Much has been said about the “dialogue” on race. Unfortunately, there is only one media response to it and it hasn’t changed since I’ve been old enough to watch the evening news sometime in nineteen-seventy-blady-blah-blah.

Once upon a time racism was doing racist things. How naive we were!

Of course, as the Civil Rights movement devolved into a growth industry, the definition of racism grew a bit. Ethnic studies helped us, and especially our friends in the news rooms, to understand that racism isn’t really about doing anything actually racist. You see, it’s institutional racism. Which means you are by default an oppressor.

Isn’t a reduction in school lunch programs de facto racism, Mr. Reagan?

The MSM isn’t doing itself any favors flaunting its sense of moral superiority over the dolts on the other side of the screen.

The ever growing circle of what defines racism is, in my humble opinion, part of the reason so many people are tuning out the collective wisdom of Katie, Diane and Charlie. Who wants to be sitting there after dinner and feeling like they are racists because they insensitively use racist code words like “fiscal discipline” and “elitist” or have the nerve to call a corrupt politician corrupt – even if that pol happens to be black.

You are all bad people. And that’s a page out of Katie’s notebook! TTFN!

With the Daily Show’s masterful demolition of the race card, maybe there can be a fair “dialogue” on race. Hahaha, just kidding there. Al Sharpton is still breathing!

UPDATE: Exhibit A
As an aside, Juan Williams is my favorite NPR personality and that’s in no small part because he appears on FOX. The non-shouting match debates hosted by Chris Wallace and others represent political debate at its best.

It’s not like we didn’t know what Loven was a long time ago:

From the May 9, 2009 White House Correspondents Dinner:

Jennifer Loven -

“Seriously, there are those who think this center (the WHCA) has really outlived its purpose.  That it makes us in the press too cozy with those we cover. That the relationship with those of us covering The White House and those in it are too easily manipulated.

So, as your President of this Association, I plan to address all of those concerns tonight just as soon as Robert Gibbs spoon feeds me my dinner.”

Once spoonfed, now she holds the spoon.  Out of the mouths of Not-Babes accidentally slips the truth (via Brent Baker at NewsBusters).

Jennifer Loven, an 18-year AP veteran and the wire service’s chief White House correspondent, has decided to put her communications talents to work for The Glover Park Group, a DC-based “strategic communications firm” founded in 2001 by a bunch of Clinton and Gore staffers, most prominently Joe Lockhart, who found themselves unemployed after the 2000 election. She’ll be “Managing Director in its Public Affairs practice,” a Thursday press release from the Glover Park Group, plugged by Politico’s Mike Allen, announced.

She’s the second President in a row of the White House Correspondents’ Association to leave journalism for a left-wing, or at least left-leaning, lobbying outfit. In June, Bloomberg’s White House reporter, Ed Chen, formerly of the Los Angeles Times, jumped to the Natural Resources Defense Council as Federal Communications Director. (My complete Obama-journalism revolving door list.) Loven held the WHCA position for 2008-2009 and was succeeded by Chen.

It’s not a “revolving door” Brent – it’s a revolving sweat stained mattress.  If we held Loven under a blacklight she would glow like Chernobyl.

At least now she’s being paid to be the outspoken liberal she has always been vs. the pretend objective reporter that she’s never been.

Moops win!

Reconquering Spain 100 yards of beach at a time:

Michelle Obama today faced a fresh wave of attacks over her lavish break in Spain with 40 friends, which could easily cost U.S. taxpayers a staggering £50,000 a day.

What’s a girl to do?  Her husband’s economic policies have already placed a moratorium on families being able to afford vacations in the US.  Besides, that Chevy Volt wouldn’t even get you out of the county.

The First Lady has been lambasted for her extravagance at a time when the economy is still struggling. One blogger went so far as to brand her a modern-day Marie Antoinette.

And her critics will be further annoyed when they learn that the president’s wife had a Spanish beach closed off today so that she, her daughter and their entourage could go for a swim.

…

Police used palm trees and police tape to mark off the boundaries of a 100-yard expanse for the American delegation. On either side, onlookers gawked – and police occasionally stopped and searched sun lovers if they strayed too close to the private party.

Papers, please!  Of course, onlookers gawk.  That’s what they do.

But 100 yards of beach, the length of a football field, to get your knees wet?  Aside from the hypocrisy of telling everyone to tighten their belts as Mrs. Peron goes on yet another all-inclusive 5-star vacation, we know why so much of that beach is closed don’t we?

We can’t let those nasty photogs glimpse the Hottentot Venus in between lecturing the country that she’s not really proud of about how fat they are.

Whaddaya say, toots?   If we saw that our tax money had stretchmarks like your ass we wouldn’t be having this conversation.

To the Victory Garden Sea Bass Tartare followed by a main course of lobster with seaweed risotto!

/Because she’s a Private Citizen ™!

It's Pat! The Outrageously Funny Supreme Court Nomination!

It says a lot about the national media when Red State has to be the first one get their hands on a Supreme Court nominee’s college thesis because they refuse to do even the most cursory due diligence.  They just don’t want you to know and will only cover it if forced because you’re, like, totally making a big deal out of it for no reason.

Kagan is a Socialist.  A big one.  Just like the guy who nominated her though we can’t compare his college records because he ran for President, lied his way to victory, ruined the country in 14 months and the media has still decided not to investigate whether or not he was a C- student.  After all, how can he be???  He’s the smartest guy, most handsomest guy Marc Ambinder or Steve Benen ever rubbed their Viagra boners together over.

While Sully watched.  Sorry, kiddo.  But you’re a drain on our resources.  Luckily, we were easily able to adapt that “fat kid” monitoring program to AIDS patients.

/death panel

But say what you will about Kagan’s physical appearance, her ambiguous “It’s Pat” persona, or whether or not she looks more like a chunky Bob Costas than Dick Morris in a pantsuit but what you cannot argue is that she doesn’t know her Socialism.

She does.  To a fetishistic degree.

The Resolution?  There’s “Hope” and “Change” in those Hammers & Sickles:

Through its own internal feuding, then, the Socialist Party exhausted itself forever and further reduced labor radicalism in New York to the position of marginality and insignificance from which it has never recovered. (ed. – boohoo!)  The story is a sad but also chastening one for those who, more than half a century after socialism’s decline, still wish to change America.

There’s that word again.  But just what is it that Kagan wants to “change” America into?  Early on she spoke of “the Bolshevik seizure of power holding a romantic allure” for her kind.

Radicals have often succumbed to the devastating bane of sectarianism; it is easier, after all, to fight one’s fellows than it is to battle an entrenched and powerful foe.  Yet if the history of Local New York shows anything, it is that American radicals cannot afford to become their own worst enemies.  In unity lies their only hope.

“In unity lies their hope.”  The “lies” part I believe.

In other words, the “Workers of the world unite!” for the everybody gets a medal generation.

Their “hope” is the subjugation of liberty and individualism to the state.  Their “change” is to lower the standard of living for all benighted plebe Americans, previously unaware of the class struggle, save those few noble Harvard/Yale souls called to rule them.  After all, who could be more in touch with the common man or woman than people who paid $50k a year to go to college for six to ten years in hopes of getting a government job?

Such an undertaking has been attempted many times before and always with the same result.  It requires the breaking of a few bourgeoisie eggs to make the omelet of Stalinism.  If by “breaking” you mean killing and by “eggs” you mean people.

Such starry-eyed idealists can never allow a few misguided constitutionalists to stand in the way of the eternal struggle for Government over Individual inequality.

Frank Rich, who usually writes for the NY Times earlier in the week in blackface under the name “Charles Blow”, is up to his rote antics this week in condemning the mote in Fox News’s eye (and everybody else really) for not paying enough attention to the real Big Story this week while ignoring the beam in his own:

They Don’t Report. You Don’t Have to Decide.

By FRANK RICH

Published: May 8, 2010

“DESPITE the major environmental disaster unfolding in the Gulf and the attempted terror attack on New York’s Times Square, President Obama spent his Saturday night laughing it up at the White House Correspondents Dinner,” griped Sean Hannity of Fox News last week. His complaint is not inaccurate. But it’s hardly the whole story.

…

Here’s the time line from last Saturday. At 6:30 p.m. the abandoned Nissan Pathfinder was found smoking in Times Square. Relevant public officials marooned at the correspondents dinner in Washington quickly got word. Over the next hour and a half, several news organizations spread it as well while Times Square was evacuated. To clear the Broadway theater district at curtain time on Saturday night isn’t like emptying a high school; it’s a virtual military operation. By 8 p.m., the crossroads of the world looked like a ghost town, yet if you tuned in to a cable news network, it wasn’t news. No one seemed to know or to care. On MSNBC, which I was watching, it didn’t even merit a mention on a crawl.

The real news story was that Rich was lotioning himself up to Rachel Maddow and Ed Schultz re-runs on MSNBC that Saturday night.  Shocker, really.  Imagine how people in Nashville felt on May 3rd when they were flooded on May 1st without a week’s worth of warning like Katrina victims had.

Apparently little short of King Kong climbing up 30 Rock could have grabbed the network’s attention. When MSNBC did take a brief break from the dinner for news updates at 9:30, Times Square didn’t make the cut. Whether this was due to ignorance, ineptitude or an unwillingness to play party pooper is a distinction without a difference. Real-time coverage of Leno bombing (since when is that news?) mattered more than any actual bombs. Only as the dinner wound down, at 10:54, did MSNBC at last muster a “breaking news” bulletin about the Times Square story that had in fact been breaking for hours.

The gist of Frank’s typical navel-gazing seems to be that during the White House Correspondent’s Dinner last weekend that the attempted Times Square bombing had not garnered flood-the-zone coverage between the time Faisal Shahzad’s burning Pathfinder was found at 6:30pm and the clearing out of Times Square by 8:00pm.

Does the national news need to be alerted every time a car catches on fire in New York?

Can anyone honestly claim that the attempted Times Square bombing hasn’t gotten wall-to-wall, 24/7 coverage this last week?

Shahzad’s name doesn’t even appear in Rich’s column at all.  Nor does “Islam” or “jihad” as long as we’re judging sins of omission.

What constitutes Rich’s “closing argument” in his indictment against Fox News, et. al shows he is as guilty as he is clueless:

As we venerate the heroic street vendors who gave America its reality check last weekend, we should remember that they were the first to report what was happening in Times Square and that those covering and attending the White House Correspondents Dinner were the last.

While mentioning the Iceland volcano, Hurricane Katrina, the gulf oil spill and lamenting (of all people) the lack of civility in American politics, Rich failed to note there was some other story going on last week as well out there in Teabagger Country.  Something about the largest non-hurricane disaster in US history didn’t warrant even a passing acknowledgment in a full page op/ed about ignoring major news stories because they didn’t happen at a Manhattan intersection.

But screw those people, right Frankie?  The NY Times has consistently pressed the snooze button through every wake-up call the American people have given them on getting their news reporting right.

Better late than never.  Which is what we got.

Where my commies at?

Obama plays golf while wife speaks in Arkansas

(AP) – 9 hours ago

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is playing golf while his wife, Michelle, delivers a college commencement speech in Pine Bluff, Ark.

The president watched his daughter Malia play soccer Saturday before heading to the Fort Belvoir course to play golf.

Politicizing the gulf oil spill, having Iran spit in our face,plotting the destruction of Israel, bragging about how high unemployment is actually a sign of economic recovery, and oh yes, ignoring the largest non-hurricane disaster in US history – oh yes he can and no, he can’t be bothered.

Hrm, I certainly remember how this played out a few years ago.

Two AP photos from this past Tuesday, placed side by side, tell a story.

Here a fellow named George W. Bush is having a delightful time playing a guitar given to him by country singer Mark Wills after a visit to Naval Base Coronado in sunny southern California. It’s fun to be president.

Here firefighters and rescue workers try to cope with the worst disaster to strike Americans since 9/11. It is not a good day for them.

David Corn, September 2005

Where little Davey Corn on this?  Where all my commies?

Yea, you can imagine.  Playing politics and the race card as usual.

Because you see, when you’re elected President that means that you have to be President of all of it. Like it or not. Not just a couple of metro coastal cities and a few Rust Belt union thug holdouts.

I’mma let ya finish, but – for serious, Barack Obama don’t care about Southern people. Give or take Atlanta or Chocolate City.

“We have to destroy journalism in order to save it” to paraphrase a Vietnam war hero.

While burning an American flag, pissing on a set of dog tags and posing for photos with aging Ho Chi Minh guerillas, Peter Arnett reminds us why most journalists should be hung like Christmas Tree lights outside of Arlington Cemetery:

“This was the first foreign war the U.S. ever fought where the press challenged government thinking, challenged the decisions of generals, challenged the political decisions the war was based on,” said former CNN correspondent Peter Arnett, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his Vietnam coverage in 1966 while working for The Associated Press.

…

“No longer will you ever be able to do wars like Vietnam,” said Bob Carroll, a former United Press International photographer. “What did the military learn about press access from Vietnam? Don’t give it to them.”

Gee, I wonder why.  Was it the rooting for the enemy?  Giving them a “head’s up” maybe?   That’s always a no-no.

Was it for covering The Truth ™?  Surely not.  Else we would have heard of the mass civilian executions that kicked off one of the more ambitious genocides of the already bloody 20th century with the same enthusiasm deployed after the failed Tet Offensive.

But the mood was far from somber. Whoops of laughter also roared through the famous Caravelle Hotel ballroom as the former war correspondents, many of whom survived war injuries along with years of hard boozing and chain smoking, told stories about their wartime shenanigans and how they outsmarted the competition.

If by “competition” you mean US military.

You can see it can’t you?  The old chaps backslapping each other over all the good work they did.  Maybe for an encore they’ll pose on some anti-aircraft artillery.  Of course, I spoke too soon.

At Friday’s Liberation Day parade, the Old Hacks sat in the VIP section near a handful of former U.S. war veterans who have also returned to Vietnam many times since the war ended. Among them was Jim Doyle, a member of the Vietnam Veterans Peace Initiative (read:  Traitors), a small organization that supports a health clinic near Danang.

“I never had an enemy in Vietnam,” Doyle said. “My government did, but I didn’t. This place feels like home to me. These are probably the warmest, most genuine people I’ve ever met.”

The government extended its hand to the Old Hacks, setting up a meeting with the mayor of Ho Chi Minh City and offering a trip to the nearby Cu Chi Tunnels, an extensive underground network where communist Viet Cong guerrillas sought refuge from American bombers.

“I think that now the government realizes that we were people who covered the war objectively,” said James Pringle, who worked for Reuters in Vietnam and Cambodia.

Just which government is it whose opinion you are concerned?  And people wonder why we lost.

About two million Cambodians were unavailable for comment on how objectively James Pringle covered The Killing Fields.

After dinner and none too many drinks, the festivities were capped off when Arnett and Pringle donned evening gowns and danced on the graves of 58,000 US servicemen.

Terrible news.  Tragic really.  It really says something about Obamanomics when the only reason a newspaper survives is to print Foreclosure Notices.

Here’s some change I can believe in:

As you’ve no doubt read by now, Monday has been a day of transition for SouthComm. It’s not been easy. It’s not been fun. It is what it is.

The changes have forced us to make changes everywhere and Post Politics is, obviously, not going to be immune to them.

This blog, which so many of you have come to rely on for political news from Nashville and beyond, will change, yes.

Walk it off, son.

If David Frum, David Brooks, Andrew Sullivan and Kathleen Parker have taught me anything it’s the media loves a fake conservative to bash the real ones.

Don’t worry though.  Liberals take care of their own.  No matter how untalented they are.

How hard is it to say that you’re wrong?  I imagine it all depends on how many paragraphs of qualifying statements you go through before you get to it.

What’s pathetic is that in the course of posting notice that NY Times editors are considering running a correction because of their characterization of James O’Keefe’s clothes during the ACORN scandal that Clark Hoyt repeats an out-and-out lie about O’Keefe’s candid camera situation with Mary Landrieu:

I could not reach O’Keefe — who is facing federal criminal charges of tampering with a Democratic senator’s phone in a different attempted sting — or Giles. But I am satisfied that The Times was wrong on this point, and I have been wrong in defending the paper’s phrasing. Editors say they are considering a correction.

First and foremost, in the course of suggesting that a public correction may be in order don’t top it with another one.  There is no federal criminal charge facing O’Keefe for tampering with anyone’s phone.  No phones were ever tampered with and it is only the contention of the agent handling the case that it was criminal intent and not a prank.

They dream about a Watergate Jr. scandal so bad that they have to sleep on a rubber mattress at night.

Hoyt belabors O’Keefe’s choice of attire during the ACORN sting as if the clothes he wore into their offices somehow disqualifies the criminal advice ACORN staffers gave him to help run his implied child sex trafficking business and secure fraudulent government benefits.

Acorn’s supporters appear to hope that the whole story will fall apart over the issue of what O’Keefe wore: if that was wrong, everything else must be wrong. The record does not support them. If O’Keefe did not dress as a pimp, he clearly presented himself as one: a fellow trying to set up a woman — sometimes along with under-age girls — in a house where they would work as prostitutes. In Washington, he said the prostitution was to finance his future in politics. A worker for Acorn Housing, an allied group, warned him to stay away from the brothel lest someone “get wind that you got a house and that your girlfriend is over there running a house of women of the night. You will not have a career.”

FAIR said that in Brooklyn, O’Keefe and Giles seemed to be telling Acorn staffers that “they are attempting to buy a house to protect child prostitutes from an abusive pimp.” That’s right, but FAIR left out the part about their clear intention to operate a brothel, which the Acorn workers seemed to take in stride, with one warning: “Don’t get caught, ’cause it is against the law.”

This is the problem with the Legacy Media and the leftwing blogosphere in particular.  Just because you do not have the facts on your side does not mean that you get to make up your own!   There is no alternative reality where something that is factually wrong is correct because you want it to be.

Go for the tortured self-examination.  Stay for the comments where the reflexively ignorant and bigoted Times readers contend that their admittedly non-existent coverage has been too Pro-O’Keefe and anti-ACORN.

Oh, and just wait until the HUD sting comes out.  Not that you’ll have a choice if you read the NY Times or get your news from the Big Three Networks.

I wrestle with my selfishness.  It’s an unfair fight because no matter which side I root for either way I want me to win.  But no matter how self-centered I may become, it’s always assuring to know that I’m never the worst because “journalists” in the Legacy Media business can articulate it so much better than any of the other millions of unemployed.  They practice tugging at those heart strings.  Especially those of people out of work as a result of the positions and policies they engraved on the tombstones of their cover stories and editorial pages.

Who else ever got paid to alienate customers as long?

So who would want to be a journalist? It has always been work for the strong-hearted, the bull-headed and the hopelessly romantic. People do this work because they love it. They love telling stories, however grim, seamy, or heartbreaking. In fact, the more heartbreaking the better.

Exploiting the humanity of the downtrodden to raise the all-important “awareness”.  Preferably in pursuit of expanding the nanny state.

That’s not to say that the piece linked to above chronicling the personal experience of the toll on family and career is void of sincerity.  It does.  But it is completely absent of any attempt at understanding  the downfall that the old media brought and continues to bring on what’s left of itself.  An obvious and intentional lack of self-examination.  No amount of New Media business model synergies seminars are going to fix that glaring blindspot:

The end of a love affair is always a little sordid, isn’t it? Awkward moments, bracketed by false reassurances that everything is still OK, postpone the inevitable…. They eye non-profit status with government subsidies like it’s Viagra for print.

The noble non-profits in pursuit of The Public Interest ™.   Dutifully reciting Washington’s message in exchange for their bread.  Or cab fare on the nightstand.

Perhaps they’d like it more if the government decided to take over their business, shut down hundreds of small papers and let the ones who donated the most favorable coverage to their campaigns survive and the really doe-eyed idealists among them can go to Washington like Mr. Smith.

By O’Keefe’s count, “Thomson is one of at least 14 journalists to join the Obama administration, with virtually all of them serving in a communications capacity,” and, intriguingly, O’Keefe asserted “other reporters at national outlets are known to be considering similar roles.”

Maybe those precious few remaining ink-stained wretches can gin up hatred of some hard-hearted Senator who thinks that government employees don’t deserve special treatment more than the private citizens he represents.  Those kinds of “grim, seamy and/or heartbreaking” tales are shiny epaulets on that government communications job résumé.

What kind of vocation calls such brave men and women?  Fearlessly standing up for the Big Guy?  Willing to cut the average American off at the knees to comfort the comfortable and afflict the afflicted?

For myself, I learned a long time ago the one thing we can count on is change. Because of my husband’s work, my life has had a rootlessness to it that I never intended, but have come to accept. The only thing that’s brought me to tears during our latest upheaval is the number of colleagues who’ve have contacted him about a job with the same company. So many good people, so desperate to escape the beast’s arms.

The Beast of the Old Media is unwanted and howling in the backyard.  It’s begs for Big Government to hold it’s tether and water it’s bowl.  It longs to attack on command in pursuit of a “progressive” agenda against the private citizen who must involuntarily underwrite it.  It despises the average American while claiming to look out for Those Who Vote Against Their Best Interests.

At the end, it never realized that all it ever had to do to be successful was to be fair.   Either that or it did and chose to fail.

I’m not sure this passes the smell test for me. But hey, it came from Yahoo! News, so it must be real right?

Now you might have some idea why a perfectly good Democrat can go off the rails on something as commonsensical as government subsidized abortion. It’s the shadow cabal of crypto-Christianists! Really, is there any other reason? Indeed, can there be?

I can’t answer that. I couldn’t if I wanted to. They’re listening.

In a strained defense of wasteful “make work” projects to temporarily sustain government employees and their favorite no-bid contractors, the Bolshevik revolution continues with aplomb as the SouthCommunists at the reconstituted Nashville City Paper (NCP) serve up a little cover story complete with quasi-Soviet/NorK iconography:

You Forgot To Add The Sickle

ed. note – Six Meat Buffet uses Commie iconography as parody – not praise.

Among some of the brilliant observations from the Kremlinesque note-takers at the NCCCP:

More than $1 billion in stimulus funds have flowed into Tennessee’s 5th Congressional District, represented by U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper, a Democrat who voted for the recovery act. That money has created nearly 7,000 jobs in the geographic area that includes Davidson and parts of Wilson and Cheatham counties, according to federal figures that cover Oct. 1 to Dec. 31, 2009.

At $1,000,000,000.00, that’s roughly $143,000 per job.  Excuse me, “nearly” 7,000 jobs.  Round it up a little.  Now would those be full-time jobs in the private sector that will be contributing taxes next year or a gubmint project filling potholes for 3 months because that’s a top 1-percenter income being funneled through the models of efficiency that are the federal and state government.  At least on Charity Navigator we can see how much went to Administrative costs.

The government’s stimulus-tracking website, recovery.gov, is designed to offer transparency about how the federal funds are being spent, and indeed, the wealth of information is almost overwhelming. The slightest bit of navigation will reveal initiatives throughout Nashville. Some, mostly construction projects, were unveiled with staged photo-ops and now don the familiar red-blue-and-green stimulus logo at their sites. Others have gone largely unnoticed. The list is much too lengthy to cover in its entirety without risking utter boredom.

You read that right.  Indeed,  they would hate to bore all you 10+% unemployed Tennesseans out there with all this free funemployment time on your hands. The information is so overwhelming we simply don’t have the ink to describe how completely awesome it is.

I thought this level of lickspittle A2M Soviet cockslobbery was reserved strictly for The Nashville Scene.

Indeed, I certainly don’t want to bore you with any more of the slavish teabaggery that Joey Garrison begged for at the wrinkled sack of the Obama Administration but this was just too much:

More heat on the street: Perhaps the most celebrated stimulus project allocated to Metro — hailed by Dean and others — is the $9 million grant awarded to the police department to bring on 50 new officers. According to spokesman Don Aaron, most of the money pays for salaries and other benefits.

That’s $180,000 per police officer added for those Metro school graduates averse to math.  Ask those cops how much they get paid a year and then ask where the other $135,000 went.

It seems Pravda On The Cumberland finally got a little competition.

Best not to examine all those Phantom Congressional Districts that got $54 Million in cream right off the top.  You say “Cream!” too loud around these inky apparatchiks and all they do is close their eyes and open their mouths.

$54 Million??? Why, that’s almost 300 new Robocops we could have bought or at least fended off lawsuits over rightfully arresting illegal aliens.  Or at least put a down payment on a light rail so we can have the illegals polishing the brass on our Shining Sanctuary City On The Hill.

Robocop: Only cost $73k in 1987 dollars (though most of his parts were made in Mexico)

Whatever you do Joey and the rest of your Comrades at the NCCCP, don’t look into that ghost money.  We’d all much rather read your incessant lacrimosas over Juana Villegas’ spilled breast milk.

It’s worse than any Mayan calendar running out. Republicans might regain control of government and unleash the wrath of Quetzalcoatl. That is if they anger the gods of the Old Media Pantheon.

Via NewsBusters we have two back-to-back eviscerations of Senator Jim Bunning’s hold on the “jobs bill”. I haven’t looked into the backstory enough to tell you whether the whole thing is political maneuvering or a genuine attempt to impose fiscal restraint.

The jobs bill is popular so it gives them the cover they so need to attack Republicans without reprisals. And like dogs on red meat, they proceed to dive into the nasty advocacy journalism that hasn’t been seen since Reagan pulled blankets off of homeless people.

Again, I can’t speak to the merits of Bunning’s actions, but watch the videos and hear the blatant narration that is being sold.

Expect years of this if and when a Republican Congress actually tries to cut spending. There will be no shortages of crippled single mother’s of ten (actually, the will pick a white mother of three because that is what “Middle America” needs to see) paraded before your eyes while Williams, Couric and Sawyer softly weep.

Update
Here is some info on Bunning’s day on the floor of the Senate. I hope you don’t mind ALL CAPS in red.

(s/t Protein Wisdom)

Andrew Breitbart, one of the only actual brawlers on the right, gives Salon’s pants-shitting socialist Max Blumenthal a verbal beatdown. It’s a thing of beauty.

It’s fun to watch a spineless socialist media whore try to lie his way out of his own public statements. This is a good look at the cowards of your mainstream media.

You’ve got to love the Legacy Media spin though:

From the New York Slimes:

Report Faults 2 Authors of Bush Terror Memos

From the Hill, “we’ll have hearings on the hearings until I get the answer I want!” says husband of drunken bar brawling corruptocrat:

Judiciary chairmen vow hearings on torture memos report

From the Administration’s public relations farm team at the Washington Post(Op Trannies):

Authors of waterboarding memos won’t be disciplined

From Neo-nationalist People’s Radio:

Yoo And Bybee, Lawyers Behind ‘Torture Memos,’ Will Not Face Disbarment, Criminal Punishment

al-Reuters:

US: Lawyers Misconduct Shows Need for Torture Inquiry

They have a real funny way of describing how someone was found innocent.

Dramatic Re-enactment

Portrait of 69,456,897 Oddballs. We’re going to need a bigger canvas:

A family source said Bishop…was a far-left political extremist who was “obsessed” with President Obama to the point of being off-putting.

This story of the Alabama professor who gunned down her colleagues just keeps getting stranger and stranger. After all, I’ve never heard of a far-left extremist in Academia with an off-putting Obama cult mentality before.

Somebody get Incompetano monitoring the Twitter feeds. We may have to shut down every single U.S. college and newsroom. When this latter-day Unabombette was questioned about mailing a pipebomb to a doctor thanklessly tasked with examining some of her research:

“She was quite cavalier about it,” Fluckiger said of Bishop’s description of her interview with police. She said Bishop “grinned” as she described being asked by cops whether she’d ever taken stamps off an envelope and fastened them onto something else. “I cannot tell you what the grin meant,” Fluckiger said.

Seven years prior, Bishop shot her brother to death in Braintree in an incident that was ruled an accident at the time.

Somehow none of this disqualified her from jumping in front of a classroom full of kids.

Oh, and she tried to hold up a car dealership.  It’s stuff like this that makes Massachusetts look like some commie cuddling, crook coddling CuckooLand.

Sometimes appearances can be deceiving.  Other times, devastatingly accurate.

Homeland Security can just wait until Bishop gets her own show on MSNBC. At least that would ensure that her infectious ideas won’t be exposed to as many people as the university.

No word yet as to whether the President will send out some free t-shirts for the victims but I expect a full rebuke of violent, leftwing looney bin radio is forthcoming.

Breitbart reminds the media – “It’s not your business model that sucks. It’s YOU that sucks.”

Via Gateway.

There is an old boilerplate technique used by journalists where any mention of spending cuts leads directly to images of starving babies, school closings and laid-off firemen.

This was especially effective during the Reagan years and is discussed by Bernard Goldberg in his first book Bias regarding the “homeless crisis”.

This would stop by next Tuesday if Republicans would always respond exactly as Senator Gregg did.

Yes, I’m mining Newsbusters today. My office computer still has a rabbit-ear antenna and it’s the only station I get.

Preston told me that when I did a great post (a looong time ago), that he almost forgot I was a Jew.

UPDATE A cute Jon Stewart rejoinder. (s/t Newsbusters)

The moral equivalent of the N-word at a Klan lynching.

A statement about the media’s desire for a black quarterback to do well.

Yet this is hardly elicits a ho hum, nothing to see here moment.

And who could forget this classic?

Look, Dingy Harry is an idiot, and I’m really not thinking that he is a filthy racist. In context, he was excited about Obama’s packaging and optimistic about a (mostly) black presidential candidate.

What is disgusting is that this gets a pass from the media who are quick impute racist motivations to code words like “elitist”, “arrogant”, “socialist”, “inexperienced”.

Really, have you ever noticed how principles become soft and malleable depending on whether it serves a particular agenda? Journalists are sensitive to injustice and racism as long as fits with their political ideologies.

The NYT reporter:

Obama, the next paragraph:

I know, no surprise there. It IS the New York Times after all. It just makes me wonder if Jackie Calmes has all her baby teeth since she is so good at being spoon-fed.

Our watchdog media uncovers the fact behind Sarah Palin’s book, Going Rogue. Thank You Know Who that these people are on the job.

Thanks for the DNC talking point, couldn’t have found it myself.

More from the mighty Mark Steyn.

then MSNBC, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, The New York Times and The Washington Post are the greedy tentacles of the Octopus in the White House.

I don’t know what Day By Day’s copyright standards are or I would have reposted it here but this pretty well sums it up.