Media Bias in Headlines from the Past Two Days (Plus some past examples showing the `left lean`)

Just some headlines to exemplify the neutrality of the mainstream media:

★ Ex-Newsweek’s Alter Slams Paul Ryan Budget As ‘Cruel’ (MSNBC)

★ Ex-Newsweek’s Fineman Slams Chris Christie Speech as ‘Nasty’ and ‘Mean’ (MSNBC)

★ CNN Analyst Ridicu

les ‘Sledgehammer’ GOP Platform on Abortion

★ Joy Behar (CNN): People Like Romney and Ryan Are ‘Trying to Kill Us’

★ Artur Davis Schools CNN: ‘Easy’ ‘to Do What You Guys Are Doing’

★ ABC Hammers at Romney’s ‘Likability Problem’

★ MSNBC’s O’Donnell [an self-proclaimed socialist] Rips Ann Romney For Ignoring ‘Struggling’ Women Who Rely on Government

★ NBC’s Brian Williams Obnoxiously Presses Rubio About GOP’s ‘Rape Debate’

★ MSNBCers Upset at ‘Bar Bouncing’ Boehner’s ‘Ugly Imagery’

★ CNN Asks If GOP Holding Convention Tuesday Is ‘Appropriate’

★ CNN’s Acosta Tries to Put Obama’s ‘You Didn’t Build That’ In Context

★ Pelley Pushes Ann Romney on ‘Whether Republicans Have Women’s Best Interests at Heart?’

★ NYTimes Fills News Gap With Overblown Stories on Discord Among ‘Straight-Laced’ GOP ‘Squares’

★ Former NBC Reporter Tells Maddow: All Romney Has Going For Him Is His Whiteness

★ Actual Washington Post Headline: ‘Did God Plan Isaac to Punish Republicans?’

★ NBC Panel Slams Christie As ‘Bully’ Who ‘Will Never Be Accepted Across This Country’

★ Charlie Rose to Marco Rubio: ‘Many People Worry’ GOP Is Anti-Hispanic

★ Yahoo’s David Chalian (ABC/Yahoo Live-feed): Romneys ‘Happy to Have a Party With Black People Drowning’

★ Greed and Debt: The True Story of Mitt Romney and Bain Capital; Mitt Romney Gets Rolling Stoned: Former Music Mag Dedicates Latest Edition to Bashing Romney [The former music magazine known as Rolling Stone published three hit pieces on Mitt Romney this week.]

Just a couple of examples of the “straight” “down-the-line” reporting of the non existent media bias.

Can I Say, I Love the New Media ~ A `Republican Women` In Obama Ad Anything But (original story linked in graphic)

Via Hot Air & Gateway Pundit

Via Drudge, the inevitable finish for an ad for a President whose track record on vetting and research has been all too vividly featured in our Obamateurism series.  Earlier this week, Team Obama stepped up its War On Wimminses strategy with this ad, featuring women who identify as Republican but  who intend to vote for Barack Obama in 2012….

….It’s certainly possible that Ms. Ciano had at one time been Republican.  Her conversion to Democrat had nothing to do with Mitt Romney, or even Barack Obama, however.  And it’s difficult to ascertain exactly what about Romney would have driven the rest of them off, either.  One woman cites Romney’s desire to see Roe overturned, as if she’s never heard that argument in the four decades that Republicans have been making it.  George W. Bush made it just as much of an issue when running for President, if not more; every Republican nominee for President since Reagan has taken that position, as have most of the candidates who failed to get the nomination.  This must be one of the most low-information groups of voters ever featured in a national campaign.

It’s easy to understand why Team Obama wants to run a Republican Women for Obama ad.  Is it too much to ask that they check first to see if the women are actually Republican first?

Update: John Hinderaker delves a little deeper:

Her Facebook page is here; some of her friends congratulate her on appearing in the Obama ad. In addition to the fact that she is a registered Democrat, check out her Facebook “likes.” They make it obvious that Ms. Ciano is a devoted Democrat and a left-wing activist. Here are some of her “likes,” beginning with the earliest in time:

* Democracy For America
* Tar Sands Action
* Amy Goodman
* Barack Obama
* Costoftaxcuts.com
* Being Liberal
* MoveOn.org
* Bernie Sanders Tells You A Secret the GOP Would Rather You Didn’t Know
* Miss Piggy Delivers the Best Takedown of Fox News We’ve Seen All Month
* Think Progress
* The Best Quote From Barack Obama We’ve Seen This Week
* Dow and Monsanto Join Forces to Poison America’s Heartland
* Climate Reality
* Grist.org
* The Amazing Victory Scored With Obama That More People Should Be Talking About
* The Sierra Club
* The Buffett Rule
* Obama For America–Colorado
* UniteWomen.org
* Denver Young Democrats
* Obamacare
* Latinos For Obama
* Michelle Obama
* Veterans For Obama
* I Love It When I Wake Up In the Morning and Obama Is President
* Obama Truth Team
* Democratic Party

Yeah, I know a lot of Republicans who like to join MoveOn, Think Progress, and Climate Reality (and who listen to avowed socialist Bernie Sanders).  Seriously — did Team Obama think that no one would look at Ciano’s Facebook page?

Update II: At the same link, John says another of the women — Ms. Ciano’s mother — appears to be an unlikely Republican. He’s working on checking out the rest on Facebook.

…read more and follow the updates…

Gateway points out that Mrs. Ciano’s mother is in the ad (above):

Delia is a big Rachel Maddow fan.

Another dishonest lib.
And that’s just two of the five women in the ad.
We’re still investigating the other three.

This is just more proof that the Obama Campaign will do anything, including lying, to win this election.

 

Rupert Murdoch`s News Corporation has donated 21x More to Obama`s Campaign Than to Mitt Romneys’

Rupert Murdoch, chairman and chief executive officer of News Corp., speaks during a session on day three of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Friday, Jan. 30, 2009. This year’s meeting, which is titled “Shaping the Post-Crisis World,” runs until Feb. 1. Photographer: Adrian Moser/Bloomberg News

WOW! NewsBusters has this interesting stat:

All the major media companies, driven largely by their Hollywood film and television businesses, have made larger contributions to President Obama than to his rival, former Gov. Mitt Romney, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonprofit, nonpartisan Washington-based research group that publishes the Open Secrets Web site.

The center’s numbers represent donations by a company’s PAC and any employees who listed that company as their employer.

Even companies whose news outlets are often perceived as having a conservative bias have given significantly more money to Mr. Obama. Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, for example, has contributed $58,825 to Mr. Obama’s campaign, compared with $2,750 to Mr. Romney. The conglomerate, which owns Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post and the 20th Century Fox studios, gave roughly the same amount to Mr. Romney’s Republican primary competitors Rick Perry and Ron Paul as it did to Mr. Romney.

The report above comes from a New York Times article which amusingly enough turns a story about how media companies donate overwhelmingly to Democrats into a way to bash Rupert Murdoch. That’s not entirely surprising given his ownership of the Wall Street Journal, the Times’s chief competitor.

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Thomas Sowell Pigeon Holes the `State of the Union`

With regards to Ricochet on this post:

Quiet, Everyone — Thomas Sowell is Speaking

And, as usual, he’s flawlessly summarizing the state of the nation with nothing more than a few concise paragraphs:

This election is a test, not just of the opposing candidates but of the voting public. If what they want are the hard facts about where the country is, and where it is heading, they cannot vote for more of the same for the next four years.

But, if what they want is emotionally satisfying rhetoric and a promise to give them something for nothing, to be paid for by taxing somebody else, then Obama is their man. This is not to say that the public will in fact get something for nothing or that rich people will just pay higher taxes, when it is easy for them to escape taxation by investing overseas — creating jobs overseas.

Even if most Americans do not have their own taxes raised, that means little, if they end up paying other people’s taxes in the higher prices of goods and services that pass along the higher taxes imposed on businesses.

There are no doubt voters who will vote on the basis of believing that Obama “cares” more about them. But that is a faith which passeth all understanding. The political mirage of something for nothing, from leaders who “care,” has ruined many a nation.

Battle of Campaign Ads and Truth! Welfare Reform Gutted, Truly

Thanks firstly to Daily RushBo!

First I will post the Romney Campaign Ad talking about the gutting of welfare reform the Republicans battled so resolutely for during the Clinton years. Then I will post the OFFICIAL Obama campaign response ad, followed by Rush Limbaugh playing audio of the the author of the reform bill that Clinton signed into law, Robert Rector. I will close this video/audio montage with “The Hammer” quelling the idea that reforming welfare is racist. Enjoy, and learn these quick responses to answer your Democratic friends, neighbors, family members and co-workers.

OFFICIAL ROMNEY AD:

OFFICIAL OBAMA RESPONSE:

RUSH LIMBAUGH PLAYING AUDIO FROM THE 1996 BILL’S AUTHOR ROBERT RECTOR:

“THE HAMMER” SMACKS DOWN RACE CARD RELATED TO THIS TOPIC: