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Why Does MSNBC Continue To Allow A Racist On Their Network?

Posted 10/24/11 at 10:07am by jamie

TPM has some excerpts from Pat Buchanan’s new book. This one really got me:

Perhaps some of us misremember the past. But the racial, religious, cultural, social, political, and economic divides today seem greater than they seemed even in the segregation cities some of us grew up in.

Back then, black and white lived apart, went to different schools and churches, played on different playgrounds, and went to different restaurants, bars, theaters, and soda fountains. But we shared a country and a culture. We were one nation. We were Americans.

Tell that to the people who rode in the back of the bus Pat! You might be longing for the days of segregation, but black America sure isn’t.

Perhaps it’s time for MSNBC to be shut-off until they stop giving a microphone to this man.

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Does Matt Drudge Read What He Posts?

Posted 10/5/11 at 10:12am by jamie

Maybe the media should think twice about considering Matt Drudge some sort of news source. Appearing on the Drudge Report this morning was this link:

There's a big problem with that. Government Motors is the right wing meme for General Motors because of the bailout they received. But look at the actual article Drudge was linking to. You don't even have to read it, just look at the headline:

Ford to pay workers $6,000 bonus in new contract

Ford - not GM! Ford didn't take a bailout. As matter of fact Ford refused government money. Shouldn't this be a cause for celebration, especially from the free market right? You would think so, but not in the world of Matt Drudge.

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So Malkin Can Track Visitors To Her Site, But Obama Can’t?

Posted 9/14/11 at 7:20pm by jamie

Here’s another great one from the queen of wingnut hypocrites, Michelle Malkin:

That’s in a post she did on AttackWatch, a new site launched by Obama for America to track smears.

So exactly what cookies are they using? Well they actually have quiet a few, which is common for most sites, but the biggest tracking cookie I saw comes from Google Analytics. That is also verified by looking at the source code on AttackWatch’s page:

<script type="text/javascript">var _gaq = _gaq || [];
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-30908-26']);
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);
(function() {
var ga = document.createElement('script');
 ga.type = 'text/javascript';
 ga.async = true;
ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);})();
</script>

That right loads in the the tracking code from the Google Analytic service. This is a very popular service used by site owners to get ideas of how many visitors they have and even what pages are popular. I even use it on this page, as does Malkin herself:

<script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">

</script>

<script type="text/javascript">

_uacct = "UA-2595414-1";

urchinTracker();

</script>

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Massive New Scandal That Could End Obama

Posted 9/14/11 at 10:36am by jamie

We need impeachment hearings NOW!

This morning, Fox & Friends joined the New York Post in attacking President Obama for using a paper clip. Read that again: They attacked Obama for using a paper clip.

The Post's story today on Obama's jobs bill is headlined "O gives jobs 'clip' service; $447B 'tax hike' plan bound by chintzy fastener," and its first two paragraphs attack Obama for his choice of document fasteners:

How dare that anti-American, mooslim, socialist traitor use a paper clip! He should have gone the much more costly route of having the bill professionally bound. I guess that’s what the right considers “cutting government waste”, instead of spending a few cents on a paper clip, you should spend a couple of bucks on binding.

This really serves as a reminder of how hated President Obama is by the right, including their media outlets. It’s like “feet on the desk gate” all over again. Remember that? How dare President Obama put his feet on the desk in the Oval Office, even though every other President had done the same thing before.

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Wingnut Backed Righthaven May Be Headed Towards Bankruptcy

Posted 9/12/11 at 8:31am by jamie

Righthaven, the Nevada company that is suing people all over the internet for “copyright violations” is in serious financial troubles:

Despite its backing by the billionaire Warren Stephens family, Las Vegas copyright lawsuit filer Righthaven LLC warned today it may have to file for bankruptcy because of a series of setbacks in its litigation campaign.

The warning came in an emergency request by Righthaven to a federal judge in Las Vegas that he stay his order that Righthaven pay $34,045 in legal fees to attorneys who successfully defended Kentucky message board poster Wayne Hoehn against a Righthaven lawsuit.

Righthaven has already appealed U.S. District Judge Philip Pro’s fee award to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Righthaven is also appealing the underlying rulings by Pro finding Righthaven lacked standing to sue Hoehn and – even if it had standing – that Hoehn was protected by fair use in posting an entire Las Vegas Review-Journal column on a sports betting website message board.

Righthaven says its lawsuits are necessary to deter rampant online infringement of newspaper content, but attorneys for Hoehn and other defendants claim Righthaven's suits are frivolous and are based on sham copyright assignments and are merely part of a get-rich-quick scheme.

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Sorry Jim Hoft - Your Lie FAILED!!!!!

Posted 8/23/11 at 4:04pm by jamie

Leave it to Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit idiocy to even screw up a lie! Here's what Hoft is posting about the earthquake:

When you clickthe link above the image it takes you to the White House's President's schedule, which of course shows no public events today. Clicking the Yahoo link takes you to the source of the image, where we are presented with this caption:

President Barack Obama, left, and his daughter Malia Obama, right, ride bicycles in Manuel F. Correllus State Forest, in West Tisbury, Mass., on the island of Martha's Vineyard, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011.

The most interesting thing is that the photo was published a little 1:11 pm est. and Obama had already left. The earthquake happened at 1:51 pm est. 

So what was the President really doing? Well another thing the right loves to attack - he was golfing! If Hoft would have waited a little bit longer he could have published a factual story with the same impact to the wingnuts out there instead of some fake one. 

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Defending The Boss Without Admitting It

Posted 8/18/11 at 8:00am by jamie

An article currently appearing on Fox 19 in Cincinnati asks if the media is fairly covering the Ruppert Murdoch hacking scandal. After giving a vague background on the story, they go to their analysis:

In the great scheme of things,"News of the World" is pretty immaterial to News Corp.'s earnings, in the one percent range.  As one analyst said "whatever happens there is a flea on the back of an elephant,"

Where that flea becomes a bigger problem, when media entities like Fox news, which are owned by News Corp, barely cover the scandal.

The left leaning site Media Matters tracked the number of times the three cable networks covered the scandal between July 4th and July 17.  This was when the scandal first broke.

CNN covered it the most, 107 times.  Compare that to Fox news which ran only 30 stories.

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News Corp Has Already Admitted To Hacking!

Posted 7/21/11 at 10:38am by jamie

For anyone out there thinking News Corp is innocent, we just need to look back to 2009:

News Corporation admitted at a trial in 2009 that computers at its U.S. marketing division, News America Marketing, hacked into the secure website of a rival U.S.-based company 11 times, according to Bloomberg.

The FBI is currently investigating allegations that News Corp, the parent company of Fox News and The Wall Street Journal, attempted to bribe police and hack into the cell phones of victims of the 9/11 terrorist attack.

Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) wrote Tuesday to Attorney General Eric Holder and FBI Director Robert Mueller to highlight the hacking allegation made by Floorgraphics Inc.

Floorgraphics claimed in a lawsuit that News America Marketing stole business from the company by hacking into Floorgraphics website between October 2003 to January 2004. The company agreed to dismiss the case after receiving a $29.5 million payment from News America Marketing.

So we've got an actual admission by News Corp that they have engaged in this illegal activity before, yet somehow Murdoch thinks he is innocent?

Welcome to ultimate responsibility Rupert! Your company paid out almost $30 million and admitted to hacking just two years ago, yet you claim you have no responsibility? Maybe it's time for you to go back to the land you were born, the land that was once known for being a place that criminals were sent. You should feel right at home there you ass hat!

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The Buck Stops Where?

Posted 7/19/11 at 10:53am by jamie

Rupert Murdoch just told Parliament that he is not ultimately responsible for "this fiasco" and instead projected blame to the people he "trusted and the people they trusted". I'm sorry, but as CEO of the company, you are ultimately responsible for anything that happens within the corporation. I don't think the stockholders will take to kindly to this statement.

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It's Time For Full Blown Investigations Into News Corp, Fox and the Murdochs!

Posted 7/18/11 at 3:33pm by jamie

It's looking like Fox could be involved in some phone hacking also:

According to former Fox News executive Dan Cooper, whose gripes with his former employer run quite deep after being fired in 1996, Fox News chief Roger Ailes allegedly had him design the so-called "Brain Room" to facilitate counter-intelligence efforts and other "black ops."

In a lengthy 2008 diatribe said to have doubled as a book pitch, Cooper claimed his own phone records had been hacked by Fox News employees, who he says used them to pinpoint him as a source used by David Brock, who founded liberal watchdog group Media Matters.

"Ailes knew I had given Brock the interview," he wrote. "Certainly Brock didn't tell him. Of course. Fox News had gotten Brock's telephone records from the phone company, and my phone number was on the list. Deep in the bowels of 1211 Avenue of the Americas, News Corporation's New York headquarters, was what Roger called the Brain Room. Most people thought it was simply the research department of Fox News. But unlike virtually everybody else, because I had to design and build the Brain Room, I knew it also housed a counterintelligence and black ops office. So accessing phone records was easy pie."

Given what's happening in London, this report must be taken very seriously. It's time for congressional hearing and a full blown investigation by the Justice Department. If News Corp is found to have engaged in this highly illegal activity, Ruppert Murdoch, Roger Ailes and anyone else involved must be prosecuted to the fullest extent and News Corp must be taken over by the government and broken up. If that doesn't happen then why even say we are nation of justice?

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Why Pay A Million Dollars To Change Anti-Bribery Laws When You Don't Bribe?

Posted 7/15/11 at 12:08pm by jamie

I think that is the $1 million dollar question right now:

Rupert Murdoch donated $1m to a pro-business lobby in the US months before the group launched a high-profile campaign to alter the anti-bribery law – the same law that could potentially be brought to bear against News Corporation over the phone-hacking scandal.

News Corporation contributed $1m to the US Chamber of Commerce last summer. In October the chamber put forward a six-point programme for amending the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, or FCPA, a law that punishes US-based companies for engaging in the bribery of foreign officials.

News Corp swears up and down that they don't bribe...honest engine!

News Corporation, which has its headquarters in the US, emphasises in its corporate literature that it has a global anti-bribery policy. "We don't offer, give, solicit or accept bribes or kickbacks, either in cash or in the form of any other thing or service of value," it says.

Sure - just like Fox news is "fair and balanced".

It seems like every statement made by News Corp or the Murdochs is quickly invalidated by new evidence coming out. News Corp doesn't engage in bribes, yet they decided to pay $1 million to lobbyists to soften anti-bribery laws? The old adage, "if you don't break the law, you have nothing to worry about" seems to come to mind.

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Rebekah Brooks Resigns

Posted 7/15/11 at 9:12am by jamie

We knew it was only a matter of time:

Rebekah Brooks, the loyal lieutenant of Rupert Murdoch, resigned Friday as chief executive of his embattled British newspapers, becoming the biggest casualty so far in the phone hacking scandal at a Sunday tabloid.

Murdoch had vigorously defended Brooks in the face of demands from politicians that she step down, and had previously refused to accept her resignation.

Brooks was editor of News of the World between 2000 and 2003, the time of the most explosive allegations to hit Murdoch's News Corp. media empire, and she has been in charge of News International's four British newspapers since 2007.

Of course this does not absolve her of any wrongdoing, but the fact that the Murdoch's accepted her resignation doesn't bode well for the media empire, especially with the announcement yesterday from the FBI that they have launched an investigation into the possible hacking of 9/11 victims here in the U.S.

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Eliot Spitzer: Prosecute News Corp

Posted 7/13/11 at 11:21am by jamie

Eliot Spitzer is no stranger to corporate corruption. The former governor and attorney general of New York made it a point to make such cases a priority and he had a very high success rate. Today in Slate, the former governor is now calling for the Department of Justice to prosecute News Corp under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act:

Bribery, illegal wiretapping, interference in a murder investigation, political blackmail, and rampant disregard for both the truth and basic decency. The behavior of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. in Britain has shocked even his closest allies and cynical British journalists. The Murdoch empire is falling apart—criminal behavior and disregard for basic ethics having permeated its highest ranks. News Corp. executives' claims of a full and thorough investigation and that there were only a few bad apples have been exposed as feeble and false. The pseudo-investigations conducted by Scotland Yard are likewise proving to be corrupt and unreliable. Meanwhile, Prime Minister David Cameron's government is running for cover, but it cannot escape the untoward relationship that it had with Murdoch.

So how does all this concern Americans? First, it is hard to believe that the misbehavior in Murdoch's media empire stopped at the water's edge. Given the frequency with which he shuttled his senior executives and editors across the various oceans—Pacific as well as Atlantic—it is unlikely that the shoddy ethics were limited to Great Britain.

You can read the full article here.

One of the most interesting parts of the article is the potential punishment if found guilty:

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