All Hat, No Cattle Politics

MSNBC (Ostensibly) Does Some House Cleaning with Keith Olbermann & Chris Matthews

2008-09-08T22:14:00.011-04:00

Things sure can move quickly today, now that Internet blogosphere has taken root.

First it was CBS that fell to the illuminating pressures from a group of 'pajama-wearing' journalists, now it is NBC (and their sister "news" channel: MSNBC).

In less than a week following the Republican convention and the tirades of the likes of Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, and to a lesser extent, Chris Matthews, both Olberman and Matthews have been pulled from anchoring the election campaign reporting.

Olbermann's performance was so far over the top (and out of touch), that it sufficiently turned me off to the point that I no longer accept MSNBC as a responsible news organization—they have become an advocacy channel.

If fact, MSNBC made CNN appear balanced and center, which was a pretty incredible feat.

I can only hope Maddow (and her counter-culture view of the world) will also get the boot—she can return to the bankrupt wasteland known as Air America. where she belongs.

Olbermann's tiring and repeated attacks of Fox News and Bill O'Reilly (another egotistical blowhard 'journalist'), sounds like penis-envy, more than anything.

The anger and self-proclaimed elitism that is so pervasive with the hard-left is in overdrive suggesting to me that the McCain/Palin ticket is the winning one.

When the hard-left runs out of ideas and can not debate the merits of any one given issue, they resort to ad hominem personal attacks. That's been their MO and they're staying true to form.

I look forward to the day that political correctness is excised from our political discourse and honest and fair-minded debate returns.

World's Worst Persons in the World!

If you are looking for fair-and-balanced reporting of the events (without the biasing from either political viewpoint), then Brian Lamb's C-SPAN is the place to go.

AHNC

McCain Campaign Resorts to Disingenuous Ad

2008-09-06T19:49:00.012-04:00

I've noticed a new political ad, taking cheap shots promising excessive Democrat deficit spending if Obama/Biden get elected.

Problem is, the political ad could easily apply to the last eight years of the Bush administration and the republican controlled Congress (for six of the last eight years).

If McCain campaign wants to run him as a Maverick, then fine, do so. If a McCain administration intends to balance the budget deficit by 2013, then state it and articulate that vision and action plan in a positive and exciting manner (build upon the excitement of the convention and accelerate the momentum.)

Don't resort to the same old tired disingenuous line that the Dems are tax and spenders when the Republicans have lost their moral authority on this issue, long ago.

This ad and others like them are a real turn-off, because they don't ring true and I can't see how they play well on either side of the political spectrum.

I would support such an ad, however, if it were targeted against the Republican establishment (or the current Congress), though.

Pull it.

Liberal Media Bias: The Subtle (and Not So Subtle) Evidence

2008-09-06T18:47:00.010-04:00

This last week, I believe, will be regarded as one of the most significant historically, with respect to the GoP's evolution, the birth of a new feminism (that's another story), and the exposure of the long-standing elitist liberal bias that has perverted main-stream media and news journalism.

It was simply amazing to watch—in the course of the abbreviated three-day Republican convention—the story-line of the news media change so abruptly as it attempted to define/diminish the significance of the surprising and fresh selection of Sarah Palin as McCain's Vice Presidential running-mate.

At the outset, liberal media-bias was evident when "news" organizations, both print and television, led with story lines suggesting that the Sarah Palin was grossly inexperienced and within a heartbeat (a word ubiqitously used throughout the news media) of the Presidency (even though she possesses more executive experience than both Obama/Biden combined), to the reporting of McCain's 'desperate' Hail Mary selection of Palin, to the pronouncement that Palin could never stand-up to the likes of Biden in the upcoming VP debates, to the heretofore unthinkable and shameless attacks on Palin's family members (most evidenced in the hit-piece appearing in US), to the echoing of leftist-kook blogs such as the DailyKos, to the sexist position (put forth by senior Obama campaign members and their surrogates in the media) that Palin can't be an effective leader and mother because she has responsibilities to raising her children that would be 'compromised' if elected VP, to the reporting that her speech was 'mean-spirited' and sarcastic (as reported by two of the most shamelessly arrogant and sarcastic 'news' personalities: Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow), to the reporting that GOP belittles community organizers/organizing (when in fact, it was merely stating that such activity in itself doesn't count as qualification to lead this great country), to most recently, that she is a mean-spirited, stubborn, and pit-bull-like bully. Whoa! All of this in one week's time.

Perhaps it is due, in part, to the Internet and the speed at which information (factual or not) propagates in today's highly connected society, but I can't recall another time in which the media struggled so hard to define, in their terms, someone and not since the Reagan revolution of the 80's have I found an individual [in Palin] who so clearly struck a cord with the everyday citizen, bypassing the cynical judgments and the gatekeeping of our entrenched (but fading) liberal news media establishment.

The McCain/Palin pairing is quickly proving to be greater than the sum of its individual parts.

Not only has the Republican Party managed (against all [reported] expectations) to have reunited and re-energize, they have somehow managed to successfully rebrand themselves to reach an evolving electorate.

Yes, it is clear that the main-stream media has a strong liberal bias (which they regard as being
the center), but in today's Internet connected society, it is very clear to see.

Bernie doesn't have to write a follow-up book to his brilliant first: Media Bias to showcase this fact, the MSM is doing it for us.

Memories may fade from broadcast events, but Google doesn't forget, nor shall I.