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MRC Alert: CNN Convicts Palin and Tea Partiers of 'Inciting Violence' and Stoking Racism
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Monday March 29, 2010 @ 09:58 AM EDT
1. CNN Convicts Palin and Tea Partiers of 'Inciting Violence' and Stoking RacismCNN put “INCITING VIOLENCE?” on screen under video of Sarah Palin earlier in the day Saturday in Searchlight, Nevada, as anchor Don Lemon announced: "Sarah Palin takes on one of the highest ranking Democrats right in his own backyard, all while causing another uproar by urging tea parties to quote 'reload.' And the question is, are comments like that inciting violence and name-calling over the health care bill and the like?" In the subsequent segment, titled “DANGEROUS RHETORIC: When heated words incite threats & violence,” CNN’s panel agreed Obama’s political opponents are inciting violence and are motivated by racism
2. ABC Uses Palin Campaigning for McCain to Take Gratuitous Shot at Her 2008 'Lost Footing'Last week when President Barack Obama cited an impossible “three thousand percent” price reduction and referred to a woman who “upped her deductible...to the minimum,” ABC's World News didn't utter a syllable about it, but in a Friday story on Sarah Palin headlining a John McCain campaign event in Arizona, ABC's David Wright found it somehow newsworthy to remind viewers Palin made verbal miscues in 2008 -- as if those are what doomed McCain's presidential campaign. Noting that McCain plucked Palin “pretty much out of obscurity in the frozen tundra,” but now she “has all but eclipsed” McCain in national popularity, Wright played a soundbite of Time's Mark Halperin observing “John McCain needs her now to come back and help him just as he helped her by raising her from obscurity.” Wright gratuitously asserted: “Never mind that at key moments in the '08 campaign Palin lost her footing.” Viewers then saw a clip of Palin on the CBS Evening News in 2008: “Our next door neighbors are foreign countries. They're in the state that I am the executive of.”
3. Jack Cafferty Just Can't Get Over His Anti-Palin ObsessionCNN commentator Jack Cafferty predictably revisited his Palin Derangement Syndrome on Friday's Situation Room, hours after the former Alaska governor made a campaign appearance for Senator John McCain for his re-election bid. Cafferty used the "Caribou Barbie" label often used by the left, and blamed Palin for polarizing the American people. The CNN personality, who devoted 35% of his "Cafferty File" segments over a month period in 2008 to bashing the former Republican vice presidential candidate, couldn't resist devoting his 5 pm Eastern commentary to Palin's Friday appearance with McCain in Arizona. After getting out of the way the obligatory references to her Fox News gig and her upcoming television series on TLC, Cafferty unleashed hell upon his nemesis on the right, pointing to her as the sole cause for the senator's failed presidential bid, and even omitted that she is the former governor of the 49th state.
6. Colby King Charges Tea Partiers Are Descendants of George Wallace and David Duke“Today's Tea Party adherents are George Wallace legacies,” the Washington Post’s Colby King charged in his weekly Saturday column, maintaining “they have been culturally conditioned to believe they are entitled to do whatever they want, and to whomever they want, because they are the ‘real Americans,’ while all who don't think or look like them are not” and so, “without folks like them, there would be no Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity or Pat Buchanan.” King, the Post's deputy editorial page editor from 2000 to 2007 who in 2003 won the Pulitzer Prize for “distinguished commentary,” began the column, “In the faces of Tea Party shouters, images of hate and history,” by equating the Tea Party activists with the racist segregationists of the 1950s: "The angry faces at Tea Party rallies are eerily familiar. They resemble faces of protesters lining the street at the University of Alabama in 1956."
7. Crude Maher Urges Democrats to Treat Republicans as Tiger Woods Did His ConquestsIn the midst of liberals condemning the tone of anti-Obama conservatives, Bill Maher on Friday pointed to a vulgar and sexually-explicit text message Tiger Woods reportedly sent, which promised aggressive sexual behavior, as representing the attitude Democrats should adopt from the “lying bullies of the right.” Maher quoted from Woods: “I want to treat you rough, throw you around, spank and slap you and make you sore....I'm going to tell you to shut the f**k up while I slap your face and pull your hair for making noise.” Maher declared that “perfectly represents the attitude the Democrats should now have in their dealings with the Republican Party.”
8. ABC's Environmental Alarmist Sam Champion Hypes 'Earth Hour,' Skipped ClimateGateGood Morning America's weatherman and resident environmental alarmist Sam Champion on Friday promoted Earth Hour 2010, a call for people to sit in the dark at 8:30pm local time on Saturday and reflect on global warming. Champion enthused, "So, tomorrow night at 8:30, you can turn your lights off and join people around the world as they say 'Hey, we simply care and that climate change is something we want to make a statement about.'"
9. CBS's Rodriguez: Dems 'Rescued' ObamaCare From 'Death's Door'Introducing a report on passage of the ObamaCare reconciliation bill on Friday's CBS Early Show, co-host Maggie Rodriguez referred to a couple upcoming rescue stories on the show and cheerfully remarked: "And speaking of rescues, the Democrats have rescued health care reform, once on death's door, after putting the final touches, finally, on the sweeping legislation yesterday." At the top of the show, co-host Harry Smith proclaimed: "Health care reform is a done deal after Democrats in Congress make final changes to the historic legislation." In the later report by correspondent Nancy Cordes, an on-screen headline read: "Done Deal; Obama Health Care Plan Gets Final Approval From Congress."
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