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March 10, 2014

Former Think Progress Blogger: I Criticized Obama's Afghanistan Surge, and Center for American Progress Read Me the Riot Act For Creating "Daylight" Between CAP and the Obama Administration
— Ace

Ideological bias is last year's news.

Now it's more about simple partisan bias.

This sounds like CAP ejecting the left's anti-war ideological stance to help out a partisan figure they approve of.

Of course, this writer was read the riot act after White House officials called to complain about the piece.

Completely unrelated I'm sure, but Sharyl Attkisson's stories dropped by two thirds in terms of making it on to the CBS Evening News since shortly after Obama took office.

She was the 18th most aired reporter among all network reporters from 2008-2009... and then fell to 78th place.

Apparently her digging into political wrongdoing was appreciated up until Obama was sworn into office, and not so much thereafter.

Posted by: Ace at 03:04 PM | Comments (135)
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1 Oh goodness!

Posted by: tcn at March 10, 2014 03:05 PM (fwcEs)

2 I detect a twinge of surprise in your voice.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at March 10, 2014 03:07 PM (BZAd3)

3
They are beginning to talk like castigated children. The poor babies. Got their wittle feeling hurt.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at March 10, 2014 03:09 PM (BZAd3)

4 There's only one thing to do about this.

CRUSH THE TEA PARTY!!!!

Posted by: The GOP at March 10, 2014 03:09 PM (Ojgjr)

5 So I'm supposed to go get the others now, I guess? Or is that rickb's job?

Posted by: L, elle at March 10, 2014 03:09 PM (2tljF)

6 Pity she isn't gay. That would put them on the horns of a real dilemma.

Posted by: pep at March 10, 2014 03:09 PM (6TB1Z)

7 Sheryl: Go to The Blaze

Posted by: NCwoof at March 10, 2014 03:10 PM (aUQgu)

8 There's only one thing to do about this.
CRUSH THE TEA PARTY!!!!

Yeah, I wonder what it's like to have no dignity. Mitchy get yer gun?

Posted by: pep at March 10, 2014 03:10 PM (6TB1Z)

9 I'm shocked to discover gambling going on!

Posted by: Y-not on the phone at March 10, 2014 03:10 PM (x9ASp)

10 The only 'sposin' of Barky of which he approves is to Reggie ManLove

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] at March 10, 2014 03:12 PM (HsTG8)

11 others told. rickb's a slacker

Posted by: L, elle at March 10, 2014 03:13 PM (2tljF)

She didn't get the Memo...

Barky gets a pass on everything that was previously considered 'evil'.

Posted by: wheatie at March 10, 2014 03:13 PM (8quPO)

13 Seeing daylight between the media and the White House is like seeing daylight between Michelle Obama's thunder thighs. Good night!

Posted by: wooga at March 10, 2014 03:14 PM (1BO47)

14 Oh horrors! The infants might lose their seat at the cool table. Guess Sheryl can't hang with the cheerleaders anymore.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at March 10, 2014 03:14 PM (j/G/e)

15 What's this now?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 10, 2014 03:15 PM (8ZskC)

16 I guess her resigning will finally make the networks look into Fast and Furious.

Posted by: said no one ever at March 10, 2014 03:15 PM (2DunM)

17 So I'm supposed to go get the others now, I guess? Or is that rickb's job? Posted by: L, elle Got 'em. I get 'em on Mondays. You can have Tuesdays. :-)

Posted by: rickb223 at March 10, 2014 03:15 PM (GjYxB)

18 Let me help you understand: This is a non-story, just some sour grapes. Real media insider-y stuff. Yawn. How 'bout some in-depth Climate Change analysis...

Posted by: Ezra Klein @ VoxNews at March 10, 2014 03:17 PM (aq/zi)

19 Here's an animated chart that explains that this is not a story! Here's another chart that show all Republicans are racist. It's a chart. Charts are Science!

Posted by: Ezra Klein at March 10, 2014 03:18 PM (ZPrif)

20 When I win the Powerball Lottery, I will deal with these lefties.

Posted by: kathysaysso at March 10, 2014 03:18 PM (6H6o8)

21 17 So I'm supposed to go get the others now, I guess? Or is that rickb's job? Posted by: L, elle Got 'em. I get 'em on Mondays. You can have Tuesdays. :-) Posted by: rickb223 at March 10, 2014 07:15 PM (GjYxB) Good luck. Lot of em are toked.

Posted by: tubal at March 10, 2014 03:18 PM (YEQ2h)

22 Hey let's be more like our political enemies so we can "win" in a Big Tent with Liberals and stuff!

Because "Wrong Side of HistoryÂ™" and "MulticulturalismÂ™" and "Social JusticeÂ™" and "ToleranceÂ™" and "Income EqualityÂ™" and "Jobs Americans Won't DoÂ™" and "HomophobiaÂ™" and "Free Health Care for EveryoneÂ™" and "Tea BaggersÂ™" are really popular canards with the dumb-ass voters so .... let's be part of the popular gravy train of Stoopid!

Hey. It's less work than actually persuading people!

So let's capitalize on our surrender!

Who's with me here?

Posted by: The GOP at March 10, 2014 03:18 PM (Ojgjr)

23 Atkisson got older too, so that might have impacted her screen time; sad but true, that's how the nightly news works. I don't doubt at all that wanting her to just shut up and stop doing her job had a lot to do with it, though.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 10, 2014 03:18 PM (zfY+H)

24 I followed her (Sharyl Attkisson) on twitter (still do but have given up twitter for Lent) and noticed how she had been reduced to very banal tweets as opposed to what real reportage she had demonstrably published previously.

It is good to be King, and it is bad to criticize the King, especially a vindictive immature petty tyrant King!

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 10, 2014 03:18 PM (o3MSL)

25 I have no idea what her political leanings are. She seems like a good person. I wish her the best.

Posted by: Harrison Bergeron at March 10, 2014 03:19 PM (JQuNB)

26 Mr. Ackman told his dinner companions that Representative Linda T. SÃ¡nchez, Democrat of California, had sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission the previous day calling for an investigation of the company. The commission had not yet stamped the letter as received, nor had it been made public. But Mr. Ackman, who had personally lobbied Ms. SÃ¡nchez and stood to profit if the companyÂ’s stock dropped as a result of the call for an inquiry, already knew what it said, and read from a copy of it that he had on his cellphone. In our era of co-opted, under-funded, weak regulators, investors that sell stocks short are an important defense against corrupt businesses. Â” When Ms. SÃ¡nchezÂ’s office ultimately issued a news release a month later, it was backdated as though it had been made public the day before Mr. AckmanÂ’s dinner talk. Representative Linda T. SÃ¡nchez, Democrat of California, sent a letter to the F.T.C. asking it to investigate Herbalife. Mr. Ackman obtained a copy of the letter before it was made public. The letter was a small hint of Mr. AckmanÂ’s extraordinary attempt to leverage the corridors of power Â— in Washington, state capitols and city halls Â— for his hedge fundÂ’s profit after taking a $1 billion financial position called a short, a bet that will pay off only if HerbalifeÂ’s stock drops. ... since when have Democrats been acting like "evil" Republicans ... since Bill Clinton rented out the Lincoln bedroom .. and before.

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at March 10, 2014 03:19 PM (e8kgV)

27 >> 21 17 So I'm supposed to go get the others now, I guess? Or is that rickb's job? Posted by: L, elle Got 'em. I get 'em on Mondays. You can have Tuesdays. :-) Posted by: rickb223 at March 10, 2014 07:15 PM (GjYxB) Good luck. Lot of em are toked. Posted by: tubal at March 10, 2014 07:18 PM (YEQ2h) And stuck with the moo. Bless their hearts

Posted by: L, elle at March 10, 2014 03:20 PM (2tljF)

28 President Boyfriend must be protected.

At. All. Costs.

Posted by: acethepug at March 10, 2014 03:20 PM (UNcun)

29 It seems like she just likes digging up stories that aren't being told and doing hard hitting reports, which is sort of her job - and the job of reporters everywhere. Whether she has some political bias or not I can't really tell, which makes her good at her job, from where I sit.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 10, 2014 03:20 PM (zfY+H)

30 I will not tolerate miscreants in my state-run media machine!

Posted by: Prez'nit 404 at March 10, 2014 03:21 PM (Dwehj)

31 27 >> 21 17 So I'm supposed to go get the others now, I guess? Or is that rickb's job? Posted by: L, elle Got 'em. I get 'em on Mondays. You can have Tuesdays. :-) Posted by: rickb223 at March 10, 2014 07:15 PM (GjYxB) Good luck. Lot of em are toked. Posted by: tubal at March 10, 2014 07:18 PM (YEQ2h) And stuck with the moo. Bless their hearts Posted by: L, elle at March 10, 2014 07:20 PM (2tljF) Yes, elle. Nothing like being in the box with the Tar Baby.

Posted by: tubal at March 10, 2014 03:22 PM (YEQ2h)

32 You're going to love life in the gulag.

Posted by: Ben Rhodes at March 10, 2014 03:22 PM (wAQA5)

33 29 It seems like she just likes digging up stories that aren't being told and doing hard hitting reports, which is sort of her job - and the job of reporters everywhere. Whether she has some political bias or not I can't really tell, which makes her good at her job, from where I sit. Yep. A reporter looking for the story. An endangered species.

Posted by: grammie winger at March 10, 2014 03:22 PM (oMKp3)

34 An interesting moment in national politics, isn't it?

Both parties are suddenly facing existential crises- the Dems face annihilation in November, and the GOP establishment seeks to destroy a powerful insurgency. A Tea Party insurgency that put the GOP in control of the House of Representatives in 2010.

Posted by: mrp at March 10, 2014 03:23 PM (JBggj)

35 I suppose that at least part of the reaction is fear of being called racist on the part of the editors and publishers. I wrote for a half a year or so for The Washington Examiner, and some bits I did got killed because they might have been perceived, by a small minded jerk, as critical of blacks.
Case in point, a piece criticizing people for claiming Detroit is in the shape its in because its run by black people; it tore that perception to bits. But teh racism!
They were just terrified of being accused of racism, even at a very conservative site that otherwise welcomed everything else I wrote.
So they must not allow criticism of the Halfrican American.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 10, 2014 03:23 PM (zfY+H)

36 Atkisson got older too, so that might have impacted her screen time; sad but true, ****** I'm ready for Prime Time!! If you want my body and you think I'm sexy--come on Sugar let me know!![/ii]

Posted by: Matty Yglesias--Now with Extra Sugah!! at March 10, 2014 03:23 PM (RJMhd)

37 The IRS has to clean up the real world but the media purges itself.

Posted by: --- at March 10, 2014 03:23 PM (MMC8r)

38 Yep. A reporter looking for the story.

I scared off an entire generation.

Posted by: Dan Blather at March 10, 2014 03:24 PM (Dwehj)

39 29 @Christopher Taylor

This. Doing her job.

Posted by: NCwoof at March 10, 2014 03:24 PM (aUQgu)

40 Military sexual assault bill approved by Congress Published March 10, 2014 Associated Press, Fox News, Washington House of Cards ...timing. ratings.

Posted by: panzernashorn at March 10, 2014 03:24 PM (MhA4j)

41 Must be sobering for the GOP. Staring victory in the face. Where will they go from there?

Posted by: tubal at March 10, 2014 03:24 PM (YEQ2h)

42 You're going to love life in the gulag.

Posted by: Ben Rhodes at March 10, 2014 07:22 PM (wAQA5)

Once you get used to the cold, poor diet, lack of medical attention, extremely dangerous working conditions, electrified fences, and ruthless abusive guards, it isn't really so bad.

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 10, 2014 03:25 PM (o3MSL)

43 Ignore this story! Here's one about Nazi Boy Scouts!

Posted by: AP at March 10, 2014 03:25 PM (MMC8r)

44 It's like the Daily Show, only with less clapping.

Posted by: wooga at March 10, 2014 03:25 PM (1BO47)

45 I suspect that 90% of what we see as bias isn't so much deliberate as just laziness, using what they can find easily, cut and paste into column inches, and fire off without thinking. Press releases from progressive organizations, blog posts, twitter tips, etc. They're just lazy.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 10, 2014 03:25 PM (zfY+H)

46 43 Ignore this story! Here's one about Nazi Boy Scouts! Posted by: AP at March 10, 2014 07:25 PM (MMC8r) ************ Oooh--that's sort of--hot.

Posted by: Matty Yglesias--Now with Extra Sugah!! at March 10, 2014 03:26 PM (RJMhd)

47 45 I suspect that 90% of what we see as bias isn't so much deliberate as just laziness, using what they can find easily, cut and paste into column inches, and fire off without thinking. Press releases from progressive organizations, blog posts, twitter tips, etc. They're just lazy. Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 10, 2014 07:25 PM (zfY+H) Or stoned.

Posted by: tubal at March 10, 2014 03:26 PM (YEQ2h)

48 I am bemused by people who think the Republicans are going to crush Democrats in the election. Where have you been the last three years? Did you really forget 2012 when the GOP was going to sweep into Congress on a huge wave of anger at Obamacare and the economy? You forget how that turned out?

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 10, 2014 03:27 PM (zfY+H)

49 the worst thing about Stalin's gulags were that you never got to leave, even after serving your sentence.

Posted by: panzernashorn at March 10, 2014 03:27 PM (MhA4j)

50 Posted by: mrp at March 10, 2014 07:23 PM (JBggj)

If you don't have principles, you can go far in our organization.

Posted by: GOP-e Useful Idiot at March 10, 2014 03:27 PM (o3MSL)

51 Both parties are suddenly facing existential crises- the Dems face annihilation in November, and the GOP establishment seeks to destroy a powerful insurgency. A Tea Party insurgency that put the GOP in control of the House of Representatives in 2010.

Posted by: mrp at March 10, 2014 07:23 PM (JBggj)

Good thing that we are, I mean are not, in cahoots with each other.

Posted by: Johnnny B at March 10, 2014 03:27 PM (2DunM)

52 Life imitates Facebook. Sharyl doesn't have too many likes. Welcome to our infantile future.

Posted by: Ribald Conservative riding Orca at March 10, 2014 03:27 PM (+1T7c)

53 >>>I suspect that 90% of what we see as bias isn't so much deliberate as just laziness, using what they can find easily, cut and paste into column inches, and fire off without thinking. Press releases from progressive organizations, blog posts, twitter tips, etc. They're just lazy. true but mental laziness always travels via the easiest pathways in the brain -- the pre-existing partisan bias tracks.

Posted by: ace at March 10, 2014 03:27 PM (/FnUH)

54 I suspect that 90% of what we see as bias isn't so much deliberate as just laziness, using what they can find easily, cut and paste into column inches, and fire off without thinking. Press releases from progressive organizations, blog posts, twitter tips, etc. They're just lazy. Posted by: Christopher Taylor assuming that's true, its still bias. Bias in the choosing what to run, even if it is copied from a press release. Conservative politicians and organizations send out press releases too.

Posted by: thunderb at March 10, 2014 03:28 PM (zOTsN)

55 It's lazy because they don't have to challenge their own existing bias, just report what agrees with it.

Posted by: --- at March 10, 2014 03:28 PM (MMC8r)

56
I tried to figure out what this feeling of amused pity was. I finally figured it out! " Lord of the Flies." That's what this is. This was to be their time to rule. The shot for the children to run the show. To make everything "fair". Like a game on a playground. And just like in the book, people are being hurt and offended - not allowed to play with the rest of the children.

I tried to figure out what this feeling of amused pity was.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at March 10, 2014 03:29 PM (BZAd3)

57 I am kind glad we are brushing the idea of an nonpartisan media. The press has always been highly partisan with incestuous entanglements in politics. The only thing new is that the Dems are taking media incest to a whole new level.

Posted by: The Fool at March 10, 2014 03:29 PM (cGlgB)

58 Nothing like being in the box with the Tar Baby. Posted by: tuba ----------------- I think that I have been banned by the book burners.

Posted by: Uncle Remus at March 10, 2014 03:29 PM (aDwsi)

59 The active suppression of stories is what alarms me most.

Posted by: grammie winger at March 10, 2014 03:29 PM (oMKp3)

60 "assuming that's true, its still bias. Bias in the choosing what to run, even if it is copied from a press release. Conservative politicians and organizations send out press releases too." Posted by: thunderb Agreed, but it also involves the word "ignorance".

Posted by: Slapweasel at March 10, 2014 03:29 PM (lq3Ak)

61 Did you really forget 2012 when the GOP was going to sweep into Congress on a huge wave of anger at Obamacare and the economy? You forget how that turned out? No one had felt it yet. It was just scare stories up until then.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 10, 2014 03:30 PM (GjYxB)

62 48 @Christopher

Don't know the percentage of electronic voting systems across the country. But the possibility of 'programmed' results increasing. Paper ballot only, please.

Posted by: NCwoof at March 10, 2014 03:30 PM (aUQgu)

63 Yes, but the Think Progress blogger voted for the Precious, so he really has no one to blame but him/herself, now, huh?

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, TX (@Teresa_Koch) at March 10, 2014 03:30 PM (PZ6/M)

64 So, will this revelation that they want not a sliver of daylight between themselves and the White House threaten CAPs 501(c)(3) status?

/I kill me

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at March 10, 2014 03:31 PM (P7Wsr)

65 55 It's lazy because they don't have to challenge their own existing bias, just report what agrees with it. Posted by: --- at March 10, 2014 07:28 PM (MMC8r) Serious question - could the state of journalism be what it is today because journalists all aspire to be hipster douchebags?

Posted by: tubal at March 10, 2014 03:31 PM (YEQ2h)

66 From what I gather, the White House itself is pretty aggressive in making sure that reporters don't, you know, report.

Posted by: grammie winger at March 10, 2014 03:31 PM (oMKp3)

67 Hello neighbor... or soon will be

Posted by: Vince Foster at March 10, 2014 03:31 PM (Q6pxP)

68 The truth is the media has always been crazy biased, its just that in the past it was out in the open. In 1940 when you picked up a Chicago Tribune, you knew the paper hated Roosevelt and didn't even try to hide it. I don't care so much if you're biased, if you don't pretend to be otherwise. Let your freak flag fly, be brave, little newsies.
But I'll always choose the news source that gives me the facts in the most clear and untilted way, hitting both sides of politics in the pills as often and hard as they can. The calling of a news reporter is to be the enemy of those in power.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 10, 2014 03:32 PM (zfY+H)

69 I really don't think the vast majority of journalists are the best and the brightest. At all.

Posted by: thunderb at March 10, 2014 03:32 PM (zOTsN)

70 To me, it sucks more now that they do this than in 2009. Because now it's irrefutable, he sucks. And they're still digging in. The worst part of the Obama generation is that, when faced with overwhelming evidence, they still cling to their hope and their religion.

Posted by: AmishDude at March 10, 2014 03:33 PM (T0NGe)

71 I personally have known two people who worked in top tier media. They were both consciously very left wing. They both hated, hated, hated the Right. They both believed they were part of a righteous fight against the forces of darkness, evil, and ignorance as embodied by the stupid, hate-filled bigots on the Right.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 10, 2014 03:33 PM (ZPrif)

72 Well it's true. Benghazi happened during my nappy time.

Posted by: Matty Yglesias--Now with Extra Sugah!! at March 10, 2014 03:33 PM (RJMhd)

73 Maybe she was into pot.......oops sorry wrong thread Seriously is any of this surprising? Nope, didn't think so

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 10, 2014 03:33 PM (HVff2)

74 The active suppression of stories is what alarms me most.

Posted by: grammie winger at March 10, 2014 07:29 PM (oMKp3)

Basically it is as if everyone (in the "press" and government) agreed that if we "really" needed to know about it, it will be published to excess as a matter of course. Conversely, if the establishment mandarins deem an event of no significance, you will be hard pressed to find a mention of it even on an obscure web site.

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 10, 2014 03:34 PM (o3MSL)

75 71 I personally have known two people who worked in top tier media. They were both consciously very left wing. They both hated, hated, hated the Right. They both believed they were part of a righteous fight against the forces of darkness, evil, and ignorance as embodied by the stupid, hate-filled bigots on the Right. Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 10, 2014 07:33 PM (ZPrif) So- douchebags, right?

Posted by: tubal at March 10, 2014 03:34 PM (YEQ2h)

76 There's no such thing as liberal bias in the media. And fuck you meanies for making fun of my pink eye. Now gimme all your guns bitch.

Posted by: Bob Costas at March 10, 2014 03:34 PM (Aif/5)

77 "Apparently her digging into political wrongdoing was appreciated up until Obama was sworn into office, and not so much thereafter."

Precisely so.

Just as dissent was patriotic until noon Eastern Standard Time on January 20th, 2009. At which time dissent stopped being patriotic and started being TEH RAYCISS. To be vocally denounced by all decent upstanding citizens.

If, heaven forbid, a conservative Republican is elected President in 2016, then in January of 2017, dissent will suddenly stop being TEH RAYCISS and instead will promptly become patriotic once again, and a duty of all decent upstanding citizens.

Whitehead said that all of Western philosophy was ultimately just "footnotes to Plato". Similarly, all of these various instant 180-degree repositionings by the left as they move in and out of power are just footnotes to Fen's Law.

Posted by: torquewrench at March 10, 2014 03:34 PM (gqT4g)

78 And Walter P. Duranty--he was just lazy too.

Posted by: Matty Yglesias--Now with Extra Sugah!! at March 10, 2014 03:34 PM (RJMhd)

79 Dan Rather, best and brightest?

Posted by: thunderb at March 10, 2014 03:34 PM (zOTsN)

80 Ronan Farrow?

Posted by: thunderb at March 10, 2014 03:35 PM (zOTsN)

81 "Serious question - could the state of journalism be what it is today because journalists all ~~aspire to be~~ Are Taught By ~~hipster douchebags?~~ Statist Talking Heads" Posted by: tubal Fixed

Posted by: Slapweasel at March 10, 2014 03:35 PM (lq3Ak)

82 Sally Quinn?

Posted by: thunderb at March 10, 2014 03:35 PM (zOTsN)

83 Helen Thomas?

Posted by: thunderb at March 10, 2014 03:36 PM (zOTsN)

84 Mika Brzhjicklski ?

Posted by: tubal at March 10, 2014 03:36 PM (YEQ2h)

85 Diane *hic* Sawyer

Posted by: Dan Blather at March 10, 2014 03:36 PM (Dwehj)

86 ♫ Der Kommisar's in town uh-oh ♫

Posted by: Barack O'Stalin at March 10, 2014 03:37 PM (Q6pxP)

87 exactly its show business for less attractive people for the most part

Posted by: thunderb at March 10, 2014 03:37 PM (zOTsN)

88 Don't know the percentage of electronic voting systems across the country. But the possibility of 'programmed' results increasing. Paper ballot only, please.

Posted by: NCwoof at March 10, 2014 07:30 PM (aUQgu)

There is NO voter fraud anywhere in the United States!

Posted by: GOP-e Spokesidiot at March 10, 2014 03:37 PM (o3MSL)

89 One of them was a former college buddy. He grew more left-wing during college, but it wasn't until he went off to j-school that he became hard-core left-wing.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 10, 2014 03:37 PM (ZPrif)

90 "I personally have known two people who worked in top tier media. They were both consciously very left wing. They both hated, hated, hated the Right. They both believed they were part of a righteous fight against the forces of darkness, evil, and ignorance as embodied by the stupid, hate-filled bigots on the Right."

And such persons will at the very same time cling with barnacle tenacity to the power, pay, perks and PR of working in top tier media.

And they would be utterly horrified if it were to be seriously proposed to have some sort of a socialist levelling scheme imposed upon them personally.

"But this is _different_. Because I'm _me_. Can't you see that?"

Posted by: torquewrench at March 10, 2014 03:38 PM (gqT4g)

91 Sally Quinn? Posted by: thunderb You want Sally Fields. You'll take Sally Quinn. You get Sally Jessie Raphael.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 10, 2014 03:38 PM (GjYxB)

92 The internals for the mid-term must be ugly, and they're gonna start hitting the chutes on Choom Boy in order to try to save 2016 for Hillary

Posted by: Mary Mapes at March 10, 2014 03:39 PM (Q6pxP)

93 This is boring. I want a thread about Lena Dunham smoking pot.

Posted by: rickl at March 10, 2014 03:39 PM (sdi6R)

94 The worst part of the Obama generation is that, when faced with overwhelming evidence, they still cling to their hope and their religion.

Have you seen the State Farm ad where a guy is talking quietly, in the dark, on the phone to his insurance rep. His wife comes into the room all fired up because she believes her husband is talking to a girlfriend. She demands to know who it is, and what she's wearing. When the insurance rep says, in a man's voice "Uh ... khakis", the wife rounds on her husband and says, "She sounds hideous".

Your comment reminds me of that ad. The wife is so convinced she knows the situation that confounding evidence doesn't lead her to rethink her assumptions.

We've all met lefties that don't just refuse to rethink their assumptions, they actually shut out any source of information that might challenge them to rethink anything they "know".

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at March 10, 2014 03:39 PM (P7Wsr)

95 There's nooo business like shooow business. Everybody sing.

Posted by: Prez'nit 404 at March 10, 2014 03:39 PM (Dwehj)

96 I'm a professional journalist, not like everyone says. http://tinyurl.com/8z5drnn

Posted by: Mika at March 10, 2014 03:39 PM (Aif/5)

97 Note to journalist graduates:

Lie in the headline
If there must be a fact, bury it on 12A

Posted by: NCwoof at March 10, 2014 03:39 PM (aUQgu)

98 I personally have known two people who worked in top tier media. They were both consciously very left wing. They both hated, hated, hated the Right. They both believed they were part of a righteous fight against the forces of darkness, evil, and ignorance as embodied by the stupid, hate-filled bigots on the Right. Posted by: Flatbush Joe And how will this self - correct? It won't. In any true "free" market place, faced with choices between garbage and a real product, people will usually choose a real product. No one can tell the difference, and frankly there is virtually no difference in most of the Media. They are too smart to watch Faux News or open their minds to any alternative.. They're sure it's all evil. The Media is too large and too self-referential to ever change. This will continue until we take other measures. What those are, I have no idea.

Posted by: Ribald Conservative riding Orca at March 10, 2014 03:40 PM (+1T7c)

99 93 This is boring. I want a thread about Lena Dunham smoking pot. --------- I only do that nude.

Posted by: Lena at March 10, 2014 03:40 PM (Aif/5)

100 Chris Matthews?

Posted by: --- at March 10, 2014 03:40 PM (MMC8r)

101 Does CAP have tax exempt status?

Posted by: thunderb at March 10, 2014 03:40 PM (zOTsN)

102 This is boring. I want a thread about Lena Dunham smoking pot. --------- I only do that nude. Posted by: Lena So, hourly?

Posted by: rickb223 at March 10, 2014 03:41 PM (GjYxB)

103 99 93 This is boring. I want a thread about Lena Dunham smoking pot. --------- I only do that nude. Posted by: Lena at March 10, 2014 07:40 PM (Aif/5) Poppin' Fresh would be advised to keep her clothes on.

Posted by: tubal at March 10, 2014 03:41 PM (YEQ2h)

104 Via Twitter :
New Russian puppet government in Crimea is already attacking and disappearing journalists & activists
http://tinyurl.com/n475z5u

Posted by: Dr Spank at March 10, 2014 03:42 PM (slXFW)

105 Posted by: Mary Mapes at March 10, 2014 07:39 PM (Q6pxP)

I keep wondering how the GOP-e could possibly screw this up, and then I remember Bob Dole, John McCain, and Mitt Romney, to be followed by a Jeb Bush Rovian plan for 2016.

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 10, 2014 03:42 PM (o3MSL)

106 94 We've all met lefties that don't just refuse to rethink their assumptions, they actually shut out any source of information that might challenge them to rethink anything they "know".

In other words:

"Shut the hell up!" explained the Libtard.

Posted by: Something at March 10, 2014 03:42 PM (Ojgjr)

107 Via Twitter : New Russian puppet government in Crimea is already attacking and disappearing journalists activists Who had the under??

Posted by: rickb223 at March 10, 2014 03:43 PM (GjYxB)

108 Maybe a thread about Justin Bieber romps?

Posted by: NCwoof at March 10, 2014 03:43 PM (aUQgu)

109 And for the non-sports fans. ESPN has been running the story all day about how some Republican state delegate(Minneosta) tweeted something racist about the NBA. So ... solid day of Racist Repubs Are Racist over at ESPN.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 10, 2014 03:44 PM (ZPrif)

110

Lookit, you guys are makin too big a story out of all this.

No one has done more to stop the Obama adminstrations attacks than John Boner, no one. Not a soul.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz Commissar at March 10, 2014 03:44 PM (HQml1)

111 Everything the party does is permissible, comrades. Including all those dirty things the other Communists did to their own people all throughout history. That's our style guide.

Though... I think 25 million is a little low, right comrades Ayers and Dohrn?

Posted by: Comrade Jarrett at March 10, 2014 03:44 PM (15Hah)

112 Remember in 2004, some network hotshot, I think ABC, sent out a memo that stated that they had to be harder on republicans than donks? When asked about it, his excuse was that the donks had it harder or some sort of bullshit.

Posted by: The Yellow Pug at March 10, 2014 03:44 PM (r7mtu)

113 The Center for American Progress is a non-partisan 501(c)(3) tax-exempt research ... really? really? how do they keep their TAX EXEMPT STATUS? who has standing to complain? will whistleblower protection apply to the complainant?

Posted by: thunderb at March 10, 2014 03:45 PM (zOTsN)

114 109 And for the non-sports fans. ESPN has been running the story all day about how some Republican state delegate(Minneosta) tweeted something racist about the NBA. So ... solid day of Racist Repubs Are Racist over at ESPN. Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 10, 2014 07:44 PM (ZPrif) " In other news, Michael Sams is still gay......"

Posted by: tubal at March 10, 2014 03:45 PM (YEQ2h)

115 Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz Commissar at March 10, 2014 07:44 PM (HQml1)

Don't forget Mitch McConnell's principled stands on every Constitutional crisis and solid support for conservatives willing to speak out on the Senate floor.

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 10, 2014 03:46 PM (o3MSL)

116 When Bush was president, every story was about him. For at least the first three years of Obama's term, every story was still about Bush. Now that really nothing rationally can be about Bush, nothing is still about Obama. Any international crisis, emergency or disaster, Obama's name is not even mentioned. Only stories about "well deserved" vacations, or parties with celebrities, Michelle's tens of thousands of dollars gowns.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at March 10, 2014 03:46 PM (BZAd3)

117 I'm so long and meaty I have to be folded three times and tucked up twice, just to keep my luscious pear-shaped owner from tripping over me!

You're welcome.

Posted by: Lena Dunham's Labia at March 10, 2014 03:47 PM (Ojgjr)

118 Lena Dunham is evidence that most celebrities being on the left, is not a bad thing.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at March 10, 2014 03:49 PM (BZAd3)

119 why are they tax exempt!!!!!

Posted by: thunderb at March 10, 2014 03:49 PM (zOTsN)

120 Though... I think 25 million is a little low, right comrades Ayers and Dohrn?

Posted by: Comrade Jarrett at March 10, 2014 07:44 PM (15Hah)

Yes, but that was when we had a much smaller population to work ~~against~~ with, so we will need proportionally more political officers and camps, comrade Jarrett!

BTW, the ACA IPAB was a stoke of sheer genius!

Posted by: Comrade Neighbor Bill at March 10, 2014 03:49 PM (o3MSL)

121 BTW, the ACA IPAB was a stoke of sheer genius!

Its decisions take a Congressional super-majority vote to overrule!

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at March 10, 2014 03:54 PM (P7Wsr)

122 120 Though... I think 25 million is a little low, right comrades Ayers and Dohrn? Posted by: Comrade Jarrett at March 10, 2014 07:44 PM (15Hah) Yes, but that was when we had a much smaller population to work ~~against~~ with, so we will need proportionally more political officers and camps, comrade Jarrett! Posted by: Comrade Neighbor Bill at March 10, 2014 07:49 PM (o3MSL) Yeah, I calculated a while ago that allowing for population growth between the 70s and today, the current figure would be about 32 million.

Posted by: rickl at March 10, 2014 03:54 PM (sdi6R)

123 We have morals:

Win at any cost.

Posted by: CAP at March 10, 2014 03:55 PM (gtiZk)

124 >>>>90% of what we see as bias isn't so much deliberate as just laziness, using what they can find easily, cut and paste into column inches, and fire off without thinking. Press releases from progressive organizations, blog posts, twitter tips, etc. They're just lazy<<<<<

No. The progressive left and their foot soldier propagandists in the media are a bunch of authoritarian/totalitarian busy body fuck heads that are cheerfully attempting to oppress their political opponents and undermine the culture in order to bring about the revolutionary utopia. All giving them the benefit of the doubt or assuming that they are good if misguided people does is give them a place to hide their malice.

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living... at March 10, 2014 03:58 PM (P/gm7)

125 #48

I am bemused by people who think the Republicans are going to crush Democrats in the election. Where have you been the last three years? Did you really forget 2012 when the GOP was going to sweep into Congress on a huge wave of anger at Obamacare and the economy? You forget how that turned out?
=====
You and I must've lived in alternative 2012s. In my 2012, the GOP nominated the governor who signed Romneycare into law. With a grinning Ted Kennedy standing behind him. Romney's opposition consistently out-polled him in the early primaries, but they also consistently split the anti-Romney votes between themselves. A consensus anti-Romney opponent never appeared and many, if not most states, have a winner-take-all with a plurality win, or apportion delegates based on a percentage of ballots cast for each candidate.

As for the 2012 election, well, we've hashed and re-hashed that debacle in a zillion earlier threads.

Posted by: mrp at March 10, 2014 03:58 PM (JBggj)

126 Anyones knows CBDs email for tips for his food thread?

Posted by: L, elle at March 10, 2014 03:58 PM (dKrTw)

127 More proof that our leaders are 'tards.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/ohrg8gg

Dr Peter Singer at SXSW talks about conversations he's had with gov't leaders who don't know the first thing about technology including one Supreme Court Justice who said he "Hasn't got around to email yet."

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at March 10, 2014 04:00 PM (P7Wsr)

128 59 "The active suppression of stories is what alarms me most." Yes that is pure evil. And I am getting beyond the point of anger: now I want revenge for how they have betrayed the trust of this country, the finest on Earth, to follow evil. I wonder how many folks like me are starting to develop a real Charles Bronson attitude about this.

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at March 10, 2014 04:00 PM (0ltjv)

129 To leave character for a moment. I believe... without a shred of doubt... that Barack Obama and his Transnational Progressive compatriots like Val Jarrett, Van Jones, Billy Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, George Soros, etc. would gladly orchestrate the murder of 32 million Americans without blinking. If they could retain all the power their believe they deserve, and insulate themselves from any "fatal consequences" from an imperfect push toward a totalitarian 'New Progressive America'.

Right now, they are doing all they can to tip the playing field in their favor - to this end.

Posted by: Comrade Jarrett at March 10, 2014 04:08 PM (15Hah)

130 It's cute that everyone seems to think there's going to be a presidential election in 2016.

Posted by: Harrison Bergeron at March 10, 2014 04:11 PM (JQuNB)

131 Night all. See y'all on the Morning Thread.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 10, 2014 04:12 PM (GjYxB)

132 68 The calling of a news reporter is to be the enemy of those in power. Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 10, 2014 07:32 PM (zfY+H) -------------------- No, it isn't. It's to report as truthfully as possible on what is happening, regardless of whether it rankles or delights those in power. Your formula is the source of great mischief. The journalist who wants to "make a difference" or "challenge power" is committed to something other than truth. This is to embrace Marx's maxim: "the point is not to understand the world, but to change it." Facts, reality, truth mean nothing compared to the Revolution.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at March 10, 2014 04:17 PM (dfYL9)

133 I'm focusing on the 2010, midterm election model. Dems just can't get Zero's base revved up over an election that doesn't feature him. Especially if they think (so far, correctly) that he will do what he wants without objection.

Posted by: Biff Boffo at March 10, 2014 04:25 PM (1j9qS)

134 Your tax dollars pay for this shit.

Posted by: Establishment RINO at March 10, 2014 05:07 PM (ofmrm)

135 Putin smirks at the people of the Ukraine and dares them to try to stop him from stepping on their independence to seize the power he wants. Obama smirks at the people of the United States and dares anyone to try to stop him from stepping on their Constitution to seize the power he wants. What is the difference? Notice that they both know who their real enemies are.

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at March 10, 2014 05:08 PM (qIFL7)

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