Breitbart: Media Ask Palin and Bachmann Gotcha Questions to Make Them Look Stupid on YouTube
July 3, 2011 No Comment
Conservative publisher Andrew Breitbart was on Saturday's “Fox & Friends” to discuss the double standard concerning how President Obama's gaffes are reported compared to the miscues of Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann. In Breitbart's view, “Life for [Palin and Bachmann] is a permanent game of Jeopardy where the George Stephanopouloses of the world, he of the Clinton war room, are there to try to make them look stupid on YouTube” (video follows with transcript and commentary): MOLLY LINE, CO-HOST: Does the mainstream media have a bias against conservative women? Our next guest, Andrew Breitbart from BigGovernment.com joining us. DAVE BRIGGS, CO-HOST: Andrew, good morning to you, sir. No, he's not one of the Founding Fathers, but I think the questioning here, these very questions being asked of Michele Bachmann, would you hear those posed to Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, etc.? ANDREW BREITBART: No, well, you wouldn’t hear this against Barbara Boxer or Loretta Sanchez. The thing is that Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann represent an existential threat to the Democratic Party the way that 20 years ago Clarence Thomas as a black man represented to liberals and the Democrat Party. The Democratic Party likes to think of itself as the party of minorities, and when in the Republican Party so many women and attractive women and accomplished women rise to the top, it's going to take the media to destroy them because at the end of the day, Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin, you go by the polls, represent what the American people represent on the issues. LINE: You know, our lawmakers and the candidates themselves, they're not infallible. They do make mistakes. And we have a little clip here together of some of the mistakes, the gaffes that President Obama has made. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, these countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union. I've now been in 57 states. I don't know what the term is in Austrian. Wheeling and dealing. Navy corpsman Christian Bouchard. Corpsman Bouchard. Corpsman Bouchard. Malia’s thirteen, Sasha’s ten. They're thirteen and ten. (END VIDEO CLIP) LINE: Now, you know, everybody does make mistakes out there, but do you feel like the media is treating President Obama differently from how they’re treating Michele Bachmann as she gains steam on the campaign trail? BREITBART: Well, what you just saw with President Obama they call in tennis an unforced error. What they try and do with Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann is to force errors, to ask gotcha questions. Life for them is a permanent game of Jeopardy where the George Stephanopouloses of the world, he of the Clinton war room, are there to try to make them look stupid on YouTube. Indeed. We saw this in 2008 with Katie Couric and Charlie Gibson's interviews of Palin where it was clear that she was being quizzed like a game show contestant by an arrogant moderator doing his or her best to make the former Alaska governor look foolish. Now Bachmann is being subjected to the same treatment. As this isn't how male presidential candidates are questioned, and wasn't the way the press handled Hillary Clinton in 2008, one has to conclude that attractive, conservative women are flat out treated differently by America's so-called journalists. Pretty pathetic.
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This x That: Know This: Dominique Strauss-Kahn released without bail after case said to be “on verge of collapse; next court hearing set for July 18. Federal judge temporarily blocks Kansas licensing law that would have left state with one abortion clinic . Minnesota government shuts down for second time in six years over failed budget agreement . Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez had cancerous tumor… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Daily What Discovery Date : 02/07/2011 02:55 Number of articles : 4
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This x That: Know This: Dominique Strauss-Kahn released without bail after case said to be “on verge of collapse; next court hearing set for July 18. Federal judge temporarily blocks Kansas licensing law that would have left state with one abortion clinic . Minnesota government shuts down for second time in six years over failed budget agreement . Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez had cancerous tumor… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Daily What Discovery Date : 02/07/2011 02:55 Number of articles : 4
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Continue reading …Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick had an very informative op-ed piece in the Washington Post this week: At our 25th college reunion in 2003, Grover Norquist — the brain and able spokesman for the radical right — and I, along with other classmates who had been in public or political life, participated in a lively panel discussion about politics. During his presentation, Norquist explained why he believed that there would be a permanent Republican majority in America. One person interrupted, as I recall, and said, “C’mon, Grover, surely one day a Democrat will win the White House.” Norquist immediately replied: “We will make it so that a Democrat cannot govern as a Democrat.” In a way, Republicans have accomplished that. This spring, in an effort to reduce the deficit, a Democratic president proposed to cut $2 trillion in spending, much of it from domestic programs Democrats have long championed . Last week, Republican leaders withdrew from talks with the vice president on a bipartisan plan to reduce the deficit because, as another part of the solution and like every bipartisan budget deal for decades, the president proposed to raise revenue. Specifically, he proposed to raise $1 in new revenue (through closing loopholes or ending the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans) for every $2 in spending cuts. In response to that modest proposal, Republican leaders walked out. It is now clear that the Republican strategy is to drive America to the brink of fiscal ruin and then argue that the only way out is to cut spending for the powerless. Taxes — a dirty word thanks to Norquist’s “no new taxes” gimmick — are made to seem beyond the pale, even as the burden of paying for our society shifts disproportionately to the middle class and working poor. It is the height of fiscal folly. It is also not who we are as a country. Yet, as Gov. Patrick points out, “The only spending Republicans are willing to discuss cutting is spending that helps the poor and vulnerable — meaning anything that does not touch the interests of large corporations and the very rich.” Oh, you noticed that, too, Governor? I remember sitting in the Dunster House dining hall at Harvard with Norquist when we were sophomores or juniors in college, while he explained his view of government, or lack thereof. It sounded logical — the notion that we could live independently of each other, making our own decisions in our own self-interest. But then who puts out the fires? Who answers the calls to 911? Who educates poor children? Who helps people with disabilities? I’d like to think that the most prosperous nation in human history can have both freedom and security. I think we have reached a point where my personal success is not threatened by a program to help our parents retire with dignity. Voters are smart enough to see that taxes are one of the ways we get those things. They are the price we pay for civilization . This is something I often point out to Ayn Rand devotees: “Ever notice there aren’t any children in her books? Or old people, or sick people?” Yes, taxes are the price we pay for civilization. Too bad so many politicians have been hypnotized by the despicable Grover Norquist into thinking otherwise.
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Click here to view this media Karoli already brought attention to this the other day when the crew over at Fox & Friends was complaining about Media Matters and their Drop-Fox campaign and the network’s recent attempts to have Media Matters stripped of their tax-exempt status in her post here — Fox & Friends Whines About Media Matters and “Your Tax Dollars” . This Saturday on Fox’s sorry excuse for a media watchdog program, Fox News Watch, they carried on about Media Matters in not just one, but two segments on their show, continuing their harping about the group going after Fox and their new “boot camp” which The Washington Post wrote about here — Media Matters boot camp readies liberal policy wonks for the camera’s close-up . Thankfully the panel on Fox News Watch included their one token liberal, Jehmu Greene , who actually did a very good job of making a lot of the same points that Karoli did in her post linked above. If Fox wants to complain about Media Matters tax-exempt status, then they’d better be careful what they wish for or organizations like Brent Bozell’s Media Research Center along with a lot of other organizations they both named should be losing theirs as well. I imagine she’ll be relegated back to being the one token liberal with five of them screaming over her on their business shows they air on Saturday mornings after this appearance. Click here to view this media News Corpse has a very good post on this same issue and made some excellent points on why Fox’s complaints are ridiculous as well — When Fox News Attacks: The Assault On Media Matters [Updated] : [June 29, 2011] In case you haven’t noticed, Fox News has recently initiated a sustained assault on the media watchdog group, Media Matters . In the past week they have featured numerous stories with the express purpose of challenging the group’s right to exist. This latest batch of complaints stem from comments made last March by Media Matters founder, David Brock. He was quoted in Politico as saying that the organization was shifting its focus toward Fox News to one of “guerrilla warfare and sabotage.” Under those circumstances it may not be surprising that Fox has taken up a barrage of criticism aimed at Media Matters. It seems only fair that Fox defend itself from such an overt declaration of war. The only thing that might refute that perspective is – reality. Fox News began this war long ago with aggressive and false assertions that cast Media Matters as hacks, anti-American, violent, and communist. They alleged that George Soros was pulling their strings long before Soros ever made any contributions the group. Fox stalwarts like Bill O’Reilly and Glenn Beck engaged in rhetoric so hostile that it inspired actual physical attacks against Media Matters and their progressive allies. So if this is war, it is one wherein Fox is the aggressor. Another thing that makes this blitzkrieg unseemly is that Fox likes to pretend that it is a news enterprise. While Media Matters has as its mission to monitor the press, report their findings, and take actions to improve the state of the media, Fox is over-stepping ethical boundaries in becoming an activist enterprise targeting ideological foes. That is not the role of legitimate journalism. On the basis of that criteria, Fox News argues that Media Matters is in violation and should have their tax-exempt status revoked. That’s an interesting argument because it implies that attacks on Fox News qualify as opposition to political campaigns and/or candidates. Without that stipulation there is no violation on the part of Media Matters. So Fox is, in effect, admitting that they are a political operation. Shocking, I know. If Fox wants to acknowledge that they are not a news network, but a political entity, and change their name to the Fox Republican PR Agency, then I would be willing to call on Media Matters to lay off. Absent that, Fox should drop this inane pretense and go back to pretending they are a news network. Read on…
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Barack Obama’s spiritual mentor of 20 years Rev Jeremiah “G-D America” Wright says white folks are liars. And this racist wonders why he is referred to as Obama’s “controversial” pastor? Via The Blaze: Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Gateway Pundit Discovery Date : 03/07/2011 04:50 Number of articles : 3
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