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There’s Bias and then there’s Hyper Bias

September 26, 2018March 15, 2013

Speaking of media bias, let me ask you to characterize the following in a pithy little phrase such as “media bias” and see what you come up with.

Let’s suppose a Senator, a white middle-aged loin following male Senator, is accused of following his loin into under-aged brothels and cavorting in such trade illegally while said Senator was a Senator. Would such a story be confined to say the left wing white male antipathy laden “news” organizations such as the old grey decaying lady the New York Times, the Washington Post, or the alphabetical stairway to Stalingrad ABC, NBC, CBS et al.?

I doubt it.

It would be sprayed over all the news outlets. Sprayed like the trail of a healthy, lecherous male cat who’s really in the mood. The stench would be so overwhelming that no one could avoid it. Such steamy methylbutan would drain the sinuses as much as chugging a horseradish milk shake topped a dollop of wasabi. Avoiding the story would not be possible. It would be on Fox, Drudge, Rush et al. Everywhere.

Well now let’s change the main character a bit to say….

Rand Paul in yesterday’s Washington Post:

September 26, 2018March 9, 2013

At “Sen. Rand Paul: My filibuster was just the beginning,” he describes the filibuster and why he did it. As usual, the comments shed as much light as the column itself, the number of which has just gone over 3,000 and is steadily climbing. They are fascinating (especially in view of the fact that so many are unconcerned … Read more

Obama White House: ‘Home of the Whopper!’

September 26, 2018October 26, 2012 Steve MacDonald

The Washington Post would like Mr. Obama to stop lying.

I know, the Post, whodathunkit?

Problem: The Sequester. Obama is claiming it was Republicans who proposed it but this is not only ‘not true,’ Obama knows for a fact that the idea originated from his own Advisor – his Director of the National Economic Council, Gene Sperling.

Obama’s Chief of Staff, Jack Lew, was tasked with convincing Harry Reid to go along with the idea, which The Washington Post emphasises because Lew, like Obama, is lying about it as well.

Birds of a Feather

September 26, 2018October 10, 2012 Steve MacDonald

WaPo At the end of fiscal 2011, Sesame Workshop and its subsidiaries had total assets of $289 million. About $29 million was held in cash and “cash equivalents,” mainly money-market mutual funds. Another $121 million on the balance sheet was held in “investments.” According to the accompanying notes, these investments included stakes in hedge funds … Read more

Fact: “Fact Checkers” Aren’t Checking The Facts! [Updated and Bumped]

September 26, 2018September 5, 2012

[Update: Looks like NRO once again caught Dylan Matthews “fact checking” Paul Ryan. This time Matthews set his sites on the Carter/Obama comparison that Ryan mentioned. So Matthews decided to use his skillful, analytical intellect to compile some charts. One problem, the characterization of his intellect just used is completely inaccurate. A correct characterization would be something like: a bumbling, dullard confounded by logic compiled the charts. It turns out he got busted cherry picking metrics to favor Obama and then believed his own jive and stated that the economy is doing better now than in 2009. Problem is, “…this is the year of the fact-checkers, and under the standards set by Matthews’s editor, this sort of thing would be classified as dishonest and untrue.” Doh!]

A few times this week, I stumbled on information about Fact Checker’s malfeasance.

First, on Tuesday, the “Politifiction” piece by the Editors at National Review Online reported on the skullduggery of Politifact. Among others, it demolished Politifacts flaccid refutation of the Romney ad that claimed Obama raided $716 billion from medicare. It’s definitely worth a read because it portends what’s to come and how “mistakes”, “mishaps” and “misunderstandings” will all coincidentally benefit BHO.