or stupid. Either way he's a poster boy for the new Fringe Media! Keep sleeping alphabet media, it will all be over for you idiots very soon!
I wonder if the mainstream media ever have board meetings and discuss why their ratings are in the toilet while Fox and other normal news outlets are gaining share exponentially. They just don't get it. They think they are cutting edge when in actuality they do not have a clue where American sentiment now sits.
Andrew, what's coming next brother?
I hope you are all paying attention to just what this ALL means!!! We must – as patriots and taxpaying citizens of this great country – keep the pressure on our government and our media coverage. They must all be held accountable. Honesty, Integrity and the Truth must be upheld everywhere.
Hmm… I should note that it is TN "state" senator Paul Stanley. He's not TN's senator at a national level. So, a state level pol who has an affair with an intern is national news over a national level "czar" who resigned over questionable background issues that were totally and completely ignored by the national news services and apparently the administration? I don't follow…
This is what makes me sick. Meg Whitman R and Gubernatorial candidate for CA has ties to Van Jones. And I pray that someone may be even Breitbart will do a story on this. The only candidate for governor who will help those poor farmers in CA, and put an end to illegal immigration is Chelene Nightingale. http://www.nightingaleforgovernor.com the only true constitutional conservative. Please, my fellow Californians support her. Let's make history and vote for an American Independent to lead us in California and the nation!
and what is the Pelosi story with regard to this lack of much need water?
is she creating a NO COMPETITION situation for someone?
what is her angle? has she promised that land to some big wig?
how can you sit there in your own State while you are in the best situation
to FIGHT for your constituents and you do just the opposite?
that aside even if it were not her State; how can anyone with a conscience to such a thing?
how can you see these lines of people – see the dry ground – receive letters from so many and still IGNORE?
pls forgive me, but is she CRAZY, LAZY OR A FIRST-RATE CROOK?
SHE HAS CROCODILE TEARS for something that happened in 1970 but no compassion for what is happening NOW?
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- TURN THE WATER ON -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=NOW.
____-=-=-==-=-= charge Pelosi with domestic terrorism! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=__in Central Valley american lives in harm's way – in danger of dying for lack of food – of taking away thei livelihood.
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