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Why is NBC paying David Gregory to host when they could save money by using a stationary camera focused on Michele Bachmann, leaving her free to say whatever she wants, regardless of the truth?
Maybe I should change the blog headline to something else, because there were no facts to check in the first place.
Hey kids! Tomorrow is Media Bias Sunday! Let’s take a sneak preview of what’s coming up on the Big Sunday Talker Line-Up, per the L.A. Times, okay? Okay. (From my paper, no link today)
This is not a complete list; Paddy provides that to you tomorrow:
State of the Union With Candy Crowley: John Huntsman (R);
Face the Nation: Newt Gingrich (R)
Meet the Press: John Boehner (R)
This Week With Christiane Amanpour: Paul Ryan (R); Barney Frank (D), Robert Reich (D), George Will (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, 2 Ds. Please feel free to check my addition.
There it is: Your librul media at work.
What’s wrong with this picture? Look closely:
As you may recall, Rick Perry’s strong suit is neither numbers nor counting. He actually thought there were eight Supreme Court justices.
ClusterFox has never been too accurate with, well, anything, including graphing the unemployment rate above. That’s right, they apparently think 8.6 is a higher number than 8.8 and equal to 9.0. Come to think of it, they say they’re sourcing the Bureau of Labor Statistics. I bet you $10,000 the Bureau would have a thing or two (or as Fox would say, a thing or 2.6) to say about that.
Think Progress posted the graph, but please link over to see what the correct information looks like in graph form, plus a nice little snarky factoid at the end.
Hey kids! Tomorrow is Media Bias Sunday! Let’s take a sneak preview of what’s coming up on the Big Sunday Talker Line-Up, per the L.A. Times, okay? Okay.
This is not a complete list; Paddy provides that to you tomorrow. I didn’t include panel members, only political guests:
State of the Union With Candy Crowley: Rick Santorum (R); Bob Walker, Gingrich campaign (R); John Sununu, Romney campaign (R). 2012 Election: Anita Dunn (D)
Face the Nation: Rep. Michele Bachmann (R); Rep. Steve King (R).
Meet the Press: Rep. Ron Paul (R); Sen. Lindsey Graham (R); Sen. Dick Durbin (D); Gov. Terry Branstad (R).
This Week With Christiane Amanpour: Jon Huntsman (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: 9 Rs, 2 Ds. Please feel free to check my addition.
There it is: Your librul media at work.
Hey kids! Tomorrow is Media Bias Sunday! Let’s take a sneak preview of what’s coming up on the Big Sunday Talker Line-Up, per the L.A. Times, okay? Okay.
This is not a complete list; Paddy provides that to you tomorrow. I didn’t include panel members-slash-pundits.
State of the Union: Rep. Ron Paul (R); Rep. Michele Bachmann (R); Sen. John McCain (R); Former OMB director Alice Rivlin (D); former CBO director Douglas Holtz-Eakin (R)
Face the Nation: Reince Priebus (R); Robert Gibbs (D).
Meet the Press: David Axelrod (D); Reince Priebus (R)
This Week With Christiane Amanpour: Rick Santorum (R); Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.).
It’s time to do the math…
Red Rs + Red Rs, carry the pi, divided by D, times Bias, minus even-handedness… calculating…
Total: 7 Rs, 4 Ds. Please feel free to check my addition.
There it is: Your librul media at work.
Hey kids! Tomorrow is Media Bias Sunday! Let’s take a sneak preview of what’s coming up on the Big Sunday Talker Line-Up, per the L.A. Times, okay? Okay.
This is not a complete list; Paddy provides that to you tomorrow. I didn’t include authors, actors, or… Bill Gates.
State of the Union: Herman Cain (R); former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (R)
Meet the Press: Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D), Grover Norquist (R), president of Americans for Tax Reform
This Week With Christiane Amanpour: : Sen. Patrick J. Toomey (R); former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell (R)
Face the Nation: Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (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: 6 Rs, 1 D. Please feel free to check my addition.
There it is: Your librul media at work.
One of the first things I heard when I turned on the Tee Vee machine this morning was MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts’ teaser for what was coming up later in his show (slightly paraphrased):
“Occupation Wall Street’s National Day of Action was more like a National Day of Arrests.”
Because, see, that’s what’s important. That’s what gets ratings. That’s what draws viewers. And that’s what misinforms and influences voters. Not the real story…
–Not that Occupy Wall Street had become such an enormous, successful, influential movement that streets were literally jammed with 1000s upon 1000s of 99%ers nationally… and even internationally.
–Not that 99%ers are called that for a reason.
–Not that there’s an ongoing crisis in this country that demands immediate action, and the 99%ers are the ones who finally took matters into their own hands– the hands of the people– took to the streets, and managed to finally get politicians and the media to address inequality and jobs instead of budget cuts and naming post offices.
–Not that the 99%ers are heroes who are willing to withstand violent police officers and violent weather in order to finally create real hope and change.
–Not that the activists have insisted that they remain non-violent, and those who haven’t are often infiltrators or otherwise not part of the Occupy movement.
–Not that after two months solid of marching, gathering, meeting, and camping out, the movement, with very few exceptions, has remained peaceful and orderly, even when repeatedly and regularly provoked, belittled, and attacked.
–Not that a fast-growing movement (not a rally, not a protest, but a movement) is getting people to physically stand up, become pro-active, and communicate, some for the first time ever, others for the first time in decades.
–Not that the protesters are heroes who are giving the voiceless and oppressed a megaphone. Correction: Make that a People’s Mic.
No, none of that was the in the teaser. His headline was specifically about those who got cuffed and jailed. By the way, many of those arrests were planned and mutually agreed upon by both the activists and the police. Surprise!
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