Category: Journalism

US Economy Shrinking

US Economy Shrinking

US economy shrinking. Note the mysterious “W” that appears on Obama’s head whenever he takes heat.

The revised assessment of this year’s first quarter by the Bureau of Economic Analysis reveals that our Gross Domestic Product shrank 1 percent. It was initially thought to have grown .01 percent.

Those of us in the real world are not surprised. Those getting government paychecks simply don’t care.

If a Republican was in the White House this event would be the lead story on all network news broadcast — which remain the major source of information for senior citizens — and blared in headlines and editorials in the few major daily newspapers left.

The Democrat Party will die only when the American public realize that they are being lied to and reject the garbage that they are being fed.

In a related matter, the White House revealed the name of the CIA station chief in Afghanistan last Sunday, May 25.

They did it in a press release.

It endangers his life and the lives of others, and greatly damaged our intelligence operation.

The incompetence, callowness, irresponsibility and general stupidity of the deed is something most of us can’t get our minds around.

Again, if a Republican administration did this, this would still be being blared in headlines and discussed on the broadcasts especially with regard to yesterday’s (May 30) resignation of Obama Press Secretary Jay Carney, whose office was responsible for the blunder.

Hat tip Brietbart News.

Lazy Infantile New York Times

NYTBuildingLazy Infantile New York Times. Why should anybody treat the old media with respect?

 

The New York Times had for many years held a position of respect if not reverence among America’s ruling class.

With the advent of the World Wide Web things have gotten a bit more transparent and the idol is starting to crumble disconcerting the self-proclaimed smart set that have long worshiped it.

Not that the paper ever deserved the honor that had been bestowed upon it.

It fell hard for the Piltdown Man hoax .

It covered up shamelessly for the progressive mass murderer Joseph Stalin.

But still it sailed on, its favor coveted by those who lusted for power.

Well, now we are finding out more about who runs the place, namely that they are greedy, petty, extremely childish and rather stupid.

Taiwanese satirists TomoNews has done a brutal recreation (see below) of the May 14 firing of first female editor Jill Abramson, who accused the powers-that-be at the company of sexism because her salary of $525,000 was $34,000 less than the guy she replaced.

The company bosses in response said she was a crap administrator who caused disruption and was unable to stop the circulation decline or increase the paper’s web presence.

We think they are both right.

The stuffed moose in the video, by the way, was something Publisher Pinch Sulzberger brought to board meetings as some kind of pop-psychology-based motivation tool.

Regarding the once-vaunted editorial page, even the liberal reporters at the paper say it has become boring, innaccurate and inane. The New York Observer has a rather long expose about it.

It quotes one former Times writer as saying  “(Columnist Thomas) Friedman is the worst. He hasn’t had an original thought in 20 years; he’s an embarrassment. He’s perceived as an idiot who has been wrong about every major issue for 20 years” and that Maureen Dowd “who has been writing the same column since George H. W. Bush was president.”

That’s a liberal that’s being quoted by the way.

 

 

 

Washington Fighting Honkies

Washington Fighting Honkies and Rush Limbaugh
A possible symbol for the Washington Fighting Honkies

The pompous, self-righteous types among the sports media are still on their crusade to change the name of the Washington Redskins to something else.

Hey gang, did you ever think that there might be other issues of far more immediate import to the defense of human dignity?

That’s not conceding  that the name of Washington’s NFL franchise is somehow an offense to human dignity.

It is rather frequent that a word or symbol designed as an insult becomes a point of pride. Yankee as in New York Yankees started as insult. Rebel as in UNLV Running Rebels was meant to give offense.

In politics, whigs was originally a derogatory term for the derided English cattle-driver. It became the name of a major political party here and in Britain. Their British opponents — the Tories — trace their name to the Irish word for thief.

Any of you Horace Greeleys  ever ponder why most Christian churches have a cross on the steeple?

So to help keep the peace and to illustrate the hypocrisy and ultimate intolerance practiced by the pseudo-tolerant who rule the old media, we are going to again suggest a name change for Washington — this time The Fighting Honkies.

I want to see RGIII stand in the television lights after leading his team to an heroic come-from-behind win and say “I am proud to be a Fighting Honky”

I want to see the many Washington fans in the District declare themselves to be Fighting Honky Nation. I want to see them wear the burgundy and gold colors of The Fighting Honkies, and wave giant foam fingers saying Fighting Honkies #1 and t-shirts saying Fighting Honkies Rule.

That would actually be a rather great day for race relations.

 

Social Justice Beautiful Scam

Social Justice Beautiful Scam Paul Krugman

Paul Krugman will get $25G per month to promote “social justice” and ponder income inequality.

Paul Krugman, the economist who writes about “social justice” for The New York Times, has been hired by the tax-funded  City University of New York (CUNY) to “contribute to the build-up” of a new “inequality initiative” at the school’s Luxembourg Income Study Center.

“You will not be expected to teach or supervise students,”CUNY said.

The Luxembourg Center is devoted to studying income patterns and their effect on inequality.

Krugman will be paid $25,000 per month. Promoting “social justice” is a great gig if you can get it.

In a completely related matter concerning “social justice” hypocrites, Media Matters for America is fighting an effort by the Service Employees International Union Local 500 to unionize its staff.

Media Matters is a progressive group dedicated to the cause of “social justice” that describes itself as “dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media”

Social Justice Beautiful Scam

 

Inky Suffers Alien Abduction?

Inky Suffers Alien Abduction? — What we want to know is who took the editorial staff of The Philadelphia Inquirer and what have they done with them.

Today’s edition — and Sunday is the declining daily’s biggest circulation day — featured a double deck extra-large-type, front-page headline declaring how rising uber-lib Democrat star Attorney General Kathleen Kane shut down an corruption investigation started by embattled Republican Gov. Tom Corbett.

Ms. Kane is treated rather harshly in the story, and apparently appropriately so.

Even more amazingly the story contains this paragraph:

Sources
with knowledge of the sting said the investigation made financial
pitches to both Republicans and Democrats, but only Democrats accepted
the payments.
Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20140316_Kane_shut_down_sting_that_snared_Phila__officials.html#mBYgQ7VtvLJQgyRa.99
Sources
with knowledge of the sting said the investigation made financial
pitches to both Republicans and Democrats, but only Democrats accepted
the payments.
Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20140316_Kane_shut_down_sting_that_snared_Phila__officials.html#mBYgQ7VtvLJQgyRa.9

Sources with knowledge of the sting said the investigation made financial pitches to both Republicans and Democrats, but only Democrats accepted the payments.

So, has the Inky suffered an alien abduction?

If the Inquirer and their fellows did this kind of work in 2008 and 2012 we might not have had the mind-numbing incompetent we have in the White House.

The peoples of Iran and Syria might free and not living in fear. Venezuelans might have gotten their civil rights back. The Ukraine might not be worrying about an invasion.

And Americans with serious preexisting conditions might not have lost their health care.

 

Inky Suffers Alien Abduction?

Venezuela Progressive Tragedy

Today’s (Feb. 17) Philadelphia Inquirer carried on its front page a story about someone making a U.S. skier cry, Jimmy Fallon and John Kerry warning about “climate change.”

Not a peep about the oppression and tragedy going on in Venezuela.

The video below explains what is going on.

Hat tip John Sexton at Breitbart.com

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SeeBS Edits Cruz Obama Criticism

SeeBS Edits Cruz Obama CriticismSen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) Sunday’s appearance on Face the Nation was dramatically edited to remove pointed criticism of President Obama reports Jeffrey Meyer of Newsbusters.org.

Here’s the transcript of what aired:

BOB SCHIEFFER: Will you run for president?

SEN. TED CRUZ: Well, look, my focus is on the challenges facing this country right now (UNINTEL) senate.  My focus, for example, is on the abuse of power from the president.  Let’s take something like the IRS scandal–

BOB SCHIEFFER: So, I’ll take that as a yes or a no.

SEN. TED CRUZ: Eight months ago–

BOB SCHIEFFER: Or still thinking about it.

SEN. TED CRUZ: Well, what you can take that as, is that my focus is standing and fighting right now in the senate to bring back jobs and economic growth.  Economic growth is my number one priority…

BOB SCHIEFFER: Thank you, so much, for joining us and we’ll talk to you again.
And here is what was actually said with the words omitted in boldface:

SCHIEFFER: “Will you run for President?”
CRUZ: “My focus is on the abuse of power of this President. Let’s take something like the IRS scandal-“
SCHIEFFER: “Do I take that as a yes or a no?”
CRUZ: “What you can take is that my focus is standing and fighting
right now in the Senate to bring back jobs and economic growth. Let me tell you something that is deeply concerning—the abuse of power from this Administration. We’ve seen multiple filmmakers prosecuted and the government’s gone after them. Whether it’s the poor fellow that did the film that the President blamed Benghazi and the terrorist attacks on, turns out that wasn’t the reason for the attack but the Administration went and put that poor fellow in jail on unrelated charges. Just this week it was broken that Dinesh D’Souza, who did a very big movie criticizing the president, is now being prosecuted by this Administration.”

SCHIEFFER: “Senator-“

CRUZ: “Can you image the reaction if the Bush Administration had went, gone and prosecuted Michael Moore and Alec Baldwin and Sean Penn?”

SCHIEFFER: Senator–

CRUZ: It should trouble everyone the government uses government power and the IRS in particular to target their enemies and you are talking a new minutes to Chuck Schumer—“


SCHIEFFER: “We are going to leave this for another day, senator. Thank you for joining us and we’ll talk to you again.”

Kind of makes you wonder what else they have left out in the show’s 59 year history.

 SeeBS Edits Cruz Obama Criticism

Media Incest Illustrated

A remarkable column by Richard Fernandez at PJMedia.com compares  the establishment American media to an establishment Reformation-era church, noting that both were mere tools of state interest and protectors of the ruling class.

The relationship is perfectly illustrated in the below jpg.

Media Incest Illustrated

 

It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so
express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so
far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe
his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared
himself for the commission of every other crime.
Thomas Paine

 

Hypocrisy
in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating
man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted
by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised..
Leo Tolstoy

 

When
you see a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may
depend on it, that he keeps a very small stock of it within.
C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon

Media Incest Illustrated

 

Inky Mystery Bid

The New York Post is reporting on the mystery behind the money that is sponsoring a bid by the Newspaper Guild to buy The Philadelphia Inquirer, the Philadelphia Daily News and the Philly.com website and end the battle between the principles of its current owner, Interstate Media General.

The battling factions are led by one-percenter Democrat big wheel and New Jersey insurance executive George Norcross III, and one-percenter Democrat donor Lewis Katz, the former owner of the New Jersey Nets.

Norcross has acquired 58 percent of Interstate Media General.

The Inquirer and Daily News were purchased by Philadelphia Media Holdings headed by Brian Tierney for $515 million in 2006.

In September  2010, they were sold at a bankruptcy auction to  Philadelphia Media Network for $139 million. This group of socially correct businesspersons sold the Inquirer Building on North Broad Street to developer Bart Blatsein of Tower Investments in 2011 and then the husk of the company on April 2 to Interstate Media for $55 million.

The Inquirer circulation as of May 2013 was 184,827 on the print side, and this includes the Daily News, which once upon a time had a circulation by itself of the much.

In Philadelphia, nearly nobody reads this garbage.

So, where exactly did the Guild find a sucker?

Hat tip Bob Guzzardi

Inky Mystery Bid

April Magera, John Roman Press Club Speakers

Reality television personality April Margera and veteran journalist John Roman will speak at   The Press Club Serving The
Philadelphia Suburbs,  noon, today, Jan. 15, at Margaret Kuo’s in
Wayne.

Mrs. Margera is a reality television personality, best known for her appearances on MTV’s Viva La Bam, Jackass, the CKY videos, Minghags: The Movie and Bam’s Unholy Union. Referred to as “Ape” by fans of the popular series, April is the mother of Bam and CKY drummer Jess, and is married to Phil Margera.

Jeff Tremaine, producer of Jackass, once referred to her as “everyone’s mom,” telling how she cooked dinner for the entire Jackass crew on their first trip to West Chester. Margera published a cookbook called April Cooks: There’s An Alligator In My Kitchen, with the title being a reference to the time that Bam put an alligator in her kitchen as part of a skit on “Jackass: The Movie.”

In 2011, Mrs. Margera opened a store, The Rose Hip Barn, in Thornton that sells refurbished furniture as well as homemade purses and accessories for the home.

John Roman is a veteran crime reporter, award winning journalist and author of the mystery thriller “Ink in His Blood.”

Roman first pounded the city streets for the former Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, then the largest evening daily newspaper in America. He covered many of Philadelphia’s top news events.

After the Bulletin closed, Roman went on to a legendary career with the Delaware County Daily and Sunday Times, covering numerous murders and crimes, including the standoff of eccentric millionaire John DuPont at his sprawling estate after he gunned down an Olympic wrestler. A veteran and highly regarded police reporter, Roman was among the first to focus on the use of DNA forensic evidence in criminal investigations. He covered the brutal rape-murder case in Delaware County in which Nick Yarris wrongfully spent 21 years on death row before being exonerated through DNA testing after he was the first death row inmate in the U.S. to request DNA testing to prove his innocence.

April Magera, John Roman Press Club Speakers
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