Couldn’t Help But Notice (121106)
Now let’s get ‘em out of the airport waiting areas: MSNBC beat CNN on 6 of 7 nights during the week of Nov. 27 – Dec. 3 in the 25-54 demographic. They’re both still a distant second and third to Fox News in both the 25-54 demo and overall. It’s long past time for Fair and Balanced at the airports.
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Foleygate was a planned election stunt: Democrats knew (HT Gateway Pundit; more from Allah at Hot Air) exactly what the GOP knew, and sat on it for a year. In October, Rahm Emanuel knew about it, and de facto lied to George Stephanopoulos of ABC by insisting that he never “saw” them (and Steffie let him off the hook; welcome to a re-run of the “parsing 90s”; even Glen Greenwald, or whoever is at his computer, agrees).
The point: Nobody’s clean, and the Dems invented and timed revelations about a GOP scandal that was truly bipartisan to make only Republicans look dirty. A gullible and/or co-opted 527 Media bought it hook, line, and sinker.
Once the other side cynically defines the landscape, one must adapt to the new terrain. This is why, and the only reason why, the Ted Strickland 1999 “Present Vote” series, something I resisted delving into for months (even though Mr. Strickland’s primary opponent had; go to 8th paragraph at link), was done. It is also why there are no regrets for having done it, and unlike the Foley-Emanuel shenanigans, there’s not an ounce of untruth in any of it.
One day, we’ll have a press that isn’t either shilling fulltime for the Left and/or ignoring important topics (I’m certain that Dean also has no regrets) because they’re apparently too technical or complicated. Either they’ll change, go out of business, become free alternative rags distributed by stubborn holdouts, or turn into raving IndyMedia-like outliers. When that time comes, items such as those relating to Ted Strickland and Victoria Wells-Wulsin-Whatever, and similar ones, will make a difference.
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“China ‘executes dam protester’” — If you read the story at the BBC link, it’s a pretty brazen and secret orchestration by the Chinese. Only the Beeb and a Canadian publication were even bothering to cover it as of Sunday afternoon (Update: Add the UK Independent).
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I seriously question whether any conservative could survive a re-election campaign (HT Hot Air) if he or she had $90,000 worth of freezer burns.
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To solve the (bogus) climate-change “problem,” it may require outlawing cows.
