Media Mythbusters Blog

As the political boil increases daily if not hourly in strength, I recommend to our readers a visit to Real Clear Politics. A favorite of mine and has been for years, you’ll find up-to-date articles, discussions and polls concerning America’s political races…

From Pierre Legrand’s Pink Flamingo Bar this morning, we have a strong response to the not-so-subtle movement among our politicians to shove illegal immigration down the collective American throat once more: Because Republicans are just incredibly stupid…how else to explain 29 Republican Sponsors to this abortion! Whatever your stance, it’s a great post… A quote:

Obviously if as a United States Congressmen you are NOT willing to stop illegal immigration you should make damn sure that no pesky state or local officials go around you and take care of the problem themselves. More obviously if you are a hopelessly stupid political party getting its ass handed to it in every single goddamn election held you should GO OUT OF YOUR WAY TO P&^@ ON YOUR BASE. Naturally. So that explains these 29 clowns wearing the Republican badge sponsoring legislation to take away States rights to police up a problem they refuse to face. After all when you aren’t collecting much money from your base because you have foot tapped your way into hell then corporations like Tyson Foods and Mohawk Fabrics who employ thousands of illegal’s are your only hope.

And if you want some sanity concerning Iran, make sure you catch Bob Owens at Pajamas Media this morning: How Iran Is Killing U.S. Troops in Iraq. Does ANYONE have any doubts whatsoever that Iran is killing our troops directly and indirectly? Time for an ass-whupping for our buddy Iran and I see a trip to the woodshed in the not-so-distant future for Iran and their cronies… Bookworm Room chimes in as well: These bombs were not put together in the garage.

Don Surber gives us an excellent piece today: On the bus. An excerpt:

The Straight Talk Express is as advertised.

I got to ride in Republican Sen. John McCain’s campaign bus from Yeager Airport to a campaign stop in St. Albans, where he bought a fishing pole at a gun store and he later met privately with supporters. It was a 20-minute trip that reminded me why I quit reporting 20 years ago.

More Friday fun on the way folks…

For your Friday reading entertainment - here we go - let’s take a trip to NewsBusters up front:

• NBC: Bush Goes Left on Global Warming, But Not Left Enough
• White House Denies CNN’s Claim Bush Bashed Obama in Israel
• CNN’s Henry Quotes Dems’ Wrath, Fails to Search Obama Statements
• ChiTrib Correspondent: Obama and Edwards Look ‘Fantastic Together’
• ABC: Americans ‘Soon’ Paying $1000 to Fill Up Their Gas Tank?
• Tommy Lee and Ludacris: CNN’s New ‘Green’ Authorities
• MSNBC’s Brzezinski: Bush Speech a ‘Stinging Criticism’ of Obama
• Text and Video of President Bush’s Speech to Israeli Knesset
• Matthews Rips Guest For Ignorance of History, Then Claims Cole Attack Happened Under Bush
• Chris Matthews: Bush Sucker Punched Obama!
• Nets Show Scorn for ‘Two-Pronged Republican Attack on Obama’
• N.Y. Times Ignored March for Life, But Covers 40 Anti-War Marchers
• Cokie Roberts Fears Hillary Loss Could ‘Set Women Back Further’
• Cannes-tankerous Sean Penn: Bush Is ‘Absolute Evil,’ A Mass Killer
• Comparing Coverage of Industrial Production Declines: 2008 v. 2000-2001
• Morning Joe’s All Bush-Bashing Lineup
• Gary Hart Hits Nazi-Like Neocons and ‘Pre-Programmed Ditto Heads’
• Did Gushing Mika Know Buchanan Criticizes WWII Defense of Poland?
• LA Times Sees More Trouble for GOP than Dems with Same-Sex Marriage Ruling

NewsBusted: 5/16/08

Okay, enough of NewsBusters…

Onto the postings of our incredible bloggers:

Wizbang - The Comment that Struck a Nerve (to say the least)

Townhall.com - None Dare Call It ‘Appeasement’

Townhall.com - Senate votes to roll back media ownership rule

TigerHawk - Notes on the most recent global climate data

The Strata-Sphere - Updates On The War In Iraq 05_16_08

The Sam Adams Alliance - Free to Choose Media: Telling the Story of Freedom

The Jawa Report - Proud

The Jawa Report - Peggy Noonan : The Deer in the Darkness

The Jawa Report - Dead Guy OBL Awakens Again For New Message

The Anchoress - Gay marriage and the churches - UPDATED

Sparks from the Anvil - Politicizing Foreign Policy?!?

Sparks from the Anvil - The Compassionate Conservative President

Sister Toldjah - Does Barack Obama ever stop lying?

Protein Wisdom - California mullahs judges, “The People’s role in their own government?” [Darleen Click]

Protein Wisdom - Peggy’s Pathetic Pontificating Pundit Pity Party [Dan Collins]

Protein Wisdom - Progg Media respects Barack Obama’s authoritah [Karl]

Power Line - The lad he doth protest too much

Power Line - Our robed-masters strike again

Patterico’s Pontifications - Jim Newton: My Paperweight Is Just a Paperweight

Patterico’s Pontifications - Anita Busch Calls for Investigation of Chuck Philips’s Pellicano Reporting

Old War Dogs - A**easing the A**easers

Michelle Malkin - Worst. Republican. Senator. Ever.

Michelle Malkin - McCain reaches out to blogs…on the left; Update: “A new standard for transparency and accountability”

Michelle Malkin - FARC documents: they’re real, and they’re spectacular.

Michelle Malkin - North Korea still dealing drugs

Michelle Malkin - The Chinook helicopter sabotage mystery

TOTALLY unrelated:

Our Friday Gopher Dance…

Lucianne.com - Senate OKs bill easing rules on Communists

LorieByrd.com - 16 Years Today (congrats to Lorie and hubby!!!)

LorieByrd.com - The Number One Reason John McCain Should be President

Little Green Footballs - We’re Giving Saudi Arabia Enriched Uranium, They’re Giving Us the Shaft

Little Green Footballs - Obama: ‘I Have Never Said I Would Negotiate with Terrorists’

Little Green Footballs - Obama’s Diplomatic Partner: ‘The Hidden Imam Manages All the Affairs of the World’

Little Green Footballs - Pro-Al Qaeda Revisionist History from AFP

JammieWearingFool - State Representative from Unknown Party Arrested for Fourth Time

JammieWearingFool - Good News: Afghan Hijacker Now Works at Heathrow

JammieWearingFool - Will the Senate Veto This Travesty?

Pew - Poll: 72% say media shouldn’t declare Obama the nominee

Hot Air - Video: Media absolves Obama over “Sweetiegate”

Gateway Pundit - In 24 Hours Obama Proves Bush Right

Gateway Pundit - Obama Moonbat… Another Strange Foreign Policy Gaffe

Gateway Pundit - Interpol Confirms: US Democrat Was Secretly Working With FARC To Undermine Colombian Government

Gateway Pundit - Lights Out… Pakistan Caves to Shariah Law

Flopping Aces - Hatemonger To Speak At US School

Flopping Aces - Flight 93 Memorial Blogburst: Crescent Shapes With & Without Islamic Intent - The Obama Logo Example

Democracy Project - Bush’s Powerful Knesset Speech

Democracy Project - Civil Servants Make Us Tax Slaves

Bookworm Room - A clear view of Obamania from overseas *UPDATED*

Confederate Yankee - Obama: Hezbollah and Hamas Have “Legitimate Claims”

Confederate Yankee - Totten On Yon

Brutally Honest - Brother, can you spare some…

Bookworm Room - Controlling the debate

Bookworm Room - Lies *UPDATED*

BizzyBlog - California Draggin’ and Wolverine Woes Mask an Otherwise Decent Employment Situation

Atlas Shrugs - NYC NAKBA RALLY AND G-D SAID, LET THERE BE RAIN ..LOTS

Atlas Shrugs - JIHAD: NAKBA ACROSS THE MUSLIM WORLD THE DISASTER OF APPEASEMENT

This should be an interesting day with John McCain’s plan to save America and Obama accusing President Bush of well, saying it’s all about him don’t ‘cha know…

Let’s get to it then. The Anchoress is at it bright and early:

You know, I don’t watch much television and I don’t expose myself to much of this craziness…

but is it just me or is this guy turning into a cartoon before our eyes?

Will his head explode soon?

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brad-wilmouth/2008/05/15/olbermann-accuses-bush-murderous-deceit-should-shut-hell

This is frighteningly sick stuff.

Whew! Glad Olbermann is the voice of sanity… When does this crap cross the line into law suit territory? I’m sure I can raise a fund to provide a nice, safe padded place for him - we’re there for you bro’.

Bob Owens at Confederate Yankee asks a poignant question concerning McCain and the media in his latest article: John McCain: Commander in Chief of the Israeli Military? Bookworm Room nails it: To dumb to relay the news?

And although I am no McCain fan, Bookworm points us to NewsBusters who writes an article once again demonstrating what’s good for the goose is good for the gander: AP Standards: Obama’s Top Contributors Linked to Investments in Sudan.

The lineup:

NoisyRoom.net - John McCain - Change x 2

Atlas Shrugs - BUSH IN ISRAEL: IRAN ATTACKS

Atlas Shrugs - ANTISEMITISM AT WIKIPEDIA, Weakipedia, TOOL OF THE JIHAD

BlackFive - Pics from scenic Baghdad

Bookworm Room - Sudan and the elections

Bookworm Room - Moral relativism demands that we respect their choices

Brutally Honest - Where in hell have these words been?

Brutally Hones - This just in…

National Review Online - Another AP Photographer, a Magic Bullet and the Sandy Knoll

Confederate Yankee - Bit Dog Barks

Democracy Project - Linda Foley Strikes Out

Democracy Project - The Real Coming Health Care Choices

Charleston Daily Mail - Blankenship costs another man his job

Flopping Aces - Criminal Who Attacked Skye To Get His Day In Court

Gateway Pundit - BUSH BLASTS APPEASERS!! …Obama Campaign Whines… MORE- Pelosi Reacts

Gateway Pundit - AMAZING MUST SEE VIDEO! Female TV Anchor Sahar Al-Khatib Tells Off Hezbollah!

Gateway Pundit - Lebanese Leaders Bow Down to Hezbollah

Hot Air - Mark Levin to GOP candidates: Cut ties with McCain and the RNC and run as conservatives

Hot Air - Video: Kerry lies about Obama’s willingness to meet personally with Iran

Hot Air - I wonder where he got that idea? Oh, yeah!

Hot Air - In the year 2013 …

JammieWearingFool - Gary Hart Has Public Nervous Breakdown on the HuffPost

JammieWearingFool - Live debate: Digital politics and the US election

JammieWearingFool - Spicoli Questions The Messiah: Obama’s Record ‘Phenomenally Inhuman and Unconstitutional’

Little Green Footballs - Daily Kos and Others on Jihad

Little Green Footballs - A Terrorist Group with a YouTube Channel

Little Green Footballs - Farrakhan Featured on Cover of Rev. Wright’s Magazine Three Times

Lucianne.com - CBS buys tech news website CNET

Lucianne.com - Reuters demands explanation from Israel for death of cameramen

Michelle Malkin - The problem with McCain’s Big Vision Thing speech; Update: “I will ask Democrats to serve in my administration;” “Illegal immigration has been finally brought under control” (hahaha)

The Mudville Gazette - The Latest

NewsBusters - NewsBusters Interview: Jonah Goldberg (Part II)

NewsBusters - PBS Star Bill Moyers Says Rev. Wright ‘Assassinated by Soundbites’

NewsBusters - CNN’s Brown Rejects Suggestion That McCain Hasn’t Received a ‘Free Ride’

NewsBusters - Where’s the Beef? It Doesn’t Matter, It’s Bad for the Environment, Says ABC

NewsBusters - Serbia Turns Westward, Spurns Russia; Media Yawns

NewsBusters - CBS ‘Early Show’ Offers Opposing Side in Global Warming Debate

NewsBusters - FNC: Montel Williams ‘Sick’ of Media ‘Attempting to Control This Election’

NewsBusters - Moyers, Tavis Smiley Discuss Fall of the ‘American Empire’ on PBS

NewsBusters - Anti-Conservative Hollyweird Update — BDS and Globaloney Galore

NewsBusters - Sawyer Suggests Hillary Should Reject Race-Based Votes. And Obama?

NewsBusters - Sherri Shepherd Suggests West Virginians are Racist

NewsBusters - WaPo Notes Chavez Backing for FARC Terrorists, Six Days After WSJ Had Story

NewsBusters - Lauer Presses Exxon CEO to ‘Justify’ Doing Business

NewsBusters - Obama Aide: Bill O’Reilly a ‘Bully,’ We’ll ‘Go Directly at Him’

NewsBusters - CNN’s Hypersensitive Reaction to Bush ‘Appeasement’ Comments

NewsBusters - CBS’s Plante: President Bush Takes ‘Slap at Barack Obama’

Power Line - Fear and loathing in lefty blog-land

Protein Wisdom - The Big Picture(s): “The John McCain Doctrines” edition [Karl]

Protein Wisdom - Hell hath no fury like a media scorned [Karl]

Sister Toldjah - Must-read of the day

Small Dead Animals - From Rusafa to Sadr City

The Anchoress - I couldn’t watch this poisonous hate - UPDATED

The Anchoress - Alternate Media Making Headway

The Dread Pundit Bluto - Stating the Obvious…

The Jawa Report - Fred is BACK!

The Jawa Report - I Can Haz Amnesty Now? (v. 2.0)

The Jawa Report - Media Bias In The Kennedy-Andropov Affair

The Jawa Report - Obama’s Global Poverty Act Bill S 2433 - Wolf In Sheeps Clothing?

The Radio Patriot - OBAMA AND CARTER: TWO PEAS IN A POD?

Like you all already don’t know… John Edwards just formally threw his support behind Obama and Brutally Honest gives it all the respect it so hugely deserves: Breck girl disses Billary…

Wonder if this means Obama will let his hair grow? Only his Breck Girl knows for sure…

Lot’s of stories swirling in the news on this rainy Wednesday… Let’s open up with a strong post from The Strata-Sphere: Updates On The War In Iraq 05_14_08, Sadr City Residents Battle The Iranian-Backed Mahdi Army. AJ’s great reporting gives you an inside look concerning Iraq and Iran:

The myth that Sadr City is a hot bed of Sadr support has been busted. Found a report that one of the Iraqi divisions leading the fight against the Iranian backed Mahdi is lead and populated by Sadr City Shiites.

Why is this not on the nightly news? (I know the answer….!)

Townhall.com has a great article that came from CSPAN: Palestinians Phonebank for Obama.

And here is a quick list of today’s headlines from NewsBusters - simply the best source we have seen for media news:

• The Global Warming Tutorial Media Should be Required to Take
• WaPo Fails to Note Kerry Connection for McCain/Hagee Critic
• CNN Cites ‘Recession’ in Exit Poll Questions
• NYT Columnist Sees ‘Magic’ in Military Invasion of Myanmar
• N.Y. Times Hails Barney Frank, Witty Bridge-Builder
• MSNBC: Hillary the ‘Al Sharpton of White People,’ Obama the ‘New Breeze’
• Rove Not Being Devil ‘Complicates World View’ of Newsweek Editor
• Age Card? Obama Campaign Won’t Let McCain ‘Wander Around’ FL, MI
• ABC Showcases Hapless Woman Who Skips Breakfast to Afford Gas
• Bozell Column: The Big Bad Right-Wing Wolf
• Global Warming Skepticism Shocks Chris Matthews
• Barbara Walters Eager for Hypothetical Interview of Osama bin Laden
• NYT Admits Fault in Salmon Story; Industry Spokesman Calls Times’ Claim ‘Dubious’
• Chris Matthews: West Virginians Decided Decades Ago to Oppose Obama
• Soros Attacks Free-Market Capitalism in USA Today Puff Piece
• Hannity Exposes Gore’s Connection to Ethanol and Higher Food Prices
• WaPo: Border Fence Ruins Mother’s Day for Mexican Families
• News Reports Avoid Mentioning Record U.S. April Tax Receipts
• MRC’s Worst of the Week: GOP ‘Slime and Hate’; Coddling Obama

Digest that and while you are there check out this survey from Newsbusters on John McCain and Global Warming…

From Brutally Honest today we received a post that you will not see in the MSM on the military: A day in the life… Guaranteed to remind you just how special our girls and boys serving in the armed forces are and how brave they truly are. With a huge thanks to the good people at BlackFive for putting this out there…

Also check out Patterico’s Pontifications: Patterico’s Exclusive Interview with a Man Who Has Spoken to the Terrorists at Guantánamo (A Roundup of Links). Matt at BlackFive points us to this post and it is a great read…

RBT over at Friends of Mark Fuhrman has the latest on the River Park Square Scandal: O. Yale Lewis Spokane’s Best Hope for Holding Those Accountable for RPS. He’s our resident crime sleuth and darn good at it…

Alright Bat Fans, now we go to our regularly scheduled roundup of links for the day - enjoy…

Wizbang - It’s. Just. That. Simple.

Wizbang (by our fearless leader Lorie Byrd) - The Next Right

Wizbang - It’s Official: We’re Screwed

TigerHawk - Point. Counterpoint.

TigerHawk - Lies! All Lies!!!

The Radio Patriot - AMERICA’S FAVORITE MOM!

The Radio Patriot - THAT ROME I SMELL BURNING?

The Anchoress - Huckabee and End-Times Advocates

Atlas Shrugs - ROBERT WEXLER, FLA IS A LIAR AND A KAPO

Right Wing News - Dueling Quotes: Lying President Condemns Presidents Who Lie

Protein Wisdom - How John McCain can make inroads with the youth vote [Karl]

Protein Wisdom - Guilt by association by association (or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the ill-fated Greenwich Village nail bomb, part 2)

Protein Wisdom - Another reason John McCain’s global warming speech was dumb [Karl]

Protein Wisdom - Barack Obama’s latest faith-based appeal [Karl]

Protein Wisdom - Daddyblogger Robert Pedersen Hired by Detroit News [Dan Collins]

Power Line - Change this

Pierre Legrand’s Pink Flamingo Bar - Perpetually Offended Religion (Guess which one), Offended…Brussels Journal at Fault for Hounding the Poor Dears…naturally

Patterico’s Pontifications - Obama Reaches Out to Evangelicals

Patterico’s Pontifications - L.A. Times Asks: Are We Biased? Try Giving Your Answer!

Patterico’s Pontifications - The Media Loves Obama (Updated)

Pajamas Media - Global Warming: Mostly Hot Air

Pajamas Media - Wiki-Whacked by Political Bias

Michelle Malkin - “Careless detention” and open-borders journalism

Lucianne.com - Smear Redefined

Little Green Footballs - Video: Jew-Eating Rabbit Teaches Revisionist History to Hamas Kids

Little Green Footballs - HuffPo: Obama Doesn’t Need the Jews Anyway

Little Green Footballs - When Discredited Hacks Attack

JammieWearingFool - Despite Record Numbers, Polar Bears Now ‘Threatened’

Hot Air - Video: Chris Matthews darned tired of being Terry McAuliffe’s punching bag

Hot Air - Chris Matthews: Hillary’s sort of the “Al Sharpton of white people,” isn’t she?

Gateway Pundit - Biased Media: Economy Is Now Affecting the Horses

Gateway Pundit - Caroline Glick Holds Blogger Call With “One Jerusalem”

Gateway Pundit - OOPS!! Obama Goofs– Wants More Arabic Speakers in Afghanistan (Video)

Gateway Pundit - Desmond Tutu: “Rev. Wright Says What All Blacks Want to Say”

Gateway Pundit - Whiny Reporter at Columbia Journalism Review Attacks Gateway Pundit and LGF

Flopping Aces - Obama: Holier Than Thou!

Confederate Yankee - The Bloodless Bullets of Baghdad

Confederate Yankee - Hussayn’s Story

Confederate Yankee - Gripes of Wrath

Confederate Yankee - Death of a Strawman

Bookworm Room - Renaming the paradigm *UPDATED*

BlackFive - Maliki Roars

BizzyBlog - Jeremiah Wright’s Trumpet Newsmagazine: Cover Pic ‘Highlights’ (Farrakhan, Sharpton, Jackson, Others)

BizzyBlog - As Media Ogles, Stanley Kurtz Trumpets the Obviously Deep Obama-Wright Connections

Just had to share with you a couple of items that just came to my attention. The New Editor has a great post: Obama: ‘They Want to Make This Campaign About Me!’ The Obama Team’s cries and logic are just plain dumb and deliberately manipulative and misleading. And the Bookworm Room chimes in - Maybe the spotlight isn’t so great after all. Hey, Obama, you are fair game - politics is a down-and-dirty game and you will be examined mercilessly. We already know you will use that against John McCain…

And for your stomach-turning pleasure Steve Schippert at ThreatsWatch.org brings us this tidbit from YouTube (warning - sickening and frightening and Steve just ruined one of my favorite songs darn it…):

And share Obama’s New Math with Tom Elia at the New Editor: Obama Unveils his ‘57 State Strategy’. A math challenged messiah - go figure… And emphasizing his cyphering skills, Obama continues his mathematical gymnastics - Don Surber: ‘We Don’t Want Another Six Years of George Bush’.

Maybe Bookworm can clear this up:

You know, this is all the problem of that “new math” or maybe the fuzzy math that the progressive educational movement foisted on America for the past 40 years. These math-challenged Democrats are probably right if you’re calculating the numbers in base 9.3 or something.

Th-th-that’s all folks…

What beautiful spring morning would not be complete without festive pictures? To kick off today, I present to you the newest report and picture extravaganza by Zombietime. This report deals with the Nakba-60 Palestinian Festival in San Francisco - whackiness and religious intolerance ensue. Zombie is what a real investigative photographer should be - honest and blunt, you just won’t find this type of footage anywhere else. Reuters and the AP could certainly learn a thing or two: Nakba-60 Palestinian Festival.

And to bring a smile to your face, we bring you this from Brutally Honest: He’s so… like… true… Unfortunately, our use of the English language has become lazy and abusive - meh, if you will - you know?

From Blog Talk Radio:

The Lone Survivor
Former Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell

Marcus Luttrell, a six-foot-five-inch Texan, former Navy SEAL and author of “Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10,” joins Now is the Time on BlogTalkRadio for an exclusive interview. Hear from the man himself as he details his story of courage, honor, and patriotism with FlyLady Marla Cilley and BlogTalkRadio CEO Alan Levy. This inspirational story The Washington Post says “showcases both American heroism and Afghani humanity” will move and shake your beliefs about modern warfare and those who make the ultimate sacrifice for their country. Even if you’ve read the book, you’ve not heard it from the mouth of the Lone Survivor.

Tuesday @ 8pm ET / 5pm PT

More to follow…

Update: And now from the prolific (you know…) blogosphere…

Bookworm Room - Teaching someone a lesson — NOT

Bookworm Room - Making capitalists

Confederate Yankee - Killing The Zombie

Democracy Project - SCOTUS Allows Major Intrusion Of “International Law”

Flopping Aces - Obama Changes His Tune

Gateway Pundit - Shocker!… Dems Scream Racism After Republican Candidate Shows Obama in an Ad!

Gateway Pundit - AP Hides Good Economic Numbers In Military News

Gateway Pundit - Surprise!… Obama’s Trinity Church *Hearts* Hezbollah

Hot Air - Time wins the Basra Narrative sweepstakes

Hot Air - WSJ not biting on McCain’s carbon “market”

JammieWearingFool - Last Week He Was a Terrorist, Today He’s an Activist

JammieWearingFool - Chinese Bloggers Go Troofer After Quake

Little Green Footballs - Obama: I Understand Why Hamas Digs Me

Little Green Footballs - The Protocols of the Daily Kos

Little Green Footballs - Obama: Israel is ‘A Constant Sore’

Michelle Malkin - The stupid party strikes again: “The Change You Deserve”

Michelle Malkin - See no jihad, hear no jihad, speak no jihad

NewsBusters - More Military Doom and Gloom from AP

NewsBusters - CNN’s Toobin: McCain’s Global Warming Stump ‘Like Acknowledging Gravity’

NewsBusters - USA Today Joins CNN, ABC in Inflating Gas Prices on Websites

NewsBusters - NewsBusters Interview: Jonah Goldberg, Author of ‘Liberal Fascism’ (Part I)

NewsBusters - Nonsense ‘Survey’ Says Americans ‘Struggling in Life’

NewsBusters - SacBee: Anti-War Bias Hidden in Tale of Iraqi Girl Getting New Legs from US Army

NewsBusters - AP: Military Hits Recruiting Goals Despite ‘Slow Economy,’ and ‘Unpopular War’

Power Line - Steyn ex machina

Power Line - Running Interference for Obama, Part 3

Power Line - Wazwaz (not Wazwaz)

Power Line - Running interference for Obama, part 2

Power Line - Monomania in the Mainstream Media

Protein Wisdom - Guilt by association by association (or, how learned to stop worrying and love the ill-fated Greenwich Village nail bomb)

Protein Wisdom - Barack Obama supports the “idea” of Israel… and of the US [Karl]

Right Wing News - Thought Of The Day: Was Obama Too High To Know How Many States There Are?

The Dread Pundit Bluto - Obama General Election Strategy Taking Shape

Let’s start today with a huge congratulations to Bookworm at the Bookworm Room who was just published for the first time at Pajamas Media! For those of you who have missed out on the Bookworm Room, you just don’t know what you are missing. Bookworm is a great writer and the insight you garner from Bookworm’s articles is incredible. Check out Bookworm’s article: A San Francisco Bay Military Recruiter in ‘Harms Way’. Congrats once again to Bookworm who is a great blogger and a great friend…

Then bop on over to The Strata-Sphere and check out the latest post on the Mahdi Army. If you want to figure out what is truly going on in the middle east, this is a great place to start - We Will Soon Find Out Who Controls The Rogue Mahdi Army Fighters.

Equally as informative and a wonderful blog as well can be found at Friends of Mark Fuhrman. One of our favorites - this blog pulls no punches whatsover. Check out the posting under: Is the New Media forcing accountability of the MSM wire services?

More to follow bat fans…

Update: We had a tip this morning from Valerie E. Looper - thanks Valerie! She points out an article at the Washington Post that is not all it seems to be. Read it carefully and you will see that our Immigration authority has been trying to deport this woman for 10 years or so. While her plight is one to have sympathy for, this is the media truly trying to influence a legal and political topic by playing on the public’s heart-strings. In Custody, in Pain. We’d like to know your comments on this one folks…

On a lighter note, Brutally Honest posts an article for the ages: Great tits not impacted by global warming. I’m not touching that one - you just have to see it for yourself…

Tom Elia at The New Editor asks: Has Andrew Sullivan Become a Chicago Democratic Precinct Captain? Chicago politics is a fascinating study in Democratic nature - this should be a daily read…

Also from Tom at The New Editor: Obama Unstained by Chicago Way. An excerpt:

Here’s what you’ll never read in the national media about the corruption in Chicago: In the last 36 years, since 1972, 27 Chicago alderman have been convicted of crimes. Not accused of wrongdoing, not just accused of lapses in judgment, not brought before an ethics panel for questionable dealings. Convicted of crimes. Sent to the hoosegow. Three more former alderman are currently under indictment.

And one more from Tom on Obama and this one you’ve just got to read: Barack Obama’s ‘Easily Won’ Media Coverage. For in-depth reporting on politics, you just can’t beat The New Editor.

Media related and just because we wanted to see the pictures, The Anchoress tips us to pics at Chron.com: The first photos of Jenna’s wedding.

Update: More from around the web…

Wizbang - Back To Normal At The Boston Globe

Wizbang - How To Soft-Sell A Terrorist Takeover

The Anchoress - Color-blind Bush, Racist Hillary?

NRO - Fisking Newsweek: It’s The CIA, Not The KGB

Sparks from the Anvil - Words Matter

Sister Toldjah - Newsweek echos Obama campaign’s talking points, McCain camp responds

The New Editor - Letter From Iraq

Protein Wisdom - Andrew Sullivan still clueless on the rural vote [Karl]

Protein Wisdom - John McCain: Lurching, light green maverick [Karl]

Protein Wisdom - The straight-talk express vs. the double-talk express [Karl]

Power Line - Greiling’s grandstanding, part 2

Power Line - Running Interference for Obama

Pierre Legrand’s Pink Flamingo Bar - Slip Sliding Away…Slip Sliding Away…you know, the less you defend Freedom of Speech the more it slip slides away.

Pierre Legrand’s Pink Flamingo Bar - Freedom of Speech For Thee Not For Me…

Patterico’s Pontifications - The Ron Paul Revolution (Updated)

NewsBusters - Newsweek Taking Heat for Obama Article Critical of McCain

NewsBusters - Amanpour Omits Husband’s Work for Albright, Downplays N. Korean Famine

NewsBusters - CBS’s Kroft: Chiquita Banana’s ‘Reputation Splattered in Blood’

NewsBusters - Headline Bias in Burmese Relief Story?

NewsBusters - CBS’s Pelley: Illegal Immigrants ‘Don’t Survive Detention In America’

NewsBusters - Obama-Infatuated Newsweek Reporter Defends Obama for Not Leaving Jeremiah Wright’s Church

NewsBusters - Will Media Cover Historic Hearing on Democrats Violating House Rules?

NewsBusters - Joe Klein Praises McCain for Being ‘A Pariah to Blowhards Like Limbaugh’

Little Green Footballs - NYT Presents Extremist As ‘Moderate’

Little Green Footballs - NY Times Admits Obama’s Muslim Birth

JammieWearingFool - Who Knew Blogs Were So Important?

Hot Air - NYT op-ed: Would Muslims regard Obama as an apostate?

Hot Air - AP factchecks Dems on oil

Hot Air - Mahdis sign over Sadr City to Maliki, victory celebrations in media pending Update: NYT acknowledges success on front page

Hot Air - The Newsweek-McCain Duel

Hot Air - History re-written: Obama never said he would meet personally with Iran without precondition, says advisor; Update: Website excerpt added

Gateway Pundit - Kentucky Dem Governor Jokes About Bush Assassination At State Party Dinner

Gateway Pundit - The New York Times Shills For the GOP

The Democracy Project - Some Praise For The NYT & Criticism of Right

Confederate Yankee - Obama’s Lying Roots

BlackFive - Real personal consequences in Iraq

We are starting a new daily feature here at MMB - a daily media bias roundup. I will be visiting the major blogs and news outlets to bring you links of interest in this area. All comments are welcome…

Let’s start the day with a post over at The New Editor - Conservatives are Happy Because We Don’t Care. It would appear that MSNBC thinks conservatives are happy because they don’t care what happens to others. Odd, it has always been my experience that conservatives care every bit as much as liberals - thus all the fighting you see daily. Could it be they are happier because they are more at peace with their conscience?

Over at BizzyBlog, we have a couple of good posts:

Jenna’s Wedding: An Excuse for Cheap Media Shots at Her, and Her Father - this is as close as America gets to a royal wedding. Jenna’s wedding really is a private affair and the media should keep their mitts off. She deserves congratulations and we hope that this is the happiest day of her life.

Also check out the comments on the New York Times and layoffs… Blaming Bush for everything - wow, wonder what they’ll do when President Bush is gone?

The Bookworm Room looks at Obama and his tendency to not be truthful and what this teaches all of us. All lies are not created equal *UPDATED*

Bob Owens at Confederate Yankee catches CNN in another goof concerning the Essex which is a Wasp-class amphibious assault ship. Huh?

More updates throughout the day…

Don Surber has a post up entitled Spin… AP turns good economic news into bad — by leaving some of the news out. Typical of the AP and this is a great article on the economy and finances…

And in much the same way as Bookworm Room, Flopping Aces brings up the issue of “Truth” as compared between John McCain and Obama - Obama - McCain Is Losing His Bearings By Speaking The Truth

Also check out Gateway Pundit on this - Victim Barack Obama Plays the Age Card Against McCain

And check out the latest updates and the reality of whether we actually captured the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq - AL-QAEDA IN IRAQ LEADER ARRESTED …Update: Maybe Not

JammieWearingFool covers the Bernie Ward perversion - Liberal Radio Icon Admits Distributing Kiddie Porn Guaranteed to raise your blood pressure and make you sick at the same time…

Little Green Footballs covers Ben Stein’s new movie ‘Expelled’ - Exposing the Distortions in ‘Expelled’ You really have to see this movie - we loved it….

From Lucianne.com - one of our favorites - comes more on the Media and Global Warming - Has Big Media Global Warming Bias Begun to Endanger the Public? From food shortages and fuel to taxes, etc., it’s hard not to think so…

See-dubya at Michelle Malkin exposes the ongoing damage Newsweek has caused with publishing lies concerning Gitmo and the Koran - Newsweek’s lie about Koran-flushing at Gitmo continues to bear fruit

From NewsBusters.org we have the following great posts:

US News’s Zuckerman: I Don’t Give to Politicians; Records Show He Has a Dozen Times

Outrageous: McClatchy Praises Terrorist’s ‘Charity Work’

Fox News Producer Canned for Cheering on McCain

Pulling Punches: WaPo Cancels Article for Being ‘Too Critical’ of Islam

Clinton Confidant: MSNBC, Chris Matthews ‘Shamelessly Biased’

Update: Links from other blogs on the media…

Pajamas Media
Economy Improves, Old Media Ignores
Media Giving Rev. Wright a Pass

Patterico’s Pontifications
The L.A. Times’s Errors in Its Piece on DNA and Cold Hits

Power Line
Greiling’s grandstanding

Snapped Shot
Embedded with the Enemy?

Townhall.com
WaPo Manufactures McCain Scandal

Cross-posted at Confederate Yankee:

It seems to matter little whether the location is Gaza or Baghdad. If there is a way to spin a story, Associated Press reporters will find it.

Today, American forces called in an AC-130 for support when they came under fire in the Kazimiyah district of Baghdad.

The Associated Press editorializes:

The AC-130, a lethal tool used by the military since the Vietnam War, can slowly circle over a target for long periods.

Human rights groups have criticized their use in urban settings where militants may be among crowded populations of noncombatants. The four-engine gunships were also used to support the U.S. attack that took the western city of Fallujah from insurgents in November 2004.

What the Associated Press does not mention is that the modern AC-130U is the most complex aircraft weapons system on the planet, and the reason for its complexity is that the aircraft’s sensors, navigation, and fire control systems are calibrated to conduct exceedingly accurate surgical strikes. It is likely because of their precision strike capabilities that the AC-130U was chosen for this mission over other available means of attack.

The Associated Press reporter attempts to recall the image of the 40-year-old Vietnam-era AC-130A and it’s ability to saturate large area targets, portraying it as an indiscriminate and careless weapons system to use in an urban area… and so it is good we haven’t fielded that particular model in decades.

It’s a dishonest conflation of aircraft using technologies developed decades apart, but sadly emblematic of the kind of reporting we’ve come to expect where creating imagery is as important as reporting facts.