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Friday, March 08, 2013

Wednesday March 6, 2013 Media Research Center Alert Special: Latest Notable Quotables

Wednesday March 6, 2013 Media Research Center Alert Special: Latest Notable Quotables

Related:

http://www.mrc.org/notable-quotables/journalists-adopt-obamas-sequester-hysteria

http://www.mrc.org/media-reality-check/sequester-scare-two-thirds-news-stories-devoted-hyping-budget-hysteria

http://www.mrc.org/biasalerts/cnn-catches-obamas-falsehood-sequester-networks-barely-report-it

http://www.mrc.org/biasalerts/cnn-gives-8-times-coverage-beyonces-lip-sync-obamas-falsehood

http://www.mrc.org/biasalerts/abcs-jon-karl-skeptically-questions-obamas-ending-white-house-tours

http://www.mrc.org/biasalerts/krauthammer-obama-charm-offensive-because-media-could-no-longer-cover-him

MRC Alert Special: Latest Notable Quotables

    As a bonus for CyberAlert subscribers, below is the text of the March 4 edition of Notable Quotables, the MRC's bi-weekly compilation of the latest outrageous, sometimes humorous, quotes in the liberal media. It was compiled by the MRC's Rich Noyes.

    Highlights from this issue: The media freak out over the puny budget sequester, with CNN panicking over it’s “draconian” effect, while ABC ridiculously warns of “jobs vaporizing, flights delayed, even criminals walking free” and CBS threatens that U.S. troops “could pay with their lives.” On his radio show, MSNBC’s Ed Schultz foams about how the sequester would cut “damn near a third” of the budget -- in reality, the cuts amount to barely 2 percent of total spending.

    Also: MSNBC’s Chris Matthews spends President’s Day dreaming about Barack Obama showing up on Mount Rushmore; NBC’s Chuck Todd frets about conservatives not going on liberal talk shows because their staffers “actually believe” the “mythology” that the media have a liberal bias; and a Hollywood screenwriter scolds the Tea Party for wanting to return to the “psychotic individualism” of the “Reagan era.”

    To read it online, posted with five videos with matching MP3 audio:  http://www.mrc.org/notable-quotables/journalists-adopt-obamas-sequester-hysteria

    Quotes marked with [VIDEO] have an accompanying video file that you can access by visiting the online version.

    The three-page, fully-formatted, full-color PDF good for printing:http://www.mrc.org/sites/default/files/documents/Mar42013.pdf

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Now the quotes featured in the March 4 Notable Quotables, Vol. 26; No. 5:

As Expected, Journalists Adopt Obama's Panicky Hype

Host Chris Wallace: "The White House has already put out — there's going to be kids, thousands of kids thrown out of Head Start; we won't have food safety inspectors to make sure our food is safe — you know, all kinds of dire things.... They are saying we will make it hurt."
Panelist Juan Williams: "Oh, yeah. And I think the news media will play into that at every level."
— Exchange on Fox News Sunday, February 17.

vs.

[VIDEO] "Deadline day. Hours, now, until massive government cuts go into effect that could impact every American: jobs vaporizing, flights delayed, even criminals walking free."
— Fill-in co-host Josh Elliot at the top of ABC's Good Morning America, March 1.

"Time is up. In just hours, President Obama will order $85 billion in cuts. The Army's chief of staff tells us why he fears troops could pay with their lives."
— Co-host Charlie Rose teasing an upcoming segment on CBS This Morning, March 1.

"It sounds like a disaster movie: Childcare canceled for tens of thousands of kids, long airport security lines, flight delays with a shortage of controllers, and military cuts that will leave us ‘second rate,' according to the Defense Secretary."
— ABC's David Kerley on World News, February 24.

"Deep impact: The new fight over money in Washington. Another deadline rapidly approaching, along with deep budget cuts poised to have a major impact on the military, law enforcement, even food inspection...."
— Brian Williams opening the February 19 NBC Nightly News.

[VIDEO] "Watch out! Like the asteroid headed to earth, they're coming: $86 billion in automatic budget cuts. And don't bother trying to duck....So we let these draconian budget cuts take place. You know who's going to suffer the most? It's not going to be Congress. It's not going to be the President,... it's going to be us."
— CNN anchor Carol Costello on Newsroom, February 19.

Say Bye-Bye to Beef Jerky

"For more than three decades, Western's Smokehouse, a family-run meat processing operation in rural northeastern Missouri, has specialized in the art of jerky. Its varieties include smoked Mandarin teriyaki beef, smoked pepper beef and smoked original beef. But now, there is concern at the plant. The automatic federal spending cuts have raised the possibility that the United States Department of Agriculture will have to furlough some of its meat inspectors.... ‘I'm nervous about it,' said Kevin Western, the owner of the company, which is based in Greentop, Mo., and was started by his father, Sam, in 1978. ‘The livelihood of our business depends on meat inspection.'"
— New York Times reporter John Eligon, February 26.

Math-Challenged Ed Fumes: You Can't Cut "Damn Near a Third" of the Budget

[AUDIO] "Now you've got a budget of three and a half trillion dollars in this fiscal year. This will take $85 billion out of it. That's damn near a third....You can't take 30, you can't take 30 percent of operational money out and expect to have the same product. You can't do it! It's impossible!"
— Radio host and MSNBC anchor Ed Schultz on his February 25 radio show. In fact, $85 billion is a puny 2% of the $3.5 trillion annual federal budget, not 30%.

It's "Dumb" to Investigate Who Proposed the Sequester

[VIDEO] Anchor Chuck Todd: "So Republicans, they spent the day yesterday passing around this video of a Montana Democratic Senator, Max Baucus, by the way who's up for reelection in 2014, who was saying this about the sequester."
Clip of Senator Max Baucus: "The President is a part of this. The White House recommended it, frankly, back in August of 2011. And, so, now we're feeling the effect of it."
Todd: "Of all the dumb things Washington does, this ‘who started it' argument has proven to be one of the dumber ones, especially since we're so close to the actual cuts going into place."
— MSNBC's The Daily Rundown, February 21.

Blame Boehner's Language, Not Obama's Obstinance

"A few weeks ago, you said that the President didn't have the guts to do what needed to be done on the budget. Today, you said the Senate has to get off its ass. Those don't sound like the words of a man seeking to bring people together to compromise."
— Anchor Scott Pelley to House Speaker John Boehner in an interview shown on the February 26 CBS Evening News.

Fantasizing About Obama on Mount Rushmore

"Is Barack Obama going for it? Is he set on becoming one of the great presidents in history? I'm not talking about Mount Rushmore, but perhaps the level right below it. I'm talking, to use his word, ‘transformational.'... If he [Obama] were hearing us talking about him, maybe, mounting Mount Rushmore, getting up there with the great presidents, secretly, not what he would say to other people, what would he be thinking — ‘that's exactly what I'm doing'?"
— MSNBC host Chris Matthews on Hardball, February 18.

MSNBC Brain Trust Volunteers for Hillary 2016

[VIDEO] Salon's Joan Walsh: "I think if she [Hillary Clinton] runs again, she really can't run as that front-runner. It cannot be that inevitability campaign that she ran in 2007, and she knows that. She's got to be about the future."
Host Chris Matthews: "If you're watching, Madam Secretary, all three of us have brilliant ideas. All of us have great ideas. And I especially put myself in that group with Joan and David [Corn]. We know how to do this, we'll get you in there."
— MSNBC's Hardball, February 25.

"Red-Baiting" at the Hagel Hearings

"Do you have any regrets about the way that [Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel's] confirmation battle was undertaken by his critics?...I mean, wasn't there a lot of Red-baiting and other kinds of, really unfair questions asked in a public forum?"
— Anchor Andrea Mitchell to GOP Senator Roger Wicker, MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell Reports, February 27.

Scolding Ted Cruz: A "Potentially Dangerous Demagogue"

NPR's Nina Totenberg: "I actually know Cruz because he, for many years he argued cases for Texas in the United States Supreme Court. He is very smart. He is very glib, and he made sure that the attention was focused on him. This was not a distraction. This was Ted Cruz doing this [going after Chuck Hagel]."
Politico's Evan Thomas: "You need to watch this guy, because there are a lot of demagogues out there, but not that many who are that smart. He is really, really smart, and that makes him potentially dangerous."
— Exchange on Inside Washington, February 22.

Can't Confuse Him With a "Fair and Balanced" Journalist

"That's not my slogan, to be ‘fair and balanced.' My thing is about accuracy and the truth. Just because someone has another point of view or opinion, I don't believe in false fairness. I just believe in the truth."
— CNN anchor Don Lemon in a January 25 interview with the Dallas Voice.

Dumb Conservatives Actually Believe Liberal Bias "Myth"

[VIDEO] "There are fewer and fewer Republicans who will go on non-Fox shows....I think that the mythology of the big, bad non-conservative media has gotten into some offices...and then these guys, they actually believe the spin that's out there, ‘Oh, my God, that's what the mainstream media does, they do anything to disrupt the conservative agenda.' And so literally, you only — Lindsey [Graham], John McCain, you know, that's been my — I just fear that it's sort of like this whole — there's this whole sort of this, the mythology of this, the media's out to get conservatives is believed among more and more actual staffers."
— NBC political director Chuck Todd on MSNBC's Morning Joe, February 19, talking about why so few conservative members of Congress are willing to go on liberal talk shows.

Obama vs. "Hard Right," "Hamas" Republicans

[VIDEO] "It is the hard right. Every time the President — you talk to people at the White House. They say, ‘This President, whatever you think of the politics, doesn't know who to talk to on the Hill.' There is no Boehner, he's just a front man. Eric Cantor has his got wet finger in the air trying to figure out which way the wind is blowing. Who is the President talking to? Is it just a clique of, a bunch of right-wingers who don't want to talk to anybody? Are they Hamas? Who are they out there?"
— Host Chris Matthews on MSNBC's Hardball, February 20.

You're Either With Obama, or With the Killers

[VIDEO] "I personally don't want to be part of a movement to keep those semi-automatics flying into the hands of all sorts of people as they are today, the hoarders, the survivalists, the paranoid, the criminal and downright politically nutty. Why? Because the next mass shooter could well emerge out of this pack. Check the shooters of John F. Kennedy and Jerry Ford, who got shot at twice. Look at the men that shot Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King and Malcolm X and George Wallace. They all had political motives and they all had guns. Got them easy and put them easily to use. And if you're not against this movement, you're with it."
— Chris Matthews on MSNBC's Hardball, February 27.

Imaginary Conservative on Reagan: "I Hope the Bastard Bleeds to Death"

[VIDEO] "Frankly, I hope the bastard bleeds to death on the operating table."
— "Charles Duluth" of the Conservative Statesman magazine, who is a KGB operative in Washington, DC, in the February 20 episode of FX's The Americans drama, set on the 1981 day when President Reagan was shot.

A "Frightening" Return to "Psychotic" Reagan-Era Values

"So you have people like these Tea Party people protesting government and then asked if they really want to give up their Social Security payments. And they don't seem to know that, that is actually part of what government is. There's a rejection of the sort of basic idea of human community behind the Reagan, behind Reagan-era ideology that is really frightening. And it leads us to terrible, terrible places. And now that we're facing challenges like climate change that absolutely demand a global collective response, an organized global collective response. We have no hope for survival as a species if we continue down the path of this kind of psychotic individualism."
— Lincoln screenwriter Tony Kushner on PBS's Charlie Rose, February 14.

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END Reprint of the March 4 Notable Quotables

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Tuesday, December 18, 2012

NYT Aggressively Pushing Gun Control in Massacre Coverage, Promises More to Come

New York Times' Helene Cooper: Choose Between 2nd Amendment Rights or 'Kids [Being] Safe' at School
New York Times White House reporter Helene Cooper: "And if killing, you know, twenty 5- to 10-year-olds doesn't do it for this country, then than means the other conversation we should be having is just simply saying, 'You know what? The right for older people to bear arms is more important than the right of little kids to be safe when they go to school.'"

NYT Aggressively Pushing Gun Control in Massacre Coverage, Promises More to Come
The Times aggressively promoted Democrats exploiting the massacre to push for gun control legislation. "Democrats seemed to be hoping to seize on the momentum from the shooting, in which 20 first graders were killed, and the resulting outrage and despondency of millions of Americans, to gingerly build a coalition of lawmakers who might be able to create some form of compromise limits on gun sales or types." The Times also ran three editorials pushing gun control on Tuesday, and promised more to come.

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Thursday, September 27, 2012

National Review Online: How Republics Fall By Michael Knox Beran

How Republics Fall

The Fourth Estate’s degrading hero worship trivializes an election.

By Michael Knox Beran, SEPTEMBER 17, 2012 http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/321100/how-republics-fall-michael-knox-beran#

The weird ecstasy of the media-political complex at the convention in Charlotte last month was the first sign that its attachment to President Obama, always fawning, had become morbid.

In spite of the anemic economy and a real unemployment rate above 11 percent, the high priests of pontificating liberalism were giddy with euphoria. The Democrats “put on a nearly flawless convention,” Paul Begala opined, and it was soon all but incontrovertibly established that, come November, the president — beautiful, magical, and lovable as he was — would vanquish his boring opponent.

[…]http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/321100/how-republics-fall-michael-knox-beran#

Like the decadents of France’s ancien régime, the liberal literati of mainstream journalism are convinced that the party will go on forever. Islamic zealots can be talked out of making nuclear bombs; stagnant growth and high unemployment can be counteracted with a Caesarian policy of bread and shows, free food and even free cell phones; a moribund economy can be propped up with the saline drip of Ben Bernanke’s liquidity transfusions.

As detached from reality as Marie Antoinette milking cows with Sèvres buckets, liberal journalists fail to grapple in any serious way with the “crisis of liberalism” at home and abroad, preferring instead to compose billets-doux to Barack praising his basketball prowess and panegyrics on Michelle’s dexterity as a horticulturalist… http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/321100/how-republics-fall-michael-knox-beran#

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Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Is the media piling on Romney? September 26, 2012 by Kevin E. Dayhoff

Is the media piling on Romney?

http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=5361

Howard Kurtz, the host of the weekly CNN program Reliable Sources, tweeted last Sunday: “I'm at CNN and about to ask whether the media are piling on Romney.”

Well, duh. Is a school bus yellow? Of course, the media is piling on Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor.

We are currently a witness to history. We are spectators to a presidential election this November that still has all the hallmarks of potentially being stolen by the media. We are witnessing a coup d’état by the elite-progressive press, if you will.

“The weird ecstasy of the media-political complex at the Democratic Party convention in Charlotte last month was the first sign that its attachment to President Barack Obama, always fawning, had become morbid,” wrote Michael Knox Beran in National Review Online on September 17.

“How Republics Fall” – The Fourth Estate’s degrading hero worship trivializes an election” – was called to my attention by political writer Steve Berryman. It is an erudite, but scathing, review of the media’s active participation in the presidential campaign.

“In spite of the anemic economy and a real unemployment rate above 11 percent, the high priests of pontificating liberalism were giddy with euphoria. The Democrats ‘put on a nearly flawless convention,’ Paul Begala opined, and it was soon all but incontrovertibly established that, come November, the president — beautiful, magical, and lovable as he was — would vanquish his boring opponent.”

And then there is a story about overt media bias witnessed by Maryland State Sen. Joe Getty (R., Carroll/Baltimore) at the Republican National Convention in Tampa. Senator Getty communicated his first-person witness to blatant media bias at a pre-election breakfast September 20, in Westminster… http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=5361

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Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Drudge: All-star cast of 'liberal hacks' to run debates

The Drudge Report is reporting that the upcoming presidential and vice presidential debates will be moderated by a crew of "liberal hacks" including Jim Lehrer of PBS, Candy Crowley of CNN and Bob Schieffer of CBS.

Read & Comment

Drudge: All-star cast of 'liberal hacks' to run debates

U.S. ignores abuse of Christian women in Egypt

Book: Holder pot raids distract from gun scandal

U.S. Olympian waves Mexican flag after medal win

Obama camp bars reporter from talking to voters

Obama invited to lunch with Morsi, Ahmadinejad

Introducing Janna Ryan, the possible second lady

Americans reject crony capitalism

House committee to file Holder contempt charges

Soros gets hitched: Wife No. 3 and half his age

Why we shouldn't make voting easy

Here comes the media slant against Ryan

Ryan leap from Congress to VP would be huge

Romney taps Ryan as running mate

Stop the presses: Obama team calls Ryan 'radical'

Ryan is exactly what Romney needs to nail Dems

DNC script offers 'real people,' saccharine stories

Inside the Beltway: The Hollywood script

Health law readiness follows state, party lines

From Olympians to lawmakers

Consumer bureau seeks sleuths for bad bankers

F-35 cost can’t be tamed, analysts say

Police group backs Allen; credit unions go with Kaine

Poll shows most Americans know little about Paul Ryan

McCain: Attacks on Romney 'succeeded to a certain degree'

Kyrgyzstan eyes law to curb extravagance

Obama team deflecting criticism by citing Bush

GHEI: The Social Security Ponzi scheme

DECKER: Romney-Ryan ticket takes fight to Obama

MILLER: Exploiting gun tragedies

WOLF: Desperate Democrats reek of fear

GREEN: Ryan pick is popular, bold

EDITORIAL: Obama: Let's take over every industry

KNIGHT: Slinging mud from the Soptic tank

LAMBRO: Backing Obama a blood sport

MILLER: The work-to-welfare president

DEHAVEN: Cut big business's corporate welfare

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Tuesday, May 15, 2012

MRC Alert Special: Latest Notable Quotables

Monday May 14, 2012

MRC Alert Special: Latest Notable Quotables

    As a bonus for CyberAlert subscribers, below is the text of the May 14 super-sized edition of Notable Quotables, the MRC's bi-weekly compilation of the latest outrageous, sometimes humorous, quotes in the liberal media. It was compiled by the MRC's Rich Noyes.

    Highlights from this issue include the media "getting chills" upon hearing President Obama utter the "historic words" that he's flip-flopped in favor of gay "marriage," even as NBC's Savannah Guthrie dares to state the obvious, that everyone in "the media seem to uniformly support same-sex marriage."

    Also, reporters blame conservatives for the defeat of Indiana Republican Senator Richard Lugar in a primary, with CBS's Bob Schieffer suggesting the GOP "has moved too far right for its own good," while NBC's Brian Williams helps the Obama campaign spike the football one year after the death of Osama bin Laden, admiring the "even keel" Obama kept while at the White House Correspondents Dinner amid fears that a botched mission would be "a Waterloo" for his presidency. And, ABC's Diane Sawyer does a little pro-Obama campaign work, too, oozing over the pretentious poetry Obama wrote to a girlfriend decades ago: "Oh, we were all so romantic when we were young."

    To read it online, posted with five videos with a matching MP3 audio: http://www.mrc.org/notable-quotables/media-uniformly-back-obama-gay-marriage-getting-chills-upon-hearing-obamas-histori

    Quotes marked with [VIDEO] have an accompanying video file that you can access by visiting the online version.

    The four-page, fully-formatted, full-color PDF good for printing:http://www.mrc.org/sites/default/files/documents/May142012.pdf

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    Now the quotes from recent weeks, as featured in the May 14 Notable Quotables, Vol. 25; No. 10:

"Getting Chills" Upon Hearing Obama's "Historic Words"

[VIDEO] Co-host George Stephanopoulos: "What a watershed moment. You know, whatever people think about this issue, and we know it's controversial, there's no denying when a President speaks out for the first time like that, it is history."
Co-host Robin Roberts: "And let me tell you, George, I'm getting chills again. Because when you sit in that room and you hear him say those historic words — it was not lost on anyone that was in the room."
— ABC's Good Morning America, May 10.

Too Obvious to Deny: Media "Uniformly" Back Obama on Gay Marriage

"So many people in the media seem to uniformly support same-sex marriage. Do you think that this dialogue we're having nationally doesn't adequately recognize that for many people, this is an issue that they struggle with and don't believe in?"
— Savannah Guthrie on NBC's Today, May 10.

"I think that the media is as divided on this issue as the Obama family — which is to say not at all. And so he's never going to get negative coverage for this....When you have almost the entire media establishment on your side on an issue in a presidential campaign, it's very hard to lose politically."
— Mark Halperin on MSNBC's Morning Joe, May 10.

Watch Out for Evil "Wolves... Giggling With Delight"

[VIDEO] "It is a pretty profound statement by our President. I don't want to get past that too quickly. That's the good news for everybody in the country in terms of freedom and the long march towards liberalism in the country.... But there has always been another army out there that feeds on those who resent it. That army has been out there during Jim Crow. It was out there during abolition, during suffrage. There's always an army that feeds on change and feeds against it — the wolves, and they're being released right now and they're probably giggling with delight at how they're going to use this."
— Chris Matthews during MSNBC live coverage during the 3pm hour, May 9, shortly after ABC released clips of Obama's statement on same-sex marriage.

The "Too Far Right" GOP vs. "Voice of Bipartisanship"

"Do you think that the Republican Party has moved too far right for its own good? I mean, when you see the situation that's happened out in Indiana, where Richard Lugar, who's probably passed more significant legislation than any single member of the Senate right now, I would say — that I can think of — he might actually get beat in the primary because they think he's not conservative enough."
— Bob Schieffer to Peggy Noonan on CBS's Face the Nation, May 6.

Anchor Erin Burnett: "This is pretty tragic that we have gotten to this point where working together is a negative thing...."
CNN Contributor John Avlon: "If you are frustrated with the way Washington isn't working, with the division and dysfunction, this primary is an important reason why. Right now reaching across the aisle to try to solve a problem is a hanging offense in the Republican Party primaries."
— From CNN's Erin Burnett OutFront, May 8.

Loving Lugar's "Prescient" Anti-Conservative Manifesto

"Indiana Sen. Dick Lugar did not go quietly, after losing his primary contest Tuesday in Indiana to a Tea Party-backed challenger, Richard Mourdock. And if there is one thing the American people need to read today, it is his farewell missive, which may prove to be as prescient and long lasting as Dwight Eisenhower's 1961 exit speech warning of the coming military industrial complex."
— Time magazine White House correspondent Michael Scherer in a May 9 post for the magazine's "Swampland" blog.

"Not only was it a manifesto, it was an incredibly eloquent manifesto. There have been a number of people who've been chased out of the party now, and none have either had the courage or the position [of Lugar]."
— Scherer on MSNBC's Daily Rundown, May 10.

"Diverse" Democrats vs. "Conservative White Guys"

"Do you have a problem with being inclusive, because most people do look at Republicans, going ‘They're a conservative bunch of white guys who want to protect Big Oil.' And now you're even hearing Republicans saying, ‘It's not big enough. We haven't opened up the tent door.'...It's not as diverse as the Democratic Party. You'd concede that."
— Host Candy Crowley to former presidential candidate Newt Gingrich on CNN's State of the Union, May 6.

Can We Blame Obama's Woes on the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy?

"We've talked before. I've asked you about the — the fact that Washington doesn't work very well right now, and hasn't for now a number of years that coincides with — Obama-Biden being in the White House. And you've been very critical of Republicans. Do you think that there is a modern right-wing conspiracy that has aligned against this President?"
— Moderator David Gregory to Vice President Biden on NBC's Meet the Press, May 6.

CBS Entranced by Liberal Plea for More Massive Spending

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman: "If we could get our politicians to move and do the right thing, we could be out of this [bad economy] very fast....The right thing is, actually, to spend more. Right now, you know, we have a long-term budget problem, but now is not the time to be slashing. Now is not the time to be laying off school teachers...."
Co-host Gayle King: "But you say that it could take seven years if we keep going the way we're going. And if we follow your advice, it would take-?"
Krugman: "Eighteen months, two years."
King: "So why aren't people listening to you, Paul Krugman? I love that President Obama, in Rolling Stone — did you see that? — he called you one of the smartest economic reporters?...I have a feeling, Paul Krugman, they might take your call if you called up the White House and said, hey, guys, I've got an idea."
— CBS This Morning, April 30.

Which Way Is It?

"Economy Continues on Path of Growth"
"Americans have ratcheted up their spending on cars, clothes and furniture, new figures show, and their fortitude at the cash register is energizing the recovery."
— Headline and lead sentence of a front-page Washington Post story by Peter Whoriskey, April 28.

vs.

"Economic Growth Slows Unexpectedly to 2.2%"
"The economic recovery slowed more than expected early this year, raising fears of a spring slowdown for the third year in a row and giving Republicans a fresh opportunity to criticize President Obama's policies."
— Headline and lead sentence of a "Business Day" section item by Shaila Dewan in the New York Times, same day.

Awed by Obama's "Even Keel" Amid Fears of a "Waterloo"

[VIDEO] "Keeping this secret also meant going on about the business of the presidency. Touring that awful storm damage in Alabama, while knowing at that very moment U.S. Navy SEALs were already on the move halfway around the world. (to Obama) You had to go to Tuscaloosa. You had to go have fun at the Correspondents' Dinner. Seth Meyers makes a joke about Osama Bin Laden. How do you keep an even keel? Even when we look back on the videotape of that night, there's no real depiction that there's something afoot."...
"If this had failed in spectacular fashion, it would have blown up your presidency, I think, by all estimates. It would have been your Waterloo and perhaps your Watergate, consumed with hearings and inquiries. How thick did the specter of Jimmy Carter, Desert One hang in the air here?"
— Brian Williams to President Obama during his May 2 Rock Center special on the first anniversary of the Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden.

A Campaign Between "Gordon Gekko" and "Henry V"

"Well, that's great stuff. I was so proud of the President there, I must say. This has nothing to do with partisanship. This is a commander-in-chief meeting with the troops, as it was right out of Henry V, actually, a touch of Barry in this case in the night for those soldiers risking their lives over there....I was so proud of him there, because I imagine being a soldier over there, this is what you want to hear, that the troops are backed up by the people at home, and there you had your commander-in-chief there with you personally. It's great stuff."
— Host Chris Matthews on MSNBC's Hardball, May 1, after live coverage of Obama's speech to troops in Afghanistan.

The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza: "He is pitching himself as a guy who has spent his life fixing the problem, which is turning things around. You can agree or disagree with this concept, but turning things around: the Salt Lake City Olympics; companies with Bain he would put in there; he would put Massachusetts in there, though many people would disagree. Turning things around, that he is a fix-it artist."
Host Chris Matthews: "Chris, how's that different than Gordon Gekko in Wall Street, greed is good?"
— MSNBC's Hardball, May 7.

Don't Pick on Jimmy

Host Ed Schultz: "I think he [Mitt Romney] owes Jimmy Carter an apology. I mean, Jimmy Carter put lives on the line and made a tough call....It's low rent, it's a cheap shot...."
MSNBC contributor Richard Wolffe: "Here's a President who had a ten times better job record than President Bush did. He was responsible for Camp David. That's not a bad record for anyone, certainly for someone who's had one term as a Massachusetts governor. It's time to pay a little bit more respect than that."
— MSNBC's The Ed Show, April 30, talking about Romney's statement that "even Jimmy Carter" would have ordered last year's raid on bin Laden.

How Low Will MSNBC Stoop?

"We know that Ann Romney has herself had some suffering in the form of Multiple Sclerosis (MS). She's also suffered with breast cancer. Do you think that he's intentionally using her to close the gender gap?"
— MSNBC's Martin Bashir, April 25.

"Toxic" Fox News Exploiting America's "Suckers"

"At least for Americans — Fox News is Murdoch's most toxic legacy....I doubt that people at Fox News really believe their programming is ‘fair and balanced' — that's just a slogan for the suckers....We [other news organizations] try to live by a code, a discipline, that tells us to set aside our personal biases, to test not only facts but the way they add up, to seek out the dissenters and let them make their best case, to show our work. We write unsparing articles about public figures of every stripe — even, sometimes, about ourselves. When we screw up — and we do — we are obliged to own up to our mistakes and correct them. Fox does not live by that code."
— Former New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller in a May 6 column.

Oozing Over "So Romantic" Obama's Pretentious Poetry

[VIDEO] "One of the perils of being President: Everything you ever wrote will become public. And today, Barack Obama, age 22 — long before he met Michelle — new letters and diary entries revealed in Vanity Fair from a biography out soon....The future president writes adoringly about life in New York. Quote, ‘Moments trip gently along over here. Snow caps the bushes in unexpected ways. Birds shoot and spin like balls of sound. My feet hum over the dry walks.' Oh, we were all so romantic when we were young."
— Diane Sawyer on World News, May 2.

Bizarre Bashir: Plan to Cut Spending Makes Romney a European Socialist?

"Now we know that Mitt Romney loves to paint the President as a European-style socialist, which is incredible. And he weighed in today....How does Romney do that when he knows that it's him who supports rank austerity measures? He supports Paul Ryan's budget. He wants to go cut, cut, cut. It's not [the] President, it's him. He's the European socialist."
— Host Martin Bashir on MSNBC's Martin Bashir, May 7.

Scolding a Play "Straight Out of a Far-Right Handbook"

[VIDEO] "Ever since that failure [of the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion], exploiting anti-communist fears to portray Castro as a monstrous boogeyman has been a cottage industry in Florida and Washington. While many have certainly assailed Fidel and still do for very legitimate reasons, others simply hate that he overthrew their dictator, Fulgencio Batista, whose corrupt government helped enriched privileged Cubans and American interests at the expense of the country's poorest people....Whipping up a frenzy over slights real and imagined is a play straight out of a far-right handbook, and Florida's electoral cloud has often given Fidel's critics far more leverage than their arguments merit."
— HBO Real Sports host Bryant Gumbel, April 17, talking about the uproar over Florida Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen telling Time magazine "I love Fidel Castro," a comment for which Guillen later apologized.

Family Turned Out Fine, Except for Brother Who "Became a Republican"

MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski: "It happened overnight, and all of a sudden we were going to the White House all the time and traveling around the world...."
Host David Letterman: "What about the brothers? How did they fit into this? Did they take it in the stride?"
Brzezinski: "Well, one became a Republican, so I don't think he turned out so well."
— Brzezinski on CBS's Late Show with David Letterman, May 8, talking about her childhood after her father, Zbignew Brzezinski, became President Carter's National Security Advisor in 1977.

As America Deteriorates, Celebrities Like Obama "More and More"

"I've grown to like him more and more. You know, I was always — I've just been a fan of his, if you could say that about a President. So that's the other kind of good part of it, is you know, getting to like him more and more."
— Saturday Night Live's Obama impersonator Fred Armisen on NBC's Meet the Press "Press Pass" segment, April 29.

Mitt Just a Puppet of "Women Hating Tea Baggers"

"If ROMNEY gets elected I don't know if i can breathe same air as Him & his Right Wing Racist Homophobic Women Hating Tea Bagger Masters"
— Actress/singer Cher in a May 8 Twitter posting that was later deleted (grammar and punctuation as in the original).

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Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Four is the loneliest number by Kevin E. Dayhoff The Tentacle

http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=5018

Wednesday, April 4, 2012 Four is the loneliest number Kevin E. Dayhoff: After former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s likely primary victories in Tuesday’s contests in Maryland, Washington, DC, and Wisconsin, look for establishment Republicans to start looking for a running mate and the establishment media to focus its attention on getting President Barack Obama re-elected… http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=5018

Labels: Dayhoff Media The Tentacle, Energy, Energy Gasoline, Energy Independence, Media Bias, Politics Liberal double standards, Pres 2009 44 Obama-Barack

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http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2012/03/story-about-biker-us-marine-heroic-acts.html A story about a biker, US Marine, heroic acts and today’s liberal media - Labels: Media Bias, Media liberal, Military Marines, Motorcycles, Politics Democrats and Republicans

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Now look for establishment media to focus its attention on getting President Barack Obama re-elected http://tinyurl.com/7y24ne7

Dick Morris Accuses George Stephanopoulos of Being a 'Paid Democratic Hitman'

Ann Coulter Talks to NewsBusters About Media Coverage of Cain Allegations and Occupy Wall Street

Coulter: Upside of Media Vetting GOP Candidates - We Don't End Up With President Voting Present as Economy Falls in Toilet

Jay Leno: Obama's Open Mic Slip With Medvedev 'Doesn't Seem That Weird to Me'

Romney blasts Obama in Illinois victory speech: 'Enough!'

Van Jones: Romney Should Pick Condoleezza Rice as VP and 'Watch the Obama Campaign Go Crazy' Noel Sheppard Sunday, April 1, 2012 http://mrctv.org/videos/van-jones-romney-should-pick-condoleezza-rice-vp-and-watch-obama-campaign-go-crazy

Boehner: 'I Think The President Would Prefer To See Lower Gas Prices, At Least For Election Day'

Speaker Boehner: "I Think The President Would Prefer To See Lower Gas Prices. At Least For Election Day.

Rep. Frank: We Can Reduce Dependence on Oil and Lower Gas Prices at Same Time

Drilling Unlikely to Lower Oil Prices, Energy Information Chief Says

Blame China, Not Oil Companies for High Gas Prices, Says Prof

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Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Ed Liston - April 9, 2012: Stocks End Sharply Lower as Jobs Data Disappoints

Stocks End Sharply Lower as Jobs Data Disappoints

By: Ed Liston http://thestockmarketwatch.com/stock-market-news/market-updates/stocks-end-sharply-lower-as-jobs-data-disappoints/24404

Posted on April 9, 2012 5:25 pm by edliston

Stocks fell sharply in trading today as investors digested weaker than expected jobs report for the month of March. According to figures released by the Labor Department last Friday, the U.S. economy added only 120,000 jobs last month, well short of economists’ forecast.

The weaker than expected jobs report weighed down investors’ sentiment and has also cast doubts over the U.S. economic recovery. The Labor Department report, meanwhile, showed that the unemployment rate fell to 8.2% last month… http://thestockmarketwatch.com/stock-market-news/market-updates/stocks-end-sharply-lower-as-jobs-data-disappoints/24404