American Glob

FOX News continues its total domination of the cable news race as of 08/30/10 via Drudge Report.

No surprises here…

CABLE NEWS RACE MON. AUG 30, 2010
VIEWERS

FOXNEWS O’REILLY 3,977,000
FOXNEWS HANNITY 2,645,000
FOXNEWS BECK 2,600,000
FOXNEWS BAIER 2,097,000
FOXNEWS SHEP 1,858,000
FOXNEWS GRETA 1,856,000
MSNBC OLBERMANN 1,078,000
MSNBC MADDOW 1,027,000
MSNBC SHULTZ 699,000
CNN SANCHEZ 676,000
CNN KING 620,000
MSNBC HARDBALL 620,000
CNNHN GRACE 586,000
CNN COOPER 581,000

I wonder why other cable news networks are having such a problem connecting with viewers?

It’s a mystery.

Hat tip to ZIP…

Watchdog blog - Inside Cable News

Video by Freedom’s Lighthouse via ZIP…

Media mistakes distortions so far:

CBS Downplays Number of Attendants

Mostly White Crowd

Sarah Palin Misquoted (Deliberate?)

Back on August 19th, the Democratic Governors Association said FOX News should come with a disclaimer because their parent company gave one million dollars to the Republican Governors Association.

Based on their criteria I have to wonder if every other news outlet in America should also come with a disclaimer….

Senior executives, on-air personalities, producers, reporters, editors, writers and other self-identifying employees of ABC, CBS and NBC contributed more than $1 million to Democratic candidates and campaign committees in 2008, according to an analysis by The Examiner of data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics.

The Democratic total of $1,020,816 was given by 1,160 employees of the three major broadcast television networks, with an average contribution of $880.

By contrast, only 193 of the employees contributed to Republican candidates and campaign committees, for a total of $142,863. The average Republican contribution was $744.

Disclosure of the heavily Democratic contributions by influential employees of the three major broadcast networks follows on the heels of controversy last week when it was learned that media baron Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. contributed $1 million to the Republican Governors Association.

Read more opinion on this story at Memeorandum.

Obsolete…

The network newscast ratings for last week are in and “CBS Evening News with Katie Couric” tied its all-time low in total viewers with an average of 4.89 million tuning in during the five days.

The low was set last June, when ABC also hit its own low. (Ratings records date back to the 1991-’92 season.) Last week, NBC averaged 7.42 million total viewers and ABC averaged 6.51 million.

Partisan…

In raw footage of Katie Couric preparing an introduction for broadcast during the Republican national convention in 2008, the CBS anchor pokes fun at vice-president candidate Sarah Palin.

The footage was recorded shortly after [meaning the day] John McCain picked Palin as his running mate but the five-minute video clip was just posted on YouTube on Tuesday. [August 2010]

In the footage, Couric lists off Palin’s credentials, including hunting caribou, enjoying moose burgers, high school basketball player and a former beauty queen before interjecting, “You can’t make this up.”

After talking about two of Palin’s children – Trig and Track – she quips, “Where the hell do they get these names?”

Idiot…

Growing belief that Obama is a Muslim, although incorrect, is not the fault of the American People. Way to keep your finger on the pulse of the nation, Katie.

Read more coverage at Memeorandum.

The Democratic Governors Association has its panties in a bunch because Rupert Murdoch’s company News Corp. gave one million dollars to the Republican Governors Association. CNN reports…

With the knowledge that Fox News’ parent company recently cut a $1 million check to the Republican Governors Association, the leader of the Democratic Governors Association is calling on the cable news network to run a “formal disclaimer” when it covers gubernatorial races. “I request that you add a formal disclaimer to your news coverage any time any of your programs cover governors or gubernatorial races between now and Election Day,” DGA executive director Nathan Daschle wrote in the letter to Roger Ailes.

My reaction in two words: SO WHAT?

As I’m sure the Democratic Governors Association is aware, so called “objective journalists” donated more money to Barack Obama than John McCain in the 2008 presidential election by a ratio greater than 10 to 1…

An analysis of federal election records shows that the amount of money journalists contributed so far this election cycle favors Democrats by a 15:1 margin over Republicans, with $225,563 going to Democrats, only $16,298 to Republicans .

235 journalists donated to Democrats, just 20 gave to Republicans — a margin greater than 10:1. An even greater disparity, 20:1, exists between the number of journalists who donated to Barack Obama and John McCain.

Searches for other newsroom categories (reporters, correspondents, news editors, anchors, newspaper editors and publishers) produces 311 donors to Democrats to 30 donors to Republicans, a ratio of just over 10:1. In terms of money, $279,266 went to Dems, $20,709 to Republicans, a 14:1 ratio.

By those standards, maybe the news network truly in need of a disclaimer is every single one except FOX News.

Talk about an inconvenient truth.

Read more at Memeorandum.

Last week, Katie Couric’s partisan willingness to carry water for the Obama campaign in the 2008 presidential election by cutting down Sarah Palin was exposed for all to see.

The Conservatives4Palin blog makes the best case against Couric on this situation from a political standpoint.

But what if the shoe was on the other foot? How would the stooges of the progressive media (same difference) react if the entire situation was reversed? The genius writers and photoshop artists at iOwnTheWorld.com have you covered. With their permission, I’m re-publishing their hilarious take on the situation. See below…

Thank you to Admin Girl and BigFurHat of iOwnTheWorld.com for allowing me to publish their art. It is without a doubt, one of the best pieces of political satire I’ve ever seen.

Technically, they were all acting as Obama campaign advisers and that’s the scandal.

In this particular case however, the person in question actually worked for the Obama Campaign. The Volokh Conspiracy has the details…

Jared Bernstein, chief economist for Vice President Joseph Biden, served in 2008 as an economic adviser to the Obama campaign. At the same time, he was a member of JournoList, the controversial progressive email list.

Bernstein’s bio at Politico, which appears not to have been updated since 2008, states: “He is an economic adviser to the Obama campaign.”

He was known to many for his regular appearances on the financial channel CNBC. His primary employer in 2008 was the Economic Policy Institute, a pro-labor progressive think tank, but according to his bio when appointed to the Obama-Biden Administration, he also was a member of the Panel of Economic Advisers of the Congressional Budget Office.

Reached today at the Office of the Vice President, Bernstein revealed that his position with the Obama campaign was as something called a “surrogate.” “I was not paid by the campaign,” he explained. “They would call me from time to time to represent their positions, that side of the debate.”

Asked when he left JournoList, Bernstein replied, ‘‘I think I left the list around the time I came here.” Bernstein was announced as Chief Economist and Economic Policy Adviser to the Vice President-elect on December 8, 2008.

One question that has arisen in the last week is how closely JournoList members, not only discussed how to shape the news to advance the fortunes of Barack Obama, but coordinated with the Obama campaign. Jared Bernstein’s position as an unpaid adviser and surrogate shows that there was at least one direct link between JournoList and the Obama campaign.

I, for one, am shocked.

Graphic yanked from Gateway Pundit.

John Fund explains it all in the first 4 minutes. After that, discussion moves on to the super genius Financial Reform Bill recently signed by Captain Priorities. Good times, America!

WARNING: Satire ahead…

Iowahawk imagines a chat session on JournoList.

DAVE WEIGEL: some azzhole has been leaking transcripts from Journolist again and emailed to my editors

EZRA KLEIN: wtf???

DAVE WEIGEL: ya… ALL the stuff

DAVE WEIGEL: ezra u stupid fuck u said this chatroom was off the record

EZRA KLEIN: omg sorry idk what happened,,, i made everybody swear pinky oath

DAVE WEIGEL: a lot of good that does me now, they have all the shit i wrote about the teabaggers even the pictures i posted

MATTHEW YGLESIAS: how bad can it be??

DAVE WEIGEL: this bad

Of course, Iowahawk is demanding Andrew Breitbart’s very real reward of $100,000 for the JournoList archives.

I’m reminded of the words of Emilio Barzini, a fictional character from The Godfather, who said “Certainly he can present a bill for such services; after all… we are not Communists.”