By Juanell Garrett, Kansas City Star Midwest Voices panelist
A couple of journalist-types had the temerity to reveal media bias in columns published this month.
Orson Scott Card, himself a Democrat, chastised the main stream media (rightfully, some of us would say) for being in the tank for the Obama campaign since they blamed the Republicans for the country’s current financial crisis.
Michael Malone laid the blame for media bias at the door of editorial boards everywhere in this lengthy column.
Back in April, Peter Wallsten of the Los Angeles Times had this article about Obama’s ties to Rashid Khalidi. Apparently he’s viewed as a moderate but, according to this article, “many of Khalidi's opinions are troubling to pro-Israel activists….” According to Gateway Pundit, the Los Angeles Times has a video of an event where Obama toasted the “former PLO operative” but Wallsten says he isn’t planning on releasing it. Is he suffering from a severe case of media bias? Khalidi’s Wikipedia article has an interesting note: “This page is currently protected from editing until November 3, 2008 or until disputes have been resolved.”
Oh, here’s the Patrice Lewis link I screwed up yesterday.
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Jewish Voters Beware!
Jesse Jackson had it right when he said that Israel would lose influence in an Obama administration.
Every Jewish voter should see this video.
Jesse Jackson Spoke The Truth About Obama
Indeed the Media is Biased for Obama
You have to wonder at the hypocrisy from this tiny group of effete un-elected multimillionaires as they sit in their luxurious editors and news agency offices and choose what is very close to Marxism for the rest of us.
Of course, like all leftist leaders, they have no intention of sharing in the burdens of socialism. American socialist leaders inevitably live in Georgetown townhouses and have mansions in Virginia with millions of dollars stashed away in bank accounts.
I hear the cries and whispers of the families living with despair and desperation in the inner city Chicago neighborhoods where murder is a daily companion. I can’t forget the squalor in Chicago’s projects and slums so uninhabitable that ten years after they were built by Tony Rezko they are being condemned. The young school children who sit without even a supervising adult in barren Chicago classrooms but who were force fed virulent anti-Americanism instead of desperately needed academic instruction by Obama and Bill Ayers (110 million dollars, wasted).
The failed promises of socialism are apparent everywhere as the Obamas indulge in the extravagant fare paid for by wealthy donors and whom the predator tax policies of Barack Obama will repay with favors financed by the rest of us.
I am sick of people claiming
I am sick of people claiming media bias when things don't go their way. Not that it doesn't happen but look at it this way. When you call em like ya see em, sometimes one side gets made out to look worse than the other... because sometimes it's true. John McCains political circus has created enough fodder for the media and comics to last a century. The issues with Barack have been played out for over a year already and frankly no one gives a rats arse about them anymore. Why does the media have its eye more on McCain than Obama? Because McCain is the screaming guy in the room that you can't avoid. Call it media bias, I call it truth bias. sometimes one side gets more ridicul because they deserve it.
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Should be "unabashed bias ..."
Jounalists Take Heed
THIS is why Obama's principles will not work, and why your unabased bias for him is wrong:
Our Tax System Explained: Bar Stool Economics
Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all
ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes,
it would go something like this:
The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.
The fifth would pay $1.
The sixth would pay $3.
The seventh would pay $7.
The eighth would pay $12.
The ninth would pay $18.
The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59.
So, that's what they decided to do.
The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the
arrangement, until one day, the owner threw them a curve. 'Since you
are all such good customers,' he said, 'I'm going to reduce the cost
of your daily beer by $20.' Drinks for the ten now cost just $80.
The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes so
the first four men were unaffected. They would still drink for free.
But what about the other six men - the paying customers? How could
they divide the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his 'fair
share?'
They realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33. But if they subtracted
that from everybody's share, then the fifth man and the sixth man
would each end up being paid to drink his beer.
So, the bar owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man's
bill by roughly the same amount, and he proceeded to work out the
amounts each should pay.
And so:
The fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% savings).
The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33%savings).
The seventh now pay $5 instead of $7 (28%savings).
The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 (25% savings).
The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 (22% savings).
The tenth now paid $49 instead of $59 (16% savings).
Each of the six was better off than before. And the first four
continued to drink for free. But once outside the restaurant, the men
began to compare their savings.
'I only got a dollar out of the $20,'declared the sixth man. He
pointed to the tenth man,' but he got $10!'
'Yeah, that's right,' exclaimed the fifth man. 'I only saved a dollar, too.
It's unfair that he got ten times more than I got' 'That's true!!'
shouted the seventh man. 'Why should he get $10 back when I got only
two? The wealthy get all the breaks!'
'Wait a minute,' yelled the first four men in unison. 'We didn't get
anything at all. The system exploits the poor!'
The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up.
The next night the tenth man didn't show up for drinks so the nine sat
down and had beers without him. But when it came time to pay the bill,
they discovered something important. They didn't have enough money
between all of them for even half of the bill!
And that, ladies and gentlemen, journalists and college professors, is
how our tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get the
most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for
being wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore. In fact, they
might start drinking overseas where the atmosphere is somewhat
friendlier.
David R. Kamerschen, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics
University of Georgia
For those who understand, no explanation is needed.
For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible.
NOT ONE WORD, TOTALLY IN THE TANK!
Falling Star your bias is showing, why no coverage? why no comment?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iivL4c_3pck