It’s hip, supports Obama, and is used and trusted by millennials. The problem is that it makes its obscene profits selling ads. The documentary claims that it withholds good reviews from businesses that don’t advertise while giving the bad reviews high exposure.
Patrick Howley of Brietbart.com notes that BuzzFeed has been unremittingly hard on Donald Trump whose hotels compete with Marriott. We kind of think that might be stretching the point. How is BuzzFeed any different than Fox News in that regard?
Still Howley points out that BuzzFeed also pulled a piece criticizing the Monopoly board game, which is produced by BuzzFeed advertiser Hasbro, and also pulled an article that criticized ads for Dove soap, the subsidiary of a site advertiser.
The anti-corporate types sure seem to like corporate money.
Anyway, here is the trailer to Billion Dollar Bully:
So, who remembers James Foley? Foley was a journalist who went to dangerous places to cover important stories. His beheading by ISIS was uploaded to YouTube on Aug. 19 last year specifically so his family could see it. There was no Twitter outrage by the hipster celebrities or the “social justice” college crowd.
Why? Unlike Minnesota dentists, ISIS fights back. Hipsters and “social justice” warriors, while they certainly enjoy the emotional jolts self-righteous outrage provides them, are not known for their courage.
Oh, and did you see where the impoverished nation of Zimbabwe is going to put up a statue of Cecil?
There are times one just has to shake his head and wonder in what world those in the old media dinosaurs think they are living.
Today’s (July 17) front page of The Philadelphia Inquirer ” screamed Tenn. Gunman Kills 4 Marines” regarding yesterday’s terror attack at a Marine recruiting center in Chattanooga.
The headline on its website initially read “Gunman grew up in conservative family.” It has since been changed to “conservative Muslim family.”
Well the attacker with the nice traditional Southern name of Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez was born in Kuwait and brought here as an infant. He grew up in a devout Muslim home and espoused radical Muslim views on his website.
Pointedly avoiding consideration that Abulazeez theology was a motive for the murders is a laughable rejection of reality. That it is actually done is why it has become almost pointless to use the old media.
To call Abdulazeez “conservative” is perverse in today’s world. Why do that? Because he believes in some god and follows a religious tradition? Would they call a Unitarian performing a gay marriage “conservative”?
Does Abdulazeez believe in the sanctity of life? No. Does he respect our military? No. Does he respect the rule of law? No. Does he agree with the First Amendment regarding religious dissenters? Sorta doubt it.
Does he accept that we are “Endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” Obviously not.
Those who answer yes to these things are to whom the label “conservative” applies in these modern times.
That the Inquirer would label Abdulazeez such shows that they are driven by anger towards their political opponents to such a degree that they resort to lies in headlines.
They must not be taken seriously.
Or trusted.
Political correctness is poison to truth. It is something that must be fought.
The South Carolina State Capitol on Feb. 18, 2000.
The Delaware County Daily Times, today, July 11, included in the AP story regarding the removal of the Confederate flag from the South Carolina Capitol grounds the twistedly disingenuous and curious claim that the flag “had been defended by white Republican leaders until last month as a symbol of Southern pride.”
Of course, the article omitted any reference to the party that raised the flag nor did it bother to note the party to which Gov. Nikki Haley belonged.
So here is some history. The flag was raised in 1962 over the State Capitol in Columbia by Gov. Ernest Hollings, a liberal Democrat, to defend segregation and Jim Crow. Hollings would go on to become a U.S. senator and would serve in the Senate until 2005. He was a friend and supporter of Bill and Hillary Clinton and the progressive big government agenda.
In 1996, conservative Republican Gov. David Beasley made a strong push to remove the flag. He failed to win re-election in 1998 because of it. The die-hard sons of the Confederacy pointedly stayed home while the progressives and their tools in the Black establishment supported his opponent, Jim Hodges, who said he would keep the flag where it was.
Hodges, after much national pressure, agreed to remove the flag from the Capitol dome in 2000 to a monument on the State House grounds.
And there it flew until yesterday when it was removed for good in response to the June 17 Charlestown shootings. The removal was demanded by Gov. Haley, a Republican, and without outside pressure. It was overwhelmingly approved by the overwhelmingly Republican legislature.
The hate from and the lies told by the old media about those whose politics differ from the reporters, photographers, editors and newsreaders are poisoning this country.
The New York Times, June 29, ran a story regarding a controversy concerning the acceptance by the non-profit Milwaukee Art Museum of a portrait of Pope Benedict XVI made of condoms.
While the premeditated insult pretending to be art is not yet on display due to gallery renovations, Catholics are understandably upset.
The Times, of course, included an image of the offending artwork.
OK, fine. It’s a story and showing the image helps bring an understanding as to what the fuss is about.
The answer is obvious. Despite its long boast, the Times bases its editorial decisions entirely on fear and favor.
They are gutless hypocrites and a disgrace to journalism.
Oh yeah, and regarding the character of the “I think I’m smart” set, would the Milwaukee Art Museum accept a portrait of Mohammed ? Even if it wasn’t made of condoms?
With Philadelphia Press Association President Pat Delsi (left) is the winning staff of Delco News Network (clockwise) Dave Bjorkgren, Margie Royal, Peg DeGrassa, Betty Lou Roselle and Anne Neborak
The Philadelphia Press Association’s 70th Banquet was yesterday evening, June 14 at Anthony’s restaurant in Haddon Heights, N.J.
The food and company were superb.
The winners in the prestigious public service categories were Kristina Scala of the Daily Local News who now writes for the Delaware County Daily Times for her expose on the Coastesville Area School District and Donald Serfass of the Times News of Lehighton for an interesting piece of a Tamaqua connection to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln; the staff of the weekly Delco News Network; and Larry Kane of KYW Newsradio for his Breakfast with Candidates.
Anjalee Khemiani, who lives in the Washington D.C. area but won the Enterprise Reporting Category for her story for the Press of Atlantic City about the effect the casino closings had on immigrants, may have traveled the farthest to attend the event. Ms. Khemiani also won an honorable mention for Newspaper Writing Daily.
A note of sadness was that several awards were won by staffers at the Jewish Exponent including first places for Amishai Gottlieb for Jewish Basketball League in Sports Coverage Weekly and Lisa Hostein for Viewing Fathers Day in Column Writing Weekly. The staff was laid off soon after the awards were announced. We understand that the Press Association has their plaques and certificates. Contact pdsradio@aol.com for information.
Press Club President Pat Delsi, winner Anne Neborak of Delco News Network, and William Lawrence Sr.
Kudos to William Lawrence Sr, formerly of the Philadelphia Daily News, and Philadelphia Evening Bulletin and who was among the founders of the Press Newspapers of Delaware County, for his small speech regarding newspaper reporting in the 1950s. He described how the Press Association was salvaged from oblivion at that time.
Rush Limbaugh, last week, had a fascinating observation regarding the social pressure techniques mastered by the progressives that have many of us wondering why so often nonsensical ideas become policy and law at the expense of our freedom and lifestyles.
“There is on Twitter this thing called StopRush, and it’s people attacking me and this program much the way Indiana is being attacked today, and whatever conservative institution was attacked yesterday,” he said. ” . . .It’s 10 people. We researched it. We know who the people are. We know where they live. Virtually 85 percent of all the so-called outrage e-mails and tweets are generated by 10 people, made to look as though they are thousands and thousands and thousands. It’s all fake. It’s all phony.”
But it gets worse.
“Let’s say there’s a mom-and-pop operation that wants to advertise on our station in Illinois, Chicago, WLS, and that local sponsor’s commercial is heard, and the next thing that proprietor knows, he’s got thousands and thousands of tweets threatening him, telling him defamatory things about me, lies and things totally made up about things I’ve supposedly said on the radio,” Rush noted.. “And the guy gets scared. We found out that not only are only 10 people behind this, but in the vast, I mean vast majority of cases, 90 percent of the tweets are coming from out of state.”
The people who do these things are wannabee tyrants. They won’t be swayed by truth or reasoned debated because they accept neither truth or reason. They don’t value decency, and compassion as we do. They are bullies. When we learn to stand up to them we will be much happier, freer, richer and stronger.
Adams introduced his work saying he was motivated by an exhibition he saw in Paris concerning the legendary Islamic queen Scheherazade. If you don’t know the story, it concerns an Islamic Persian king who upon marrying a new wife would behead the old one. He had gone through a thousand women by the time he got to Scheherazade.
Scheherazade, of course, had a plan. Before her beheading, she asked to bid farewell to her sister. The king consented and during her farewell she told the sister a story which the king overheard. She stopped in the middle as dawn was breaking and the king asked her to continue. She said should couldn’t as it was time for her beheading. The king postponed the execution for a day so she could finish it for him. She did the next night but started another which again stopped in the middle before dawn. So the king again postponed things and this went on for 1,001 nights and become the inspiration for Bugs Bunny cartoons and Walt Disney movies.
Anyway by the time the stories were finished, the king had fallen in love with Scheherazade and she lived happily ever after with a serial killer.
Adams said that after seeing the exhibit he read One Thousand and One Arabian Nights and was appalled by “casual brutality toward women” it depicted. During this time, he also began reading of the treatment of women in various third-world Islamic-influenced places such as Egypt and Afghanistan.
So he explained this to his audience at his work’s premier, and then for some bizarre reason felt obliged to add regarding the oppression of women: “find it on Rush Limbaugh.”
This sanctimonious twit compared Rush Limbaugh to people who kill girls because they had been raped and women because they had affairs.
There is nothing wrong with disagreeing with Limbaugh. There is nothing wrong with calling Rush a blowhard. But bearing false witness is a big wrong and that’s what Adams did.
We seriously doubt that the has every listened to Limbaugh live and in any sort of context but is merely parroting the conventional wisdom of the his insular crowd.
What’s even sicker is the reaction of his crowd which gave a long round of applause to the slander.
In 2009, Limbaugh was part of a group that was attempting to buy the St. Louis Rams football team. The old media reported that he said on his radio show that James Earl Ray deserved a medal for the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. and that slavery was beneficial. The quotes were fabricated but still placed in his Wikipedia biography as fact. Those who know of the scrutiny Limbaugh faces for every word he utters — which one would reasonably think is everyone in professional journalism — would reject the quotes out of hand. Yet they were reported as true and hence ended his chance at becoming a team owner.
All decent people have a responsibility to defend those being slandered not just if but especially if they disagree with them. Further, all intelligent people should be suspicious of those who use slander to further a political cause.
What Adams and his crowd did was shameful.
For what it’s worth, Wiki, in the latest editing of Rush’s bio, does not even mention the Rams incident.
For those interested in a first-hand take, Rush can be heard in the Philadelphia area from noon to 3 p.m. on WPHT 1210 AM or on the web here.
A crowdfunded documentary depicting the consumer review site Yelp as a “billion dollar bully” is causing angst among the hipsters.
