FYI: how news was, and is, and will be

[classicman]

HE LIED and apparently he did so intentionally. That is not OK.

[Shawnee123]

Sure ain't! Lying is bad.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by classicman

HE LIED and apparently he did so intentionally. That is not OK.

No, he prematurely posted what he was sent, wrongly; and the very next day he posted the rest of the video which rightly vindicated her.

As for Fox, they never even posted the video until AFTER the Obama scumbags who jumped to the conclusion that there was an issue fired her!

This only points out the failure of this administration to do their homework before they through her under the bus...

And it points out how the NAACP uses race baiting to try to prolong the issue of race differences rather that try to truly achieve equality and deal with the issue of race. They were no different than the blogger by focusing on a minority issue to exploit the difference and demonize the group they detest by using the race card. The NAACP is no different.

[TheMercenary]

GEVERYL ROBINSON Nails it again:

Robinson: NAACP shouldn't drink tea

Can someone please explain to me why the NAACP is taking on racism within the Tea Party movement when, according to reports from the Labor Department, the unemployment rate for black youth stands at 50.4 percent?

In addition, the national unemployment rate for blacks is a whopping 17.2 percent and the rates in five states exceed 20 percent, which is a 25-year high, yet the NAACP wishes to focus its attention on Tea Party billboards and the like.

The NAACP is supposed to be an organization whose mission is the advancement of "colored" people. However, recently it seems the only thing the NAACP is advancing is its time on the airwaves.

Do I think the Tea Party leaders need to publicly disavow the racist comments, signs and billboards that appear at some of their rallies? YES! However, I don't believe this is a cause that needs to be championed by the NAACP because there are more important issues at hand.

For example: According to Bureau of Labor Statistics data, "fewer than 14 in 100 young black men actually have jobs." If the NAACP is truly devoted to the advancement of colored people, then why aren't they holding press conferences about the skyrocketing unemployment rates within the black community?

Why are there no forums or "Get Black to Work" campaigns being organized?

Any public denouncement of racism in the Tea Party movement by Tea Party leaders will more than likely be for public relations reasons and nothing more.

If the leaders were truly disturbed, concerned or disagreed with the antics of those within their ranks who have racist attitudes, they would speak out against such actions without the prompting of others.

As someone who has attended more than one Tea Party rally (I was curious, and although curiosity killed the cat, satisfaction brought it back), I can honestly say that there were a few wackos at one of the rallies I attended. But the other rallies were civil. The people I met did not seem to be racists, just mad at the government (and not Obama in particular).

I wanted to go to a few Tea Party rallies to get my own opinion about the organization. I didn't want to base my views on what I saw and heard in the media.

However, the billboard in Iowa sponsored by the North Iowa Tea Party comparing President Obama to Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Lenin was despicable.

I understand that the overall message was to point out the socialist views shared by the three. But whoever thought putting a billboard of the president sandwiched between Lenin and Hitler was a good idea needs to have his or her head examined. The message was definitely lost in the visuals. The advertisement was disrespectful and racist as well.

Having said that, the NAACP needs to regain its focus and direct its attention to the immediate and dire needs of the community(s), which they aim to serve.

Otherwise they run the risk of becoming as useless and ineffective as the Hitler, Obama, and Lenin billboard in Iowa.

I understand their grievances with the Tea Party movement. But right now, the NAACP shouldn't drink tea until they have gotten to the meat of the real issues that plague the people they serve.

http://savannahnow.com/column/2010-0...ldnt-drink-tea

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Well, Chode has declared himself on the side of the nondemocracies in the region, and not on the side of the democracy which has had assaults unbroken visited upon it for sixty years of uninterrupted murder.

Well. Antisemitic much? And Chode thinks he ought to be prejudiced, that that is how a human being is supposed to act. Fu-uuuck. With a cholla.

[Lamplighter]

Maybe not a big deal for today's young adults, but for my generation it was transformational...
the image and the constitutional powers of the Presidency
the coverage by the press and the 1st Amendment
the daily national coverage of Congress debating impeachment
even the perception of Nixon's foreign policy achievements (China)
And the battle over Nixon's image continues...

NY Times article...

Watergate Becomes Sore Point at Nixon Library
By ADAM NAGOURNEY
Published: August 6, 2010

YORBA LINDA, Calif. — The sign at the entrance to the largest exhibition room devoted to a single subject at the Nixon Presidential Library and Museum reads “Watergate.” But on Friday, the exhibit was nearly empty, dominated by a 30-foot blank slate of a wall that is testimony to a new battle set off by this still-polarizing former president: how to mark the scandal that forced him from office 36 years ago.

But the Nixon Foundation — a group of Nixon loyalists who controlled this museum until the National Archives took it over three years ago — described it as unfair and distorted, and requested that the archives not approve the exhibition until its objections are addressed.

The foundation’s resistance marks the latest chapter in a long and uncomfortable history between the Nixon loyalists and the National Archives as it seeks to bring the Nixon library, along with an archive of papers and tapes, into the presidential library system.

[TheMercenary]

A great example of a group of people trying to re-write history by burying it.

[classicman]

Obama, Democrats got 88 percent of 2008 contributions by TV network execs, writers, reporters

Senior executives, on-air personalities, producers, reporters, editors, writers and other self-identifying employees of ABC, CBS and NBC contributed more than $1 million to Democratic candidates and campaign committees in 2008, according to an analysis by The Examiner of data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics.

The Democratic total of $1,020,816 was given by 1,160 employees of the three major broadcast television networks, with an average contribution of $880.

By contrast, only 193 of the employees contributed to Republican candidates and campaign committees, for a total of $142,863. The average Republican contribution was $744.

Read more at the Washington Examiner:

I find it a little disturbing that they are the ones so many rely upon for the "news."

[xoxoxoBruce]

3 major? What about FOX? Why were they excluded from the numbers?

[Happy Monkey]

They were probably trying to use this as a counterstory to the $1 million that News Corp gave to the Republican Governors' Association. As in, "Look, if you add together all of the employees of three other networks, contributing to all Democratic causes, you get $1 million, too!"

[spudcon]

Originally Posted by Lamplighter

Maybe not a big deal for today's young adults, but for my generation it was transformational...
the image and the constitutional powers of the Presidency
the coverage by the press and the 1st Amendment
the daily national coverage of Congress debating impeachment
even the perception of Nixon's foreign policy achievements (China)
And the battle over Nixon's image continues...

NY Times article...

Watergate Becomes Sore Point at Nixon Library
By ADAM NAGOURNEY
Published: August 6, 2010

And now, the 1st amendment is being tromped on every day, but it's the news media who're trying to silence us.

[classicman]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

3 major? What about FOX? Why were they excluded from the numbers?

As HM said -

Disclosure of the heavily Democratic contributions by influential employees of the three major broadcast networks follows on the heels of controversy last week when it was learned that media baron Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. contributed $1 million to the Republican Governors Association.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

If you don't like what the Democrats and Socialists are doing now that they have the chance, shouldn't you turn to those media that support the Republicans, and Libertarians?

[classicman]

Not personally - I don't want the media to play politics. Thats not their business. I just want the facts without all the bias.

[Happy Monkey]

Unfortunately, the current definition of "facts without bias" is to report what Democrats say, and what Republicans say, and let the reader decide, because investigating the facts might result in a "biased" answer. And then there's Fox, which does the same, but without "what Democrats say".