Politiks As Usual: In The News 7/23/12

Community Remembers The Victims Of The Colorado Movie Massacre

Christian Movie Critic: Massacre Is Simply 'Evil' At Work

Why Is Brian Ross Still Working for ABC News?

Obama Donor: Stimulus Was Like a Hooker in Prison

Statue of Famed Penn St. Coach Paterno Taken Down

Chick-Fil-A Publicly Acknowledges It’s Conservative, Media Upset

George Will and Jennifer Rubin Demolish Time's Joe Klein on Gun Control Laws

Murdoch Quits British Newspaper Boards

(Homosexual) Misperception Clouds The Truth

Bloomberg: Obama ‘Has Spent The Last Three Years Trying To Avoid The Issue’ Of Gun Control

Romney To Walk Into The Lion’s Den; Plans Trip, Speeches Abroad

CNBC’s Joe Kernen: Liberals Want To Prosecute Fox News For How They Present The News

Just in case you're wondering what's really behind all this hometown coverage on an overseas scandal involving a certain conservative-leaning media mogul:

On this morning’s edition of CNBC’s Squawk Box, discussion turned to the News of the World phone hacking scandal that has embroiled News Corp. when host Joe Kernen took an interesting tack. His claim: that some on the left see a culture of corruption infesting other News Corp. entities. In Kernen’s view, “liberals think that just for the way that Fox News presents news, they think that they should be prosecuted,” before adding that the “mainstream media has been presenting propaganda from the other side.”


The conversation was directed specifically to recently-named Squawk Box co-host Andrew Ross Sorkin, who is also known as a well regarded financial reporter for Fox News enemy The NY Times. While there are likely individuals that exist in the the world who believe that Fox News should be prosecuted “just for the way that they present the news,” as Kernen suggests, those individuals are also likely to be taken as seriously as the tin foil hats that protect them from Fox’s mind-control signals. In other words, Kernen makes a classic straw man argument in an effort to go to bat for his competitor, Fox News. 

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Politiks As Usual: In The News 7/18/11

The 'BBC Left' Is Using Hacking Scandal To Get Revenge

In 2006 Not One Democratic Senator Voted To Raise Debt Ceiling

The Expanding Catalogue Of Obamacare Fables

Why Do Blacks Still Let Obama Off The Hook?

'Yay For Gay' iPad Kids' Book 'Teaches Open-mindedness'

Jane Fonda: 'I Have Never Done Anything To Hurt My Country'

Court: 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Will Stay In Place...But No Enforcement

Van Susteren Scolds Howard Kurtz For Bad Report On FOX's Coverage Of News Corp Scandal

How Networks News Helped Bring About The Crash

Why Does America Romanticize Slavery?

Rupert Murdoch Apologizes, Al Sharpton Should Accept Apology And Move On

NYDailyNews.com:

The New York Post issued a second, more contrite apology Tuesday for a controversial cartoon that some critics called racist.

Declaring "the buck stops with me," Post Chairman Rupert Murdoch called the cartoon - which critics believe compared President Barack Obama to the rampaging chimpanzee that mauled a woman in Stamford, Conn., last week - "a mistake."

"We ran a cartoon that offended many people. Today I want to personally apologize to any reader who felt offended, and even insulted," Murdoch wrote in the apology, posted on the newspaper's website.

Murdoch contended that the cartoon was meant to mock the stimulus bill and that, "It was not meant to be racist, but unfortunately, it was interpreted by many as such."

The cartoon, which ran in last Wednesday's newspaper, featured the bullet-filled body of a chimp resembling Travis, the animal in the Stamford attack. Two cops stood over the animal with a caption reading, "They'll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill."

The Rev. Al Sharpton, director Spike Lee and others have been calling for boycotts of the newspaper and an investigation by the Federal Communications Commission into Murdoch's ownership of several media outlets in the city.

Sure, one could make a legitimate case that the idiot cartoonist, Sean Delonis, and whatever Post editor that gave the go-ahead for the cartoon to be printed should be at the very least suspended. I'd be cool with that. But I'm a New York who reads the Post almost every day, and while it certainly can be foul at times, a newspaper with a racist agenda wouldn't survive a day in liberal New York City. Bottom line, the Post f-cked up and the publisher of the paper made an almost unprecedented move and apologized for the screw-up. The people's voice was heard loud and clear on this one and we all should be on the lookout if and when the Post f-cks up again on this level. Al Sharpton and his wholly band of rabble rousers can move on now, if not, they make this about promoting their race-baiting agenda, instead of any real interest in showing and getting people to see the error of their ways.