There can be no doubt that the finest news blogger around is Robert Stacy McCain, who leads a great team at
The Other McCain. Stacy gets it. Mostly. He's still playing by the old rules, but he knows the rules have changed, and he does
an outstanding job of documenting the fact:
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McCain's "Rule 5" is the reason
for all the pretty girls on this blog.
(H/T: Stormbringer) |
In advance of Paul Ryan’s speech — as demonstrated by the fundraising e-mail from DNC executive director Patrick Gaspard
decrying “false attack after false attack” — it was decided to call
Ryan a liar. This was the pre-determined theme, and when the DNC issued
its message memo, their obliging stooges in the press corps repeated the
contents without bothering to verify the facts for themselves.
Democrat drum majorette Joan Walsh rushed to the head of the parade to accuse Ryan of “brazen lies,” and the Washington Post ‘s Glenn Kessler took dictation from David Axelrod:
In
his acceptance speech, GOP Vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan appeared
to suggest that President Obama was responsible for the closing of a GM
plant in Ryan’s hometown of Janesville, Wisc.
That’s not true. The plant was closed in December, 2008, before Obama was sworn in.
This was not independent reporting, but rather stenography for the Obama campaign, as demonstrated by Twitchy, which provides the Twitter talking points from both the DNC and Axelrod himself. And their supposed “facts” are flatly wrong, as Stephen Gutowski shows.
The
plant in Janesville, which was GM’s oldest active factory, “was idled
in 2009 after it completed production of medium-duty trucks,” according
to
Karl Rovethe Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. That is to say, five months into the Obama administration
— three months after passage of the $800 billion “stimulus” bill,
stuffed full of phony-baloney “green jobs” subsidies for politically
connected firms like Solyndra — and not, as the “objective fact-checking
journalists” claimed, during the Bush administration.
What is so
profoundly offensive about the unethical and dishonest behavior of Chris
Matthews, Joan Walsh and other such Democrat sockpuppets is that they
won’t admit who they are and what they’re doing. They are not
independent journalists, they’re partisan publicists, yet they expect to
be taken seriously as reporters when they can’t even be bothered to do a
Google search and find out when a factory closed.
They are a
disgrace to the profession to which they claim to belong. Truth matters.
Truth is precious and powerful. Liars are a dime a dozen.
This is why so many liberals keep screaming that FoxNews tells lies. From every news source they hear the same story, over and over again, so when they hear someone say something different, and more importantly, something they don't like, they're sure it must be a lie. As William F. Buckley said, "
Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other
views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are
other views." This is why they're shocked and offended. Liberal media bias, and not just in news but in entertainment media as well, is the environment we live in, the air we breathe.
