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The Spectacle Blog
David Chalian has just been Breitbarted.
NewsBusters does it again.
And don’t forget Rush.
As my colleague Stacy McCain notes in his column this morning on a new film on the late Andrew Breitbart (I still have a hard time writing “late”), in the wake of his death Andrew’s last name has become a verb. As in: To Breitbart — to reveal the left’s ongoing game of bias in the media and general shenanigans everywhere. You can put that priceless ACORN undressing in the “Breitbarted” column. The film focuses on Andrew’s war against leftist media bias (among other things) and not by chance has Matthew Sheffield of NewsBusters discussing Andrew.
As we were saying earlier this week, NewsBusters has become the indispensable source for tracking the left-wing bias media game. A game which consists of pretending to be objective and an above board referee when in fact said media are vital team players in advancing the liberal narrative.
A bare two days after that column ran, NewsBusters caught out the Yahoo Washington bureau chief, David Chalian, in a typical example of how the game works. The NewsBusters story, here, outed Chalian as saying of Mitt and Ann Romney — on a live mic — that
They aren’t concerned at all. They are happy to have a party with black people drowning.
The reference, of course, was to Hurricane Isaac bearing down on New Orleans as the GOP Convention prepared to open in Tampa. And of course, it was an updated version of the disgusting theme from Katrina that George W. Bush let people drown because they were black. In other words, more racial garbage from the Party of Race.
The story was broken by, yes, Matthew Sheffield. The same Matthew Sheffield who appears in the Breitbart film. And the same Matthew Sheffield, as we also noted in our earlier column, who played a key role in getting the Media Research Center’s NewsBuster site up and running in 2005.
Then something else occurred.
As Stacy notes, Matthew had his breaking story up on the NewsBusters site at 10:22. By noon, Rush Limbaugh was on the air and began to talk about it. Chalian’s appalling joke was everywhere.
The New Media model was on the job.
Within hours, David Chalian was out of a job.
Now. We have no grudge against Mr. Chalian. To lose a job anytime is not fun, and in the Obama economy especially.
But the real lesson here, dating perhaps from the day in 2004 that Dan Rather’s story about Bush and the National Guard was revealed by the folks at Powerline to be an utter phony, the conservative media — the New Media — is here to stay.
NewsBusters is watching.
Rush is watching.
Sean Hannity and Mark Levin and all of talk radio are watching.
Fox is watching.
The American Spectator and our colleagues in conservative magazines and newspapers and blogs are all watching.
The old game of the Old Media is over. For good. As Mr. Chalian has now found out in a highly personal fashion, those who choose to play this patently dishonest game are now risking paying the ultimate professional price — their jobs and reputation.
Somewhere, Andrew Breitbart is laughing.
Breitbart is here.
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squalis| 8.30.12 @ 9:53AM
I wouldn't worry too much about Mr. Chalian. In the coming days he will be a prominent columnist for the Huffingpost Post.
squalis| 8.30.12 @ 10:34AM
Check out htis headline from HuffPo:
RYAN SPEECH BUILT ON DEMONSTRABLY MISLEADING ASSERTIONS
FULL TEXT.. WATCH VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS.. LATEST UPDATES
I could barely read it. Have no idea if their claims are true, but it's about little stuff. If true, this gives detractors something to grab on to...perhaps the speach should have been examined more closely beforehand.
squalis| 8.30.12 @ 10:35AM
Sorry, posted on wrong article
RJ| 8.30.12 @ 11:50AM
I had the misfortune of watching a replay of NBC's one hour convention coverage. It started with a report on tropical storm Issac and then Brian Williams said (at least twice) that they would pick up Condi Rice's speech all ready in progress because it started before their broadcast began. My point is that NBC took its sweet time to broadcast Ms. Rice's speech. Then they decided not to show the Paul Ryan introductory video so that Tom Brokaw could complain that Condi Rice didn't talk about the GW Bush administration, as if that is relevant to Romney's nomination. It isn't bias; it is mission-driven propaganda. The mainstream media threw away its credibility a long time ago.
Paul McGrath| 8.30.12 @ 1:02PM
Some newsjerk on NBC referred to the next speaker at the convention as the "next act."
ON PBS, Gwen Ifill and some blonde nitwit interviewed the governor of Iowa and the governor of Puerto Rico. As expected--I predicted this before it even started--it wasn't really an interview, it was an argument.
I'm pleased to say the Iowa governor made her look like a buffoon.
Grzmlyk| 8.30.12 @ 1:26PM
I wouldn't think Beitbart is laughing too hard, and the old game of the Old Media is hardly over. Has anyone noticed that, since that Dan Rather episode liberals have simply moved further to the left and become more brazen and outrageous in their charges? So he got fired because Yahoo wants to throw a sop to the illusion that it's non-partisan. Chalian is nothing but one of the thousands of expendable pieces of cannon fodder. Sure, we can feel good when we take one of them down. But what is the death of one ant at a picnic?
There are so many being churned out by our education/entertainment/political complex, and, as the Medicare debate and the Akin incident prove, Republicans have long since agreed to play by the liberals' rules on political correctness because, after all, nobody wants to be thought of as mean-spirited. Perish the thought.
Chalian will no doubt next pop up as a special czar within Holder's Social Justice department given the task of tracking down and prosecuting every white person who has said the word "drown" while wearing black. Clearly, that's a dog whistle to racist Republicans.
If we are to win the big game, we need to take over the culture and cut out this insanity at its root. That is a mighty task.
In other words, the Chalians of the world are a symptom. We need to treat the disease. I appreicate Breitbart and Newsbusters, et al. But we need to take the reins of culture if we are ever stop being ground under the wheel of liberalism.
Paul McGrath| 8.30.12 @ 6:41PM
The first task will be to regain control of the educational establishment. We've taken some baby steps--Wisconsin for example--but much, much more needs to be done.
But Grzmlyk, please do not give up hope.