Category: Journalism

Today’s Propaganda From The Democrat Inquirer

The Philadelphia Inquirer, owned by Democrats and wholly out of the closet, has made themselves today’s (Sept. 16) front page lead story with a report of their own poll claiming that “Obama lead widens after convention”.

It also took up a couple of pages inside.
The Inquirer Pennsylvania Poll surveyed 600 likely voters Sept. 9-12 and found that Obama now led Romney 50 percent to 39 percent as opposed to 51 percent to 42 percent in a similar survey in August before the conventions. The story did not provide much in the way of the poll’s internals such as party membership of those surveyed. Regardless, if one’s incumbent candidate drops after the convention one should not take comfort in the fact even if the opponent drops more.
Our own view here is that if Romney-Ryan successfully respond to Bill Clinton’s data dump Medicare scare — and we expect them too — Pennsylvania with most of the rest of the states will vote to fire the incompocumbent.
Meanwhile, the real story of the day — the turmoil in the Middle East — was below the fold in the Inquirer and was without much in the way of information. It was nauseatingly Obama-centric, though, even with headline “Mideast crisis tests Obama’s stewardship”.
How about you just tell us what’s going on over there? OK, stupid question. The details won’t make Obama’s “stewardship” look real good.
For those who may be missing it here’s a report from the U.K. as provided by Cathy Craddock.
Today’s Propaganda From The Democrat Inquirer

Thoughts Regarding Today’s Inquirer

As one of the few remaining who still even occasionally glances at the once mighty Philadelphia Inquirer, here are some observations about today’s, July 25, publication.

— The Democrats who own the paper are really, really, really, really afraid of voter-photo ID
— Disgraced ex-Penn State President Graham Spanier boasts about his  top secret security clearance in connection with his work with the federal government while  Msgr. William J. Lynn is going to serve three to six years in prison.

Biz Journal Takes Top Web Honors From PPA

The Philadelphia Press Association bestowed the 2011 best website honor on the Philadelphia Business Journal at its awards banquet, last night, June 29 at the Bala Golf Club.

BillLawrenceOnline.Com took second place followed by CBS Philly.
BillLawrenceOnline won for best news writing for “Springfield Committee Shows Burdens of Budgeting A Public School” and for best editorial for “Would SB1 Have Helped Nadin Khoury?“
The Grand Award for Public Service went to Jennifer Carboni and Eric Smith of Chester County’s Daily Local News for “Battling Bullying: School of Intimidation.”
Delaware County’s media had a very good night. Phil Heron of the Daily Times swept the editorial comment daily division category with “Silence From Sunoco Executives Is Deafening,” “Paterno, Spanier Should Step Down,” and “Violence Puts Chester at Crossroads” coming in one, two, three.
Regarding the winning editorial, he said his paper will continue to look out for the workers at the shuttered Marcus Hook refinery.
Phil also swept the headline writing daily awards and won the column writing daily category.
Daily Times photographer Eric Hartline took first and second in sports photography daily and first in feature photography daily.
Peg DeGrassa of Town Talk won editorial comment weekly for “Thanksgiving 2011: Offering Sincere Gratitude for the Bushels of Apples” She also took third place in the public service weekly division for “Delco Deals” and was part of the Delco News Network team which also included Anne Neborak, Rich Crowe and Marguerite DeGrass that took second place in that category for “Greetings To Our Troops”. The category was won by South Philly Review for “Unlitter Us Inititive”.
Pat Delsi did his normal excellent job as master of ceremonies.
A complete list of winners can be found here.

Dinosaurs And The ’60s

Reader TomC submitted a link to a  Philadelphia Inquirer review puffing the latest acting gig of Jane Fonda, a person about whom many still have bitter memories of her support for the cruel, freedom-hating North Vietnamese communists in the middle of our war with them.

From what I can see, though, the discussion leaves the young with simply two questions:
–Who is Jane Fonda?
–What is the Philadelphia Inquirer?
Dinosaurs And The ’60s

Rush Move To FM Reported

Rush Limbaugh is moving back to FM in Philly where he lived through most of the ’90s  if reports are accurate. 

It has been confirmed that Premiere Media, which syndicates Rush, will be pulling him off WPHT at 1210AM, which carried him since 1999 when he left WWDB on 96.5 FM, which is now the hip-hop station WRDW.
The reports say that Rush will be moving to 106.9 FM, which had been the local Family Radio station, a network that has fallen on hard times since its owner predicted that the world would end last May 21, and has since been acquired by Merlin Media.
A move to FM means no more annoying static from cell towers while motoring and no more pre-emption from Phillies games.
Michael Smerconish is slated to replace Rush on WPHT, which is a bit of demotion as he will no longer be the station’s evening drive-time guy. 
The reports say that 106.9 will also be carrying former WPHT stars Glen Beck and Sean Hannity.
It sounds like the end of WPHT as we know it.
I think Rush feels fine.

End Of The Inquirer

The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News purchased for $562 million in 2006 was announced sold yesterday, April 2, to the Democrat boss of New Jersey for $55 million.

So, in another six years will the sale price be $5.3 million?

Frankly, one doubts it. One expects it to be killed shortly after Nov. 6 as the only the rationale for that outlay of money is as a sneaky campaign contribution to Barack Obama and the local Democrat parties.
And one doubts that even the Philadelphia and New Jersey unions have that much dough to throw down that rat hole for much time beyond the election.
The new owners, headed by George Norcross — who has been described as the most powerful Democrat in New Jersey — are solely trying to influence the senior citizens who still get the paper to do the crossword puzzle and the sudoku.
They are not going to try to expand its readership by even pretending to be fair. Today’s web headlines, for instance, include “89,000 poor Pa. kids slashed from Medicaid” and “Secret reports on priests’ perversions”.
The only thing more blatant would be to hire the now out-of-work Keith Olbermann.
In the words of Dr. McCoy, “he’s dead, Jim.”
And Norcross is going to find that he has wasted his money even if his intent is to use the broadsheet as a suicide fire ship. Parody makes for bad propaganda.
The paper was purchased for $130 million in 2010 by a hedge fund which scavenged what it could and has now dumped the hulk.
End Of The Inquirer
End Of The Inquirer

Olbermann Out Again

Keith Olbermann, the one-time MSNBC answer to Rush Limbaugh, has been dismissed from his anchor post at Current TV, the progressive, unwatched media company founded by Al Gore, according to the New York Times.

He held the post for less than a year. What next? A news broadcast from his basement on the local cable community channel? Random postings on YouTube?
Meanwhile, the Sandra Fluke controversy has sent Rush Limbaugh’s ratings through the roof.
Olbermann Out Again

New York Times Finally Agrees Rush Is Right

New York Times Finally Agrees Rush Is Right — Sunday’s, March 18, The New York Times Magazine carried the article “Why Some Countries Go Bust” by Adam Davidson which concluded that societies only become rich when the residents get strong property rights.

 
It was almost as though Davidson was channelling Rush Limbaugh’s The True Story of Thanksgiving that Limbaugh tells annually.
 
Maybe there is hope.
 
 
 
New York Times Finally Agrees Rush Is Right
New York Times Finally Agrees Rush Is Right

Bristol Wants To Know When O Will Call Her

Bristol Wants To Know — Bristol Palin is asking when Obama is going to call her out of solidarity and support as he did Sandra Fluke.

 
She wrote on her blog:
 


Dear President Obama,

 
You don’t know my telephone number, but I hope your staff is busy trying to find it. Ever since you called Sandra Fluke after Rush Limbaugh called her a slut, I figured I might be next.  You explained to reporters you called her because you were thinking of your two daughters, Malia and Sasha.  After all, you didn’t want them to think it was okay for men to treat them that way:
 
“One of the things I want them to do as they get older is engage in issues they care about, even ones I may not agree with them on,” you said.  “I want them to be able to speak their mind in a civil and thoughtful way. And I don’t want them attacked or called horrible names because they’re being good citizens.”
 
And I totally agree your kids should be able to speak their minds and engage the culture.  I look forward to seeing what good things Malia and Sasha end up doing with their lives.
 
But here’s why I’m a little surprised my phone hasn’t rung.  Your $1,000,000 donor Bill Maher has said reprehensible things about my family.  He’s made fun of my brother because of his Down’s Syndrome. He’s said I was “f—-d so hard a baby fell out.”  (In a classy move, he did this while his producers put up the cover of my book, which tells about the forgiveness and redemption I’ve found in God after my past – very public — mistakes.)
 
If Maher talked about Malia and Sasha that way, you’d return his dirty money and the Secret Service would probably have to restrain you.
 
She has some other things to say and they can be found here.
 
 
Bristol Wants To Know When O Will Call Her
Bristol Wants To Know -- Bristol Palin is asking when Obama is going to call her out of solidarity and support as he did Sandra Fluke.

Rush Limbaugh, Sandra Fluke And True Misogyny

Rush Limbaugh, Sandra Fluke And True Misogyny — Sandra Fluke is a 30-year-old activist who testified before Congress that the Catholic Church should be made to pay for the birth control of the women of Georgetown — which believe it or not is a Catholic school. She said this commodity costs the poor women of Georgetown $1,000 a year.

 
Talk show host Rush Limbaugh has been innocently wondering what kind of a woman would need $1,000 a year for birth control.
 
This has outraged — the word should probably be all caps but for aesthetic reasons I’ll leave it lower case — the usual suspects who have demanded in their tolerant open-minded fashion that Limbaugh be silenced forever.
 
Now ladies, before you start throwing around words like “misogyny” think real hard about this: 
 
Larry Flynt and Al Goldstein are pornographers who have influenced our society far greater than most can imagine. Their publications have featured the vilest and most degrading images of the female sex. They have horribly abused the women in their personal lives, which in Flynt’s case includes his daughter.
 
Whose side would they take in this debate? Limbaugh’s or Ms. Fluke’s?
 
Whose side would Bill “Better Put Some Ice On That” Clinton take? 
 
Do you really want to be on the same side with this type of men?
Rush Limbaugh, Sandra Fluke And True Misogyny