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CBS Evening News Decries Lack of “Diversity” in FDNY

by SteveK @ Tuesday, August 10th, 2010. Tags: , , , , ,
Filed under Media

On last Monday’s CBS Evening News, Katie Couric lamented the New York City Fire Department’s lack of “diversity.” She reported how “…a federal judge says something is missing in their ranks: Diversity.” Jim Axelrod noted: “Fire Captain Paul Washington has a big problem with his department.” Washington declared the FDNY to be “all-white, lily white.” [...]

Bill Press Mocks Those Who Criticize Interpretation of 14th Amendment

by SteveK @ Saturday, August 7th, 2010. Tags: , , , ,
Filed under Culture, Economics, Education, Government, History, Judicial Tyranny, Media, National Security

In light of the resulting drain on social services, increased crime, school crowding, and economic impact of illegal immigration, the time to end so-called “anchor babies” is long overdue. However, on his Aug. 4 program, liberal talk show host Bill Press became unhinged over U.S. Senators who questioned the modern interpretation of the 14th Amendment.
Sen. [...]

Shirley Sherrod Should Drop Case Against Breitbart

by SteveK @ Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010. Tags: , , , , , , ,
Filed under Government, Media

Shirley Sherrod plans to sue Andrew Breitbart over the excerpted videotape showing Sherrod expressing racist sentiments. The general narrative goes something like this: Sherrod is this innocent, non-racist woman who was unfairly depicted as a bigot by the ‘right-wing attack machine’, and very temporarily lost her job. Now it seems the video’s impression might be [...]

Disgraceful: Liberal JournoList Promotes Use of Lies and Misinformation

by SteveK @ Saturday, July 24th, 2010. Tags: , , , , , , ,
Filed under Culture, Government, Media

It matters little that JournoList founder, Ezra Klein, a prominent writer for the Washington Post, has recently shut the e-mail listserv down. Their intent was uncovered proving conclusively that our establishment media cannot be trusted.
Some background info:
Just in case you’ve been living in a cave, or if you only get your news from MSNBC, here’s [...]

Why Is Hollywood and the Big Media So Fond of Authoritarian Governments?

by SteveK @ Monday, July 19th, 2010. Tags: , , , , , ,
Filed under Culture, Government, Media

Expanding on a Jonah Goldberg column in which he ponders New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman’s fawning admiration of Communist China:
According to New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman in his mega-selling book “Hot, Flat, and Crowded,” China banned plastic bags a few years ago. “Bam! Just like that — 1.3 billion people, theoretically, [...]

Obama’s Rev. Wright Gives Speech Attacking Whites and Jews

by SteveK @ Wednesday, July 7th, 2010. Tags: , , , , ,
Filed under Culture, Education, Government, Media

President Obama’s ‘former’ spiritual adviser, Jeremiah Wright, gave a talk at the University of Chicago recently in which he went off on a familiar anti-Semitic and racist tirade.
The good Reverend declared that “whites and Jews are controlling the flow of worldwide information and oppressing blacks in Israel and America .” Yes, so oppressed that even [...]

Video: Congressman Bob Etheridge (D-NC) Assaults Student

by SteveK @ Tuesday, June 15th, 2010. Tags: , , , , , , ,
Filed under Culture, Government, Media

As an appropriate follow-up to my last post on when our public servants become our masters, I present this little gem.

Yet another example of the enlightened, non-violent behavior of the ruling class. Imagine for a moment had a republican or better yet, Tea Party candidate did something similar.
These students should bring assault charges up on [...]

Claptrap: Global Peace Index Ranks Cuba and China More Peaceful Than U.S.

by SteveK @ Friday, June 11th, 2010. Tags: , , , , ,
Filed under Government, History, Media

So an updated study now claims Cuba and China are more peaceful than the United States.
The so-called “global peace index” ranks countries according to variables such as social unrest, levels of crime, and military spending. However, the study’s authors are trusting communist governments to give them accurate information when it is obvious that they underreport [...]

Helen Thomas – Media Icon of Hate and Anti-Semitism

by SteveK @ Thursday, June 10th, 2010. Tags: , , , , , ,
Filed under Media

Helen Thomas, superstar of the left, was asked her opinion about the Jews at a Jewish heritage event at the White House. She replied that they should “get the hell out of Palestine,” and when asked where they should go, she snapped “home” to Germany and Poland, where butchered in the Holocaust.
In defense of Helen, [...]

Shameful Media Once Again Humanizes Terrorists

by SteveK @ Wednesday, May 12th, 2010. Tags: , , , , , ,
Filed under Media, Middle East, National Security, Religion

A recent article in The Associated Press highlighted the troubles of Faisal Shahzad, the Times Square bomber, citing how “his life seemed to unravel.”
“He left a job at a global marketing firm he’d held for three years, lost his home to foreclosure and moved into an apartment in an impoverished neighborhood in Bridgeport.”
Of course, the [...]

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