Bias, a CBS Insider Exposes How the Medi a Distort

“I guess I am wondering if a News Agency could possibly be sued for "malpractice"?

LOL Imagine the NYT and CBS getting his for some astronomical price by an enterprising lawyer. I bet they would want to settle since if they get into a jury trial they are toast...(LOL)”

“No one admits to having voted for McCain, How can you have a fair poll, those numbers are right where the population says they are now.Your party is gone.”
salebored



Your party has to lie, cheat, and steal to win....and you have no problem with that.....”

“Strat the Liberals have for a long time built their party on uneducated people who demand "revenge" for the fact that they were failures in life. They are and will be failures becuase they have chosen to look outside themselves for success rather than use the gifts God has provided them.”

“LMAO! The crack is really good today, yeah?

On average, Republican communities have lower incomes and less education than Democratic communities.

In landslide Democratic counties, 32.7 percent of the adult population had a bachelor's degree or better. In Republican counties where McCain won by 20 points or better, 20.4 percent of adults had finished college or graduate school.

http://www.slate.com/toolbar.aspx?action=read&id=2206512
last edited: 6/22/09 12:38:08 PM”

“Just look at poor t*lt and drunkO, XL.”

“LOL...still hiding behind their news media...sorry meant to sort out the GOVERNMENT eductated.”

“It's not my party , I wouldn't vote any of those fools anymore than I'd vote for a non- Paul republican. It's fact that less that 30% of polled americans say they are republican- that being gone.”

“Oh no salesbored, stratdood has you sooooo nailed.

You see... he's moved past this whole left-wing, right-wing crap and sees everything without the crippling effects of party bias. Why... he's even gone so far as to quit the Republican Party.

That's how he can tell that anyone who would talk bad about McCain and the Republican party MUST be a Democrat by definition.

Why.... he's moved so far to the center that he posts "news stories" funded by large right-wing foundations right on the "bias in the media" thread without worrying that it might make him look like a parody of a right-wing hack.

He's the epitome of neutrality.
last edited: 6/23/09 3:42:30 AM”

“Wait...if you talk bad about Grampa McGummit you are a Democrat?

Vile, might want to recheck your facts. Heck MCShame was not a whole lot different from most "moderate" Democrats. He is an old worn out war horse (yeah his medals and service were real compared to SKerry and Murtha) who the Blue Bloods feel is OWED a shot...(LOL)”

“

Complex thinking required to understand sarcasm

By LEE BOWMAN
SCRIPPS HOWARD NEWS SERVICE

Sarcasm is lost on many people, in some cases more than others, because they may be missing part of a complex set of cognitive skills based in specific parts of the brain.

A new study by Israeli psychologists, using patients with damage to different parts of their brains, details an "anatomy of sarcasm" to explain how the mind puts sharp-edged words into context.

The psychologists write in the May issue of the journal Neuropsychology that for sarcasm to register, the listener must grasp the speaker's intentions in the context of the situation. This calls for both sophisticated social thinking and appreciating a "theory of mind," that different people think different thoughts.

"To detect sarcasm, irony and jokes, and to better understand what people mean when they talk, we must have empathy," said researcher Simone Shamay-Tsoory of the University of Haifa and lead author of the study.

The right hemisphere of the brain generally handles emotional processing, and the prefrontal cortex -- the part of the brain just behind the eyes and forehead -- deals with personality and social cues.

So the researchers expected that people with damage to the right frontal lobe of the brain would have the most difficulty comprehending sarcasm.

To test this, they did experiments with 25 patients with damage to the prefrontal cortex, 16 patients with damage to the posterior lobe of the brain and 17 healthy controls.

All were read brief scripts presented in both a sarcastic and literal vein.

For instance, in the sarcastic situation, a man arrives at work and instead of starting his job, sits down to rest. His boss notices his behavior and says: "Joe, don't work too hard!" -- meaning, of course, just the opposite.

Then, in a neutral counterpart, Joe arrives at work and immediately goes full speed ahead, and his boss cautions him: "Joe, don't work too hard!"

Following each presentation, the researchers asked a factual question to check if the subject understood the story, and an "attitude" question to check if he or she appreciated the boss' true meaning. If they got the facts of the story right, but the attitude wrong, they got an "error" score for identifying sarcasm.

To measure the ability to have empathy and infer another person's thoughts, the researchers read another set of anecdotes like this: Two boys in a school bathroom talk meanly about another boy, who suddenly emerges from a stall, where, unknown to the first two boys, he was listening.

The researchers then asked the participants questions such as whether the boys said something they shouldn't have and why they said it.

The patients with prefrontal lobe damage had difficulty comprehending the sarcasm as well as feeling empathy, while the other two test groups had no such problems. And those who had damage in the right rear part of the prefrontal cortex had the most faulty "sarcasm meters." The worse the damage was, the greater the impairment.

Shamay-Tsoory said that damage in each region of the network "can impair (understanding of) sarcasm, because if someone has a problem understanding a social situation, he or she may fail to understand the literal language. Thus, this study contributes to our understanding of the relationship between language and social cognition."

http://www.seattlepi.com/national/225383_sarcastic23.html”

“Violin is apparently too thick to grasp the concept ....the Republicans(for the most part) are too liberal.....too progressive, too much in favor or big government”

“Violin is on a tear this morning! LOL!”

“Violin still wears underware the wifey bought at Wal-Mart.”

“WTF is "underware"?”

“It's what you use to do a little crotch pot cookin'!

Underwhere?”

“Under........................there!?!?”

“Stove...his wife or yours (LOL)?”

“Anyone else just loving this?

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/evening_news_ratings/new_alltime_lows_for_both_cbs_abc_evening_newscasts_119684.asp

Tuesday, Jun 23
New All-Time Lows for Both CBS & ABC Evening Newscasts
Breaking: TVNewser has learned the CBS Evening News has once again set an all-time low last week with 4.89 million Total Viewers and 1.42 million A25-54 viewers. But it was also the lowest (since records began in the 1991-'92 season) for ABC's World News with Charles Gibson. The Gibson program drew 6.42 million Total Viewers and 1.77 million A25-54 viewers.”

“The Lamestream media is on a collision course with reality”

“4.89 million viewers...LOL Good lord that is less than a quarter of the people who listen to Rush Limbaugh....”

“Poor little libbies.”

“nm
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“Can you imagine this sort of connection being found between say GW Bush and Fox News after a press conference?
http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/0609/Obama_calls_on_HuffPost_for_Iran_question.html

In what appeared to be a coordinated exchange, President Obama called on the Huffington Post's Nico Pitney near the start of his press conference and requested a question directly about Iran.

�Nico, I know you and all across the Internet, we've been seeing a lot of reports coming out of Iran,� Obama said, addressing Pitney. �I know there may actually be questions from people in Iran who are communicating through the Internet. Do you have a question?�

Pitney, as if ignoring what Obama had just said, said: �I wanted to use this opportunity to ask you a question directly from an Iranian.�

He then noted that the site had solicited questions from people in the country �who were still courageous enough to be communicating online.�

�Under which conditions would you accept the election of Ahmadinejad, and if you do accept it without any significant changes in the conditions there, isn't that a betrayal of the � of what the demonstrators there are working towards?�

Reporters typically don�t coordinate their questions for the president before press conferences, so it seemed odd that Obama might have an idea what the question would be. Also, it was a departure from White House protocol by calling on The Huffington Post second, in between the AP and Reuters.

CBS Radio's Mark Knoller, a veteran White House correspondent, said over Twitter it was "very unusual that Obama called on Huffington Post second, appearing to know the issue the reporter would ask about."

Does the fact that the "PRESS" which is supposed to be free of political connections so as to offer a neutral view may slowly be turning into the STATE GOVERNMENT INFORMATION OFFICE"?”

“Fake question from fake 'journalist'.

It's OK, XL, they are on the side of The One.”

“So, TV is an indicator of ??? What idiots watch TV? The ones that are just smart enough to not listen to Rush watch this crap and the rest of the pecking order is easy to follow if you've really watched Rushes bottom feeders on this board.”

“http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/24/obama-dominates-news-media-with-full-court-press/

Okay this is a scream.”

“HOLY COW

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20090702/pl_politico/24441;_ylt=AggDUTsVxo8SVqu8ma_TAPeUU80F;_ylu=X3oDMTJyaWJqbG9vBGFzc2V0Ay9wb2xpdGljby8yMDA5MDcwMi9wbF9wb2xpdGljby8yNDQ0MQRjcG9zAzMEcG9zAzMEc2VjA3luX3RvcF9zdG9yaWVzBHNsawN3YXNocG9zdHNlbGw-


For $25,000 to $250,000, The Washington Post is offering lobbyists and association executives off-the-record, nonconfrontational access to "those powerful few" � Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and the paper�s own reporters and editors.

The astonishing offer is detailed in a flier circulated Wednesday to a health care lobbyist, who provided it to a reporter because the lobbyist said he feels it�s a conflict for the paper to charge for access to, as the flier says, its �health care reporting and editorial staff."

The offer � which essentially turns a news organization into a facilitator for private lobbyist-official encounters � is a new sign of the lengths to which news organizations will go to find revenue at a time when most newspapers are struggling for survival. ”

“http://newsbusters.org/blogs/rich-noyes/2009/08/18/reality-check-media-double-standard-anti-obamacare-mobs

With President Obama and congressional liberals facing loud protests over their big government health care plan, journalists are casting the anti-ObamaCare forces as �ugly,� �unruly,� �nasty� mobs, with reporters presenting the most odious images (like pictures of Obama drawn as Hitler) as somehow representative. But when President George W. Bush faced left-wing protests, the media scrubbed their stories of radical voices and depicted demonstrators as mainstream, and even �prescient.�”

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Leaked Email: CNBC Went To Teabaggers Looking for Angry Protests
by Versha Sharma - August 12, 2009, 2:38PM

Here are the leaked emails that suggest CNBC approaching tea partiers looking for protests with "energy" and "anger." Read the full story at TPMmuckraker.



On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Jenny Beth Martin wrote:


We have a media request for an event this week that will have lots of
energy and lots of anger. This is for CNBC.

So, where are the big events this week and where can TPP best be
represented on the news?

Let me know right away. Thanks!

--
Sent from my mobile device

Have a great day!
Jenny Beth Martin
XXX-XXX-XXXX
Tea Party Patriots, National Coordinator (http://teapartypatriots.org)
Atlanta Tea Party, Co-Chairman (http://atlantateaparty.net)
Smart Girl Politics, Director of Congressional Outreach
(http://smartgirlpolitics.org)
912 March on DC, National Co-Coordinator (http://912dc.org)









From: pat wayman


Date: August 11, 2009 11:21:38 PM EDT

To: XXXXXXXXXX

Subject: {Tea Party Patriots} Re: Media Request

Reply-To: XXXXXXXXXX

This one should be a riot! literally....

Rep. David Scott DEM GA 13 District Health Fair

This is the Congressman who got a swastika painted on his office sign last night. I would make sure the event is not canceled though.

The web site where it was listed is: http://www.resistnet.com/group/georgiaresistance



UNQUOTE.

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“Nice. Douchebaggery at its best.”

“Tilt you do know that GBI is looking at a possible "inside job" from the Congressman's office on the swastika?

Or do you just want to keep making a Tilt of yourself?”

“"The Liberal Media"

You are so full of #&%!$.”

“Rednecks Busted Again ----


Activist Who Staged Gun Interview At Obama Event Was Prominent Defender Of '90s Militia

by Justin Elliott - August 18, 2009, 6:47PM

Ernest Hancock, the online radio host who staged an interview with an assault rifle-wielding cohort at the Obama event in Arizona yesterday -- and was himself armed with a 9 millimeter pistol -- was a vocal supporter and friend of right-wing anti-government militia members who were convicted of conspiracy and weapons charges in the 90s.

And in an interview today with TPMmuckraker, Hancock said he still believes the Viper Militia case was "manufactured" by the same government that manufactured Waco and lied to its people about 9/11.

The federal government initially accused the Arizona Viper Militia of plotting to blow up federal buildings, which the twelve-member group cased on videotape.

In July 1996, after a grand jury indicted the suspects, federal agents "seized about 90 high-powered rifles and hundreds of pounds of a bomb-making compound from the shabby bungalow of a man whom officials identified as the ordnance specialist of a local paramilitary group," the New York Times reported at the time.

Hancock, who in recent years designed the famous "Ron Paul rEVOLution" graphic, was an oft-quoted defender of the militia members. The tapes of the government buildings, he said at the time, were purely "educational."

"They don't have criminal records," another press account quoted Hancock, who knew all twelve militia members, as saying. "They just like their guns. And in Arizona, gosh darn it, that's normal."

Reached by TPMmuckraker at his home in Arizona today, Hancock said he continued to believe the Viper Militia case was a fraud.

"I was good friends with Dean Pleasant, one of the guys that did five and half years," Hancock said, who added the entire case was "made up."

"I've been feeling this coming again," he continued. "It's the same people. It's Rahm Emanuel, it's Janet Napolitano. It's Hillary Clinton. All these were the same people that were doing it back then."

Napolitano, who later became Arizona governor and is now secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, was the prosecutor in the Viper Militia case.

"This militia scare is what got them their crime ban. It was all manufactured," said Hancock, scoffing at the term "White Al Qaeda," which he said he's been seeing in the local press.

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“lol...i GUESS if we bring up the ACORN actions during elections that would be thrown out as Racist.”

“No, there's your beloved Liberal Media, LOL ---- serving as a pipeline for something the language filter would definitely catch.

How's that bunker mentality working for you guys? Not very?

The only thing surprising to me is that there haven't been more shootings.”

“Why does poor 'squealer' t*lty keep trying to hide his crappy sources?”

“I guess they haven't collected enough ammunition for their 'revolution' yet. I saw part of a show about Charlie Manson last night and it reminded me of you.

Helter Skelter, Y'all ----”

“RULE #12 in effect....LOL”

“'squealer' t*lty - good name XL”

“I wonder ---- Did it ever find any Democrats to shoot?

I bet there are a lot more Democrats in Mississippi these days.... and by some coincidence lots of them are Black.

Cowards have a habit of speaking in code nowadays.”

“We noticed that about you years ago...”

“What's with this sudden agnry tone from tilt and pepsi these days....yo0u guys are the ones spittin all the venom. Geesh man, you got true hate issues.”

“I hate public liars and pity the fools who fall for their falsehoods. Really, strat, I'm looking out for you”

“did I just channel Mr. T?

lol”