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A Hot Cup of TEA
Wed, 03/10/2010 - 12:31pm | posted by Louis DeBroux
Recently, the TEA Party movement celebrated its first anniversary. At first the TEA (Taxed Enough Already) Party activists were dismissed as a few grumpy right-wingers upset that America elected a black president. They were given little credence beyond being an amusing political side show. That soon changed. On April 15th hundreds of thousands of average Americans showed up at protest rallies across the nation, outraged at the “stimulus” package of goodies doled out to special interests, liberal activism organizations and Democrat pet projects. CNN reported that a few thousand people showed up at the rally in Atlanta, but I was there and can assure you that it was close to ten-fold that amount. It was shoulder-to-shoulder for about four blocks in one direction, not counting the people on the side streets.
Once they could no longer be dismissed as a fringe element, TEA Party activists were labeled as “Astro-turf” (fake grass roots), accused of being flunkies of Big Corporate America, mindlessly doing the bidding of their masters. They were accused of being a fabrication of FOX News and the Republican Party. They were accused of being everything except what they are…average Americans, generally with traditional conservative values, who were fed up over 20 years of Bush-Clinton-Bush politics, two political parties who paid only lip service to the people they claimed to serve while engaging in a bacchanalian orgy of political perks, who had finally been pushed over the edge by a pork-laden spending bill of almost $800 billion. They were saying “Enough is enough!”, and they were going to make their voices be heard.
Podcast: Medical Marijuana, Hate Crime Legislation, Fox News vs. Obama Administration, Health Care Reform, “War on Crime”
Mon, 10/26/2009 - 8:10am | posted by United Liberty Staff
Jason and Brett tackled this podcast on their own this week.
Together, they discuss these issues:
- The Obama administration and the Department of Justice changing course on medical marijuana.
- U.S. Senate approves expanding hate crime legislation.
- The Obama administration’s battle with Fox News.
- Health Care Reform: Baucus bill funding , the “right” to health care , House committee votes to repeal anti-trust protections for health insurers
- The “perception of crime” throughout the nation
You can download the podcast here (almost 49 minutes/45 MB). The intro music is “Silence is Violence” by Aimee Allen.
Ron Paul Discusses Auto Bailout with Neil Cavuto
Mon, 12/08/2008 - 2:14am | posted by Shana Kluck
Surprised that Dr. Paul didn’t make it to the recent hearing Congress had with the automaker CEOs, Neil Cavuto questions Congressman Paul about the impending auto industry bailouts. Dr. Paul’s answer as to why he wasn’t there-
“I know all the answers they’re going to give me, and they’re not going to entertain a serious approach to what they ought to be doing.”
Ron Paul Talks National ID Card
Thu, 03/11/2010 - 1:36am | posted by Michael Orion Powell
Fox News host Megyn Kelly talks about the National ID Card with Congressman Ron Paul.
Roger Ailes Talks Obama, Fox and Nixon
Fri, 03/05/2010 - 10:51pm | posted by Michael Orion Powell
In an episode of Uncommon Knowledge, Peter Robinson talks with Fox News CEO Roger Ailes.
Glenn Beck on Che Guevera
Sat, 01/23/2010 - 1:53pm | posted by Michael Orion Powell
Glenn Beck reveals, in a television special, the real story behind Che Guevera.
Barr and O’Reilly throwdown over criticism of Obama
Sat, 01/09/2010 - 1:57pm | posted by Jason Pye
Bob Barr was on The O’Reilly Factor last night to the debate the pompous host of the show on conservatives’ reaction to the Christmas Day attempted terrorist attack.
In his recent column, Barr wrote:
The criticism has included such childishness as blasting Obama for waiting a few days before making a national speech on the incident. For heaven’s sake, the president was briefed on the incident from the moment it occured; he made statements almost immediately indicating his concern and that he was being regularly briefed; he took time to gather the facts and meet with his national security team; and then he appeared publicly to give a rational, measured, but hard-hitting response. And for this, a former vice president criticizes him.
Barr blames it all on partianship, and he is right for the most part. I do think the failures of TSA need to be brought to light and fixed. However, we do not fix these problems by having a knee-jerk reaction and violating more civil liberties.
Here is video of Barr on the show:
So Crazy it Just Might Work
Wed, 11/11/2009 - 2:40pm | posted by Chris Moody
Once again, media mogul Rupert Murdoch is bucking the system. Sky News reports that he may be taking all paid content from his papers off of Google.
News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch has suggested the company’s online newspaper pages will be invisible to Google users when it launches its new paid content strategy.
He claimed that readers who randomly reach a page via an internet search hold little value to advertisers.
This defies all conventional wisdom about the future of news and journalism. Information wants to be free, and Murdoch is about the only guy in town holding strong, and threatening to go even further. More on this from Vanity Fair’s Michael Wolf.
Fox News Ratings Up Since Obama Administration Picked A Fight
Mon, 10/26/2009 - 1:26pm | posted by Doug Mataconis
Yet another sign that the Obama Administration’s war on Fox News isn’t working:
Reporting from New York - It’s been a long time since Fox News, which avidly cultivates its outsider status, got to play the underdog. But after White House aides recently labeled the top-rated cable news channel “a wing of the Republican Party” and argued that it is not a news network, Fox News found itself back in a spot it relishes: firing back at a more powerful adversary.
The salvos by administration officials have rallied liberals who complain that the channel has a conservative agenda. The activist group MoveOn instantly jumped in the fray, urging Democrats to stay off Fox News programs.
But the White House’s stance also gave extra lift to the network at a time when it is on track to record its best ratings year ever. This year, Fox News has averaged nearly 1.2 million viewers across all its programming, a 16% increase over the same period last year, according to Nielsen. In the two weeks since aides to President Obama took after the coverage, the audience has been 8% larger than the previous two weeks.
If anything, the Obama administration has succeeded in reinforcing Fox News’ identity as a thorn in the side of the establishment — a role the network loves to play.
As Bill Clinton himself once said:
“Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.”
Or, who have access to basically free bandwidth.
Fox News Exaggerates White House War On Fox News
Sun, 10/25/2009 - 11:59am | posted by Doug Mataconis
On Thursday, I noted, based on a Fox News report and several blog posts, a report that the White House/Treasury Department had sought to exclude the Fox News correspondent from a press poll event with “Pay Czar” Kenneth Feinberg.
Well, it turns out that wasn’t really what happened:
Feinberg did a pen and pad with reporters to brief them on cutting executive compensation. TV correspondents, as they do with everything, asked to get the comments on camera. Treasury officials agreed and made a list of the networks who asked (Fox was not among them).
But logistically, all of the cameras could not get set up in time or with ease for the Feinberg interview, so they opted for a round robin where the networks use one pool camera. Treasury called the White House pool crew and gave them the list of the networks who’d asked for the interview.
The network pool crew noticed Fox wasn’t on the list, was told that they hadn’t asked and the crew said they needed to be included. Treasury called the White House and asked top Obama adviser Anita Dunn. Dunn said yes and Fox’s Major Garrett was among the correspondents to interview Feinberg last night.
Simple as that, we’re told, and the networks don’t want to be seen as heroes for Fox.
TPMDC spoke with a network bureau chief this afternoon familiar with the situation who was surprised that Fox was portraying the news as networks coming to its rescue.
