Tag: MSNBC

Where’d He Go?

It is obvious that I have a big interest in what happens in the Middle East….and with good reason…I studied it at university and I worked in the region and now I write about it with the hope that I can help people understand that what is happening that we are told daily is not always as accurate as one would think.

I especially like the reporting done by Richard Engel and Ayman Molyeldin….they both speak Arabic and do excellent reporting from the region…..that is why NBC has made a  move that I do not understand………

Ayman Mohyeldin, the NBC News correspondent who personally witnessed yesterday’s killing by Israel of four Palestinian boys on a Gazan beach and who has received widespread praise for his brave and innovative coverage of the conflict, has been told by NBC executives to leave Gaza immediately. According to an NBC source upset at his treatment, the executives claimed the decision was motivated by “security concerns” as Israel prepares a ground invasion, a claim repeated to me by an NBC executive. But late yesterday, NBC sent another correspondent, Richard Engel, along with an American producer who has never been to Gaza and speaks no Arabic, into Gaza to cover the ongoing Israeli assault (both Mohyeldin and Engel speak Arabic).

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/07/17/nbc-removes-ayman-mohyeldin-gaza-coverage-witnesses-israeli-beach-killing-four-boys/

Why was he removed?  The article asks many questions without many answers……

Engel is a very capable reporter…the poroblem is that he was not there when the attack killed the four boys and Ayman was…….then again….why was he removed?  We can postulate all we like but it looks like Ayman was removed because he was an eye witness and that would be very embarrassing for Israel…..

NBC needs to come clean on why Ayman was removed and the BS about security concerns is just that bullshit.  If I were Engel I would be pissed….why/  Apparently Ayman is more important to them than Engel…….until NBC comes clean the rumors and accusations will continue….why not just tell the truth and be done with it?

 

Why A New Face?

I remember the good old days when the only game in town, if you were a news junkie, was CNN….I watched the 1st Gulf War from first bomb to last.

I recent years CNN has fallen on hard times—-since the early days….when it was a novel idea to have a 24 hour news network….and now everybody has a 24 hour network giving all the news that would make a sane person sick.  A couple of years ago CNN decided it would be a good idea to make Anderson Cooper the face of the network….and the network ratings continue to plummet like a lead balloon.  The idea of having one person to represent the whole enchilada has proven to be not such a good idea.

This moronic act has given MSNBC an idea…….

(Newser) – Ronan Farrow, definite son of Mia Farrow and alleged son of Woody Allen, has already gained a degree of fame thanks to his mom’s admission that he just might actually be Frank Sinatra’s love child. But soon the 25-year-old could be a household name: Page Six reports that he’s about to close a deal with MSNBC. While he won’t have his own show right away, the network plans to have him “work across the whole lineup” and “build his TV news credentials,” a source says. The ultimate plan? He’ll be the “face of the network,” as Anderson Cooper is for CNN.

I do not understand why they would want to do this……plus bring in some unknown entity to make the case……I mean they already have a bevvy of on-air news guys to do this….there is Ari Melber, Steve Kornecki, Chris Hayes among others……let’s not forget the lengendary host Tim Russert’s son, Luke……..

And why a dude to be the face of the network……what is wrong with a women…they have access to some great female on-air personalities…..Karen Finney, Abby Huntsman, Krystal Ball and there are others…….

If you gonna bet on one person as the face of the network…..why not make it a female afdter all they are more than capable of doing the job and in most cases more qualified.

I think this is a stupid move….the network has a good record and changing and becoming a copycat will not be any more rating getting than showing Pussy Riot videos.

U.S. Day Of Rage

Well for me the day of rage is just about every day when you see the political games and cowardly acts of our “respected” Washington representatives……but in this case I am talking about a protest that was called for this past weekend……I waited for the report of it from the mainstream media….and I waited…..and I waited….kinda like that plane to Lisbon……

Remember when they were going to have the debt ceiling vote in Washington and Bachmann held her press conference and asked the people in attendance if she should vote NO?…..Remember?  The news report showed all of 12 people standing under some event umbrella and all weakly said….NO!

I bring this up to ask if those 12 people constituted a news story why is not 50,000 one?

In a story in Politics USA by Jason Easley……

Most Americans are being kept in the dark about the US Day of Rage by the corporate cable news giants at CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC who have imposed a de facto blackout on the protest.

Even though estimates have varied from hundreds to as many as 50,000 protesters flooded into Manhattan and others cities to take part in events around the country to, “nonviolently disrupt the disloyal, incompetent, and corrupt special interests which have usurped our nation’s civil and military power, spawning a host of threats to our liberty, lives and national security,” the three cable news networks have devoted no airtime to the story.

This is becoming an all too familiar scene. In Wisconsin hundreds of thousands of regular people took to the streets each weekend to protest the theft of their rights, and were completely ignored by CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC.

We keep hearing people like Palin and Bachmann and Perry and any other of the Teabaggers bitch about the MSM…..but this is just another reason that their bitching is just ginned up crap.  And why would the media NOT report on this protest?  (I know the answer but do others)…..if there is ever some sort of uprising against the machine of state….they cannot count on the media to there reporting the real news….

Now you see why I say that bloggers are the best way to get info….even if I do not agree with them…I trust them more than the mainstream media.

What’s In A Name?

My whole life I had heard that question……so I got to thinking about it and came up with a few things….

Is it spelled with a G or Q or K?

According to a 2009 blog post from ABC news, there are over 112 ways that news media has written the name of possibly crazy Libyan president, Muammar Qaddafi, since 1998. ABC, by the way, spells it Moammar Gaddafi.Yesterday a piece published by the Christian Science Monitor shows that the Associated Press, CNN, and MSNBC spell it “Moammar Gadhafi,” the New York Times spells it “Muammar el-Qaddafi,” the Los Angeles Times writes “Moammar Kadafi,” and Reuters, the Guardian, and the BBC go with “Muammar Gaddafi.”

His name, rendered in Arabic, is “معمر القذافي,” roughly transliterates to “Muamar AlQadafi.” The part with his last name in question, is begins with a “ق” a Qoph, an Arabic letter that is definitely a “K”

Please can we just agree on one simple spelling of the name?  I realize that soon it will not make much of a difference but until he is either captured or killed….a standardized spelling of his name would be nice….

Remember back in ’08 there was that guy that McCain made a plumber and he went on to become a bit of a side show?  Joe the Plumber.  Well we may not have heard the last of that screaming morn…..

The Toledo Blade reports that Joe Wurzelbacher (R), who was often referred to as “Joe the Plumber” during the 2008 presidential campaign, is considering launching a challenge to Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH).

Plumber?  Is not that the name of the crooks and spooks that broke in the Watergate for Nixon?  Just saying.

For weeks now I have heard MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow talking the Google problem that Rick Santorum has……she keeps telling me that Santorum is not the first thing that comes up when you Google the name….after weeks of this I just had to see what she is talking about…..and BLAM!

If you Google the word Santorum you get this…..

1. The frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex.  2.  Rick Santorum………

Okay now I see what she is talking about and let me say….HAHAHAHAHA!

Bing is a bit more kind to Ricky.  But (no pun intended) some names just say it all, huh?

He Is Damn Mad!

I have been railing against the partisanship and the do nothing bunch of idiots we elect….they have done NOTHING to solve any of the country’s problems…..none have any solutions…..and zero ideas how to put the US back on the right track……

I have always appreciated MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan and yesterday he went off on Congress and their lame ass solutions…..a great rant….a great vid….and a great point……he like the rest of us are sick and tired of the high paid lay abouts that we call representatives…….watch the video…….

http://bit.ly/nGZSNO

The utter incompetence of the US Congress is NOT the answer.  Can you feel his anger?  Then SPEAK up!

It Is That Socialism Thing….Again!

Anyone who reads my posts know that I hate it when some on the Right or Left uses socialism to describe the US policies……I have tried to explain that yes there are some socialistic policies in place…but that does not mean that it is rampant socialism….that whole conversation is there to create fear…yes FEAR!  And is its only function…..like I have said….I try to explain it as best I can without having my head explode…..and I found a good video that does it admirably……

http://bit.ly/oMSYAr

Lawrence O’Donnell has worked in the Senate and has a grasp of the games being play and his definition or explanation, if you will is very good……please read it and learn….thanx!

Finally, A Conserv With Cajones!

It is my ALL Palin Day!

Sarah Palin has been making the news a lot…..she is a master at making everything about her and nothing about real issues….there has been speculation that she may throw her wig into the fray for the GOP nomination….there are many in Washington that are afraid of Palin…not the person but the persona and what her loyal following would do if they were to speak out on her shortcomings…..most think that it would be disastrous in 2012….and we know how they are drooling at the possibility that they could win the White house…..and so, they remain silent on Palin…..

But finally there is a conserv that has nothing to lose by speaking up and out….that conserv is Joe Scarborough of MSNBC’s Morning Joe…..and boy has he spoke out!  Read his opinion piece in the Politico…..

politico.com/news/stories/1…

I give Joe two thumbs up for being a concerned conserv and that he is willing to speak out, something his counterparts in Congress are too yellow to do…..Kudos!

Could It Be MoJo For Prez?

I will admit that I watch MSNBC…especially at 5 am (CST)…I enjoy the Morning Joe Show…mainly because he gives ALL sides of the political issue a shot at explanation and questions.  I may not agree or even like some of his stances…but I see a man that has a level head and not afraid to say what is what…even when it gets him in trouble with conservs and libs alike…..

Newser has an article today:

Joe Scarborough insists he’s not running for president. He says he’s perfectly happy as MSNBC’s morning host, where, he argues, he has more influence than your average senator. But there’s a “studio apartment industry of conservatives” who think Scarborough is the man Republicans will need in 2016, writes Marc Ambinder of the Atlantic. The rumblings started when Christopher Buckley, after reading the host’s new book, declared that “Joe Scarborough can save the GOP.” Now Ambinder’s throwing more wood on the fire.Assuming Barack Obama wins re-election, the younger conservatives of 2015 will be hungry for a candidate who can win, he predicts. Culture warriors and neocons will be out of vogue. So who better than Morning Joe, a smooth broadcaster, a self-proclaimed libertarian-leaning conservative, and a “legitimate hero of the ’94 Republican Revolution”? Plus, the Florida-native has suddenly become a Red Sox fan—which “conveniently endears him to New Hampshire.”

Read more: http://www.newser.com/story/98941/meet-the-gops-2016-nominee.html#ixzz0xiruzIk4

The GOP could do a lot worse and probably will…..but I think that Scarborough would make a perfect conserv candidate and quite possibly the perfect conserv president….

Where Is The Condemnation?

More from the VOMITORIUM

By now I believe everybody has witnessed the story of the black lady who worked for the USDA and her racist rant….which was a total fabrication…..and the mainstream media once it got the whole tape came down on the side of the Right and asking why the WH act too quickly to force this woman to resign….

I agree that the government acted before the whole picture was seen……but that is NOT the story they should be reporting….but then ALL conservs will do the stories that will do the most harm to the Pres…..that is ALL that matters to make the WH look ineffectual and panicky…….

The REAL story should be that some yellow journalist has ruined the life of an innocent person…..all the try and get even with the NAACP for the resolution on racists in the Tea Party……..it is all about a woman that was slandered by some pig on the Far Right and NO one is holding him accountable, at least in the media.  Why?

The Mainstream Media should be ashamed of itself….if they want to be journalist than they need to let the bullshit reside where it is most comfortable….FOX News.  Watching FOX news I have NOT seen them apologize for their coverage on a loop to be sure that all their pea brain viewers would get a shot at it…….and after some coward trying to disguise himself as a journalist has gone on FOX and defended the tape…and still NO one has called him to task to his action…….

Let me be the first (hopefully NOT) to apologize to Ms. Sherrod for the treatment she has received and continues to receive in the media…”I am truly sorry for the actions of the media…..it is never about the truth but rather the agenda”…….

If you dipsticks take these people seriously as journalists then you deserve the crap they feed you!

The DR Show–A Review

Or….Why won’t you answer the question?

First, I want to say I do not normally review TV news shows…most of them are a waste of good air time….but I will make an exception this time….

What the American people need is a news show that answers the vital questions of the day, whether you are a conservative or a liberal, the media needs more journalist like Dylan Ratigan of MSNBC.

Why would I say such a thing?

Very simple!  He does not allow the person being interviewed to use the talking points of the day….he almost always demands there be an answer to his questions….to the point that most of the politicians get frustrated and think him rude…personally, I like it and hope that there is a long tenure in his future…..

I like him because he reflects the anger and frustrations of the American people and he tries to take the complex issues of the day and make them simple and easily understood by the average viewer….

It matters not which side of the political spectrum you reside….Ratigan is an equal opportunity basher….he gets my vote as the best news show host on the air….he is informed and inquisitive and demands answers to the questions….every “real” journalist should study his technique….he is a winner…..

To get there go to blogroll and click on Dylan Ratigan Show…..if you are looking for thruth and understanding….the DR Show is your door to that….