Last week, as the prospect of a federal government shutdown loomed as reality, the President of the United States told the media that he would "not negotiate" with "house burners." And with that, the American mainstream media threw away their longstanding belief in "civil bipartisan compromise" in order to stand with Obama.Since then, the GOP have passed two bills to avert a shutdown, both Senate Democrats and Obama have refused to offer a compromise, and now the media are attempting to make the GOP look like the crazies and the Democrats and Obama look like statesman.
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4:51 - How Insane Is Media Bias During Shutdown? This Biased:
Today...
1. The President of the United States blocked aged WWII veterans from entering an open-air memorial even though the White House knew they were flying in from all over the country. This memorial is normally open 24/7.
2. Harry Reid dismissed kids sick with cancer.
3. President Obama tried to spook the stock market.
...and the media is going to let the Obama and Democrats get away will ALL OF IT.
4:42 - CNN Buries Their Own Reid Scoop In 'Clash with Reporter' Story
It was easy to predict that CNN would bury their own scoop. What Reid said could too easily change the shutdown debate and turn it against Democrats. So, like theWashington Post, CNN lets Reid off the hook by angling Reid dismissing kids with cancer as a "clash with reporter" story.
Reid gets fiery over question about shutdown's effect on clinical trials for kids
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid fired off over a question about whether the Democratic-controlled Senate would vote to restore funding for children undergoing clinical trials at the National Institutes of Health.
Media outlets like CNN put protecting Democrats above their own scoops.
4:21 - Chuck Todd Reports Obama Trying To Spook Markets
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4:08pm - Washington Post Buries Reid Gaffe in 'Clashes with Reporter' Headline
The Washington Post went on a rampage against Mitt Romney over the 47% video, but Harry Reid saying "Why would we want to do that," and comparing furloughed workers sitting at home to kids sick with cancer, i s buried in a story about "clashing" with a reporter.
4:00 - Matt Yglesias: 'Mistake for Dems to Block Mini-Appropriations'
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3:56 - Study: Media Coverage of Shutdown Is Left-Wing Bias on Steroids
If anyone is paying attention, the fact that 21 out of 21 media stories blamed the GOP for the shutdown, is not at all surprising. And this is why we have a shutdown. Why should Obama negotiate the government back into business when he knows the media has his back.
For this reason, the media are as responsible for this shutdown as anyone:
The nation’s big three news networks are falling right into place for President Obama and the Democrats, blaming the Republican Party for the government shut down by a whopping 21-0 story count.
According to a survey by the conservative media watchdog, the Media Research Center, in 39 stories during the two weeks leading up to the shutdown, CBS, ABC and NBC blamed the failure to cut a budget deal on the Republicans 21 times, both parties four times, and Democrats zero times. In 14 stories, nobody was to blame.
3:28 - CNN's Dana Bash asks Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY) About NIH Funding
CNN's Dana Bash is doing some great reporting today through the simple act of asking Democrats and Republicans equally tough questions.
Like she did Harry Reid, Bash asked Democrat Rep. Steve Israel about joining the GOP in funding the NIH to give kids with cancer the opportunity to benefit from clinical trials. Like Reid, Israel had no good answer other than treating everyone equally.
When Bash reminded Israel that an exception was made funding military pay, Israel danced around the question with talking points.
3:15 - Reid Attacks Reporter, Dismisses Kids with Cancer -- Will Media Bury It?
As you can see here, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid not only attacked the intelligence of a CNN reporter, he dismissed the idea of compromising on a small part of the budget as not worth saving a child with cancer.
This is video gold. Were Reid a Republican this clip would define the 2013 shutdown.
Unfortunately, the media is going to bury it. Too toxic for Democrats and, along with Obama barricading WWII vets, a potential gamechanger.
Reid's comments are Romney's 47% video on steroids. But it will most likely be buried.
2:18 - Harry Reid on Saving One Child Through Funding NIH: "Why Would We Want to Do That?"
After Harry Reid asked "Why would we do that" after being asked about saving a child from cancer, Reid then questioned the intelligence of the questioner, CNN's Dana Bash.
Full story here.
2:01 - CNN Unthinking Panic: 'Risk of Outbreak of food borne illness up' Due to shutdown.
When it comes to CNN, you get the sense that you are either watching the dumbest people on the planet or the most biased. Sometimes it's a mixture of both.
CNN's Wolf Blitzer just brought Brian Todd on to terrify us over the non-essential FDA food inspectors being furloughed. Brian was in a real panic. Doom and gloom and all that. And yet, with two adult brains in the room, neither Wolf nor Brian thought to wonder about the madness of classifying food inspectors as non-essential. After all, if "food borne illnesses" could increase with furloughed food inspectors (and Brian is pretty sure they will), aren't they at least more essential than those guards putting barricades around the WWII memorial?
Moreover, neither of these rocket scientists asked why Obama's White House chefs are essential but the American people's food inspectors are not.
These guys are supposed to be journalists, but it was like watching two ten-year-olds discuss what their teacher told them about nuclear war.
1:19 - TX Congressman Explains Why CNN Anchor Lied to Viewers: 'Essential Obama' Employee'
Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX) explains why CNN anchor Suzanne Malveaux refused to inform her viewers that the GOP have agreed to fund the National Institute of Health while Democrats are refusing:
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CNN's rampage to win the shutdown debate for Barack Obama is resulting in hysterical demagoguery mixed with extraordinary lies of omission.
Suzanne Malveaux just hosted a segment about 200 children sick with cancer who were turned away from the National Institute of Health (NIH) due to the government shutdown.
What CNN refused to inform its viewers, though, is that the GOP have offered to fund the NIH without pre-conditions and that Democrats and Obama have refused to pass it.
Fact: Were it not for Obama and Democrats, these children could be receiving treatment today.
Laughably, Malveaux did mention that there was a bill out there to fund the NIH (the Republican bill), but she refused to tell her viewers that this is a GOP sponsored bill the Democrats have already threatened to veto.
Shocking propaganda at work here.
12:26 - CNN's Carol Costello Rips Fox News
CNN's Carol Costello ripped Fox News for describing the government shutdown as a slimdown. Costello then pretended to care about the government workers furloughed; and I say "pretend" because she has never expressed a moment of sympathy for the hundreds of thousands who have lost their insurance, doctors, hours, and jobs due to ObamaCare.
Fox News is correct about the term "slimdown," and Costello's use of furloughed workers to criticize them is nothing more than the kind of cheap, emotional blackmail we have seen from the left-wing CNN on issues ranging from gun control to immigration.
12:10 - VIDEO: CNN's Creepy Use of Fourth Graders In Shutdown Politics
The video below is from CNN's failing morning show, "New Day." No comment is necessary other than the fact that the uniforms make this bizarre segment even more creepy.
When Chris Cuomo brings fourth graders together and asks them how they feel about ObamaCare costing hundreds of thousands their healthcare, doctors, hours, and jobs -- I'll be sure to let you know.
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11:57 - CNN Reports The Obama Not Calling Meeting to Negotiate -- So Photo-Op
CNN says Obama is bringing congressional leaders to the White House this afternoon to repeat his talking points about not negotiating.
So what we have here is a big photo-op hosted by a president who knows he doesn't have to negotiate because the media have his back.
11:43 - Obama Agrees to Meet With Congress; New Media Reporting On WWII Vets Reason Why?
John Boehner has agreed to the meeting, which is scheduled for 5:30pm.
Why did Obama crack? Could it be that even though the media are willfully and collectively ignoring his bullying of World War II vets, the story is still getting out via New Media?
This is not 1995, folks. There are no longer 4 media outlets deciding what is and is not news. A few can no longer smother news inconvenient to their agenda.
11:31 - Why is Obama Bullying WWII Vets? Because He Knows The Media Will Let Him.
A healthy, thriving, honorable media is absolutely essential to the health of a democracy. But our media is diseased, and that is why Obama knows he can do something as indefensible and reprehensible as bullying WWII veterans.
In a country without a healthy media, tyranny thrives -- and what Obama is doing to to our WWII vets today is an appalling act of petty tyranny that is only possible for the reasons Mark Halperin explained just two days ago: O bama knows the media have his back.
11:23 - Will Media Ask Obama Why WWI Memorial Is Open and WWII Memorial Is Closed?
Below is a photo of the WWI memorial, which is not being Barry-caded. And yet, knowing WWII vets are on their way to visit the WWII memorial, the White House found enough "necessary" workers to blockade that. |
