New PBS Doc Embraces Big Gov’t, Criticizes Individual Freedom

Government broadcaster PBS is running a new, five-part series on a subject naturally interesting in our time: American Experience: The 1930s. Episodes are available for online viewing here.

The program is just what one would expect from PBS: earnest, well-researched, skillfully presented, and eager to lick the boots of government while criticizing individual freedom for everything wrong in the world.

There are two important lessons to be learned from the Great Depression, in my view:

1. The government causes business cycles and downturns through its erratic, manipulative policies intended to benefit powerful voting blocs at the expense of those less able to fight back. The market works when left alone, and government interference should be limited to redressing actual harms done by one party to another. This includes combating fraud, enforcing valid contracts, and setting clear but liberal guidelines for transactions made across political borders. And nothing more.

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Tags: American Experience: The 1930s, Depression, Federal Reserve, Great Depression, Irving Berlin
Posted Nov 3rd 2009 at 2:49 pm in Politics, Reviews, Television | 25591444 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/stkarnick/2009/11/03/new-pbs-doc-embraces-big-govt-criticizes-individual-freedom/New+PBS+Doc+Embraces+Big+Gov%27t%2C+Criticizes+Individual+Freedom2009-11-03+22%3A49%3A44S.T.+Karnick

How the MSM Might Survive: Come Out of the Ideological Closet

Whenever reading Politico, everything should be washed through this filter. You must always keep in the front of your mind that this supposed “news” organization took the time to dig up and publicize dirt on a private citizen whose only sin was asking a perfectly reasonable question of a public figure. Politico’s warning to the everyday American was clear: get in the way of our guy and we will summon all our resources to publicly humiliate you. This all goes to prove that Politico is nothing more than a digital version of the Dinosaur Media — and just as clueless and dishonest as their unholy brethren, especially when it comes to explaining why their counterparts are drowning in the tar pits of obsolescence.

To hear Politico tell it, CNN’s stuck in humiliating fourth place behind FOX, MSNBC and their own Headline News because they’ve made the mistake of not appealing to the great unwashed who prefer partisan bickering and echo chambers:

With the proliferation of media across platforms these days, there’s less shared knowledge among people, who are increasingly heading to niche outlets for information. At the same time, there’s a large appetite for the new media world where the MSM gatekeepers no longer hold as much clout, and “he said, she said” journalism gives way to strong point of view. …

There’s no doubt that the over-the-top, and politically partisan, hosts are having more success attracting viewers on nights when there’s no major news event.

And what better place for Politico to get an opinion on such a matter than The Nation aka: “The flagship of the left“:

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Tags: 4th place, Fox News, Media bias, MSNCB, politico
Posted Nov 2nd 2009 at 12:51 pm in Media Criticism | 256774One Commenthttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/11/02/how-the-msm-might-survive-come-out-of-the-ideological-closet/How+the+MSM+Might+Survive%3A+Come+Out+of+the+Ideological+Closet2009-11-02+19%3A51%3A54John+Nolte

J-School Rappers Rhyme Against Fox News

Normally I don’t like making fun of Columbia journalism students, because it’s like shooting fish in a barrel, if the barrel were full of Columbia journalism students.

And that would be very wrong.

But when I saw this video, I couldn’t resist. It’s of a panel, in which students are pointing out how predictable cover letters won’t help you get a job in the post j-school world. So what would? How about a rap?

And so it begins, as one student unleashes his inner Jay-Z, listing in all earnestness a lengthy promise of his many qualifications.

Roll tape, roll-tapers:

So, no surprise: the student raps benign pap that his professors and like-minded dorm-rats would applaud – from railing against complacency, to never losing touch with “his humanity.” But I’ll repeat the part the kid really wanted them to hear:

“There’s no need to hear crazy, or create a false sense of parity, like Fox News and Hannity.” (more…)

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Tags: Columbia, Columbia journalism school, Fox News, Hannity, j-school
Posted Oct 26th 2009 at 4:11 pm in Daily Gut, Media Criticism | 252994119 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/10/26/j-school-rappers-rhyme-against-fox-news/J-School+Rappers+Rhyme+Against+Fox+News2009-10-26+23%3A11%3A02Greg+Gutfeld

Daily Gut: Why the White House Hates Fox News

So the White House is ticked off at Fox News. So much so, they’re saying bad things about us behind our back. Last night, after work, I found a bag of soiled underpants in my locker, and for once, it didn’t belong to me. It was a novelty g-string, so I’m assuming it belongs to Gibbs.

So why is this happening? I’ll tell you, if you just calm down.

The White House is focusing on Fox News because there is no one else around to mess with. I mean, aside from Rush, and perhaps a reunited version of April Wine – they got nobody. The Republicans are hanging back, somewhere, waiting for their moment, which may never come. The Dems, however, have everything – the Houses, the President, the media, the international community of dimwitted Norwegians- but they can’t get their crap together.

So, whose fault is it? Fox News. (more…)

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Tags: April Wine, Fox News, Media bias, Obama, Red eye
Posted Oct 14th 2009 at 3:20 pm in Daily Gut | 246462169 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/10/14/daily-gut-why-the-white-house-hates-fox-news/Daily+Gut%3A+Why+the+White+House+Hates+Fox+News2009-10-14+22%3A20%3A33Greg+Gutfeld

The New American Dream

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Tags: ACORN, American Dream, amnesty, bailouts, Bill Ayers
Posted Oct 11th 2009 at 11:14 am in Media Criticism, Obama, Political Humor | 24468231 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cmuir/2009/10/11/the-new-american-dream/The+New+American+Dream2009-10-11+18%3A14%3A54Chris+Muir

Using Arts for Conservative Purposes

Big Hollywood and Big Government have done tremendous work in recent weeks. They have proved without a doubt that the Obama administration and its allies have gone too far. They’ve crossed the line. Federal agencies are turned into propaganda tools. This is something we haven’t seen in the U.S. since, well, ever. This administration knows no shame. Everything is permissible in order to push its legislative agenda through the collective throat of the American people. And the MSM are covering it all up, refusing to spend time and attention to the ACORN scandal first and now the NEA scandal.

It’s a good thing there are conservatives willing to expose this administration for what it is.

President Obama and Kalpen Modi, Associate Director of the Office of Public Engagement

But the question is, what’s next? How can this be countered and how can the Obama administration be forced to back down? As it is, liberal groups, news organizations and individuals continue to cover up for the administration. Perhaps someone will be thrown under the bus again, but the thugs of Team Obama will remain in place and continue to “transform America.”

Exposing their tactics is necessary to fight them, but it’s not enough to actually beat them. Mr. Breitbart and team have learned that the tactics the left has used against conservatives for decades; to discredit them works wonders. But if conservatives want to take back the government, we have to copy the left’s organizing skills as well. (more…)

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Tags: ACORN, Andrew Breitbart, big government, big hollywood, breitbart
Posted Oct 5th 2009 at 6:08 pm in Art, Politics | 23267065 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mvandergalien/2009/10/05/using-arts-for-conservative-purposes/Using+Arts+for+Conservative+Purposes2009-10-06+01%3A08%3A50Michael+van+der+Galien

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

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

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

Lonewolf Diaries: Mourning Dead People Who Suck

When a toolbag dies… How are you supposed to handle it? Are you supposed to honor them? Post-mortem, does a pedophile become the “greatest musician of all time”? Does a killer become an “American Icon”? Does death in itself wipe the slate clean, exempting the deceased from all judgment?  Or are you supposed to view them just as you did in life (be it good or bad)?

In my humble opinion… None of the above. Death is not only a passing on, but a time for everyone else to truthfully reflect on one’s life. To skim through the unsavory parts (or in Kennedy/MJ’s case, skip entire chapters all together) is to do the world a disservice. How are the rest of us shmucks supposed to learn from past mistakes if we can’t even acknowledge them to begin with?

The fact that the media decided to smooch the Kennedys’ rears through the death of Ted is appalling. Not only was there no mention of the Chappaquiddick river “incident” or his character assassination of Clarence Thomas, but the coverage was carried out in a way that assumed everyone was in agreement with the man’s misguided agenda. (more…)

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Tags: Chappaquiddick, Clarence Thomas, death, mainstream media, Media bias
Posted Sep 1st 2009 at 5:59 pm in Celebrity News, Culture, Lone Wolf Diaries, Media Criticism, News | 216386131 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/scrowder/2009/09/01/lonewolf-diaries-mourning-dead-people-who-suck/Lonewolf+Diaries%3A+Mourning+Dead+People+Who+Suck2009-09-02+00%3A59%3A11Steven+Crowder

No Justice, No Rest in Peace

This week’s Washington Times column:

With the deaths of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy and Michael Jackson, the summer of ‘09 marked the merciful ends to Camelot and Neverland, iconic American fairy tales whose story lines should have come to merciful ends long ago when their charismatic protagonists took dark and irredeemable turns.

Our country was not built to support blood dynasties or to elevate the rich and famous to a higher ethical or constitutional plain. But through the power of celebrity, Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Jackson worked the media to twist truths. They manipulated their constituencies and fans to obscure their misdeeds. They played the faithful to confer this manufactured innocence on the rest of us. And, in the end, they placed themselves above the law.

My condolences go to the Kennedy and Jackson families, who should not be stained by the sins of their kin. But there is no time like the present to ensure that those masterfully produced, over-the-top, all-star televised funerals don’t serve to canonize talented and charismatic men who failed to own up to their public wrongs and who continued to flaunt the behaviors that got them into trouble.

The result was Mr. Kennedy needn’t do more than show up for work to atone for his calculated selfishness. Without apology or contrition, Mr. Kennedy crafted a public career in which he spent taxpayers’ money – certainly not his own – to make up for his unspeakable behavior. (more…)

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Tags: camelot, Chappaquiddick, Edward M. Kennedy, Elizabeth Kubler-Ros, healthcare
Posted Aug 30th 2009 at 6:19 pm in Celebrity News, Featured Story, Media Criticism, News, Politics | 214378122 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/abreitbart/2009/08/30/no-justice-no-rest-in-peace/No+Justice%2C+No+Rest+in+Peace2009-08-31+01%3A19%3A36Andrew+Breitbart

‘The Smile’: A Perfect Presidential Nickname

Presidents have nicknames. Clinton was” Bubba” or “Slick Willy,” if you didn’t like him. ”The Comeback Kid” if you did. Reagan was “Dutch” from his sportscaster days or “The Gipper” from the movies. But love him or hate him you had to admit Reagan was “The Great Communicator.”   

President Obama should have a nickname from our side. Words mean something we are reminded all the time. So I am going to name him “The Smile.” 

If you watch him at “town meetings” when he’s pressing his agenda and making statements that go unchallenged from the adoring crowds, he comes across as calm, reassuring and easy going while he’s attempting to dismantle American capitalism. His answer to everything is to smile. 

From my perspective in Hollywood, I see that people respond to him like they do to a movie star. It’s the face, the eyes, the smile, not what he says. This phenomenon shows up in the polls. His personal popularity holds around 60%, but if you ask about specific policies, Americans don’t agree with him. Americans by wide margins do not want to close Guantanamo, are against affirmative action, and against late term abortion. The majority want him to cancel the stimulus and hate the bailouts!  (more…)

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Tags: mainstream media, Media bias, Obama, smile
Posted Jul 1st 2009 at 10:55 am in Featured Story, Politics | 17334219 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/msokoloff/2009/07/01/the-perfect-presidential-nickname-by-myrna-sokoloff/%27The+Smile%27%3A+A+Perfect+Presidential+Nickname2009-07-01+17%3A55%3A59Myrna+Sokoloff

When in Rome Fight Anti-Americanism

We’ve all heard the old saying “When in Rome, do as the Romans do.” Now that doesn’t  mean crucifixions, world domination, and little boy rump humping. That simply means live as the locals do. Blend in. We as Americans are notorious for doing exactly the opposite. And definitely we should all collectively do our best to be decent travelers so we don’t continue to come off as obnoxious boobs to the rest of the world already looking for a reason to hate us. I’ve been that boob before, and I hereby apologize to the entire world. I have learned my lesson.

But, hate us? Really. Then why do people cross oceans on tiny little boats, risking their lives in the process, to get to our horrible country? Why do people from all over the world come to us for serious health care when it really hits the fan? Why is it that someone can come to our country, not even speak the language, and in a few years become wealthy? Let me help you Libbies out here: Opportunity, Freedom, Capitalism, Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Speech (well sort of), Pride, Patriotism, and Water Pressure. We have been the beacon of hope around the world for over 230 years. We are still the most successful and wealthy country the Earth has ever known. We share our wealth more than an other nation on Earth. And we have shed more blood than any other country to give others the chance at the same freedoms we enjoy. So all I can say is… Jealous much? (more…)

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Tags: David Duke, Media bias, Robert Byrd, Spike Spencer, When in Rome
Posted Apr 29th 2009 at 5:32 pm in Political Humor | 121150No Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/sspencer/2009/04/29/when-in-rome/When+in+Rome+Fight+Anti-Americanism2009-04-30+00%3A32%3A14Spike+Spencer

The Truth About My Arrest at USC

I have had a rather bizarre career in media, but what happened last week on the campus of USC here in Los Angeles may end up marking one of the strangest and most disturbing episodes yet. I went to USC intending to simply let as many people as possible know that the award for “journalism excellence” they were giving Katie Couric for her Sarah Palin interview was a complete farce. To prove my point, I wanted to give away copies of my film “Media Malpractice,” which has my own Sarah Palin interview as a special feature. Instead, I ended up getting handcuffed, “arrested,” roughed up, detained, threatened, and forced off the premises. 

For those that may have missed the incredible video of the incident, here is how the episode was played on Fox News Channel: 

While that report provided a good overview of what happened, there is a lot more to say about this situation, largely because there has been so much misinformation, so many irresponsible accusations, and so much blatant hypocrisy in the general reaction to the remarkable videotape.  (more…)

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Tags: Annenberg, Ermest J. Wilson III, How Obama Got Elected, John Ziegler. USC. USC arrest, Katie Couric
Posted Apr 20th 2009 at 8:25 am in Media Criticism, News | 11039819 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jziegler/2009/04/20/the-truth-about-my-arrest-at-usc/The+Truth+About+My+Arrest+at+USC2009-04-20+15%3A25%3A28John+Ziegler

Excuse Me, Your Leftism is Showing

On March 2nd there was a demonstration in Washington D.C. It was billed as the largest demonstration for green power/global warming awareness/stop dirty coal/ let’s all go live in a tepee, ever held. It was attended by, (are you ready for the number?), 2,500 people. That was the largest one ever! This demonstration was covered by every major television and news service. No station or alleged newspaper gave any coverage to opposing opinions. Ironically there was a blizzard that day another fact which, to the best of my knowledge, was not noted by any major news outlet.

Thirteen days later one of the first of the grassroots “Tea Parties” was held in Cincinnati Ohio. Over five thousand average middle-class folks showed up on Fountain Square in the center of the city. Their message was simple, we can’t afford our government! Did you see it on CNN? Maybe you caught it on ABC or MSNBC? If you did you need to check the strength of your prescriptions, it wasn’t on any of them. In fact, the overwhelming success of this protest against rampant, run away big government was one of the inspirations for yesterday’s national day of protest. But unless you live in Cincinnati you probably never heard about it. (more…)

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Tags: Anderson Cooper, CNN, Keith Obermann, Media bias, MSNBC
Posted Apr 18th 2009 at 7:48 am in Featured Story, Media Criticism, Political Humor | 1084746 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjena/2009/04/18/excuse-me-you-leftism-is-showing/Excuse+Me%2C+Your+Leftism+is+Showing2009-04-18+14%3A48%3A51Jeffrey+Jena

The Cost of Media Bias

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Tags: bush, CNN, Media bias, Obama, Roesgen
Posted Apr 18th 2009 at 7:07 am in Media Criticism | 1093662 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bwhittle/2009/04/18/the-cost-of-media-bias/The+Cost+of+Media+Bias2009-04-18+14%3A07%3A42Bill+Whittle

Mainstream Media: Only Conservatives Are Sore Losers

The popular meme circulating throughout the “unbiased” media yesterday was: The original Tea Party was about taxation without representation but Americans HAVE representation and Republicans are just mad because they lost. The more I twist that in my head, the more absurd it sounds. What they’re really saying is: you are only allowed representation in government if you’re the majority.

Funny how that didn’t seem to be the case in California when Prop. 8 passed. I don’t remember any snide reporter telling a disappointed same-sex couple “Hey, you lost, get over it.” In fact, their protests have been covered by teary-eyed reporterettes (too young to remember Selma) as a modern civil rights struggle. (How is the right to keep your income and raise children free from debt not a civil right?) And the justification of majority Democracy gave no comfort to Prop. 8 opponents who went to court to overturn the majority. (more…)

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Tags: media, Media bias, prop 8, Tea Parties, Thomas Jefferson
Posted Apr 16th 2009 at 4:22 pm in Featured Story, Media Criticism, Politics | 10798615 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/tslagle/2009/04/16/tea-for-tat/Mainstream+Media%3A+Only+Conservatives+Are+Sore+Losers2009-04-16+23%3A22%3A17Tim+Slagle

The Post-American President

As President Obama takes his victory lap abroad, the cheerleading media line up to shake their pompoms. The Huffington Post says “this is what real diplomacy looks like.” Slate calls it “the return of statecraft.” Here’s another way to describe it: dhimmitude, the demeaned and subordinate status of non-Muslims under Muslim rule. 

Did you miss our President’s servile bow before the Saudi King in London? If you blinked you did, because the mainstream media have virtually ignored this significant gesture. The left, of course, on the rare occasion that they even acknowledge the incident, dismiss the bow as a stumble, a search for a dropped contact lens, a sudden bout of abdominal pain, anything but what it unmistakably was … a full-on deferential dip to the ruler of another country. And not just any country, but the home of the most active disseminators of the fundamentalist ideology that seeks our destruction. The left always got a big, derisive (as Obama might say) laugh out of George W. Bush’s hand-holding with the Saudi sheikhs, but while that may have been a distasteful gesture, at least it was not a subservient one. (more…)

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Tags: "America Alone", "Post-American World", Arab media, bow to Saudi King, Fareed Zakaria
Posted Apr 9th 2009 at 5:11 am in Featured Story, Media Criticism, News, Politics | 996542 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mtapson/2009/04/09/the-post-american-president/The+Post-American+President2009-04-09+12%3A11%3A30Mark+Tapson

Exclusive Review: Media Malpractice: How Obama Got Elected and Palin Was Targeted

Big Hollywood was given an exclusive first look at John Ziegler’s latest documentary covering the media coverage of the 2008 presidential election.

In journalistic terms it’s called a “tick-tock.” This is when the media crafts a news story that takes you behind the scenes of an event and breaks down, piece by linear piece, the individual acts which led up to that event. With “Media Malpractice: How Obama Got Elected and Palin Was Targeted,” director John Ziegler (”Blocking the Path to 9/11“) turns the art of the tick-tock around and aims it, with damning effect, squarely at the news media.  The result is not a documentary, at least not for anyone who believes in truth, fairness or journalistic integrity – the result is a horror film.

If you expect Ziegler to build his case using easy targets like Keith Olbermann aping David Strathairn playing Edward R. Murrow, think again. Olbermann’s a bit player in this cinematic indictment, a clown. The real conspirators run the gamut of every network (cable and otherwise), and most of the major print and online publications. Maybe it’s not a horror story, after all. Maybe it’s something closer to an Agatha Christie mystery where everyone’s the murderer.

The victim, of course, is American journalism. (more…)

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Tags: Barack Obama, Brian Williams, Katie Couric, Media bias, Media Malpractice
Posted Feb 23rd 2009 at 1:04 am in Featured Story, Media Criticism, Reviews | 57370287 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/02/23/exclusive-review-media-malpractice-how-obama-got-elected-and-palin-was-targeted/Exclusive+Review%3A+Media+Malpractice%3A+How+Obama+Got+Elected+and+Palin+Was+Targeted2009-02-23+09%3A04%3A37John+Nolte

So Tell Us, Mainstream Media, Who Got Henrietta Her House?

If you took all of the integrity of all of the journalists in the mainstream media and rolled it into a ball it wouldn’t fill a gnat’s navel. Here is just the latest example of their misleading “journalism.”

On February 10th, Henrietta Hughes went to a townhall meeting and asked President Obama for some help since she and her son were homeless. How a homeless woman got to the mic to panhandle (“Brother, can you spare a house?”) to the President is another subject. Maybe I’m just overly cynical, but she had to have been vetted. This was not just some spontaneous event, the handlers and the President knew what was coming. (more…)

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Tags: Chene Thompson, CNN, Henrietta Hughes, Media bias, Nick Thompson
Posted Feb 13th 2009 at 2:30 pm in Media Criticism, News, Political Humor | 49778100 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjena/2009/02/13/who-got-henrietta-a-house/So+Tell+Us%2C+Mainstream+Media%2C+Who+Got+Henrietta+Her+House%3F2009-02-13+22%3A30%3A41Jeffrey+Jena

‘Dreams’ Of A Fair And Balanced Press

PBS’s “Frontline” series is greeting the new Obama administration with a big, wet kiss – if this press teaser is any indication:

On the night of Barack Obama’s historic inauguration, FRONTLINE examines the rich personal and political biography of the 44th president of the United States. Through interviews with insiders and observers who’ve tracked Obama from his days at Harvard Law School, through his rise in Chicago politics, to his emergence onto the national scene after the 2004 Democratic National Convention, FRONTLINE chronicles Obama’s meteoric rise, pushing beyond the headlines to reveal how he won one of the most memorable, and important, presidential elections of our time.

“Dreams of Obama” is set to air at 9 p.m. EST (check local listings) Jan. 20 – Inauguration Day.

Now just imagine a “Frontline” special like that greeting President-elect George W. Bush on his first day in office eight years ago. Yeah, I can’t, either.

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Posted Jan 12th 2009 at 2:17 pm in Media Criticism | 1649769 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cftoto/2009/01/12/dreams-of-a-fair-and-balanced-press/%27Dreams%27+Of+A+Fair+And+Balanced+Press2009-01-12+22%3A17%3A05Christian+Toto