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What media bias? NewsBusters points out different times that liberals have attacked Republican Senator

Posted by Kevin E. on May 6, 2013
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Another day, another article where NewsBusters, rather than complain about “liberal bias“, decides to find liberals in the media who are attacking Republican politicians.

In a May 6 complaint, Noel Sheppard documented a conversation Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) had with WorldNetDaily columnist, Aaron Klein, who is apparently now a talk show radio host, about how the Senator got attacked by the host of CBS’ “Late Show”, David Letterman:

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James Inhofe of Oklahoma, told WABC radio’s Aaron Klein Sunday, “That’s kind of a badge of honor. Any time you get Rachel Maddow or Letterman or those people to call you names that means you are winning.”

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“New Low“? NewsBusters thanks one of its contributors for misrepresenting the reactions of Letterman’s late night talk show audience

Posted by Kevin E. on April 27, 2013
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For those of you who already knew that NewsBusters has their fair share of incompetent bias sleuths, you’ll be surprised how much they lack in people who can transcribe a television show, too.

In an April 27 piece, Brent Baker derided CBS late night host, David Letterman, for being “very political” in the “Stooge of the night” segment of his show, which he used to attack three Republican Senators, spanning across a few nights of programming. Baker began the body of his article by analyzing the audience’s reaction to the host’s jokes:

[...] Letterman got very political in putting a picture of each Senator on the screen, yet the audience at his Manhattan theater remained befuddled, nearly silent after each announcement with, at best, scattered nervous laughter before Letterman followed up with a lame crack at their personal appearance. [...]

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While complaining about how the media was “going to gush and fawn” over Secretary Clinton, Noel Sheppard drools over Republican Senators

Posted by Kevin E. on January 23, 2013
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Noel Sheppard hates when the media gushes over Democratic politicians… Even though he can fawn over politicians on the opposite side of the aisle all the time, anytime he wants.

In a January 23 posting, the associate editor of NewsBusters took MSNBC’s Chris Matthews to task for criticizing the questioning of soon-to-be outgoing Secretary of State Hilary Clinton by Republican Senator’s Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Rand Paul of Texas.

Of course, Sheppard had to begin his bitching about the media bias being in favor of Secretary Clinton, while it’s clear that the inquiry into the Benghazi attacks are nothing than a good old-fashioned GOP witch hunt:

It was a metaphysical certitude that America’s media were going to gush and fawn over Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s testimony before Congress Wednesday as they mercilessly attacked any Senator or Representative having the gall to ask her tough questions about what happend [sic] at our consulate in Benghazi, Libya, last year.

Playing his part was MSNBC’s Chris Matthews who on Hardball moments after the hearing ended said of Senator Ron Johnson’s (R-Wisc.) exchange with Clinton, “That was kind of a pissant performance” [...]

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NewsBusters wags its finger at MSNBC’s Matthews for not purposely ignoring poll numbers showing Republicans who support secession, voter fraud by Democrats

Posted by Kevin E. on December 6, 2012
Posted in: Analysis, Ken Shepherd, Links. Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , . 1 comment

In a desperate attempt to play damage control, and try to clarify that demographics outside of typical Republicans are on the radical and conspiratorial fringe, NewsBusters actually had to brag about people of color, and of a young age, are in favor of wanting their state to secede, as well as believing that the Democratic Party committed voter fraud in this past election.

In a December 5 article, Ken Shepherd huffed about how MSNBC host Chris Matthews had the nerve to broadside 25% of Republican voters who want their state to secede from the union, according to a poll done by Public Policy Polling (PPP) yesterday.

Taking issue with the hosts’ focus on that specific number, Shepherd attempts to change the subject:

But a look at the cross tabs in the poll shows that 27 percent of Hispanics, 29 percent of voters aged 18-29, and even 12 percent of African-Americans favor secession.

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Swing and a Miss: Ken Shepherd wonders why MSNBC is “strangely silent” about racist ads that aren’t racist, ignoring same tactic being used against President Obama

Posted by Kevin E. on October 2, 2012
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What passes for media criticism at NewsBusters is usually pretty terrible. This time, it was just hard to read without bursting into laughter.

In an October 2 article, Ken Shepherd is just dumbfounded as to why MSNBC isn’t outraged about “racially-tinged” attack ads against Republican candidate for Congress, Mia Love, who is an African American.

Let him explain (emphasis mine):

As even the casual reader of NewsBusters is well aware, the MSNBC cable news network is forever on the lookout for racially-tinged “code words” in Republican speeches and “dog whistle” ads by GOP super PACs against Democrats. But the network’s keen sense of outrage is conspicuously absent when it comes to attacks by Democratic groups against Mia Love, the African-American Republican Mayor of Saratoga Springs, Utah [...]

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NewsBusters screams bias from “liberal media” for encouraging voters to vote

Posted by Kevin E. on October 1, 2012
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Who would think, in this day and age, we would be dealing with a corrupt media that encourages people to practice such unethical acts?

That’s right… the socialist-commie network, MSNBC, is convincing the sheep out there that we should do everything we can to… vote! *GASP*

In an October 1 complaint, Ryan Robertson took MSNBC anchor Thomas Roberts to task for discussing “the upcoming publicity stunt called ‘Sleep Out the Vote’” with an Ohio state senator. Get ready to be outraged (emphasis mine):

[State senator Eric] Kearney explained the basis of the idea as such:

‘Sleep Out the Vote’ is an initiative where we blanket the state, no pun intended, by sleeping out in front of the board of elections… And we sleep out in front of the board of elections. It’s kind of a party or festive atmosphere. It’s a great deal of fun to highlight the importance of early voting.

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Noel Sheppard (Republican spokesman?) tries to help frame baseless narrative about President Obama and his past “apology tour“

Posted by Kevin E. on September 17, 2012
Posted in: Analysis, Noel Sheppard. Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , . 1 comment

As readers of this blog know, Noel Sheppard has had many instances where it seems that he’s trying out as the head of the RNC, or possibly Press Secretary for Mitt Romney, by attempting to frame the narrative in specific attacks on President Obama and liberals. Instead of leaving it to Republican party strategists, he enjoys jumping in on the action and giving some pointers along the way.

In a September 17 article, Sheppard tries to piggyback onto the ridiculous “apology tour” talking point being pushed by Republicans like Congressman Peter King (R-NY) on CNN´s Starting Point this morning. Just as a refresher: Rep. King has become infamous in the political world as a rabidly anti-Islamic character in Congress aggressively in favor of profiling Muslims. So, his record is well-known, and his intentions in criticizing the President on this topic aren’t too surprising.

Aside from the GOP in Congress, more recently this tactic has been used by Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. It’s odd, however, considering he is a little late to the show, and how the party has been repeating the “apology tour” nonsense since Obama had the nerve to go overseas and rebuild the bridges that George W. Bush burnt down for 8 years straight. The way conservatives see it is they are aghast at why Obama faulted the United States with many of the things they did wrong or, at least, admitted they made some mistakes.

But no… Sheppard and the Republicans aren’t going to have it. We are perfect and exceptional no matter what, and the Republicans are the ones who need to educate the rest of us (this coming from the party who complains about “liberal elitists“).

Get a load of Sheppard’s outset:

CNN’s Soledad O’Brien on Monday felt the need to defend Barack Obama from criticism that his policies are at least partially responsible for the recent anti-American hostilities transpiring in the Middle East and other parts of the globe.

During a heated debate with Congressman Peter King (R-N.Y.) on Starting Point, O’Brien got a much-needed education on the President’s “apology tour” [...]

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“Useful Idiot“: Does Mark Finkelstein even know who Jon Huntsman is?

Posted by Kevin E. on September 14, 2012
Posted in: Analysis, Mark Finkelstein. Tagged: , , , , , , , , . 4 comments

Mark Finkelstein is one of the few special NewsBusters who seems to enjoy riling up pointless drama for his right-wing readers to freak out about.

In a September 14 posting, The Finkler was outraged that former Governor of Utah, and Republican presidential candidate, Jon Huntsman actually had the nerve to criticize Mitt Romney’s careless attacks on the Obama administration, specifically regarding their response to the death of four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador to Liyba, Chris Stevens, which was fueled by an anti-Islam film.

As usual from Finkelstein, there were some things that amazed me. Let’s start with his take on Huntsman’s political affiliation and loyalty to his party (emphasis mine)

Is Jon Huntsman headed the way of Charlie Crist? When the 2016 Dem convention rolls around, will we see the also-ran GOP presidential nomination-seeker on the podium, seconding Hillary’s nomination? You’ve got to wonder after Huntsman’s toadying performance today as he made the MSNBC rounds.

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NewsBusters condescendingly sighs at NYT’s attempt to put Obama’s “you didn’t build that” comments in-context

Posted by Kevin E. on September 11, 2012
Posted in: Analysis, Clay Waters. Tagged: , , , , , , . 1 comment

How do these people sleep at night knowing how purposely disingenuous they are?

In a September 11 complaint, Times Watch director Clay Waters seems incensed that the New York Times has the temerity to put the “you didn’t build that” portion of President Obama’s speech in-context (emphasis theirs):

Surprisingly, Obama loyalist Calmes discerned political problems in the president’s anti-business rhetoric. More predictably, she defended Obama’s anti-entrepreneurship remark “you didn’t build that,” accusing the GOP of taking it out of context, even though the context does not save Obama from the charge of showing hostility to enterprise and individual initiative.

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But as the schedulers arranged, she followed James D. Sinegal, the well-known co-founder of Costco. He was among several speakers from the business world chosen to affirm Mr. Obama’s philosophy that the private sector needs the hand of government to educate a work force, build roads, finance research and more. That sought to counter a Republican convention theme, based on an Obama quote taken out of context, that the president recently said of businesses, “you didn’t build that.”

Sigh. As Times Watch has stated before (whenever someone on the paper’s roster of objective reporters feels duty bound to defend Obama from Republican attacks) the precious “context” they seek doesn’t help Obama dodge the charge of being anti-business.

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Ken Shepherd Inadvertently Exposes the Myth of a “Liberal Media”

Posted by classicliberal2 on September 10, 2012
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In a bumbling effort to outline his latest right-wing persecution fantasy, Newsbuster Ken Shepherd inadvertently makes the case against Newsbusters’ central premise of a “liberal media”:

“Suppose there were a Republican state legislator in Georgia, who also happens to also be an ordained Baptist minister, who sent a letter to the owner of the Atlanta Falcons–on official state legislature letterhead no less–demanding he keep his players from speaking out in favor of same-sex marriage. The media firestorm would be predictable.”

As the astute reader can guess, this is exactly what did happen, but in Maryland, not in Georgia, and with a Democratic legislator, not a Republican one. Maryland Democratic delegate Emmet C. Burns, the Baptist minister in question, sent an outrageous letter to Baltimore Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti complaining that Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo is campaigning against a ballot initiative aimed at overturning a Maryland law that allows for same-sex marriage:

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