Rush Limbaugh on Haiti

[audtatious]

Yep, Rush ran with the headline for his show. It was comical the first time I heard it but was definitely in poor taste.

Mainstream Media is ABC, CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, etc. and news papers who do news reporting. Fox is not Mainstream Media per the White House and Rush is an opinionist on the radio.

Wiki is Wiki.

[smockers83]

And CNBC is god of the news channels.

Sure it's about money, but they talk politics and how it affects your money, too. Not just the markets, but they'll talk politics and how it affects markets. Everything is tied to the money and politics, therefore making it the superior news outlet in terms of news that truly affects the nation.

I don't need to know about the car chase in Los Angeles. The people of LA can know about it, but I'm 3000 miles away, I don't. The "mainstream" news outlets are full of fluff and garbage. If I want to watch it, I can watch it 5 years from now on Wildest Police Chases.

[WDRacing]

You can get news from any source so long as you keep your mind open and form your own opinions based on what you hear and read. Granted, some places will illustrate things in ways that certain demographics want, but news is news.

It doesn't become a problem until people allow the media's opinion to become their own, like Howie does. No real thoughts of his own, just regurgitated left wing media propaganda. Or when people blindly support a decision made by someone in the party they "think" they support. If everyone would remember that people in politics are liars and crooks we'd all be better off.

WD

[audtatious]

Are you ever on IM anymore?

[audtatious]

I mentioned above that Rush and such are not news reporters nor part of the mainstream media. The following OP-ED in the Miami Herald web blog shows how single-sided MSNBC was during the Brown election:

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Watching coverage of the Massachusetts senatorial election Tuesday night, I wondered if MSNBC was getting ready to cut off its cable signal to the state. Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow, positively enraged that Massachusetts dared to elect a Republican, delivered two hours of nonstop bilious rage toward the state's voters, calling them "irrational" and "teabaggers," engaged in "a total divorce from reality," and hinting that they're vicious racists to boot.

If you watched CNN or Fox News last night, you got a balanced analysis of how Republican Scott Brown pulled off the political upset of the century (or, if you prefer, how Democrat Martha Coakley blew a dead solid electoral lock). Yes, I said Fox News, without irony. To be sure, Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity made it clear they were rooting for Brown. But their shows also included a steady parade of liberal-leaning guests -- former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown, former Dukakis campaign manager Susan Estrich, Democratic party strategist Mary Anne Marsh, NPR commentator Juan Williams and radio host Alan Colmes. And pollster Frank Luntz interviewed a panel of two dozen or so Massachusetts voters, most of them Democrats, about how they voted and why. Practically every conceivable perspective on the election was represented.

And on MSNBC, you got practically every conceivable expression of venom against Brown and anybody who voted him. From Maddow's dark suspicions that the election was rigged -- she cited complaints about a grand total of six ballots out of about 2.25 million cast -- to Olbermann's suggestion in the video up above that the same Massachusets voters who went for Barack Obama by a 62-28 percent margin had suddenly realized they helped elect a black guy and went Republican in repentance, the network's coverage was idiotic, one-sided and downright ugly.

Olbermann was simply outraged by the vote. "The teabaggers may have elected their first guy tonight," he declared as Brown rolled up a commanding lead. Just in case the connotations of the word teabag might be lost on his audience, he clarified his feelings: "I wanted to apologize for calling Republican Senate candidate, Scott Brown, an irresponsible homophobic, racist, reactionary, ex-nude model, teabagging supporter of violence against women and against politicians with whom he disagrees. I`m sorry -- I leftout the word 'sexist.'"

Maddow added dirty campaigner to the charges. Her sense of fair play was violated by a Brown campaign ad in which his daughter complained about Coakley's attacks on her father: "Martha Coakley`s new negative ad represents everything that discourages young women from getting involved in politics, and as a young woman, I`m completely offended by that," the daughter said in the ad. Sniffed Maddow: "It`s like using your kid as a human shield." Oddly, Maddow made no mention of the Coakley TV ad that started the exchange, which began: “1,736 women were raped in Massachusetts in 2008. Scott Brown wants hospitals to turn them all away...”

MSNBC's idea of "balancing" these rants was to interview former Democratic National Committee chair Howard Dean. (His main insight: Coakley's loss was, honest to God, George W. Bush's fault.) When a third MSNBC host, Chris Matthews, timidly raised the possibility that Massachusetts voters were concerned about high government spending, Maddow snapped that such thinking was "irrational" and added: "To say it`s fiscally responsible to not reform health care is insanity... It`s a total divorce from reality."

(To be perfectly fair, I wouldn't have believed anything Matthews said, either, after he insisted that Richard Nixon's presidency crumbled not over Watergate but the recession of 1974.)

It may be too much to expect NBC, these days reduced to a national wisecrack, to be embarrassed over the frothing lunacy that passes for news coverage at corporate stepchild MSNBC. But both networks are part of the same news division. If news boss Steve Capus thinks his reporters can continue to appear with Olbermann and Maddow without suffering credibility contamination, he's dumber than whoever was behind the Leno/O'Brien late-night shuffle.

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