Powerline Blog Posting On CNN's Biases

                                                         Why CNN Is A Failure
                                                                John Hinderaker



        
CNN’s ratings are in the toilet, and its president resigned last week. The network’s defenders say the problem is that it is an objective, “just the facts” network, in an era when most viewers prefer the partisan approaches they can get from Fox and MSNBC. But no one who actually watches CNN buys that. Scott and I have both written about the horror of being trapped at an airplane gate, and being forced to listen to an infinite loop of CNN’s liberal commentary.
CNN represents the passive-aggressive Left. MSNBC is unrestrained id, but CNN can never fully surrender to its liberal impulses. It tries to maintain a fig leaf of neutrality. But CNN can’t get through the day without betraying what it really thinks, often in underhanded ways. Thus, when CNN did a story on Chick-fil-A today, what did it focus on? The merits of the controversy? The fact that more than one Democratic government official has threatened to violate the company’s constitutional rights, because its CEO is opposed to gay marriage? No. In a dog whistle to its liberal audience, CNN focused on the fact that Todd and Sarah Palin, along with thousands of other Americans, tweeted photos of themselves eating at Chick-fil-A:

CNN introduced its segment with Pink’s “Stupid Girls,” a song which is obviously inappropriate for a cable news bumper, and evidently was intended as a comment on Palin’s support for Chick-fil-A.
Why is the fact that Chick-fil-A’s CEO opposes gay marriage newsworthy? At least half of all Americans oppose gay marriage. So what is the point? There is, indeed, a news story lurking here: public officials in at least two major cities, all of them Democrats, vowed to violate Chick-fil-A’s constitutional rights by denying them permits to operate in their cities because their CEO’s political views are not 100% congruent with those of the Democratic Party–as of today, that is; until two months ago, President Obama was opposed to gay marriage too.
So what does CNN say about the real scandal that is hiding here in plain sight? Nothing. This is it, as you can hear in the video: “Several communities now trying to block Chick-fil-A from coming into their cities.” As though that were completely normal, and constitutional; and as though “communities” were trying to do it, as opposed to two or three liberal Democrats.
This kind of pathetic news coverage explains why CNN has become irrelevant, and now is going down the drain.

Commentary

This whole Chick-fil-a thing started because of the idiot Mayor Of Boston Tom Menino a left wing dumb ass

Setting The Record Straight On NYT

Opinion/Editorial

  I know that I normally do this post on Sunday mornings but I am glad that did because it is one to set a record straight.This mornings second lead OPED in the New York Times "Republicans vs. Women" should say "Conservatives vs. Women" since the NYT is now carrying the water for RINOS.
  It begins "Even with a persistent gender gap in a presidential election year, House Republicans have not given up on their campaign to narrow access to birth control, abortion care and lifesaving cancer screenings. Far from it.A new Republican spending proposal revives some of the more extreme attacks on women’s health and freedom that were blocked by the Senate earlier in this Congress. The resurrection is part of an alarming national crusade that goes beyond abortion rights and strikes broadly at women’s health in general.These setbacks are recycled from the Congressional trash bin in the fiscal 2013 spending bill for federal health, labor and education programs approved by a House appropriations subcommittee on July 18 over loud objections from Democratic members to these and other provisions.The measure would bar Planned Parenthood’s network of clinics, which serve millions of women across the country, from receiving any federal money unless the health group agreed to no longer offer abortion services for which it uses no federal dollars — a patently unconstitutional provision. It would also eliminate financing for Title X, the effective federal family-planning program for low-income women that provides birth control, breast and cervical cancer screenings, and testing for sexually-transmitted diseases. Without this program, some women would die, and unintended pregnancies would rise, resulting in some 400,000 more abortions a year and increases in Medicaid-related costs, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a leading authority on reproductive health."
  Playing politics and class/gender warfare at the same time NYT keep it up.
  It continues on "Pushed by the subcommittee’s chairman, Denny Rehberg, a Montana Republican, the budget plan stands little chance of being passed in its current form. Congress is about to leave on its August break, and, without explanation, the full Appropriations Committee’s consideration of the bill has been postponed indefinitely. It may be that Speaker John Boehner wants to avoid a controversy heading toward November that shifts focus from the economy.

Even so, the subcommittee’s anti-woman work product is a statement of Republican policy. It is endorsed by the full committee chairman, Harold Rogers, and will be a starting point for negotiations on a budget deal with the Senate. Furthermore, when Congress puts forth bad ideas to curtail birth control and abortion access, they tend to spread, helping to inspire copycat bills in the states. Since House Republicans first tried to defund Planned Parenthood, for example, similar attacks have been enacted in six states, most recently in North Carolina earlier this month.

There is a striking overlap between the subcommittee’s regressive politics and the polices espoused by the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney. That makes it a window on what a Romney presidency could mean for women’s rights and lives."

 This has little to so with Romney and has to do with the NYT trying to paint all Republicans with the same brush along with the Tea Party movement it won't happen NYT.

Former NAACP Leader Tells Obama To Smarten Up

Fmr. NAACP Chief C.L. Bryant Blasts Obama At Conservative Conference

"[With] one voice tonight so many of you from all over this world have come here to the land of the free and the home of the brave and we want to let you know that we have always defended people who embraced liberty all over this world,” he proclaimed. “And these patriots will not stand down in the face of their enemies!" C.L. Bryant said at the conservative FreePAC convention last night.

"There are those among us who would enslave us. The reach and the scope of big government is the new plantation and if we are not careful we will fall under the spell of government handouts. That is why we will send this message tonight from Dallas, Texas, that we're going to sweep clean the White House," Bryant said.

Mr. Bryant is the former president of the NAACP's Garland, Texas Chapter. In March, faced off with CNN's Roland Martin over what he complained was the left's exploitation of the Trayvon Martin case.

Commentary

This guy is great

Boston Mayor A Democrat Doesnot Practice What His Party Preaches

                                               
                                             Mayor plays chicken Boston Herald Editorial



We’re trying to imagine a big-city mayor telling the world that he refuses to grant government permits to a restaurant business whose CEO happens to support gay marriage. The condemnation of such an abuse of government power would be swift, overwhelming and appropriate.
But Boston Mayor Tom Menino apparently doesn’t see any problem using the power of his government office to issue threats to a private company whose CEO does not happen to share the mayor’s own personal or political views.
After depriving one Boston neighborhood of a much-needed grocery store because he opposes Walmart’s labor policies, Menino is now turning his attention to Chick-fil-A, proclaiming that it will be a cold day in hell before one of its restaurants will be allowed to open near Faneuil Hall.
“You can’t have a business in the city of Boston that discriminates against a population,” Menino huffed, adding, “If they need licenses in the city, it will be very difficult — unless they open up their policies.”
Their “policies,” as far as we can tell, include 1) selling chicken and 2) closing on Sundays because their religious CEO believes his employees should spend time with their families.
What Menino really objects to are CEO Dan Cathy’s personal beliefs as well as his public statements in opposition to same-sex marriage. He may also object to the money that Cathy’s private foundation has donated to Christian and pro-family (anti-gay, to opponents) groups.
None of that amounts to a discriminatory company “policy.”
But in Menino’s city (and yes, if he can withhold permits on a subjective basis, it is indeed “Menino’s city”) the punishment for failing to toe the progressive line is banishment.
Northeastern University students recently talked administrators out of putting Chick-fil-A in a student center based on the same concerns over Cathy’s beliefs. But that was the decision of a private institution. This kind of threat from a powerful government official is not only an embarrassment, if carried out it would likely violate Cathy’s constitutional rights. We wouldn’t blame Chick-fil-A and its prospective landlord if they decided it wasn’t worth the fight; clearly that is what Menino is hoping, too.

Commentary

Hypocrisy runs amok still in the Democrat Party

WAKE UP! RINOS In The Tea Party Movement

              

Hey those of you RINOS still left in the tea party movement who only want to believe in fiscal conservatism wake up this is more precious than $$$$$ its about life.

NYT Wrong On Israel

Opinion/Editorial

   Now the New York Times this morning is attempting to start a fight with our best ally in the world Israel by meddling in their political affairs.This mornings second lead OPED in the NYT "Israel’s Embattled Democracy" as if the NYT knows anything about Democracy when all they support is Communism/Socialism.
 It begins in their usual BS fashion but going after Israel's Likud Party (to you idiot RINOS and Liberals Likud is like the Tea Party in Israel) "Six decades after Israel’s founding, its citizens remain deeply at odds over the future of their democracy. The latest illustration is the disintegration of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new governing coalition after only 10 weeks.Mr. Netanyahu and his hard-line Likud Party, supported by smaller right-wing parties, has had a majority in Parliament since 2009. But when Shaul Mofaz and his centrist Kadima Party joined the government in May, the merger created a much broader coalition. It seemed to give Mr. Netanyahu — a disappointing, risk-averse leader — unprecedented authority to get things done."
 Just to set the record straight since the NYT has a hard time with getting anything right Israel has always been a nation just scattered abroad throughout the world the UN six decades ago recognized them finally.One more thing again just to set the record straight it's the Palestinians that cause all the trouble for the peace not to happen.
 Here is the NYT endorsing the Israeli version of tolerance and diversity BS "Mr. Mofaz became deputy prime minister and outlined an encouraging agenda. The first priority would be integrating minority populations of ultra-Orthodox Jews and Israeli Arabs into the military and civilian service. The coalition would also revive peace negotiations with the Palestinians, pass a national budget and enact electoral reforms. But the coalition quickly collapsed over the issue of military service, which has exacerbated tensions between secular and religious Jews and with Arabs. Secular Israelis are increasingly resentful of the tendency of the ultra-Orthodox to refuse to serve and to separate themselves from the country’s mainstream."
 It didnt work here in the good ol' USA and it won't work especially in Israel.
 Here is more of the blame the right "Demographic changes are making political compromise harder. Experts say an influx of Jews from the former Soviet Union and a high birthrate in the ultra-Orthodox community mean that many Israelis have a cultural mistrust of the democratic values on which the state was founded. The Palestinian population is also expanding, hastening a day when Jews could be a minority."
 This ends from the mouth of the NYT editorial board "One of Israel’s greatest strengths is its origins as a democratic state committed to liberal values and human rights. Those basic truths are in danger of being lost."
 Yeah brain-dead liberalism it worked here NOT! it just causes more heart-ache and anguish on everyone and it divides instead of uniting.

Mark Levin Sets It Straight

Mark Levin On Shooting: The Right Is Always The "Political Scapegoat"

MARK LEVIN on the Aurora massacre: What most of us don't do is search for political scapegoats. And the scapegoats always seem to be the same -- us. Somehow those of us who are law-abiding, who preach of the value of the individual, who oppose things like abortion and defending the greatest health care system in the world, because we embrace a culture of life, somehow we're to blame.

It doesn't matter if the murderer is mentally ill, as in the Tucson case. If he's disgruntled about something, including himself or whatever, they look for reasons to find out if he has any connections to us. So the media go hunting for reasons to make disgusting allegations. It's cold-blooded. There's no compassion. They're looking to make news. They're looking to drive ratings. This is just bizarre and it's time to call them out on it.

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We have a right to have 24, 48 hours of mourning for our fellow citizens. There needs to be respect for the dead, and prayers for the living. There needs to be a point of which the hounds are called off, at least for a day or two. But apparently not. When you have rouge, politically motivated reporters like Brian Ross and George Stephanopoulos -- and somehow Stephanopoulos is getting a pass -- both of ABC News trying to turn this into a yet another disgusting attack on the Tea Party, trying to draw connections between the killer and the Tea Party, it doesn't get any lower than that.

Boy these people hate us, don't they? I mean they really, really hate us. The truth is if ABC News corporate had an ounce of integrity, it would fire both of them. Right now.

Now what can we do as a people? I've been thinking about this. What can we do as a people in response to such a horrendous crime? I tell you what we can do. Shut off our TVs, go to a quiet place and say a prayer for these people and then thank God that we live in the greatest nation on the face of the earth. And then if you want to see this Batman movie, then by God go see it. We're Americans. And we're not going to allow some low-life mass murderer, a coward, change who we are and what we do.

And let the idiots on cable TV talk to themselves. You don't need to watch this. Let them debate among themselves. Let the idiots who anchor morning TV shows talk in circles among themselves, bring on politicians and political advocates telling you why your rights should be curtailed. These people don't shed any light onto anything. They have agendas. So don't frustrated yourself. Don't upset yourself in that regard. Focus on what matters.