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Calling Bob Woodward
A major story cries out for attention.
Bill Keller of the New York Times, you are on the border of journalistic malpractice that brings your integrity into question. Ditto for Marcus Brauchli of the Washington Post. Katie Couric and Brian Williams, Wolf Blitzer and Chris Matthews, Eugene Robinson and E.J. Dionne, and every other “establishment media” bigwig in the country. If you Google-search your names and see this column, good. Your sin of omission in one particular story is becoming so flagrant, so blatant, so inexcusable, that you have no more excuses for not covering it.
Let’s stick to indisputable, objective criteria for what sorts of things constitute news, and what things don’t. Take away the particulars of party affiliations, of ideology, of political advantage, and just consider the basic facts. By any standards of journalistic judgment, the following occurrences — each one individually — constitute major news, and in combination with each other should make headlines for weeks:
1) One agency of the federal government is in a pitched battle with another entire federal department, with the first agency possessing subpoena power that federal law mandates all other departments honor; yet the department in question is refusing the subpoena and ordering its employees not to comply with it. A major constitutional showdown could loom.
2) Key members of one separate branch of government are being stiffed by the department in question, setting up a battle in which key precepts of the separation of powers, and the prerogatives of each branch, are directly at issue. Again, a major constitutional showdown could loom.
3) The department in question is claiming all sorts of privileges from disclosure of information — to the press, to the public, to other agencies and branches of government — that are stretched, or obviously inapplicable, or that have never before been claimed, or that either flat-out don’t exist or else seem invented out of whole cloth. Remember when any assertion of “executive privilege” was automatically treated as inherently suspicious? Now we see all sorts of subsets of executive privilege claimed even when they not only do not directly involve the president, but also on behalf not just of presidential staff or presidential appointees but “career” employees as well.
4) The department in question is ignoring, or refusing to comply with, or claiming exemption from, official Freedom of Information requests by accredited media outlets. Administration vs. media, on matters of fundamental media rights: How is that not a big story on which every single major media outlet rallies to the side of the media organization that is getting stiffed?
5) Directly at issue are serious accusations of political interference, possibly including from the White House itself, with specific court cases. Just as occurred with the accusations that Karl Rove and other Bushies improperly fired several U.S. attorneys, the allegation is that political appointees for political reasons interfered directly with the work of “career” employees of the Justice Department. Politicization of the Justice Department is always a front-page story — right?
6) Outside observers, analysts, and federal agencies are suggesting that the Justice Department is deliberately protecting the civil rights of one race but not of other races. Read that again. We’re talking civil rights, the media’s favorite hobby-horse for lo these 50 years. We’re talking allegations that the U.S. Department of Justice is deliberately favoring one race over another. If that isn’t explosive news, nothing ever is or will be.
7) At issue are voting rights. Race-based voting rights. Specifically, voter intimidation. Wow, that’s big. Think Bush/Gore in Florida in 2000. Remember all the media fulminations about a cop car parked about a mile from an individual polling place, supposedly constituting such an intimidating presence that black voters were too scared to continue on to the polls? Now move the intimidation a mile closer, to right outside the polls. Now put a weapon in the hands of one of the alleged intimidators, and paramilitary garb on both of them, while they use racial epithets and strongly implied race-based threats. Holy Toledo, anybody who gets to the bottom of this race-based conspiracy should win a Pulitzer Prize at least, and possible a Nobel.
8) Now, put all these strands together. Add some less major but clearly interesting and important color, such as the fact that two of the main government attorneys involved have records of being sanctioned for misconduct, and that details of the case were discussed with outside third parties while the case was pending, and that one of the lawyers with a spotty record worked on a case on behalf of the controversial group ACORN for which one of the attorneys directly representing ACORN’s interests is now the president of the United States. Oh, and try this on for size (and a rather big size at that): One of the vote intimidators was an official poll-watcher for one of the nation’s two major political parties, and four days after his case was dropped he again served as an official poll watcher. Oh, and that he is directly affiliated with an organization officially identified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. And that one of the group in question is on a National Geographic video saying: “You want freedom, you’re gonna have to kill some crackers. You’re gonna have to kill some of they [sic] babies.” And, finally, that the very investigator assigned to the case is being vetted for a federal judgeship by the same people she is supposedly investigating!
This is, of course, the story of the voting intimidation case against members of the New Black Panther Party, inexplicably dropped after the case already was won, by political appointees or temporary political appointees of the Obama administration.
There is no way, none at all, that it does not qualify as major news. Unless, of course, you are a journalist with biases so deeply ingrained that you can explain away the world’s biggest double standard (your own) by pretending the story doesn’t exist at all. If you don’t think the same standards of what constitutes news apply when the suspicious activity is by liberals rather than conservatives, then you’re free and clear of all normal strictures of journalistic ethics.
Free, clear… and deeply dishonest and intellectually corrupt.
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Quin Hillyer is a senior editor of The American Spectator and a senior fellow at the Center for Individual Freedom. Follow him on Twitter @QuinHillyer.
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JJC| 2.11.10 @ 7:04AM
There is a problem. The people mentioned above live in a liberal echo chamber. They are unable to even consider the fact that they are biased because they cannot find any evidence that there is legitimate disagreement. They seriously hold to the view that their persepctives are solid mainstream.
How sad.
Now watch them circle the drain as they lose viewers and readers. The public has spoken with their time and their wallets.
We need an active 4th estate, but that is not what they have given us.
Perhaps at one time, but no longer.
Gerald Stephens| 2.11.10 @ 8:53AM
ECHO CHAMBER...
It is more insidious. Thomas Sowell's analysis of the 'intellectual' or if they prefer, 'intelligentsia' in " Intellectuals and Society" defines how these classes are created through in most cases self indulgence.
Once elevated to the category they feed on thoughts generated within the category even though the 'original' thoughts are underpinned by total ignorance. The mechanism further supports the ignorance through a general agreement, and pats on the back, among that category that any thought, ignorant or otherwise, is superior due to its genesis. Once admitted to the category anything less than total obedience to the general agreement will be unmercifully attacked as 'anti-intellectual' or worse just plain stupid.
The category's procedural application of the mechanism is most easily recognized for what it is when considering their consensus that Mr. Obama is brilliant. Having issued the proclamation of this consensus it is applied without exception to his actions, even in the face of common sense.
While it is tempting to initiate an annihilation of this category, justified by common sense rational, thus eliminating the demonstrable cause of one of mankind's most dangerous infectious plagues, alas we must suffer through or risk the loss of Mr. Sowell in the ensuing hysteria.
Thank you, Thomas Sowell!
Walking Horse| 2.11.10 @ 11:58AM
This is why some wag chose to refer to the Fourth Estate as the "Press Corpse".
Tim| 2.11.10 @ 3:23PM
There's an episode of Kolchak where McGavin is on a a single's cruise to do a story and his roommate calls it the Fifth Column. :)
MikeD| 2.11.10 @ 3:00PM
Before writing anything I must state that I DO know that the United States is a 'representative republic'. Having said that, however, I will now refer to our Country as a democracy, which is what most of us think it is, and, in all substantive ways, should be. But, as a democracy, our Country is rapidly collapsing; and will be just a memory in the near future, within two to three years; unless drastic steps are taken. A functioning democracy requires two things: An educated and informed electorate; and a free and unfettered press/media. We no longer have either. JFK, in his infinite wisdom, and as a premeditated policy decision by the Democratic Party to buy forever the votes of government employees and the subsequent explosive growth of that government; used an executive order to give public employees the right to organize and strike. Then, for whatever reasons, the majority of people who went into education and journalism exhibited the negative traits of dependency on the government, hatred of anybody who had more than they did, and a complete avoidance of any profession requiring hard work or responsibility. So, the result is a Country with a media and education establishment that hates business, responsibility for personal behavior, and foments class warfare because making significant amounts of money in a free market economy requires accepting responsibility, hard work, and taking risks.
So, the natural result of the class warfare being fomented, and the division between the taxpayers and government employees; is that, when our Country can no longer afford to pay for the government 'elite', something will have to 'give'. Add to that the fact that this 'elite' REALLY believes that they ARE superior, thus people like obama in the white House (Affirmative Action Presidency, anybody?) the divide between the producers (Taxpayers) and consumers (Government workers and bureaucrats) will widen until there is simply no money left to support the government and their drones. At the same time, the media will be continuing their bias in reporting, thus helping to create, and exacerbate, the division between groups in our Country. (Blacks v Whites; Hispanics v Blacks; Urban v Rural, etc...) Then; just one spark...
While I am advocating nothing of the sort; the cabal now in charge of our Executive and Legislative branches has been, and continues to be, perfectly willing to use whatever type and degree of force required to achieve their aims. The armed thugs at the polling place is a logical extension of the Demoncrap party practices of doing whatever is required to win. And, that is why our Country is finished as we know it.
Since obama, pelosi, and reid, and their fellow conspirators are evidently not insane, they must be comfortable that they will suffer no consequences from their absolute disregard for the wishes of the electorate. They're assured that ACORN and SEIU and their other thug groups will repeat their theft of the 2008 election in 2010 and 2012. If this were not so, they would not be doing what they're doing. That's also why obama is trying to build his own private army and take arms away from the citizens. All it will take is for the obama group to declare some sort of an emergency, declare martial law, and, bingo, it's done....they think.
The fly in the ointment is that the majority of the military, and national guard will not fire on their fellow citizens; and the citizens are also armed. Thus, we are heading for a bloody conflict, and that will require that the loyal military will intervene to defend the American people and the Constitution of the United States of America. The resulting bloodbath will destroy forever the Country we know and love. The only positive result will be the elimination, for once and for all, of the far left anti-American element because they, and the remains of the democratic party will be finished. There are lots more people concerned about this than anybody in the media or government will admit. And, it can all be presented right at the feet of the Democratic Party and the Obama Administration. These people have encouraged this chain of events by their dismissal of the rule of law and the sanctity of electoral credibility.
I pray daily that I am wrong, and I invite any of you out there to explain why this cannot happen in America...please.
John Yarbrough| 2.11.10 @ 3:30PM
Not only do I think you are correct I think you predict exactly the one thing I would have never imagined 10 years ago; that we would place our military personel in a position of having to decide whether to follow their consitutional duty or perserve their nation. God bless their service, but more than that God bless (I hope) the wisdom to use there power for the good of this nation.
Thom| 2.11.10 @ 5:35PM
MikeD, the essence of what you fear has always been on the table, right from the beginning of this Republic. The differences today is that the bulk of the population are ignorant of our Founding principles, living off someone else’s dime and control of both the “press” and government has been in the hands of a political movement too long that has as its primary goal to return this Nation to what amounts to Feudalism dressed up in a Tux. A Free people don’t tolerate being talked down to, lied to nor do they reach for the phone to call a lawyer to see if they can fix the government. Much of our citizenry make some of our Founders look like prophets but in fact they were all just well educated men with thousands of years of perspective on several failed attempts at self rule. Your average citizen today couldn’t pick the founding principles out of a multiple choice test with a cheat sheet. More importantly, they don’t care and like a rattlesnake, you can’t reason with them.
The trick here to avoid your nightmare and not have to survive what will redefine “ugly” is to make every effort to make the existing political system work as required in a Constitutional Republic. If that fails, you and yours had better be prepared for what comes next because people drunk with absolute power do not go quietly into the night. We have a history on that don’t we? If the Constitution is nothing but toilet paper then force of arms is all that is left.
If politics is “war by other means” and I believe it is then an awful lot of citizens that think of themselves as “Americans” had better get in touch with what that really means and start stepping up to the plate where it counts. Politics as usual, a kind of college level blood sport is getting ready to become a real blood sport on the track we are on. When the Communist Chinese start lecturing us on things you learn in Macro Econ 101 the first week, you know something is terribly wrong with the people at the top in this political theater.
There is nowhere for most of us to run. Like the Spartans we cannot surrender or retreat. It is fight or die.
ontheright| 2.12.10 @ 4:33PM
Bravo! Well said, both - Thom & MikeD; the Gadsen meme will surely take on a new meaning and life of its own. I will eagerly stand side-by-side with my patriotic brethren, until the last breath escapes my lungs or the last drop of my blood is drained. Would I prefer to spend loving, caring time with my family and friends? Of course. As I'm sure Washington, Jefferson, Adams et al would have preferred this too. But this tyrannical and bloated totalitarian regime MUST be stopped, at all costs. Lady Guillotine, where are you when we need you??
snowball| 2.14.10 @ 7:33AM
None of this ought to be surprising. This has been the goal of the "revolutionaries" of the 969s since their entry onto the political stage in the election of 1960, the first election after the appearance of the NEW STAR IN THE EAST, Sputnik, and was to have culminated in the election of 2000 to give them the symbolic signpost date for a NEW MILLENIUM. But the American People, unknowlingly denied them that symbol. Their revenge against the se Americans who denied them the "crown" to their NEW WORLD ORDER MUST BE SWIFT AND HARSH ( before the American Population understands what hit them
Don Carlson| 2.12.10 @ 4:11AM
Given the circular, self-justifying, all-rationalizing thought that has eminated from the white House thus far, I expect some of those people are hoping that enough change might bring a spark, a moment of uncivil strife that a crisis might be declared and justify a 'temporary' imposition of marshal law. I expect that many of the military leaders in America could be persuaded that spreading civil disorder is more dangerous than a breach of the Constitution . Hope and change, Change and Hope....
Leeonious| 2.13.10 @ 6:50PM
Fuckin A Bubba. Remember these assholes can come after our lawfully owed weapons
A country boy can survive.
Add to this sickening burgue OBAMA 's inner city & illegal alien criminal elements of idiginious gangs & Mexican Cartel armed to the teeth ANIMALS, plus the ISLAMIST SLEEPERS it would be one helluva fight that fantastically is not a movie plot.
I fear it could come to fruition as hell bent as these people are.
The smug face of Michele, Valerie Jarret's ignorant arrogance and Bama's nose in the air attitude scares the hell outta me. These people are true believers in what they are doing.
Pingback| 2.11.10 @ 7:12AM
Propaganda by omission; how the networks hide top stories : USACTION NEWS links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 2.11.10 @ 7:20AM
No amount of money, spin or lies will save a government this corrupt.
Fed Up| 2.11.10 @ 7:21AM
Excellent description of the government controlled media, none of them come anywhere near earning their exorbitant salaries, especially the the extremely over rated plaglarist Katie Colic (Couric). None of them should use the term journalist, they comprise nothing more than the Obama PR corps (pronounced corpse by "The One"). Obama's pronunciation is quite fitting considering the group of PR people named in the beginning of the article. The simply regurgitate the proaganda the government (or the DNC) feeds them, and they call it news.
SC Mike| 2.11.10 @ 7:32AM
His pursuit of previously cleared CIA interrogators is both harmful and stupid, but defensible by progressives, as was his selection of venue for the KSM show trial where the primary defendant will serve as the Master of Ceremonies. After all, these folks are not antiwar, but are on the other side. Even my undersized Jacksonian brain can grasp that. .
But dropping an already-won voter intimidation case against, of all groups, the Black Panthers is beyond comprehension.
bullwhacker| 2.11.10 @ 11:09AM
Obama is a Black Panther. Re-read "Dreams..." Why do you think most of his records are being kept secret? There's a video of Panthers giving a shout-out to the future President, and saying Obama, in effect, was gonna set things right.
RDN in Houston| 2.11.10 @ 12:13PM
You are probably right about BO being a BP but I'll bet that it is more likely that he is a puppet beholden to foreign interests (or governments) and George Soros.
Ret. Marine| 2.11.10 @ 7:34AM
O.k. this could be easily explained, the anointed one and his henchwimps wish not to draw attention to what could possibly be one the most gross violations of voter intimidation the country has witnessed because the race card trumphed the crackers intellectual honesty by the mere fact that a black/white "the man/cracker" said he was a unifier, a crosser of the political divide, blaa, blaa, blaa, affirminative action president and the lame stream media thought he said "talk to the hand." Now the "hand" didn't say anything so it's perfectly O.K. with the posuer and the henchwimps to ignor it, la, la, la, la, I didn't hear that, la, la, la,la. What you expect the lamestream media to say anything against the holders of their livelyhood? Plaaaaaaaease.
Deborah D | 2.11.10 @ 7:42AM
"There's none so blind as those who will not see."
Now, more than ever, it makes one wonder how many stories similar to the one Mr. Hillyer mentions have gone unreported over the years by the MSM because it didn't fit their politics. We only know what we do know about about this story because of reports by conservative publications and blogs.
Americans are catching on to you, MSM. Why do you think your subscriptions, your ratings and your ad revenues are down? Why should we pay for lies either intentional or by omission?
Without a watchdog press, our republic is at risk. Hey Katie Couric, Brian Williams, Wolf Blitzer, Chris Matthews, Eugene Robinson and E.J. Dionne...do you care about the country's future? How about your children's and grandchildren's future? If you answer "Yes," then do your jobs.
Rocco| 2.11.10 @ 9:49AM
Deborah, I know you know the answer - these asshats are in bed with PBO and have been with every libtard for years. I quit listening to these clowns years ago - no network or CNN news, no newspapers. I get my news online from dependable, and in most cases, foreign news outlets. Hell, al-Jazirah US does a better job than any other US network. (Note: I have to watch al-Jazirah because of my work.)
Al Adab| 2.11.10 @ 10:16AM
Good morning Deborah,
Of course you realize that the only stories they will pursue are those that fit or confirm the preconceived notions of the Left. Whay was there a major story yesterday about the "heat wave" in Rio? It is summer there.
To the names you mention reportage is only used to further a political view and an agressive activist agenda. Facts may be stubborn things, but the MSM (lame street media?) does ignore them. I realize you understand this already and that makes your comments even more poignant.
uncle curmudgeon| 2.11.10 @ 1:42PM
Of course they care about their children. That's why the little dears are kept in the echo chamber as well: the right schools, activities, and friends. Summer job at the mall? Heaven forbid! Little Adorabella will be interning with the Poverty Law Center, or the Environmental Defence Project, courtesy of Mom's or Pop's pull. Then it's off to the Ivy League followed by a financially secure tenure as the next generation of Procaimers in the echo chamber. Yes, they care about their children just fine. It's everyone else's they would sacrifice.
Deborah D | 2.11.10 @ 3:37PM
Yes, Rocco, I know the answer. And Al, I'm sure you're correct. (You too, uncle)...
What's really sad is that they know so much that isn't so (Ronald Reagan -- "the problem with liberals is they know so much that isn't so.") I believe that many in media live in the bubble (echo chamber as uncle has called it) -- so they no longer know what is so.
They don't know that without a functioning free market and with a government that spends money like it's nothing...everyone suffers, not just the conservative side of the political fence. Logic just isn't relevant to them. They think they're creating a European-style utopia (which is laughable in and of itself) instead of creating a third world country.
They think the United States will always be there, just a better one. If they think at all, it's not about what happens when their ideas tear the country apart and everything collapses while they experiment with our future. The "smart" guys are in charge, so everything will work out fine.
That is truly what's frightening about left -- they don't care how many wrenches they throw into the motor of the American economy or the American justice system -- it will all be better because academics are in charge.
Just because the White House and the Justice Department no longer follows the same laws and rules they impose on everyone else is nothing to worry about because the "smart" guys are in charge. What happens to the country when the rule of law is applied unevenly? Chaos.
Mattled| 2.11.10 @ 8:29AM
My sister works at CNN and over the weekend the subject of reporting came up and I said that CNN is just an arm of the DNC.
She claimed that the people at CNN think they are fair and impartial. I said they just plain lie and I can prove it just by turning on the channel. Give me 15 minutes and I will point a lie out that quickly.
On Monday morning, at the top of the hour every hour, they led off with Sarah Palin and her palm.
Same thing all day every hour, all day.
Meanwhile--Obama's Corpse-man?
Zip, zero, nada.
Yeah, they're SO fair, they get beat in Prime Time by a 3:00 a.m. comedy show on FNC.
The sooner the media go down, not balance, but DOWN, the sooner Obambi goes down.
They will not let up, not give up covering for him.
I'm calling my local NBC General Manager again today and tell him, again, I have not watched his local news in over a year due to Chrissy, Olberdud and others as well as Immelts involvement with Globaloney scam.
I suggest you do the same. Reports are out that CBS might get out of the evening news business by next year. THAT is our goal. NYT? So what that they are in the "black" last quarter. It's all cuts in operating. The Carlos Slim note is due next year.
Uh-oh.
C. Vail| 2.11.10 @ 8:34AM
I'm not surprised at the double standard of media. I'm infuriated at the double standard of the administration, and the fact that members of Congress aren't screaming bloody murder. I've written to the White House and to my representatives about this matter, repeatedly. And, no surprise, nothing but form letters in response. Still, I did write. Have you, dear reader?
Lawrence Boccardi| 2.11.10 @ 8:34AM
Having seen the video of the voter intimidation, at the Philadelphia poll, it is inconceivable to me, that criminal charges were not brought against these thugs. Folks struggle with the idea that the public opposes Obama's policies by a 2 to 1 margin, however, they approve of him personally. They do not. They simply do not have the courage to answer honestly, and negatively, when asked about our nation's first, half-black President. In the view of most people that I talk with, he has set race relations back about 40 years. Wait until his eventually released college records, list his faith as "Islam". That ought to do it.
Ken (Old Texican)| 2.11.10 @ 8:39AM
You know, folks,
Every few days, I personally step back a pace to see if we here have created an "echo chamber" of our own.
So far my answer, (no), is being validated by external evidences; Scott Brown, The Tea Party movement, Virginia and New Jersey, the collapse of the global warming/cap and tax hysteria, the Senate's refusal to consent to the Union thug being seated.....
Well my conclusion is that we here are just sorta' on the forefront of being informed...and connecting some dots early.
I am always delighted when I hear our thoughts wonderfully expressed by Rush on the air, and even FOX from time to time.
Our lunatic fringe notwithstanding, each of you, help me refine my thinking...and my planning and execution of where we need to proceed.
Quin,
Thanks again.
I also realize that the more communist, (pardon the shorthand), apologists showing up here lately proves to me that we have been targeted as a "focus group" by some very interesting parties.
Finally, I hope each of us will be aware of the unknowable number of "drop ins" who don't comment, that use us as a sort of "pulse poll".
Thanks again for all of you.
Al Adab| 2.11.10 @ 10:19AM
It bothers me too Ken that we spend a lot of time preaching to the choir, each other. I can only hope that others, interested in the debate (if any of the Left are) continue to engage.
I have learned a lot though from others who post here so maybe even the excercise itself has value. We can hope so.
Ken (Old Texican)| 2.11.10 @ 11:48AM
Al Adab,
I personally have written off the "left" persons here, and at large in the country. They are helpless and hopeless...short of a "Road to Damascus" repentence.
Yeah, we do have some choir practices here, but many of us "sing" in our public lives too.,,, and the practice helps.
As you know, I do enjoy scorning liars and cowards.
Until they repent of being liars and cowards, I will continue to do so....for the sake of the "undecideds" who drop by here.
Those "undecideds, or late "sleepers" are the folks I try to address quite often. Many of them quietly read these comments without commenting. I believe they are weighing and balancing...and choosing.
I hope to help them discern some truths, and discard some misconceptions or DEceptions they are exposed to every day.
I do know that many are helped. They have signed on to www.myteamusa and dropped me a line via e-mail.
Jim Hlavac | 2.11.10 @ 12:10PM
We here are not so much preaching to the choir as venting rage and disappointment, and as Ken says, finding better ways to express this in solid ideas. But I for one take it to the liberals in my midst. Daily, without pause, in the spirit of community organizing as per my president (ahem). They grow more silent with each day. If I can take out four or five liberals then I feel that I have done my duty. Each of us must take this to our friends, family and coworkers who have not, or will not see the light. We are on the ramparts, with the hordes at the walls and gates, now is not the time to accept the mush, or the old platitude that one should not discuss politics -- no, they wanted to discuss politics all the time. Discuss away. Let them squirm, let them hem and haw, and then get right back to the rational presentation of rational thought and the work of demolishing the false mush of socialism in all its pernicious forms.
Anthony| 2.11.10 @ 1:14PM
I do not believe we posters here at TAS are merely venting and/or preaching to the choir. While it may appear that we are being successfully ignored by the MSM, nonetheless, it is apparent that the New Media is indeed making a huge difference, which is why Obama and the Left are running for the tall grass.
Be of good cheer!!!
james| 2.11.10 @ 9:07AM
I believe it was Madison himself who said that the Constitution will not enforce itself. He knew what it would take, but I doubt if even he anticipated that the Justice Department would have to be brought to heel.
But it does. Eric Holder, and his boss, hate the Constitution and are determined to shred it. So I agree: Bob Woodward, wazzup?
Joan Wayne| 2.11.10 @ 9:23AM
Anyone ever notice that you CAN NOT email this White House? I used to kid my friends about "what I told the Pres today" when Bush was in. But you can't do that to this admin. They DO NOT accept emails! And BO talked about being the most transparant admin ever and accessable tothe people. I wonder who he meant?
Al Adab| 2.11.10 @ 10:21AM
Accessable no. Transparent? Maybe. Every bribe, payoff and purchase has been on the front pages. We can only hope the voters understnad exactly what Change they got.
Tim| 2.11.10 @ 9:30AM
Appealing to big media is a complete waste of effort. You're gonna need a bigger boat...
Anthony| 2.11.10 @ 9:35AM
Well done Quin. While you're on the subject of journalistic malpractice, perhaps tomorrow's article will chastise the America MSM for its silence on the AGW scandal.
When the media become the ideological mouthpiece for a particular political group, democracy is in peril, which is precisely the situation we find ourselves in today.
Quin, in your next call out to the MSM, please be sure to include Dan Rather, the father of today's new advocacy journalism.
Hey Dan, AGW is a fraudulent hoax, that fact has been established now as an an irrefutable TRUTH, no thanks to you and your leftist ilk in the American MSM, and Dan, the memos from West Anglia and the IPCC are indeed REAL. You and Mary don't need to make up a single thing, imagine that!!
Franklin| 2.11.10 @ 7:03PM
I just got home from work where I started a "war" among several co-workers. I happened to mention Climategate to some people that I eat lunch with and was greeted with two very blank stares.
"What's Climategate"?
Hehe, oooooh boy, newbies!!
So I started a discussion to bring them up to speed and answered many questions (greenie-weenie talking points) with a promise to get them some more info.
Spent a couple hours last night putting together a summary from several websites. Emailed climategate.com begging someone to put a really short "Climategate for dummies" summary together to include all the highlights up thru today. Hope they do this because I'm not sure I covered everything (there being sooo much uncovered almost every day).
Anyway, today I gave them what I printed out and said "Here's the stuff about Climategate". There were several more people around at the time and one said, "What's Climategate"?
I started to tell her a VERY brief (was almost time to start work) and all he** broke out. The room we are in holds about 15 - 20 people and they all began talking at once.
I just smiled and went to my seat. I was happy to have another co-worker who has worked for an environmental group speak up to defend my claims on Climategate and include many more strongly held beliefs in the corruptness of the 'Global Warming Hysteria'.
Take-away: It's reading sites like this one that I get my courage to speak up. I'm no longer alone!
John Blake| 2.11.10 @ 10:26AM
Corpse Man is a vile anti-Semite, a Black Supremacist quota baby, a dank closet-Muslim from his Comintern pedophile upbringing through age 22. As a subject of the British Commonwealth his abusive, drunken father rendered him by definition non-American, while his adoptive Indonesian nationality as Barak Hussein Soetoro remains on record to this day. Regardless of Mombasa origins attested by his "typical white" Granny Dunham, CM is an illegal alien and every supperating Chicago grifter knows it.
Why is any one surprised that Holder and his ilk are Farrakhanists first, subversives second, Corpse Man acolytes only third? Self-professed hatred for America's "white suburban middle-class" is these flapping scarecrows' stock-in-trade. Bad faith, false pretenses define this Administration as a gang of wreckers, driven to reduce America to a hollow shell. Media types who censor, falsify, and propagandize their ongoing efforts under cover of journalistic objectivity are complicit in Corpse Man's slow-motion coup de main.
Tim| 2.11.10 @ 2:12PM
Don't sugar coat it, we can handle it.
loulou| 2.11.10 @ 6:39PM
Is it true that Occidental College released records that indicate Hussein Obama was admitted as a foreign (Indonesian) student?
Oldefarte| 2.11.10 @ 10:37AM
Excellent, as usual, Quin------bravo, and thanks!!!!
Oldefarte| 2.11.10 @ 10:49AM
PS ----in previous administrations, CNN came to be known as the CLINTON NEWS NETWORK; also, on THE AMERICAN THINKER website, it was previously reported that a group of Democrat political operatives had been installed within [and operating out of] the US Justice Department, whose purpose was to identify [and respond to under anomous blogger-ID's] anti-Obama Administration [derogatory] comments, so let me remind you of the possible existance of same for your information!!!!!
Not Chicken Little| 2.11.10 @ 11:03AM
There can be no doubt that not only has the mainstream media been AWOL from the truth for many years, but they are actively helping to subvert and destroy our system in favor of "fairness" - which turns out to be just a code word for socialism.
I am more and more of the opinion that they aren't going to succeed, at least in the U.S., thanks to the internet and people like Quin who keep hammering away. But it's going to be a tough and bloody fight, a modern-day equivalent of our Civil War, hopefully fought with common sense, logic and perseverance against the insanity we see from the left.
Jobe| 2.11.10 @ 12:25PM
I have no idea what any of these people mentioned above do or say as I gave up on the cheerleading media quite some time ago. They are not intentionally acting the way they act, rather, their leftism is so deeply ingrained that they are incapable at looking at anything that happens with an objective eye.
If they weren't imperiling the country, they would be laughable.
roadmaster| 2.11.10 @ 1:19PM
I thought everyone knew what to do in the case of journaloids! Spread with liberal amounts of Prearation H and don't let them irritate you. Should they become unbearable, install emasculation bands and wait for them to drop off.
Pete| 2.11.10 @ 1:34PM
On the topic of liberal journalism in general...I was getting some tires put on my wife's car this morning and had some time to kill. So I grabbed the paper that was in the shop: The Boulder (CO) Camera. It will surprise no one to learn that the entire thing is an unbelieveable melange of propaganda and misinformation. In particular, there was an op-ed from some hippie lady who was arguing that reliance on nuclear power (as opposed to wind/solar) would amount to socialism, apparently trying to jedi mind trick independents with the very word? I can't even recreate her argument, because I don't think there was one. Naturally, Boulder (and many college towns) is too far gone for me to really care, but I suspect this is what passes for journalism in many places. No wonder many of these kinds of papers are going out of business.
cuban pete| 2.11.10 @ 5:36PM
I'm old so I still like to read an actual paper while I drink my morning coffee. Having said that the two Chicago papers are unreadable for all practical purposes. Richard Roeper "movie critic" and Brittany Spears expert , Rick Telander, who infects the sports page with his superficial profundity on global warming,etc. Garrison Keilor(sp?) an Obama apologist and genuine dip sh-t , Steve Dahl, former rock DJ. At least they get the sports scores right most of the time. By the time my grand kids are in high school these entities will be out of business.
Also, Pete next time you go to the dentist try reading Time, Newsweek or People. Emetic!
WAKE UP| 2.11.10 @ 1:59PM
Impeach. Now.
Al Adab| 2.11.10 @ 5:37PM
Think twice. Can you say President Biden?
There is a reason the Senate did not convict Pres. Clinton...Al Gore.
Franklin| 2.11.10 @ 7:07PM
Yes, and when Biden can't handle it ... who's next?
Oh, God forbid anything happening to Obama and Biden!
Oldefarte| 2.11.10 @ 3:17PM
PS[2]--We [the American people] can CHANGE/DEFEAT the MSM by one simple mechanism.......by not buying [cancelling subscriptions to] their newspapers; and by not watching their news/cable TV broadcasts. By doing so, their readership/viewership declines, their ad revenues decrease, and eventually they go bankrupt/out of business. Simple solution!!!!
blackwatch| 2.11.10 @ 4:17PM
Yes! We dumped our subscription to the local rag paper years ago. We should all call our LOCAL ABC/CBS/NBC affiliates and tell them why you don't watch their shows. You hurt their ratings locally and that means that their ad revenues are dropping too.
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Ran / Si Vis Pacem | 2.12.10 @ 10:23AM
Mr Hillyer,
Many thanks - tip o' the hat, sir, for the tip o' the iceberg.
There is so much more out there for a journalist to sink teeth into: WalpinGate and the inspectors general firings. The Chrysler and GM putsch including the collateral dealerships scandal. The culture of tax-cheating in the administration who's standard-bearer is turbo-tax Timothy Geithner... and of icebergs themselves, ClimateGate.
Couric just took a seven million dollar hit in pay. She could triple that in returns if she had the courage to take-up your challenge on any of them.
Cheers,
Ran
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Calculated| 7.6.10 @ 6:15PM
If, in theory, a newly appointed/elected government is attempting to cause civil unrest in a country to push an agenda, the complete collapse and restructuring of an entire country to as they see it, for personal gains of "too big to fail" ideologies and control over the "free thinkers" then doesn't that directly interfere/trample " civilians rights", DOJ where are you?, and should even be considered a matter of national security, DOD, for inciting a national riot/uprising? Could it be that they want to impose Martial Law?
"Too big to fail" means others are too small to succeed? It makes absolutely/unequivocally no sense to attack someone for speaking the truth. In this day and age it can be difficult to find/filter what is true with all of the "false prophets" pressuring the psyches of the, not by their choice, ill informed/sheeple.
"Sovereignty" is used to describe a "king" not a "president". Find it's definition and you will have your answer to what road this new administration is taking. "It can be found in a power to rule and make law that rests on a political fact for which no purely legal explanation can be provided." "A sovereign power has absolute
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