‘NewsBusted’ 10/02/09 — Comedy News from the Right

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Posted Oct 2nd 2009 at 6:33 pm in Media Criticism, Video | 2393908 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/newsbusters/2009/10/02/newsbusted-100209-comedy-news-from-the-right/%E2%80%98NewsBusted%E2%80%99+10%2F02%2F09+%E2%80%94+Comedy+News+from+the+Right2009-10-03+01%3A33%3A50NewsBusters

‘NewsBusted’ 9/29/09 — Comedy News from the Right

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Posted Sep 29th 2009 at 6:06 pm in Media Criticism, News | 23741016 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/newsbusters/2009/09/29/newsbusted-92909-comedy-news-from-the-right/%E2%80%98NewsBusted%E2%80%99+9%2F29%2F09+%E2%80%94+Comedy+News+from+the+Right2009-09-30+01%3A06%3A47NewsBusters

HuffPo Goes All In to Defend Polanski, Readers Revolt **UPDATED/CORRECTED**

CORRECTION:  This post failed to include numerous essays on the site critical of the filmmaker’s actions. While the site did include several strong commentaries speaking out in favor of Polanski, the site’s anti-Polanski posts outnumber them. I should have dug deeper and apologize for the error. –C.T. END CORRECTION

The Huffington Post has made it crystal clear where it stands on the news that director Roman Polanski may have to answer for his 31-year-old crime of child rape: “Move on, everyone. Nothing to see here. Keep on directing, Roman. Love ya!”

The popular liberal site has posted numerous essays since news that Polanski was arrested in Switzerland broke over the weekend, each arguing vehemently against the Oscar winner’s persecution.

• Kim Morgan: “Roman Polanski understands women” – starts with her exasperation over the Polanski witch hunt.

• Bernard-Henri Levy: Let’s start a petition in support of Polanski.

• John Farr: Leniency for Polanski.

But HuffPo readers aren’t buying it. And boy, are they angry.

Check out the comments left on each of these essays and you’ll see faithful HuffPo readers aghast that the site could be defending the indefensible. (more…)

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Tags: Bernard-Henri Levy, Huffington Post, John Farr, Kim Masters, roman polanski
Posted Sep 29th 2009 at 11:46 am in Celebrity News, Featured Story, Media Criticism | 237142351 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cftoto/2009/09/29/huffpo-goes-all-in-to-defend-polanski-readers-revolt/HuffPo+Goes+All+In+to+Defend+Polanski%2C+Readers+Revolt+%2A%2AUPDATED%2FCORRECTED%2A%2A2009-09-29+18%3A46%3A21Christian+Toto

CBS Early Show: ‘Friends Defend Polanski’

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Wow. That is quite a moment in the “60 Minutes” interview when director Roman Polanski says of the 13 year-old girl he drugged, raped and sodomized:

“She wasn’t unschooled in sexual matters. She was consenting and willing…”

First off, the victim disagrees. Secondly, if she was so willing, why the Quaalude?

Polanski may be a monster, but he’s Hollywood’s Monster, and they are the rich and powerful elite in this town and that matters. And what does it say about Polanski’s defenders in both the entertainment industry and media that they consider his living luxuriously in Europe as ”a horrible, soul-wrenching price for the infamy surrounding his actions“? (more…)

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Posted Sep 29th 2009 at 10:28 am in Celebrity News, Culture, Media Criticism | 237186106 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/09/29/cbs-early-show-friends-defend-polanski/CBS+Early+Show%3A+%27Friends+Defend+Polanski%272009-09-29+17%3A28%3A16John+Nolte

Michael Moore: Mainstream Media Boosts Dishonesty

Somewhat fresh off the trail from despicable attempts to distort the events and facts surrounding Columbine, 9/11 and the American health care system, filmmaker Michael Moore is back to perpetuate new mis-truths and to face off with a new “villain” – capitalism. In case of shear irony, in his new film entitled, “Capitalism: A Love Story,” Moore sets out to unravel the very system that gives him notoriety, fame and, no doubt, opulence.

Fortunately for Moore, we live in a free society. Despite the fact that his films are comprised of antics and obnoxious absurdities that only small-minded Americans would believe in their totality, he has every right to continue his idiocy. It is the coverage of Moore and his half-witted films that cause one to question the media’s promotional motives.

Mainstream outlets can’t seem to get enough of Moore, as they offer him positive coverage galore and provide him with valuable air time to push his insidious projects. Meanwhile, conservative film projects receive little to no praise – or even attention, for that matter. (more…)

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Tags: American media, capitalism, documentary, media, michael moore
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NewsBusted 9/25/09 — Comedy News from the Right

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‘Pioneer of Guerrilla Marketing,’ Specialist in ‘Leveraging’ Arts Community for Health Care Issues Coincidentally in on NEA Conference Call

The NEA apology from the White House is laughable, at best.  Again, if this was just all a big misunderstanding then why was a representative from one of the country’s largest political advertising firms involved?  And pushing the health care agenda on company time?

I believe the following information might help explain Bim Ayandele’s involvement.  Not only did he help set up the Office of Public Engagement, but before joining a division of one of the largest PR firms in the world — which specializes in “grassroots organization”, “issues management” and “crisis communications” — Ayandele:

served as the Director of Cures Now, a Los Angeles based non-profit organization leveraging a coalition of actors, directors, producers, musicians, and writers to promote the rapid, responsible and ethical advancement of science-related social issues, such as stem-cell research and diabetes awareness.

It seems Mr. Ayandele’s expertise is in “leveraging” the entertainment industry to “promote” health care related issues. A skill which would have been useful should, say, the White House or another interested third party wish to get NEA grant recipients to push President Obama’s health care agenda.

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Tags: Bim Ayandele, Cures Now, nea, Rock the Vote, White House Office of Public Engagement
Posted Sep 25th 2009 at 6:28 am in Media Criticism, Politics | 235470No Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/rshackleford/2009/09/25/pioneer-of-guerrilla-marketing-specialist-in-leveraging-arts-community-for-health-care-issues-coincidentally-in-on-nea-conference-call/%27Pioneer+of+Guerrilla+Marketing%2C%27+Specialist+in+%27Leveraging%27+Arts+Community+for+Health+Care+Issues+Coincidentally+in+on+NEA+Conference+Call2009-09-25+13%3A28%3A39Rusty+Shackleford

Cowardly ‘Onion’ Ignores Obama, Ridicules Reagan’s Alzheimers

It’s bad enough that one of the snarkiest comedy outlets around, The Onion, can’t seem to find anything funny about President Barack Obama. But the faux newspaper hit a new low this week by insulting former President Ronald Reagan’s Alzheimer’s Disease and his economic record in one nasty twofer.

Week after week The Onion bends over backward not to satirize The One. That’s keeping in line with most of today’s cowardly comics, from David Letterman to Bill Maher.

Jon Stewart of “The Daily Show” has shown some interest in pursuing the president’s comic potential, but it comes in fits and starts. But The Onion’s latest attempt at humor is both vicious and wrongheaded. (more…)

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Tags: Congress, Obama, President Obama, ronald reagan, satire
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Palin’s Hong Kong Speech: I Can See Insanity From My Newsroom

You would think at this point it would be impossible for anyone (especially me) to be stunned or outraged by anything the news media tries to pull when it comes to Sarah Palin. After all, once you have been exposed to a year-long brutal beating, one tends to become numb to a simple low blow. However, the news coverage of her Hong Kong speech still managed to spark the senses on several levels. 

First, it must be noted that it is rather incredible that this speech got as much play as it did. Remember, this is a private citizen from Alaska who was a “failed” vice-presidential candidate, who has given no official indication she is ever going to run for anything ever again. The speech was a private affair in a foreign country and contained no real “news” whatsoever. The news media was barred and were forced to cobble together bits and pieces of what was said from the paying customers who attended. And yet, nearly every major publication gave the event heavy play and links to FOUR of those articles were displayed prominently on the Drudge Report all day long.  (more…)

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Tags: AP, Hong Kong, New Tork Times, sarah palin, Time magazine
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Burt’s Eye View: Telling the Truth About Lies

I wasn’t surprised that Rep. Joe Wilson felt compelled to apologize to President Obama for calling him a liar.  I also wasn’t surprised to hear that within 24 hours, thousands of liberals had sent in over $200,000 in contributions to Wilson’s opponent in next year’s election even though they knew nothing about him except that he was running against Wilson.  Frankly, I wouldn’t have been surprised if the other 434 members of the House had censured, expelled or ridden Rep. Wilson out of Washington, D.C., on a rail.  I mean, where the heck does this guy get off speaking the truth in the hallowed halls of Congress? 

Speaking of Congress, although the research isn’t yet complete, the early indicators are that, rumors to the contrary, you can not get swine flu from exposure to Henry Waxman. 

Scientists at London’s School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine confirmed that 50 years of research found that, aside from price, there was no difference between conventionally-grown foodstuffs and the ugly, under-sized items you find in the organic section at the supermarket.  (more…)

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Tags: Barack Obama, Congress, healthcare, Obama, ObamaCare
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Breitbart Uses Netroots Tricks to Take Down ACORN

From The Washington Independent:

On September 10, Andrew Breitbart launched his new site, BigGovernment, with hidden-video camera footage of two young conservative activists who’d gotten Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) employees to advise them on hiding prostitution profits from the IRS. Within hours, Breitbart was doing interviews with reporters who wanted to know how, exactly, the story had come about, and why Big Government was releasing the videos and the identity of the muckrackers — 25-year-old James O’Keefe III and 20-year-old Hannah Giles — so slowly.

“It was strategized,” Breitbart told TWI this week, so “that they would be deprived of the type of information that a defense attorney would try to gather in order to create a defense.”

Who were “these people?” They were not just the leaders or members of ACORN itself. “They” were the Democratic Party, the White House, the progressive Center for American Progress and its president John Podesta. The “Democrat-media complex” is Breitbart’s name for the whole apparatus. “We deprived them of information,” Breitbart explained, “so that they couldn’t come up with a vile, kill-the-messenger attack with the media doing the groundwork for them.”

The success of Breitbart’s strategy was immediate, stunning, and is still ricocheting around the political world. Five days after the story broke, the U.S. Senate voted 83-7 to prevent ACORN from receiving any federal funding. Two days later, the House of Representatives did the same. Meanwhile, Breitbart was talking to more reporters, amused at how the “kill-the-messenger attack” was playing out. When one report from The Washington Post called him for a story about O’Keefe and Giles, Breitbart compared their tape to the photos of Abu Ghraib prison released in April 2004. (more…)

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It’s Time to Make the Enemy Scream

You may have the right to remain silent, but evil thrives on silence and inaction.

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Posted Sep 23rd 2009 at 6:03 pm in Art, Media Criticism, Politics, Religion | 23290241 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bfawstin/2009/09/23/all-quiet-on-the-western-front/It%27s+Time+to+Make+the+Enemy+Scream2009-09-24+01%3A03%3A14Bosch+Fawstin

The NEA: Defending the Indefensible

It was so much fun watching the ACORN people try and spin their way out of oblivion for the last couple of weeks.  After the first video was posted on Big Government.com they, of course, claimed it was an isolated incident and that the filmmakers were kicked out of numerous other ACORN offices.  When that proved to be false, they tried in vain to claim that the videos were faked and that their employees were the victims of CGI or something and not of their own stupidity and corruption.  When that didn’t work they claimed that the filmmakers, Andrew Breitbart and the entire Fox News network were racist.  Yawn.

NEA’s Yosi Sergant

Monday, we have the NEA under the microscope.  The Obama Administration was caught red-handed (is that “racist”?) funneling tax payer dollars into an official propaganda department.  I can’t wait to see what the excuse will be this time.

These people have mastered the art of defending the indefensible.

Let’s set aside the stupidity of this move.  Anyone familiar with the NEA knows that it pretty much exists to fund leftist propaganda disguised as art.  Officially coordinating it is a bit redundant. (more…)

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Tags: ACORN, Aldo Raine, Andrew Breitbart, biggovernment.com, Cap and Trade
Posted Sep 23rd 2009 at 5:03 am in Featured Story, Media Criticism, Politics | 23072655 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lscott/2009/09/23/the-nea-defending-the-indefensible/The+NEA%3A+Defending+the+Indefensible2009-09-23+12%3A03%3A35Leigh+Scott

‘NewsBusted’ 9/22/09 — Comedy News from the Right

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Posted Sep 22nd 2009 at 6:44 pm in Media Criticism, Political Humor, Video | 23311412 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/newsbusters/2009/09/22/newsbusted-comedy-news-from-the-right/%E2%80%98NewsBusted%E2%80%99+9%2F22%2F09+%E2%80%94+Comedy+News+from+the+Right2009-09-23+01%3A44%3A00NewsBusters

Planting the Seeds: The Politicized Art Behind the ACORN Plan

Everything you needed to know about the unorthodox roll out of the now-notorious ACORN sting videos was hidden in plain sight in my Sept. 7 column, “Katie Couric, Look in the Mirror.” ACORN was not the only target of those videos; so were Katie, Brian, Charlie and every other mainstream media pooh-bah.

They were not going to report this blockbuster unless they were forced to. And they were. What’s more, it ain’t over yet. Not every hint I dropped in that piece about what was to come has played itself out yet.Stay tuned.

When filmmaker and provocateur James O’Keefe came to my office to show me the video of him and his friend, Hannah Giles, going to the Baltimore offices of ACORN – the nation’s foremost “community organizers” – dressed as a pimp and a prostitute and asking for – and getting – help for various illegal activities, he sought my advice. In the past, Mr. O’Keefe created brilliant social satire that rocked his college campus and even made its way on to the talk-radio and cable-news shows, but the magnitude of his latest adventure had the potential to rock the political establishment.

I was awed by Mr. O’Keefe’s guts and amazed by the footage, but explained that the mainstream media would try to kill this important and illuminating expose about a corrupt and criminal political racket, and that the well-funded political left would go into “war room” mode, with 25-year-old Mr. O’Keefe and 20-year-old cohort Miss Giles in the cross hairs. I felt I had a moral obligation to protect these young muckrakers from the left and from the media, and to devise a strategy that would force the media’s hand.  (more…)

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Tags: abc, ACORN, acorn scandal, Bertha Lewis, Brian Williams
Posted Sep 20th 2009 at 6:40 pm in Featured Story, Media Criticism, News, Politics | 230558No Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/abreitbart/2009/09/20/planting-the-seeds-the-politicized-art-behind-the-acorn-plan/Planting+the+Seeds%3A+The+Politicized+Art+Behind+the+ACORN+Plan2009-09-21+01%3A40%3A55Andrew+Breitbart

Mainstream Media: The Devil Wears Pravda

From the riots and chaos of the 1960s to the anti-war rallies of the Bush years, the American Left’s revolution has been widely televised. In fact, the Big Three and Dead Tree Press played a major part in that revolution. From negative field reporting during the Vietnam War to negative reporting on McCain/Palin and the beatification and election of Barack Obama, the MSM has been marching in lockstep and waving the banner for the American Left all the way. RatherGate, anyone? Doesn’t get much more lockstep than a reporter trying to subvert a presidential election to the Left’s advantage.

But there’s another revolution underway in America today, and you sure as hell won’t see it televised or reported on by our new fourth branch of government. It’s not in their interest to do so. Nothing new there. For a long time now, political corruption has been rampant in the Leftist ‘mainstream’ media. In 1998, Matt Drudge made his big mark breaking the Monica Lewinsky scandal, which Newsweek had buried to protect President Clinton. Think Obama’s Tiger Beat would have done that for Bush? (more…)

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Tags: ACORN, American Left, Animal Farm, Barack Obama, child prostitution
Posted Sep 19th 2009 at 5:31 pm in Featured Story, Media Criticism, Politics, Television | 22600676 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jtsimpson/2009/09/19/mainstream-media-the-devil-wears-pravda/Mainstream+Media%3A+The+Devil+Wears+Pravda2009-09-20+00%3A31%3A21John+T.+Simpson

‘NewsBusted’ 9/18/09 — Comedy News from the Right

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Tags: China Organ Donation, Fairness Doctrine, Jimmy Carter, Joe Trippi, Kelly Osbourne
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CNN Anchor Bombs on ‘Celebrity Jeopardy’

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Burt’s Eye View: Some Townhalls Are Worse Than Others

Recently, I had a very odd experience.  No, I didn’t wake up 30 years younger and with a full head of hair.  That would have been odd but nice, whereas the experience I actually had was merely bizarre.

Like most bloggers, I write for more than one website.  It’s rather like being a syndicated columnist, except that little or no money changes hands.  But, as a writer who hopes to influence public opinion, you want to have as many readers as possible.

The strange event took place on a Tuesday.  It came in the form of an e-mail from Jonathan Garthwaite, who runs Townhall, a website I’ve contributed to for nearly four years.

The message read: “Dear Burt: As everyone is painfully aware, the economy is forcing companies to make difficult decisions.  Townhall.com is no different.  We take our commitment to our readers and our bottom line very seriously.  Similarly, we are constantly reassessing our editorial lineup.  We end up making tough decisions that aren’t always fun. (more…)

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Tags: bias, CAIR, media, Terror, terrorists
Posted Sep 17th 2009 at 11:38 am in Media Criticism | 224606134 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bprelutsky/2009/09/17/burts-eye-view-some-townhalls-are-worse-than-others/Burt%27s+Eye+View%3A+Some+Townhalls+Are+Worse+Than+Others2009-09-17+18%3A38%3A39Burt+Prelutsky

Mainstream Media Fears Where Stories They Ignore May Lead

Forget bias. Bias is officially the good ole’ days. Bias is the warm memory of Mary Ellen Hickenlooper in the back seat of the family station wagon on a cloudless Fourth of July night. Oh, how we long for the Days of Bias when the world was young and full of rainbows and peppermint trees.

Damn that Charlie Gibson. After the 2008 election, I pinky-sweared to myself that I would never be amazed by the mainstream’s media’s behavior again.  And I made it through so much — through Van Jones, ACORN, the Tea Parties and all the NEA revelations. Not being caught off guard by any of these non-stories was a victory, like winning a Decathlon … and then Charlie Gibson opens his mouth and it’s like celebrating the win only to have some judge tap you on the shoulder and point to the swimming portion.

Yesterday the anchor of a major network (ABC) consciously chose to try and look like an imbecile rather than have to answer why he wasn’t covering what so far ranks as the biggest story/scandal of the year.  And I say “try and look like an imbecile” because the ruse didn’t work. You, me and anyone with an IQ above room temperature knows he wasn’t telling the truth about not knowing anything about the ACORN scandal. The Manhattan/Cocktail Party Bubble is immune to many things – humility, tolerance – but we’re supposed to believe a network news anchor went two or three days without hearing ACORN was fired by the U.S. Census Bureau? (more…)

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‘The Audacity of Hos’: ‘Daily Show’ Skewers ACORN

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Tags: ACORN, acorn prostitute, acorn prostitute video, acorn prostitution, acorn scandal
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‘NewsBusted’ 9/15/09 — Comedy News from the Right

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Tags: 9/11 Terrorist Attacks, associated press, bush, California Wildfires, Charlie Sheen
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Daily Gut: Signs

So if there was one thing I learned from the coverage of those big protests last weekend, it’s that signs matter.

See, when the media covers an event they don’t really want to understand, they will focus on the protester’s placards. But as a regular, long-term consumer of all things media (and fiber), I cannot recall this ever happening with the media coverage of the WTO protests, the NOW marches, the no-nuke concerts, the anti-war demonstrations. If I remember correctly (and regular use of Ambien has made it a challenge), the media instead chose to focus on the heroic faces of the protesters. Often, these folks would be huddled together, holding a candle, singing “Give Peace A Chance,” or something equally annoying. Fact is, they were young, heroic, speaking truth to power – so who cares if the signs were offensive: that reality would only undermine the ideal. That’s why you never saw them. (more…)

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Tags: media, Media bias, NOW, Tea Party, WTO
Posted Sep 15th 2009 at 1:33 pm in Daily Gut, Media Criticism, Politics | 22563870 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/09/15/daily-gut-signs/Daily+Gut%3A+Signs2009-09-15+20%3A33%3A39Greg+Gutfeld

Pedros

14 September 2009
Helmand Province, Afghanistan

With the war increasing, Air Force Pararescue has been crisscrossing the skies picking up casualties. (more…)

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Tags: Afghanistan, Air Force Pararescue, Bagram, Helmand Province, Kandahar Airfield
Posted Sep 14th 2009 at 9:51 am in Media Criticism, Michael Yon Dispatches | 224690No Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/myon/2009/09/14/pedros/Pedros+2009-09-14+16%3A51%3A53Michael+Yon

T’was Accountability That Led the Mainstream Media to Suicide

In recent days and weeks three major news stories have broke here online, at Fox News or the Washington Times; everywhere but the mainstream media. Worse still, as the stories unfolded, the media willfully ignored them until, much to their embarrassment, they were forced to give grudging coverage only after official action — in the form of a resignation (Van Jones), reassignment (the NEA) or dismissal (ACORN) — occurred that could no longer be ignored.

Mainstream news outlets have been caught off guard before, but they used to play catch up. Today they play “hide the ball.” For as long as I’ve been politically aware the media’s been biased, but willfully ignoring a major national news story at great cost to their credibility and relevance is a new low. So what changed?

Ironically enough, scrutiny and accountability is the cause of much of the media’s increasingly disgraceful behavior. (more…)

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Tags: ACORN, Bernard Goldberg, bias, mainstream media, Media research Center
Posted Sep 12th 2009 at 1:10 pm in Media Criticism, Politics | 223710132 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/09/12/twas-accountability-that-killed-the-mainstream-media/T%27was+Accountability+That+Led+the+Mainstream+Media+to+Suicide2009-09-12+20%3A10%3A24John+Nolte

Honoring September 11th: The Rage Ratchet

Well, it’s been eight years since that terrible morning – George Bush was as deep into his first term of office as Barack Obama is today when those awful events unfolded. 

The anniversary in the mainstream media will be muted, as always – and we’ll come back to that. And even though three thousand people died that day, I want to concentrate on two – not to exclude the others, but simply to show you that they were not some abstract number but individual lives. 

Kevin Cosgrove

One of the people who died that day, eight years ago, was a businessman working in the World Trade Center. His name was Kevin Cosgrove. Kevin Cosgrove stands out from the other three thousand because he was on the phone to 9/11 when the tower he was in collapsed around him. (Fast forward to about 4:00 if you are pressed for time) And I’m warning you, this is not for the faint hearted.  (more…)

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Tags: 9/11, Islam, Jonathan Briley, Kevin Cosgrove, September 11th
Posted Sep 11th 2009 at 12:33 pm in Featured Story, Media Criticism, Military, Politics | 22255872 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bwhittle/2009/09/11/honoring-september-11th-the-rage-ratchet/Honoring+September+11th%3A+The+Rage+Ratchet2009-09-11+19%3A33%3A57Bill+Whittle

Media Malpractice in the Extreme

As anyone familiar with my book or either of my two documentary films would already guess, it is really hard for me to be shocked by anything that happens today in the once noble profession of “journalism.” However, when I simply tried to tell the story of the most recent saga of my rollercoaster broadcasting career, even I was truly stunned by the utterly dysfunctional and decrepit state of the formerly esteemed fourth estate.

This narrative is not primarily about why I am no longer doing a talk show at KGIL in Los Angeles (though that tale itself is fascinating and infuriating and necessary for proper context). Instead, I wish to focus on what transpired after I was told (at least partially inaccurately) by KGIL that they would be flipping the station to all music and that my contract would be paid out. (more…)

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Tags: KGIL, Media Malpractice, MSNBC, OC Register, sarah palin
Posted Sep 9th 2009 at 2:19 pm in Media Criticism | 21676278 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jziegler/2009/09/09/media-malpractice-in-the-extreme/Media+Malpractice+in+the+Extreme2009-09-09+21%3A19%3A17John+Ziegler

Compliant ‘L.A. Times’ Gives Stone Leftist Platform

“You do your homework, you do your research, we always did, whatever you think of my work. Even going back to ‘JFK,’ I’ve always done as much research as we could. And there’s mistakes made, but there’s a lot of truth, you know, as much as we can put into these movies.” – Oliver Stone, as quoted in the L.A. Times.

Irony is what happens when a Hollywood director (Oliver Stone) goes to Latin America, produces a film favorable to one of the most maniacal and politically obnoxious figures in the region (Hugo Chavez), and then returns to the States to tout what he sees as his own astounding “research” skills. In what world would legitimate research on Chavez result in any favorable representation in film or any other venue, for that matter? (more…)

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Tags: chavez, documentary, L.A. Times, Oliver Stone, Venezuela
Posted Sep 9th 2009 at 6:51 am in Entertainment, Media Criticism | 21858267 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bhallowell/2009/09/09/compliant-l-a-times-gives-stone-leftist-platform/Compliant+%27L.A.+Times%27+Gives+Stone+Leftist+Platform2009-09-09+13%3A51%3A53Billy+Hallowell

What Did Kumar Know, and When Did He Know It?

Meet the face of Obama’s Ministry of Propaganda: Kal Penn.  Best known for being one of the hapless stoners in the sex-bong-fart franchise “Harold & Kumar,” Penn was brought on to the Obama Administration to be the President’s Associate Director of Public Engagement.  After failing to grab more than a headline or two in the five months since his hiring, he has entered the fray in a big way as the White House representative to a National Endowment for the Arts conference call promoting the Obama administration’s political agenda.

Patrick Courrielche reported on the call this morning:

Kalpen Modi, Associate Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, was to represent the White House and key representatives from the National Endowment for the Arts were also to participate.

Did you catch that? Kalpen Modi is the given name of the actor known as Kal Penn. (more…)

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Tags: "I Pledge" Video, A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas, Art, ashton kutcher, George Will
Posted Sep 8th 2009 at 5:39 pm in Art, Celebrity News, Featured Story, Media Criticism, News, Politics | 22029089 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/amarlow/2009/09/08/what-did-kumar-know-and-when-did-he-know-it/What+Did+Kumar+Know%2C+and+When+Did+He+Know+It%3F2009-09-09+00%3A39%3A17Alexander+Marlow