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Sheppard gets offended by Salon headline (that he can’t seem to comprehend) regarding Boston bombing suspect, then decides to deceptively quote sentences from article to use as attack [w/ UPDATE]

Posted by Kevin E. on April 17, 2013
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We all know that the typical conservative out there rails against any kind of political correctness in the political media. However, when any liberal dares to say something non-PC, it’s frowned upon by the conservative media police.

In an April 17 article, Noel Sheppard chided Salon’s David Sirota in a piece titled “Let’s hope the Boston Marathon bomber is a white American“, with a subtitle stating “There is a double standard: White terrorists are dealt with as lone wolves, Islamists are existential threats“. Apparently, Sheppard took the headline completely literal to the bone:

We have seen some disgraceful reporting of the Boston Marathon bombing the past few days, but this headline at Salon Tuesday could be the worst.

Let’s Hope the Boston Marathon Bomber Is a White American

As you might imagine, the author, David Sirota, is a perilously liberal political commentator.

Last month he participated in a CNN panel that compared supporters of traditional marriage to segregationists and slave owners.

During last year’s summer Olympics, he said he had “pangs of discomfort” watching Americans cheer team USA.

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NewsBusters has trouble comprehending why DC Attorney General chose not to prosecute NBC’s Gregory for federal crime involving possession of gun magazine [w/ UPDATE]

Posted by Kevin E. on January 11, 2013
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Desperate times call for desperate measures, which is never too late for the whining echo chamber at the MRC.

In a January 11 piece, Matthew Sheffield seemed aghast at today’s news that David Gregory, who hosts his own top-rated Sunday show on NBC, “Meet the Press“, will not be prosecuted with a crime when he revealed what appeared to be a real gun magazine during an interview with the head of the National Rifle Association (NRA), Wayne LaPierre. This is how Mr. Sheffield chose to frame the AG’s decision (emphasis mine):

It’s now official: David Gregory is above the law. Just two days after the DC attorney general’s office received the case of NBC star’s deliberate exibition [sic] of a high-capacity bullet magazine, the agency decided it would not prosecute.

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Noel Sheppard frets about “the shills” at MSNBC having private closed door meeting with President Obama, ignoring conservative hosts who had same kind of meeting with President Bush (and Obama) [w/ UPDATE]

Posted by Kevin E. on December 4, 2012
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The faux-outrage machine is being riled upat NewsBusters, again… And in unpredictable fashion, it’s their resident creator of outrage, Noel Sheppard waving his arms maniacally trying to get attention.

In a December 4 posting, Sheppard complained about four of MSNBC’s main hosts meeting with President Obama in a closed door meeting at the White House. Sheppard couldn’t believe this revelation, and did his job the only way he knows how… freaking out:

If this don’t beat all.

On Tuesday, President Obama met with liberals including MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O’Donnell, and Al Sharpton to “discuss importance of extending the Bush middle-class tax cut.”

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Sheppard promotes manufactured bias invented by right-wing blogosphere, dubiously suggests MSNBC hosts doctored footage of Romney/Ryan rally [w/ UPDATE]

Posted by Kevin E. on September 28, 2012
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Things are going so terribly awry for Mitt Romney that the right-wing blogosphere is resorting to yet another “liberal media” witch hunt to distract from the GOP nominee’s habit of shooting himself in the foot. Of course, NewsBusters being the media experts they are, followed the rest of the conspiracy theorists who are too paranoid out of their minds to think straight, so they started wracking their brains out to promote something they found that is so absolutely inconclusive to judge.

In a September 28 article, Noel Sheppard documents a segment on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe“, which is hosted by former Republican congressman Joe Scarborough, with co-host Mika Brzezinski. Mr. Sheppard takes issue with the hosts reacting to a clip of Republican nominee, Mitt Romney, holding a rally with his VP pick, Paul Ryan, baselessly accusing the duo of doctoring the video, referencing an article from Glenn Beck’s TheBlaze.com (emphasis mine):

As the Blaze reported Thursday, Morning Joe aired a video this week that has aroused similar suspicion.

[...]

In it, a chyron came on the screen reading “Ryan, Ryan” drawing attention to a crowd’s chant at a Romney/Ryan event.

Romney then instructed the crowd to chant, “Romney/Ryan, Romney/Ryan” eliciting harsh criticism from Scarborough – “Sweet Jesus” – as well as derision from Mika Brzezinski.

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Sheppard laments “small government conservative” Joe Scarborough for not following along the party line and not despising President Obama [w/ UPDATE]

Posted by Kevin E. on September 23, 2012
Posted in: Analysis, Noel Sheppard, Updated. Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , . 2 comments

Noel Sheppard, and his employer, NewsBusters, can’t stand it when a conservative criticizes another fellow conservative.

In a September 24 piece, Sheppard applauded Mitt Romney’s senior campaign adviser, Bay Buchanan, during an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press” roundtable discussion, where she called out the host of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe“, Joe Scarborough as not being enough of a conservative, along with New York Times columnist David Brooks (both of whom were on the roundtable panel). The MSNBC host, particularly, didn’t take kindly to it:

After Scarborough took issue with Buchanan implying that she was the only conservative present on a panel filled with liberals, Buchanan replied, “You know, Joe, on this set, you appear to be one of the four”

[...]

As such, despite Scarborough’s ensuing pushback, Buchanan was indeed the only person on that set that at this stage in his or her life can be called a conservative.

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Desperation: NewsBusters compares Drudge audio about Obama believing in “redistribution” to Romney video disparaging people “who believe that they are victims” and voting for Obama “no matter what” [w/ UPDATE]

Posted by Kevin E. on September 19, 2012
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The damage control for the Romney campaign continues, and NewsBusters is not far behind in playing defense to change the narrative.

In a September 19 post (which has been subsequently updated), Jeffrey Meyer chided MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell for refusing to play an audio tape from 1998 (uncovered by the Drudge Report) of Barack Obama, in part, stating “I actually believe in redistribution“. Not surprisingly, that five-word quote Drudge uses in the headline of his website was intentionally cropped.

As usual, this was another utterly failed attempt to paint the President as a socialist. But, I gladly digress from that mountain of a molehill that has bled the ears of the casual news consumer.

Nonetheless, Meyer was incensed that MSNBC would play the “heavily-edited video” of Romney basically claiming 47% of the people in the country (who presumably will vote for President Obama) “are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them…“, but not the Obama “redistribution” tape:

It took less than 12 hours after it was published online at the website of leftist magazine Mother Jones for a video secretly recorded at a Mitt Romney fundraiser in May to appear all over NBC and MSNBC. The heavily-edited video, obtained by the grandson of former President Jimmy Carter, has been a staple of MSNBC coverage the past two days.

Fast forward to Wednesday when audio of then-State Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.) speaking at Loyola University talking about his support for wealth redistribution. MSNBC refused to play the audio on air. On her show Wednesday, Andrea Mitchell claimed that the network’s reason was: [...]

Because we have not authenticated this 14-year-old tape from Loyola College when Barack Obama was a State Senator. So because we have not independently at NBC News and MSNBC authenticated it, we’re not airing it. But the basic issue is, they’re accusing President Obama as John Sununu said to me yesterday of class warfare, that is trying to change the subject

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Ryan Invents New Janesville Narrative, Newsbusters’ Kyle Drennen Fails To Keep Up [w/ UPDATE]

Posted by classicliberal2 on September 4, 2012
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Kyle Drennen continued Newsbusters’ defense of the indefensible Paul Ryan today, falsely claiming that NBC’s “Today” falsely claimed the Republican candidate had “played fast and loose with the truth” in his speech to the RNC.

Drennen’s subject was an interview of Ryan conducted, on the morning program, by Matt Lauer. The host’s first question:

“There are some people who are claiming that you played a little fast and loose with the truth on certain key elements. And I’m not just talking about Democratic analysts, I’m talking about some independent fact checkers. Would you concede that while many of the things you said were effective, some were not completely accurate?”

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Sheppard Flips Out at MSNBC: How could you call Paul Ryan a liar?! [w/ UPDATE]

Posted by Kevin E. on September 4, 2012
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This never gets old.

Noel Sheppard has a complete freakout in a September 4 rant, appearing disgusted and flabbergasted that someone at MSNBC would dare to call a politician a liar:

MSNBC’s Martin Bashir did his part Tuesday by actually calling the Republican vice presidential nominee “a compulsive liar” [...]

After introducing colleague Lawrence O’Donnell, Bashir asked, “Has Paul Ryan in your experience always been a compulsive liar, or have we only just started to notice his loose grip on the truth?”

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Ken Shepherd doesn’t accept Rachel Maddow’s explanation for why MSNBC ignored speech by former Alabama Democratic (now Republican) Congressman Artur Davis at RNC [w/ UPDATE]

Posted by Kevin E. on August 29, 2012
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Ever since the defection of Alabama Rep. Artur Davis from the Democratic party to the Republicans, he has become the party’s new fascination. It’s more than obvious that the Republicans lack any kind of real diversity in their party when it comes to women, Latinos, African Americans and any other non-white race. But, when they actually manage to recruit a poor soul over to their side, they treat this individual with all kinds of homecoming admiration. Now, you can add MRC/NewsBusters, the communications arm of the Republican party, to those who are thrilled about the acquisition.

In an August 29 article, Ken Shepherd took issue with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow for stating why the network decided not to air the Congressman’s RNC speech, which Shepherd partly ignored and decided to make up his own mind on (emphasis mine):

As you may be well aware, MSNBC did not air Democrat-turned-Republican Artur Davis’s speech last night. Shortly before 10 p.m. Eastern, anchor Rachel Maddow seemed to offer the network’s rationale: Davis was a low-profile Democrat who is just bitter because he was “absolutely destroyed” in his primary race for Alabama governor in 2010.

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NewsBusters cheers on RNC chairman’s continuing pattern of unclassy rhetoric, calling MSNBC’s Matthews “biggest jerk in the room” for challenging Romney’s recent attack ads on welfare [w/ UPDATE]

Posted by Kevin E. on August 28, 2012
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Whenever liberals in the media or politicians even remotely attack conservatives in an uncivil manner, you’ll see NewsBusters as one of the first blogs to jump all over it and scream for more civility. Don’t expect this same reaction when a conservative starts calling names and being uncivil.

In an August 28 post, Noel Sheppard was thrilled to see RNC Chairman Reince Preibus rail against Chris Matthews after the MSNBC host called out Mitt Romney and the Republican party on political attack ads regarding welfare, which some people on the left see as playing the race card. Sheppard took a portion of what Priebus said during a press conference at the RNC, as transcribed by another conservative blog:

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“When someone wants to grab the flag and try to be the biggest jerk in the room, sometimes you just let them go,” the chairman said with a laugh.

“We shook hands, but I will tell ya that someone from MSNBC, I don’t know if it’s a producer or somebody, has been trying to call us all day — I’m sure it’s to make amends, but there’s nothing to make amends [about]. When somebody wants to take the prize of being the biggest jerk in the room . . . I mean, he made the case for us.” [...]

Asked if he would go on MSNBC again, he said, “I’m happy to go on MSNBC. Joe and Mika, they weren’t too happy about it. The feeling in the room was clearly there was a lot of unhappiness directed at Chris. I don’t really care. If more than 10 people actually watched his show, I would actually care, but they don’t, so, whatever.”

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