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This week’s Media Bias Sunday Talk scoreboard! GOP 5, Democrats 3

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Tomorrow is Media Bias Sunday! Or as I like to call it, Librul Media My Ass Sunday aka John McCain/Lindsey Graham Sunday.

And yes, McCain is back! Moving on… and on… and on…

Let’s take a sneak preview of what’s coming up on the Big Sunday Talker Line-Up, per the Los Angeles Times and WaPo, okay? Okay.

This is not a complete list; Paddy provides that to you tomorrow. Sometimes it’s hard to tell if the lists include panel members, so bear with me if sometimes those commentators are included… or not. I try not to because panels usually include mostly Republicans, and if there are “Democrats,” they’re about as “liberal” as, well, Harold Ford.

And as you may have noticed, Fox is not included, because, well come on, what’s the point?

ABC’s “This Week” — David Plouffe (D); Karl Rove (R).

NBC’s “Meet the Press” — Rep. Mike Rogers (R); Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R); Sen. Chuck Schumer (D).

CBS’ ”Face the Nation” — Sens. John McCain (R); Sen. Jack Reed (D).

CNN’s “State of the Union” — Rep. Darrell Issa (R).

It’s time to do the math:

Red Rs + Red Rs, carry the pi, divided by D, times Bias, minus even-handedness… calculating…

Total: 5 Rs, 3 Ds. Please feel free to check the addition and political affiliations.

There it is: Your librul media at work.

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This week’s Media Bias Sunday Talk scoreboard! GOP 6, Democrats 2

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Tomorrow is Media Bias Sunday! Or as I like to call it, Librul Media My Ass Sunday aka John McCain/Lindsey Graham Sunday.

But wait! Take a look at this week’s line-up: NO JOHN McCAIN! Hell hath frozen over. Moving on…

Let’s take a sneak preview of what’s coming up on the Big Sunday Talker Line-Up, per the Los Angeles Times and WaPo, okay? Okay.

This is not a complete list; Paddy provides that to you tomorrow. Sometimes it’s hard to tell if the lists include panel members, so bear with me if sometimes those commentators are included… or not. I try not to because panels usually include mostly Republicans, and if there are “Democrats,” they’re about as “liberal” as, well, Harold Ford.

And as you may have noticed, Fox is not included, because, well come on, what’s the point?

ABC’s “This Week” — Rand Paul (R).

NBC’s “Meet the Press” — Pre-empted by Monaco Grand Prix.

CBS’ ”Face the Nation” — Gov. Mary Fallin (R); Sen. Tom Coburn (R); Sen. Chuck Schumer (D).

CNN’s “State of the Union” — Gov. Mary Fallin (R); Rep. Michael McCaul (R); Rep. Michael Grimm (R); Mayor Melodee Colbert-Kean (Joplin, Missouri) (D).

It’s time to do the math:

Red Rs + Red Rs, carry the pi, divided by D, times Bias, minus even-handedness… calculating…

Total: 6 Rs, 2 Ds. Please feel free to check the addition and political affiliations.

There it is: Your librul media at work.

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VIDEO– How to stop the Koch Bros, take power back from corporations: “Reinvent the way media looks and acts.”

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In November 2012, I wrote BIG problem: Former News Corp. exec expected to head Tribune Co., Rupert Murdoch eyes LA Times, Chicago Tribune.

Back in April, I wrote The Koch Bros., who plan to buy up 8 major newspapers, “see the conservative voice as not being well represented.” Um…:

Think Progress:

Right-wing funders and business industrialists David and Charles Koch may purchase the Tribune Company newspapers, which include the Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, and the Los Angeles Times. The brothers are “interested in the clout they could gain through the Times’ editorial pages,” the Hollywood Reporter notes.

Under the circumstances, saying this is a serious concern is an understatement.

I’m an L.A. Times subscriber and if these corporate conservative monsters take over, it would be disastrous. I would immediately cancel my subscription and campaign for others to do the same.

Or I could introduce a lot of people to this. Via Free the Press, Buy the Tribune Company:

Corporate media is ruining the integrity of news. Winning the Tribune Company back might just start moving the tide in a different direction. Consider this an experiment that could have an enormous positive ripple effect for democracy.

Americans have said, time and time again, that they trust public and community media much more than corporate media. What if that extended not just to their radio or TV set but their local paper again?

Together we can make history. Really.

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Please watch the entire video and then link over, there is much more, including a bunch of cool graphics.

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VIDEO– Obama: “I have complete confidence in Eric Holder.” But when Turkish Prime Minister spoke, media cut away.

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As you can see, earlier today President Obama and Prime Minister Erdogan held a joint press conference. And as you can see from the video, the president is standing by his Attorney General.

But there was a lot in that presser we didn’t get to see, because this happened:

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MSNBC often cut away, too, as did CNBC, per the tweets I received. Here are a few of them, plus a couple responding directly to Media Matter’s Eric Boehlert’s tweet. I’ll start with my own:

Dear MSNBC, CNN: So Turkish prime minister’s words don’t count? Now the presser is over, all we got was commentary from talking heads.

Here are the tweets I managed to copy and paste as they whizzed by:

Disrespect to other countries

Do they think we care nothing about anyone not from US? They are wrong.

Because, you know, Turkey is SO unimportant on the world stage right now..bordering on Syria and such..*mutter*

This is making me angry.

Wouldn’t it be nice if there were a 24 hour News network that had the capability of covering these long Press–oh, wait.

 MSNBC & Andrea Mitchell doing same. It’s rude and she should be called on it.

Does she not understand Turkey’s interest in Assad stepping down?

What does it matter what he has to say? He’s only one of the key players in solving the Syrian quagmire.

And then, the pièce de résistance. Andrea Mitchell turned to David Gregory (of all people) for commentary, leading off with this question (slightly paraphrased, she added one other adjective that I can’t remember):

“Is the president too passive and ____, as he’s been criticized for?”

How objective. How fair and balanced.

How insulting.

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Bill Maher puts “Benghazi!!!!!” mania into perspective

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There are times when Bill Maher makes me cringe, times when he makes me laugh, times when he makes me think, times when he makes me scream, and times when he makes me proud.

Neither of these tweets made me cringe, but they made me do everything else on that list:

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Of course, anyone with a functioning brain knows this is all about Hillary Clinton 2016, and of course, destroying President Obama. But all the GOP Benghazi hysteria was debunked by Rachel Maddow. For one, Congress had the revised talking points for months.

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VIDEO: GOP Benghazi hysteria debunked. For one, Congress had the revised talking points for months.

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Yesterday I posted PhotOH! What will be on your TV Machine Sunday morning. Hint: BENGHAZI!!!!!!!

It’s only Saturday, but Alex Witt led off the second hour of her broadcast (I missed the first hour, but I can only imagine… ) questioning the Obama administration’s honesty about Benghazi and whether or not the manufactured controversy would affect Hillary Clinton’s possible run for president.

Yes, she did that, because see, she’s objective and fair and balanced, see, and apparently looking to boost her ratings by stirring the pot. So it appears that it’s not only Republicans who are hoping that this “scandal” sticks.

I’m watching now, and she just said, “We now know that there were 12 different drafts” and asked “what this does to the Obama administration’s credibility.” That was followed by a clip of Rand Paul saying Hillary Clinton should never hold high office again, to which Witt wondered aloud if this will “haunt” Hillary.

Perhaps she should have watched her colleague Rachel Maddow’s show last night:

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Rachel Maddow:

Who changed the talking points? The intelligence community talking points for the administration officials in the immediate aftermath of the attack, they were sent around to the FBI, and the state department, and the White House. The e-mail chain showing the initial draft of those talking points, and the revision process, that e-mail chain was sent to members of Congress a couple months ago in February while they were considering the nomination of the new CIA director.

So Congress has had the talking points and how they were changed and by whom for a couple months now, showing the revisions, showing how they happened.

ABC published them today for the public as if they were a smoking gun, and all the Republicans in Congress who already had these things and have had them for months reported to be outraged by what was in them, shocked, , impeach, impeach!

They have had them for two and a half months now, and they never said anything about them before. Just today they decided it was a smoking gun, even though this has been long answered.

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Here is the entire segment:

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This week’s Media Bias Sunday Talk scoreboard! GOP 8, Democrats 7

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Tomorrow is Media Bias Sunday! Or as I like to call it, Librul Media My Ass Sunday aka John McCain/Lindsey Graham Sunday.

Let’s take a sneak preview of what’s coming up on the Big Sunday Talker Line-Up, per the Los Angeles Times and the Seattle Times, okay? Okay.

This is not a complete list; Paddy provides that to you tomorrow. Sometimes it’s hard to tell if the lists include panel members, so bear with me if sometimes those commentators are included… or not. I try not to because panels usually include mostly Republicans, and if there are “Democrats,” they’re about as “liberal” as, well, Harold Ford.

And as you may have noticed, Fox is not included, because, well come on, what’s the point?

ABC’s “This Week”– John McCain (R); Jack Reed (D).

NBC’s “Meet the Press”– Darrell Issa (R); Adam Kinzinger (R); Dianne Feinstein (D); former diplomat Thomas Pickering; Kirsten Gillibrand (D); Jaime Herrera Beutler (R); Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R); Linda T. Sanchez (D).

CBS’ “Face the Nation”– Thomas Pickering; former Defense Secretary Robert Gates (R); Dick Durbin (D); Kelly Ayotte (R).

CNN’s “State of the Union”– Sen. Susan Collins (R); Thomas Pickering; Tammy Duckworth (D); Tulsi Gabbard (D).

It’s time to do the math:

Red Rs + Red Rs, carry the pi, divided by D, times Bias, minus even-handedness… calculating…

Total: 8 Rs, 7 Ds. Please feel free to check the addition and political affiliations.

There it is: Your librul media at work.

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