First They Came For……….. Kirsten Powers’ Anger at the Media over DOJ’s Trampling on Freedom of Press

From Kirsten Powers @ Daily Beast:

It’s instructive to go back to the dawn of Hope and Change. It was 2009, and the
new administration decided it was appropriate to use the prestige of the White
House to viciously attack a news organization—Fox News—and the journalists who
work there. Remember, President Obama had barely been in office and had enjoyed
the most laudatory press of any new president in modern history. Yet even one
outlet that allowed dissent or criticism of the president was one too many. This should have been a red flag
to everyone, regardless of what they thought of Fox
News. The math was simple: if the administration would abuse its power to try
and intimidate one media outlet, what made anyone think they weren’t next?

For Ms. Powers’ full column:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/21/how-hope-and-change-gave-way-to-spying-on-the-press.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thedailybeast%2Farticles+%28The+Daily+Beast+-+Latest+Articles%29

Update: Latest reports show that the DOJ not only spied into James Rosen’s email accounts and phone records, as well as those of FOX News, including their phone lines at the White House, State Department, and Capitol Hill, but they also pried into the records of James Rosen’s parents in Staten island NY. Where is the outrage in the MSM?

Pew Report: MSNBC More “Negative” to Romney than FOX is to Obama

“From August 27 through October 21, 71 percent of MSNBC’s coverage of Mitt Romney this year was negative, far outperforming Fox News’s negative coverage of President Barack Obama, which came in at 46 percent, according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism. The negative-to-positive ratio on MSNBC was roughly 23-to-1; the negative-to-positive ratio on Fox News was 8-to-1.”

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/11/pew-msnbc-more-negative-than-fox-148088.html#.UJOtom-PCyM.twitter

FOXNews John Crowder: Marrying the Right Way, Waiting till the Wedding Night… Their Special Day

We did it right.

Our wedding was perfect.  Our wedding night was nothing short of  amazing. I write this on a plane heading into a tropical paradise with the most  beautiful woman to have walked the planet earth.

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Feeling judged? I couldn’t care less. You know why? Because my wife and I  were judged all throughout our relationship. People laughed, scoffed and poked  fun at the young, celibate, naive Christian couple.

We’d certainly never make it to the wedding without schtupping, and if we  did, our “wedding night would be awkward and terrible,” they said.

Turns out that people couldn’t have been more wrong.  Looking back, I  think that the women saying those things felt like the floozies they ultimately  were, and the men, with their fickle manhood tied to their pathetic sexual  conquests, felt threatened.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/09/14/staying-celibate-before-marriage-was-best-thing-ive-ever-done/?intcmp=features#ixzz26a3r8EeA

MSnbc’s O’Donnell Mocks Ann Romney and FOX’s Neil Cavuto Strikes Back

Here is Laurence O’Donnell’s attack on Ann Romney and use of Horses as therapy for her MS:

And FOX News’ Neil Cavuto, himself suffering with MS, strikes back:

FOX’s Charles Payne Emotionally Defends Individualism over the “Collective Unit” @ OWS

Greta Van Susterenn: With Sarcasm, You Don’t Have to Do a Thing Mr. President

from GretaWire:

In a town hall meeting a short time ago, President Obama was sarcastic about the wealthiest Americans and raising their taxes.  He said sarcastically, something like, “what are we going to tell the rich? that you don’t have to do a thing?”

Sarcasm  only fuels class warfare.  Of course the rich are paying – and maybe they will be asked to pay more – but why does he have to be insulting and sarcastic?   Is that his solution?  Be rude?  It is not leadership to create class warfare.   It is petty and political.  It is a vote getter, it is not leadership.

Perhaps the economic crisis in our country is not so much the rich, but rather his (and other politicians’) stewardship of the economy?   President Obama has been in charge for more than 2 years and before that he was in the US Senate.  I am not saying it is an easy problem but flinging insults has never solved any problem.

Instead of insulting, President Obama might want to ask himself if his stimulus bill has delivered — whether it is rev’ing up the economy so that people have jobs and are paying taxes to our Treasury?  If you read GretaWire, and if you look at the continued foreclosures and unemployment rate in this country, you will see grave disappointment in his stimulus bill.   It cost alot — but did it deliver?   He might find it more fruitful to study the economy, look at what is and is not working,  instead of insulting and blaming.

Let me repeat, I am not saying that any of these problems are easy — but creating class warfare by being sarcastic towards the rich is not leadership and not what a President should do.  He should be strong and civil – not petty and divisive.

Am I wrong?

http://gretawire.blogs.foxnews.com/you-dont-have-to-do-a-thing-president-obama-being-sarcastic/?cmpid=NL_GretaWire_20110419

FOX News Reporter Explains Antics of Some Protesters Trying to Stifle News Reports

FOXNews’ Ailes Says “Blame is Bullshit” but told Satff to Avoid the Bombastic

But Ailes also said he has told Fox’s staff to stay away from “bombast.”

“I told all of our guys, shut up, tone it down, make your argument intellectually. You don’t have to do it with bombast. I hope the other side does that,” he said.”

For full article:

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0111/Ailes_Shooting_blame_bullshit_but_anchors_should_tone_it_down.html

Rockefeller: Arrogance in Thought to “Silence” FOX, Others

Sen. Rockefeller never mentions that the FCC has no authority regarding the Cable networks………

Insiders Say Obama is “Unhinged”