I knew they would do this thing over the weekend but midnight Sat? I guess it was a double-secret probationary move. Whatsername is exactly right though. It is going to be a tough, tough fall for the Obies and your dad could tell you why. The press and the Dems too had a job to do during the primaries and election. That was this thing called “vetting”. No one seems to have told Barry that this activity is one of self-preservation as much as that silly anachronism of discharging one’s duty to the Republic. But decline to do a vital job one day and, guess what? You have to do it later, under fire and without the benefits of privacy and convenience. Is the admin swarming with figures as odious and stupid as Jones? Oh yes. Will the same events overtake them? Oh yes. It is the end of Czarism though not a quick or clean end. For the first time in some months I am truly proud of my country.

Not really.

More DisNarrative than DisInformation.

Interesting to listen to Friedman and Browkaw…it’s the blogs that represent the cesspool of information, while the MSM is the bastion of even-handed reporting.  Meanwhile, none of the networks nor the NYTimes discussed Van Jones’ controversial remarks until after he resigned.  So in the world of the MSM, none of their readers were informed about this left-wing jerk.  Yet they have the nerve to criticize the blogs and conservative commentators that broke the story.  Maybe when the MSM becomes neutral again, and not a mouthpiece of the Democratic party, they won’t have to worry about the blogs.  And one last note: I wonder if the MSM would have covered the Van Jones controversy if he were a right-wing, rather than left-wing extremist, and was nominated by, let’s say, George W. Bush!  It’s all in the double standard, but the MSM will never admit that.

“disinformation”

What part wasn’t true?

Consider this- Trent Lott makes some off handed remark to a very old Strom Thurmond and the media is all over that.  George Allen makes his Macaca remark and the media is all over that.  Now they said nothing about Jones and their story is not about this guy’s views being so far beyond the vale of acceptability, it is about how the internet people are nuts.

Why would anyone actually pay attention to the MSM?

While I am still pessimistic, it is heartening to see that “sunshine” prevailed despite the fact that, (as documented elsewhere), the big sho(i)ts of the MSM, electronic and print, reported not one word of this “controversy” until the VJ resignation.
Talk radio and the blogosphere (internet) may yet be the “health care” that will save us.

We are going off on a tangent-MSM not doing their job, Glenn Beck,blogs,etc. The real problem is Van Jones hatred of whites.We will never survive as a country if this reverse prejudice is not addressed by whites and blacks.We have to stop this victimization mania by both races inorder to go forward as a nation.

The Left Intellectual Elite through their three subsidiaries, the Democratic Party, the “mainstream” media and the higher education establishment have controlled the news for so long that they assume anyone who reports facts they don’t like is spreading disinformation. The lefties ignore any facts that don’t advance their agenda.

If the disinformation accusation fails, they’ll next attempt to define facts they don’t like as hate speech. They no longer have any ideas or facts so they resort to demonization. Ms Lacewell cannot understand that anyone would disagree with her. No one she meets ever does. So she can ignore the facts and blame Beck. And she does.

The tone she uses perfectly reflects the liberal echo chamber. The fear and hate are there behind the words. What she’s really saying is “why won’t you listen to me ( and the rest of your betters ) any more?”

Wow. You can see in the bristling anger of old media hacks Brokow and Friedman how angry they are that their privileged positions are rapidly being washed away by what can only be called the wisdom of the crowds. My guess is the Van Jones scandal is just one of many waiting to be revealed. How many other of these types were quietly embedded in the Obama administration while we were being “distracted”—the White House’s favorite word—by the early days of hope’n'change?

Say there Moose H - “victimization mania by both races”, “(T)he real problem”(?) - haters can hate but do not put them in govt. or allow them to spew their vitriol, while protected by free speech, if they extend this privilege beyond those reasonable restraints imposed by the license of those vehicles they use as megaphones

Is it any wonder that the NBC greybeards - look how decrepit Tom Brokaw looks with his grey toupee and advanced arthritis - are feeling outclassed.

MSNBC is owned by GE, and I’ve stopped buying GE products over Jeff Immelt’s decision to allow the NBC News division to be used to slime opponents of Obama’s policies.

This used to be America ... where corporations were prohibited from donating in-kind to political campaigns. But it is clear that NBC has been compromised, and to see Brokaw slutting himself for some third-rate political hack 14 rungs down the org chart is just stunning.

And sad.

So much for my generation.

***Whether you love, hate or are indifferent about Obama, his “Green Jobs Czar’s” remarks about race and more are unacceptable.***

The MSM covered Jones exactly the way they covered Reverend Wright last year.  Ignore, ignore, ignore…oops, he’s gone. 

Am I to believe they don’t see the similar “black nationalist” rhetoric of Wright and Jones?  Of course they do.  They just refuse to report it because they know Americans will not tolerate such hateful ideology in our government.

Tom Brokaw’s comment were actually quite good—so long as you take them literally, to apply to all information including the mainstream media. (Brokaw implicitly presumed that his comments weren’t applicable to his type of media.)  Friedman was deeply unimpressive.  I had read his columns but had never seen him speak.  Disappointing.

The item on his resignation was on page 18 in the lower left corner of the front section of the LA Times Sunday Edition (I got it for the kid next door’s fundraising).  Not a peep about it anywhere near the front page.  It was surprising it was covered at all at the time.  How can it be a smear campaign and lies as he states when the items in question are clearly true?  When will the administration learn the value of asking some questions up front to their people; and not just questions about whether they support Obama?  You have to dig a little bit when you bring in people that will be decision makers.  The mis-administration continues to amaze.

In the clip—

1.  Friedman talking about how an ambitious person should be careful to not leave any footprints—Exactly so, Obama is the proof of that.

2.  Brokaw—I kept thinking how much different it would be if the MSM was actually impartial and competent—-nature abhors a vacuum and the media’s willfull and consistent refusal and/or inability to do its job widens the opportunity for others to do it.  If bloggers and talk radio and the like are spreading disinformation (tho I sure don’t see any disinformation in this case), well, if the MSM was trustworthy, think how much harder that would be.

Given the current popularity or liberalism and the moonbat media, the more and more they try to belittle Fox or attempt boycotts (the hilarity of it all… attempting to boycot what they consider competition… to priceless) the more and more they embolden them and increase viewership for Fox.

However, I don’t think they’ll ever stop…
goes back to the whole definition of insanity…
trying the same thing over and over again…
... and expecting a different result.