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The most important phrase in Robert Stacy McCain’s piece for the American Spectator…

Posted: September 23, 2009 by datechguy in internet/free speech, opinion/news
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…is this:

“Beck seems to be a roiling mix of fear, resentment, and anger — the antithesis of Ronald Reagan.”

That Reagan was himself smeared by the journalistic predecessors of Von Drehle is evidently beyond Wehner’s scope of knowledge. If Americans had gotten their opinions of Reagan from liberal writers, the Gipper never would have been president and the victims of Soviet tyranny would still fill the gulags.

If YouTube existed in 1982 you would be able to see clip after clip of democrats who now hold power in the house and senate and media people who are among the most respected in their profession going on and on about nuclear freezes, the folly of deploying missiles in Europe and the danger Ronald Reagan posed to world peace.

The difference between Ronald Reagan and Ted Kennedy is that the Media revealed Kennedy and reverently covered his death to the indifference of the people of the United States. When Ronald Reagan died the media grudgingly gave coverage to his death and burial as a nation mourned to the media’s confusion.

Watching the media today you would never know they ever opposed Reagan or Reaganism. Sorta like this.

Remember If everyone who claimed to be in the French resistance in World War II really had been, there would have been nobody left to collaborate.

Beck isn’t really my cup of tea but he gets results, if we let the media pick our team we are going to lose. Politically they are on the other side and we should never forget it.

I can see the LGF headline now…

Posted: September 17, 2009 by datechguy in fun, opinion/news
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…Glenn Reynolds links false conspiracy theory suggesting 500k plus people at 9/12 march:

What can we take away from this exercise? Here are the main points:

* The estimate widely used in the legacy media is not from an authoritative source, and it isn’t even consistent with itself: “full back to 3rd Street” is around 250,000 by Park Sevice methods, not a quarter of that.
* Many estimates, using different assumptions and different methods, arrived at numbers well into the hundreds of thousands.
* This is clearly consistent with the panoramic photo that we can source reliably.
* With everything above, and with several more estimates, I don’t think there is a plausible argument for any total attendance figure much less that 500,000 to 600,000. That is, nearly ten times the reported attendance.

How much does this matter? It’s hard to say. It might be that a precise number isn’t needed, and at any rate it may not be possible to get a good one. What we can say is that the number being reported is wildly wrong. Wildly too small.In any case, the number that will really matter is the count at the polls in 2010 and 2012. Given this, I’d say that any politicians who hope to retain their jobs better look very carefully at that panoramic photo — and remember.

Sounds like a Glenn Beck fan to me, if only he based his posts on more credible sources, such as Press releases from Color of Change or Acorn.

Update fixed the block quote and added the fun catagory, I’m going to be laughing a lot today.

Update 2: I have it! He’s a 9/12 crowd truther!

Morning Joe (morning shows) what will they cover?

Posted: September 16, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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I didn’t hit the sack till way after 1 and couldn’t fall asleep right away but I HAD to know what people was saying.

Fox is covering Acorn of course…

CNN is opening with the awful murder in Connecticut. Very legitimate story and important to cover and heading straight to Carter.

Morning Joe is leading with Carter but unlike MSNBC in general they are not liking what they hear. Mika is calling Carter not only wrong but irresponsible. Barnicle is saying race is playing a part but Carter is overstating it and Joe is with Mika and says that the hatred Obama is seeing pales before what he saw in the 94 campaign concerning Clinton.

The top 6 stories don’t include the Acorn news.

Morning Joe is calling the attacks on Wilson racism and mentions bigotry against the South. R.S. McCain would agree and so would I.

Update:

6:21 Politico is covering the media coverage on Acorn and Van Jones and is on the air over it. Nothing on the new tapes yet, they are making the story the MSM story more their story rather than what Acorn is doing. The MSM angle is a legit one but the most interesting point is the statement that if we don’t cover the stories they will lose viewers.

They admit that if the Christian Colition was covering this story it would have been front page. Scarborough is hitting them on ideology saying it was because it was a Fox story. Mike Allen is saying there is just too many other stories to cover too.

But news executives argue that they have limited staff and resources, and there is a lot more to cover on a daily basis than a handful of controversies stirred up primarily on the right.

“For Glenn Beck to devote 45 minutes of his show to ACORN and Van Jones says more about his news judgment than mine,” said Dean Baquet, Washington bureau chief of the New York Times.

“He’s not a newsman and that’s not a news show,” Baquet continued. “He’s not trying to cover the economy, two wars, health care, the aftermath from one administration to another, negotiations with Iran or North Korea.”

What was that line from the Godfather? Your foes grow strong on what you leave behind.

Update: 7:44 a.m. They are directly covering the Acorn story with Lisa Myers doing a full NBC story. This should be good.

Sen. Shelby is on now and pointing out the taxpayer dollars that they are getting. The Irony that a senator from Alabama is on directly after Dyson is huge.

Barnicle: How many other groups out there are also getting money and not being checked on.

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