I am speechless

Watching the reporting, when there was any, regarding the Tea Parties (or if you were watching CNN or MSNBC the Teabagging "snicker snicker guffaw" Parties) I actually found myself speechless.

If the media displayed a lack of ability to report, in an unbiased way, news during the election of The ONE, they went completely off the rails yesterday.

Somebody once said there are two sides to every story and I guess there are; there is the truth and then there is, umm, not the truth.

The Media Research Center has links to a dozen examples of media bias. In my own research, I found two examples of how it is not the right wing interested in squelching free speech. Look at how State run USC, claiming to be private property, treats a film maker only interested in asking questions. Then watch how students suppress the speech of an invited guest. You will not the police in this second video are a bit more comfortable with gadflys.

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Now look at how a right wing fanatical protester and public teabagger (said for the benefit of David Shuster) is confronted by a CNN reporter and then look at this same reporter at an anti-Bush rally in New Orleans several years ago.





I can't think of anything to say. Sorry. I will let the geniuses over at Fox's Red Eye say it for me.



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The short bus must have been stuck in traffic

I hate it when someone shows up very late to a party. Not only do they disrupt the flow but you end up repeating all the great stories you've told earlier in the evening. And they are never as funny the second time around.

The Alka-Seltzer hasn't even finished fizzing in the glasses of hungover inauguration revelers and now the media is beginning to say "we really don't know a lot about Obama". I am skipping the Alka-Seltzer and going straight for the Tums and Tylenol. Articles like this hurt my head and churn my stomach.

Was it too much to ask for real reporting in October?

It's my party and I'll whine if i want to

Is it me or does the media following the current holder of the Office of President-elect around remind you of those Verizon commercials with that crowd of people always showing up? Yep, they are a group of sycophants sharing a collective vision for our country.

It will only get worse come the inauguration. The January 20th party, in addition to being the start of the recovery, is on track to be one hell of a partaayyy. In recent weeks the media has held details of the expenditures closer to the vest than a paranoid internet poker player who covers his monitor “just in case”. I guess the fourth estate is gambling nobody will notice their hypocrisy in how they are covering BHO’s big bash versus how they covered GWB’s. What a difference four years can make in attitude.

Bars are being allowed to stay open all night, they are looking for parking for 10,000 charter buses and hotels are booked as far away as Philadelphia. 1300 groups have applied to march. Wow. It is exciting to see this enthusiasm and could be easy to get caught up in. But where is the questioning of the appropriateness of these expenses like there was when Dubya was holding his soiree? I guess since the media is smack dab in the center of this party with lampshades on their heads, they don’t realize how loud it has gotten. In fact, they can't wait for it to get started!

Websites on the left that I refuse to mention per chance you’d go there and give them the traffic are celebrating that their tickets have arrived for the inaugural ball. These same sites had posts lamenting how many spotted owls could have been saved or tsunamis prevented for the millions spent on Bush’s party. I actually agree that these inaugurations have become far too extravagant. But I am not going to start bitching about it now just because my guy lost.

When Ronald “please let there be such a thing a reincarnation” Reagan took the oath of office in 1981 he stated "Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem."

I am afraid our problems are just starting. Party on!

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