MSNBC wins the title of Biggest Liars in the Media

Lately, MSNBC is causing a stir among the general public with their unbelievably biased reporting and outright lies in their coverage.  This November the network announced their new slogan:  "Experience the Power of Change."  Of course, NBC denies that the slogan is designed to bring to mind Barack Obama's campaign message.  Bloggers are beyond the hype, providing pretty good examples of what the general public thinks of MSNBC these days:

Posted Nov. 17, 2009 - 2:41 pm eastern by DoktorFranken:

MSNBC:  More S#!t - No Believable Content

Posted Nov. 17, 2009 - 2:52 pm eastern by east tennessee john:

MSNBC:  MSDNC 

Posted Nov. 15, 2008 - 12:26 pm by rwilson99:
The P in PMSNBC: Stands for Pravda.

Posted Nov. 15, 2008 2:04 pm by timestax 
Some freeper once called it MSPMS! 

Posted Sept. 1, 2010  
MSNBC means More Stupid News By Communists
MSNBC means More Socialist News By Communists


MSNBC provides excellent fodder for conservative talk shows as well:

MSNBC:  "just slightly right of the Soviet-run state television" -- Glenn Beck, Fox News Network

Here's crappy news example  #1 for why MSNBC is the worst news network around.

Check out the blatant spin and misinformation provided courtesy of MSNBC regarding a pre-planned, authority-approved protest in Arizona this year.  Notice that MSNBC did not interview any of these arms carriers personally; there is a reason for that.  The truth wouldn't have let MSNBC use the event to push their agenda.  To make matters even more untrue, the film footage does not show the protester, only the gun hanging down the man's back, hiding his identity entirely.  Listen carefully to what these pundits say about "white guys" with guns while our black president is in office.  

Keep in mind, the back of the man you see is a black man -- a very articulate, intelligent black man -- whom MSNBC wouldn't even bother to hear.  This is a deliberate attempt on MSNBC's part to discredit protesters and inflame race relations in this country -- for the specific purpose of quieting dissidents to the current administration's socialist agenda.  This misrepresentation of facts is outrageous, but what we've come to expect from MSNBC.

MSNBC's Version of "Journalism":

The truth often serves to make MSNBC look bad.  Even though I am no fan of Disney's politically correct agenda, I must give accolades to the following ABC News report.  Not only do they portray the protester honestly, but ABC does not remove the most intelligent material the protester provides in favor of airing the only verbal stumble in the interview.  Way to go ABC, I give you credit for further proving MSNBC to be a pathetic excuse for a news organization through your accurate report of the event:

ABC's report of the event:

While I first heard about this egregious sin of ethics by MSNBC from Newbusters.org, I appreciate that Fox News also aired the disgusting display of propaganda in the following Greg Gutfeld commentary:

Fox's commentary about it:


While it is good to finally have at least one network policing the others on their disgusting habits of propaganda, the best source is always directly from the newsmaker -- in this case, the armed protester himself -- without the "aid" of journalistic interpretation.  I think you'll find this man is hardly a racist and more in line with the label "patriot" than anything.

Look at it from the protesters point of view:

Example #2:

Here's another excellent example of MSNBC's lack of journalistic integrity with the airing of fake photos of Sarah Palin, ironically days before the liberal propagandists take it upon themselves to "fact check" Palin's book.  Are these elitist jerks kidding?

Read it on Newsbusters.org:

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2009/11/17/days-after-airing-fake-photos-sarah-palin-msnbc-fact-checks-former-g

MSNBC didn't even bother to check it out on Snopes before airing the pictures:

http://www.snopes.com/photos/politics/palin.asp

Example #3:
THEN, as if we didn't already know that Chris Matthews is a raging liberal, he actually calls Saul Alinsky his "hero."  Saul, the despicable author of "Rules for Radicals" that has defined the movement to subvert the American election process, as well as the conservative, Judeo-Christian, and free market values that are the foundation of this country.  Typical MSNBC and typical Chris Matthews to present this communist radical as a "hero." 

Read it on Newsbusters.org:

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/12/23/chris-matthews-calls-saul-alinsky-one-his-heroes

Jesse Jackson uses racial blackmail for support of a bad health care plan: If you can't pass it on its merits, then vote for it because you're black...

Unbelievable!

Jesse Jackson is the biggest racist this country has ever known.  He is racially black mailing Senators to pass the Health Care bill for no reason other than a black man proposed it.  I can only imagine what would have happened if a white man suggested that every white senator had better vote for one of Bush's bills! 

Health Care is not a racial subject.  If the government screws up American health care the way it screws up everything else it touches, it will hurt every American citizen, and apparently illegals.  There will be no racial lines drawn in the health care sand.  We will all be screwed.

Read the Newsbusters.org report, because you may not find it anywhere else:

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/11/19/jesse-jackson-says-blacks-cant-vote-against-obamacare-media-mum

The man who should have been the first black American president...

Congressional candidate Lieutenant Colonel West speaking at the American Freedom tour in Fort Lauderdale Florida at the Revolution Nightclub.

Retired Lt. Col. Allen West is running for Congress in Florida District 22 in the 2010 election.  Based on the above speech, I regret that I was not given an opportunity to vote for this man as the first black presidential candidate.  He is the kind of man that every American can easily respect and support -- sensible, intelligent, patriotic, and a sworn defender of the U.S. Constitution. 
 
The following article was written by Lt. Col. West regarding the Nov. 5 terrorist action at Fort Hood, Texas, and is now making the email circuit:

Gathering of Eagles:  Fighting the Insurgency at Home

This past Thursday, 13 American Soldiers were killed and another 30 wounded at a horrific mass shooting at US Army installation, Ft Hood Texas.  As I watched in horror and then anger I recalled my two years of final service in the Army as a Battalion Commander at Ft Hood, 2002-2004.

My wife and two daughters were stunned at the incident having lived on the post in family housing.

A military installation, whether it is Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine, or Coast Guard, is supposed to be a safe sanctuary for our Warriors and their families. It is intended to provide a home whereby our “Band of Brothers and Sisters” can find solace and bond beyond just the foxhole but as family units.

A military installation is supposed to be a place where our Warriors train for war, to serve and protect our Nation.

On Thursday, 5 November 2009 Ft Hood became a part of the battlefield in the war against Islamic totalitarianism and state sponsored terrorism.

There may be those who feel threatened by my words and would even recommend they not be uttered.  To those individuals I say step aside because now is not the time for cowardice.  Our Country has become so paralyzed by political correctness that we have allowed a vile and determined enemy to breach what should be the safest place in America, an Army post.

We have become so politically correct that our media is more concerned about the stress of the shooter, Major Nidal Malik Hasan.  The misplaced benevolence intending to portray him as a victim is despicable.  The fact that there are some who have now created an entire new classification called; “pre-virtual vicarious Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)” is unconscionable.

This is not a “man caused disaster.”  It is what it is, an Islamic jihadist attack.

We have seen this before in 2003 when a SGT Hasan of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) threw hand grenades and opened fire into his Commanding Officer’s tent in Kuwait.  We have seen the foiled attempt of Albanian Muslims who sought to attack Ft Dix, NJ. Recently we saw a young convert to Islam named Carlos Bledsoe travel to Yemen, receive terrorist training, and return to gun down two US Soldiers at a Little Rock, Arkansas Army recruiting station.  We thwarted another Islamic terrorist plot in North Carolina which had US Marine Corps Base, Quantico as a target.

What have we done with all these prevalent trends?  Nothing.

What we see are recalcitrant leaders who are refusing to confront the issue, Islamic terrorist infiltration into America, and possibly further into our Armed Services.  Instead we have a multiculturalism and diversity syndrome on steroids.

Major Hasan should have never been transferred to Ft Hood; matter of fact, he should have been Chaptered from the Army.  His previous statements, poor evaluation reports, and the fact that the FBI had him under investigation for jihadist website posting should have been proof positive.

However, what we have is a typical liberal approach to find a victim, not the 13 and 30 Soldiers and Civilian, but rather the poor shooter.  A shooter who we are told was a great American, who loved the Army and serving his Nation and the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) stating that his actions had nothing to do with religious belief.

We know that Major Hasan deliberately planned this episode; he did give away his possessions.  He stood atop a table in the confined space of the Soldier Readiness Center shouting “Allahu Akhbar,” same chant as the 9-11 terrorists and those we fight against overseas in the Iraq and Afghanistan theaters of operation. 

No one in leadership seems willing to sound the alarm for the American people; they are therefore complicit in any future attacks.  Our Congress should suspend the insidious action to vote on a preposterous and unconstitutional healthcare bill and resolve the issue of “protecting the American people.”

The recent incidents in Dearborn (MI), Boston (MA), Dallas (TX), and Chicago (IL) should bear witness to the fact that we have an Islamic terrorism issue in America.  And don’t have CAIR call me and try to issue a vanilla press statement; they are an illegitimate terrorist associated organization which should be disbanded.

We have Saudi Arabia funding close to 80% of the mosques in the United States, one right here in South Florida, Pompano Beach.  Are we building churches and synagogues in Saudi Arabia?  Are “Kaffirs” and “Infidels” allowed travel to Mecca? 

So much for peaceful coexistence.

Saudi Arabia is sponsoring radical Imams who enter into our prisons and convert young men into a virulent Wahabbist ideology….one resulting in four individuals wanting to destroy synagogues in New York with plastic explosives.  Thank God the explosives were dummy.  They are sponsoring textbooks which present Islamic centric revisionist history in our schools.

We must recognize that there is an urgent need to separate the theo-political radical Islamic ideology out of our American society.  We must begin to demand surveillance of suspected Imams and mosques that are spreading hate and preaching the overthrow of our Constitutional Republic…that speech is not protected under First Amendment, it is sedition, and if done by an American, treason.

There should not be some 30 Islamic terrorist training camps in America that has nothing to do with First Amendment, Freedom of Religion.  The Saudis are not our friends and any American political figure who believes such is delusional.

When tolerance becomes a one way street it certainly leads to cultural suicide.  We are on that street.  Liberals cannot be trusted to defend our Republic, because their sympathies obviously lie with their perceived victim, Major Nidal Malik Hasan.

I make no apologies for these words, and anyone angered by them, please, go to Ft Hood and look into the eyes of the real victims.  The tragedy at Ft Hood Texas did not have to happen.  Consider now the feelings of those there and on every military installation in the world.  Consider the feelings of the Warriors deployed into combat zones who now are concerned that their loved ones at home are in a combat zone.

Ft Hood suffered an Islamic jihadist attack, stop the denial, and realize a simple point.  

The reality of your enemy must become your own.

Steadfast and Loyal,
Lieutenant Colonel Allen B West (US Army, Ret)

For more information about Lt. Col. West's campaign, visit: www.allenwestforcongress.com

The RFID chip: The mark of the beast?

The RFID chip will enable government at all levels to track you, your behavior, your health, your spending habits, your physical location.  See how happy everyone is in the video.  See how "the hidden hand" always makes their tools of control look like a positive addition to society.  

I mean, after all, don't you want your ER doctor to know everything about you in the event of an emergency?  Don't you want the ambulance to be able to find you if you have a car accident.  You need this.  This is important stuff for your benefit.  Don't worry.  You can trust us with your most sensitive information.  We are from the government.  We are here to help you.

The Center for Control by George Yellak

The newest genre of music:  Conspiracy Blues, "The Center for (Disease) Control"  by George Yellak.

The Center for Control

(…the centers  for disease control…       

…tracking the path of the pathogen…

 …issued a statement today saying that…     

…the Center for Disease Control…)

  

Refrain:

The Center for Disease Control

The Center for Disease Control

Ending the diseases?

No,

pleased to be defending home.

The Center for Disease Control

(is) The Center for Control

If you have thought, then you might know

what plagues would haunt the Center for Disease Control,

a viral connection?   a deadly infection?

You’ve got mail with a taint of defection.

You’ve got mail with a sinful connection, The Center for Disease Control.

A sinister sickness breaks The Resistance.

The centrist position at the Center for Thinking:

“There is no distinction when there’s no hope of linking

the shameful deflection of the weapons inspection,

the base racial tension at the small intervention,

the case undertaken for the botched operation.”

It’s the face of the nation in the foreign relations

And the cost for containment is your inoculation.

Refrain

If you are in the Critical Zone,

then seal the cracks around your home.

A genetically spread epidemic,

you’re an error of the problem, systemic.

You’re an heir of the Crisis Aesthetic, The Center for Disease Control

(is) The Center for Control

Cynical spin-ster takes the first picture,

the press-released issue of the lesionous tissue.

The ritual spinning, the back-room committee (with a)

deep felt conviction for their pre-conceived diction.

The evidence tested by the powers invested,

the fake understatement of their instant negation.

It’s a new federation with it’s tough litigation and the

false resignation of the State Concentration.

Safe simulation, faith stimulation,

we felt great with the straight jubilation.

Faithfully waiting for the empty elation,

the dead degradation of the caustic causation.

Shamelessly slaved to the deadly occasion,

the hunt of the tainted, the terrorist nature,

the hideous faces of the victim mutation.

“Take your family on a new vacation!”

Refrain

(…debating of which department…   

…tracking the infection pathogen…

…useful in isolated cases of…    

…within  our outbreak pattern analysis… 

…we’ll be updating you on the hygienic protocol…   

… is no hereditary immunity!)

Red Cross Holiday Mail for Heroes: Send by December 7!

Send a Christmas card to a soldier this holiday season:

Holiday Mail for Heroes
P.O. Box 5456
Capitol Heights, MD 20791-5456

Please don’t forget to follow these guidelines while preparing your holiday greetings!

Do...

• Sign all cards
• Entitle cards “Dear Service Member, Family or Veteran”
• Limit cards to 15 per person or 50 for school class or business group
• Bundle groups of cards in single, large envelopes

Don’t...

• Send letters
• Include personal information such as home or email addresses
• Use glitter – excessive amounts can aggravate health issues of wounded recipients
• Include inserts of any kind as they must be removed in the screening process

For more information visit www.redcross.org/holidaymail 

Would it kill him to show a little respect?

This picture was taken Veterans Day, November 11, 2009 at the Ceremony in Arlington National Cemetery.

He won't wear a flag pin because it "stands for patriotism."  He won't put his hand over his heart in salute of our flag (that's the 2nd time I've seen him as the only one twiddling his thumbs while all others pictured show respect).  He grovels and apologizes for America in every country he visits, and he bows like a butt-kisser to foreign kings (Saudi Arabia & Japan).

I believe Barack Hussein Obama deserves as much respect as he gives his own country -- none.

A short prayer that will change your life

I have always had a tendency to speak my thoughts aloud, without discretion, the moment they hit my brain. Some friends mistake this for forthrightness and honesty. I recognize it is a lack of taste and tact. My sister calls it being a dumbass. Either way, this Verbal Diarrhea Syndrome (I'm lobbying the Center for Disease Control to recognize this as a pandemic) has started many arguments, caused many hurt feelings, and left me ducking my head with a Homer-Simpson "DOH!"on many occasions.

That is, until I found a few simple words that have changed my life -- a short, simple prayer I'd like to share with the world. If utilized in time, this prayer will save you daily heartache and make you an effective tool for God. Are you ready?

"Oh, Lord, please open my mouth and speak through me, or shut me up before I do any harm."

Amazing, huh?  I always tack on an "in Jesus' name, Amen," but that's pretty much the crux of it.

It started out a little longer:  "Dear Father in Heaven: If there is something that this person will receive from me, then please send Your Holy Spirit to open my mouth and speak through me, or, if not, then please close my mouth before I have a chance to cause any of your children to stumble."

With practical application it has morphed into a quick, quiet prayer, often mumbled under my breath before I have a chance to explode or spew drivel at someone that I'll regret. The trick is remembering to say it.

Countless times I have had foolish things on the tip of my tongue, destined to cause strife and close ears, when suddenly, my cell phone rings, or some other trivial interruption disrupts the flow of my dangerous thoughts, just in the nick of time. I've come to recognize these saving graces when they occur, realizing what I almost said, taking my cue from God, and shutting the hell up.

And then there are those other times.  The times that I wish God would send some interruption, because I know what I'm going to say isn't going to be easy.  Those times are covered too, because God will give you the words, and they will be perfect for His will. 

Here are a few of the resounding themes that impressed the importance of this strategy on me:

"The one who guards his mouth preserves his life; The one who opens wide his lips comes to ruin."  Proverbs 13:3

"He who guards his mouth and his tongue, guards his soul from troubles."  Proverbs 21:23

"I said, 'I will guard my ways that I may not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth as with a muzzle while the wicked are in my presence.'"  Psalm 39:1

"Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe to stumble, it would be better for him if, with a heavy millstone hung around his neck, he had been cast into the sea."  Mark 9:42

"So also the tongue is a small part of the body, and yet it boasts of great things. See how great a forest is set aflame by such a small fire! And the tongue is a fire, the very world of iniquity; the tongue is set among our members as that which defiles the entire body, and sets on fire the course of our life, and is set on fire by hell. For every species of beasts and birds, of reptiles and creatures of the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by the human race. But no one can tame the tongue; it is a restless evil and full of deadly poison. With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the likeness of God; from the same mouth come both blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be this way."  James 3:5-10

"But I tell you that every careless word that people speak, they shall give an accounting for it in the day of judgment."  Matthew 12:36

Yikes!

"It's Called Christmas"

The song is kind of annoying actually, but the words are well worth the click.

One Nation Under God...Very cool painting/history lesson

Check out this amazingly detailed painting.  It is interactive as well.  When you roll your mouse over sections of the painting, you get a pretty cool history lesson. 
 

This is an incredible painting by Jon McNaughton.  It represents McNaughton's response to criticism of "One Nation Under God."

 

Don't miss the explanation below the painting.

View the painting, "One Nation Under God"


(http://www.mcnaughtonart.com/artwork/view_zoom/?artpiece_id=353)

Isaiah 5:8-9 and 20-23 -- Woe to those who call good evil...

"Woe:   Ruinous trouble, calamity, affliction, sorrow."

Merriam-Webster Online

"Woe to those who add house to house and join field to field, until there is no more room, so that you have to live alone in the midst of the land! In my ears the Lord of hosts has sworn, "Surely, many houses shall become desolate, even great and fine ones, without occupants." 

Isaiah 5:8-9

With rising foreclosures and an abundance of over-sized, overpriced homes sitting vacant, Isaiah 5:8-9 seemed particularly fitting to our day.  

Endtime prophecy can be found in almost every book of the Bible, in both the old and the new testaments.  It's amazing to me how often the signs of the endtimes seem to be blaring from words written more than 2,000 years ago.  The Bible has an incredible ability to apply to our daily life today, just as it has for hundreds of generations before us.

"Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight! Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine and valiant men in mixing strong drink, who justify the wicked for a bribe, and take away the rights of the ones who are in the right!" 

Isaiah 5:20-23

We are definitely already in the age when good is called evil and evil good.  When you see liberals vehemently defend abortion and homosexuality, keep in mind, most of those same people think public prayer is wrong and the Ten Commandments are offensive.  In mainstream elitist America today, morality itself is under constant attack and ridicule, along with anyone who believes in God (Jesus Christ specifically), the sanctity of marriage, the right to bear arms, or the immorality of abortion.  

Organizations like ACORN and MoveOn corrupt our election process.  Justice is meted out to the tune of Michael Jackson and O.J. Simpson.  Gun rights are under constant threat of regulation.  Christmas has been discriminated against in our public schools.  Second graders are taught the book "Heather has two mommies."  The same kids who have "Catcher in the Rye" on their school reading list are told it is illegal to bring their Bibles to school for study hall.  

Times are not looking very promising for us from a biblical perspective. 

Obama doublespeaks about abortion

"I laid out a very simple principle, which is this is a health care bill, not an abortion bill. And we're not looking to change what is the principle that has been in place for a very long time, which is federal dollars are not used to subsidize abortions," Obama told ABC News on Monday. "And I want to make sure that the provision that emerges meets that test -- that we are not in some way sneaking in funding for abortions, but on the other hand that we're not restricting women's insurance choices."

Obama promises to strip abortion limitations from national health care reform, but claims he doesn't want to change the status quo.  Maybe I'm crazy here, but isn't he saying two different things in the same breath? 

He wants to get rid of the amendment that says abortions will not be federally funded/insured, which is in keeping with "the principle that has been in place for a very long time, which is federal dollars are not to subsidize abortions."

At the same time, he is lobbying the senate to remove the amendment so as to "not restrict women's insurance choices."  What choices exactly?

Ted Poe on Partisan Chrysler Dealer Closings

Rep. Ted Poe speaks on the floor of the House of Representatives about the partisan motives behind the Chrysler dealership closings.

Watch the video

Read the Transcript

So much for promises of bi-partisanship.  Government abuses in redistributing wealth often come with punitive actions against dissidents.

"Everything is amazing, and nobody's happy..."

We are a selfish society of spoiled brats.  We think the world should make way for us, and we should not have to wait.  We took it way too seriously when our mothers told us we were special.  Now, we all think we are each a star in our own movie, and everyone else is just an extra.   

We cry about how unfair it is that rich CEOs have more toys than we do, and we like the idea of taking his money and feel no shame at our own greed.  We don't want to work hard, and we don't believe we should have to pay any dues.  We want it, and we want it NOW!

Think about the things that our youth, and even some adults, consider a fundamental right.

• Cell phones:  Which is why the U.S. government provides a program to give welfare recipients free cell phones.
• Health insurance:  Not even just medical care, but insurance.
• Other people's money:  CEOs have lots of money and it makes us mad.  They should make less money and give it to us (but for some reason, we don't mind actors, sports players, nor Michael Moore making millions).
• To never be offended:  Most people are offended by the truth, when they don't want to hear it.  The current line of "correct" thinking is that you have a right to infringe on someone else's free speech because you are offended, however easily.

The truth is:  This country doesn't owe us a living, an education, a retirement, health insurance nor especially the right to never be offended.  We have more material things as a people than any other nation in the world, and it has never bought us happiness.  We are blessed beyond our comprehension, and we have thousands of reasons to look around us and be amazed, yet we are too impatient and spoiled to enjoy our ease of life.  This a generational thing -- unfortunately, it's a my-generational-thing (30-somethings) just as much as it is our youth.

Politically correct break down...

"Politically correct: adj. conforming to a belief that language and practices which could offend political sensibilities should be eliminated."

Merriam-Webster Online

"Conforming to a belief..."
-- Falling in lockstep with sheep who believe...
"...that language and practices..."
-- that everything you do, say, or think...
"...which could offend..."
-- which in any possible way might be misconstrued, blown out of proportion, or disagreed with...
"...political sensibilities..."
-- by liberals, Democrats, socialists, communists, feminists, atheists, globalists, illegal immigrants, terrorists, homosexuals, environmentalists, multiculturalists, pedophiles, whiny-baby bed-wetters...
"...should be eliminated..."
-- should be censored, burned at the stake, crucified, humiliated, verbally attacked, ridiculed, ignored, slandered, or killed.

Scrutinizing news sources carefully

"We trust Americans to recognize propaganda and misinformation, and to make their own decisions about what they read and believe."

American Library Association

I had to take a college class in the journalism department that deeply impacted my perspective on the news.  The curriculum was based on the Associated Press Stylebook.  It is a standard reference full of interesting entries about important people and news subjects, common misspellings and grammar mistakes, and the differences in the connotation of similarly meaning words. 

What struck me most, and I've continued to notice in every news report since, is that word choice can tell you a lot about your source.  I originally thought that basic news-speak would be unbiased -- that journalism style would be directly aimed to show no preferences but report the straight news.  I was young and naive.

The truth is that words really do mean things, and journalists understand all too well what they are saying.  So when you hear a reporter talk about an "anti-abortion protester" and then refer to a "pro-choice protester" realize that those words are intended to directly influence your opinion. 

I select abortion as an example because everyone has an opinion on the matter, and I've witnessed decades of blatantly biased handling of the issue in the news.

The word "abortion" has a negative connotation -- it evokes a negative emotion in people when they hear it, regardless of whether they are for or against abortion rights. Therefore, abortion rights proponents renamed themselves "pro-choice," which is a term mainstream news networks have respected since it was coined. At the same time, abortion rights opponents renamed themselves "pro-life," which is a term mainstream news networks use rarely, choosing instead the terms "anti-abortionist" and even "anti-choice" in their reports.

Our minds associate certain positive and negative connotations to specific words, of which news reporters and editors are supposedly trained to know the intricacies.

Such offenses of bias could simply be because, as Bernard Goldberg contends, "reporters, by and large, rub elbows with other elitist groups, not everyday Americans.... [T]hey don't know that the average American strongly disagrees with nearly everything the average journalist believes."

"No conspiracies. No deliberate attempts to slant the news. It just happens. Because the way reporters and editors see the world, the way their friends and colleagues see the world, matters." (italics added) (Bernard Goldberg, in Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News)

While elitism in the media is definitely a factor in media bias, personally, I think Goldberg is letting himself and his colleagues off too easily. As a journalism student I became disillusioned with my profession of choice when I was taught in basic reporting classes how to "interpret the news" rather than report straight news. I could have dismissed this concept in a feature writing class, but this is the textbook on how to report the news! 

On the first page of "Interpretative Reporting," Chapter 1 The Modern Newsgatherer says:

"No longer do many editors and reporters pretend that the news does not involve their interpretations. Instead, they are conceding that interpretation is a fundamental part of all journalism and are trying, to the extent that time and their capacities allow, to make their interpretations intelligent, compassionate and illuminating."

Goldberg may well be correct in asserting that these biases come naturally to journalists, because it is an unquestioned part of their foundational training.  Isn't it ridiculous to think that our news is unbiased when our reporters are taught to interpret the news at the news-gathering level?  Regardless of whether bias is deliberate or subconscious, news facts are no longer facts when an interpretation is applied to them.   

If journalists do not even recognize their own biases, let alone control them, then you, as the American citizen, must know your sources and understand the agenda behind them in order to discern the truth from the "interpretation."  Mainstream media outlets still present their interpretations as straight news, and most people don't understand the mainstream media agenda well enough to know the difference.  

When you consider where most of the general public's daily news is received, it's easy to see how people would make assumptions of fact when they've heard only a small portion of any story. Most of our news comes in blurbs between commercials on television and radio, in editorial commentary, in newsstand headlines and headline news shows, and flashed before your eyes in video footage spliced for time and sensational impact.

The best way to properly scrutinize your news is by reading it, as opposed to watching it on TV or listening to it on the radio. I refer to a lot of video clips from the news, especially when it proves them to be bumbling idiots, but I pay more attention to the articles than I do the actual clip. 

When you are fed the news in a quick stream of interpreted "facts," you are unable to carefully scrutinize the word usage of your news sources to discern their perspective. Instead, you hear a short headline interpretation presented to you as fact, which often by mere brevity is only a fraction of the truth.

The best way to discern the truth is to know your source and your source's agenda. Don't let the news media push political correctness on you to the degree that you stop listening to the "unpopular" ideas. Political correctness is an oxymoron and a tool of fascism. In a free society, there is no correct opinion about people and politics.

Consider looking to interest groups for specific news on matters you care about. There is no question what agenda the National Right to Life or the National Rifle Association is pushing in their newsletters. You know what their agendas are; therefore, you know where their bias lies.

These groups:

• Provide grade-cards for politicians informing you which politicians support their interest and which are against it, based on their voting records; 
• Closely follow and report on lawsuits and court decisions that affect their issue;
• Scrutinize the process of proposed legislation that affects their interest;
• Send action alerts that let you know when relevant bills are proposed and under vote; and
• Report on the votes and statements of politicians in both parties as they apply to their issues.  

To be fully informed on any issue, consult sources on both sides (opposing and promoting views) of each issue you follow.  Here, it gets convoluted, for two reasons:  

1. Mainstream networks already paint the news in a liberal picture, so consulting Planned Parenthood about an abortion bill may seem superfluous after you've read an article about it in, for example, The New York Times.  
2. The largest liberal interest groups do not overtly display themselves as liberal, and they do not represent the groups their titles suggest.  

The very name of the National Organization for Women (NOW) suggests an interest group that will work on behalf of half of the human population -- women.  However, the organization is actually a radical feminist group that promotes leftist issues, like homosexual advocacy and unregulated abortion.

The America Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) appears to be a promoter of all civil liberties in general ("Because freedom can't protect itself").  However, the organization's stances on religion, as well as anti-immigration-laws, show the ACLU promotes a deeper liberal agenda and ignores conservative issues within the Bill of Rights altogether.  To be more fully informed on judicial cases defending civil liberties, consult ACLU news as well as the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) for conservative legal perspectives of cases the ACLU won't address.

Whatever your issue of interest may be when it comes to politics and government, multiple sources from multiple viewpoints are a necessity in discerning the truth today.

"Hope of the Wicked"

"The socialists believe the best way to change a culture, a civilization, a way of thinking, is to infiltrate and begin to move as a member of the aristocracy, as a member of that group and infiltrate from within and use those principles. That was perfected by a man in Italy named Antonio Gramsci. The concept of infiltrating and changing from within is the socialist mentality to get where you want to go."  

Ted Flynn, author

The socialist infiltration in the United States began soon after World War II.  While I do not advocate the witch hunts of Joseph McCarthy, his so-called outrageous claims of communist infiltration in our government, media, and higher education have been proved true over the course of the past 60 years.  

Last year, right after Obama won the presidency, I had a political discussion with a cousin of mine.  A 22-year-old college dropout living with his parents.  He is truly in love with Obama.  When I presented the fact that Obama is a communist, his response was basically -- so what?  "What's wrong with communism?  I'm the middle class.  I'm the one who's going to get the rich people's money." 

Of course, that is a lie he swallowed.  He, as the middle class, is not going to get the rich people's money; he will finance the bureaucracy in the name of the poor and less legal inhabitants of this country until he too becomes poor, but that's another lesson entirely.  

My cousin is a product of a great number of agencies and influences that have been at work to convince generation after generation that socialism and communism are not only a good idea, but the moral way to govern.  Deliberate moves have been made throughout the past 70 years to vilify free markets and institute redistribution of wealth, to destroy the family unit and the Christian foundation of American society, to subvert education and discourage free thinking, to curb patriotism and instill cynicism of American principles.  

Add the commercialism of our youth, as well as the millions of technological distractions that lead them down the road to introversion and apathy, and you have my cousin.  He welcomes communism in America.  He loves the peacenik idea of world government.  He has no idea of history or practical application of the things he supports.  He may not be able to tell you who the Secretary of State is, or even what she does, but that's okay, because he absolutely rocks at Guitar Hero.  


If you are seeking the truth and want to know how the hell we got here today, "Hope of the Wicked" by Ted Flynn is an excellent source to understanding current events in our country and the forces behind them.  I would not call it an easy read, but the facts and quotes are well-referenced, well-organized, and unarguable. Even after a decade-long stint into Stephen King and Anne Rice, "Hope of the Wicked" is the most frightening and disturbing non-fiction book I've ever read. 

James Madison on Federal Health Care

"The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined.  Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation and foreign commerce."

James Madison, The Father of the Constitution

The House of Representatives just passed Health Care Reform in a late Saturday night vote.  As this legislation heads back to the Senate for final passage, our congressmen have not properly addressed the issue of the constitutionality of the federal government's involvement in health care issues.  We've heard mumbled arguments about health care falling under the preamble phrase of  "promote the general welfare."  The truth is, the founding fathers never meant for the federal government to have power over domestic issues.  The idea that federal health insurance is a right and mandated under the "general welfare" clause is a complete lie.  The original interpretation of the "general welfare" clause as a federal directive is a prime example of judicial activism.

The truth is, as the Father of the Constitution stated, health insurance -- if the people so choose to vote for it -- should be one of the "numerous and indefinite" powers delegated to the states.  Federal health care was never intended by our founding fathers who deliberately limited the federal government to powers over "external objects, as war, peace, negotiation and foreign commerce."