Tinker:
People can really surprising me sometimes, just when I feel the total decline of our neighbors in our community and country, someone does a splendid acts of bravery, saving a grown up, or child, how can we figure that.
On one hand we the people seem hopelessly and lost within the TV circus. But then again we have the home of the proud and brave, selfless salt of the earth. Attitude does seem like everything, I just wish we could see more of the good?
People can really surprising me sometimes, just when I feel the total decline of our neighbors in our community and country, someone does a splendid acts of bravery, saving a grown up, or child, how can we figure that.
On one hand we the people seem hopelessly and lost within the TV circus. But then again we have the home of the proud and brave, selfless salt of the earth. Attitude does seem like everything, I just wish we could see more of the good?
Like this next column by Kirsten Powers a liberal column writer telling the simple truth about spying on the press by the White House as best the facts know it, a very professional column.
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How Hope and Change Gave Way to Spying on the Press
by Kirsten PowersMuch of the Fourth Estate shrugged when the Obama administration attacked Fox News, writes Kirsten Powers. But now it’s coming for them, too.
First
they came for Fox News, and they did not speak out—because they were
not Fox News. Then they came for government whistleblowers, and they did
not speak out—because they were not government whistleblowers. Then
they came for the maker of a YouTube video, and—okay, we know how this
story ends. But how did we get here?
Turns
out it’s a fairly swift sojourn from a president pushing to
“delegitimize” a news organization to threatening criminal prosecution
for journalistic activity by a Fox News reporter, James Rosen, to spying
on Associated Press reporters. In between, the Obama administration
found time to relentlessly persecute
government whistleblowers and publicly harass and condemn a private
American citizen for expressing his constitutionally protected speech in
the form of an anti-Islam YouTube video.
Where were the media when all this began happening? With a few exceptions, they were acting as quiet enablers.
It’s
instructive to go back to the dawn of Hope and Change. It was 2009, and
the new administration decided it was appropriate to use the prestige
of the White House to viciously attack a news organization—Fox News—and
the journalists who work there. Remember, President Obama had barely
been in office and had enjoyed the most laudatory press of any new
president in modern history. Yet even one outlet that allowed dissent or
criticism of the president was one too many.
This should have been a red flag to everyone, regardless of what they
thought of Fox News. The math was simple: if the administration would
abuse its power to try and intimidate one media outlet, what made anyone
think they weren’t next?
President Obama went after Fox News in this 2009 interview with CNBC.
These series of “warnings” to the Fourth Estate were what you might expect to hear from some third-rate dictator, not from the senior staff of Hope and Change, Inc.
"What
I think is fair to say about Fox … is that it really is more a wing of
the Republican Party," said Anita Dunn, White House communications
director, on CNN. “[L]et's not pretend they're a news network the way
CNN is." On ABC’s “This Week” White House senior adviser David
Axelrod said Fox is "not really a news station." It wasn’t just that Fox
News was “not a news organization,” White House chief of staff Rahm
Emmanuel told CNN’s John King, but, “more [important], is [to] not have
the CNNs and the others in the world basically be led in following Fox,
as if what they’re trying to do is a legitimate news organization …”
These
series of “warnings” to the Fourth Estate were what you might expect to
hear from some third-rate dictator, not from the senior staff of Hope
and Change, Inc.
Yet
only one mainstream media reporter—Jake Tapper, then of ABC News—ever
raised a serious objection to the White House’s egregious and chilling
behavior. Tapper asked future MSNBC commentator and then White House
press secretary Robert Gibbs: “[W]hy is [it] appropriate for the White
House to say” that “thousands of individuals who work for a media
organization, do not work for a ‘news organization’?” The spokesman for
the president of the United States was unrepentant, saying: “That's our
opinion.”
Trashing
reporters comes easy in Obama-land. Behind the scenes, Obama-centric
Democratic operatives brand any reporter who questions the
administration as a closet conservative, because what other explanation
could there be for a reporter critically reporting on the government?
Now,
the Democratic advocacy group Media Matters—which is always
mysteriously in sync with the administration despite ostensibly
operating independently—has launched a smear campaign against ABC News
reporter Jonathan Karl for his reporting on Benghazi. It’s the kind of
character assassination that would make Joseph McCarthy blush. The main
page of the Media Matters website has six stories attacking Karl for a
single mistake in an otherwise correct report about the State
Department's myriad changes to talking points they previously claimed to
have barely touched. See, the problem isn’t the repeated obfuscating
from the administration about the Benghazi attack; the problem is
Jonathan Karl. Hence, the now-familiar campaign of de-legitimization.
This gross media intimidation is courtesy of tax-deductable donations
from the Democratic Party’s liberal donor base, which provides a
whopping $20 million a year for Media Matters to harass reporters who
won’t fall in line.
In
what is surely just a huge coincidence, the liberal media monitoring
organization Fairness and Accuracy in the Media (FAIR) is also on a quest to delegitimize Karl.
It dug through his past and discovered that in college he
allegedly—horrors!—associated with conservatives. Because of this, FAIR
declared Karl “a right wing mole at ABC News.” Setting aside the
veracity of FAIR’s crazy claim, isn’t the fact that it was made in the
first place vindication for those who assert a liberal media bias in the
mainstream media? If the existence of a person who allegedly associates
with conservatives is a “mole,” then what does that tell us about the
rest of the media?
What
all of us in the media need to remember—whatever our politics—is that
we need to hold government actions to the same standard, whether they’re
aimed at friends or foes. If not, there’s no one but ourselves to blame
when the administration takes aim at us.
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Kirsten Powers is a columnist for The Daily Beast. She is also a contributor to USA Today and a Fox News political analyst. She served in the Clinton administration from 1993 to 1998 and has worked in New York state and city politics. Her writing has been published in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, New York Post, The New York Observer, Salon.com, Elle magazine, and American Prospect online.
For inquiries, please contact The Daily Beast at editorial@thedailybeast.com.
Kirsten Powers is a columnist for The Daily Beast. She is also a contributor to USA Today and a Fox News political analyst. She served in the Clinton administration from 1993 to 1998 and has worked in New York state and city politics. Her writing has been published in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, New York Post, The New York Observer, Salon.com, Elle magazine, and American Prospect online.
For inquiries, please contact The Daily Beast at editorial@thedailybeast.com.
Tinker:
People like this next women however could cause another war between the states...
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'Tornado clearly targets conservatives': Daily Show creator faces backlash over insensitive tweet
PUBLISHED:
00:47 EST, 21 May 2013
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UPDATED:
11:17 EST, 21 May 2013
She thought she was making a topical political joke, but a co-creator of ‘The Daily Show’ managed to enrage many of her followers after tweeting joke about the Oklahoma tornado’s political motivations.
‘This tornado is in Oklahoma so clearly it has been ordered to only target conservatives,’ wrote comedian Lizz Winstead, in a tweet, around 3:30 Monday afternoon.
The tweet was an apparent attempt at using the occasion of the May 20 twister to comment on the scandal currently plaguing the IRS and Obama administration.
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