American Glob

Protest the congress they’ve controlled since 2006?

Protest the White House they’ve controlled for almost two years?

What the hell are they protesting? Oh, I see. They’re going to protest the fact that they’re being protested…

Labor leaders, liberal religious leaders and the NAACP will hold a rally on the National Mall on October 2, one month before the fall midterm elections, in an attempt to show they too have political clout and momentum in response to last Saturday’s massive gathering of Tea Party types led by Fox News host Glenn Beck.

“The AFL-CIO is determined that the Tea Party and its corporate backers are not going to get the final word,” said AFL-CIO executive vice president Arlene Holt Baker. “We will expect tens of thousands of union families to come.”

“We are fueled by hope and not hate,” Holt Baker said.

Really? Well, let’s see… You hate Glenn Beck, you hate conservatives, you hate Republicans, you hate independents and libertarians who side with conservatives, you hate the tea party, you hate anyone who dares to criticize Obama, you hate opponents of ObamaCare and high taxes, feel free to stop me any time. When does the hope part kick in?

The obvious lesson here, for anyone who’s paying attention, is that this is all the left knows how to do. It’s all they have.

They can’t govern, they’re so afraid of offending everyone but average Americans that they’re terrible on defense, they’re awful on fiscal issues and they don’t even seem to realize that for now, they control everything.

If current trends continue and the GOP takes even just the house in November, expect  miles of headlines from liberal media outlets to the tune of “How We Blew It.”

They’ll still point blame at everyone but themselves but at least they’ll no longer have single party rule.

In the end, it will suit them better. At least they’ll have something legitimate to protest.

Read more at Memeorandum.

Unless you were planning to vote for Obama in 2008, you might have wondered if some members of the liberal media were actively trying to destroy Sarah Palin on a personal and political level from the moment John McCain announced her as his running mate.

Guess what… You were right.

In the hours after Sen. John McCain announced his choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be his running mate in the last presidential race, members of an online forum called Journolist struggled to make sense of the pick. Many of them were liberal reporters, and in some cases their comments reflected a journalist’s instinct to figure out the meaning of a story.

But in many other exchanges, the Journolisters clearly had another, more partisan goal in mind: to formulate the most effective talking points in order to defeat Palin and McCain and help elect Barack Obama president. The tone was more campaign headquarters than newsroom.

The conversation began with a debate over how best to attack Sarah Palin. “Honestly, this pick reeks of desperation,” wrote Michael Cohen of the New America Foundation in the minutes after the news became public. “How can anyone logically argue that Sarah Pallin [sic], a one-term governor of Alaska, is qualified to be President of the United States? Train wreck, thy name is Sarah Pallin.”

Not a wise argument, responded Jonathan Stein, a reporter for Mother Jones. If McCain were asked about Palin’s inexperience, he could simply point to then candidate Barack Obama’s similarly thin resume. “Q: Sen. McCain, given Gov. Palin’s paltry experience, how is she qualified to be commander in chief?,” Stein asked hypothetically. “A: Well, she has much experience as the Democratic nominee.”

“What a joke,” added Jeffrey Toobin of the New Yorker. “I always thought that some part of McCain doesn’t want to be president, and this choice proves my point.  Welcome back, Admiral Stockdale.”

Daniel Levy of the Century Foundation noted that Obama’s “non-official campaign” would need to work hard to discredit Palin. “This seems to me like an occasion when the non-official campaign has a big role to play in defining Palin, shaping the terms of the conversation and saying things that the official [Obama] campaign shouldn’t say – very hard-hitting stuff, including some of the things that people have been noting here – scare people about having this woefully inexperienced, no foreign policy/national security/right-wing christia wing-nut a heartbeat away …… bang away at McCain’s age making this unusually significant …. I think people should be replicating some of the not-so-pleasant viral email campaigns that were used against [Obama].”

Ryan Donmoyer, a reporter for Bloomberg News who was covering the campaign, sent a quick thought that Palin’s choice not to have an abortion when she unexpectedly became pregnant at age 44 would likely boost her image because it was a heartwarming story.

“Her decision to keep the Down’s baby is going to be a hugely emotional story that appeals to a vast swath of America, I think,” Donmoyer wrote.

Politico reporter Ben Adler, now an editor at Newsweek, replied, “but doesn’t leaving sad baby without its mother while she campaigns weaken that family values argument? Or will everyone be too afraid to make that point?”

Read it all.

I sincerely hope the “JournoListers” know that an ever growing number of Americans are going to the polls this November with them in mind.

UPDATE: This sums it up pretty well.

From yesterday’s edition of Special Report with Bret Baier.

Progressives rarely do, Sarah.

Sarah Spitz, the lefty Journolister whose utter lack of humanity was shown yesterday by the Daily Caller has apologized. What a difference public exposure of her conservative death fantasies have made…

I made poorly considered remarks about Rush Limbaugh to what I believed was a private email discussion group from my personal email account. As a publicist, I realize more than anyone that is no excuse for irresponsible behavior. I apologize to anyone I may have offended and I regret these comments greatly; they do not reflect the values by which I conduct my life.

Bullshit.

You got caught with your vicious lefty pants down and that’s the only reason you’re sorry now.

Notice how far out of their way NPR goes to clarify that Sarah Spitz is not now nor has she ever been an employee of NPR…

In fact, Spitz has never been an NPR employee. For many years, she has worked for KCRW, a public radio station in Santa Monica, California, as a producer and publicist.

KCRW is one of some 900 independently-operated public radio stations across the country that air NPR’s news, talk and entertainment programming. Like network TV affiliates, they air national programming but act autonomously.

Nice statement.

Check the mail for my donation around the time hell freezes over.

Turns out, pretty much everything you’ve heard about liberal bias in the media is true. The Daily Caller has proof that shows liberal “journalists” conspired to use the government to shut down FOX News.

God forbid there’s ONE news network in America that appeals to conservatives…

The very existence of Fox News, meanwhile, sends Journolisters into paroxysms of rage. When Howell Raines charged that the network had a conservative bias, the members of Journolist discussed whether the federal government should shut the channel down.

“I am genuinely scared” of Fox, wrote Guardian columnist Daniel Davies, because it “shows you that a genuinely shameless and unethical media organisation *cannot* be controlled by any form of peer pressure or self-regulation, and nor can it be successfully cold-shouldered or ostracised. In order to have even a semblance of control, you need a tough legal framework.” Davies, a Brit, frequently argued the United States needed stricter libel laws.

“I agree,” said Michael Scherer of Time Magazine. Roger “Ailes understands that his job is to build a tribal identity, not a news organization. You can’t hurt Fox by saying it gets it wrong, if Ailes just uses the criticism to deepen the tribal identity.”

Jonathan Zasloff, a law professor at UCLA, suggested that the federal government simply yank Fox off the air. “Do you really want the political parties/white house picking which media operations are news operations and which are a less respectable hybrid of news and political advocacy?”

But Zasloff stuck to his position. “I think that they are doing that anyway; they leak to whom they want to for political purposes,” he wrote. “If this means that some White House reporters don’t get a press pass for the press secretary’s daily briefing and that this means that they actually have to, you know, do some reporting and analysis instead of repeating press releases, then I’ll take that risk.”

Scherer seemed alarmed. “So we would have press briefings in which only media organizations that are deemed by the briefer to be acceptable are invited to attend?”

John Judis, a senior editor at the New Republic, came down on Zasloff’s side, the side of censorship. “Pre-Fox,” he wrote, “I’d say Scherer’s questions made sense as a question of principle. Now it is only tactical.”

I want to know if the Obama Administration was in on this.

Remember the fall of 2009 when the White House attacked FOX News, saying it wasn’t a real news organization? Where did that idea come from?

Could this Journolist scandal be worse than Watergate? Yes it can.

See the video below from fall 2009 where former Obama Communications Director Anita Dunn, a big fan of Chairman Mao, accuses FOX News of being an arm of the Republican Party.

Projection much, Anita?

I am so fucking angry right now I can barely tpye…

If you were in the presence of a man having a heart attack, how would you respond? As he clutched his chest in desperation and pain, would you call 911? Would you try to save him from dying? Of course you would.

But if that man was Rush Limbaugh, and you were Sarah Spitz, a producer for National Public Radio, that isn’t what you’d do at all.

In a post to the list-serv Journolist, an online meeting place for liberal journalists, Spitz wrote that she would “Laugh loudly like a maniac and watch his eyes bug out” as Limbaugh writhed in torment.

In boasting that she would gleefully watch a man die in front of her eyes, Spitz seemed to shock even herself. “I never knew I had this much hate in me,” she wrote. “But he deserves it.”

Spitz’s hatred for Limbaugh seems intemperate, even imbalanced. On Journolist, where conservatives are regarded not as opponents but as enemies, it barely raised an eyebrow.

I don’t even need to ask how the MSM would react if Glenn Beck had openly wished for the death of Rachel Maddow because everyone knows it would be a front page story. Let alone the fact that liberal talk radio host Mike Malloy recently said that he hopes Glenn Beck commits suicide.

At least… AT LEAST, Mike Malloy’s show isn’t subsidized with public money. National PUBLIC Radio on the other hand is a different story.

Sarah Spitz of KCRW in Santa Monica, California needs to be introduced to another form of public funding – The unemployment line.

Unless you’re a big fan of Obama, you probably remember thinking during the 2008 presidential campaign that many members of the media were doing more than just reporting. In fact, you might have even thought that they were actively trying to get Obama elected.

Well, Tucker Carlson and the Daily Caller have acquired the archives of Journolist and guess what… You were right.

It was the moment of greatest peril for then-Sen. Barack Obama’s political career. In the heat of the presidential campaign, videos surfaced of Obama’s pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, angrily denouncing whites, the U.S. government and America itself. Obama had once bragged of his closeness to Wright. Now the black nationalist preacher’s rhetoric was threatening to torpedo Obama’s campaign.

The crisis reached a howling pitch in mid-April, 2008, at an ABC News debate moderated by Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos. Gibson asked Obama why it had taken him so long – nearly a year since Wright’s remarks became public – to dissociate himself from them. Stephanopoulos asked, “Do you think Reverend Wright loves America as much as you do?”

Watching this all at home were members of Journolist, a listserv comprised of several hundred liberal journalists, as well as like-minded professors and activists. The tough questioning from the ABC anchors left many of them outraged. “George [Stephanopoulos],” fumed Richard Kim of the Nation, is “being a disgusting little rat snake.”

Others went further. According to records obtained by The Daily Caller, at several points during the 2008 presidential campaign a group of liberal journalists took radical steps to protect their favored candidate. Employees of news organizations including Time, Politico, the Huffington Post, the Baltimore Sun, the Guardian, Salon and the New Republic participated in outpourings of anger over how Obama had been treated in the media, and in some cases plotted to fix the damage.

In one instance, Spencer Ackerman of the Washington Independent urged his colleagues to deflect attention from Obama’s relationship with Wright by changing the subject. Pick one of Obama’s conservative critics, Ackerman wrote, “Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists.”

Ed Morrissey at Hot Air rightly notes:

Gee, doesn’t that sound familiar?

Based on these stunning revelations from The Daily Caller, can we finally put to bed the stupid notion that anyone who disagrees with Obama must be a racist?

Can we also acknowledge something many of us suspected all along… That the useless MSM has a liberal agenda and is officially an extension of the Democrat Party?

Way to go, Tucker. Way to go.

Obama has continued a number of policies from his predecessor, but now he even has a “Mission Accomplished” moment of his very own.

As reported by the Politico:

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — President Barack Obama has a new campaign slogan.

“Yes, we did.”

And it doesn’t stop there. Republicans, an animated Obama argued Thursday, wouldn’t have.

They wouldn’t have set the economy back on track, he said during a fundraiser for Senate candidate Robin Carnahan, or passed a health care overhaul or financial regulatory reform. Giving the GOP control of Congress again — a possibility that Obama acknowledged — would usher in another era of a “you’re on your own philosophy,” he said.

In which alternate reality is the president currently residing? The economy is back on track? You could have fooled me.

Republicans wouldn’t have passed Obamacare? That’s a feature not a bug, Mr. President.

Your on your own philosophy? You mean like the people of Arizona who wish the federal government would do its job and secure their border?

If this is your idea of “yes we did” maybe you could do us a favor next time.

Don’t.

Couldn’t. Agree. More.

Matt Labash is on a crusade and I like where he’s going…

If I were Fox President Roger Ailes, the first thing I’d do is have my enemies killed and get away with it, because I’d be a very powerful man. The second thing I’d do is move Gutfeld’s show from the lobster shift to a time when people who aren’t Provigil addicts might be able to watch him. Let’s call that time, 11 p.m. EST, a slot which now sees Fox airing a rerun.

This would do one beneficial thing for America: it would put the most subversive man in late night (Gutfeld) up against the most self-satisfied man in late night (Jon Stewart), and dopey college students who get most of their news from “The Daily Show,” as we’re constantly reminded by journalists who probably do the same, might actually learn something for a change: like how much funnier shows are when the audience doesn’t collapse in hysterics before the host’s punch line has been uttered, since they already know it has been tailored to their prejudices.

I am therefore hereby launching a campaign to put Gutfeld, Bill Schulz, Andy Levy and the rest of Gutfeld’s Get-Fresh Crew on while we’re all still awake.

Red Eye is already killing in the ratings game at 3 am. How well they would do at 11 pm?